It's funny to watch the New Spanish Right (they too have a woke Right) posting horrifiedly about the Latin Americans who are increasingly emigrating to Spain (most poor, but some very rich indeed...Madrid real estate is pumping, and it's not because of Spaniards). Hispanic Catholic culture is sticky and antifragile and unifying. They'll intermarry and assimilate and a generation from now it'll all be Spanish. "Mi abuelo era argentino/peruano/whatever" received with a shrug. It'll be like an American now saying their grandfather was from Ireland or Poland: maybe a bit of ethnic color, but nobody really cares. Different story than the rest of Europe and its assimilation challenges.

The consular officer—nose ring, tattooed finger, the raspy voice of the long-time smoker—asked me where to register me for voting purposes. Me: The family is from Galicia but I last lived in Barcelona. Her: Tell me who you’re voting for and I’ll decide where to put you.

Went to the Spanish consulate to renew my passport after over a decade since getting my first one there….and absolutely nothing had changed in the dated office other than the portrait on the wall of the new king. Spain, the timeless. 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

Hit the credit limit on my @coinbase Amex card over the weekend, went to pay it down using Bitcoin and the Coinbase app seamlessly sells the right amount instantly and pays…but tradfi doesn’t work weekends so card blocked until Monday. Crypto makes tradfi feel janky and slow.

Rude realtors at open houses: what's the deal here? 'Negging' as a sales strategy? So odd. By God, I hate the whole real estate rigmarole.

I would bet my entire net worth that: 1. We will have ads in AI 2. If they take the form of highly-relevant offers, users will welcome them, they’ll have sky-high conversion rate, and Web shopping will die 3. They will be necessary to pay for the compute in many consumer AI apps

Ditto, ditto…

Current status: Debating with the fiancée who the best looking men in F1 are, and I’m here to say she’s completely wrong. Verstappen is a brilliant driver, but he’s not a looker. Sainz is *clearly* the studliest driver.

Watching with amusement as the tattooed, beard-oil hipster with the ironic Casio lectures The Bangalorean on the menu in this vegetarian Indian spot. The place is Gujurati, so perhaps the translation is necessary.

Fascinating the federal government is drowning itself hopelessly in debt just as an alternative financial system, with the express purpose of replacing traditional finance, is straining to be born. But hey, go Venmo them something.