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Levine on Wall Street: Keep Buying the Wrong Tickers, Everyone If you're an activist publicly talking your book, you might want to spell your book correctly. Or you might not.

@matt-levine.bsky.social had a fun run with the "confusion" due to closely-named tickers too, I always love to see that (but it's absolutely a defect) www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

What about the farming though? Is there a package I can download or something?

Far-right Israeli politicians and settlers discuss luxury ‘Gaza riviera’ plan Legal experts say scheme to annex territory and forcibly displace Palestinians is tantamount to ethnic cleansing

When Israel's finance minister says very clearly time and time again "Our plan is to exterminate Gazans," why pretend otherwise?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

House Ethics Committee accuses Gaetz of paying for sex, including with 17-year-old girl The 37-page report by the bipartisan panel includes explicit details of sex-filled parties and vacations that Gaetz, now 42, took part in while representing Florida's western panhandle.

In the case of Gaetz though, this was (almost) already answered though: apnews.com/article/matt...

I made the same prediction as you did, so I like to keep myself up to date on the results 😅

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."

MBA-brain is real.

As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology.

And it's starting to be verified too: fortune.com/2025/05/09/k...

With a 51-50 vote, MAGAs just voted for:
•$5T deficit increase
•Cut Medicaid for 16M
•Gut SNAP & food access
•Shut down rural hospitals
•Cut taxes for wealthy & raise taxes for working people
•$8B for ICE, $50B for a wall, $59B for concentration camps, $150B for war

MAGA Fascism Will Kill Us All

This speaks to the limits of labels, political & otherwise.

Vought is indeed what we would label as conservative, even as he proposes radical and revolutionary theories of political power.

He is an avowed Christian, even as the story reports him trying to implement cuts that would kill millions.

Spain and Portugal were hit by a huge power cut on Monday that paralysed transport networks and disrupted mobile communications, with authorities warning that obstacles remained before electricity could be fully restored. Hours after it began, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said experts were looking for the cause of the outage, which immobilised the rail system, delayed flights and made traffic lights go dark. Countries including Spain are at the forefront of efforts to rely more on electricity as part of the shift away from fossil fuels, but Monday’s crisis is likely to stoke concerns about power networks’ ability to meet the added demand. Data from the Spanish electricity operator showed that consumption dropped by more than 10GW when the blackout hit shortly after 12.30pm local time, suggesting that it was one of the biggest in recent European history. Weather data showed that temperatures in southern Spain increased sharply between midday and 1pm local time. Higher temperatures can limit how much electricity cables can carry.

This is another trope that helps associate grid catastrophes with energy transition without evidence.

I call it the Object Proximity tactic: they drops (a) the blackout occurred and (b) there's a high share of renewables, and then just waggles their eyebrows meaningfully ->

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Because it prevents other lines of questioning, or getting cornered answering questions you don't want to answer later (esp if you'd have to lie for some of them). It's "media training", "crisis communication", or "witness preparation/counseling",... depending on the profession.

The government's arguments are not persuasive, and it is not an especially close question on this record. The government's unrelenting reliance on deference to military judgment is unjustified in the absence of any evidence supporting "the military's" new judgment reflected in the Military Ban—in its equally considered and unquestionable judgment, that very same military had only the week before permitted active-duty plaintiffs (and some thousands of others) to serve openly. Any evidence that such service over the past four years harmed any of the military's inarguably critical aims would be front and center. But there is none.

Judge Benjamin Settle, a George W. Bush appointee to the federal bench born in 1947, had this to say to the Trump administration tonight about its defense of its anti-trans military ban: www.lawdork.com/i/159798593/...

Matthew X. Wilson: To start, could you say a bit about how you came up with the idea for the book project? Were there any specific events that made you interested in looking back and reflecting on public policy during the COVID-19 pandemic? Stephen Macedo: I was going on leave in 2022, and I knew that I wanted to write a book on the current political moment and the highly polarized politics that we are involved in now. Specifically, about how progressives were not paying sufficient attention to conservative concerns on certain issues in a way that was undermining the strength of progressive arguments and positions. I was planning to focus on abortion, immigration, and COVID. Of the three, COVID—and COVID policy—happened to be the subject I knew the least about.

