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Tom Gara
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The main mistake here is that TRILLIONS should clearly be about central bankers
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Showtime says it's developing several projects "that would expand the BILLIONS universe:"
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I have my questions about the Cybertruck but it's just surreal to see Elon Musk's understanding of the auto industry questioned by the executive director of entrepreneurship at Towson University in Maryland
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Geez, I wonder why Elon might think he has a unique understanding of the car market. nytimes.com/2023/02/06/bus
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The tech breakthrough of the last decade that I most overestimated was those cashier-free Amazon Go stores, really thought it'd become a killer feature in retail and it seems to have gone nowhere
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🛒🚫Few things have chastened Amazon quite like physical retail. theinformation.com/articles/how-a @theo_wayt @nickwingfield
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Small businesses all over the country are feeling the pain right now. Even Doxbo is having trouble paying the rent
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😔Unfortunately, we will close properly soon. We can no longer afford to rent our business. The Mavic 3 Classic Drone in our shop has a 50% discount! If our financial situation improves in the future, we will definitely open up again. 🛒Shop Now>> doxbo.co/mavic3
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Joe is taking an important step toward accountability and perhaps, one day, justice. The hurt he caused is real and lives on, but he is now ready to listen.
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Good morning. Please share this as widely as you can. I'm trying to move on. twitter.com/Bernstein/stat…
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What makes this extra impressive is there was serious competition in the Netflix Special Condemned for Being Transphobic category this year
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Dave Chappelle Wins Grammy for Netflix Special Condemned for Being Transphobic hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-n
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Is Joe throwing me under the bus on this? That’s not for me to say. But I understand either way - as a New York Times guy he’s under enormous pressure to toe the line here, we’ve all heard the stories about how the editorial edicts there work.
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An update for the Tárheads on full tilt over this: his issued an updated position statement. He is committed to listen, learn, and do better.
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Ok, this has to stop. When I first saw "Tár," I was struck by the hallucinatory quality of the last act of the film. Todd Field, who was in Eyes Wide Shut (from Arthur Schnitzler's "Dream Story") and idolizes Kubrick, was obviously in full "Stanley mode" (1/x)
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The last act of “Tár” IS a dream sequence, but the dreamer is the depressed space whale from “Avatar.”
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Just saw Tár for the first time, and I’m sure it’s mostly that I instinctively trust @Bernstein on everything, but the final act is clearly a dream sequence? Like, it barely even pretends not to be?
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The Taliban banning remote work and requiring full return to office, that’s a classic Taliban move
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You win a holy war against the United States and first prize is a bunch of desk job bullshit and no time to hang with the boys. Welcome to the fuckin show lol
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I’m now living my life according to NY Mag’s hyperanxious metrosexual ultrawoke hedonist etiquette by smoking indoors through multiple KN95s while cleaning up trash at a non-ironic sex party hosted by someone whose nationality I won’t ask about and it’s great
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Yes, apparently the Berlin Philharmonic fired its esteemed conductor over serious allegations of grooming and abuse at her fellowship program and replaced her with the third-tier hobbyist who ran the scandal-plagued program with her.
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Who’s somebody it’s been heavily implied would never be appointed to that role (except in perverse dream logic)
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The alternate interpretation of last act of Tár is that she’s really waiting around in her conductor outfit backstage at the Berlin Philharmonic after they fired her and then rushes the stage and fights the new conductor?
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Just saw Tár for the first time, and I’m sure it’s mostly that I instinctively trust on everything, but the final act is clearly a dream sequence? Like, it barely even pretends not to be?
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This is an opportunity for our nation's most powerful shorts in cold weather guy to become the Neil Armstrong of his generation
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INSANE conditions on Mt Washington, NH. 120mph+ winds and -95°F wind chill. It is above the tropopause, meaning that these are stratospheric winds. Footage from the summit live stream 2:30-2:40pm. #nhwx
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Your job in life is to discover something that you're as good at as Elon is at being found not guilty in trials over tweets
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NEW: Elon Musk found not liable in federal trial over “Funding secured” tweet
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It's genuinely humiliating they haven't shot down the balloon yet. Yes I've seen all the reasons why, I don't care. Gotta shoot that balloon.
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