So yesterday, I pointed you all at a great story about Formula 1, which was preserved on AOL even though Road & Track had taken it down. The AOL version is now gone too. (Here’s an archived version.) Defector has more on why Road & Track chose to pull the piece.
This is a spectacular read even if you don’t care about car racing. Think “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved,” but with cars and much, much more money:
If a tornado came through and wiped the whole thing out, the stock market would plummet and the net worth of a country the size of Slovenia would vanish from the ledgers in a day.
They are discussing options that may make the debt less risky to hold. After the events of 2022, when Musk bought Twitter, it was difficult for these banks to offload the debt; they’ve agreed — for now anyway — to coordinate a sale together when X is “on firmer financial footing.”
If you have a deactivated library card for Worcester Public Library in Worcester, Massachusetts, you can get it reactivated by bringing in a photo of a cat. Or a drawing of a cat. Or “any ungovernable animal.”
[The New York Times]
“oh it’s a rare friday money stuff, i wonder who could have brought that about,” Levine wrote on Twitter.
And yes, that means an update on my Levine story is forthcoming.
[Bloomberg]
