#1The Monologue
The Nobel Prize in Economics went today to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford, for building models that help policymakers smooth out the boom-and-bust cycle. The prize is worth about 1.2 million dollars… which they received during a boom, and will be spending during whatever this is.
Re: CNBC — Nobel prize in economics awarded to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford
Amazon is reportedly in talks to buy the AI startup Decart for around seven billion dollars — a company Anthropic looked at and passed on at six billion. So in one month, the asking price went up a billion dollars… purely on the strength of somebody saying "no thanks."
Re: The Spokesman-Review — Amazon reportedly in talks to buy AI startup Decart in $7B deal
Microsoft, AMD, Nvidia and Marvell all unveiled new data-center chips today, with Microsoft touting forty percent more tokens per megawatt. Forty percent more tokens per megawatt — a phrase that means absolutely nothing to you, me, or the person who wrote it… and will nonetheless move about nine hundred billion dollars of market value by Friday.
Re: FourWeekMBA — AI Daily: New AI Chips and Racks, and Rules for Large Loads
Idaho reclaimed the Guinness record for largest serving of french fries with a 1,474-pound pile, ending eight years of the title belonging to India. Roughly four dozen volunteers spent more than five hours cutting, flash-freezing and frying more than sixty boxes of potatoes at the Idaho Botanical Garden.
A Zeekr 7X driven by Chien Jui-Yu earned a Guinness World Record at Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina Circuit for the tightest gap ever passed through sideways in an electric car. Total clearance: twenty-five centimeters, or just under ten inches.
The Spring Hill, Kansas fire department used a ladder truck and a borrowed police catch pole to recover a three-foot pet iguana named Tasslehoff from the top of a tree. The reptile had been loose for roughly a week and was declining to come down on his own.
#5Meanwhile, In Satire
"Audubon Society Formally Excommunicates Penguins" — The Onion, https://theonion.com/audubon-society-formally-excommunicates-penguins/
"Local Man Somehow Trains For Marathon Without Posting About It Every Day On Facebook" — The Babylon Bee, https://babylonbee.com/news/local-man-somehow-trains-for-marathon-without-posting-about-it-every-day-on-facebook/
"Man Installs 'Placebo' Thermostat To Let Family Think They're Putting The Heating On" — NewsThump, https://newsthump.com/2026/10/08/man-installs-placebo-thermostat-to-let-family-think-theyre-putting-the-heating-on-3/
"Nation's Xylophones Sit Dusty After Overly Optimistic 'Gone Daddy Gone' Boom" — The Hard Times, https://thehardtimes.net/music/nations-xylophones-sit-dusty-after-overly-optimistic-gone-daddy-gone-boom/
A 26-year-old Winter Haven man allegedly took keys and a vehicle from a Plant City home, then stopped at a gas station and reached through the sales window to steal a vape. Hillsborough County deputies tracked the car with a helicopter and arrested him on a stranger's pool deck.
#7The Groaner
I used to run a dating service for chickens… but I was struggling to make hens meet.
