Latest polls indicate a rejection of the far right’s initiative. I take great pleasure in the millions that EMS Chemie has thrown down the drain with their stupid ad campaign

GenevaGirl@michellev.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fresh off its fortunately unsuccessful initiative to cap the Swiss population at 10m, regret to inform you that the Swiss far-right is back with another one. Whereas the anti-immigration measure was framed as being pro-sustainability, this one is all about neutrality! pro-peace! anti-war! 🚨🚨🚨

"She stood behind the seal of the White House wearing her little cross around her neck and became the glossy public mouth of an administration marinating in brutality, corruption, retribution, greed, deceit, autocracy, and spiritual putrefaction..." jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/goodbye-yo...

Goodbye, You Poisonous Fucking Fraud

Karoline Leavitt Is Leaving, but There Isn’t Enough Febreze on Earth for This Rebrand.

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"A recommender that’s a mediocre predictor of what you’d love in a rich, diverse world becomes an excellent predictor of what you’ll click in the impoverished one it creates." laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur...

Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

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Imagine paying Hedge Fund Karen 2&20 to invest in undiscovered gems like $V, $MA, $MSFT, $ICE, $META,$SPGI, $UBER, $NFLX and $AMZN, and still being -3.5% YTD...

I know it’s nothing new, but I continue to be amazed by the ability of late stage capitalism to create new reasons to spend money through an appeal to feelings of inadequacy www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/tablescalp...

Tablescalping

Timi Sotire on the new hosting and tablescaping influencers, for whom food is often an afterthought. Illustration by Jess Nash.

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Fresh off its fortunately unsuccessful initiative to cap the Swiss population at 10m, regret to inform you that the Swiss far-right is back with another one. Whereas the anti-immigration measure was framed as being pro-sustainability, this one is all about neutrality! pro-peace! anti-war! 🚨🚨🚨

People need to get a grip. Leopold Aschenbrenner didn’t “crash” the stock market. The S&P 500 is barely off all-time highs. (But yes, some over-leveraged traders got taken out, that’s the way it usually works.)

this is a great chart from Bespoke (@peark.es 👍), because it illustrates how far we are from a true all-encompassing speculative frenzy as we saw with the Dotcom bubble. having been around back then, I remember the ultimate Neuer Markt debacle cc: @michellev.bsky.social @dsquareddigest.bsky.social

tbh this guy has come back from FTX and come back from being fired from OpenAI, I would not care to bet against him

good nuanced thread on Leopold A. tldr it’s not what you think

Quantian@quantian.bsky.social · last mo.

Obviously now that it’s massive headline news a bunch of people who know nothing about the situation will comment stupid things about it (esp because it’s AI related) but the Leopold blowup is quite shocking to basically every professional investor who was following him for several reasons:

Ehm... They're a much loved member of the diaspora who NEVER invaded us.

Argentina going...

Call An Ambulance But Not For Me Meme

ALT: Call An Ambulance But Not For Me Meme

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🇦🇷 🇦🇷 🇦🇷!!!!

Caravaggio transplanted into the 2010s would get cancelled for a series of cryptic late night tweets about how he didn't mean to "kill the guy" and then fleeing to Russia where he converted to Orthodoxy and painted icon portraits of Putin as both Constantine and Helen.

ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

caravaggio transplanted to the 90s would have made a foolhardy decision to side with 2pac due to shared combination of artistic pretension and bad attitude and then get gunned down with him

the Icelandic horse would like to remind everyone that it is not a pony

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 2mo ago

oh yeah, and obviously remember that the REAL Normans rode into battle on war ponies. but that's a whole other thread on how centuries of breeding has changed our cultural perception of horses.

Long before Brexit, and when I lived in the UK, I remember telling someone that I was going to Paris for the weekend, and she responded, “So you’re off to Europe then...” And I’ve never forgotten, because it was such a strange thing to say

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A lot of the "Normans as alien culture" atuff is heavily rooted in Victorian era (and beyond) views on British cultural origins and modern statehood, along with the idea of Britain as separate from Europe. the archaeology and more recent scholarship increasingly shows that bleedover was constant.

I miss those vintage World Cups, where key matches would overlap London/NYC trading hours, and liquidity would become nonexistent esp. in certain EM bonds. The outrage and complaints from disinterested US traders was brilliant

As in 1066 England will prevail against the Norwegians before tragically losing to the French a couple of weeks later.

Geneva, the kind of place where I’ve spotted more Argentine football jerseys this afternoon, than comparable Swiss kit yesterday. (Follow me for more WC commentary, blah blah…)

The OG musk fanboys were those environmentally conscious urban liberals that bought a Tesla back in the 2010s. Feels like a lifetime ago

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2mo ago

SpaceX handed lowest possible ESG rating by MSCI ft.trib.al/thrQnfB

Podcasts about 90’s pop culture/ britpop hosted by aging UK music journalists are the new grainy black and white WWII documentaries our dads and grandads used to obsess over. Same vibe.

we have so many useless referendums (immigration, minarets, ending fractional reserve banking…), when do we get something useful to deal with the crippling impact of heatwaves?

Nate Bethea@inthesedeserts.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Those of us who are about to die salute you

SpongeBob got hooked on crack and it all went wrong

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Alternative for Germany revives Nazi-era attacks on Bauhaus

Modernist art institution fears AfD ‘patriotic culture’ push nearly 100 years after closing under Hitler

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The referendums from a few years ago to go back on the gold standard and abolish fractional reserve banking have been pretty stupid too. Same people backing those initiatives.

Adam Drummond@adamdrummond.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Well done to 55% of voters in Switzerland for rejecting one of the dumbest questions ever put to a public vote

of course, the first car to be set on fire at the anti-G7 manif’ is a tesla. hearts and minds

the real political correctness is that you can’t go on the news and say that this is hick shit

Benjamin Alvarez@benjalvarez1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Meanwhile on the White House South Lawn

the intensity (and my god, the frequency) of these food trench warfare bouts is extremely using when you consider that availability of everything everywhere has never been greater

why yes, I am judging anyone from Appenzell Rhodes, Glaris and Uri

Reto Mitteregger@indubioproreto.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Les jeux sont faits: Thanks to urban municipalities and french speaking regions, Switzerland says NO to the far-right proposal demanding to cap the population at 10 million inhabitants.