Oliver Ford

@matt_levine The opinion as quoted actually seems a lot saner than you made it sound on the podcast (which I heard first) - I think the crucial part is the distinction between social media virality (think 'sir this is a Wendy's') and corporate actions. [I'm not US this isn't a political take]

This newsletter is an unnerving manual for conning and getting conned. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@matt_levine Maybe in five years' time the meta-study's conclusion will just be 'people believe what they read in books'?

It’s all Money Stuff. You don’t need to know anything more than that from me about what I think about this newsletter. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@matt_levine Ah great, no email & bloomberg.com has decided I'm a bot. (And the support form it points you to is the wrong one (feedback) & if you then go to what is more probably the right one ... it's behind the bot-blocker too...)

This newsletter automatically passes to the Crown under law, becoming bona vacantia, or vacant goods. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@matt_levine Surely you don't get 19 friends, you get 1 van?

There’s not really a large societal cost to this newsletter. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@asanwal I think it's probably not wrong that they are examples of pretty 'narrow' businesses that, yeah 'insert [themselves] into every transaction in the world and siphon a percentage of it'. I don't read it as completely trivialising 'trillions of little lookups'.

This is a very on-brand Hacker News comment

@bustardstweets @NoContextBrits @duolingo By that logic when I learn Hindi it should have a British flag... 😬

@NoContextBrits @duolingo It’s used by Americans learning to speak English tbf so probably accurate.

Fix this immediately. @duolingo

@tescobankhelp Hi, I replied to an email regarding transfer to Barclays to decline to accept the terms & conditions change & transfer, but the email bounced as the replies@ address does not accept mail (!). Can you give me a working email address please?

@EM_Dr_Jacklin @drjanaway I'm laughing so hard at 'nursing a beer and a STEMI' I might have to pop in myself in a minute

@23Miriel @BevCorn63 @zoekennedy @EmSilverwood91 I was going to make a joke about what my roof flue should be made out of/shaped like then, but actually... that thinking just clearly doesn't extend to flues 🤦‍♂️

@euro_bruno Talking about the post or your handle?

rome? lisbon? copenhagen? llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch? be specific

@hansmollman Immediately, or can it wait until registration tomorrow?

If we win, you have to tell someone you fancy them. If Spain lose, you have to tell someone you fancy them.

#HeyGoogle is there any way to actually get some kind of @Google @GoogleUK @Android (FindMyDevice) support? I'm not even really a customer, you're just spamming me every single day with the same email, and seemingly nothing I can do stop it. Can someone help?

@eevblog Is there anything behind that assertion other than the way your own TV(s) are set up? Anyway, personally I've always powered them & Chromecasts from the TV's own USB port - found it'll deliver ample (geddit) current despite what they suggest.

Amazon knows that their fire stick is mounted behind a TV. And they know that the majority of TV's these days are wall mounted and likely have a power point behind the TV. So why not provide a right angled power adaptor?

@Google I am receiving the same email from Google every day, who can I contact to get it stopped please? ('Find My Device is now on' - no call to action, no unsubscribe, just the same informational update every single day.)

@matt_levine If GME bought back all its own stock... who owns it? It would then be a private (or listed but without public ownership) with no owners, just a sort of autonomous thing with a CEO etc. sure but nobody to pay a dividend to or anything?

Because of Money Stuff, I was able to get back to what really matters. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@matt_levine NeuBase: what about the 6% of votes that did vote and voted no, won't they sue? Isn't 'You can't just decide the 67% abstention would vote the same way' quite a compelling argument?

Money Stuff has become one of, if not the most, dominant financial newsletters in the country, if not the world. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@eevblog @AlboMP I should add I'm not Australian, don't know who the MP is or how his politics (or those of his party, or which that is) compare to mine beyond this tweet (and I *wouldn't* wipe student debt), no skin in this.

@eevblog @AlboMP Debt isn't necessarily (and typically isn't) equal to the cost to the lender though, so it's not 'transferred'. I think 'wiped' is fine, it doesn't imply the lender's own liability disappeared.

We're wiping 3 billion in student debt, for more than 3 million Australians.

@matt_levine I am *crying* with laughter at that 'once you delete your virginity' analogy

Once you delete this newsletter you ain’t getting it back, that’s how it works. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

The moment you say 'I'll get straight to the point', you bloody haven't