The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think this is literally the only thing he has learned since the start of his second administration, this one elementary spelling fact. 030
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I feel like one could maintain an ongoing news thread of stories whose general shape is "societies lovingly tie the nooses with which they will eventually hang themselves". www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...nytimes.comJapan Raises Residency Fees 2,000 Percent Amid ‘Anxiety’ Over ForeignersPrime Minister Sanae Takaichi is making it harder for immigrants to stay in the country. Critics say she is hurting Japan’s ability to address labor shortages. 021
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I will also be in Wien for a couple of days in December! 010
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"There is some point at which we have spent SO much money on AI that it finally results in productivity gains that make it all worth it" is the new Laffer Curve. 032
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 26/09/2026You could say "History is full of evil people who were incompetent, but just got lucky early on. Every one of them thought they were the smartest guy in the room." straight to his face and he would not have a moment of introspection about it. 010
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Of course you can't buck secular trends but what this pitch deck supposes is, what if you can." 010
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 20/09/2026(This constitutes my mandatory "guy thinking about Rome" obligation for the day.) 020
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The only reason many of those massive Imperial Roman arches are still standing in Rome was that the medieval aristocratic families found them more useful as keeps and guard towers to build their family defensive fortifications around, rather than quarries to cut up for stone. So, tbh, kinda classic! 111
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Obligatory "Jamiegar McKelvigon" joke goes here. 020
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Twenty down. Twenty-eight* to go. * because it's statistically safest to bet on "nothing ever happens" 000
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 20/09/2026In utter fucking dork news, a company named after the dragon's mountain in THE HOBBIT was ripped off in a clever arbitrage run by a company named after the rogue AI in NEUROMANCER. www.theinformation.com/articles/ere...theinformation.comHow Erebor Bank’s Sweet Stablecoin Deal BackfiredWhen Palmer Luckey’s Erebor Bank launched earlier this year, it made an attractive pitch to lure new crypto customers: It would convert their stablecoins to cash for free. But Erebor wound up pulling ... 264
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"I happen to know some fifth-graders, and statistically it is likely that one or two of them will grow up to be terrific investment bankers, but I would never want to guess which ones." 000
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Ten years ago we had Steve Kennedycenter, Johnny Reflectingpool, and Bob Eastwing but now… www.npr.org/2026/09/17/n...npr.orgTrump threatens to tear down the Kennedy Center, as legal battle continuesThe president made the remark to reporters amidst back-and-forth developments in federal court, including an allegation that a forklift repeatedly struck the center. 011
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Seeing yourself on a marketing bullseye is very Uncanny Valley sometimes. 110
Reposted by The Elder DanAlejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 17/09/2026I practically went RUNNING to grab mine from the shelf and check 213740
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Oh I don't think I knew about the YF-23, yeah I'd love to see that. 100
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In Ohio? They have the XB-70 Valkyrie and an Me-262! (And some other great stuff like an X-15, Blackbird, etc but I’ve seen those up close many times elsewhere) 110
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"What if we create super-intelligences that out-think us, outlive us, take control of all our resources, and decide to enslave us?" You fucking dummies, we've already done that, they're called corporations. 195
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 15/09/2026When he puts it that way, it sounds like the President was re-elected specifically as a Communist accelerationist plot to ensure their viability starting more or less now. Did this bozo just give the game away? 120
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I always forget that the band lifted the name from the movie! 020
Reposted by The Elder DanMatt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This newsletter has an incredible business model that is unfortunately very misunderstood. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...bloomberg.comAI Labs Want Someone to Stop ThemAI and antitrust, lockups and indexes, annuities, Montessori and sudden wealth syndrome. 1405
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It's a shame there's so much oil for gas engine trucks like this because really there's a better, greener solution waiting. 140
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Gonna be a crazy day in our parsley bed, looks like. 221
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Tsk, there goes the neighborhood. www.ft.com/content/32aa...ft.comCity of London set to drop century-old rule against logos on buildingsSquare Mile’s governing body considers allowing companies to display their logos on the top of offices for the first time 041
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"It is not the first time Huang has said AGI has arrived." lol www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-jense...businessinsider.comNvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAINvidia CEO Jensen Huang made the comment on Sunday, days after OpenAI released Astra, its newest and most powerful AI model. 020
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 07/09/2026[camera slowly tracks in on Ken Watanabe as he nods:] "Let them f--" 000
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Probably gonna be a mixed bag when this bubble finally pops. 020
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 03/09/2026And keep in mind that the ultimate intervention is the US military which we will use if it comes to that. 000
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Do not forget the strategic goal of widely inculcating expectations of Red Victory so that when they lose by a lot, the claim is that obviously there was Dem fraud and the results are attacked directly. 110
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I think you know the reason (it’s the same reason for all phone trees on service lines). 100
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I come back to it occasionally like catching up with an old friend. We talk about all the same stuff for a few hours, no surprises or drama, it’s just nice to hang out. Sequel is more of the same joy, love it. 000
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Free cognitive test without even meaning to! 😬 030
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It’s somehow become the term of art to refer to the frontier/megacap AI companies. Been in vogue in finance talk all year. 020
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Apparently SCOTUS has decided the President can turn the White House into a gold-plated toilet paid for by corporate welfare buskers. 000
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 31/08/2026K-Shaped Recovery would be a great name for a really angry punk band. 020
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I got 3, all of them entirely against my will, I wish it was zero. 020
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Also, he meets his new girlfriend during a standardized test. 010
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A desert farmboy does his chores instead of going into town with his friends. 020
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 29/08/2026An aging admiral’s chance encounter with a long-forgotten professional acquaintance also reunites him with his adult son. 110
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 29/08/2026An ex-cop has to find some servants that ran away from their job. 050
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Grandpa's not gonna like that. Someone's gonna get a whippin'. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/28/k...cnbc.comAnalysis: Kevin Warsh sharpens inflation warning at Jackson Hole, signaling possible rate hikeAfter confusing markets at his July press conference, Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh used Jackson Hole to give a clearer view of the case for higher interest rates. 030
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It's missing 11 people, only depicts 34 of the 45 people who have been president. 000
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Do you know why I only drink pure Vermont maple syrup, Mandrake? 020
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Every time I see "Woke 1.0" it makes me think we should just get all of Woke into a source control repository with branching and proper versioning and some unit tests. Then we can ask Claude to explain what it actually does and also to fix all its problems with no mistakes. 020
The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Last I checked, the point of D-Day was to keep it absolutely secret until it was underway...? www.ft.com/content/cb86...ft.comScott Bessent: an economic D-Day is coming for IranCountries that calculate appeasement of the regime to be a safer choice should reconsider 010