If it’s true that we are living in two economies (all I am reading about in relation to AI investment and the stock market, lots if charts), some companies (Mag7 vs. everyone else is practically in a recession) will find it difficult to depict themselves as a mom and pop operation.

I thought the big business slide was informative, regardless of which companies people have in mind.

“The pardon could also clear the way for Binance to return to the US market, which it was forced to exit as a condition of the DOJ settlement” #finreg #crypto www.wired.com/story/trump-...

In the same article: some WH staffer called Congress to stop the release of the #Epstein files.

What are the minimum functions of government?

Opinion | There Are Two Economies: A.I. and Everything Else

"the equivalent of about $1,800 per person in America will be invested this year on A.I." #AI #tariff www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

#Signalgate

Supposed to be the future of #AI - all of us will make movies that we’ll star in

The ghost of Autopen - no one knows how signatures appear on official documents

Even under the ‘24 legislation they can keep 19.99% os shares…

Every day I think of a documentary from the Beforetimes where they devoted 20 minutes to a press conference given by an inexperienced Treasury Secretary who wasn’t used to a teleprompter. The horror - talks of resignation swept through Washington.

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Just watched a documentary from the Beforetimes where they devoted 20 minutes to a press conference given by an inexperienced Treasury Secretary who wasn’t used to a teleprompter. The horror - talks of resignation swept through Washington.

And now this…

Wonder if he played with school friends/neighbors…

“A formal name change would likely require an act of Congress, although a person familiar with the deliberations said the White House was looking for ways to avoid a congressional vote.”

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Someone should read the content before you push it out.

“When Mr. Vought returned to the White House this year, he argued that disclosing the budget records would reveal sensitive information” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...

L doesn’t swipe in to remain in an unpaid position? What do you make of this? :)

Unclear from this article how the two Alsop rulings are related to each other.

Community building on several levels

bsky.app/profile/cur1... Some areas of life should not be fully market-based

Whose job would it be to make sure everything is removed from the printer?

And whose relative is the person in that position now? :)

And how much penalty do you dive when you discover LLM work? As generations of LLM-using high school students enter college, at one point it’s time to assume that they all know about “hallucination,” and assign the penalty w/o the obligatory ling meeting, which wasters more time. Are we there yet?

Alex Karp Has Money and Power. So What Does He Want?

Read how they are fighting for “the West” - very interested in this angle www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/s...

You are reading books that I probably should know about, but don’t want to read :)

Employees at Binance created PancakeSwap "Traders, mostly writing in Chinese, gather in groups on the Telegram messaging app to talk about competing for rewards paid out to top users of USD1 and advertised by PancakeSwap" #finreg #geopolitics www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

To write or to read? :)

The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy.

Re: T administration taking a 15% cut of Nvidia’s chip revenue in China, David Faber on @squawkstreet.bsky.social: why not 50%? :) A discussion of the following article has framed the issue #geopolitics #AI #capitalism www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

Ex White House Staff Appalled by Donald Trump’s ‘Real Dump’ Comment 'It's a terrible slap in the face... It is always kept in perfect condition!'

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