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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚨It was only a matter of time before the good people of the BIS got around to looking at AI circular financing www.ft.com/content/8787...

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Is circular financing in AI a problem?

Only if the wheel stops spinning

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yo wtf is Tom Brady wearing

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The New York Times crossword puzzle led me to this www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69H...

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Hot Dog Etiquette

YouTube video by hotdogcouncil

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Confessions of a corporate finance and accounting reporter who sometimes finds themselves writing about crypto (me)

A message to my boss that reads: "To be honest, this one kind of got away from me. I went so far down the rabbit hole yesterday that I fell into an existential crisis. I began to question how and why we ever left the barter system in favor of gold, fiat currency, etc. because it's all practically meaningless. Just like Bitcoin."

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

For context, the last Republican governor of Wisconsin was a former Milwaukee County executive. This line of attack is so weird!

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Don't worry my kids just went back-to-school shopping, singlehandedly boosting Dick's current quarter

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Shout it from the rooftops. Thank you, WisDOT👏

Zipper merge infographic courtesy of Wisconsin DOT

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The national think pieces on Francesca Hong's primary loss is driving me absolutely insane.

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's Election Day in Wisconsin and 2v8 is back on DBD. This day couldn't get much better.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Milwaukee, 2026

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

You know the games you want are good when they're labeled "Disc Behind Counter"

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Shift+3 is my new best friend in Gmail

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

So many people who can reasonably be described as “that little shit” are in charge of so much of society.

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Spot the difference 🔍 between the SEC's 2022-26 strategic plan and its draft 2026-2030 strategic plan

Snippet from the 2022-26 SEC strategic plan that reads, in part, "The SEC is an independent federal agency"

Snippet from the 2026-30 SEC draft strategic plan that reads, in part, "The SEC is a federal agency"

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Will, your profile says you're a "Minnesota guy." I advise you take a quick drive around the rural Upper Midwest and ask folks how they're feeling about the economy right now. It's not hard to understand so long as you don't exist in a bubble.

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I am feeling very loved 🥰

Snippet of an interview recorded in Otter. It reads: "Speaker 1: to Alex. You're very likable, so I'm happy to spend my day with you. Alex: Glad to hear that,"

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'm here at the annual RIMS mega-conference, Riskworld, facing a massive crisis: The press room is out of Diet Coke

A collection of canned sodas and juices, with the row of Diet Cokes completely empty.

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

1) Hell yeah! 2) Event Horizon 2 incoming? Plz

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I've had my fill of storms for the year already, and all this happened in less than a week's span.

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I am ecstatic. All three of the Moms for Liberty backed candidates lost in my local school board election tonight. Even this deep red Waukesha County, WI community doesn't like conservative politics in our schools. 🇺🇸🏫🗳

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I absolutely despise your April Fool's Day fake product press releases. Do not send me them. They are a waste of inbox space.

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I used to work for the publisher of American Farriers Journal, for their sister pub Farm Equipment Magazine. AFJ was the most technical and detailed magazine I had ever seen. It made me appreciate the incredible complexity of a profession I would've, until then, assumed was rather simple.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

🚨🚨Major League Baseball games will be played this month we almost made it!!!!

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Another 2-second special session that will go nowhere

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Game night is about to get **interesting**

Cards Against Humanity cards that say Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden

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Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

From the Epstein documents: The FBI having to Google where Wisconsin is???

The FBI not knowing where Wisconsin is, apparently?

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Folks, is this a characteristic of a functioning democracy?

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

My suggested double feature for those of us enduring extremely cold temps and/or a major snowstorm this weekend

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NPR @npr.org · 22/01/2026

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted 2-1 to roll back the agency's 2024 harassment guidance in its entirety. The document gave employers information on what makes up unlawful harassment. n.pr/4sUJwuD

n.pr

Trump's EEOC strikes harassment guidance amid debate over transgender protections

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted 2-1 to roll back the agency's 2024 harassment guidance in its entirety. The document gave employers information on what makes up unlawful harassment.

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Washington Post Guild @postguild.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The Washington Post Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natanson’s property and personal devices. Hannah is a valued member of our union whose work covering the federal workforce has been essential (1/3)

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I don't know who at Dude Wipes decided that CFOs, specifically, were interested in their product but I really wish they'd stop sending me press releases.

