The AI bubble is like the dotcom bubble: It’s not that the Internet was some useless passing fad; it’s that a lot of money got poured into absolute horseshit before people started figuring out where the actual value was.
SEC and CFTC jointly propose revisions to Form PF, which requires reporting from private funds. It would raise thresholds for when funds have to report and eliminate or streamline various requirements.
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Punchbowl: News. The Senate Banking Committee is no longer planning to hold a hearing for Federal Reserve nominee Kevin Warsh next Thursday, according to two sources with knowledge of the planning
Shortlist of actors for TNG
It’s been such a pleasure to follow Katie these past few days.
this account is closed to jaded replies about going to the moon. i will never be jaded about going to the moon
Can't speak from experience but would guess getting mega famous at 20 and then being treated like a borderline deity your whole life isn't necessarily great for the aging brain.
So, yesterday the US set a new March temperature record of 110 degrees, beating the old record by two degrees.
Today the US set a new March temperature record of 112 degrees, beating the new record by two degrees and the old one by four degrees.
Gobert has 11 rebounds not halfway through the second quarter.
it's like finally seeing pacino and de niro sit down in heat
Why is this team so frustrating? I mean, I know why, but why?
Still one of the best memes I've seen.
This is the content I'm here for.
I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”
I'll add my voice to the people who have praised Karen Petrou after her passing on Saturday. I got to meet with her several times while at the Bipartisan Policy Center and she was always one of the most incisive and insightful minds on #finreg issues.
“.. People are realizing that Bitcoin is what it’s always been — which is simply a speculative asset. .. it’s not digital gold .. It’s not an inflation hedge .. And it’s not a chaos hedge either.”
@bloomberg.com $IBIT
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Sometimes I feel like I’m producing historical threads that should have just been Tom Waits songs. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Vicki Lawrence and indeed the entire Mama's Family cast notably silent this morning on Iran.
I’ve enjoyed reading you for years and would be glad to see more here. I can understand your hesitation, though.
NEW: The F.D.A. refused to accept an application from Moderna for its mRNA flu vaccine.
Its reason: The agency did not think Moderna compared the new vaccine to one of the best flu shots available. The company spent $750M+ on a 41,000 person study.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...
Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
Important info from @cato.org about how immigrants contribute to our country:
"The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023."
Facts matter.
In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from WHO, California is the first state to participate in the agency's disease monitoring network. Are others following?
I’m not anti-gambling - that would be pretty churlish from someone who has made their living off of that industry over two separate periods - the really dirty word is “financialization” which is a fancy way of saying everything is now gambling but nothing actually matters.
"Stung by Trump, America’s Top Trading Partners Shift Gaze to China" www.wsj.com/world/us-tra...
Announcers on the Broncos game talking about how Jared Stidham got the nickname "Stiddie". I never would've guessed.
Sports have mostly gotten a lot better over the years, but nicknames are much less creative. Gimme "Night Train", "Crazylegs", or "The Bus".