Nigel Barron

"In simpler terms, 35% of the US stock market is held up by five or six companies buying GPUs. If NVIDIA's growth story stumbles, it will reverberate through the rest of the Magnificent 7, making them rely on their own AI trade stories." www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g... @edzitron.com

Peter Thiel’s Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans | Robert Reich Working with the Trump administration, the data company could be used to target the president’s opponents

Shame the comments closed for this. I'd have shared this podcast (youtu.be/vV7YgnPUxcU?...) where Theil 'critiques artificial intelligence, longevity science and space travel — and warns that our lack of progress could lead to the emergence of the Antichrist.' 😵‍💫
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Life Changing - The Girl Gambler - BBC Sounds When Stacey Goodwin got a new job, it triggered a destructive gambling addiction.

Life Changing - The Girl Gambler www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @gamblingwithlives.bsky.social

‘Allegory for the times we live in’: De Niro and Scorsese reunite for Casino at 30 Director and star of the Vegas-set mafia drama spoke to an audience as part of this year’s Tribeca film festival, looking back at their 1995 hit and its timeless themes

“Is Vegas better when it’s run by the mafia, or is it better now when it’s run by the corporations?”

“Is there a difference?” Scorsese smirked as the crowd roared. “That’s all I’m saying.”

“These days especially,” De Niro chimed in.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

OpenAI chief Sam Altman: ‘This is genius-level intelligence’ The tech entrepreneur on the risks and opportunities of AI, his dispute with Elon Musk and why he has the ‘most important job maybe in history’

"Comments have not been enabled for this article.". Also on LinkedIn 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️
OpenAI chief Sam Altman: ‘This is genius-level intelligence’ www.ft.com/content/a3d6...

Opinion | An Age of Extinction Is Coming. Here’s How to Survive. Everything is under threat. What you care about can make it to the other side.

Bottlenecks www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

Thoma Bravo: The Bridge Trolls of Enterprise Software? Private equity giant Thoma Bravo bought two ID management service firms over the summer, Ping and SailPoint. Now it's buying ForgeRock. Should we care?

CEOs, ever since the turn to monopoly and finance in the early 80s, have become bankers, not engineers. So the Thoma Bravo model works, because no one with power listens to the IT nerds offering sage warnings about software quality and risk www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopolies...

A luxury lighthouse stay in northern Spain: ‘Windows look east and west to sunrise and sunset’ A renovated lighthouse on the Bay of Biscay is the perfect base for exploring Asturias’s maritime delights

Flights direct from Gatwick 👇 www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/... @turismoasturias.bsky.social

Trump ‘eroding’ US brand, has made the country 20% poorer, Citadel chief says Citadel CEO Ken Griffin told Semafor Wednesday that there are ‘no great opportunities’ in today’s rattled markets.

👇👇👇
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

What Is This Nation? - Boston Review Palantir’s military-industrial plan for America.

"The “technological republic” for America is Singapore on steroids—a centralized authoritarian state that invests heavily in technological systems of repression and violence on a global scale." www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

Pope Francis’s last sacrifice in a lifetime of sacrifice: granting an audience to JD Vance www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Which Year - Photo Year Guessing Game Guess the year real-world photos were taken. Test your history knowledge with a daily challenge featuring a new set of photos each day.

WhichYear 4/22/25
4891 pts (top 3%)
1️⃣ avg. years off

🎯 2️⃣ 🎯 5️⃣ 🎯

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😳"Stake, which is the shirt sponsor of Everton FC, last month closed its non-crypto UK platform operated by Isle of Man-based white label provider TGP Europe after the Gambling Commission launched an investigation into a social media video promoting the brand and featuring an adult performer."

😳"Roobet and Rollbit also respectively partner with Premier League football clubs Chelsea and Leicester City."

Crypto casino takings top $80bn as gamblers bypass blocks Platforms now rival traditional betting groups in scale despite their services being illegal in most countries

Crypto casino takings top $80bn as gamblers bypass blocks www.ft.com/content/66f8... @gamblingwithlives.bsky.social

YouTube video by TED This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...

YouTube video by HBO The Dark Money Game | Official Trailer | HBO

The Dark Money Game | Official Trailer | HBO youtu.be/dykZuyO7RUU?...

Prices for used Teslas drop in US and Britain www.ft.com/content/07f9...

'This new ChatGPT image creator is cuppa Terry'

Trump’s Tariff Gambit: Debt, Power, and the Art of Strategic Disruption Why sweeping tariffs have multi-faceted payoffs in the calculus to "Make America Great Again"

"We are witnessing one of the great policy gambles of modern political economy, with implications that stretch far beyond tariffs alone. Whatever happens next, it promises to reshape not just America’s economy—but the global order itself." tanviratna.substack.com/p/trumps-tar...

Here We Go I will try as always to be objective here, but maybe some bias will be revealed in the process. I hope not, and I am sure you will let me know if I do. Given how politically charged things can be thes...

Wow, the Trump effect only lasted a month! "Since the market’s peak on February 19 (that was just a month and a half ago, by the way), the market is down over 17%. YTD the S&P 500 is down 13.4%. The tech-heavy NASDAQ is down 19.3%. The Mag7 are down 24.2%" www.albertbridgecapital.com/post/here-we...

How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America A century after it was published, F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is more relevant than ever. Sarah Churchwell on the trouble with ‘careless people’

How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America www.ft.com/content/dd6f...

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The Code That Controls Your Money www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...

The Cost of Tariff Chaos Fear and Uncertainty About Trump's Tariffs are Already Having Negative Effects on the Economy

The Cost of Tariff Chaos
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American Foreign Economic Policy Is Being Run By the Dumbest Motherfuckers Alive The fuckwittery continues unabated.

American Foreign Economic Policy Is Being Run By the Dumbest Motherfuckers Alive
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The End of the Economic World as We Knew It Focusing on Trump's tariffs risks missing the bigger picture. The consequences of upending the global economic order on this scale will not be limited to trade

The End of the Economic World as We Knew It
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Tired of Winning Yet? The Tariff Man takes it all the way

Tired of Winning Yet?
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The American Age Is Over Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.

The American Age Is Over
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

A tweet by "rohit" discusses the application of AI in geopolitics, specifically focusing on tariffs, and includes a table comparing tariff rates between China and the US.

Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?