Alex Turnbull
@alexbhturnbull.bsky.social
Climate / energy / materials / climate dad / Sneaky Sasquatch / in 🇸🇬. Posts are on rolling delete.
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The finances of Silicon Valley’s two largest AI startups show a diverging approach to the AI boom, with Anthropic on a pace to turn a profit far more quickly than rival OpenAI.
Anthropic Is on Track to Turn a Profit Much Faster Than OpenAI
Financial documents from both companies show the different approaches they are taking to the AI boom.
on.wsj.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The finances of Silicon Valley’s two largest AI startups show a diverging approach to the AI boom, with Anthropic on a pace to turn a profit far more quickly than rival OpenAI.
Amazing what truths you can speak from the safety of Tokyo
SONY CFO: SONY SEES SIGNS OF US ECONOMY SLOWDOWN, INFLATION
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Amazing what truths you can speak from the safety of Tokyo
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*TRUMP: ROLEX HAS BEEN VERY NICE
*TRUMP: WORKING ON DEAL TO GET SWISS TARIFFS LOWER
all they had to do was invite him to the US Open box ffs
*TRUMP: WORKING ON DEAL TO GET SWISS TARIFFS LOWER
all they had to do was invite him to the US Open box ffs
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
*TRUMP: ROLEX HAS BEEN VERY NICE
*TRUMP: WORKING ON DEAL TO GET SWISS TARIFFS LOWER
all they had to do was invite him to the US Open box ffs
*TRUMP: WORKING ON DEAL TO GET SWISS TARIFFS LOWER
all they had to do was invite him to the US Open box ffs
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they finally beat team transitory
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
they finally beat team transitory
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If we ever get back to proper rule of law constitutionalism, the presidential pardon power needs to be curbed if not abrogated. Require senate supermajority approval, at minimum.
Trump just celebrated Schumer's cave by pardoning 75+ co-conspirators including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
If we ever get back to proper rule of law constitutionalism, the presidential pardon power needs to be curbed if not abrogated. Require senate supermajority approval, at minimum.
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Great data on something we all intuitively know by now: Media and tech wants to stoke our anger and division for eyeballs, because it works.
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Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the west
New research shows how incentives in the modern media ecosystem help explain rising division and negativity
on.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Great data on something we all intuitively know by now: Media and tech wants to stoke our anger and division for eyeballs, because it works.
on.ft.com/4oU8V4S
on.ft.com/4oU8V4S
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It would cost $38 billion dollars to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies for another year and ensure Americans don’t lose their healthcare.
The republicans said no.
Trump sent $40 billion to Argentina and they didn’t object.
Argentina first, America last.
The republicans said no.
Trump sent $40 billion to Argentina and they didn’t object.
Argentina first, America last.
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 AM
It would cost $38 billion dollars to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies for another year and ensure Americans don’t lose their healthcare.
The republicans said no.
Trump sent $40 billion to Argentina and they didn’t object.
Argentina first, America last.
The republicans said no.
Trump sent $40 billion to Argentina and they didn’t object.
Argentina first, America last.
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Spanberger’s GOP foe spent 57% of her ad budget on anti-trans attacks. Spanberger focused on the economy. You see what won. trib.al/r9IRRmg
The simple truth told time and time again in the polls: The public doesn’t care about trans issues. Voters care about the economy, inflation, & prices.
The simple truth told time and time again in the polls: The public doesn’t care about trans issues. Voters care about the economy, inflation, & prices.
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Spanberger’s GOP foe spent 57% of her ad budget on anti-trans attacks. Spanberger focused on the economy. You see what won. trib.al/r9IRRmg
The simple truth told time and time again in the polls: The public doesn’t care about trans issues. Voters care about the economy, inflation, & prices.
The simple truth told time and time again in the polls: The public doesn’t care about trans issues. Voters care about the economy, inflation, & prices.
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Not to well actually but in my opinion it is the concept and annihilation of time.
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Not to well actually but in my opinion it is the concept and annihilation of time.
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Dear Bob Iger:
Please give me control of the Star Wars franchise.
My concept is to just remake old war and samurai movies, but Star Wars.
The Dirty Dozen but Star Wars.
The Great Escape but Star Wars.
Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman but Star Wars.
Please give me control of the Star Wars franchise.
My concept is to just remake old war and samurai movies, but Star Wars.
The Dirty Dozen but Star Wars.
The Great Escape but Star Wars.
Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman but Star Wars.
January 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Dear Bob Iger:
Please give me control of the Star Wars franchise.
My concept is to just remake old war and samurai movies, but Star Wars.
The Dirty Dozen but Star Wars.
The Great Escape but Star Wars.
Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman but Star Wars.
Please give me control of the Star Wars franchise.
My concept is to just remake old war and samurai movies, but Star Wars.
The Dirty Dozen but Star Wars.
The Great Escape but Star Wars.
Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman but Star Wars.
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The last time NSW cops got more power over protests they beat the seven shades of shit out of Hannah Thomas. Every law you make to empower police against Nazis, will be used against environmentalists, unions and all social activists. This has always been the way
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Police need more powers to stop ‘naked racism and hatred’ after allowing Sydney neo-Nazi rally, premier says
Dozens of neo-Nazis demonstrated outside NSW parliament on Saturday where they held an antisemitic banner and chanted a Hitler Youth slogan
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The last time NSW cops got more power over protests they beat the seven shades of shit out of Hannah Thomas. Every law you make to empower police against Nazis, will be used against environmentalists, unions and all social activists. This has always been the way
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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I saw the Washington Post editorial on redistricting today and this is my official response.
November 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I saw the Washington Post editorial on redistricting today and this is my official response.
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Remember when Harris said she would go after price gouging companies and everyone yelled about communism?
Fun times.
Fun times.
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Remember when Harris said she would go after price gouging companies and everyone yelled about communism?
Fun times.
Fun times.
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this should be one of defining images of his second term, because its impossible to tell from looking at it whether he is too indifferent to care or too senile to notice
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
this should be one of defining images of his second term, because its impossible to tell from looking at it whether he is too indifferent to care or too senile to notice
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we're primed to think of mad kings and Howard Hughes - remote paranoia, sophisticated, almost refined in their dementedness. But here no, it's the same common worms as the stupidest person you have ever met, and/or full base instincts "I want my waifu robot to say the n-word"
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
we're primed to think of mad kings and Howard Hughes - remote paranoia, sophisticated, almost refined in their dementedness. But here no, it's the same common worms as the stupidest person you have ever met, and/or full base instincts "I want my waifu robot to say the n-word"
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F*ck ICE. Prosecute them and their enablers. It's kidnapping. An administrative warrant is not a judicial warrant. It's blatantly unconstitutional. And these ICE derps don't even care for the administrative process, as shown by multiple deportations of people who had permission to be here.
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
F*ck ICE. Prosecute them and their enablers. It's kidnapping. An administrative warrant is not a judicial warrant. It's blatantly unconstitutional. And these ICE derps don't even care for the administrative process, as shown by multiple deportations of people who had permission to be here.
A friend re the Australian Liberal-National Coalition still being a mess after two brutal election losses:
“Thats the thing with getting hit in the head: sometimes you snap out of being an goose, sometimes you suffer permanent brain damage.”
#auspol
“Thats the thing with getting hit in the head: sometimes you snap out of being an goose, sometimes you suffer permanent brain damage.”
#auspol
November 7, 2025 at 7:36 AM
A friend re the Australian Liberal-National Coalition still being a mess after two brutal election losses:
“Thats the thing with getting hit in the head: sometimes you snap out of being an goose, sometimes you suffer permanent brain damage.”
#auspol
“Thats the thing with getting hit in the head: sometimes you snap out of being an goose, sometimes you suffer permanent brain damage.”
#auspol
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(Reuters) - Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.
$META @reuters.com
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$META @reuters.com
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November 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
(Reuters) - Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.
$META @reuters.com
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
$META @reuters.com
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Shocked — SHOCKED — to discover that Neom might always have been a pile of baloney. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Shocked — SHOCKED — to discover that Neom might always have been a pile of baloney. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
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Massive abdication of responsibility by the German political and corporate establishment -- didn't take a genius to know this was coming
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Massive abdication of responsibility by the German political and corporate establishment -- didn't take a genius to know this was coming
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Biggest losers from China's rise in manufacturing exports? Germany and Italy (the Northern part that is basically Switzerland+germany)
Could we have known? Yes, it was obvious for years
Could we have known? Yes, it was obvious for years
November 6, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Biggest losers from China's rise in manufacturing exports? Germany and Italy (the Northern part that is basically Switzerland+germany)
Could we have known? Yes, it was obvious for years
Could we have known? Yes, it was obvious for years