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Bear chatter around the NVIDIA/OpenAI deal: a dangerous trend toward “vendor financing”:

(via Vital Knowledge) $NVDA

Nvidia had the best deal in corporate history: selling the pickaxes to corporations in the middle of an illusionary goldrush. And now they've decided to invest in a fake mine!

"Nvidia propping up the tech company it needs to continue making record profits"

President Donald Trump said overwhelming negative coverage about him by television networks should be grounds for the Federal Communications Commission to revoke broadcast licenses.

Two things here:

He literally says "we don't care about" right-wing political violence.

He has to look down at his notes mid-rant, showing this was all performative and premeditated.

Final: San Francisco Giants 1 (75-75), Arizona Diamondbacks 8 (76-75) Pictured: James McCann drops his bat after hitting a home run against the San Francisco Giants. He is wearing a white Arizona Diamondbacks jersey and red batting helmet.

The @Dbacks pull within a game and a half of the 3rd NL Wild Card spot!

Brian Kilmeade apologized for his comments about homeless people getting lethal injections this morning on Fox & Friends, saying "so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion."

Here's the clip of his apology 👇

You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.

Preach.

He would have laughed if Ezra Klein had been shot.

The European Parliament voted no to a request to pay a minute of silence for Charlie Kirk.

hold on i just learned that charlie kirk and kirk cameron are two different guys

All these bizarre Kirk civilwashing pieces really are the logical endpoint of a decade where the constant invocation of free speech always seemed to involve wild obfuscations of what the speech actually was.

Not that I was fond of most American political media before this, but man has this been clarifying about them.

Most pundits not only don't value critical thinking; they oppose it, and hope to be rewarded for their support of authoritarianism.

Historians will cite Kirk’s inflammatory statements followed by the media’s hagiography to condemn both.

State Department to ban immigrants speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. VP to fly his body to Arizona on Air Force 2. Trump to award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Journalists getting fired for asking the right questions. We are spiraling into a dystopia beyond our imagining.

The TV networks seem determined to sanitize Charlie Kirk's long record of hate speech. MSNBC guest John Nichols just praised Kirk as "nuanced" and "quite thoughtful," and Katy Tur did a dramatic reading from Ezra Klein's NYT essay headlined "Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way."

Insult to injury: everyone in my work break room is talking about Kirk and are confusing him with Steven Crowder

"Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty."

Charlie Kirk

security did not save charlie kirk.
a vest would not have saved charlie kirk.

the only thing that would have saved him is if our administrations actually had reasonable gun control in the aftermath of the last hundred school shootings.

Article 4, we got Article 4. Do I hear 5? Article 5?

It’s disturbing how the details keep changing. trib.al/4P6ZzLY

And even if the 11 crew members were supposed “narco terrorists,” such a designation does not serve as any legal basis for a combat strike.

Selectively revoking constitutional rights for vulnerable minority groups is a GIGANTIC red flag. The reddest possible flag.

Sen Cortez Masto (D, NV): How much are Medicare Part B costs expected to rise next year?

RFK Jr: I don’t know.

Cortez-Mastro points out how cancer drugs are shielded from Medicare negotiation.

RFK: Medicare negotiations are poorly structured and actually raise costs.

CN: CBO found the opposite.

RFK: I’m not sure of the provision…(can’t answer)

SEN. CASSIDY (R) : “Do you agree Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for Operation Warp speed?”

RFK JR.: “Absolutely.”

SEN. CASSIDY: “But you just told Senator Bennet the COVID vaccine killed more people than COVID.”

RFK JR.: “….”😬 🤷🏻‍♂️

The fun part of Giuliani now being a living cartoon character of incomprehensibly bizarre conservative fuckups is that in 2007, he was the GOP presidential frontrunner largely on the strength of being the sane, moderate, reasonable choice.

Reporting live from Giuliani's hospital bed

Apparently, when the science finds no link RFK Jr requires that they bury that shit.

Make sure to share these findings before they disappears.