Gallimaufries
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I’m VERY slowly settling in here. Maybe I’ll hang up my hat and stay for a bit OR maybe I won’t, but for now please know that I’m going to be all over the place topically. Buckle up! (Clifford Brown in the pfp)
No. Again, Buttigieg polled an impressive zero percent with Black voters. That's less than Trump. Zero. Goose egg. No one. As I've said many times, Ossoff is the real deal version of who y'all think Buttigieg is.
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 2w agomy hot take: a kamala/buttigeg ticket would be unstoppable
zohran is a completely normal (mixed-market socialist/new-deal liberal/whatever) and it’s completely frying the brains of people with too much money or whose livelihoods are built on catering to the opinions of people with too much money
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2w agoThe wild eyed radical communist continues to destroy capitalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Cynthia Cooper is one of the greatest whistleblowers in history. Humble, caring, and unwilling to bend in the face of moral bankruptcy. A true hero. I wish we had 100 Cynthias right now, people willing to call out the books at crypto, prediction market, and AI companies. Alas
Cas Piancey@cascoinfoundation.org · last yr.Here’s the most important interview I’ve ever conducted with Cynthia Cooper, the WorldCom whistleblower. Now, more than ever before, if you can play a role in hindering corruption, vice, and fraud, it’s your patriotic, God-given responsibility to do so, just like Cynthia. youtu.be/NvctxHA20Qk?...
Some folks have found this informative in relation to the current Taco Bell situation (which is actually a Taylor Farms situation). You may too.
JayIsPainting 🍁@jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 3w agoOk. As promised, a thread about supply chain food safety vulnerabilities in the food industry. Buckle up. It's a long one.
They are not confessing, they are bragging!
YouTube video by Charles August Lindbergh
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The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 3w agoWealthy working parents are employing teams to handle the work of raising their children, including specialists to potty-train their toddlers, manage school applications and pack their trunks for summer camp.
This is simply Trump's authoritarian impulse, along with his self delusion that he can make deals. The 20%? Plucked from air! And should he 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 get a chance to make this fever dream reality, it would be different rates for different countries, depending on his current hemorrhoid pain threshold.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3w agoA 20% charge would work out to about $32 million for a fully-loaded very large crude carrier at current oil prices. That’s far higher than the tolls that have been charged by Iran, which have previously been described as reaching $2 million www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The recent cooling in real #wage growth is visible across all broad demographic groups, including among some groups for whom, up until a year ago, wage growth had remained robust, chart #Fed Monetary Policy Report July 2026 www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypoli...
Like many others today, Al seems oblivious to how damning these homages to their dear friend and colleague sound.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 3w agoRIP here’s a heeeeelarious anecdote about how all politicians grift
On Amedeo Modigliani's birthday, I'm listening to Bill Evans, Live in Paris, v. 1. With Eddie Gomez on bass, Marty Morell on drums. The cover is by Michel Noble, a "libre interpretation d'après Modigliani, Madame Pompadour" www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6T5...
This is so cool. It's almost like if you actually offer something that potential employees value, they will respond.
Fortune @fortune.com · 3w agoThe company employs college students, working parents, and caregivers who desperately need a workaround. They can call the shots on their part-time schedule—whether that means unloading trucks before sunrise or working a sanitation shift after the kids are asleep. https://bit.ly/4vo2auQ
Some folks have a very unhealthy relationship with decorum. Thank you for showing yourselves.
Gallimaufries@gallimaufries.bsky.social · 2y agoDemocrats will decorum people to death. Literally.
Remembering Amedeo Modigliani on his birthday 🎂 📷 Anonymous; in his atelier on rue Ravignan, 1915 "He is the prototypical handsome, promiscuous, inebriated, pugnacious, misunderstood, tragically ill, impoverished, vulnerable, gifted & short-lived exemplar of la vie de bohème." - Michael Kimmelman
Jacob (1876) & Modigliani (1884) share a birthday today. Just noticed that Max Jacob's birthday was 150 years ago!
Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.Max Jacob by Amedeo Modigliani, 1916 "Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it."
OpenAI spies hacking into the top security Apple strategic planning vault only to discover it’s just a single text file reading “Make the phone even bigger and slightly thinner next year”
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt Cable Drop
ALT: Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt Cable Drop
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...tax evasion in its MANY varieties, campaign finance violations, fraud against public procurement. What else? Create a bounty program. Reports leading to conviction get larger of $10K or 5% of damages. Such cases are tough to prosecute. People who help do socially valuable work.
Public and private corruption, wage theft, environmental degradation, discrimination, insider trading, workplace safety, union suppression, sexual harassment, price fixing, telemarketer scams...
One of the most interesting passages in the minutes for the Fed's June meeting: Only a few participants thought rates were restrictive—and slightly restrictive, at that. The minutes framed the committee's divide as over outlook uncertainty, not the usual disagreement over tactics.
Fed Officials Flagged Risks That Would Warrant Higher Rates
More officials pointed to the artificial intelligence build-out as a source of persistent inflationary pressures at Chairman Kevin Warsh’s first meeting, minutes released Wednesday showed.
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Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time
This is a sobering counterpoint to the “rah rah” narrative on generative AI that we’ve all been bombarded with the last couple of years. 👇🏼 Well worth the time it takes to listen.
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · last mo.Here's my full interview with CNBC, covering my bear case against generative AI, OpenAI's questionable finances, AI's lack of ROI, and how all of this is a symptom of the tech industry running out of hypergrowth ideas. It's great to see the mainstream media discussing this. youtu.be/TtmPccUTDP8?...
Yep, this is very bad. Walt Shaub had Trump’s number from day 1. Here we are.
I think I understand why some may be taken with Warsh’s charm, but I find him to be insufferably smug.
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 agoSpaceX handed lowest possible ESG rating by MSCI ft.trib.al/thrQnfB
For decades, the Federal Reserve's communications policies have trended steadily towards more openness. New chair Kevin Warsh, at his first press conference, has moved to reduce transparency instead. But by dropping guidance to investors, he risks more volatile markets. apnews.com/article/wars...
Warsh's gamble: A quieter Federal Reserve could mean volatile markets, higher rates
The Federal Reserve has for decades moved steadily from a remote, opaque government agency that shared little about what it did or why to a more transparent institution willing to explain how it…
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Excellent thread! Brother Karp is not going to like this read at all. Thanks, Chad. $PLTR
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 2mo agoI really need people to understand that Palantir is not an engineering marvel; it is a multi-billion-dollar contractual containment layer wrapped around the world's ugliest legacy open source frankenstack. It's a shitty Snowflake for companies that don't know how to do data engineering.
Verbose and grandiose. Bernanke, Yellen, Powell all had genuine humility. Gonna miss that.
this may come back to haunt him depending on who he picks, of course. a whole new discipline is going to emerge, task force watching:
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2mo agoFed's Chair Warsh: Each independent task force will have the best minds inside and outside the economics profession.
God his language is so much more self-impressed and verbose than Powell's this is already annoying me.