Starfouine
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Ail riz poste tout rime aime beurre.
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For as much as Jeff Bezos always found ways to successfully reinvest in his business at gargantuan scale, it’s strange to me that post-retirement it’s clear he doesn’t know what to do with his money other than yachts and such.
December 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
For as much as Jeff Bezos always found ways to successfully reinvest in his business at gargantuan scale, it’s strange to me that post-retirement it’s clear he doesn’t know what to do with his money other than yachts and such.
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SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 1406
1. Trump as Putin's shill. Lavrov asserts 91 🇺🇦 drones targetted Putin dacha near Novgorod; no evidence offerd. Putin says same to Trump. Trump believes him & expresses anger vs Zelensky. No US intel cited
2. ~40 Shaheds launches; 8 hits
1. Trump as Putin's shill. Lavrov asserts 91 🇺🇦 drones targetted Putin dacha near Novgorod; no evidence offerd. Putin says same to Trump. Trump believes him & expresses anger vs Zelensky. No US intel cited
2. ~40 Shaheds launches; 8 hits
December 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 1406
1. Trump as Putin's shill. Lavrov asserts 91 🇺🇦 drones targetted Putin dacha near Novgorod; no evidence offerd. Putin says same to Trump. Trump believes him & expresses anger vs Zelensky. No US intel cited
2. ~40 Shaheds launches; 8 hits
1. Trump as Putin's shill. Lavrov asserts 91 🇺🇦 drones targetted Putin dacha near Novgorod; no evidence offerd. Putin says same to Trump. Trump believes him & expresses anger vs Zelensky. No US intel cited
2. ~40 Shaheds launches; 8 hits
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Remind me who was president in 2024, when this chart ends?
December 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Remind me who was president in 2024, when this chart ends?
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"If there is no boundary between real and unreal, good and evil, life and death, then nothing means anything, and we face a nihilist abyss." @marcishore.bsky.social in #IWMPost @iwm.at
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www.iwm.at/publication/...
In a Post-Truth World: The Fate of Birth, Death, and Other Boundaries
If there is no boundary between real and unreal, good and evil, life and death, then nothing means anything, and we face a nihilist abyss.
www.iwm.at
December 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"If there is no boundary between real and unreal, good and evil, life and death, then nothing means anything, and we face a nihilist abyss." @marcishore.bsky.social in #IWMPost @iwm.at
www.iwm.at/publication/...
www.iwm.at/publication/...
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Any discussion of how a few actors are protesting Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center has to consider how Republicans have tried to slash social spending for the arts — and denigrate the arts and humanities as legitimate fields — since at least Reagan, if not longer.
December 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Any discussion of how a few actors are protesting Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center has to consider how Republicans have tried to slash social spending for the arts — and denigrate the arts and humanities as legitimate fields — since at least Reagan, if not longer.
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it's rather a delicious irony that the tradwife sector will be dominated by AI synthetics.
December 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
it's rather a delicious irony that the tradwife sector will be dominated by AI synthetics.
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very hard to imagine trump protecting a friend, esp when it's not politically expedient. outside of his children, he's treated every relationship as disposable or transactional, in service of self-gain or self-preservation.
December 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
very hard to imagine trump protecting a friend, esp when it's not politically expedient. outside of his children, he's treated every relationship as disposable or transactional, in service of self-gain or self-preservation.
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An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
December 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
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AI boosters want AI to be magic because at heart they are stupid, lazy children who want their Fairy Godmother to make Mommy and Daddy love them.
“An AI scientist, for example, could figure out how the human brain works, or deliver any gene to any cell in the body.”
Yeah and a magic pony could shit bricks of 24k gold and piss a highly concentrated solution of pure heroin.
Yeah and a magic pony could shit bricks of 24k gold and piss a highly concentrated solution of pure heroin.
Building an AI Scientist
Hertz Fellow Sam Rodriguez launched FutureHouse, a nonprofit research lab working toward building an AI scientist or AI systems that can automate scientific research in biology and other complex scien...
