Peter Gratton

@petergratton.bsky.social

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Peter Gratton, PhD, is an editor at Investopedia, book author, and professor of philosophy. He covers political theory, technology, finance, and political economy. Views are definitely my own.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 16h

Legally Blonde.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d

There was a world before the forever toilet roll. And we’re now living in the after.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

The fuckin bears did it. They built the toilet paper MOAB

A charmin “forever roll” of toilet paper that looks like a damn piece of furniture

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d

She’s had quite the turn this year. As a human barometer that’s helpful.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

The fuckin bears did it. They built the toilet paper MOAB

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 1d

I see no way this can go poorly

That comment about the eggplant tattoo is something Street picked up from a crypto company she's working with called Dare Market, which has yet to launch. The idea is in the name: a market of dares where people pay bounties that others cash in on by recording themselves performing crowdsourced challenges. These dares, according to the

challenges. These dares, according to the company's founder, Isla Rose Perfito, a bubbly blond 29-year-old living in New York, could include things like breaking into a Scientology center, moving into a McDonald's for 24 hours, and getting people to streak at the Super Bowl. "The goal," says Perfito, "is to break the internet. It's like Black Mirror/Jackass coded but still super relatable. It'll give you the feeling that you can change the world and the adrenaline rush of driving a fast car.”

I tell her it all sounds a bit like Squid Game, the TV show about poor people who play deadly children's games in order to win a prize fronted by wealthy spectators.

"It is, yeah!" she says-brightly. "It's very similar."

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d

I liked when he blamed his assistant for the script that he just automatically read off. Like the “accidental” antisemitic version of Ron Burgundy.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d

For an urban person I have unlikely love for horses when I get a chance to see them. Let’s let Gill off on this one.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d

Just $5 more to unpack the pro version—where grandma dishes on your parents and tells you the advice they don’t want you to hear.

Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 1d

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d

So Sisyphus was a parable of NY apt living?

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d

I got that joke!

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d

Ironically one of the signs of “fast thinking” is someone mentioning the need for “slow thinking” and then not doing it.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d

I read this first as meaning “the nerd” as in all of them, and that tracked.

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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 2d

Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 2d

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2d

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.

The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

news.gallup.com

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe—but who spends thanksgiving with people they like? ;)

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d

Median age of new homebuyers: 40 according to the NAR.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I was going to say, he was forced out—all but had a fireworks display as he left.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 2d

And with every new model, they seem to promote "now with 10% less serious psychological harm!" as if this was some incredible act of generosity on their part! And when they get sued after their product did something which we would call "straight up murder with lots of evidence" if a human did it...

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d

Very different than the verbal form “I gotta homicide.”

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Daily News Union @nydnunion.bsky.social · 3d

May the history of the Daily News, when it is written, reflect that upon unanimous ratification of the first contract in more than three decades, the next words uttered in the Zoom call were those of street reporter Kerry Burke: “Okay, I got a homicide. I gotta go.”

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d

I feel it’s bad I understand 75% (I think).

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d

@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com this combines two of your foci at once: www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

www.realtor.com

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d

This thread is incredible. A socio-anthropological study in short in all the ways the Irish humor can burn you to the ground and then come back to stomp out the ash.

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 3d

I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.

All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.

Tanks

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d

I blame Americans being raised on Indiana Jones movies.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 3d

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d

There’s gloomy weather, there’s dreary weather, and then there’s weather shenanigans, the most fearsome of all.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d

(Waiting for someone not to get the joke and mention one of a billion events that did it since 1962.)

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d

We also need to ban Kennedy men—just them, I’m no authoritarian—from wearing thin 60s ties and dressing as lookalikes for their namesakes. Terrible results in the 21st century.

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