Mergers reduce employee satisfaction, especially in non-contractible “soft” dimensions like culture and management, with larger declines in target firms, from Wei Cai, Andrea Prat, and Jiehang Yu www.nber.org/papers/w34920
The first sentence is: “Cryptocurrencies were designed to be a hedge against the U.S. dollar, which crypto creators viewed as an unreliable currency.”
Nah, bro, cryptocurrencies were designed for money laundering.
Why does this Administration keep announcing war crimes in advance?
If human rights are limited to certain groups, they are not really human rights, are they?
A close up of part of the original post’s image. It shows an AI generated person’s hands in white gloves several sizes too large.
Because if this is real, someone needs to get her gloves that actually fit
Is this image AI generated?
The health care data agreements are terrifying and infuriating
No
Wow, the Economist really has gone off the rails in the past year
The slight of hand pretending that it’s income that matters instead of wealth is impressive
This is damn good reporting
And destroying countries is psycho shit
Welcome! If you just landed, you missed an absolutely beautiful sunrise this morning
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
The Supreme Court:
For my money, the Threads algorithm would need to be more time sensitive (recency biased) for it to be a replacement for DC purposes. We need to know what happened today, not what happened 3 days ago but is spotlighted by the algorithm
It’s a ballot measure, so the people get to vote and there’s no veto
This is the agency that is charged by law with preventing sexual assault in the workplace
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
His claim is that crypto “democratizes” the ability to get business loans. How?
I’ve heard a lot of use cases for crypto, but never that one before.
A new tax provision allows them to immediately deduct the full cost of the purchase of their race horses.
An example of how the very wealthy pay zero taxes, while most of us have only the standard deductions.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/b...
And, of course, there’s post-it notes www.post-it.com/3M/en_US/pos...
I generally call example of this phenomenon “slinkys” www.jamesspring.com/news/inventi...
Definitely knows its ancestors were dinosaurs
We will need to seriously change some of our methods of taxation to account for this
Also really concerning if someone escapes an unsafe living situation with their dog and Ring is weaponized to find the “missing” dog as a way to locate the person who left the unsafe situation.
Backstreet’s back, alright?
I’m still trying to figure out how to explain last Saturday’s “March For Billionaires” in San Francisco without either: a) sounding completely unhinged or b) needing to give an hourlong explanation of Rationalists missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-m...
Why does Sutter Health have Super Bowl ad money?
San Francisco's "March for Billionaires" was today.
It was, numbers-wise, a bit of a dud. But not a dull affair: a "We ❤️ you Jeffrey Bezos" sign, at least one polycule, & a participant arguing to "remove" journalists "as a class...just like Germany."
missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-m...
The crowd laughing at them was having a great time. Excellent street theater
