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No it doesnt.

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Should be billionaires not millionaires. Unless you tax wealth and not income - you are just further reinforcing the divide.

TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression

Funny how the Google news on memory-saving compression algorithms is hitting memory stocks today. They published this two days ago. #EMH

And like clockwork BLS releases numbers with massive downward revisions.

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There is no way the numbers are a true representation of what is going on given the number of white collar layoffs / linked in announcements we are seeing. Not much surprising about it. White collar workers don’t file for benefits - they live off savings.

We need a new word for this level of sycophancy

You know.. the disorderly transition modeling may not have originally thought war… but hey- potato/ potahhhto

God moves in mysterious ways!
"Might turn out that Trump ends up being the biggest driver of the energy transition. Irony is dead." --@yukinosaru.bsky.social
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States Take Trump EPA to Court Over Endangerment Finding Repeal More than 20 states are legally challenging the Trump administration’s decision to roll back a landmark scientific determination that greenhouse gases threaten human health, which underpins various fe...

More than 20 states are legally challenging the Trump administration’s decision to roll back a landmark scientific determination that greenhouse gases threaten human health, which underpins various federal climate rules.

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You can’t do a bunch of stupid comedy bits and then play people off when they’re having the biggest moment of their life. It’s bullshit.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law

Democrats need to think bigger on utilities We need more power, not just short-term rate cuts.

We should be thinking bigger about utility reform for an era of rising electricity demand — bringing back vertical integration or public power, financing investment with something other than the rate base — not just narrow tweaks.

www.slowboring.com/p/democrats-...

Overseas tycoons such as Elon Musk would be barred from indirectly giving donations to UK political parties under new legislation aimed at curbing foreign interference in elections. ft.trib.al/ffMSkpy

"ICE OUT"

All these Republicans slowly backtracking on ICE were the ones who went all in Trump and Stephen Miller's agenda.

We won't forget.

We also won't forget the Democrats who were complicit.

Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.

Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction

It can be done.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

I regret to say, I told you so

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Institutions can, in fact, stand up to the President.

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

Trump moves to pull US out of bedrock global climate treaty, becoming first country to do so | CNN The Trump administration is pulling the United States out of the bedrock treaty that underpins international cooperation on climate change, along with dozens of other global bodies.

Trump moves to pull the US from bedrock climate treaty, UN IPCC and other int'l orgs & UN agencies. In doing so, the US becomes the only country to withdraw from this particular climate agreement dating back to 1992 (UNFCCC). www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/c...

Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa

There's a global solar energy revolution happening led by China and it should have been one of the biggest stories of 2025.

While the US is committing to a suicide pact with fossil fuels, the rest of the world is leapfrogging into cheap nearly limitless energy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...

The message: do not trust us.

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

OCC Requests Comments on Proposed Amendments to Heightened Standards The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today issued for public comment a notice of proposed rulemaking to amend its guidelines relating to heightened standards for insured national banks,...

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#FinReg? 😭

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OCC Requests Comments on Proposed Amendments to Heightened Standards The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today issued for public comment a notice of proposed rulemaking to amend its guidelines relating to heightened standards for insured national banks,...

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Merry Christmas FinReg *sarcasm font*

Trump Uses ‘National Security’ To Freeze Offshore Wind Work The administration has already lost once in court wielding the same argument against Revolution Wind.

Breaking news: Trump is citing “national security” to halt all active work on offshore wind projects

Five giant energy projects, countless jobs at risk

My story explains how the argument has legal weaknesses and comes from an anti-wind policy doc I reported in January

Death toll passes 900 in Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka floods Officials in Indonesia say more than 442 people have died, while Sri Lanka suffers worst natural disaster since 2004 tsunami

It's happening in real time, now.

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