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December 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
AI boosters want AI to be magic because at heart they are stupid, lazy children who want their Fairy Godmother to make Mommy and Daddy love them.
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Politicians are terrified of an electorate they think is far more authoritarian and angry and right wing than it actually is, because they are out of touch because the literal media - the thing that mediates between public and polity - is corrupted
December 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Politicians are terrified of an electorate they think is far more authoritarian and angry and right wing than it actually is, because they are out of touch because the literal media - the thing that mediates between public and polity - is corrupted
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Roz is absolutely correct.
Deprivation of citizenship should not be a matter for mere ministerial discretion (with light touch judicial review).
In the extreme circumstances when it can happen, the determination should be made by a tribunal, where government and citizen can make their cases.
Deprivation of citizenship should not be a matter for mere ministerial discretion (with light touch judicial review).
In the extreme circumstances when it can happen, the determination should be made by a tribunal, where government and citizen can make their cases.
December 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Roz is absolutely correct.
Deprivation of citizenship should not be a matter for mere ministerial discretion (with light touch judicial review).
In the extreme circumstances when it can happen, the determination should be made by a tribunal, where government and citizen can make their cases.
Deprivation of citizenship should not be a matter for mere ministerial discretion (with light touch judicial review).
In the extreme circumstances when it can happen, the determination should be made by a tribunal, where government and citizen can make their cases.
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Most underrated Biden admin mistake was bailing out Silicon Valley Bank.
SVB bet big on low interest rates and lost. Rich tech VCs who put too many eggs in that basket generated a bank run, then called for govt money.
Got their bailout, helped elect Trump, and now reaping rewards from corruption.
SVB bet big on low interest rates and lost. Rich tech VCs who put too many eggs in that basket generated a bank run, then called for govt money.
Got their bailout, helped elect Trump, and now reaping rewards from corruption.
David Sacks, presumably, on the push by some in the tech and VC world to fund a primary challenge to Congressman Khanna.
December 29, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Most underrated Biden admin mistake was bailing out Silicon Valley Bank.
SVB bet big on low interest rates and lost. Rich tech VCs who put too many eggs in that basket generated a bank run, then called for govt money.
Got their bailout, helped elect Trump, and now reaping rewards from corruption.
SVB bet big on low interest rates and lost. Rich tech VCs who put too many eggs in that basket generated a bank run, then called for govt money.
Got their bailout, helped elect Trump, and now reaping rewards from corruption.
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These guys truly think they’re Aragorn or Gandalf or Legolas, when they’re really, at best, Saruman or Shelob or Grima Wormtongue. Mostly they’re replacement-level orcs who can’t read a book.
It’s not just “we decided to name our company after the personification of evil.” It’s also “we decided to name our home security company after the personification of evil who was so vainly proud of his vigilance that he let his home get invaded in the most catastrophic way possible.”
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
December 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
These guys truly think they’re Aragorn or Gandalf or Legolas, when they’re really, at best, Saruman or Shelob or Grima Wormtongue. Mostly they’re replacement-level orcs who can’t read a book.
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Every installment of this MTG rehabilitation tour feels like “Nice Scorpion Regrets Past Stings, Needs Help With River Crossing!”
December 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Every installment of this MTG rehabilitation tour feels like “Nice Scorpion Regrets Past Stings, Needs Help With River Crossing!”
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it’s so much easier to get exposure to the more esoteric markets now. 15 years ago 20 year olds weren’t trading silver 3 days after Christmas
December 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
it’s so much easier to get exposure to the more esoteric markets now. 15 years ago 20 year olds weren’t trading silver 3 days after Christmas
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Sauron Security, Palantir, Anduril, Mithril Capital, we are a nation run but dorks who deeply misunderstood a book series they read when they were children
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
Sauron, the high-end home security startup for "super premium" customers, plucks a new CEO out of Sonos | TechCrunch
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
techcrunch.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Sauron Security, Palantir, Anduril, Mithril Capital, we are a nation run but dorks who deeply misunderstood a book series they read when they were children
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When his aircraft landed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, President Zelenskyy was met by Prime Minister Mark Carney – the head of government of Canada.
