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[Kit @chpnorris]

@shagbark_hick Curious what you think of the town / gown relationships in the region. Lots of good schools with Colgate and Hamilton bringing in that student demographic (transiently) and plenty of teacher / profs and staff on a more permanent basis

[Kit @chpnorris]

@saquon was pretty busy making commercials this offseason huh?

[Paul Bohm @paulbohm]

I tracked my stolen phone across Vienna for 24 hours, skipped my flight to New York, and hired a Serbian bodyguard named Milovan to help me confront the thief.

Here's how it went down: I went with friends to a public swimming pool in the mountains of one of Vienna's nicest districts, and after a fun day of swimming I went to the changing room to put clothes on.

While doing so I left my phone outside on a table for barely a minute, but when I returned, someone had taken my phone and disappeared. No one saw anything.

Not knowing what else to do, we rushed home with a taxi to get to my computer. And there we saw the thief moving my device through the city to EVERY part of town for many hours.

There was no way I could chase this car down.
I had a hard deadline: A flight the next morning.

Around 1am the phone finally came to rest at a residential address, but what was I going to do: Storm an apartment in the middle of the night?

At 7am I took my flight to New York via Berlin, but when I landed in Berlin at 8am I almost got a heart attack: My stolen phone had returned to the scene of the crime: Back at the public outdoor pool in Döbling in the idyllic mountains of Vienna.

That's when it hit me—my phone had been taken by an employee. There was no way I was letting this go: I skipped my flight to New York and instead took the first flight back to Vienna.

At the Airport I booked a taxi driver from Serbia named Milovan on an hourly rate to be my bodyguard, and called a friend who had been at the pool with me the day before to come as well.

When I got to the pool, my phone tracker showed me where my phone was: Big fat letters spelling "NOW" right next to a group of employees. We called the police!

One of the employees wanted to kick me out and ban me from this public pool ran by the city of Vienna for life for making accusations.

It later turned out that employee was the thief. But I persisted until the police showed up.

Apple's Find My network detects other devices by exchanging signals between all surrounding devices. The more devices there are nearby, the more accurate the location.

The pool was an outdoor open air area, but all I knew was that the phone was there NOW, but not exactly where. Extremely frustrating.

But I had one more ace up my sleeve: I told the police the address where the phone had gone to rest the night before.

It turned out one of the employees lived exactly where I knew my phone had stayed over night, and so now they had a suspect after interviewing the staff. The police followed him without tipping him off, and noticed he had behaved suspiciously.

After the suspicious employee went to the bathroom, they searched it and

THEY FOUND MY PHONE.

This was an intense 24 hours, and I've had no sleep yet, but I'm incredibly thankful to the extremely professional Viennese police who helped me get my phone back, and to the employees who were patient and helped even though I accused one of their colleagues.

Sometimes maintaining a high-trust society means actually chasing down the thieves who abuse it.

24 hours. No sleep. One recovered phone. Worth it.

[Albert Breer @AlbertBreer]

Credit where it's due—Eagles fans booing their defense in a preseason game when the starters aren't even out there is hilarious.

[Kit @chpnorris]

@tomieinlove This ignores that 5’7” was ~75th percentile height in ancient times, but now closer to ~25th

[Kit @chpnorris]

@FundamentEdge @Matt_Levine_1 is this insider trading??

[Michael Girdley @girdley]

@BillAckman Bill, can we get a Chili's in Times Square finally?

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

to understand zohran you must understand this

[Kit @chpnorris]

@senatorcheese Cries of “vodka soda, close it” echo through the air as keys jangle in the handy…

[Kit @chpnorris]

@ryxcommar @Matt_Levine_1 pls opine

[Kit @chpnorris]

@BetMGM Looks like he’s about to star in the next season of stranger things

[Daily Roman Updates @UpdatingOnRome]

This is what it was like when Caesar and Pompey started openly fighting.

[Kit @chpnorris]

@catehall Still net positive on their book of customers but likely with higher credit quality borrowers having to pay higher rates to offset the losses of the lower credit quality borrowers who are effectively getting subsidized

[Bandy @bandy1803]

There's a guy on Youtube who makes ambient music paired with a historic landscape painting.

It's just a few notes + white noise (campfire, birdsong, etc). Good for reading.

I'm into it; a few of my favorites linked 🔽.

[Kit @chpnorris]

@elonmusk @DVanLangenhove Asylum for European immigrants? We have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever…

[Kit @chpnorris]

@HockJohannes This is Dyal 😂

[Kit @chpnorris]

@Eagles @PondLehocky @jake_elliott22 And he had to hit all those field goals twice, and from 5 yards further back each time!

[Shaan Puri @ShaanVP]

I would pay stupid amounts of money to watch a Hard Knocks style documentary tracking the DOGE team for the next 6 months

[Kit @chpnorris]

@OldHollowTree This is an obvious opportunity for a fieldstone hearth style fireplace