Elizabeth Lopatto

“I kind of don’t understand the trade here?” Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine writes of the hack of the SEC’s Twitter account yesterday, in which a fake approval of Bitcoin ETFs was briefly posted.

China Miéville, the phenomenal novelist, took on a new writing partner, Keanu Reeves, for a novel called The Book of Elsewhere. I would be hype for this if it were Miéville alone — The City and the City is a personal favorite — so I’m curious to see what Reeves adds to the mix besides publicity and being very good-looking.

Moose like licking road salt. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that means that the peak for moose-car collisions is December and January. Yes, by all means carefully drive away from that moose instead of letting it lick your car, but those things are huge — they are probably going to do what they want.

Online shopping hit a new peak over the 2023 holiday season — and now the returns are upon us. But as online shopping gets increasingly competitive, there are new struggles around return policies. That may be an area for increased competition:

Insurers are jacking up rates and “quiet quitting” places they deem too risky. (Yeah, it’s climate-change related.) This puts normal people in a bind — their mortgages require home insurance, for instance, or they’re legally required to have car insurance.

LinkedIn COO Daniel Shapero says we should all get comfortable with AI, and dismisses the notion that AI is overhyped.

Okay. So there’s something called a “Disney Day Drinkers Club” (more than 85,000 members!) and their mascot is a trash can called “Binny.” Disney has moved the trash can.