Money Makin’ Mitch

Hyperscaler AI capex has been “phenomenal” — but most of it “is to buy AI chips from Nvidia.”

“.. Investment in tech-related construction (for data centers and so on)” has actually declined slightly in the last few months.

@johnauthers.bsky.social
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Labor economist Monica Garcia-Perez on how politicization of official statistics contributed to Venezuela's decline.
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How do those who claim to have empathy look the other way? If you only have empathy for those who look like you, who pray like you, who have the same nationality, the same ethnicity, the same skin colour – that's not empathy. It's simply your bloated and extended ego.

A 100% tax hike. And Congress never even had to bother with a vote. 🤡

@apnews.com $SMH
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don't tell me you've already forgotten that two summers ago, Arsenal lost to soon-to-be-8th-place United, drew against friggin Nurnberg and edged Monaco before coming within two points of a league title (not losing a single PL match until November along the way)

This is why Charlottesville melted down its Lee statue. If the statue is removed and simply put in storage, it remains what @artcrimeprof.bsky.social calls “America’s strategic racism reserve.”

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

Title: What happens when your brain gets hot? Showing how brain and body temperament relate and possible effect,s including effect on executive functions

Our brains, like the CPU in computers, don't do too well when they get too warm. It actually has a narrower range of optimal temperatures than the rest of our body, and when it gets too hot, things like decision-making become worse. 🧪

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Emerging-Market Stocks Fall on Chips Tariff Threat, Taiwan Probe Semiconductor stocks sent the emerging-market equity benchmark lower as US President Donald Trump’s threat to raise tariffs on the sector and an investigation into a theft of trade secrets at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. spooked investors. Developing currencies fluctuated.

Semiconductor stocks sent the emerging-market equity benchmark lower as Trump’s threat to raise tariffs on the sector and an investigation into a theft of trade secrets at TSMC spooked investors

well well well

tweet from @southpark on the hellsite. they’re quoting the dept of homeland security, which tweeted an image of ICE from last week’s scathing episode (the same episode the entire administration railed against, with trump calling the show “irrelevant”) — and @southpark commented: Wait, so we ARE relevant? #eatabagofdicks

in a world of capitulating institutions, be trey parker and matt stone

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Generational public health sabotage

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

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The US is just straight up committing civilizational suicide. Excited for China's century

Opinion | The Sweeney ad 'controversy' is cancel-culture bait — Democrats beware The Sweeney/American Eagle ad discourse offers Republicans a familiar line of attack on well-worn culture war grounds.

For @msnbc.com I wrote about the Sydney Sweeney ad and how tired I am of everyone ascribing every little social media comment from a left leaning person as an official position of the Democratic Party.

(Please read and share, I wrote this on my vacation this week)

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Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.

the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public

Fast forward almost exactly a year, and

1) Arsenal got more than £20m for Nketiah and
2) Chelsea not only didn’t get £30m for Broja, they sold him for less than Eddie

“Absolute shambles of a club”

Can’t forget when he fluffed a 1x1 with the keeper to deny us the title

He won three penalties against Arsenal - the joint-most of any player against us in the Premier League and he scored eight times against the Gunners. I did not like him at all.

Those are not “her” (BLS Commissioner’s) numbers. They’re constructed by career civil servants using data collected from thousands of businesses and government agencies.

Destroying the credibility of official government statistics.

Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London

Remember When the Democrats Lost the Election Because People Hate Inflation? The New York Times Doesn’t As usual, the New York Times gets things exactly wrong in a piece headlined “Trump’s Tariffs are Making Money.

The New York Times told us the Democrats lost the last election because people hate inflation, but now they are telling us that they can't score political points by promising to bring prices down by getting rid of the Trump tariffs substack.com/home/post/p-...

Texas Democrats Leave the State to Block GOP Congressional Map Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: A group of Texas Democratic lawmakers fled the state Sunday, activating their emergency plan to block a hastily-drawn Republican congressional map that’s poised to set off a national redistricting battle between red states and blue states. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Does Trump only call black people low IQ

Opinion | What to Do When the President Acts Like a Five-Year-Old?

And also this from the Nobel laureate economist (and Yellen’s husband) George Akerlof: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...

Trump Fired America’s Economic Data Collector. History Shows the Perils.

President Trump didn't like the jobs numbers, so he fired the person responsible for producing them.
It's a move that has been tried before, by leaders of countries from Argentina to Greece to the Soviet Union. It rarely ends well.
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Ms. Rachel grew up on Mister Rogers. Now she’s carrying on his legacy. The YouTube star wants her audiences — adults and children alike — to see the humanity of all people.

How sick that being against genocide gets you labeled anti-semite by certain pro-Israel groups.

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