edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Everyone thinks they want this, but the incentives would make journalists focus exclusively on going viral or making clickbait. People who want to get paid for virality/clickbait have mostly selected themselves out of traditional journalism. 010
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Everyone is dunking on this person but she is expressing an extraordinarily mainstream view in NYC 310
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Unpopular opinion: fewer than 10% of American adults actually care deeply about consuming high quality cultural artifacts, and a third of them are biased because their job is producing those artifacts. 031
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Guys i know the vibecession is real and charts and graphs are legit but a plain 16" cheese pizza is $25 pretax, pre-delivery where i live and this is an actual crisis/crime against humanity 000
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 17/09/2026New mute word, Aella, You don't mess with this stuff guys. Discourse equivalent of "just trying mainline heroin once to see see what the fuss is all about." 010
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"I just won't bend the knee to international finance!" I yell at the well-dressed Kia salesman who just told me my Auto FICO score 010
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Urbanist hot take: I've been in Amsterdam for one week and our tram just had to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting a cyclist. It was scary af, and a pregnant lady seems to be in trouble and they need to call an ambulance. I had to give my info in case I'm called as a witness in the city's defense? 121
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Pure democracy would have vetoed congestion pricing in Manhattan. Everywhere it has been done, congestion pricing polls poorly before implementation and then is net-popular within a year. Democracy cannot do it. Republicanism can. You need both in the right amounts. 010
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Lots of beliefs held by individuals in the media industry are downstream of takes what's happening in NYC. In NYC, the first time the POTUS implemented a true full employment economic policy, running it hot to get everyone a job -- the median household became poorer. 172
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We're not talking enough about how we finally got the guy who killed Tupac bc *checks notes* the guy wrote a book about killing Tupac 7 years ago and advertised it as "the real truth" about Tupac did a bunch of interviews where he says he gave somebody the gun while parked alongside Tupac's vehicle 000
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Tim Onion thinks that "PE" and "turnaround buyout deal" are mutually exclusive things. it's important to understand that people like him won. The people who won are the ones who understand the world entirely through popular narrative and have no grounding in reality. They also don't care. It's over 031
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Hey guys remember the "boomer remover" joke? What a fascinating slice of trauma-time that was 020
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Does anyone want to do a phonics discourse bc it's not working in NYC and the teachers union is threatening to withdraw support www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...chalkbeat.orgTesting experts say New York’s reading score whiplash deserves a closer lookNew York celebrated a dramatic rise in elementary reading scores last year. Now much of that gain has vanished, and testing experts are asking what happened 000
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 19/07/2026As with any broad advice, just imagine what happens if everybody followed it. If we got an extra 100k trades workers per year, we might be able to do more fixed construction. By what mechanism? *By lowering the cost of tradesworker labor*. 010
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Crime stats are down in NYC but my car was just stolen about 10 hours ago so who's to say? 000
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 11/07/2026They were obviously, plainly, not even denying it, trying to make a Teflon-Don Trump of the left. Compare 2016. Trump said the exactly correct inflammatory things to inspire devotion by an extreme wing of the GOP. He spent most of his time attacking the GOP. Surviving scandals won surprising allies 020
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 10/07/2026From that 10/8 rally: > "And as you might have seen, there was some sort of rave or desert party where they were having a great time, until the resistance came in electrified hang gliders and took at least several dozen hipsters" It was a euphoric celebration of violence. 0264
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Everyone here running a victory lap on Platner should hang out on normie platforms and see how many people see this as a (((Zionist))) plot And then consider how much the problem is actually that we have a hard core of Dem voters motivated by agitation against (((Zionist))) control 000
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 07/07/2026A list of things Graham Platner had to do to avoid explaining his horrible crimes to his children someday: - Don't run for U.S. Senate as the first political office you've ever sought 000
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Ranking is roughly: Specialist repair service small business > specialist contractor service small business > generalist contractor small business > consumer goods small business > Craigslist scam small business 020
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Sentiments like this are why Democrats lose a lot of votes "I studied computer science in the late 90s and I made a modest fortune that won't last more than a single generation." Americans look at that and see an inspiring story. People dragging down the Party see it as fundamentally "dishonest". 010
