Jed Christiansen

Perhaps the most important startup equation? (Constant improvement trumps all) As spotted at @homebrew HQ.

@patio11 Worked for a company that sold a platform for this data. Fun fact is that they had to specifically account for the sport of volleyball in their news scrapers, because articles mentioned “kills” so frequently.

I do genuinely love this stuff. How can you not.

In the defense of the unnamed bank, His Holiness is, under U.S. law, ~certainly a politically exposed person (PEP) as a head of state, and therefore a wide range of routine things need enhanced due diligence. Also, possible the banker's UI did not anticipate that would happen.

About two months after Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, he put in a call to his bank back home, a close friend, the Rev. Tom McCarthy, told a gathering of Catholics last week. The new pope identified himself as Robert Prevost, saying that he wished to change the phone number and address that the bank had on file. The pope answered the security questions correctly. Then, the woman on the line for the bank told him that it wasn’t enough — he would have to come to the branch in person. “He said, ‘Well, I’m not going to be able to do that,’” Father McCarthy said in a video clip shared on social media. The pope tried a different tack. “Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?” he asked, according to Father McCarthy. She hung up.

After listening to the last @PodSaveAmerica episode w/ @jonfavs, I don’t believe @kenmartin73 should stay as DNC chair a day longer. I honestly didn’t care at all about the DNC until this interview - but now realize he’s the wrong person for the job. 😡

Pulling out of the Iran nuclear was a catastrophic mistake.

We went to Staten Island to track down New York City's second-worst driver: He's an @NYPDnews officer who has been caught blasting through school zones or running red lights in his truck more than 547 times since 2022.

NEW from me: The 2026 version of my chart book. It is 132 pages of charts that defy liberal & conservative conventional wisdom about spending, taxes, deficits, debt, and even presidential fiscal performance. A full career of federal budget expertise in picture form. 🧵

IMO being in favor of this is like being in favor of defunding the police or not enforcing the border. Why wouldn’t we enforce rules? If they said we’re going to be using AI to audit and need fewer folks that would be great, but that isn’t what they are saying. “The IRS workforce reductions so far would cut an estimated $46 billion in federal spending over the next decade and reduce revenue collections by $643 billion.”

JD Vance with everything

visits the pope → pope dies leads Iran negotiations → talks collapse flies to Hungary to prop up Orbán → Orbán loses in a landslide Man’s got a streak.

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT (who left us 19yrs ago today) was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

Tonight, the University of Michigan will play for its first national title berth since 3 days ago.

TACO once again! (Cease fire is 1000% the right thing to do, and the US should never have started this war)

People probably think Michigan fans are spoiled these days. But I promise it’s not as glamorous as it appears. The last year or two, if someone came up to me and said “congrats on the National Championship,” I was able to simply reply “thank you.” Now I have to ask “which one?”

JPM's Michael Cembalest: In the ~160 years after the Civil War, US presidents fired 11 four- and five-star military officers. In Trump's first 14 months, the White House has fired 9 of them.

The Kings of College Basketball 〽️

Finally, this was *massively* inspired by Megan Seritan (who's no longer on Twitter). She's an astronomer who posted about her tattoo years ago - you can find a copy of it on Reddit.

For the geeks: * The sun would be a 13.5ft ball almost 500 yards away * the lines you see on either side of the Moon are avg & max Apogee and Perigee distances. (The Moon's orbit is more eliptical than you might think).

I got a new tattoo! I got the Earth and Moon on my forearms, and it's all to scale (8500 km/inch). I planned this ages ago - but seems fitting I actually got it done the week that @NASA is back at the moon with Artemis II.

JD Vance using a photo of a Methodist church on the cover of his book about CATHOLICISM is some real Veep-level shit.

It's amusing to watch the same people who went from "No Foreign Wars" to "Yay, Foreign Wars" also go from "Never speak ill of the dead" to "Yay, Mueller is dead" all in the same month