The Straddler
@the-straddler.bsky.social
Examining the contextualizing currents of contemporary society.
Hungry is a hoax.
December 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Hungry is a hoax.
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We’re not doing blockchain and pandemics anymore.
We’re doing AI and recessions now.
We’re doing AI and recessions now.
April 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We’re not doing blockchain and pandemics anymore.
We’re doing AI and recessions now.
We’re doing AI and recessions now.
Gen Z kids were part of the "what if kids have phones" experiment and it went awfully.
Alpha wil be faced with the "What if AI does more of the teaching" experiment, and parents will have to raise hell.
Alpha wil be faced with the "What if AI does more of the teaching" experiment, and parents will have to raise hell.
July 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Gen Z kids were part of the "what if kids have phones" experiment and it went awfully.
Alpha wil be faced with the "What if AI does more of the teaching" experiment, and parents will have to raise hell.
Alpha wil be faced with the "What if AI does more of the teaching" experiment, and parents will have to raise hell.
It’s always worth noting that Peter Baker is a shameless little bootlicker who thinks he’s Tacitus.
June 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
It’s always worth noting that Peter Baker is a shameless little bootlicker who thinks he’s Tacitus.
It’s always worth noting that Peter Baker is a shameless little bootlicker who thinks he’s Tacitus.
June 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
It’s always worth noting that Peter Baker is a shameless little bootlicker who thinks he’s Tacitus.
It’s always worth noting that Peter Baker is a shameless little bootlicker who thinks he’s Tacitus.
June 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
It’s always worth noting that Peter Baker is a shameless little bootlicker who thinks he’s Tacitus.
Conor, they haven't walked all the way back thoooooo...
May 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Conor, they haven't walked all the way back thoooooo...
We’re not doing blockchain and pandemics anymore.
We’re doing AI and recessions now.
We’re doing AI and recessions now.
April 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We’re not doing blockchain and pandemics anymore.
We’re doing AI and recessions now.
We’re doing AI and recessions now.
Always good when the President of the United States turns into the Tim Roth character at the end of Pulp Fiction.
April 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Always good when the President of the United States turns into the Tim Roth character at the end of Pulp Fiction.
The active money management business is built on this too, despite the fact that they almost all underperform the market over time.
A lot of bad shit is downstream of the fact that economists pretend you can predict the future and no one else in the academy is able to shout them down as anti-science.
Your regular reminder that in the entire history of "futurism", no soi-disant "futurist" has ever correctly predicted ANYTHING.
April 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The active money management business is built on this too, despite the fact that they almost all underperform the market over time.
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You will kneel to the DEI triune god
April 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
You will kneel to the DEI triune god
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What's so crazy is that "make America great again" would be a rousing and accurate campaign slogan for Democrats in 2028.
April 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
What's so crazy is that "make America great again" would be a rousing and accurate campaign slogan for Democrats in 2028.
The bull case for wealth destruction.
April 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The bull case for wealth destruction.
Americans love funks.
-Hiring is very unlikely to pick up this year
-Housing can't do much to push growth lower from here, business capex unlikely to fall meaningfully until next year
-Layoffs probably rise somewhat but unlikely to surge given the dynamic above
It all keeps leading me to think "funk" rather than "crash"
-Housing can't do much to push growth lower from here, business capex unlikely to fall meaningfully until next year
-Layoffs probably rise somewhat but unlikely to surge given the dynamic above
It all keeps leading me to think "funk" rather than "crash"
April 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Americans love funks.
Why doesn’t Trump issue an executive order commanding stocks to go up?
March 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Why doesn’t Trump issue an executive order commanding stocks to go up?
There are known knowns. That is, things we know we know. There are known unknowns. That is, things we know that we don’t know. There are unknown unknowns, that is things that we don’t know we don’t know. And then there all of Pete Hesgeth’s passwords.
March 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
There are known knowns. That is, things we know we know. There are known unknowns. That is, things we know that we don’t know. There are unknown unknowns, that is things that we don’t know we don’t know. And then there all of Pete Hesgeth’s passwords.
Taxing the real estate portfolios so they can't get top heavy.
February 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Taxing the real estate portfolios so they can't get top heavy.
This is such a pathetic bit of whining.
January 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This is such a pathetic bit of whining.