This was worrying enough to warrant a conversation with my daughter to "never trust anything you see online" conversation

Yikes. Talk about desecration of the dead...

C. In 2024, Fidelity gives xAI (less than a year old at the time) a $40 billion valuation

D. X/Twitter's Fidelity valuation magically went from $9b to $33b in 6 months

E. All individual responsibility is absolved from the debt

A decade ago, the SEC would've recommended felony charges for this.

I gave all my coins in my pocket (25nt, or about 85 cents) in Taipei. Taiwan knows and understands and stands with the little guys fight against oppression and autocracy. The money will be put in better use than the any bubble tea I'll be having with it.

This Executive Order Reveals the Trump-Musk Endgame A recent order aimed at destroying independent regulatory agencies isn’t just about taking control of the state—it’s a giant cash-grab in disguise.

They want to rob us blind. How can we let them? www.thenation.com/article/poli.... #stopthesteal

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Highway rest stop in Taiwan with rwal time stall status lights. Immaculately clean. If US is a 1at world country this qualifies as 0 world status. USA is falling behind.

Close encounters with giant sea creatures

The Ashridge House outside of England is the total embodiment of a bygone era. The grounds are absolutely gorgeous

Kiddo reading the Constitution

Beyond T&A apparently they also offer (1/2 price off crab) legs on Sundays 🦵

Oldie from New Year but we gave the kid a foosball table but it was up to her to assembly the whole thing.

Eight Years of Populism Hasn’t Gotten America Very Far Using employment, wealth or health as a yardstick, it’s hard to find any meaningful gains for the working class, which raises questions about the next four years.

Using America's employment, wealth or health as a yardstick, it’s hard to find any meaningful transformation over the past eight years, which raises questions about the next four.

My goal of doing the Welch-Dicky Loop in under 90 minutes came true today. I shaved 8 minutes off of my time from last week. I didn't think it was possible! To celebrate I took my daughter up the same trail-needless to say I didn't run it as my legs were cramping up as I hiked LOL.

25 degree morning but I was still sweating like crazy at the top. 1,700 feet vertical over 5 miles house to house - just a bit over .6 miles compare to the standard Welch-Dicky loop. Was aiming for doing it under 90 minutes but I haven't been training at all so I'll take 96 minutes!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | TRUMP 2024 🇺🇸🦅

The shit Trump is doing to gaslight the country should be considered treason youtu.be/KHuMjIhS6t0?...

The whole cricket was gone, legs antenna, everything, in about 2 minutes

"If you want crabs larger than 10 inches you have to go to the West Coast" said my fellow crabber. Then this blue crag showed up. It's in a 5 gallon bucket which is 12 inches in diameter

I saw this press release too. So sad.... I'll be swinging by myself for only the 2nd time since COVID

Want to join the Sticker Team? You can!👉 https://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday 👈A big thanks to the American Astronautical Society for Inviting me to Sp... I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293

Best lecture on our need for constructive negative feedback ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJs...

It sure looks like Elon Musk is deliberately destroying X Musk's "go fuck yourself" remarks to X's advertisers seemed pre-planned, said one expert.

Purposely tanking a company to cheapen its debt is a crime www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-lo...

I'm an American spending Thanksgiving as a combat nurse under fire on the frontline in Ukraine Rebekah Maciorowski, from Denver, said the Ukrainian soldiers she helps are like "her family," and she is spending Thanksgiving with them under fire.

Giving thanks to people who are actually making a difference. Slava Ukraini! www.businessinsider.com/im-an-americ...

How Elon Musk Spent Three Years Falling Down a Red-Pilled Rabbit Hole His tweet endorsing an antisemitic theory that sent advertisers fleeing comes after years of increasing interaction with extremist content.

A review of Elon Musk’s social media usage since 2020 shows a political shift that began during the Covid-19 lockdowns, then seemed to intensify dramatically in recent months as he spent more time interacting with accounts associated with White nationalism

Elon Musk's 'thermonuclear' lawsuit over hate-adjacent ads on X... actually confirms them | TechCrun... Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, has filed a lawsuit alleging defamation by a news organization over claims that major companies had ads appear next to

Ex-Twitter's lawsuit against MediaMatter is one of the biggest WTF moments yet. By filing the papers of its complain it basically confirmed that the corporate ads next to hate content actually happened. Blind leading the blind over there... techcrunch.com/2023/11/20/e...

The first 100 people to use code SOMETHING at the link below will get 60% off of Incogni: https://incogni.com/somethingJeff Bezos will fix traffic for you. A... Why Robotaxis are a Terrible Idea

Great summary on why self-driving taxis are destined to fail as a "personalized" mass transit solution - 1 subway line can handle over 400k passengers while you need tens of thousands of vehicles to do the same for robo-taxis. Elite projection indeed! youtu.be/GcKUYbChE3A?...

280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.

Elon Musk can go fuck himself. This quiet revolution in personal mobility is saving more gasoline than electric cars and I am all for it - arstechnica.com/cars/2023/11...

For people who criticized Boston for skipping both the Olympics AND F1 just look at the clusterfuck that F1 has become for Las Vegas. Bravo Boston for picking public goods over private gains jalopnik.com/i-hope-it-ba...

George Washington (Nate Bargatze) tells his soldiers (Kenan Thompson, Mikey Day, Bowen Yang, James Austin Johnson) his dream for the country.Saturday Night L... Washington's Dream - SNL

Because FREEDOM! :D youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk?...

I have deleted my Twitter account. Bluesky is my new home.