I think this is literally the only thing he has learned since the start of his second administration, this one elementary spelling fact.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "Nobody knows that dumb has a B on the end"

I feel like one could maintain an ongoing news thread of stories whose general shape is "societies lovingly tie the nooses with which they will eventually hang themselves". www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...

Japan Raises Residency Fees 2,000 Percent Amid ‘Anxiety’ Over Foreigners

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is making it harder for immigrants to stay in the country. Critics say she is hurting Japan’s ability to address labor shortages.

nytimes.com

"There is some point at which we have spent SO much money on AI that it finally results in productivity gains that make it all worth it" is the new Laffer Curve.

Conor Sen@conorsen.bsky.social · 2w ago

My point is that there are a lot of issues we’re trying to address and we need more productivity to address them all rather than having to triage.

The only reason many of those massive Imperial Roman arches are still standing in Rome was that the medieval aristocratic families found them more useful as keeps and guard towers to build their family defensive fortifications around, rather than quarries to cut up for stone. So, tbh, kinda classic!

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3w ago

President Trump said his proposed 250-foot triumphal arch will now be a “top grade” military complex that will house drones, snipers and ammunition “for National Security purposes.” https://wapo.st/4deuPN5

Obligatory "Jamiegar McKelvigon" joke goes here.

Cat Farris@cattifer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wait, that's where that joke Jaime McKelvie always tells comes from??? Bluesky suddenly makes way more sense. Those names are super dumb!

In utter fucking dork news, a company named after the dragon's mountain in THE HOBBIT was ripped off in a clever arbitrage run by a company named after the rogue AI in NEUROMANCER. www.theinformation.com/articles/ere...

How Erebor Bank’s Sweet Stablecoin Deal Backfired

When Palmer Luckey’s Erebor Bank launched earlier this year, it made an attractive pitch to lure new crypto customers: It would convert their stablecoins to cash for free. But Erebor wound up pulling ...

theinformation.com

"I happen to know some fifth-graders, and statistically it is likely that one or two of them will grow up to be terrific investment bankers, but I would never want to guess which ones."

Matt Levine@matt-levine.bsky.social · 4w ago

I learned about the industry when my fifth grade teacher told me I'd make a terrific newsletter writer. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Ten years ago we had Steve Kennedycenter, Johnny Reflectingpool, and Bob Eastwing but now… www.npr.org/2026/09/17/n...

Trump threatens to tear down the Kennedy Center, as legal battle continues

The president made the remark to reporters amidst back-and-forth developments in federal court, including an allegation that a forklift repeatedly struck the center.

npr.org

I practically went RUNNING to grab mine from the shelf and check

Richard Wells@slipperyjack.bsky.social · 4w ago

Good grief, thanks to a video on Instagram, I've just discovered that the Criterion edition of Lone Wolf & Cub (that I've had on my shelf for about 9 years) has a secret compartment in the spine containing the blueprint for the weaponised babycart..!

"What if we create super-intelligences that out-think us, outlive us, take control of all our resources, and decide to enslave us?" You fucking dummies, we've already done that, they're called corporations.

When he puts it that way, it sounds like the President was re-elected specifically as a Communist accelerationist plot to ensure their viability starting more or less now. Did this bozo just give the game away?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin: "The only way you can take a republic country like the United States and turn it into a communist country is by causing chaos on purpose and then saying, 'hey look, government is a mess. You need us, the communist country, to rule you.' It's insane."

This newsletter has an incredible business model that is unfortunately very misunderstood. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

AI Labs Want Someone to Stop Them

AI and antitrust, lockups and indexes, annuities, Montessori and sudden wealth syndrome.

bloomberg.com

Gonna be a crazy day in our parsley bed, looks like.

Tsk, there goes the neighborhood. www.ft.com/content/32aa...

City of London set to drop century-old rule against logos on buildings

Square Mile’s governing body considers allowing companies to display their logos on the top of offices for the first time

ft.com

"It is not the first time Huang has said AGI has arrived." lol www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-jense...

Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made the comment on Sunday, days after OpenAI released Astra, its newest and most powerful AI model.

businessinsider.com

Probably gonna be a mixed bag when this bubble finally pops.

Apparently SCOTUS has decided the President can turn the White House into a gold-plated toilet paid for by corporate welfare buskers.

K-Shaped Recovery would be a great name for a really angry punk band.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BESSENT on CNBC: "I get sick of hearing about this 'K-shaped economy'. .. The 'K-shaped economy' is over." @cnbc.com

dwarf fortress bugs@dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social · last mo.

[0004264] Newborn babies have beards, worship gods, and have favorite foods

Also, he meets his new girlfriend during a standardized test.

The Elder Dan@crisperthanthou.bsky.social · last mo.

An ex-cop has to find some servants that ran away from their job.

Some kids skip school.

Dan Hon@danhon.com · last mo.

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.

A desert farmboy does his chores instead of going into town with his friends.

Dan Hon@danhon.com · last mo.

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.

An aging admiral’s chance encounter with a long-forgotten professional acquaintance also reunites him with his adult son.

Dan Hon@danhon.com · last mo.

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.

An ex-cop has to find some servants that ran away from their job.

Dan Hon@danhon.com · last mo.

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.

Grandpa's not gonna like that. Someone's gonna get a whippin'. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/28/k...

Analysis: Kevin Warsh sharpens inflation warning at Jackson Hole, signaling possible rate hike

After confusing markets at his July press conference, Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh used Jackson Hole to give a clearer view of the case for higher interest rates.

cnbc.com

Every time I see "Woke 1.0" it makes me think we should just get all of Woke into a source control repository with branching and proper versioning and some unit tests. Then we can ask Claude to explain what it actually does and also to fix all its problems with no mistakes.

Last I checked, the point of D-Day was to keep it absolutely secret until it was underway...? www.ft.com/content/cb86...

Scott Bessent: an economic D-Day is coming for Iran

Countries that calculate appeasement of the regime to be a safer choice should reconsider

ft.com

Dave was a fellow Central Valley Air Force brat. I met him and @jhwilliams3.bsky.social around the same time, when they were just starting to figure it out, this whole making-comics thing. For thirty years, you were always about to read another comic he had just done.

Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷@alejandrobot.com · 2mo ago

Shocking and very sad to hear about the death of Dave Lanphear, the amazing letterer of Immortal Iron Fist, and Fantastic Four in…¡Isla de la Muerte! (among countless others), two comics that still rank among my career highlights to this day. Great guy, genius letterer, a true artist and craftsman.

Going out on a limb here to guess that literally nobody asked the obvious next question that should have instantly followed up.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.

Cannot wait to hate-watch this movie about the SCUBA guy being eaten by a sperm whale and surviving. Sixty minutes of air my ass, you’ll burn a thousand PSI just flailing around like that in the whale’s mouth.