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Plus: Prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket are showing a darkly modern pathway for users to bet on war and other morbid outcomes
From California to Texas, electric utilities are struggling to manage mounting fire risk in a warming climate. They are spending more than ever before on lawsuits and settlements, as well as on preventative measures, such as undergrounding lines. 1/5
The number of US nationals applying for British citizenship hit an all-time high in the first year of President Donald Trumpβs second term in the White House www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US courts are foiling efforts by the Trump administration to keep under wraps information about the Department of Government Efficiency and the role that Elon Musk played in it during his whirlwind stint with the White House last year
A cartoon by David Borchart, from 2015. #NewYorkerCartoons
The folks at @gothamist.com capture it perfectly: "It's Monday in New York City, where we're doing this again."
A handy Bloomberg chart on Trump's options on replacing the tariffs just struck down: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
They're the absolute amateurs taking movies from good to great this Oscar season, just in time for the first-ever Best Casting award. (free link)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
CDs are back. Dumb phones are cool. The anti-screen generation is growing up
You're talking to a longtime Finnophile over here
The getaway now comes with a body count: Murder mystery weekends are selling out everywhere. (free link, w/ great video from the Six Bells Inn in Upstate NY)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
RIP Doug Moe. A great coach, a warm person and so funny. He should and will be remembered for plenty more, but this story has always felt the most like him
www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
βGreen Eggs & Hamβ as read by the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Saturday Night Live.
youtu.be/A1mqg4C0awA?...
For our next trick, we explain why professional magicians are having a major moment.
I wrote about the cowardly lions of corporate America under Trump and their decades-long push to shape the countryβs political life and democracy, no matter their protestations to the contrary now. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
For our next trick, we explain why professional magicians are having a major moment.
Modern daters tend to think they have a βtype.β But research shows that who we actually click with IRL doesn't have much to do with what makes us swipe right.
The other night on Jeopardy, two players were tied going into final. The woman in third made a small wager and her answer was, "I hope they both bet everything." They both did, all three got it wrong, and she won. As if that wasn't already hilarious enough, turns out it was all a master plan!
So far, only 20 players have received a perfect score on the latest edition of Pointed.
Do you think you can join the 190-point club? Prove it and play now:
Expert advice on spending, investing and gifting β plus tax implications you need to consider
The US now has more than 600,000 EVs that can feed power to houses during an emergency.
Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh Χ€ΦΏΧΧΧΧ’Χ¨ ΧΧ±Χ€ΦΏΧ ΧΧΦ·Χ)
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
For those looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at skillingswo2@bloomberg.net
Plots of empty space above London buildings are being listed for hundreds of thousands of pounds each, as developers eye potential to build on top of existing rooftops.
But adding storeys is fiendishly complicated β especially in the UK capital. Read more: bloom.bg/3MdpY4b
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Six top executives, including those at Chase and Nasdaq, break down why they were able to stick with certain promises to themselves (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Canadians took 28% fewer trips to the US last year as President Donald Trumpβs trade war and repeated calls for Canada to become the 51st state angered many in the northern nation.
A darker, more cursed spin on the classic βlongform journalist goes on a cruiseβ bit: commit to attending every single Kennedy Center event for the entire year.
While we wait for SCOTUS to announce opinions at 10am, here's our deep dive this week on the surge in lawsuits from 1,000+ companies -- mostly filed after the justices heard arguments Nov. 5 -- already preemptively suing for refunds if Trump loses the tariff fight
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Such an important point. Politicians tend to get seduced by the deus ex machina -- vaporware nonsense like "hyperloops" and flying cars -- while neglecting the systems that actually exist in the real world, can be improved, and which are already their actual responsibility to maintain and improve.
Anyone whoβs ever worked out hard knows how it feels to overreach, overdo, overtrain. But if you stay in that βoverβ zone too long, it can lead to a medical condition called overtraining syndrome, or OTS, from the great @nicoleblades.bsky.social (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...