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I am ready to be disappointed again

A "Chansey Pick" wonder pick in the mobile game Pokémon TCG Pocket. Three of five possible cards are a promo edition Heliolisk, which the user already has two copies of, and two are a promo edition of Buneary, which the user does not have.

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Tonight's wonder pick: Big Man Blastoise 🚿😎🚿

A rainbow rare Mega Blastoise ex card from the mobile game Pokémon TCG Pocket.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

“We are the only African American-owned grocery store in the entire State of Wisconsin, committed to addressing food insecurity, food equity, and public health outcomes,” — Sherman Park Grocery owners Maurice “Moe” Wince and Yashica Spears urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/01/07/s...

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Sherman Park Grocery Issues Call for Help

Grocery store located in a food desert asks for community support.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 29/12/2025

When you definitely have not been hornswoggled into filing an expensive lawsuit by a Florida ambulance chaser whose whole deal is filing Donald Trump’s nuisance suits

Matt Taibbi C @mtaibbi
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l've never taken a dime from any billionaire and Eoin Higgins wrote a book that calls me "owned" and
"bought" ON THE COVER. I'm obligated to sue him and Hachette books in this situation. Absolutely outrageous
Nathan J Robi.. @NathanJRo... • 8h
I think it's pretty disgraceful that Matt Taibbi is suing one of his critics. Even if you disagree with Eoin's book's conclusion that Taibbi has sold out, it should be legal to make that criticism ...
Yes, I'm being sued by Matt Taibbi
Does that make me the realest free speech warrior?
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As you probably now know, pundit Matt Taibbi is suing me for defamation over my book Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/12/2025

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “In towns like mine, outsourcing and automation consumed jobs. Then purpose. Then people,” writes Brian Groh. “Yet Washington remains fixated on global competition and growth, as if new work will always appear to replace what’s been lost.”

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Opinion | When A.I. Took My Job, I Bought a Chain Saw

I was now facing the same reality my working-class neighbors knew well: the world had changed, my work had all but disappeared, and still, the bills wouldn’t stop coming.

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

This is my new favorite insult

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I've only gotten through the intro section of this story but, holy ideological inconsistency, Batman.

A snippet from an article about Gen Z conservatives that reads: "That helps explain their detachment. Their views on family, illegal immigration, and social order largely align with those of mainstream Republicans. But they are not demanding doctrinal or programmatic rigor. They want a politics that feels less uptight and more charismatic—one that can make them laugh as well as make them better off.

For some, that may not come from the Right. One participant named Michelle Obama as his ideal next president. Another—the same one who had praised Nick Fuentes—cited Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as preferable to Ben Shapiro."

Article link: https://www.city-journal.org/article/manhattan-institute-focus-group-gen-z-republicans

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 16/12/2025

We're starting a new pub focused on the business of entrepreneurs. It's a bit of a diff model, as it's a dual-editorial approach. One track is deep biz reporting; the other 'as told to' stories about pivotal moments from biz owners. Interested? Apply! Or hmu w/Qs! jobs.lever.co/morningbrew/...

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Morning Brew Inc. - Editor, Founder Brew

OVERVIEW Founder Brew, a new publication dedicated to exploring the real lives, decisions, and psychology of people building companies — from startups to small businesses to creative ventures—is looki...

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

One of my favorite hobbies is sifting through shelves stuffed full of old DVDs at secondhand electronics and collectibles stores. One hundred percent relatedly, another favorite hobby of mine is sifting through Tubi's library.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

"there's a new serif in town"

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Not even Cracker Barrel's signature biscuits are safe from cost-savings measures these days, and we are worse off as a nation because of it. www.wsj.com/business/ear...

Screenshot of a section of a WSJ article on Cracker Barrel. It reads:

"Longtime Cracker Barrel patrons grumble that the chain’s food has gone downhill over the years, while some long-running menu items have been scrapped.

More recent changes aimed at streamlining kitchen operations and cutting costs haven’t sat well, either. Cracker Barrel shifted to making its signature biscuits in big batches and chilling them, rather than rolling out the dough on demand. Green beans and other sides were prepared in ovens instead of traditional stovetop kettles, and food was reheated when needed.

Regulars such as Craig Watkins, 73 years old, a retired race-car engineer from Northern California, pine for the chain’s old standards. He said Cracker Barrel’s quality has slipped, and that the chain ought to bring back old favorites and fix its maple syrup."

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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

You will be visited by three spirits

Erin, Mikasa, and Armin from Attack on Titan

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