Stuart Halloway
@stuarthalloway.bsky.social
Nubank, Datomic, and Clojure by day. Duke Blue.
In all the hubbub people have missed the real danger of Tylenol—melting snowflakes.
September 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
In all the hubbub people have missed the real danger of Tylenol—melting snowflakes.
Nice to see we upgraded from “thoughts and prayers” to “thoughts, prayers, and cancel critics”
September 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Nice to see we upgraded from “thoughts and prayers” to “thoughts, prayers, and cancel critics”
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“For the second time in three years, the reckless leader of a major English-speaking power has played mind games with global bond investors and lost,” writes @paulmason.bsky.social:
Trump Brings Britain’s ‘Moron Premium’ to the U.S. Economy
What America might have learned, but didn’t, from Britain’s 2022 financial-markets debacle
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April 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“For the second time in three years, the reckless leader of a major English-speaking power has played mind games with global bond investors and lost,” writes @paulmason.bsky.social:
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
April 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
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The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
April 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
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The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke.
It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
April 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke.
It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
April 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This week, Republicans will decide that crashing the stock market on purpose is a good idea. I guess next week they will decide that capitalism needs a central planning office to manage price controls.
April 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This week, Republicans will decide that crashing the stock market on purpose is a good idea. I guess next week they will decide that capitalism needs a central planning office to manage price controls.
Thanks, MAGDA (Make A Great Depression Again)
April 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Thanks, MAGDA (Make A Great Depression Again)
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The IRS unit that audits ultrawealthy earners has lost 38% of its employees this year.
This will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes — which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163B a year.
See what DOGE is really about?
This will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes — which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163B a year.
See what DOGE is really about?
April 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The IRS unit that audits ultrawealthy earners has lost 38% of its employees this year.
This will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes — which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163B a year.
See what DOGE is really about?
This will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes — which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163B a year.
See what DOGE is really about?
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Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.
April 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.
I was scared we would get Littlefinger and instead we got Joffrey.
March 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I was scared we would get Littlefinger and instead we got Joffrey.
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Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
March 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
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Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
March 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
"The government decides who gets due process" is the same as "there is no due process".
March 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"The government decides who gets due process" is the same as "there is no due process".
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Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
March 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
Quiz: (1) Why are bar charts normally a poor choice for presenting this kind of comparison, and (2) Why does the pie chart actually work in this instance?
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
March 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Quiz: (1) Why are bar charts normally a poor choice for presenting this kind of comparison, and (2) Why does the pie chart actually work in this instance?
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Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
March 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
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This is quite good. We like to think of the racial wealth gap (when we think about it at all) as a grand divide over generations of investment in housing and such. But the financialization of the economy means it plays out at the level of individual grocery purchases--whether you win points or debt
There Are Two Kinds of Credit Cards
Yet another way the poor are subsidizing the rich
www.theatlantic.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is quite good. We like to think of the racial wealth gap (when we think about it at all) as a grand divide over generations of investment in housing and such. But the financialization of the economy means it plays out at the level of individual grocery purchases--whether you win points or debt
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If I could speak to the heads of big law firms, I would ask: Is the risk of losing some clients worth betraying your oath to the rule of law?
To everyone nodding but refusing to take a stand, I say: You are ignoring Martin Niemöller’s message. It is you that Martin Luther King Jr. was condemning.
To everyone nodding but refusing to take a stand, I say: You are ignoring Martin Niemöller’s message. It is you that Martin Luther King Jr. was condemning.
We Can’t Give In to Fear
From Marc | No one wants to speak up. Everyone wants to hide or lay low.
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March 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
If I could speak to the heads of big law firms, I would ask: Is the risk of losing some clients worth betraying your oath to the rule of law?
To everyone nodding but refusing to take a stand, I say: You are ignoring Martin Niemöller’s message. It is you that Martin Luther King Jr. was condemning.
To everyone nodding but refusing to take a stand, I say: You are ignoring Martin Niemöller’s message. It is you that Martin Luther King Jr. was condemning.