When he landed at Miami, Florida, not a single U.S. official met Zelenskyy.
Canada is Ukraine's ally. The U.S. is Russia's proxy.
When he landed at Miami, Florida, not a single U.S. official met Zelenskyy.
Canada is Ukraine's ally. The U.S. is Russia's proxy.
December 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
When his aircraft landed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, President Zelenskyy was met by Prime Minister Mark Carney – the head of government of Canada.
When he landed at Miami, Florida, not a single U.S. official met Zelenskyy.
Canada is Ukraine's ally. The U.S. is Russia's proxy.
When he landed at Miami, Florida, not a single U.S. official met Zelenskyy.
Canada is Ukraine's ally. The U.S. is Russia's proxy.
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This 🤡 has a private convo with Putin (receiving his marching orders) while his meeting with Zelenskyy is a public circus?
December 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This 🤡 has a private convo with Putin (receiving his marching orders) while his meeting with Zelenskyy is a public circus?
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Trump’s Kennedy Center is now threatening to sue artists who won’t play the venue due to name change. Via Rolling Stone
Kennedy Center President to ‘Seek $1 Million in Damages’ Against Musician Over Nixed Christmas Show — Rolling Stone
Richard Grenell threatened legal action against Chuck Redd after he canceled his appearance over Trump’s venue name change
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December 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Trump’s Kennedy Center is now threatening to sue artists who won’t play the venue due to name change. Via Rolling Stone
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The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says.
December 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says.
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“But it's also clear that there is likely something in the files that further incriminates him.” This is what I think, too. Horrible as the facts at hand are, there must be something else, something verging on the unimaginable.
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www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-ver...
Feminism Versus Trump and Epstein
We already knew that Jeffrey Epstein had sexually assaulted and exploited dozens of girls and young women, that he had done so openly, that his dehumanization of the vulnerable had not prevented a who...
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December 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“But it's also clear that there is likely something in the files that further incriminates him.” This is what I think, too. Horrible as the facts at hand are, there must be something else, something verging on the unimaginable.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-ver...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-ver...
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How many licensing agreements also pay off shareholders? Because that's what's happening here.
Also, Huang effectively lives in the Oval Office these days so he could probably buy Groq the old-fashioned way without much scrutiny.
Also, Huang effectively lives in the Oval Office these days so he could probably buy Groq the old-fashioned way without much scrutiny.
Every major user of AI inference services should be SCREAMING at the FTC/DOJ to take a hard look at the Nvidia/Groq deal. There's a reason why they dropped this quietly, late on Christmas Eve.
IMO, they're dressing this up as a non-exclusive licensing arrangement, but it's really an acquisition.
IMO, they're dressing this up as a non-exclusive licensing arrangement, but it's really an acquisition.
December 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
How many licensing agreements also pay off shareholders? Because that's what's happening here.
Also, Huang effectively lives in the Oval Office these days so he could probably buy Groq the old-fashioned way without much scrutiny.
Also, Huang effectively lives in the Oval Office these days so he could probably buy Groq the old-fashioned way without much scrutiny.
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“Past presidents refrained from putting their names on public institutions out of respect for democracy, reverence for institutions, and a sense of personal humility. Trump has none of these qualities.”
No American president has ever named ships or institutions after himself—until now. Trump’s gold-plated presidency isn’t about strength. It’s about fear, ego, and unmistakable ignorance.
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The President Who Can’t Stop Naming Things After Himself
The Narcissist-in-Chief is Worried We'll Forget Him. I hope we do.
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December 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“Past presidents refrained from putting their names on public institutions out of respect for democracy, reverence for institutions, and a sense of personal humility. Trump has none of these qualities.”