'Nvidia is making money selling shovels in a gold rush. But one thing to bear in mind is this: the main reason that anyone remembers the shovel vendors of the late 1800s is that there didn’t turn out to be all that much gold in the end.' garymarcus.substack.com/p/nvidias-ea...

We originally set up an alert to track our mentions @towcenter.bsky.social - but soon found that my name cropped up a great deal, (false ‘Dr’ added), talking about the things I talk about (tech + media) but none of the quotes were real. AI slop me has been pretty busy….

Bitcoin now down over 30% from its all-time highs… Six weeks ago.

If Saylor is forced to liquidate his bitcoin, things could get bad real fast.

As always, no one could have seen this coming 🤡🤡🤡

for too long Elon Musk has been misunderstood as a technologist and innovator, so it's good to finally see his actual abilities acknowledged

Graphic that shows that among republicans, support for school vaccine requirements has dropped from 79% in 2016 to 52% in October 2025.

Wanna see a visual on the result of the Republican attack on public health?

I’ve got you covered. This is from Pew Research Center’s most recent survey, showing a 27% drop in Republican support for school vaccine requirements from 2016-2025.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

It's pretty clear that a major tactic from US tech companies, data centre developers and lobbyists is trying to present data centres as clean tech virtually identical to batteries, solar panels, transmission lines.

That creates a framing where community backlash can be dismissed as hollow NIMBYism

If things get tight, maybe Larry could have his son sell CBS/Paramount.

(I'm just trying to be helpful.)

A Growing Number of People Refuse to Vaccinate Their Pets. They Have a Mind-Boggling Reason Why. No rabies shot for you, Baxter.

We're living in a deeply, aggressively stupid time.

slate.com/life/2025/11...

I remember when Reversal of Fortune came out. I was — and still am — blown away by Jeremy Irons. The rest of the cast was great, and the film itself was brilliant. The one flaw that really bothered me was the unbelievably heroic/self-serving depiction of Dershowitz.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

FT puts Burry on Page One:

@financialtimes.com

Kash Patel, the FBI's agent of chaos The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Patel is at being FBI director.

It's hard to overstate what a disaster Kash Patel is. See the many disturbing details here, from @vermontgmg.bsky.social, an expert on the FBI. "The longer this chaos continues," he writes, "the more likely we’re going to face a catastrophic intelligence failure." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...

NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two newly hired senior FBI staff, exempting them from polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information, officials said.

tell ya what son, maybe if ya spent a little less time sexually harrassing people and pouting for a camera, and a little more time learning how to hammer a gosh darn nail in properly, you might not even feel like masculinity even is in such a crisis

If Vance believes this, he is an idiot.
(Hint: The most inflated real estate is !!!NOT!!! where immigrants are concentrated.)

If he knows how stupid this argument is, he's a tool.

Take your pick.

In his defense, he once called Trump "America's Hitler."

People need to make sure this one haunts him.

ALLOWAY: “.. the danger is that a collateral crunch becomes a credit crunch and the entire AI-finance-economy flywheel comes to a screeching halt.”

@tracyalloway.bsky.social @weisenthal.bsky.social
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

She was 17 and a high school junior in Florida. She was working at McDonald’s. And she was living in and out of a homeless shelter. Hoping to save up to buy braces to fix her teeth, she falsely advertised herself in 2017 as 18 years old on a website that matches men looking for “companionship” with young women looking to make money. What followed would set off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of one of the men she would encounter, Representative Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican.

The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

We are invited to assume that the New York Times did not know what Epstein was telling Landon Thomas about Trump. I decline to extend that charity.

If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.

"here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do:

publish it immediately"

bsky.app/profile/ryan...

I've been warning you all. Abundance is just sane-washed techno-optimism. It only looks good until you scrape off the veneer.

sure, none of his businesses are sustainably profitable, and this one is his most capital-intensive to date, and its flagship product is the fourth most popular in a segment where nobody makes money, plus he's deeply entangled in drugs and politics, but let's throw billions more at him and hope

I read and enjoyed Up in the Air when it first came out. Sorry to hear about the craziness but glad I didn't bother with any of his other work.

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

REPUBLICAN REP. MASSIE: “I vote with my party 91% of the time… But when they're protecting pedophiles, blowing our budget, starting wars overseas — I'm sorry, I can't go along with that.”

Logo for Icarus flying academy in Farmingdale, NY

This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????

What's even more remarkable is that this list omits numerous Miss Teen incidents and the sketchy modeling contests that mainly recruited underage girls.

Adding this to point out that the NYT is now on the record saying "editors *discovered* his failure to abide by our ethical standards" (emphasis mine)

This strongly suggests a termination for cause, which typically involves an internal investigation. So, what else did his editors "discover"?

SEN: “.. Such is the risk when the economy has only one growth engine and it’s seen as mostly benefiting the rich while leaving working people behind, or worse penalizing them with high costs and job losses.”

@conorsen.bsky.social $XLU
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...