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Being Rupert Murdoch is a full time job that only Rupert Murdoch is really good at. Larry Ellison is about to discover that media assets aren't an unalloyed source of power, and that owning them presents a giant, hyper-complex attack surface for your other businesses.
U.S. Investors, Trump Close In on TikTok Deal With China
Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz are part of a consortium that would control an 80% stake.
www.wsj.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Being Rupert Murdoch is a full time job that only Rupert Murdoch is really good at. Larry Ellison is about to discover that media assets aren't an unalloyed source of power, and that owning them presents a giant, hyper-complex attack surface for your other businesses.
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dan bongino and kash patel lying unconscious on the ground after bonking their heads together as they both bent down to examine what is later determined to be their own footprints
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
dan bongino and kash patel lying unconscious on the ground after bonking their heads together as they both bent down to examine what is later determined to be their own footprints
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rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
September 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
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I've been trying to confirm my intuition that the rank "General" is actually "Captain General" and this led me to fact that Admiral is actually Sea Emir.
June 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I've been trying to confirm my intuition that the rank "General" is actually "Captain General" and this led me to fact that Admiral is actually Sea Emir.
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Despite being RFK Sr's number one hater, this University of Kansas speech rolls around in my head once a month.
June 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Despite being RFK Sr's number one hater, this University of Kansas speech rolls around in my head once a month.
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Mark Zuckerberg now positioned to be the weirdest rebound relationship in world history
June 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Mark Zuckerberg now positioned to be the weirdest rebound relationship in world history
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RFK believes that he is one of the genetic elect and that it is a violation of the natural order to either impose on the genetic elect with public health OR prevent nature from taking its course with those who are predestined to biological damnation.
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments
The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
www.medscape.com
April 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
RFK believes that he is one of the genetic elect and that it is a violation of the natural order to either impose on the genetic elect with public health OR prevent nature from taking its course with those who are predestined to biological damnation.
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Night Night, Blue Sky Walkers, sleep tight.😴
Sunset over my beloved Blue Ridge Mountains, NC.
Sunset over my beloved Blue Ridge Mountains, NC.
April 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Night Night, Blue Sky Walkers, sleep tight.😴
Sunset over my beloved Blue Ridge Mountains, NC.
Sunset over my beloved Blue Ridge Mountains, NC.
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We’re getting an economic nuclear winter. But it was a small price to pay for ending free speech on campus.
by Bill Ackman
by Bill Ackman
April 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
We’re getting an economic nuclear winter. But it was a small price to pay for ending free speech on campus.
by Bill Ackman
by Bill Ackman
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these games are called "musical instruments"
a major issue with video games is that they produce a bunch of people who consider themselves brain geniuses for solving problems that were designed to be solvable. as a remedy, we should be making more games that are actively and irreconcilably hostile to the player. thank you
April 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
these games are called "musical instruments"
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My three-yea-old was watching CNBC when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why does the nice orange man want to put tariffs on the penguins?" And when I told her "Because penguins are globalist shitlibs who steal American manufacturing jobs with unfair trade practices," she started crying.
April 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
My three-yea-old was watching CNBC when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why does the nice orange man want to put tariffs on the penguins?" And when I told her "Because penguins are globalist shitlibs who steal American manufacturing jobs with unfair trade practices," she started crying.
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Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I am very, very weak, but they are two different things.
April 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I am very, very weak, but they are two different things.
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the sickos man is very cold. let him inside
March 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
the sickos man is very cold. let him inside
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Scripps Research Institute have developed a groundbreaking UNIVERSAL coronavirus vaccine that triggers STONG immune responses AND shows promise in neutralizing MULTIPLE coronaviruses, including those responsible for causing COVID-19, MERS, AND even the “common cold.” 🧪🧵⬇️
March 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Scripps Research Institute have developed a groundbreaking UNIVERSAL coronavirus vaccine that triggers STONG immune responses AND shows promise in neutralizing MULTIPLE coronaviruses, including those responsible for causing COVID-19, MERS, AND even the “common cold.” 🧪🧵⬇️
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The technical term for this is a “reverse Cannon”
JUST IN: Judge James Boasberg has been assigned to the Signalgate lawsuit.
March 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The technical term for this is a “reverse Cannon”
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This is why republicans do not believe sex can be consensual
legitimately it speaks to the idea that reactionary politics is as much about zero sum mindset as it is about anything else
they just fundamentally can't process the idea that we might also benefit from something that benefits someone else
they think it's a trick or a scam
they just fundamentally can't process the idea that we might also benefit from something that benefits someone else
they think it's a trick or a scam
March 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This is why republicans do not believe sex can be consensual
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I am still wrapping my head around the fact that the Navajo Code Talkers, who, y'know, SUCCESSFULLY KEPT WAR SECRETS Secret apparently needed to be memory-holed to make room for the true glory of sharing war plans with a journalist you *invited* into the group chat
March 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I am still wrapping my head around the fact that the Navajo Code Talkers, who, y'know, SUCCESSFULLY KEPT WAR SECRETS Secret apparently needed to be memory-holed to make room for the true glory of sharing war plans with a journalist you *invited* into the group chat
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The other octopi in the ocean:
March 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The other octopi in the ocean:
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CREATIVE DESTRUCTION WITHOUT THE CREATION
In today's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about what I see as the problem with some rationalizations of the recent volatility
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In today's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about what I see as the problem with some rationalizations of the recent volatility
Subscribe to the newsletter here: www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
March 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
CREATIVE DESTRUCTION WITHOUT THE CREATION
In today's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about what I see as the problem with some rationalizations of the recent volatility
Subscribe to the newsletter here: www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
In today's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about what I see as the problem with some rationalizations of the recent volatility
Subscribe to the newsletter here: www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
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Substack note du jour substack.com/profile/2264...
March 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Substack note du jour substack.com/profile/2264...
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A decent person can acknowledge that while they worked hard they had luck and opportunities not available to all. There but for the grace of god.
To get to ten thousand times any normal person’s wealth you have to decide you deserved it, earned it.
That is ultimately what corrodes the soul.
To get to ten thousand times any normal person’s wealth you have to decide you deserved it, earned it.
That is ultimately what corrodes the soul.
The median family income in the U.S. is about $80,000/year.
If that family has zero expenses, it would take them 12,500 years to save up $1 billion
I simply do not believe any person can be worth orders of magnitude more than everyone else.
The people might not all be bad, being a billionaire is
If that family has zero expenses, it would take them 12,500 years to save up $1 billion
I simply do not believe any person can be worth orders of magnitude more than everyone else.
The people might not all be bad, being a billionaire is
There’s a lot of discourse about CEOs and billionaires right now. It’s hard to have this convo on TikTok but I think Bluesky can handle it with nuance.
Are all billionaires bad?
Are all billionaires bad?
December 6, 2024 at 6:03 AM
A decent person can acknowledge that while they worked hard they had luck and opportunities not available to all. There but for the grace of god.
To get to ten thousand times any normal person’s wealth you have to decide you deserved it, earned it.
That is ultimately what corrodes the soul.
To get to ten thousand times any normal person’s wealth you have to decide you deserved it, earned it.
That is ultimately what corrodes the soul.
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This is a really good article on the problems that you face when trying to make the U.S. government more effective www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
December 5, 2024 at 9:36 AM
This is a really good article on the problems that you face when trying to make the U.S. government more effective www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...