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a fun thing from a class I'm guest teaching tomorrow: which of these will turn out OK for you, and which will be a disaster? (they're all from a single Chinese city between 2010 and 2022)
December 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
a fun thing from a class I'm guest teaching tomorrow: which of these will turn out OK for you, and which will be a disaster? (they're all from a single Chinese city between 2010 and 2022)
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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OOOOOOOOOO Labour is planning to FREEZE rail fares for the FIRST TIME IN THIRTY YEARS! Fantastic, now I can continue paying what I've paid all year for trains that are frequently delayed, cancelled and so packed I get a backpack in the face.
November 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
OOOOOOOOOO Labour is planning to FREEZE rail fares for the FIRST TIME IN THIRTY YEARS! Fantastic, now I can continue paying what I've paid all year for trains that are frequently delayed, cancelled and so packed I get a backpack in the face.
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Realizing I will never be as happy as when I was a teenager playing Grand Theft Auto with infinite missiles cheat enabled.
I could sit on a rooftop for an hour, eyes only periodically wetted by blinking in case I missed a single second.
We are all made of the past. It stays there, but we don't.
I could sit on a rooftop for an hour, eyes only periodically wetted by blinking in case I missed a single second.
We are all made of the past. It stays there, but we don't.
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Realizing I will never be as happy as when I was a teenager playing Grand Theft Auto with infinite missiles cheat enabled.
I could sit on a rooftop for an hour, eyes only periodically wetted by blinking in case I missed a single second.
We are all made of the past. It stays there, but we don't.
I could sit on a rooftop for an hour, eyes only periodically wetted by blinking in case I missed a single second.
We are all made of the past. It stays there, but we don't.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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Oh. Oh my god. Oh my god???? Oh my GOD.
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Oh. Oh my god. Oh my god???? Oh my GOD.
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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
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Life hack: You can cross things off your to-do list even if you haven't done them. Nobody checks.
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Life hack: You can cross things off your to-do list even if you haven't done them. Nobody checks.
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"Tuesday, a majority — yes, a goddamn majority — of eligible voters agreed with me. These people spent 8 months living in a woke-free America and collectively decided, 'We don’t want this.' What we DO want is to be left the f—k alone."
via @drewmagary.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
via @drewmagary.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
I have terrible, terrible news for red America
SFGATE columnist Drew Magary unpacks the 2025 elections.
www.sfgate.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"Tuesday, a majority — yes, a goddamn majority — of eligible voters agreed with me. These people spent 8 months living in a woke-free America and collectively decided, 'We don’t want this.' What we DO want is to be left the f—k alone."
via @drewmagary.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
via @drewmagary.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
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Glorious!
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Glorious!
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Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
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reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
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I think about this a lot.
October 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I think about this a lot.
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For the first time I have felt a shiver of fear because an AI can do my job exactly as well as I can.
October 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
For the first time I have felt a shiver of fear because an AI can do my job exactly as well as I can.
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Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
October 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
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Gerry is shitposting in print, that's dedication to the art form
What about American objects? I'm sure this administration will want to know.
October 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Gerry is shitposting in print, that's dedication to the art form
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The idea that the public sector is inefficient and wasteful, while the private sector is tight and spendthrift, is complete and utter bollocks. This nonsense notion has been ruination of the UK for the past 40 years.
October 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The idea that the public sector is inefficient and wasteful, while the private sector is tight and spendthrift, is complete and utter bollocks. This nonsense notion has been ruination of the UK for the past 40 years.
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Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
October 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
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A story in three parts
October 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A story in three parts
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Why can I remember no Labour politician making this point, this well?
Everybody except the Greens seems to think the best way to fight Reform is to agree with Farage about everything.
This, right here, is brilliant. And genuinely patriotic. And so, so true.
Everybody except the Greens seems to think the best way to fight Reform is to agree with Farage about everything.
This, right here, is brilliant. And genuinely patriotic. And so, so true.
October 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Why can I remember no Labour politician making this point, this well?
Everybody except the Greens seems to think the best way to fight Reform is to agree with Farage about everything.
This, right here, is brilliant. And genuinely patriotic. And so, so true.
Everybody except the Greens seems to think the best way to fight Reform is to agree with Farage about everything.
This, right here, is brilliant. And genuinely patriotic. And so, so true.
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To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“The European Convention on Human Rights protects us all. The rights within it are the reason why families devastated by disasters like Hillsborough could demand justice, why victims of abuse can seek safety, & why disabled people are treated with dignity in care
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🚨UK will leave the ECHR if Tories win next election Kemi Badenoch has announced
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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October 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM
“The European Convention on Human Rights protects us all. The rights within it are the reason why families devastated by disasters like Hillsborough could demand justice, why victims of abuse can seek safety, & why disabled people are treated with dignity in care
youtu.be/ceukUFLBrFo?...
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