Five 1-liter glass soda bottles stand side-by-side on a dark surface against a charcoal studio backdrop, lit like a high-end beverage ad with visible condensation on the glass. Each bottle has a cream label with subtle pinstripes and large black serif text reading “RICO PREDICATE®” above a prominent flavor name. From left to right: Cream Soda (pale gold liquid) with “18 U.S.C. § 1956” and an orange horizontal band reading “KNOWLEDGE STANDARD”; Club Soda (clear) with “18 U.S.C. § 1343” and a blue band reading “VENUE IN ANY DISTRICT”; Ginger Ale (pale amber) with “18 U.S.C. § 1346” and a gold band reading “SCOPE LIMITED”; Root Beer (dark brown) with “18 U.S.C. § 1512” and a red band reading “CORRUPT PERSUASION”; Tonic Water (slightly cloudy clear) with “18 U.S.C. § 1341” and a gray band reading “BITTER TO THE END.” Beneath the bottles, centered on the background, the tagline reads: “A Pattern of Refreshment.™”

individually satisfying, together they constitute a pattern of refreshment™️

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

going to be real honest I expected certain reasonable things from a visit to wellington: wind, museums, civil servants

I did not expect going to a music venue called “San Fran Bath House” to see a bunch of drunk adult theatre kids belt along to Hamilton for like an hour

me, in March: wait, what. why is this NZ accounting company trying to hire me

me, in August: (watching some kind of twink-focused drag show at Wellington’s only(?) gay bar)

There are 27 customers here and 25 of them are men

Update: the Blue Bottle in the Financial District is exactly what you would expect it to be

bartending in new orleans in the late 2000s, 9/10 tourists pronounced it "one of them tee-kates"

Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

Reminder: if you haven’t yet read “The Mythical Man Month,” buy two copies so you can read it faster.

The Marin BART extension. We could have had BART service down Geary, growth in SF's north and west, reduced car-dependence in Marin, and beautiful GG views for pax

a screenshot from the HBO series 'chernobyl.' alan williams as kgb first deputy chairman charkov, wearing glasses and a dark suit, looks sternly at jared harris's character valery legasov (off-screen). white subtitled text reads 'the KGB is a circle of accountability'

the apps differ pretty starkly in how adversarially useful their data is. tiktok builds detailed profiles of interests/contacts/locations/time use -- v. grindr, where even historic use was sufficient for blackmail and generally didn't expose close contacts. a one-time buy of grindr data was enough

Walgreens CEO on shoplifting strategy: 'Lock things up ... you don't sell as many' Retailers have been faced with increases in shoplifting and retail theft. But anti-theft prevention can hurt retail sales, says the CEO of Walgreens.

you know that bit in 30 rock where they're trying to tank the company on purpose. this has to be that, right

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I'm absolutely losing it over these entries for the Illinois State flag redesign

The dramatic reveal when you've been listening to somebody talk, and you're thinking "ah, that's just some regular guy" and then they have the long "O" in "pro-cess" or whatever and suddenly you realize you've been engaging with A CANADIAN

The Great Gatsby book cover but instead of the classic eyes and mouth they’re replaced with the emoji eyes and mouth.

Mostly confident in my masculinity (mustache) despite never having gotten into crypto or sports betting. Am I still a man

NATO | OTAN logo with KFC | PFK marks

Same at investor relations and SEC-filings conferences this year. Debates on how to set and describe ESG goals with the note that climate change “as an acknowledged reality” is, relatively speaking, the easiest of all public goals to set

it sort of hadn't occurred to me—until he, you know, wrote a book about it—that the story of nate silver's decline is the story of a brutal, uncontrolled, and unrecognized gambling addiction

becoming radically anti-fraud, first as a bit, and then because my parents don't deserve this hostile of an environment in their old age

Contender for favorite chart of all time:

Predictions vs. Reality for solar energy.

Glorious

Lost my mind last week trying to explain how their partnership structure related to their profit-participation units. I am now ride-or-die for Team C-Corp

Yes! His comedy on disability is pretty incredible, Daniel Sloss is also good on this. And more points to Gillis on how he speaks to addiction in family members, and even some sharp eye on class. The guy is good

But it's the Chappelle curse, where some fans take the words, but not the art/love

Graph on childhood poverty rate 2019 - 12.6% 2020 - 9.7% 2021 - 5.2% 2022 - 12.4%

remember that time our government briefly lifted millions of children out of poverty then said aw hell no and put them back into poverty

I mean, deal negotiations allowed Adobe to stall out a key competitor for 15 months, and now create a pretty extreme dissatisfaction among that competitor's own employee base. That's not nothing