Max Chafkin

Thank you!!!

remember the trump trade?

Wow that’s a great point

I’m sorry this is rich

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nice to have a one-day reminder that remote school for little kids is insane.

Some personal news

Get ready for northeast parent group chat rebellion over remote school snow days

What, If Anything, Is Behind Trump’s Greenland Dream? On Everybody’s Business, economist Ken Rogoff and Derek Guy, otherwise known as “the menswear guy,” unpack a surreal few days at Davos.

new episode! featuring @dieworkwear.bsky.social on how to bring back American manufacturing, and because I couldn't resist, Davos fashion. Also, @svaneksmith.bsky.social and I speak to Ken Rogoff about the whole Greenland thing www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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lol thank you. there’s a whole podcast of it!

man, on man, there are really a lot of domains where your grandmother's folk wisdom is a million times better than the smartest people in the world's dumbass first principles thinking

uh there's a lot going on in this one www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/s...

More Than 1,000 Companies Are Suing Trump Over His Tariffs Companies are flocking to challenge the administration's import taxes in court, after the Supreme Court started asking tough questions

NEW: The business world largely stayed out of the Trump tariff fight -- incl. some fearing "blowback" for opposing the administration. But with a SCOTUS decision looming, the floodgates have opened, with 1,000+ companies so far suing to make sure they get refunds if Trump loses tinyurl.com/2yms7p24

"white solidarity"

More Than 1,000 Companies Are Suing Trump Over His Tariffs Companies are flocking to challenge the administration's import taxes in court, after the Supreme Court started asking tough questions

starting to see signs that the alliance between the white house and corporate america is fraying. predict lots more of this if polling stays where it is www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X Elon Musk’s X has become a top site for images of people that have been non-consensually undressed by AI, according to a third-party analysis, with thousands of instances each hour over a day earlier ...

the weirdest part is the extremely loud insistence that grok, etc are bringing alien super intelligence or whatever when they're actually doing basically lowest common denominator content farming www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US Sanctions Former EU Official, Others in Swipe at Europe The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed visa sanctions on former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and four other people for trying to make American tech companies police political speech...

Well, Trumps biggest donor will be happy www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Lol this image www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Bunch of ai news today. Will be talking about it on MSNOW shortly!

Microsoft Is the House That Excel Built The ubiquitous spreadsheet software is expensive, derivative and depressing. It’s also the software the world can’t quit, even in the era of AI tools.

Here are 4500 words on the AWESOME POWER OF MICROSOFT EXCEL (gift link!) www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Instacart sues New York City over worker pay, tipping laws NEW YORK, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Instacart sued New York City on Tuesday to block enforcement of five laws affecting the grocery delivery ​company, including rules governing minimum pay for app-based worke...

legal questions aside, crazy how far the politics on this issue have shifted. there was a time when instacarts position that "worker freedom" or whatever should trump the idea of minimum wage might be popular. hard to think that'll be true now finance.yahoo.com/news/instaca...

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Loved this love letter to Mallrats (VHS edition)

This is such a good point. There is no good reason to use chatgpt for recipes, and yet tech cos are basically forcing it on people in order (it seems) swallow food blogging along with news and everything else

honestly might need to bring back elon inc just to chew over this one

What Might Be Inside the Epstein Files? On this episode, we discuss why your Thanksgiving turkey may be cheaper this year and untangle the business dealings of the late Jefferey Epstein.

new epsiode in which professional epstein email reader Max Abelson talks through what we think might be in the epstein files www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

a bunch of them still do! www.ft.com/content/e087...

Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI regulations.

if you're wondering what the hundreds of millions of dollars in donations from tech billionaires/giant tech companies bought, its this (among other things) www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

lol typo