Elizabeth Lopatto

JP Morgan on Trump’s Iran war: “Oil prices have risen nearly 35% from the past year's average.. Each sustained 10% price increase could yield a 10bp increase in headline inflation but little effect on core … along with a 15-20bp hit to GDP, though these estimates have wide uncertainty bands.”

I'm presently rehabbing a knee injury but I did have a good bench press this morning. I'll take what I can get.

the best

The number of times I've thought of Mark Pittman, a bulldog reporter... Famously, Treasury waited until after he died to respond to his FOIA request. www.cjr.org/the_kicker/a...

this lady stopped traffic in two directions with nothing more than her vibes and a yellow safety vest. no bike helmet. the Oakland flow baby

I love Oakland. everyone is nuts. slowest jaywalkers in the world. today I witnessed a lady on a bike make a right into traffic, cutting off a car, so she could immediately make a left and everyone obligingly stopped to let her

is that good

bsky.app/profile/lopa...

I was fully prepared to be annoyed but they've won me over

they're now yelling again. they think people who cut in line at the airport should be in jail.

I am at a beer garden and several middle-aged bros next to me are quite drunk. they had been hollering about their investments but have now just lowered their voices to discuss something confidentially. it is: how amazing their wives are.

I mean I know that's bad news but also damn, screaming so loud you blow out your abdominal wall... that's commitment baby

it's not even typing!!! a machine can't give itself carpal tunnel

she is perfect and I hope she enjoys her kangaroo

sorry I'm old enough to remember when smokers got to take "smoke breaks" and it was an excuse to fuck off about once every hour or two and gossip. nicotine for productivity? cooked

Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products to increase worker productivity | Fortune Health experts offer a blunt warning on using tobacco products to increase productivity, saying the adverse health effects have been well documented.

lol at least coke is glamorous fortune.com/2026/03/04/p...

if only the grip diameter were a little smaller...

nuremberg 2 mentioned by a sitting senator WE ARE SO BACK

man I love the pilot soft fine nib. I wish all my nibs were bouncy

I just think it’s nice that Jenna Maroney’s daughter is getting work

losing your edge!!

A tuxedo cat backs in the sunlight on a blue chair

I told her pspspspspspsp

This all makes NIMBY opposition to data centers look like a political winner at the local level. But can it address more nebulous anxieties about a technology that is now casually compared to the industrial revolution, which led to many decades of turmoil and strife before life expectancy and living standards began to trend upward, or the invention of the printing press, which produced — among other things — generations of religious civil war across Europe?

too late, David Wallace-Wells has already done it in serious fashion www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...

Kurt Russell is nobody's dad on this show, simply the uncle who stepped up. This speaks to the primal human desire to have Kurt Russell as an uncle

US betting markets under scrutiny following Iran attack bets Prediction markets are under scrutiny in the US, following suspicion of insider knowledge of classified events. Betting platform Polymarket showed six new accounts placed bets the day before the invas...

The Verge's @lopatto.bsky.social on Morning Report re: prediction markets.

the Chicago pope must excommunicate the heretic JD Vance

if you think writing is drudgery, you are not cut out to be a writer

one of several ways in which writing is radically different from code. it is shocking to me how many people underestimate the differences.

bloomberg's been sending AI headlines from press releases for at least the last seven years, but that's not the point.

it's not just "taste." people want to hear from other people — I don't read renata adler for a dry list of facts. I read adler because I want to know what adler thinks.