This is what everyone always means when they complain about "polarization"
www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/03/97338/

"Abundance" is maybe the new "growth". Considering the US per capita abundance vs actual progress (e.g. education, crime rate, food security, happiness, etc...), more of the same won't fix anything. It's pretending we could have it all without any tradeoffs or efforts required. Bad centrism.

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Sorry meant Dragon capsule. The astronauts didn’t even return on the one they sent up yesterday. All a PR stunt to try and make Musk look like a “hero” for this this routine, paid, government contract.

This is the percentage of nuclear power in the power grids of each of these countries

The fun Q is: what does a 'return' look like? When does it arrive?

BP went green and the share price went red The company was not rewarded for its plan to cut oil production. It’s time to trim some costs and improve returns to shareholders

I am tired of this horseshit.

BP didn’t “go green”; it kept drilling for oil and gas in repressive petrostates and creaming billions in profits

These analysts actually believed the greenwash, and are now calling for the black pill
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

Maybe it's simpler anyway: short-termist thinking about "who's the ennemy of my ennemy" or "whose interests are most aligned with mine at the moment", and never think about the consequences because you don't think you'll ever be in danger

Somebody somewhere said that there are no real libertarians, what those folks are afraid of is usually government meddling in *their* business to help *others* (welfare, etc...), which can conveniently align with fascism for a time (as long as the fascists are on "your side" of course)...

The only thing that trickles down is the shit. Surprise!

I have tried this out a bunch of times and pretty consistently, it'll provide a link but the link won't actually support whatever text is being claimed.

All the link does is provide a sheen of pseudo-research on a pile of generated text

Math is hard

The company’s internal database also includes photos taken by photographer Rohan Kelly, including one of Cairo Takeaway owner and restauranteur Hesham El Masry. The file also has instructions describing the assignment brief: Meet Gussy at Holt Street call on arrival at 9am and head to Newtown for 930am. Undercover Jewish man Ofir Birenbaum sees what it’s like being Jewish in Sydney. Will secretly film with his video glasses. The aim is to walk down main streets in Newtown, Blacktown, Bankstown, Arncliffe (might not do arncliffe it the worst perhaps) and film peopls reactions to this jewish man in their neighbourhood. Needs discreet photos of the guy walking down these streets to accompany the yarn. Speak to pic desk for a brief. A News Corp source told Crikey that by the morning of February 13, the story had no further progress in News Corp’s backend beyond having had photographs uploaded to it under embargo.

a man wearing dark sunglasses and a white cap with a large blue star of david symbol on it

News Corp in Australia are running campaigns to try and incite violence towards Jewish people, and film / report on the incidents - this attempt was botched and now the internal documents planning the provocation in News Corp's system are leaked

@crikey.com.au

www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/14/n...

BREAKING: A federal judge has determined that the Trump administration is violating his order lifting the blanket spending freeze on federal grant programs.

He is orderin gthe administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including for NIH and the IRA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Initial and latest capital cost estimates and construction time for selected recent nuclear projects IEA. CC BY 4.0. Notes: kW = kilowatt; MER = market exchange rate. The cost estimates do not include interest. Gross installed capacity is considered. Construction time refers to the time period between the start of the construction until grid connection. For plants shown here with multiple reactors, the average construction time is taken. The construction of Hinkley Point C is ongoing. Source: IEA analysis based on publicly available sources. The latest cost estimates for Hinkley Point C considered in this analysis are based on EDF (2024), Hinkley Point C Update.

seems fine

development times for various power plants and power line types

The fastest nuclear power plant construction is slower than the slowest onshore wind plant construction

(this is why Australia's opposition party is using it to enable new coal and gas burning over the next two decades)

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DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."

He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

This is all based on a conspiracy theory peddled by MAGA Twitter after Politico missed payroll yesterday due to a tech issue, which they tied to USAID funding getting turned off.

It took mere hours for that to make its way to the White House, which of course lent it credence.