Max Kennerly

Mixed in this as well is: in a world of tariff uncertainty, importers need substantial cash reserves, which Wal-Mart might have but small businesses must scrounge together via cost-cutting and price hikes.

Yeah, 2012 was so blisteringly awesome and still so contextually relevant that there's a lot of gold left to mine.

And IMHO Waititi is better suited for purely humorous than mixed with serious like "darkly humorous." When he's funny, he's really funny. When he's serious, it's just too light.

Yeah, that's what I thought: the staffer who made this wanted the message to be "this is all a lie, and the next thing that happens is he abandons you."

"[T]he same judge who lectured [Caymir Weaver] about morality ... hit a cyclist with his car, left them by the side of the road, and ended up with only a $400 fine."

Yet another example of why ICE must be abolished. Why would any sensible country keep around a security force like this? It doesn't even matter what your views are on immigration, this entire agency and all of its staff needs to go.

Yup. Modern dishwashers use far less water than handwashing. Energy efficiency is a toss-up, and depends on the specifics of the water heater and the path it travels. The dishwasher's local heating element + less water usually beats piping lots more hot water across your house to your faucet.

I love "you should always wash your clothes/dishes by hand."

It immediately tells me the person does not do that, and in fact has never done it several times in a row.

Do it for a month then show us your hands.

Yeah. It's one thing if a person reaches a level of such comfort that they drive themselves bonkers.

But it's quite another thing when their money lets them exert so much influence. Each bonkers billionaire is like if there were 10 million Branch Davidians. No society can withstand dozens of those.

Heritage Foundation founder Edwin J. Feulner dead at 83 Heritage Foundation founder Edwin J. Feulner has died at age 83, the conservative think tank confirmed in a statement Friday night.

And now he can finally meet his idol, Adolf Hitler.

I know, I should be more sympathetic, but I can't deny it feels fitting, like an ancient fable, that one of the early investors in The Great Deceiver has been driven mad by it.

futurism.com/openai-inves...

<walking down a dark alleyway>

<approached by two guys in trench coats that say "CME" and "CBOE">

"Hey, kid, want an index?"

<they open the trench coats, spilling 18 million indices with impossible levels of specificity>

They're just genuinely stupid. Are green jobs material? Is property insurance? (Believe it or not landlords pass this cost on to tenants!) Do fossil industries fund every regressive political movement? They don't care.

I love how these guys style themselves as intellectuals yet lack the brainpower to understand "a changing climate produces different costs and risks" or "a solar panel at your home is cheaper, more efficient, and less damaging to the climate than burning oil 200 miles away and sending it on a wire."

Just to get back to where we were as of January 2025, we will need Manhattan Projects across multiple agencies. This particular loss will produce exponentially increasing human injury and economic damage to the U.S. as the ability to investigate and to regulate falls apart.

Yup. That is simply professional, objective legal analysis these todays. If a case has any political overtones, it has two paths:

a) some variation in outcomes depending on judge, as is inevitable in a legal system, or

b) it went to a GOP judge who consistently breaks their oath to follow the law.

It's like Hegseth was created in a lab to be emblematic of mediocre white men with nothing to them except toxic masculinity. Just an absolutely horrible person from every angle, profoundly destructive, incompetent, and unlikeable.

Hidden world of 'catch-and-kill' tabloids spotlighted in Trump's hush money trial Ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker offered fresh details in testimony.

I suppose I can see why Trump believes that, when a news outlet says a story is "exclusive," they mean nobody will ever see it...

... because that's how the National Enquirer helped him "catch-and-kill" stories.

22. Tellingly, the Article does not explain whether Defendants have obtained a copy of the letter, have seen it, have had it described to them, or any other circumstances that would otherwise lend credibility to the Article. That is because the supposed letter is a fake and the Defendants knew it when they chose to deliberately defame President Trump.

Pages from the leather-bound album—assembled before Epstein was first arrested in 2006—are among the documents examined by Justice Department officials who investigated Epstein and Maxwell years ago, according to people who have reviewed the pages. It’s unclear if any of the pages are part of the Trump administration’s recent review. The president’s past relationship with Epstein is at a sensitive moment. The Justice Department documents, the so-called Epstein files, and who or what is in them are at the center of a storm consuming the Trump administration. On Wednesday, after angry comments about how the files are a hoax created by Democrats, President Trump lashed out at his own supporters for refusing to let the matter go. The letter bearing Trump’s name, which was reviewed by the Journal, is bawdy—like others in the album. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly “Donald” below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.

Trump's lawsuit against WSJ says little of note, other than claiming the letter is fake, though it does include this curious allegation.

He's wrong. The sourcing is clear, and WSJ says they reviewed the letter.

I can't explain why Trump / his lawyer alleged that. They just didn't read it? 🤷‍♂️

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Alas, it's fixed now, would've been funnier as pro se

In fairness, for centuries, every prediction of a stock market crash has come true, the only issue was timing. 🙃

But seriously, this is looking a bit too much like musical chairs. I can't say when the music stops, just that the number of chairs seems wrong.

Biden’s Team Lied About Gaza. It’s Time to Hold Them Accountable Impunity for abetting war crimes weakens U.S. democracy.

An absolutely #mustread piece from @mattduss.bsky.social this morning.

"If we are serious about rebuilding U.S. democracy, unrigging the system and ending that impunity is imperative. The fight for accountability for Gaza is inseparable from the fight against Trumpism."

Shoutout to my rep, @repdean.bsky.social, for voting against it.

I suspect most of these people skate by, but some of them are going to have trouble explaining to their constituents why their biggest accomplishment in Trump 2.0 was voting for his crypto scam bill.

Chart: the concentration in the S&P 500 has returned to extreme levels, with the top 10 companies accounting for 40% of the index’s market capitalization and a record-high share of earnings.

Goldman chart, 60-65% of SPX options are 0DTE

As the S&P 500 keeps churning upwards, worth noting the unusual foundations of it. 40% of the market cap is in just 10 companies, and >60% of the options volume is in options expiring that day.

Perhaps 0DTE traders fuel the AI bubble forever, but if they don't, well, it seems that would be bad.

Overtrained Language Models Are Harder to Fine-Tune Large language models are pre-trained on ever-growing token budgets under the assumption that better pre-training performance translates to improved downstream models. In this work, we challenge this ...

E.g., here's one of many papers pointing out that excessive pre-training on an LLM makes the final performance worse. If an LLM is overtrained to fit Trump's requirement it talk like MechHitler, the effect won't just be spewing right-wing propaganda when asked, it'll be worse at everything.

Most of corporate America and Wall Street is too brainless/brainwashed to realize this, but every LLM built to these specifications will irreparably broken. There's no way to guaranteed an LLM will spit out right-wing propaganda without extreme corpus data pruning and/or model overtraining.

Yeah. The odds of Epstein using a Lolita reference in communications with clients are 100%.

And it's just such an odd word to use, particularly in the way he did. There's no sensible interpretation except, well, the worst possible one.

wow detailed argument you got there buddy

got some better explanation for "enigmas never age" written to a man who was trafficking minors?

One thing we could do with release of the Epstein files is see if "enigmas" was a regular codeword used by Epstein. It seems the sort of thing that Epstein, who fancied himself an intellectual, would do.

Let the first stone be cast by he who has not ummm uhhh jfc what the hell and of all people to write that to