Kind of incredible that @punksotc has bought (and sold) nearly half a billion dollars worth of cryptopunks, on chain. Half a billion! Not sure if that USD is at tx time or today's price, regardless, that's a lot of dough for jpegs.

Airlines cheat on-time performance by padding scheduled flight times, interesting analysis (h/t @ATabarrok )

Playing with Claude connected to my gmail so I can make it do tasks on the archive, which is fun, and also I am mystified why google can't do this for me. Here's today's Money Stuff, which it fetched and condensed while trying to keep @matt_levine humor:

I've been on the deficit issue for a decade, surprising that this is now such a mainstream concern. It was a glaring crisis $10 trillion ago. Maybe it's higher interest rates finally making the debt service bite. Not sure why so many have religion now.

Why no AI interface to find something in my gmail archives? Am I missing this feature, would be so useful.

2K likes… if you care even the least little bit about commercial aviation this is as insightful as tweeting “water is wet”, if you don’t care then this must be incredibly boring, who is the audience that made this viral?

I was excited with the United airlines mileage pool (to bundle the random miles my kids get) but just figured out, tickets you can book with personal miles (that include partner airlines in legs of the itinerary) can't be booked with pooled miles. PSA.

Such an interesting brand, Tesla. What is another product where the customer base takes any criticism so personally? See below, a factual article from an independent, not tesla-hating outfit, 100 replies of people calling them liars without even reading the article.