Alex Barnes

Equal-opportunity complainer.

All opinions are my own. So, too, are the bad jokes, pithy comments, and random musings.

Слава Україні!

[Alex Barnes @ABarnes94]

@Amtrak Last time I tried this, Penn Station caught fire and my Acela got cancelled, so I had to take a Greyhound and could not work.
Penn Station fire shuts down Amtrak, NJ Transit service, LIRR – NBC New York https://t.co/Lvu3nShcyr

[Michael Powell @powellAtlantic]

This is in a way the most James Dolan moment possible. Take a wonderful redemptive moment for himself, and much more to the point a joyous moment for New Yorkers and Knick fans, and piss all over it.

[Alex Barnes @ABarnes94]

@mattyglesias Bezos?

[Alex Barnes @ABarnes94]

@BenOnSports @GfedGoCrazy Probably part of this: https://t.co/bMgXJgdkfe

[Alex Barnes @ABarnes94]

@sauvamemte Also, that picture being taken of OP at about 15 seconds? He probably just lost his Global Entry: https://t.co/bMgXJgdkfe

[Alex Barnes @ABarnes94]

@NikolozTskitis1 @theballisorange There are many thousands of people who have enough money to own one of those properties, but I find it unlikely that a 22-year-old French guy who lives in San Antonio is one of the ones who has actually bought one. The hotel is currently closed.

Someone let him in.

[Alex Barnes @ABarnes94]

@NikolozTskitis1 @theballisorange You think he's one of those 39 property owners?

[The Ball Is Orange @theballisorange]

Whoever gave Wemby their Gramercy Park key is a traitor to New York City

[Alex Barnes @ABarnes94]

@ltthompso "Campaigns should be shorter [so that people don't have time to investigate all the insane things I've said and done, or find pictures of my Nazi tattoo, or talk to my exes, or...]"

[Alex Barnes @ABarnes94]

@ger_tzedek @antoniogm Needs some work (Chicago should be smaller than NYC), but Nano Banana nailed the style at least.

[Alex Barnes @ABarnes94]

@ponderlest @sdrx902 There's also a Portland in Oregon, so they have to distinguish!

[Christopher Kratovil @chris_kratovil]

It’s deeply odd to me that America is a far less 24/7 hour society today than it was 10, 20, or even 30 years ago. I vividly remember friends from the UK back in 1996 marveling at the fact that in the mid-sized Indiana town where I went college it was possible to buy groceries, clothing, a lawn mower, a snow blower, Lego sets, and bow hunting gear at 3 AM on any given Tuesday of the year. That was peak American Empire, and it’s long gone.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

This has quietly been a miracle month in medicine.

In the last 5 weeks we’ve got news on:

- retatrutide, the triple agonist GLP-1 from Lilly, basically melting fat and body-wide inflammation at record levels
- RevMed’s new pancreatic cancer drug showing unprecedented abilities to extend life
- small trial of a one-and-done PCSK9 gene editing therapy for slashing LDL cholesterol
- Mayo’s AI-assisted radiology showing vastly improved cancer detection
- this new therapy for metastatic solid tumors

This stuff is at varying levels of evidence. Retatrutide is ~100% on its way, other stuff needs more clinical trial data. But put it together and we’re maybe on the verge of majorly reducing the mortality of heart disease and cancer, the two leading causes of death in America.

[Alex Barnes @ABarnes94]

@tonyiafratedc @johnamonaco "In"?!?!

[Alex Barnes @ABarnes94]

@johnamonaco I didn't really understand that "Catholic" and "Christian" weren't synonyms until I was probably 8, and I definitely didn't realize we were the minority until much much later! As a kid on Long Island, I would have guessed the country was 85% Catholic, 10% Jewish, 5% Other.

[Alex Barnes @ABarnes94]

@nyttypos @KoolEconomics @nytimes @katieglueck @llerer You don't think it's newsworthy that a married candidate for US Senate "had been exchanging sexual messages with as many as a dozen women"?!

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

After a lunch with great Flexport clients in Barcelona today I had 90 minutes free so I used the new Google Maps "Ask Maps” AI feature to “create a walking tour for the founder of Flexport.”

15 minutes later I was standing next to this full scale replica of the lead galley from the Holy League’s decisive victory over the Ottoman's at the battle of Lepanto in 1573.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

baby boomers, last week: if you can't afford a house, you're not working hard enough. nobody ever gave us a break

baby boomers, this week: i cant afford my house unless i get tax breaks

[Alex Barnes @ABarnes94]

@AmtrakNECAlerts How do we rebook?! I can't do it on your website or app, and the phone tells me you won't take my call!!!

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

A thing that makes me mad when I think of it is that for over 10 yrs we had high rental demand and near-zero interest rates and every big city in America wasted that golden era with onerous permitting, zoning rules, and overzealous tenant rules that make landlording unattractive