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Since time immemorial some have believed they can magically conquer all three points on the good-fast-cheap triangle.

That's when your LLM agent convinces other LLM agents on someone's else compute bill to write romance novels and send a portion of the proceeds to your crypto wallet.

Also, they pay for your dinner at Perkins.

Not making enough money, but also hit the production ceiling (200 slop books in one year). She's only logging ~250 sales/book. Terrestrial bound/printed types would laugh her out of their office.

Teaching other midwits the midwit exploit is her logical next step for growth until saturation.

She can be both an OnlyBooks AI slop writer and teach others.

We might be slightly overestimating the customer quality expectations for romance novels.

Not like she's making literature.

Using Apple '84 as a guide, we can safely ignore these companies until what, two decades from now when one of them invents the AI toilet?

Calling them facilities is underplaying how unfit commercial warehouse space would be for detention of human beings.

Commercial warehouses are not designed, built, powered or plumbed for any kind of mass shelter except in the most exigent of circumstances.

Heritage Auctions has offices over in Beverly Hills.

They can handle pretty eclectic collections.

We are talking the world of romance novels aka the phone sex vertical of publishing.

Similar principle that if the camera boom operator is on coke you have a serious problem, but if it's the director, you can fix it in post.

Easy answer is Karp is both on spectrum and using coke.

Certainly wouldn't be the first tech exec that did. Ran into people like him before that just have too much energy for a life position that doesn't call for it.

Does Thiel believe this while antichrist shit he's spewing? I wouldn't put it past him since the flip side is him knowing he is just a dumb fuck who got lucky and can also get unlucky which in the world of libert thinking can't possibly be the case because obviously everything he earned.

The libert eco has been stewing in its own shit for decades. You'll find no shortage of them that believe in demiurges, think they're smart cause they read a religious text once, or done shit like followed the templar trail looking for enlightenment. And they borrow religious IP constantly.

Problem analyzing billionaires is most is wish casting and best to use Occam.

Much of Thiel's childhood is US based + he joined libert camp (wealthy/right-leaning gay man of a certain age not surprising). Rare wealthy group that would have him vs other groups fighting for rights publicly.

See this with a lot of libertarian religious rejectionists, who for whatever reason would rather borrow from childhood shit they rejected than admit chance/luck plus criming is what made them billionaires.

And Thiel's got a mass crypt full of psychic skeletons.

Could do a whole thing on Trump's meddling in steel from '16 until now and how all that's resulted is we are still ~double the price of steel at every level.

How it allowed Nucor and others to raise their prices and hardly any more steel gets made.

He has no clue.

Challenge w/ anchoring a pol pitch to CPI alone is one number does not economy make.

Parts of pop are exposed to core inputs above much more than others. Probably actually less at the lowest decile than middle ones.

Judging precariousness is ~ judging feelings.

What did, without a doubt, happen.

2015-2025
Lumber, up ~100%
Rebar, up ~50%
Aluminum, up ~100%

🇨🇳 ⚡ (huge product input), up ~40% from just '24-'25

Biden admin did fail on messaging, because they allowed themselves to get fucked by the '18 tariffs.

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That was Billy Mays.

But, if the Dems can't sink this guy. 🤦

www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/cr...

Someone probably already has a rendition of the Wizard of Oz song in the can for it.

Bitch got kicked out of a wine bar.

Let's not gloss over that.

I expect some enterprising humorist will figure out how to unlock the romance service tier while badgering with it over the cable bill.

Yep, Barry just looks like he's doing Hollywood 101, plugging some rich investor's relative into a slot.

Meritocracy in action, lol.

Epstein was just too lazy to do the work to reply.

Problem the youth can't solve is local lifestyle ad market got decimated by Insta.

Pre-Insta alt weekly ads (cause they were always free) made commercial sense for local lifestyle businesses servicing similar demos.

Needs a deal before the SpaceX IPO cause his private little piggy bank goes away and he starts getting sued for taking Space X cash and plugging holes in xAI (since he has no other piggy banks left).

A pre-bailout bailout.

Had to sell to cover drops in their Pops and Labubu portfolios.

You'd want massive subsidies in robotics R&D, in both tooling assembly and last mile stuff that effects consumer choice. Because if China gets those first, you're fucked

You'd have to subsidize much more than energy.

Energy assumes robotics, and you'll miss China throwing labor at non-automated problem sets at something like 15% the cost of the West (US).

Tons of manu isn't automated, especially last mile effects.

"MGMT is going to write their own software"

They've been smoking crystal reports again.

WS believes what they want to believe, that is always true.

The wave towards smacking away S230 continues to build.

Middle School Cafeteria'ing of journalism.

Functionally, easier to write "they said" article, lean into fear, and grab next check than point out why the speaker is full of shit.

Sources innately know the info market will do the laundering (tho Bannon also a true believer in his own shit).