He died as he lived, clicking “Forgot password,” then checking his inbox for a code, then putting in that code, then setting up two-step verification, and then waiting for the text message that doesn’t come, and then calling the 800 number, and then downloading an authenticator app, and dying.

Movies have led me to believe that at some point in life...

My car brakes will be cut

I'll need to army crawl through an air duct

Someone will wrongfully commit me to a mental institution

I'll accidentally step into quicksand

Water will spill on my Mogwai

news.sky.com/story/us-cit...

Random thought: it is incredible how many major companies and governments run their entire business communications on WhatsApp.

Pretty impressive.

I’ve seen some awful things in my life, and I’m quite hardened, but the torture instruments being uncovered in Assad’s Sednaya Prison, the human slaughterhouse, are devastating. This is a place of atrocities.

The cruelty in the human race is sickening.

I have no words.

I get the pushback to Bluesky in that it further bifurcates our media ecosystem. But at this point, Twitter’s content moderation is so nonexistent and its verified users so extreme that the choice becomes either move away from Twitter or be subjected to straight up 4chan nazi bile on a daily basis.

Who would have thought that tariffs would be a bad thing….

A great reminder that I need to make more videos on pensions. They are a total black hole!

Is it wrong that I’m going back to X just to find tweets like this?

I should really just post about investing 😬

Paying people who have taken money directly from Russia to promote conspiracy theories and spread misinformation is wild to me.

One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.

Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

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Here’s the S&P 500 first 217 trading days of 2024.

As you can see, so far at least, 2024 is the best year this side of the century. Can it hold on?

Hello Bluesky :)