Ann M. Lipton

it was a golden age

Trading Places
The Breakfast Club
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Stand By Me

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

it bloody well did not

that's just evolutionary optimization to the environment in action. darwinism, baby.

jfc no

if it was in reaction to the original rollout, i'm going with - it will be unreliable. maybe not so much musk-favored as, a definition of "based" that does not align with where the content originates

really would like to see MSM follow up on this

Grand opening, grand closing.

X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.

actually saw a live performance of gimme shelter a couple of years ago at NOLA Jazzfest. Incredible, easy pick.

Mick Jagger has more energy than I do.

yeah because they have those tiny little streets and teeny tiny cars

this is like when that screenwriter asked AI to write a screenplay, and all it did was ask him for more time to complete it. Took a while before he figured out that it wasn't a complex task; "need more time" was the predicted response to "write a screenplay"

I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so

a man in a suit applauds with the words yay written on the bottom Alt: a man in a suit applauds with the words yay written on the bottom he is david bowie

What right-wing Ai slop nostalgia for the 1980s misses is the central fact that androgyny was The coolest at that time

Save yourself

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How Taco Bell Knows Exactly What You Want to Eat at 2 a.m. Liz Matthews is considered the GOAT of new product ideas, testing hundreds to develop viral hits like Doritos Locos Tacos and Baja Blast.

This story is delightful.

www.wsj.com/business/ret...

i had to stop reading, it was so tragic

Investors Clamor for a Peek Behind the Private Markets Curtain Wall Street wants to sell data on private markets, where pensions and colleges pay hefty fees and receive scant information.

this is, you know, why for 70 years we didn't permit private investments of this scale. in part bc it leads to waste/duplicative resources chasing information

www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

okay but i'm amused at how you really have to be of a certain age to get this reference

The warning signal from bitcoin’s fall [FREE TO READ] Moves in the cryptocurrency are becoming an early alert that markets are unwell

Bitcoin has finally been doing something useful

(300 free clicks innit) - on.ft.com/3XJE7br

oh did Lizza update his livejournal

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

The Legitimation of Shareholder Primacy is now published in the Journal of Corporation Law!

Unlike the draft version that's been online for a while, this final version includes a discussion of SB 21 and other recent developments.

Read it again, for the first time:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Hey all! I hope you come to New Orleans for AALS 2026. I know @brianlfrye.bsky.social and I would love to see you.

If you are going, stay at the Loew’s rather than the Hilton. ICE is currently terrorizing New Orleans’ immigrant communities, and they’re staying at the Hilton Riverside. 1/2

There's a pretty obviously AI-scam account going viral on Threads for millennial ragebait and everyone's falling right into the trap

NEW: Colorado’s county election clerks (majority Republican) implore Gov Polis (D) not to release Tina Peters to the Trump administration. Their joint letter says it would be a slap in the face to clerks who endure threats due to Peters’ election rigging conspiracy theories.

it's not true anymore, she's on the panel