The Straddler
@the-straddler.bsky.social
Examining the contextualizing currents of contemporary society.
Hungry is a hoax.
December 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Hungry is a hoax.
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We’re not doing blockchain and pandemics anymore.
We’re doing AI and recessions now.
We’re doing AI and recessions now.
April 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We’re not doing blockchain and pandemics anymore.
We’re doing AI and recessions now.
We’re doing AI and recessions now.
It’s always worth noting that Peter Baker is a shameless little bootlicker who thinks he’s Tacitus.
June 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
It’s always worth noting that Peter Baker is a shameless little bootlicker who thinks he’s Tacitus.
We’re not doing blockchain and pandemics anymore.
We’re doing AI and recessions now.
We’re doing AI and recessions now.
April 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We’re not doing blockchain and pandemics anymore.
We’re doing AI and recessions now.
We’re doing AI and recessions now.
Always good when the President of the United States turns into the Tim Roth character at the end of Pulp Fiction.
April 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Always good when the President of the United States turns into the Tim Roth character at the end of Pulp Fiction.
The active money management business is built on this too, despite the fact that they almost all underperform the market over time.
A lot of bad shit is downstream of the fact that economists pretend you can predict the future and no one else in the academy is able to shout them down as anti-science.
Your regular reminder that in the entire history of "futurism", no soi-disant "futurist" has ever correctly predicted ANYTHING.
April 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The active money management business is built on this too, despite the fact that they almost all underperform the market over time.
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You will kneel to the DEI triune god
April 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
You will kneel to the DEI triune god
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What's so crazy is that "make America great again" would be a rousing and accurate campaign slogan for Democrats in 2028.
April 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
What's so crazy is that "make America great again" would be a rousing and accurate campaign slogan for Democrats in 2028.
The bull case for wealth destruction.
April 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The bull case for wealth destruction.
Americans love funks.
-Hiring is very unlikely to pick up this year
-Housing can't do much to push growth lower from here, business capex unlikely to fall meaningfully until next year
-Layoffs probably rise somewhat but unlikely to surge given the dynamic above
It all keeps leading me to think "funk" rather than "crash"
-Housing can't do much to push growth lower from here, business capex unlikely to fall meaningfully until next year
-Layoffs probably rise somewhat but unlikely to surge given the dynamic above
It all keeps leading me to think "funk" rather than "crash"
April 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Americans love funks.
Why doesn’t Trump issue an executive order commanding stocks to go up?
March 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Why doesn’t Trump issue an executive order commanding stocks to go up?
There are known knowns. That is, things we know we know. There are known unknowns. That is, things we know that we don’t know. There are unknown unknowns, that is things that we don’t know we don’t know. And then there all of Pete Hesgeth’s passwords.
March 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
There are known knowns. That is, things we know we know. There are known unknowns. That is, things we know that we don’t know. There are unknown unknowns, that is things that we don’t know we don’t know. And then there all of Pete Hesgeth’s passwords.
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I wrote a piece for @the-straddler.bsky.social some time ago that speculated on the impact of smartphones and tablets on media culture. This iPhone ad spoof was central to it. RIP DL! youtu.be/wKiIroiCvZ0
David Lynch on iPhone
YouTube video by Brittney Gilbert
youtu.be
January 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I wrote a piece for @the-straddler.bsky.social some time ago that speculated on the impact of smartphones and tablets on media culture. This iPhone ad spoof was central to it. RIP DL! youtu.be/wKiIroiCvZ0
Zuckerberg is, of course, talking about himself.
He's the same little sad sack he's always been.
He's the same little sad sack he's always been.
My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.
January 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Zuckerberg is, of course, talking about himself.
He's the same little sad sack he's always been.
He's the same little sad sack he's always been.
Stocks only go up.
[Stocks inevitably go down]
Why didn't anyone tell me stocks can do down?
[Stocks inevitably go down]
Why didn't anyone tell me stocks can do down?
I think we’re in a moment where as long as big tech stocks and/or crypto assets keep going up and the unemployment rate is stable the average person will just ignore legacy media, valuations, downside economic risks, you name it.
December 12, 2024 at 2:12 AM
Stocks only go up.
[Stocks inevitably go down]
Why didn't anyone tell me stocks can do down?
[Stocks inevitably go down]
Why didn't anyone tell me stocks can do down?
"The media won't report it," says the guy who is telling you what he learned from a rightwing website, podcast, or news channel, none of which count as the media for that guy
December 12, 2024 at 1:29 AM
"The media won't report it," says the guy who is telling you what he learned from a rightwing website, podcast, or news channel, none of which count as the media for that guy