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Investigative financial reporter at REDD Intelligence, focused on Latin America. Had a resentful outer-borough attitude before it was cool. Find me on iNaturalist or on my bike. My employer has nothing to do with my posts. Pro-edit button.
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This is 100% correct — I have heard the Silicon Valley money guys admit as much out loud, about *all* of these fools.

Me getting a 99 in Connections: God, humans are stupid Me getting a 98 in Connections: fuck I'm stupid

trump take egg

Hmmm

The first substantive thing I've learned on bluski is that Mark Cuban is stupider than I thought

Dying in a hideous plane crash because the world’s most racist and unlovable nerds couldn’t handle a 45 minute HR training.

I think Douglass is the greatest American, or at least the paradigmatic ideal of what this country can be: a self-made man whose drive for justice lifted him out of slavery and put him at the forefront of imaging what real democracy would require. No wonder these people want to eradicate his memory.

In all the coverage of Musk's 420 fixation, I have never seen anyone suggest that it was for anything but Bay Area slang for weed. This is a terrifying possibility. Here are some examples of his fixation with the number: observer.com/2024/04/elon...

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

Something funny about the #TeslaTakedown protests is that just a few short months ago, there were proposals to give electric cars an exemption from NYC's congestion toll. Now I bet we could pass a rule hitting #swasticars with a surcharge.