Robb Aley Allan
@robballan.bsky.social
Family office tech/retail/theatre investor. Heritage-brand business owner. Former science/tech writer/reporter for Newsweek/MacWorld/etc. Long-time Apple developer, database programmer, and incorrigible geek.
With every passing day, we’re being reminded that businessmen make terrible political leaders.
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Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine — The Wall Street Journal
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
With every passing day, we’re being reminded that businessmen make terrible political leaders.
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This doesn’t seem particularly reasonable. AI may be a creative shortcut, but it’s not necessarily inaccurate. In most cases, it’s a time-saving tool.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This doesn’t seem particularly reasonable. AI may be a creative shortcut, but it’s not necessarily inaccurate. In most cases, it’s a time-saving tool.
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The difference between a grande and a venti anxiety is staggering nowadays due to Trumpflation.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The difference between a grande and a venti anxiety is staggering nowadays due to Trumpflation.
What happens when a bridge-and-tunnel boy with no taste and a chip on his shoulder gets a charge card at Home Depot.
The current state of the Oval Office (recorded by Scavino)
November 23, 2025 at 4:23 AM
What happens when a bridge-and-tunnel boy with no taste and a chip on his shoulder gets a charge card at Home Depot.
Never thought in my life that I would feel so betrayed by other centrists that I might now think of voting to support Bernie Sanders and AOC.
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Never thought in my life that I would feel so betrayed by other centrists that I might now think of voting to support Bernie Sanders and AOC.
You hear all the apoplectic handwaving by people who say they’re going to flee New York because a socialist just got elected? That, in reverse, is how I feel about Texas and Tennessee. If they want to be a right wing paradise, they can do so without my tourist dollars.
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
You hear all the apoplectic handwaving by people who say they’re going to flee New York because a socialist just got elected? That, in reverse, is how I feel about Texas and Tennessee. If they want to be a right wing paradise, they can do so without my tourist dollars.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
I read about insurgencies on both left and right who feel that their moment has come to take over their parties because people are unhappy with current leadership.
But being unhappy with current leadership doesn’t translate into a hunger for something more radical. They want better moderates.
But being unhappy with current leadership doesn’t translate into a hunger for something more radical. They want better moderates.
The Totally Outlandish, Dead Serious Campaign to Defeat Nancy Pelosi and Transform the Democratic Party
Saikat Chakrabarti has audacious plans to change American politics.
www.politico.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I read about insurgencies on both left and right who feel that their moment has come to take over their parties because people are unhappy with current leadership.
But being unhappy with current leadership doesn’t translate into a hunger for something more radical. They want better moderates.
But being unhappy with current leadership doesn’t translate into a hunger for something more radical. They want better moderates.
One of the things that saddens me the most is how quickly and easily law-enforcement in this country adopted authoritarian tactics, not just towards immigrants, but towards citizens as well. It really shows how thin the veneer of civilization is.
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
One of the things that saddens me the most is how quickly and easily law-enforcement in this country adopted authoritarian tactics, not just towards immigrants, but towards citizens as well. It really shows how thin the veneer of civilization is.
This is a well-known story in New York real estate circles, and is just one of the reasons why the New York real estate community has always looked on Donald Trump with disdain.
If Trump’s East Wing demo shocks you, check out what he did to these priceless works
A young Trump took on development of a historic Art Deco building on Fifth Avenue in the late 1970s
www.independent.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is a well-known story in New York real estate circles, and is just one of the reasons why the New York real estate community has always looked on Donald Trump with disdain.
This is one of the strangest headlines I’ve ever seen.
Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel
Tech billionaire claims in a lecture about religion that the devil promises peace and safety by strangling technological progress with regulation
www.thetimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This is one of the strangest headlines I’ve ever seen.
Extremism.
The left denounces. The right denies.
The left denounces. The right denies.
September 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Extremism.
The left denounces. The right denies.
The left denounces. The right denies.
I used to be a science journalist. We got letters all the time from people who claimed to have solved antigravity, quantum physics, and perpetual motion machines. Now the loony kooks have podcasts and lots of gullible followers.
There’s a sucker born every minute.
There’s a sucker born every minute.
The Rise of ‘Conspiracy Physics’ — The Wall Street Journal
Streamers are building huge audiences by attacking academic physics as just another corrupt establishment. Scientists are starting to worry about the consequences.
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September 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I used to be a science journalist. We got letters all the time from people who claimed to have solved antigravity, quantum physics, and perpetual motion machines. Now the loony kooks have podcasts and lots of gullible followers.