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Truly serene to pop on over here. Every other social media does geotargeted algo so for me they're on day 4 of "who is welcome in NYC" race war 000
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I know everybody is dunking on this but I need you to understand posts like this get 10k-100k+ likes on any normie platform. Mamdani can say he is YIMBY but a major part of NYC social media is straight up no-more-whites-posting 130
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I think there are too many fine-grained categories if this is a possible result? 000
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I kinda miss when a part in your computer had RPMs. Hard to take myself seriously since that changed 000
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 27/04/2026The sobriety tracker app I've used for years (plural) just showed me an ad for Kalshi. What are we doing here guys? 010
Reposted by @edgarageous.bsky.socialedgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The stock market is up today because the stock market does not measure how stupid the president is. 011
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Neither United, nor States, nor America 000
Reposted by @edgarageous.bsky.socialedgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Yeah so hard left NIMBYism is indeed premised on the idea that (poor) people have bloodline claims on the soil of various urban cores in America, and adding any non-poor people is a long game of ethnic cleansing akin to "new facts on the ground" settlement in the West Bank They're morons 2342
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The stock market is up today because the stock market does not measure how stupid the president is. 011
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 02/03/2026I think actor celebrities are about to discover how much of their value to consumers came from (1) their inherent humanity as an actor, and (2) how much came from their being an avatar, an object, human-shaped upon whom consumers could project their own inner lives It will vary enormously by actor. 000
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 02/03/2026The stock market is up the day after starting a war with Iran because the stock market does not measure how stupid the president is 131
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 27/02/2026If you've saved a modest amount of USD you can go where borger not exponsive 000
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Well duh, they used Claude Sonnet and Gemini 3 Flash. Civilizational survival requires upgrading to the $200/mo plan and using Claude Opus/Gemini 3.1 Pro! 010
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I mean this is how I felt about gauges but I was told that it was weird of me to care about how others modify their body 000
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 23/02/2026As always a certain subset of left wing people abhor the idea that expressions of bigotry can be connected to mental health disorders, because allowing context to inform their judgement even in very rare cases threatens the cohesion of uncritical thought 120
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Speaking from experience, it's been easy to look up the number for CPS since at least the late 90s. The problem is that we all know foster care is worse than having men like this as a father, because vanishingly few decent americans actually want to parent a random 10-year-old 110
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 22/02/2026NYC slopulism will continue until morale improves: gothamist.com/news/new-yor...gothamist.comNew York lawmakers seek rent control to protect small businessesA new bill would regulate rents and leases for bodegas, restaurants, and mom-and-pop shops. 000
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 19/02/2026My SWE brain follows this breakdown while speaking: - "many" is ~30-49.9% - "most" is ~50-60% - "a large majority" is the next step up, 60-80% - "an overwhelming majority" is ~80-95% - "almost always" brings us up to 99.9% - "always" means 100% 000
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 19/02/2026It turns out the allure of the trading "tip" scales well beyond the middle class pharma guy hoping to double his money on a small cap biotech whose trial he heard succeeded. People with hundreds of millions to risk in one trade were trying to get the "tip" from Epstein at nation-state scale. 140
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 17/02/2026One of these days the people of BlueSky that we need a replacement for the r-slur because it is too many words to explain how dumb people are 010
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Google search went personalized over a decade ago, over these exact objections, and users searched more. YouTube personalized recommendations, users watch more YouTube. Users' personalized reality makes them feel special. Users don't actually value a shared reality very highly. (Yet?) 020
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Chris just found out how much of the work product that shows up on his show is drafted or one-shot by AI 000
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Also how does Epstein island still have no reviews on Google Maps? 000
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I finally looked on Google Maps and the Epstein island looks like it sucks ass. It's just a few inconvenient fucking houses and a couple pools. No amenities! How you gonna convince anyone that you went there to just hang out it is visibly lame from space 000
edgarageous.bsky.social @edgarageous.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Growing up in a conservative family addicted to Fox News then going straight into elite education + professional spaces means I know intuitively: - the parties are clearly different and have *very* different values - the whiners/top pundits/extremists? All saying the same shit w/ different flavor 150
