New Amethyst feature is great - the app crashes after about 15 min thus capping my procrastination

Everyone acts out of self interest. Except for the government who follow the rule of law why do you hate democracy you conspiracy theorist!

Massive red flag 🚩🚩🚩🚩 when a company claims to be doing good by 100% reinvesting their "profits" into some cause. Clear incentive for management to pay themselves more, or run the company less efficiently. Makes me think of these quotes by Milton Friedman: >"Insofar as [a business executive's] actions in accord with his "social responsibility" reduce returns to stockholders, he is spending their money. Insofar as his actions raise the price to customers, he is spending the customers' money. Insofar as his actions lower the wages of some employees, he is spending their money." >"The stockholders or the customers or the employees could separately spend their own money on the particular action if they wished to do so."

Climate alarmist propaganda is in full force recently. Literally every 2nd headline on BBC. Just learned that asphalt burns are now on the rise due to climate change 😂 I guess we need more government to fix this

Antima swarming to the defense of Tron is fascinating

Cut off your hedge to spite your neighbour

New front page news "breakthrough" Alzheimers drug sounds like a shitcoin. Slows down associated protein markers, but no evidence that people are better off. Its all so tiresome 😮‍💨

At home with my toddler today, and put Matilda on. It's pretty based! Recommend 👌

So many examples of mainstream media trying to profit from outrage. Today I thought I'd read a nice simple article about Italian food. Alas, I learn that thinking Italian recipes are traditional is right-wing 🫢 But, of course, my annoyance is one of the intended reactions since there's a link at the bottom to a rebuttal ... another article for me to spend more time reading the FT.

Client Challenge

JFC. Have to do KYC in order to buy a weeding tool for my garden 😂 Thinking @ODELL would enjoy this one

If The Fed is mostly a posturing institution, then its biding its time when it can give the narrative that inflation has fallen and is stable. Their goal will be to set expectations lower. Every time they hike, it tells people inflation is still high and they need higher pay increases. They will have no choice but to switch directions.

BREAKING: 100% of survey respondents want free money for doing nothing

Our selfless and tireless king campaigning for climate action. Definitely no other motives ...

Crown Estate flourishes thanks to offshore wind farms

The King traditionally owns many ostensibly unprofitable things: swans, dolphins, sturgeons, Hyde Park and, of course, the seabed. Now, however, of...

Bitcoin is only used by criminals, and also Bitcoin can't even be used by criminals because all transactions are public.

If you want to feel bullish, listen to this interview by the world's most famous financial journalist of a prominent Bitcoin and crypto skeptic.

Pushkin Industries

On Background: Crypto Skeptic Proven Right | Against the Rules

If you spend any time reporting on the world of crypto currency and Bitcoin, then you’re going to run across the name Molly White.

I probably agree with a lot of the critique of "crypto", but the bitcoin criticism is very shallow, self-centered, and uninformed. Lots of muddling up the two, and a heavy dose of smug. If this is the best criticism out there, then it easily explains how the midwits are going to continue to be left behind while the rest of us continue winning.

Wow, they're admitting it ... smells like a psyop 😅 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/06/26/britain-inflation-crisis-blame-covid-bailouts-bank-england/

Government can't get the most basic things right. This example is low stakes, but there are thousands of much higher impact incompetencies. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/24/nhs-healthy-weight-bmi-calculator-made-people-fatter/

Obedience to the unenforceable

The Telegraph cartoonist is consistently 👌

Man on the tube next to me reading a textbook with a chapter titled "Respecting the law". I guess there must be something disrespect inducing elsewhere in the book that they needed to counter 🤷‍♂️