another day in which i continue to marvel that twitter does not require 2FA for verified accounts and the odds of that ever happening...are less now

“It’s hard to feel anything but despair,” said Abigail Davis, a social policy researcher at Loughborough University who has studied poverty and inequality for 22 years.

if you listen to Odd Lots, then you know that if there's a thing you care about chances are its supply chain is totally hosed. for everything else, climate change is coming for it bloomberg.com/features/2022-…

v effective marketing + data mining campaign by a product whose primary audience is would-be ~thinkfluencers~

today I almost typed “good thing the migraine collapse happened after all the things” and then I realized the collapse happened in part because of all the things

'Motherboard asked Uber to clarify why it includes a $20 surcharge when the maximum toll is $16 but did not immediately get a response.' vice.com/en/article/dy7…

You're telling me a sovereign government attempted to chart a new course for the domestic economy, and then faced an immediate backlash from the IMF, White House, central bank, and big finance, and then a month later a Goldman and Stanford alum was put in charge?

1/ This was my email to Matt Levine on June 17...

Subject: Crypto for BW?
Hey there, Any chance you’d like to write, like, 20,000 words for us sometime this summer? Could go approximately 18,000 words shorter or longer, as you prefer. -Joel

the persistence of earthquake twitter is somehow reassuring

(I’ll just say, you save yourself a LOT of trouble when you take anti-blackness *and* misogynoir seriously early on.)

this gif tho

bloomberg.com/features/2022-…

With assistance from Olga Kharif!

anytime i get to do these kinds of things i think about the 'are bloggers journalists' question and i just laugh and laugh

anyway matt levine is the best finance blogger ever to do it

an explainer is an approach to solving a journalistic problem. it does not have to be *a register*

I’ll recommend that you buy this one in print. Give yourself some time to read it at your leisure. It’s really good.