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To promote @adamkinzinger.substack.com recent Amazon film “The Last Republican”, re-upping our earlier discussion with Adam on how the Republican Party promotes conspiracy theories.

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Adam Kinzinger of the Congressional January 6 Committee
Podcast Episode · Mission Implausible · 02/21/2024 · 37m
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November 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Woo-hoo! I am delighted to announce that my newest book, Spring AI in Action, is now complete and available at Manning! www.manning.com/books/spring...

If you're looking to learn how to apply GenAI in your Java projects, then check out my book.
Spring AI in Action - Craig Walls
Use Spring AI to add generative AI features like virtual assistants, text summaries, and suggestions to your Java applications. No matter what kind of software you’re building, there’s a huge demand ...
www.manning.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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(Bloomberg) - About a month ago, BlackRock deemed the private debt it had extended to Renovo Home Partners, a struggling home improvement company, to be worth 100 cents on the dollar. As of last week, the firm had a new assessment: zero.

@bloomberg.com $BLK
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Bald-faced lies about balding!

BALD, we say!

www.popsci.com/health/myths...
3 hair loss myths you probably believe
Baldness does not only come from your mother’s side—and other myths debunked.
www.popsci.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Reminder: Bull Markets do not begin from the lows of the prior bear market.

The 1982-2000 bull did not start in 1974; this bull market did not start in 2009...
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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BREAKING

The Supreme Court has DENIED Kim Davis’s petition to overturn its landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage across the United States.
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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There isn’t much evidence that layoffs are being caused by AI taking people’s jobs.

For big tech, such as Amazon’s recent layoffs, the reason seems to be a combination of cutting headcount to balance increased spending on AI infrastructure and anticipation of (not realized) AI productivity gains.
AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is
Big spending on artificial intelligence puts pressure on jobs, as gloomy narratives about the future of work are ironically making new graduates less employable.
www.fastcompany.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Large parts of Jamaica were plunged into darkness. People with rooftop solar panels got their power back almost immediately.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/c...
After Jamaica’s Disastrous Storm, Solar Power Is a Bright Spot
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Sun Microsystems' open source Unix distribution, called OpenSolaris, lives on in this variant. Linux users should give it a try.
Unix: OpenSolaris Lives on in This OpenIndiana Fork
Sun Microsystems' open source Unix distribution, called OpenSolaris, lives on in this variant. Linux users should give it a try.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The Python Software Foundation's courageous refusal of an anti-DEI $1.5 million federal grant immediately triggered an extraordinary outpouring of community support.
PSF Gets a Donor Surge After Rejecting Anti-DEI Federal Grant
The Python Software Foundation's courageous refusal of an anti-DEI $1.5 million federal grant immediately triggered an extraordinary outpouring of community support.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“Whether you are investing in U.S. stocks, international stocks, gold, or Bitcoin, the evidence suggests that all-time highs should not alter your regular investment plan.”

@dollarsanddata / Nick Magguilli
Should You Buy at All-Time Highs?
Why all-time highs shouldn't stop you from investing (and what the data shows).
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November 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Low information voters fucking around and electing a government full of people who don’t know how anything works would have been entertaining if we weren’t finding out along with them.
November 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
“Rather than suggesting beneficial economic reforms, the affordability mantra too often leads to “free lunch” thinking and political giveaways. It is a new form of economic populism…”

@tylercowen.bsky.social
I worry about "affordability politics" - Marginal REVOLUTION
It focuses the listener’s attention on price rather than quantity.  To many people it sounds better than “economic growth,” though often for the wrong reasons.  I cover related points in my latest Fre...
marginalrevolution.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
“I'm still an Apple guy through-and-through – and was during my entire tenure within Google! They simply still make the best devices. And I want to use the best devices. But what they don't make the best of is AI…”

@mgsiegler.com
Apple Finally Agrees to Fix Siri
They'll swap Google billions for Gemini trillions (of parameters)...
spyglass.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
“The idea that you could get the best of both worlds – high returns without any risk/volatility – and without any catch or need for sceptical due diligence, and in high fee products no less, is rank amateur behaviour.”

- Layla Taylor, The LT3000 Blog
Private Equity/Credit: The Bubble and its Implications
A blog about value investing, economics, policy and life. Deep dive investment thinking.
lt3000.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
“In Australia, a rooftop solar panel is treated like an appliance; in the U.S., it’s treated like a mini power plant.”

@atabarrok
Here Comes the Sun—If We Let It: Cutting Tariffs and Red Tape for Rooftop Solar - Marginal REVOLUTION
Australia has so much rooftop solar power that some states are offering free electricity during peak hours: TechCrunch: For years, Australians have been been installing solar panels at a rapid clip. N...
marginalrevolution.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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How Wall Street turns your monthly bills into its debt payments.
#News #Finance #WallStreet #Debt #Infrastructure #politics
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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All the people that would call for these hearings are also busy banging their laptops
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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It took @microsoft.com almost ten years, but it finally open sourced WSL. Here's how it happened.

By @sjvn.bsky.social
Linux: Microsoft WSL's Decade-Long Journey to Open Source
It took Microsoft almost ten years, but it finally open sourced WSL. Here's how it happened.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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