Jen Lowe is mostly elsewhere 🦋 🐘

chronically curious. equal parts numbers & poetics, 🤣 & 😡. never not missing the desert

[Jen Lowe is mostly elsewhere 🦋 🐘 @_jenlowe_]

Mail art club is happening! Resist despair! Practice wonder! Subscribe and get art & letters from @patriciogv & me every month 💌

[patricio gonzalez vivo @patriciogv]

Hi friends, @_jenlowe_ and I are starting a new project called https://t.co/x4PNA9Ah6y! It's a monthly mail art club. Picture it as an art exhibition that arrives at your door every month. Subscribe, feed that curiosity!

[bolaji @StephyBx_]

I’ve been following tech girlies on TikTok. Not software tech, the one who build with hardware and I have so much to learn

One girl is building her own mp3 and this one built a communication device. She’s also converting a 1970s Yamaha bike to electric, incredible

[mickey friedman @mickeyxfriedman]

people are going to hate this, but i wonder whether looksmaxxing going mainstream is the 'lipstick effect' for young men in a world where AGI starts eating work

there's data showing that women spend more on beauty during recessions because attractiveness remains a form of leverage when economic mobility becomes harder to access

perhaps looksmaxxing is the male version of this. in a labor market where productivity becomes a harder path to status, competition will move to whatever still has visible variance. beauty/fitness still carry heritable + effort-based variance, so perhaps that's what men and women will compete on once economic insecurity and automation flatten the standard masculine status routes

[a horse child is born (taken out for gallops) 🫏🐀 @BinAnimals]

We've got to raise the price of cocaine.

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

Amazing kicker in the NYT’s list of the 100 Best Restaurants in NYC @ligayamishan

[ᯓ★ @chorio_actis]

for many years i forced myself to "bloom where i was planted" because "no matter where you go there you are" and then i moved to a new state and instantly became happier and healthier haha oops

[DCinvestor @DCinvestor]

really feels like they are looting everything they possibly can at this point

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The world's richest centi-billionaire oligarch used his power to change the rules, so he could dump his garbage company (which is cartoonishly overvalued, unprofitable, and incinerating cash) on retail investors, using trillions of dollars in retirement funds as exit liquidity, all in order to become the first trillionaire.

This is the perfect metaphor for the US economy as a whole, which is entirely based on bubbles and scams.

[Santoshi @Santoshi_fin]

@Hedgeye the rules built to protect passive investors from buying into unproven companies at peak valuations were changed before the biggest IPO in history, that's not a coincidence, that's the part of the SpaceX story that should be getting more attention than the valuation number

[Amjad 🇺🇸 @inthecloud01]

@Hedgeye Using retirement money and passive investor money to force buy a stock at peak IPO valuations with zero price discovery should be criminal… those funds are supposed to protect investors, not risk it all to chase a shiny IPO

[Hedgeye @Hedgeye]

Rule changes for the SpaceX $SPCX IPO:

Index providers waived the profitability requirement and cut the seasoning window from 90 days to 5.

This forces over $30 trillion in passive 401k and retirement money to buy SpaceX at IPO valuations.

Bloomberg Intelligence estimates S&P 500 funds must absorb 19% of SpaceX's float within 6 months.

Russell 1000 and Nasdaq 100 funds will absorb 24%.

The rules built to protect passive investors:

1. S&P 500 has required 12 months of trading and 4 quarters of GAAP profitability since 2002. Both waived.

2. Nasdaq cut its inclusion window from 90 trading days to 15.

3. FTSE Russell cut its to 5.

All three benchmarks are now structured to buy SpaceX at IPO pricing.

[Ian McMillan, CMT @the_chart_life]

Listen, I’m a big “the index is the index” guy, but they are openly looting the coffers.

This is 100% fraud.

[Dimitri @thedimitri]

What a time to be alive

[Maureen Langloss @MaureenLangloss]

I have no connection to MIT, but hearing that they are shutting down 3 of their 4 libraries has me so so sad. I think it’s a decision they will live to regret & the symbolism of it is devastating.

[Jen Lowe is mostly elsewhere 🦋 🐘 @_jenlowe_]

pope serving infographics on google drive really sent me

[Elizabeth @suasoptics]

Release this groundbreaking 40k+ word encyclical, and helpful infographics in six languages...but hide the infographics in the website of an obscure Vatican dicastery no one has heard of https://t.co/tJ4BTMoX1J

[Jen Lowe is mostly elsewhere 🦋 🐘 @_jenlowe_]

@HeidiPriebe1 I read it all on a train ride from Girona to Valencia this summer while vacationing with my young kids 😵‍💫

[Neetu Arnold @neetu_arnold]

University of California STEM professors want standardized tests back due to severe math deficiencies among students:

“We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle school mathematics”

“The current admissions metric, based primarily on GPA & essays, can no longer reliably distinguish readiness for university-level STEM majors in an era of severe grade inflation & AI assisted application essays”

[Naomi Barton @therealnaomib]

immediate classic. i suspect this is what it was like for people to read the greats in their time. the one thing about everything becoming slop is that something this gorgeously true, elegant, considered hits you in the face like the fist of god

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.

The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.

A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.

Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."

One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.

If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you.

The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.

[lavitalenta @lavitalenta]

“The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce.”

There is no greater advocate of Universal Leisure than Pope Leo.

[GL @gldivittorio]

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