#inflation

FULL breathtaking performance of Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? 🤪🤍 I was definitely afraid. #TStheErasTour #ParisTSTheErasTour

When it benefits Amazon to place obstacles in our way, they are extremely relentless in inventing new forms of fuckery, spiteful little landmines they strew in our path.

Amazon illegally interferes with an historic UK warehouse election by Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK link.medium.com/KWmCtAbCnJb

BREAKING: 43% of small businesses were unable to pay their rent in full in April due to economic headwinds.

That’s the highest rent delinquency rate since March 2021, per Bloomberg.

We house them. But 70% of all OD deaths happen inside. Our response to drug use? We embrace the idea that we should help people use drugs safely. It makes sense in principle, but not in application. 🧵

We must intervene directly with the drug user with accountability and treatment. Instead, our intervention is housing with no accountability, which does not by any scientific means treat addiction. People want you to believe that it does. But it's just not true.

What if we told you that the creator of Bojack Horseman once wrote a ridiculously hilarious piece about Macbeth and semantics for us? mcsweeneys.net/articles/macbe…

no biggie, just unknown actor using DC phone number to deep-fake impersonate former US ambassador to Russia inside live video calls: x.com/mcfaul/status/…

Privacy is normal.

And for those of us who have lived under authoritarian and oppressive regimes, privacy is survival.

What’s happening at the Universities in our country is the result of selective enforcement.

Nobody spoke up when it was the people on the right who were run off of campuses because their speech was “unsafe”.

People lost their minds.

People cheered because it wasn’t “their

Good Morning 🌞
Thankful Thursday 🌈✨️

#thursdayvibes

Persistently High Commodity Prices Could Delay Interest Rate Cuts, World Bank Says on.wsj.com/3W8wUSS

Real GDP growth came in at 1.6% in Q1, softer than expected. But that appears to be driven by weakness in volatile components, especially net exports. Private domestic final purchases--'core GDP' made up of consumption & fixed investment--grew 3.1%, a very strong print.

New version of Ogre Chess rules (0.6) just dropped!

docs.google.com/document/d/1my…

Vitamin D therapy

'Of course, quitting my job means losing our health insurance, but now I’ll have more time to cure us with my tinctures and homemade vaccines. The next time Tyler gets an ear infection, I’ll just make a poultice out of my law degree and pray it away.'
mcsweeneys.net/articles/good-…

A voice of sanity

I don’t think most people quite yet grasp the monumental significance of the sudden collapse of nearly the entire state insurance industry in California. There is one entity responsible: state government. Without insurance you can’t purchase or own anything unless you’re very

Mariupol had a population of half a million, like Toulouse, Bologna or Miami before Russia razed it to the ground. Kharkiv at 1.5m is the size of Munich & Prague. Aleppo was even bigger before Putin helped Assad destroy it. The West is worried more about hypothetical escalation

College admission essay content has a stronger correlation with household income (R2 = 16%) than SAT scores.
This explains how removing standardized tests can increase inequality.
Based on 240,000 admission essays to the University of California. science.org/doi/full/10.11…