shout out to @edzitron.com who is the whole reason my story this week exists -- he turned me on to the trend! go read Ed: www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...
shout out to @edzitron.com who is the whole reason my story this week exists -- he turned me on to the trend! go read Ed: www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...
Fascinating, on birds in Australia: Researchers found "sex-reversed individuals in all 5 species, at rates of 3% to 6%. Nearly all these discordant birds were genetically female but had male reproductive organs. The researchers also found a few genetic males with ovaries." #birds #birding #sex 🧪
Bad news for rate cut!
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
SWFT 📈
Sliwa 5 letters Cuomo 5 letters Adams 5 letters Mamdani 7 letters… No one is talking about the letter advantage Zohran has!
Which Greenwich Village are we talking about here…?
It’s an opinion..? It’s not an editorial or an article.
Now the questions are: when does the Cuomo endorsement come? And will it have any weight.
When consumer spending drops
Mmm something tells me they overpositioned themselves for AI growth that isn’t coming and now they are cutting bait.
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Intel must give the government an equity stake in the company in return for CHIPS Act funds; INTC closes up 7% (CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
I’m dying.
Private-capital giant Apollo and finance firm ACS have devised a remarkably complicated fund that is finding creative ways to put insurance capital to work
Jeanine*
What about oil subsidies?
What’s the difference between this and the Budapest Memorandum?
Lest I say more..?
I guess this is consistent, but isn’t this wasting more compute…?https://futurism.com/altman-please-thanks-chatgpt
Who?
Bad news for doves…
Now that we have government chips we can take our government cheese and make nachos! www.wsj.com/tech/us-stak...
Speaks for itself…
Can someone explain the coreweave hype to me other than big names are backing them?
A paper in Nature Neuroscience suggests that the brain detects when a potential source of infection enters the immediate surroundings and prepares the body’s immune defenses. This may occur even before physical contact is made, in a virtual reality environment. go.nature.com/45cCSF7 #medsky 🧪
No tax on chips!
Gambling but for babies
Maybe my algorithm is biased on LinkedIn, but I’ve never seen so many McKinsey VPs and CFOs cut bait on an AI product until GPT-5.
“Fly”????????
LinkedIn post a few days ago had opening for a speech writer for Gov Kathy Hochul. Probably not that quick of a turnaround but shes definitely going with some new messaging
Weekly median real wages are at the highest point aside from Covid (which is anomalous data) in US history.
Granted covid data is completely augmented. Weekly earnings are at the highest point in US history which is probably keeping consumer spending afloat.
fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES12...
Powell is in a real bind considering real weekly earnings are at the highest point since Covid. Common thinking is that if wages are high, rates should stay high. We are in a stagflationary cycle.
I think they call this the communist international…
I'm going to ignore tariff and economic uncertainty and build that factory if rates are 4.25 instead of 4.50
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said she received a lot of pushback from Republican leadership for trying to bring a bill on banning congressional stock trading. She says she was told she was putting the republic in jeopardy because it would cost them the midterms
Trump said Epstein “stole” Virginia Guiffre from Mar-A-Lago for elicit means, why didn’t he call the cops?
When did we get to eugenics?
C + I + G + (X-M)
Breaking news: Donald Trump’s administration has denied permission for Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te to stop in New York en route to Central America, after China raised objections with Washington about the visit https://on.ft.com/4kXt3k7
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Big Technology has something big coming out soon about Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei! Stay tuned.
So that’s how we came up with toilet paper
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“Waxed exuberant” is beyond cliche writing.
“The experience of transferring cadres to the countryside to do manual labour… is great… All cadres should do so” - Brooke Rollins… I mean the People’s Daily
Unexpectedly?
whoops!
Zohrab, as the New York Post calls him?
I’ve been listening to World War III Blues
Vance: I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents
I think we are going to be calling them “freedom fries” again soon…
will chip controls lead to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan?
Is de blasio planning a run for governor or senate?
Are foreign treasury holders going to start acting like activist shareholders?
Shouldn’t it be “no king”?
Hey Adam, what’s a transformer?
Shock and awe?
Sources: OpenAI wants Microsoft to take a ~33% stake in exchange for giving up future profit rights, and seeks to revise its exclusive cloud deal with Microsoft (The Information) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Dirty shoes on the couch?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenn...
58 minutes of coffee drinking
What does lander get if Zohran wins?
Is this liquid glass iPhone just a way to walk while looking at your phone without tripping?
All AI capex is out of control. Everyone is going long on it. No profitability demonstrated except in niche cases. Even OpenAI is losing money.
He’s termed out…
In WW1, only 0.13% of German troops deserted with most defections at the final weeks of the war when sections of the German high command were losing faith in the war effort.
If the Guns of August has taught me anything, soldiers will obey orders despite all logic, more so the deeper into an engagement they go. Desertion only happens when the officers and general staff begin to doubt the casus belli.
SCOOP For years an FDA warning about the dangers of chlorine dioxide helped prevent it going mainstream. Bleachers spent years calling for it to be removed In May, it disappeared Now, the bleachers think RFK will make all their dreams come true www.wired.com/story/chlori...
Why is CPI dropping worrisome? If China is trying to offset lost trade wouldn’t goods being cheaper for domestic market be better I.e. cheaper goods = more consumption?
The question is not whether you think it can do something useful, the question is would you pay for it?
If the NY post doesn’t run a cover with the hed “Bacon, cheese and egg on his face” tomorrow I riot
“Our outlook for Europe is more optimistic this year, especially for the P&C business…an increase in the number of natural catastrophes will lead to higher premiums” - Allianz Global Insurance Report 2025
And who controls the Marshalls service.
CBP won’t let vessels unload unless they collect tariffs. The system was already working extrajudicially.
This is going to be a “you and what army moment.” I don’t think Trump will fold. He was irked by the TACO question yesterday.
Real incomes, real incomes, real incomes!
Congratulations @katiehonan.bsky.social on writing the best piece of predictive science fiction of all time
Buy shorts for the summer 😉
Sure, I guess that’s one way of looking at it
Home prices 📈
Fed's Cook: A sufficiently large income shock could push up defaults, leading to losses for lenders.
This is my favorite cheese. So hard to find in the US unfortunately :(
wrong. Our active nuclear stockpiles wouldn’t lead to annihilation.
To what end is the US doing this? Giving China a casus belli to blockade Taiwanese shipping?
Maybe building some blackmail on him? Get him to talk the talk like Adams?
Can’t tell if this will hurt of help him.
Long German stocks
I guess you can “make this shit up”
Did this guy watch the same Kingdom of Heaven as me?
Spend! Spend! Spend!