As I alluded to in stack 2, an economics piece I’ve been researching and building for years has landed. Thank you to my friends, and everyone who reads my writing! https://t.co/eE0gbtaNH0
nick fuentes is a genuinely evil sack of shit but I do think it's so beautiful that he is objectively pretty intelligent and he is constantly confronted by the fact that the overwhelming majority of people that agree with him are stupid as fuck
Disagree, these people only go to places you’d expect them to go
When you see a bunch of sec bros at holiday cocktail club or something that’s when it’s time to worry
Fun fact: France isn't "burning" because of migrants. It's experiencing an intense cost of living crisis fueled by ... the global economic shockwaves of Trump's war on Iran.
Global smartphone purchases have collapsed.
Worldwide smartphone shipments dropped -22.0% YoY in Q3 2026, to 255.3 million units, their largest quarterly decline on record.
Samsung's shipments fell -5.8% YoY, to 57.8 million units, while Apple's declined -4.0% to 57.3 million units.
At the same time, Xiaomi shipments fell -29.2% YoY to 30.7 million units, Oppo dropped -34.5%, to 25.6 million units, while Vivo fell -31.5%, to 19.1 million units.
This comes as memory costs have surged +350% since last year, driven by AI-related demand, putting further pressure on smartphone manufacturers.
As a result, soaring component costs are forcing vendors to raise prices and reduce budget-focused offerings, with consumers increasingly keeping their existing devices for longer.
Global smartphone sales are contracting amid surging prices.