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clear frontrunner for chart title of the year: "Wall Street expects J&J to sell $2B worth of ketamine" sherwood.news/business/psy...

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New Superego episode drops May 1st, wherever you get your podcasts.

The entire Superego archive is available here: superego.supercast.com

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so close to halfway omg

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What happens to labor productivity and the economy when it’s always someone’s first day at work No one’s first day of work is easy. Whether you’re working in an office, at home, in a restaurant or at a work site, you don’t know where anything is, you don’t know who to ask for help, and tasks sta...

Would not surprise me to see a companion piece to this in the near future to the effect of “What happens to labor productivity and the economy when it’s always someone’s first day using Claude”
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Monopoly Moves From Tabletops to Casinos with New Slot Machines Aristocrat Gaming has debuted its first Monopoly slot machines to North American casinos as part of a new licensing agreement with Hasbro.

a bit on the nose at this point toybook.com/aristocrat-g...

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Where Did ‘Let Them’ Come From? Years before Mel Robbins published her best-selling self-help book, a struggling writer posted a poem with a similar message.

"Some of this is people placing an academic understanding of knowledge onto podcasters, for whom intellectual credibility is not a source of anxiety" is a phenomenal quote www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026... @olgakhazan.bsky.social

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A #lukewarmtake counterpoint:

The stock market makes just as much sense as it usually does right now sherwood.news/markets/us-s...

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InfoWars Let me tell you a story. When I was a child, I suffered from night terrors. It was always the same dream: I could hear my family and neighbors wailing…

"Today I can finally say the sweetest nine or 10 words in the English language: Global Tetrahedron has completed its plan to control InfoWars." theonion.info

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omfg

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literally we hit a bunch of turbulence over newfoundland *right* as the final race was happening so I got a free 4DX screening courtesy of British Airways

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a nose-to-tail millennial production

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watched Whiplash, Song Song Blue, and F1 on a flight yesterday

it's kind of a great triple feature about "what if doing something you're talented at was so important to you even if it's *absolutely* going to kill you, you'd do it anyway 100 times out of 100" with three very very different takeaways

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Robotaxis are the new millennial lifestyle subsidy
sherwood.news/tech/robotax... by @rani.bsky.social

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Wanted to show you this post in English because it’s so good and we truly are a global village

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Rod Serling stands in a glowing doorway, surrounded by the title Serling: A Journey Into The Twilight Zone with TV's First Visionary, by Alan Sepinwall

Very excited to reveal the cover for my next book, Serling: A Journey Into The Twilight Zone with TV’s First Visionary. The book will be published by Grand Central on October 13 of this year, and pre-orders are open now: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alan-...

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Werner Herzog's Song Sung Blue

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Income Taxes: Where Did The Form 1040 Come From? What it was like to navigate income taxes in the days before we did everything electronically. Just as annoying then as now.

I found a book in a junk shop that made me think of a question I had never considered before: What’s up with the Form 1040?

That sent me on a long journey through the history of taxes. I made it out alive!

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