Max Bittle

⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear. It migrated inward. Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space. That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons. So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public. The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it. The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open. The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility. That is the trade. A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation. This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question. The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults. It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation. The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.

@darrenrovell @nevmed

Great airline at juxtaposing prices to get in to World Cup games versus actually flying to country.

@anatelorenzen I bet a Tudor Black Bay 58 would look nice too

Rolex works just as well 👀

My brother figured this out ages ago. Whoop on an Omega.

@darrenrovell This is such a fascinating dynamic about sports collecting. Proven players, who in some cases are even in the HOF, sell for much less than prospects who have yet to even play a game/season. I supposed this is all due to speculative aspect of the hobby?

Pirates shortstop Konnor Griffin has had 125 at bats in his MLB career. He is batting .256 with 3 HR. Here are his autograph prices being circulated: Signed baseball: $180 Signed bat: $425 Signed jersey: $695 Signed debut ticket with MLB Debut 4-3-26 inscription: $850

@WSJ Please expose golf next. I have been playing for years and have only lost money. While Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm and the other top .1% have made billions

@theredbird_way Wow. Probably saved some people below as well.

Absolutely insane video of a fan who almost jumped off the upper deck at Busch Stadium today during the Cardinals and Brewers game 😳 Good on the fans for pulling him down 👏

He was 46, worried that he'd look like shit on film, body was 30% pills. Impressive stuff

Cardinals are 21-14 with the youngest roster in MLB, have one of the best farm systems in baseball, and pick 6 times in the top 100 in the 2026 draft.

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@benspringwater That's awesome!

In 2019 my girlfriend (now wife) sent Patrick Collison a cold email for the ages. Patrick replied 3 minutes later, warmly, with a yes. A few weeks later I met Patrick at Nopa at 9pm. He ordered tea, I ordered something stronger. He was congenial and energetic, and 90 minutes flew by. The whole episode was special. My wife sending that email was a remarkable gift. Ditto Patrick's generosity. They say never meet your heroes but I think the better advice is to choose the right ones.

@dgoold @benleavitt Any updates on this?

@benleavitt There is no chat scheduled for today. There has been a development with the chat tech we’ve used that we are sorting through and hope to come up with a plan to address shortly.

@dgoold hey DG, you or young DG hosting chat today?

@KOMUMatt @nikitabier - a local weatherman's posts are limited during severe storms.

Hi everyone! Twitter is limiting my posts due to so many in the last 24 hours. Please don’t rely on social media for weather warnings #MidMoWx #MoWx #MidMo

In London hireable Lime scooters top out at 12.5 mph. That means that if you rode one round the London marathon course at top speed, never braking or backing off, by the time Sawe had finished you'd be more than a mile behind him. Absolute madness - as someone pointed out!

Absolutely amazing!

@thesamparr It's like the original Star Wars special effects, they used models. The CGI just doesn't hit the same.

Why do 1980's Sesame Street books look so much better than modern versions? Look at the first 3 images vs the last. The first has warm colors, tiny details in background, imperfect shapes, background is packed with cool things to find. In the 1970s and 80s an illustrator Joe Mathieu drew many of the Sesame Street books. I was gifted one of his books and read it to my kids each night. I fell in love with the drawings so I've been buying all his work on eBay. Some of the books cost $200! But look at the illustrations. It's all done by hand. Watercolor and colored pencil. Imperfect edges, the pigment pooling in the corners, that's what makes it feel warm. Compare this to modern Sesame Street books. Colors from a digital picker, cranked to max saturation, more perfect shapes. Its like the book is a screen. They hurt your eyes. Somebody sat at a desk with a brush and made the old ones. That's the difference.

A runner cramped up just before the finish line at the Boston Marathon, and a few other runners stopped to help him get across.

The friend coming in to grab Mookie’s other hand is what always gets me.

Marlene cooked with this one.

Bro this might be the greatest thing I have ever seen in my life

@rayfp It's a pretty incredible auction. I'm surprised that there isn't more Zeppelin stuff given that he managed them as well.

This auction item is crazy. Music manager Jerry Weintraub at one point managed both Bob Dylan and Neil Diamond, so he had a reversible satin jacket made that, depending which way he wore it, said "Dylan" or "Diamond" on the back.