Connor Smith

It took me months, about 495 rides, recovering from a shattered right foot and hacking a folding scooter, but I finally own a Nintendo Switch 2 using points obtained from Citi Bike. Afterwards, it left me questioning the very nature of work. For @aftermath.site.

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The Chicago enforcement division of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is known as a group of heavy-hitters. Trial attorneys and investigators in the Chicago office have had a role in most major CFTC enforcement actions since the birth of the agency in 1975, including prosecuting self-serving traders on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME -1.26% in the late ‘80s and pursuing civil charges against cryptocurrency fraudsters like Sam Bankman-Fried. In recent months, that office has become a ghost town. A team once comprised of 20 enforcement attorneys now has one, people familiar with the office tell Barron’s. After this story was first published, Barron’s learned that the last remaining lawyer resigned. That attorney has not responded to requests for comment.

Yesterday our Nick Devor wrote that the CFTC was down to its last enforcement attorney in its influential Chicago office.

That last attorney has now also resigned, Nick reports.

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I can hear the Nadine in HS motif rn 🥲

I was laid off today, among hundreds of others at The Washington Post.

I loved covering games here, and I am so proud of our international coverage.

My colleagues — those who lost their jobs and those who didn't — are rockstars. It was such an honor to work alongside them.

Dan Ives Is Wall Street’s Biggest Showman. Should You Trust Him? Dan Ives from Wedbush has gone mainstream as Wall Street’s highest-profile stock analyst. Less well known is his growing set of overlapping business interests.

Dan Ives has gone mainstream as Wall Street's most recognizable stock analyst and the most vocal tech bull. Rebecca Ungarino and I report here that his overlapping business interests—and the potential impact on his research—are less well known.
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This is the one that got me

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

You just unlocked a formative childhood memory!!! I can practically feel the sounds from that game

I'm Not That Nicole Carpenter I got a corrections request for a story I didn't write, and it pulled me down a journalism rabbit hole.

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hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

Weird timing but I wrapped up PL and the main story yesterday. Took me a few attempts to get into the base game, but damn was PL worth getting to

In this world, however, baseball doesn't have a salary cap, and Cohen is about to build a heavily lobbied-for casino next to his ballpark, so it feels fair for fans to ask him this question: Hey, instead of making us say goodbye to our favorite players, why not just pay them with some of that future slot-machine cash? I can't help but feel a little stupidly naive, being taken aback by roster movement in 2025, but as someone who fell in love with this specific era of the local baseball team, I do have to admit that I feel sad about how much the Mets will look like some other squad next year. Nimmo, despite that awful Christian rock walk-up song, was one of the Mets' most consistent hitters for 10 seasons. Diaz's trumpets feel like the thing young Mets fans will best remember about their first trips to games decades from now. And I can't count how many times Alonso lifted me out of my seat by walloping a ball over the fence; I've definitely seen him hit more home runs live than any other player in my lifetime.

None of the Mets' moves feel entirely indefensible (so far!), but that doesn't mean it's fun to watch your favorite players go. defector.com/the-mets-are...

Okay that last line really got me 🥲

A TikTok User has posted a photo of subway workers removing Yoshi from the train tracks. https://kotaku.com/yoshi-classon-avenue-g-train-station-tracks-tiktok-2000650930

INVERTED by Alyssa Mercante | Patreon Games, internet culture, politics, & more from the upside down

After breaking that big White House news this week, I've officially rebranded and updated my Patreon!

Welcome to inverted, an internet culture, games, & politics website straight from the upside down.

Please consider joining for just $5/month!

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He’s the stage’s environmental hazard

AI could never invent the Bruce Springsteen ska version of the Monster Mash. This requires human creativity to sing.

Screenshot of the following text: A month ago, Opendoor Technologies OPEN -4.25% Chairman Keith Rabois brushed off the idea that shares of the online homebuying company were rising on hype alone. “It’s not a meme stock,” Rabois said in an interview with CNBC. One of the country’s best-known fund managers would beg to differ. Roundhill Investments resurrected an exchange-traded fund comprised entirely of meme stocks on Wednesday. Opendoor is the top holding. Less than two years after liquidating its original Roundhill Meme Stock ETF MEME -2.45% , the firm is newly confident that retail enthusiasm can move markets. “Meme stocks started as a rebellion but have grown into a revolution,” said Roundhill CEO Dave Mazza. “Retail investors have proven that they are here to stay as a permanent force in the market.”

My 'We are NOT a Meme Stock' T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

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The amount of cope it must have taken to argue that game pass was profitable as recently as 4 years ago is wild

how is this not a hard drive post

Already struggled through the saddest walk home from the sports bar wdym I might have to do it again???

I still remember the wrist cramps from this baby

Yoda coming out of the wall smoking a blunt with a pride flag

@zachsilberberg.bsky.social saw an NYC icon today

They switched to Jacob Young on Sunday

Nobody in the stands understood what was going on for like 5 minutes. “We saw it hit the ground!” No we didn’t!

ANOTHER ONE!

Nasim Nuñez moves like there are angels in the infield pulling his body toward the ball

I told the guy next to me, who was groaning: “Clean inning right now. I’ll put my reputation as a Mets fan on the line here.”

Joe Biden Is Struggling to Cash In on His Presidency Companies are reluctant to hire the former president as a paid speaker due to his unpopularity and fear of retribution from Trump.

Alexa: Play 'Ode to the Mets' by the Strokes

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