this has like 1% predictive value, but it's not the worst idea to take a random 10k follower account election twitter poll as a very early, online activist sentiment check
xcancel.com/ElxMapping/s...
hint: the top choice won't surprise you, or maybe it will
I'm pretty neutral on eth itself rn, just vaguely keeping an eye on it / yes, it's pretty likely fine down the road
defi 1.0 is just never gonna work though, and these constant gifts to the DPRK are why
at this exact moment we're about a 10-30% (who knows) eth dip away from a complete collapse as AAVE force liquidates everybody trapped with 100% utilisation including a bunch of other protocols. $300m is sort of whatever but this particular state is one bad week off zero.
Defi currently melting down is pretty much how this was all going to go sooner or later; AAVE had been exploited 1-2x already (and got lucky to avoid another big attempt), and 5% a year was just never going to work out for the depositors given the *actual* risk involved
oh well
Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
OOP
New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
It’s great that the not fascist party is also the one that thinks FATCA is a good idea and we should do more of that
typical CA post on my twitter TL, one of dozens:
was voting for one of the worst people in the race
now wants to vote for the other one who won't break 10%
but *really* wants to vote for some other ones that won't break 5%
California won't get two republicans but almost deserves to atp
My priors going into 2025 was that Dems would sweep everything in the midterms in a massive backlash, but the rage would overpower common sense and similar to the original Tea Party we'd get a lot of grifters into office along the way
actually doing > expectation on that front (but lol Platner)
as a non-Christian, I feel like everybody who believes in an antichrist should probably pick a side on this one
has kamala considered a maine senate write-in campaign instead???!!!???!!!one
J.D. Vance as Death going down a series of doors marked Pope Francis, Iran negotiations, Viktor Orban’s re-election and U.S. midterms.
the collective action problem around senior level sex pestery in America is now so bad that the median victim - not to mention journalist - should stay quiet about it, and so should the 90th percentile victim/journalist, until you get enough of them together to name an island after the rapist
lol lmao
This is such toxic bullshit. Not from this specific guy - "senior staff", whatever, not his story to tell and Swalwell is apparently C&D trigger happy - but it's clear multiple reporters were on this *in 2020* and it just...went away? Because Swalwell stayed a congressman instead of President?
congratulations to california for dodging swalwell -and- kamala to elect a likely at least 43% competent governor steyer
I don’t think most of those states are elastic enough, especially the South. In SC the Dem is just gonna lose by 10 regardless since the white vote is locked in. But there will definitely be some probs in Texas and maybe a few other states if it’s really close
I stand by Vance being the 27 R nominee as things stand (though under certain circumstances Trump could pivot to, say, Don Jr), but he's gonna have a tough time in the primary while getting slagged by [probably MTG] and her new brand of excommunicated MAGA followers
this is obviously not even representative of a normal 2025-2026 special, since it took place on a day Donnie is more unhinged than usual
nevertheless, if this is what the country thinks of him in November (and there is nowhere to go but down), D+11 is probably underestimating it
This is a very bluesky specific take that isn’t even common on Twitter anymore, although it used to be a bigger thing prior to Trump 2. Libs are far too mad for that shit, so this website is the last bastion of the posting heroes
Nearly four years ago, I recruited my nephew who had recently graduated from Harvard and put him to work at Bremont, a British watchmaker, one of my only active personal investments to figure out the issues at the company and ultimately assist in executing a turnaround. He did a superb job.
The above allegations about my nephew had previously been brought to my attention by TABLE's president when they occurred. When I learned of them, I told the president that I would speak to him directly and encouraged her to arrange for him to get workplace sensitivity training. The president assured me that she would do so. When I spoke to my nephew, he explained what he actually had said and how his actual remarks had been received, not at all as alleged in the legal letter from Ronda's counsel. I have also spoken to others at the lunch table who confirmed his description of the facts. In any case, he meant no harm, was simply trying to build rapport with other employees, and no one, as far as I understand, was offended.
So, in summary, game theory would say that I would certainly settle this case, for why would I risk negative publicity at a time when I was preparing our company to go public and also risk embarrassing my nephew.
So, in summary, game theory would say that I would certainly settle this case, for why would I risk negative publicity at a time when I was preparing our company to go public and also risk embarrassing my nephew.
Some honestly hilarious excerpts from a recent Bill Ackman Twitter thread. Dear Bill, this is your lawyer speaking, I’m begging you to keep posting this stuff.
As someone who thinks affirmative action as practiced in 2023 was a massive bust that deserved to be demolished, lol come on nobody voted on that or ever will regardless of actual position
The Nazi takes are easy to make fun of but kinda blend together after a while, so here’s a delusional take from left field as a palate cleanser
For what it’s worth I agree that Project Hail Mary and The Martian contain as little social commentary as possible for sci fi
And yet the former ends with the marooned protagonist happily teaching physics to aliens with a shared mindset and humor to our own
alright it’s a Friday afternoon, let’s do Speculative 2028 Candidates as Super Smash Bros Fighters
war_iran_final-blow_v1.pdf
war_iran_final-final-blow-v2.pdf
war_iran_final-blow-no edits.pdf
war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1).pdf
war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1) APPROVED.pdf
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this is the current consensus frontrunner for the generic middle-aged man lane in the invisible primary, and I will continue to fade him for the duration
this one is just age. gender will be salient in 27 but there doesn't seem to be a penalty for it for any other office. the giant faultline this cycle is decorum vs willingness to visibly get mad and Mills' age + decorum combo is an instant disqualifier for the majority of Dem voters.
Absolutely not. If Mills were 50 with the same record she'd be cruising. It's age.
he's still going to lose his entire popularity after spending a few years accomplishing nothing in the generically ungovernable mess that is NYC, but damn, he really has the juice