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@zhil_arf Check your DMs

If there's one book I really, really, really want to read, it's this one. I saw this in the airport. It costs half a million IDR so fuck.

@xchristian @consequence That's not the same play list?

@consequence x.com/xchristian/sta…

The full playlist for Christina Hendrick's four-hour "Shoe Pop Dream Gaze" DJ set: "Broken Heart" – Spiritualized "Yes (Love Theme From Lost River)" – Chromatics "Drink I'm Sippin On" – Yaeji "Hug Of Thunder" – Broken Social Scene "How Can I Make It Ok?" – Wolf Alice "New Song" – Warpaint "Pa Pa Power" – Dead Man's Bones "Machinist" – Japanese Breakfast "Michael Mann" – Youth Team "Heartbeats" – The Knife "Thunder" – Catnapp "Ivo" – Cocteau Twins "Joseph Porter" – The Deadly Syndrome "The Birds" – Rick Cuevas "I Do You" – Anna of the North "Cruel Summer" – Bananarama "The Day We Met Never Ended for Me" – Talvi "Crazy For You" – Causeway "Los Ageless" – St. Vincent "The Judge" – Desire "Waxwing" – Sorry "Dance While You Shoot" – Noga Erez "Ghost" – Halsey "Boys of Summer" – Esper Star "West Coast" – Lana Del Rey "Hell Is Round The Corner" – Tricky; Martina Topley-Bird "Gooey" – Glass Animals "(The Forgotten People)" – Thievery Corporation "God" – Tori Amos "The Ghost Inside" – Broken Bells; Danger Mouse "She Bangs the Drums" – The Stone Roses "I Did It!" – Kitten "Can I Call You in the Morning?" – The Beaches "Heavy Metal Heart" – Sky Ferreira "Horse Pills" – The Dandy Warhols "Lover I Don't Have to Love" – Bright Eyes "Velvet Morning" – The Verve "Love Is a Big Light" – The Stevenson Ranch Davidians "In The Morning I'll Be Better" – Tennis "Girl Of The Year" – Beach House "Rescue" – The Asteroid No.4 "Vapour Trail" – Ride "First Love/Late Spring" – Mitski "Crazy for You" – Slowdive "Half Silences" – Loma "Waiting Game" – BANKS 📸: Phillip Gutgesell / The MAT Magazine

@patrickc Wait, what? What's the correct way?

There are two ways of tying a standard shoelace knot, based on the relative handedness of the two half-knots, and the correct one basically never comes undone. I assume everyone else knows this and has been gently pitying me as I ignominiously retie my flailing laces, but sharing here just in case.

@gbrl_dick Is it actually qualitatively better than a big Mac?

just caught my ten month old staring longingly at my big arch burger (fantastic product) and when i offered it to him for a bite, mostly just to see what happened, he looked up at it like i imagine tenzing norgay looked up at everest

@gbrl_dick The uncensored version of the song survived in simlish: m.youtube.com/watch?v=JMRGUH… Yet another "seeing like a state" moment, where becoming incomprehensible to central authority allows a people to escape censorship, this time via The Sims

it's impossible to explain the early 2000s to zoomers, but just to give you a sense: in 1995, backpack rapper will i am started a backpack rap group called Black Eyed Peas with a mexican-american and a filipino guy, released two albums, added a blonde female vocalist and moved to pop-rap. the pop-rap album is recorded over the course of 2001, and is allegedly both interrupted and inspired by 9/11 9/11 album has three singles: let's get retarded, shut up, and a kind of 'do they even know it's christmas' consciousness-raising song called 'where is the love?' about how we just have to love each other. the album is now quadruple platinum after this, will i am starts a tech co and acquires an israeli machine learning company. i think he also made hardware for the early iphone this year he's teaching a course on agentic AI at ASU

@brianluidog When I donated in Singapore they offered me a pack of iron tablets on the way out. I suspect iron supplementation would completely resolve low ferritin

PSA: if you donate blood more than once a year, your ferritin levels will get very low and you will have health problems. The blood banks don't tell you about this because it would reduce donations. claude.ai/share/1fdd62f0…

@MostlyMonkey I love that I got this joke

Stop financializing my deep, liquid stock market!!!!

@db_econ It works well without congestion, but to get a true train experience it needs a dedicated lane all the way to the city

Every time I take it I'm struck by how good a service the skybus is

@_colourmeamused Yes. The tax benefit makes it incredibly effective. Ask your HR department about who does salary packaging at your workplace and let them sell you on it.

should I get a BYD on a novated lease?? (I’m seriously asking) How does this work what will it cost me?

@gbrl_dick @MattCowgill There are dozens of us! Dozens!

@MattCowgill incredible idea. there'd be at least 4 or 5 people who would listen

NOVEL IDEA: an Australian podcast about economics and the economy. Note: not about personal finance. Not about federal politics. Not about the daily gyrations in financial markets.

@MattCowgill Haha. It's 'aspirational' mate.

Sometimes I think maybe I am not actually in the AFR’s demographic after all

@db_econ Link to paper?

Interesting paper showing that (among many other findings) wealthier renters benefit ~3x more than low-income renters from rent control.

@dannolan Commodity exports go brrr > Australia’s LNG exporters are set to benefit from a surge in prices afr.com/companies/ener…

if trump doesn't clean this shit up neatly in the next 20 hours I would not want to have a debt that was influenced in any way by the rba's rate setting

@dannolan War in the middle east increases the price of energy, which is traditionally a positive for Australian commodities exporters I think you have the direction wrong on that one

@sivori How old were they when you let them have an Apple Watch?

Apple Watch is the best middle ground. My three oldest children have them. Each have their own cell service ($10-15 a month) and iMessage, Apple Music, and I can track them. Connection without screen addiction.

@patio11 Trad payment rails often don't have a unified api across institutions because banks don't like being turned into a dumb pipe. Blockchains can conceivably achieve that. When a common api exists in tradfi (e.g. UPI in India) they're created by gov mandate.

I sometimes get asked whether I expect agents paying each other to use stablecoins. I certainly expect them to call a remote API backed by a database, but wonder why they would have strong preferences on which payment rail to use.

@lymanstoneky @nominalthoughts x.com/arguablem/stat…

@lymanstoneky Interesting! Ping @nominalthoughts for his wonderful work on a dbcft cremieux.xyz/p/trump-should…

People realizing what Americans want is a progressive consumption tax. You get an exempt amount of consumption (standard deduction), rates rise progressively, but you’re not taxed on anything you save.

Interesting view of the net result of seemingly separate tax design decisions. I discuss an Australian version here: open.substack.com/pub/australian…

@db_econ This is some kind of albo personal special isn't it. He did love hsr when he was in transport

lol