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Finally the ads industry will die, as a result of Ads communism

That's hilarious

Why do these prediction markets ppl HAVE to bet on even the most sacred things???

What has Elon Musk’s Doge actually achieved? Six months after the so-called Department of Government Efficiency was unveiled, it has yet to find a fraction of the hoped for savings

Thanks @chriscook.news and @joemillerjr.ft.com for shining more light on Doge's impact

How do you think their cutting of USAID and the millions of lives it's impacting will factor into this when we look back in a few years?

on.ft.com/4khuREJ

Simple as

That and the feds are also lenient if you know what they are after (more info on your previous criminal colleagues)

An underrated part of the FTX saga is how Trabucco was able to get no prison by leaving the company at the right time and by cooperating with regulators in the investigation

He also gave up the boat

Mate you've already done enough this week (hell, month) by listening to the Tesla earnings call

Breaking: 232.1 BILLION iPhones shipped last year

BREAKING:

FT: Apple shipped 232.1 BILLION iPhones last year

England’s Pope(s)? In its 2000-odd year history, covering 266 popes, only 1 (to date) has been of English descent, something for which Henry VIII must, presumably, bear some degree of responsibility. Even so, a strik…

Entirely independently it's also unlikely he will be an Englishman paulbernardiauthor.com/2025/04/24/e...

Wasn't he there just to take the company public via a spac and now he has collected his profits and his job is done?

Teach me how to sell high and buy low, some shit like this just can't be shorted (I guess until it eventually dies at some point, fingers crossed)

I'm impressed you can listen to these calls in the first place!

Thank you for your reporting

Gambling on papal conclaves - Wikipedia

Crypto sucks, but tbh we've been in this "betting on the next pope" game for a while

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamblin...

Thanks

Btw you might have some insight on this, do you know how they organised their PR campaign?

Looked super coordinated as if an embargo was lifted, Times Axios and others releasing the news concurrently

No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species

I appreciate you write: "Colossal’s wolves are technically grey wolves with some gene edits, birthed by surrogate dogs"

Pls more of this!

www.newscientist.com/article/2475...

I'm becoming more and more woke (unironically) as time passes with the reign of these neonazis

The nail polish that changes colour based on temperature is my and my wife's favourite so far

Next Gemini, Uniswap and others will be suing the SEC for the "damage" the agency has done

Agreed!

There are also at least a few ppl on this specific list (curated by a certified EA) who are openly cheering for Trump

bsky.app/profile/robe...

Do you think the red line ('total tech employment growth') is firmly back at or around 0 now?

For the past 24h he has been posting content in support of a user called Big Balls who turns out is the racist guy who was fired

Our Story President Lyndon B. Johnson founded the Urban Institute in 1968 to provide “power through knowledge” to help solve the problems that weighed heavily on the nation’s hearts and minds. Our organization ...

2. As @besttrousers.bsky.social points out he has no context on the way the Urban Insitute was founded www.urban.org/about/our-st...

3. Nor does he have context on the goals of the BBC Media Action group's funding structure en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Med...

Deep Research considers the costs and benefits of US AID - Marginal REVOLUTION You can read it here, summary sentence: Based on the analysis above, the net assessment leans toward the conclusion that USAID’s benefits outweigh its costs on the whole, though with important qualifi...

This is such a bad take from Tyler Cowen:

marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

1. Abstracts away the way that changes are being made to USAID by a small group that constitutionally doesn't have control over how money is spent in the USA

Not the hero we deserved, but the hero we needed

Who is keeping the 'Neo-Nazis in Government' list?

Love how we have internally supplied daily check in from the Wire for how the Elite Team is doing

The unofficial org structure (power) has replaced the official one with this most recent change of management