This show looks like it was probably terrible, but I love the promo poster. It’s great:
It reminds me of a painting that I can’t quite recall. Any of my friends know? Google is not surprisingly producing nothing useful. But I’m pretty sure it’s somewhat well known?
1937 Delahaye 135 MS https://t.co/1z2UcjYocL pic.twitter.com/wivejFPtP4
— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) June 25, 2023
Its safety features are “you die immediately upon impact so don’t have to worry about medical bills” but that is a gorgeous piece of design and engineering. Costs about a mil. Not for me but I am glad it exists.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Wagner could’ve easily taken Moscow. So why didn’t they?
Easy: fucking massive piles of money promised to them and to Yevgeny Prigozhin personally. There’s no mystery here. This wasn’t just about money, of course. But it can go a long way to making other things you care about seem less important.
Prigozhin is now a billionaire many times over.
it is hilarious that David has moved from "we should pressure Ukraine to surrender because Russia is too strong" to "we should pressure Ukraine to surrender because Russia is too weak" literally overnight https://t.co/n8l2txuWs5
— ancestral pharaoh chickpeas (hypothetical) (@revhowardarson) June 25, 2023
A lot of the Sacks/Welsh types have done this.
The Putin worship of these doofs is disgusting.