Usually, when you see the first cockroach, it’s 6 months before the issue bubbles up and impacts markets on the whole.

Usually, when you see the first cockroach, it’s 6 months before the issue bubbles up and impacts markets on the whole.

The people who got priced out and left WERE the soul of the place. Now, without them, it is soulless. Big Tech did that.

A Harrowing Race Against Time to Find a Downed U.S. Airman in Iran

Last night, we successfully rescued the Wizzo (WSO/Weapons Systems Officer) who was separated from the pilot. Armed with only a pistol for self-defense, he remained missing as we exfiltrated the pilot just 6 hrs post ejection, while the WSO remained missing.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...
#IranWar‌

Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day It’s unclear exactly how many employees lost their jobs, with reports ranging from 10,000 to 30,000. The latter would represent almost 19% of the company’s 162,000 workers.

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Big Tech reshaped everywhere—but unevenly. In places with deep cultural roots like SF, it hollowed something real out. In most other cities, there wasn’t as much culture to lose, so it feels more like a continuation of what was already there: a soulless hellscape.

They Pay $34 for Burgers. Should Their Child Care Be Free?

They Pay $34 for Burgers. Should Their Child Care Be Free? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...
If we consider it a public good, everyone should access it for free. A developed country is not where everyone has a car, but where the rich use public transportation.

Previous presidents were creatures of money and corporate power, but they weren’t true oligarchs. Trump is: he doesn’t just serve the system, he embodies a small ruling caste that treats the state as its private asset.

Trump says White House ballroom plans include 'massive' underground military complex The president told reporters Sunday that "the ballroom essentially becomes a shed for what’s being built under."

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I think this makes the White House a legitimate military target now.

Do not separate them!

Beautiful day today here in Oregon!

I am not on the “no kings” protesters’ side, but this was a good one. I am a moderate social libertarian. I think gov’t should be bound by two linked guardrails: leave people alone (individual rights & autonomy), and don’t use force/coercion except to stop someone from violating another’s autonomy.

I am not on the “no kings” protesters’ side, but this was a good one. I am a moderate social libertarian. I think gov’t should be bound by two linked guardrails: leave people alone (individual rights & autonomy), and don’t use force/coercion except to stop someone from violating another’s autonomy.

#affordability

I don’t know. It was a joke.

It was your 'turn' lol

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Bezos didn’t just buy WaPo to “save journalism.” He bought a uniquely powerful D.C. institution he thought could be fixed w/ tech + capital, gained major soft power, and then vanished—leaving WaPo strategically adrift, losing readers, and mired in an identity and leadership crisis.

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Overall claim: China is incurring no costs while gaining access to cheaper energy, strategic intelligence, supply chain leverage, and progress toward a non-dollar financial system—positioning it as the “silent winner” of the conflict.
#IranWar #China

Just discovered the “Lincoln Project” and it’s hilarious. A bunch of ex-Republican operatives invoking a wartime tyrant who suspended habeas corpus, jailed citizens, and ducked a treason trial he might lose as their mascot for “defending democracy.”
#LincolnProject

The whole “gift” thing from #Iran had me puzzled. I was like… wait a minute—we’re actively bombing these people, and
@realdonaldtrumppar.bsky.social would like to accept a “gift” from them? That doesn’t exactly pass the smell test. Feels a bit like the Trojan Horse in the Odyssey?!? #IranWar‌

Hypergamy and prostitution sit on the same spectrum of sexual‑economic exchange: one is a long‑term, socially sanctified contract where women trade beauty, youth, and care for male status and resources; the other is a short‑term, openly priced version of it, but stripped of the fairy‑tale packaging.

For former NHLers in Milan, the Olympics are a last chance to earn one more opportunity (Gift Article) Some ex-NHLers are hoping to catch the NHL's eye in Milan. If they prove they can still hang against the world's best, anything’s possible.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/703... #Hockey #Olympics

Video: Michael Pollan on R.F.K. Jr. and the MAHA Movement “Eating real food is not going to protect you from the measles,” said Michael Pollan, who’s written extensively about health and nutrition, on “The Interview.”

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One of my favorite thinkers, Michael Pollan, the food‑systems and psychedelics writer, does a tight hit here, pushing back on R.F.K. Jr.’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ food‑as-vaccine fantasy, saying, ‘Eating real food is not going to protect you from the measles.’

No one cares what she has to say. We only care about winners, and he is the only winner in the story, not her.

Per the New York Times, #ICE Agent Jonathan Ross, who murdered #ReneeGood, was not taken to the hospital, according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was *NOT* injured.

Kiefer Sutherland arrested after alleged altercation with ride-share driver Kiefer Sutherland was arrested just after midnight on Monday morning after an alleged altercation with a ride-share driver, police said.

www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/stor...

ICE has been doing things to US citizens, and losing the cases when the US citizens sue. #ICE has zero jurisdiction over US citizens, which is why they are going to lose when the #ReneeGood estate sues them.

Bruce Springsteen: “ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

A watercolour from 1999 showing Bridge Street in Cambridge going up to Magdalene bridge over the Cam.

Another old Cambridge street watercolour, done sitting on the low wall at the front of St John's. This is Bridge Street with autumn coming on. Someone wearing a gown is cycing along. Sold a while ago and scanned from a film photo of the original.
#streetart #watercolour

replace rfk jr with this guy