Felix Salmon

$17 Million Is Lost in A.T.M. Scam That Spread on Social Media, Officials Say

“In his statement, Mr. Zustovich, the spokesman, said that this year, as in previous years, part of the jobs program involved teaching participants financial literacy.”

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The Dow's Thursday tumble, explained The fall on Thursday represents the largest point impact for the DJIA on record.

This was one of my favorite charts that I made at Axios www.axios.com/2025/04/17/u...

When I become Tyrant, pointlessly indicating changes of case with brackets will be outlawed.

I have particular ire for those who take a sentence that starts with a cap, then lowercase & bracket it when the cap SHOULD be there at the beginning of a quoted sentence.

Are they deliberately trolling me www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

I’ve started noticing the IG algorithm throwing up a lot of videos of static text.

Bloomberg push alerts as Jeopardy clues

Imply! Not infer! www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/p...

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Are the lumpenbroletariat mostly Muskovites

Has anyone else found Google Maps not working any more on Safari for desktop?

The problem with this reasonable-sounding advice is that real ICE officers are not wearing uniforms and are refusing to show badges, identification warrants.
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I disagree. As the birth rate falls, smaller households end up living in units that used to house larger families. The growth in square footage per person is faster than any decline in population/demand.

I'm having enormous difficulty trying to buy NY Liberty tickets online. One curious thing is that for *the exact same set of four tickets*, being sold for $121 each, the fee that Ticketmaster charges on top of that has varied, within a couple of hours, between $91 and $111.

I guess my question is: Was the ID/OK British magazine thing deliberate misdirection or was it inadvertent

So then you need to work out which of the five IDs can also be OK. And I think there are two acceptable answers to that question.

If there wasn’t a British magazine called i-D (famously recently acquired by Karlie Kloss) then this would have been one of those cheap-theme puzzles. Having 5 different IDs made it a notch harder.

As in eg “the board chair recognized the motion, setting it up for a full vote” vs “the board chair okayed the motion, setting it up for a full vote”

Here’s my suggested alternative solution:

Yellows are the ID group: Idaho, driver license, Freudian concept, British magazine.

And then purples are the OK group: Oklahoma, mediocre, recognize, greenlight.

Can we talk about yesterday’s Connections? I think there were two acceptable solutions.

BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza Consulting firm had multimillion-dollar role in contentious new aid scheme for shattered enclave

“BCG’s model provided assumptions for the costs of voluntary relocations of Gazans, rebuilding civilian housing and using innovative financing models such as tokenisation of real estate via blockchain technology.” on.ft.com/45V89P0

74% of NYC's 120k construction workers are immigrants. comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/our-...
You can solve the housing crisis by building more, or you can try to solve it by shrinking the population. The latter solution is disastrous for tax revenues and the city budget, no mayor would ever want it.

First-round votes for Eric Adams in 2021: 289,403
First-round votes for Zohran Mamdani in 2025: 432,305

1) The NYC mayor has zero control over immigration
2) Immigrants comprise most of the NYC construction labor force

Current Connections status

Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.

The biggest loser in this mayoral election is everyone who muttered sagely about ranked choice voting and the NYC Bureau of Elections and warned that we wouldn’t know the result until July

I was the one saying we’re replaceable!

omg @emilypeck.bsky.social you need to get that into Axios somehow

My reliable sources inform me that @robarmstrong.bsky.social is directly and singlehandedly responsible for Trump bombing Iran 🌮

smh do none of these members of Congress know what “begs the question” means