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I still don’t understand what they’re saying.

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Asking the internet for a mashup cut of Margin Call and Working Girl. Is that so impossible?

Just started The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich. Leaning into the moment.

"We want to emphasize that occasional marijuana use is no more a problem than drinking a glass of wine with dinner or smoking a celebratory cigar. "

The NYT always in touch with the common man.

VAR won that one. Which I guess was the objective.

Peak Columbo: Gena Rowlands and Oskar Werner

Saw them in Atlanta that year, with a baby Jane’s Addiction opening.

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Kalshi chief Tarek Mansour: ‘We’re pricing the future’ The co-founder of America’s biggest predictions market on the ‘wisdom of the crowd’, political polarisation — and the company’s adviser, Donald Trump Jr

Bullshit piled on top of bullshit. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

One of the most important technologies of the 20th century. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

On a bus home from an urban light festival being held up by a nighttime Critical Mass bike protest. Honk if you’re jealous.

a race car with the number 0 on the front ALT: a race car with the number 0 on the front

Claude this week

I can't get no
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I can't get me no
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So with these updates, we now have two Keynote versions, two Pages versions etc? That's...bizarre.

If you see a dog, post dog, same dog edition

(I don't do this to justify Torment Nexus-like ideas, but to illustrate how even the weirdest futures run on familiar processes)

The Sci-Fi Quants Dominating Europe’s Most Volatile Power Market Second Foundation has grown to dominate European intraday trading — thanks to a group of puzzle-loving mathletes in Prague.

Sometimes in classes I've taught on roadmapping futures, I ask students to imagine the mundane bureaucratic events that lead up to a ridiculous sci-fi ending. Somebody built the procurement department for that space elevator and trained the staff. I was too conservative.

Thank you, Agent Orange

Maybe somebody can vibe code a functioning news organization

More like Washington Ghost, amiright?

How *do* I make potato salad?

This is why god made slam books

The biggest audience was whoever saw you at the mall.

Why do I know that Musk probably sees that as leverage not as a risk?