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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2h
I long for a world where I am not *constantly* reminded, entirely and utterly against my will, of the icky sex proclivities of random mediocrities with money.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 8h
So at what time does crypto's slide become a run as everyone realizes they've got to bail before they're the one holding the bag?

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11h
you were either willfully complicit or duped into supporting a deal to offload TikTok to Trump's billionaire buddies under the pretense of national security, hope that helps clarify things for you
The TikTok ban’s architects are in the dark
TikTok was supposed to be banned from the US 10 months ago.
www.theverge.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h
Trump's campaign to kill an industry where America runs a massive trade surplus is succeeding

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14h
New foreign student enrollment in the US fell 17% this fall www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
How foreign student enrollment is shifting in the U.S., in 6 charts
Foreign student enrollment in U.S. colleges has stalled, with a 17 percent decline in new students this fall after Trump policy changes, a key survey shows.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 1d
Actual causes of death in the US and media coverage of same.

And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world.

@ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues.

ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
Two largest causes of death in the US are heart disease and cancer, but the media focuses on homicide and terrorism.

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 2d
Being reminded Larry Summers is currently on the board of Open AI

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Greg Linden @glinden.bsky.social · 2d
I hadn't been paying much attention to Wang. Apparently started with Paul Graham, then close to Peter Thiel and Sam Altman? It seems ScaleAI is low paid gig work doing AI labeling in Africa and SE Asia, unprofitable but with outrageous valuation? Yes, it's curious Zuck would pick this over LeCun.
Scale AI - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 2d
A profile of Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, who says LLMs are a dead end for reaching AGI and backs world models instead, and is reportedly leaving Meta (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 3d
Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:
Enable chats with Satan [enabled] Premium subscription required

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 3d
Car Size

xkcd.com/3167/
4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d
oh. well that's that, then! www.theverge.com/column/82066...
No one cares about AGI anymore. At the first Cerebral Valley conference, the topic of AGI was a major throughline. A startup founder onstage said that "we're going to be dead" by the time OpenAl releases GPT-10. This year, multiple onstage conversations noted how AGI barely registered as a discussion topic. Instead, most of the interviews focused on the business applications of Al. Multiple companies represented onstage at the first Cerebral Valley event didn't exist and are now worth billions of dollars. There was a strain of Al bubble fear throughout the day, but mostly, everyone seemed dialed in on how they could win market share and provide products that people want to pay for.

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J. Arendt @uwwoman.bsky.social · 3d
Or the sales charts are easily manipulated: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/13/n...
No, fake AI music bought onto a minor chart is not actually popular
Sometimes a song just comes out of nowhere and does great! But also, there’s well worn paths to buying your way to a small amount of public attention. And these ways have been common as long as the…
pivot-to-ai.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d
WSJ: “.. Can we even build all the necessary physical infrastructure? And if so, will the resulting AI-powered products generate enough revenue to pay back that investment?”

@wsj.com 🤡
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/when...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d
YELLEN: “.. businesses feel paralyzed by the uncertainty about policies that represent the strong but really personal whims of a single individual.”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 3d
JP Morgan analysts calculated "AI products would have to create an additional $650 billion a year, indefinitely, to give investors a reasonable 10% annual return. That’s more than 150% of Apple’s yearly revenue, and a far cry from OpenAI’s current revenue of about $20 billion a year." (🎁)
When AI Hype Meets AI Reality: A Reckoning in 6 Charts
Record capital expenditures and data-center planning are running up against the ground truths of physical infrastructure.
www.wsj.com

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techmeme.com
Techmeme @techmeme.com · 4d
Cursor says it has crossed $1B in annualized revenue, has 300+ employees, and its in-house models "generate more code than almost any other LLMs in the world" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 4d
4/ China and the EU are investing heavily in climate-risk analytics because they understand food system resilience as a national-power issue.

You know who isn't replacing their best scientists with quacks? China. Why? They don't want to FAFO when it comes to food supply and national security.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 4d
After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4d
"Musk’s method has always been: make grand, unsubstantiated claims about what’s coming in the nearish future, trusting in his faithful followers to make the claims sound believable; fundraise off the excitement the claims generate; & when the claims fail to come true, replace them with new claims"
Why Elon Musk Got the Most Ridiculous Pay Package in the History of Humanity
Did Tesla just make Musk the world’s first trillionaire? Almost certainly not. But that’s not what his colossal new deal is really about.
www.theringer.com

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404 Media @404media.co · 4d
NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.

“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d
X is in clear + systemic breach of its legal duties in the UK to remove unlawful content from its platform.

Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.

A new thread documenting this.

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 5d
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 5d
Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d
There goes 90+ day credit-card delinquencies. New cycle high.

(via Kev Gordon)

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xkcd Bot @xkcd-bot.bsky.social · 5d
Car Size
https://xkcd.com/3167/

'They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.'

Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3167

'They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.'

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 5d
Remember all the hype about how Uber and Lyft would allow people to live car-free?

Well, it turns out ridehail has no discernible impact on car ownership at all.

Analysis from Glenn Mercer's excellent newsletter:
glennmercer.substack.com/p/the-impact...