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“.. Sure, we’ve seen an explosion in AI capital spending in recent years. But this increasingly looks like the only game in town for growth. Housing, consumption and government spending — nearly 90% of the economy — are now stagnant at best.”

@conorsen.bsky.social
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Yet data compiled and published by Israel’s own government makes clear that it has been starving Gaza.

This is worth watching and sharing. It breaks down the AI revolution in corporate America and the negative impact on jobs. It’s a warning to all of us—especially young folks trying to enter the workforce.

Use AI in innovative ways, or become a casualty.

The big “but” is…

Allowing foreign owned gas corporates to export 80% of our gas hasn’t just put up your gas bills… but your electricity bills too!

As the chart👇 shows, expensive gas power stations largely set the electricity price in the NEM

Renewables keep prices lower.

Burundi eliminates trachoma as a public health problem The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Burundi as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making it the eighth country in WHO’s African Region to reach this important milesto...

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From the guy who says less immigrants should be allowed into Canada

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Birds of a feather…..
This mother fuc*er is part of a huge flock.

PAULSEN: “.. What are we doing with a national average 30-year mortgage rate still close to 7% in an economy growing at 1%? There is nothing ‘healthy or solid’ about these numbers, they are way below the 2% stall speed, and shout for help.”

EXTRAORDINARY WORLD RECORD IN CHINA
Incredible 43.6C at 1970m asl in the Sichuan Province, BY FAR the highest temperature ever recorded in the world at that altitude
69 monthly records,including 4 long term all time:
42.4 Ziyang
42.2 Shiquan
38.2 Yajiang
35.1 Daofu

HISTORIC

Graph of real GDP per capita for the UK

If we're looking for the source of our current economic woes, the plot makes clear the pivotal event was the late 2000s financial crisis
Understandable & correct to identify suboptimal & counterproductive fiscal, monetary & political responses since then, but they weren't the primary cause...

“.. We have no interest in running a lower-margin business, particularly due to tariffs,” said the CFO. “And if this is something that’s going to be a permanent increase to our cost structure, we have to find a way to cover it.”

@nytimes.com
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Stomach–brain coupling indexes a dimensional signature of mental health - Nature Mental Health Using a relatively large and diverse sample of mostly young adults, this study by Banellis, Rebollo and colleagues examines associations between regional stomach–brain coupling and mental health and i...

🧠🥬 Your gut really does talk to your brain

A new study links stronger stomach–brain synchrony to worse mental health. Anxiety, depression, and stress all showed ties to this gut-brain rhythm.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#Gut #SciComm 🧪

Well played, sir.

Shame on Trump

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child crouched playing with a yellow digger in a sandpit. at back is a banner with the word coal. rest of the banner is hidden behind a crouching adult

It's 2025, we've passed 1.5C of warming and fossil fuel companies are running incursions into Australian primary schools to teach the kids how to dig up coal in the sandpit.

And the school THANKS THEM.

If tech bros can get rich by exterminating the nation of Palestine in broad daylight, then none of us are safe.

They’re already looking for their next money-making war.
🇮🇱🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺

Why is the Trump administration detaining green card holders without cause, blocking legal counsel, and refusing to tell families where they are?

Will Kim has lived here since he was five. He’s getting his PhD, researching a Lyme disease vaccine at Texas A&M—and ICE disappeared him at SFO.

Is Palantir’s Crystal Ball Just Smoke and Mirrors? An inside look at how Big Data’s scariest, most secretive unicorn got its start.

Peter Thiel, the guy who gave us JD Vance, is cashing in on AI warfare.

The Pentagon just upped Palantir’s surveillance contract to $1.3B.

USA tax dollars are building Thiel’s AI war machine.

Some background:

Americans better start paying attention to real life, less on gambling & porn…

How’s all that winning going south of our border🤔?

Oh yeah….it’s not! 🤭

Good thing USA doesn’t need what Canada has to offer eh….🤣🤣✌🏼

Is Palantir’s Crystal Ball Just Smoke and Mirrors? An inside look at how Big Data’s scariest, most secretive unicorn got its start.

Him and Peter Thiel are not to be trusted!!!

I watched this today! Impressed. We can do more!

Gabbard Release Threatens Sources and Methods, Top former Intel Official Says Larry Pfeiffer discussed the ODNI’s attacks on the IC’s Russia 2016 elections report on the SpyTalk podcast

Our Director Larry Pfeiffer raised alarm bells with the reporters at the Spytalk podcast.

www.spytalk.co/p/gabbard-re...

“I’m not anti-Semitic at all, but I am anti-Zionist. I don’t believe they have the right, after 3,000 years, to reclaim the land with western bombs and guns on biblical injunction.”
― James Baldwin, born on this day.

Oh my god

Exclusive: Trump Biographer Reveals Epstein's Side of His Fallout with Trump Michael Wolff reveals Epstein believed Trump triggered his downfall to protect himself—and MeidasTouch got the exclusive.

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Ocean deoxygenation linked to ancient mesopelagic fish decline - Communications Earth & Environment Historical phases of ocean oxygen minimum are associated with near extinctions of mesopelagic fish, suggesting risks of future deoxygenation to marine fisheries due to warming, according to an analysi...

🐟 Ancient warning from the sea

A new study shows that low-oxygen oceans wiped out deep-dwelling fish 7,000–10,000 years ago. As oceans lose oxygen again today, scientists fear history may repeat itself.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#ClimateCrisis #SciComm 🧪