There’s a sucker born every minute.
There’s a sucker born every minute.
It’s much easier to understand and predict what this administration will do when you keep in mind that, fundamentally, Donald Trump is a performance artist with a mean streak.
He’s the Don Rickles of American politics.
He’s the Don Rickles of American politics.
September 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It’s much easier to understand and predict what this administration will do when you keep in mind that, fundamentally, Donald Trump is a performance artist with a mean streak.
He’s the Don Rickles of American politics.
He’s the Don Rickles of American politics.
Imagine being an investor who just dumped a half million into Anthropic private equity to discover that the money went right out the back door.
Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement
Lawyers said it’s believed to be the largest-ever settlement in a US copyright case, paying about $3,000 per book.
www.theverge.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Imagine being an investor who just dumped a half million into Anthropic private equity to discover that the money went right out the back door.
We are over 65 yo. We live in Florida. We were just denied Covid vaccinations because of new Florida policies.
September 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
We are over 65 yo. We live in Florida. We were just denied Covid vaccinations because of new Florida policies.
This is the kind of pollyannish magical thinking that causes kills entire industries. Americans are already flooding the London real estate market, and Florida is full of relocated New Yorkers. France and England have long experiences with tax expats. The past does not predict the future.
Tax the Rich. They'll Stay
Mamdani’s plan to tax New York’s millionaires has the penthouse crowd aflutter. History and data show they won’t fly the coop.
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August 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is the kind of pollyannish magical thinking that causes kills entire industries. Americans are already flooding the London real estate market, and Florida is full of relocated New Yorkers. France and England have long experiences with tax expats. The past does not predict the future.
Erin projected to become a monster-sized storm by next week.
August 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Erin projected to become a monster-sized storm by next week.
My prediction: sometime in the near future, we are going to learn that Donald Trump is having the Treasury use these extorted revenues from American taxpayers and companies to buy cryptocurrency that he owns. It is a gigantic theft from the American taxpayer.
Nvidia, AMD to Pay 15% on China AI Chip Sales in US Deal
Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. agreed to pay 15% of their revenues from Chinese AI chip sales to the US government in a deal to secure export licenses, an unusual arrangement that may un...
www.bloomberg.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
My prediction: sometime in the near future, we are going to learn that Donald Trump is having the Treasury use these extorted revenues from American taxpayers and companies to buy cryptocurrency that he owns. It is a gigantic theft from the American taxpayer.
I’m feeling so “who cares” about the poor, pierogi-deprived Alan Dershowitz right now …
Alan Dershowitz was once again denied pierogies at a farmers market.
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August 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I’m feeling so “who cares” about the poor, pierogi-deprived Alan Dershowitz right now …
Oh, Abbott should absolutely remove all the Democrats from the Texas legislature and prosecute them as criminals. Absolutely.
Then we should watch as Texas comes to a standstill from protests, boycotts, and statewide strikes.
Then we should watch as Texas comes to a standstill from protests, boycotts, and statewide strikes.
Gov. Greg Abbott threatens Texas House Democrats with removal from office for fleeing state
The governor also alleged absconding Democrats may have committed felonies by fundraising to cover the $500-a-day fines they will face under House rules.
www.texastribune.org
August 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Oh, Abbott should absolutely remove all the Democrats from the Texas legislature and prosecute them as criminals. Absolutely.
Then we should watch as Texas comes to a standstill from protests, boycotts, and statewide strikes.
Then we should watch as Texas comes to a standstill from protests, boycotts, and statewide strikes.
Next, he’ll be suing a bakery for refusing to make a wedding cake for his – oh wait a minute.
Alan Dershowitz Says He’s Suing ‘Bigoted Vendor’ After Being Denied Pierogi
Alan Dershowitz said he is suing a Martha's Vineyard food vendor who refused to serve the former Harvard Law professor pierogi because of his politics.
www.mediaite.com
July 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Next, he’ll be suing a bakery for refusing to make a wedding cake for his – oh wait a minute.
Those of us who actually believe and invest in free markets see this for what it is: anti-competitive, anti-capitalist protection behavior designed to maximize profits to the US government at the expense of its citizens
Trump Unleashes Flurry of Trade Deals on Eve of Deadline
Donald Trump unleashed a series of tariff deals and demands on the eve of his Friday deadline, including surprises on India and copper as the US president attempts to create a new global trade order.
www.bloomberg.com
July 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Those of us who actually believe and invest in free markets see this for what it is: anti-competitive, anti-capitalist protection behavior designed to maximize profits to the US government at the expense of its citizens