Jon close
@joeyclose.bsky.social
Wealth editor and formerly credit guy at with intelligence.
TBF I have a job and my priorities mostly involve alcohol, food and naps.
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
TBF I have a job and my priorities mostly involve alcohol, food and naps.
Yea, it's obviously not like we can't describe them. But they are different things to some people, and in some cases they can overlap in light/dark. Like Welsh never got to a word for brown, but describes brown things as gray or red.
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Yea, it's obviously not like we can't describe them. But they are different things to some people, and in some cases they can overlap in light/dark. Like Welsh never got to a word for brown, but describes brown things as gray or red.
TBF one of those doesn't refer to fossil fuels (I mean ... worse tho).
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
TBF one of those doesn't refer to fossil fuels (I mean ... worse tho).
Well, we all seem to invent words for colors in the same order (for a while there was a theory that ancient Greeks could only see like two colours), and some languages have more colours than english (some blue isn't blue). So in an (extremely loose) sense we don't see all the colours.
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Well, we all seem to invent words for colors in the same order (for a while there was a theory that ancient Greeks could only see like two colours), and some languages have more colours than english (some blue isn't blue). So in an (extremely loose) sense we don't see all the colours.
There's a really geeky way in which this is genuinely wrong. Like on one level, English speakers don't live in full colour.
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
There's a really geeky way in which this is genuinely wrong. Like on one level, English speakers don't live in full colour.
Apart from, like, everything else. this seems like really bad UX, like why would I want it to give me a less good roast the first time?
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Apart from, like, everything else. this seems like really bad UX, like why would I want it to give me a less good roast the first time?
In Germany you eat a cake with enough cherry you are drunk, then you drink cherry to be less full from eating.
November 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
In Germany you eat a cake with enough cherry you are drunk, then you drink cherry to be less full from eating.
Just... tempestuous really means windy, so you can have a tempestuous sea, but the sea isn't inherently tempestuous. So to be as windy as the sea is silly.
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Just... tempestuous really means windy, so you can have a tempestuous sea, but the sea isn't inherently tempestuous. So to be as windy as the sea is silly.
Like I could improve efficiency 1000% in my newsroom with a shared excel sheet if it didn't run against the core principles and incentives of journalism
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Like I could improve efficiency 1000% in my newsroom with a shared excel sheet if it didn't run against the core principles and incentives of journalism
I wouldnt because it's unnecessary. Like, if your journalists are willing to share enough info and it was safe to do so to make palantir tech make a difference, then I reckon 99% of the gains could be made without palantir.
November 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I wouldnt because it's unnecessary. Like, if your journalists are willing to share enough info and it was safe to do so to make palantir tech make a difference, then I reckon 99% of the gains could be made without palantir.
Is the a revd, quite revd, very revd, and/or reader?
November 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Is the a revd, quite revd, very revd, and/or reader?
Being an island of one is an extremely paradoxical place to be as a politician. It's all the power and none of the politics
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Being an island of one is an extremely paradoxical place to be as a politician. It's all the power and none of the politics
Which end of banana we at?
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Which end of banana we at?
I first read this as meaning they can't afford a beer, and I was thinking that not much changes after college in that regard
November 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I first read this as meaning they can't afford a beer, and I was thinking that not much changes after college in that regard
It'd be kind of weird if it was harder to get a haircut, given the entirely different nature of those two things.
November 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
It'd be kind of weird if it was harder to get a haircut, given the entirely different nature of those two things.
Incredible little job title - flag combo in that story!
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Incredible little job title - flag combo in that story!
Not to mention that like, there is equipment and space and stuff in a hospital. And if an Optimus can do surgery (lol) Optimii(?), so you wouldn't really benefit from that in your home except in super rare circumstances.
November 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Not to mention that like, there is equipment and space and stuff in a hospital. And if an Optimus can do surgery (lol) Optimii(?), so you wouldn't really benefit from that in your home except in super rare circumstances.
Pretty sure if every house could afford an Optimus, healthcare inequality should already not be an issue.
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Pretty sure if every house could afford an Optimus, healthcare inequality should already not be an issue.
tbf that conflict does look pretty extra. Like there seems to be some sort of US civil engagement, but some equipment is tiny and some is huge. Unclear if it's some sort of size war as it's hard to make out who is fighting who.
November 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
tbf that conflict does look pretty extra. Like there seems to be some sort of US civil engagement, but some equipment is tiny and some is huge. Unclear if it's some sort of size war as it's hard to make out who is fighting who.
'ask any woman' is really throwing me here. Like, it's a very bold call that every single woman is sold on this line, but that men still need an advertising campaign.
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
'ask any woman' is really throwing me here. Like, it's a very bold call that every single woman is sold on this line, but that men still need an advertising campaign.
On the one hand my job doesn't matter and I often work til 9pm just because some problem is a bit annoying. On the other hand I'm like 40 and So I get it, 9pm does feel like all night.
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
On the one hand my job doesn't matter and I often work til 9pm just because some problem is a bit annoying. On the other hand I'm like 40 and So I get it, 9pm does feel like all night.
Oh exactly, in the sense that an abstract approach is great for painting or a freestyle approach is fine to jazz (or swimming for reasons I'm not clear on).
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Oh exactly, in the sense that an abstract approach is great for painting or a freestyle approach is fine to jazz (or swimming for reasons I'm not clear on).
What are you planning to cook for dinner?
I'm literally not planning anything, it's a smorgasbord approach.
I'm literally not planning anything, it's a smorgasbord approach.
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
What are you planning to cook for dinner?
I'm literally not planning anything, it's a smorgasbord approach.
I'm literally not planning anything, it's a smorgasbord approach.