Grumpiness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Our travel writers put together a list of potential winners for the planet’s most petulant place ⤵️

Lupita Nyong'o says it was important for her to explore the mental state of Helen of Troy in ‘THE ODYSSEY’. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder… There's no way for me to play beauty so I needed to figure out who this woman was beyond the thing she’s most famous for.”

"His films are the forefathers of cinematic and artistic experiments happening right now: assemblage, friendship, collective creation, cracked surfaces that are allowed to remain cracked, unpredictable mutations from person to person, disparate elements joined without any concern whether they stick except in the poetic complicity between the maker and a creatively-inclined beholder. Anything can be linked to anything, as long as it’s in the spirit of a one-to-one human connection, beyond the blind chase for capital and clout. What [Jean-Pierre] Gorin seeks is a montage that humanizes and politicizes in equal stealth measure." Carlos Valladares (@cvalladares0896) writes on the work of Jean-Pierre Gorin — unclassifiable films that offer a path toward a freer, more human cinema in the AI era:

For years Zuckerberg has been beholden to Apple. Meta drove distribution. Apple controlled the platform. Then Apple changed the rules, creating a ~$10B revenue headwind for Meta in 2022 alone. Zuckerberg has patiently been building his way out. Muse is his answer. When an AI agent uses apps on your behalf, you stop opening apps. The App Store stops being a toll booth. It’s the ultimate power reversal with Apple and ironically feels like an early App Store moment. It shouldn’t be surprising that one of the most important founder led companies keeps finding a way. But the market keeps underestimating @finkd ‘s ability to adapt as the world changes.

Think of the people you're aware of that made loads of money in any crypto cycle They were either beholden to a token and held it through a lot of shit PA and FA for months (?years) as their majority/only bag before being paid handsomely for taking the risk and absorbing the volatility. Or, they're giga amazing traders (who are extremely rare) Most people can sort of emulate the first, the latter is less likely.

As I watch millions of $ETH perps longs get liquidated here (might mostly be Machi at this point), all I can say is I'm feeling awfully path independent in my $ETH calls... Overall, this is the extra leg I wanted to really back up the truck. Still more bids further down but getting some good fills. Bring on the SEC and CFTC guidance and exemptions, better than being beholden to the literally and figuratively braindead ghouls and corpses in the Senate.

Elon Musk: Dems' goal is to import voters to win elections "If you want to understand behavior, you have to look at the incentives. Once the Democratic Party in the US and the left in Europe realized that if you have open borders and provide a ton of government handouts, you create a massive financial incentive for people from other countries to come to your country. And when you do not prosecute them for crimes, they become beholden to you, and then they vote for you. That is why Obama and Hillary went from being against open borders to being in favor of them. The goal is to import voters to win elections, and it has a negative runaway effect. If they get away with that, they will import enough voters to gain supermajority voting, and then there is no turning back." Video: @MarioNawfal