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The Elder Dan

@crisperthanthou.bsky.social
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think this is literally the only thing he has learned since the start of his second administration, this one elementary spelling fact.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I 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.com
Japan Raises Residency Fees 2,000 Percent Amid ‘Anxiety’ Over Foreigners
Prime 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.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I will also be in Wien for a couple of days in December!
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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.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You 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.
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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."
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
(This constitutes my mandatory "guy thinking about Rome" obligation for the day.)
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The 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!
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Obligatory "Jamiegar McKelvigon" joke goes here.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Twenty down. Twenty-eight* to go. * because it's statistically safest to bet on "nothing ever happens"
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In 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.com
How Erebor Bank’s Sweet Stablecoin Deal Backfired
When 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 ...
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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."
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ten years ago we had Steve Kennedycenter, Johnny Reflectingpool, and Bob Eastwing but now… www.npr.org/2026/09/17/n...
npr.org
Trump threatens to tear down the Kennedy Center, as legal battle continues
The president made the remark to reporters amidst back-and-forth developments in federal court, including an allegation that a forklift repeatedly struck the center.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Seeing yourself on a marketing bullseye is very Uncanny Valley sometimes.
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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 17/09/2026
I practically went RUNNING to grab mine from the shelf and check
My hand holding the accordioned-up baby cart schematic, and the box with the open spine in the background
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh I don't think I knew about the YF-23, yeah I'd love to see that.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In 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)
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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.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When 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?
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I always forget that the band lifted the name from the movie!
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Matt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This newsletter has an incredible business model that is unfortunately very misunderstood. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
bloomberg.com
AI Labs Want Someone to Stop Them
AI and antitrust, lockups and indexes, annuities, Montessori and sudden wealth syndrome.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's a shame there's so much oil for gas engine trucks like this because really there's a better, greener solution waiting.
Faked "Slate Technical" slide touting the various kinds of weapon platforms that could be mounted on a Slate EV.Faked "Slate Technical" slide advertising the use of Slate EV trucks "built for a world that doesn't care".
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#iykyk
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Gonna be a crazy day in our parsley bed, looks like.
Photo of six small male praying mantises clinging to the back of a much, much larger female praying mantis, who is herself hanging on the side of a long stalk of parsley.Sankey Diagram in which six separate "eager" males are inputs to a central "Female Mantis", after which there are six separate "head removed" outputs.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Tsk, there goes the neighborhood. www.ft.com/content/32aa...
ft.com
City of London set to drop century-old rule against logos on buildings
Square Mile’s governing body considers allowing companies to display their logos on the top of offices for the first time
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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.com
Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made the comment on Sunday, days after OpenAI released Astra, its newest and most powerful AI model.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
[camera slowly tracks in on Ken Watanabe as he nods:] "Let them f--"
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Probably gonna be a mixed bag when this bubble finally pops.
"Shareholder value" meme as the adult in the shreds of his old business suit tells the young ones at the camper "But at least we're not asking some fucking chatbot how to grill this dog".
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
And keep in mind that the ultimate intervention is the US military which we will use if it comes to that.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Do 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.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I think you know the reason (it’s the same reason for all phone trees on service lines).
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I 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.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Free cognitive test without even meaning to! 😬
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It’s somehow become the term of art to refer to the frontier/megacap AI companies. Been in vogue in finance talk all year.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Apparently SCOTUS has decided the President can turn the White House into a gold-plated toilet paid for by corporate welfare buskers.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
K-Shaped Recovery would be a great name for a really angry punk band.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I got 3, all of them entirely against my will, I wish it was zero.
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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Also, he meets his new girlfriend during a standardized test.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Can she cook or can’t she.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Some kids skip school.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A desert farmboy does his chores instead of going into town with his friends.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
An aging admiral’s chance encounter with a long-forgotten professional acquaintance also reunites him with his adult son.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
An ex-cop has to find some servants that ran away from their job.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Grandpa's not gonna like that. Someone's gonna get a whippin'. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/28/k...
cnbc.com
Analysis: Kevin Warsh sharpens inflation warning at Jackson Hole, signaling possible rate hike
After 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.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's missing 11 people, only depicts 34 of the 45 people who have been president.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Do you know why I only drink pure Vermont maple syrup, Mandrake?
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Glass cliff right on schedule.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Every 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.
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Last I checked, the point of D-Day was to keep it absolutely secret until it was underway...? www.ft.com/content/cb86...
ft.com
Scott Bessent: an economic D-Day is coming for Iran
Countries that calculate appeasement of the regime to be a safer choice should reconsider
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