Chava

Luftsmensch. Editor @commobserver. Formerly @trdny @cjr @risj_oxford. Currently recreating the infinite scroll @chava.bsky.social.

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"There are no more committed or slyer socialists than the writers of luxury real estate stories in major newspapers." - @matt_levine

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Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth creation, says UBS >> https://t.co/bKN1VI6zwe

oh, but don't worry, the new generation of billionaires cares more about the "societal impact" of their investments

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best time of year to get *revealed preference* music recs

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the summary I needed... and now I can never look again https://t.co/aoUmPq6PdL

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there go the SEC's climate disclosure rules (maybe) https://t.co/eV3LhdHI3l

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now add student loans

https://t.co/zMlOkpjean

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celebrating a no-buy week for maximum smugness

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@JimCostelloCRE It shows that their instinct when they don't like something is to use the power of the state to ban it, which is... authoritarian.

There's a discussion to be had about the ethics/safety/human impact of a totally new industry, but this isn't that.

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cultivated meat is woke now smh https://t.co/8tOINRAxDL

Florida Republican wants to ban lab-grown meat >>

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one day maybe I'll care about business and then read my to read list of great business journalism books and be smart

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I need a cutlery set that's 90 percent small spoons

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confused by people who are furious about the media getting the hospital bombing wrong, which would suggest they think hitting civilian targets is reprehensible, and yet.... vehamavin yavin

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idk why everyone is so mad about diner journalism, it's a step up from embedding tweets

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@natemcdermott are you... back?

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I need a tw for the term "judeo christian"

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the great thing about reading in a second language is how much it simplifies the world (to your level in that language), and exposes how much language can actually obfuscate

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"We condemn these acts committed in our names."

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sounds great, but presumably these people need to leave their neighborhood at some point? https://t.co/l6kJUarG0P

The US community that banned cars >>

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this is definitely not the moment for this but the way yeshiva-educated people who never learned English use capital letters is fascinating... I really don't understand what logic they use (it's not hard: first word in a sentence and proper nouns!)

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does the writer of this piece not understand that if you don't go to the office 5 days a week, you go to the gym more, or the playground, or knitting groups, or writing workshops... like, how do people not understand that math?

https://t.co/GINsxxsalJ

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Losing count of how many Ofers and Amirs I know who work in New York real estate...