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Michael Saylor is building a pharaonic edifice of financial engineering. Does his latest fundraise give a clue to the endgame?
Location sharing; Dubai; Kemi Badenoch; relative value; AI summaries; enshittification; and animals
Because retail’s gonna retail
Whoever smelt it dealt it
When firing backfires
Contribute, capitulate, or get cancelled
The tech entrepreneur and (briefly) brain behind Reform UK’s ‘Doge’ project talks cyber security, OSINT and local councils
A podcast cross-promotion post
Token ’bout a revolution
Aviva Investors pull back the curtain
The renowned spotter of dodgy and overvalued stocks talks about cleaning up European markets and Clapham pavements
Yes. And no.
License plates; black hole jumping; words; air con; tram trainers; La Guardia; and algos
But is anyone listening?
Tax evasion; think-tanks; knock-offs; wealth taxes; conversations; BYD; compression; UK x OpenAI; and war
Tesla diner; Once Upon A Time In Shaolin; early libraries; AI; the OBR; king things; and the Alan Turing Institute
Manchester; media; Bitcoin; sex; stagnation; ICE; communication; shorter working hours
Jean-Paul Chartre
Teflon economies; offshore hideaways; bank M&A; bitcoin rot; Japan; and marriage
The cognitive dissonance of America’s pro-crypto policymaking
Are the kids really alright?
Bigly defamatory to emerging markets
Treasuries; yuan devaluation; sectioning; digital literacy; quitting; Macron; cycling; online aggregation; and AI ick
Thanks for all the money, Punks
War is peace, freedom is slavery, dilution is accretion
Deportation nation
One tape to rule them all
Britain; Turkey; Andreessen; interest rates; OpenAI; upper middles; and football
The unintended consequences of protecting degens from algos
TACO; public private funds; the next China shock; the OBR; random selection; the FDA; and movie words
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Lovely lovely data
Of the people, by the people, for the T-shirt
American VAT; immigration; coltan ore; insurance post GLP-1; Superman; 3I/ATLAS; bird flu; and bears
But only if they provide higher education services
Liberté, égalité, volatility