Hmm. I wonder what happened around 2016 that started this trend?

I made the same observation to my wife earlier today. You can add the conversion of the White House to the palace of Versailles as part of the narrative.

The new cover of TIME.

Last week, @rhodesben.bsky.social and I did a Munk Debates against Kevin Roberts and Kellyanne Conway on whether Trump is leading America into a new golden age.

We won. This is from my closing statement.

There’s nothing golden about a movement that bathes in gratuitous cruelty.

Shhhh

The National Parks are extremely profitable. This would be a huge net loser for the federal government and a big gain for the states.

$RKLB

Opinion | Now Will We Believe What Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes? There can be no appeasement. None.

Over the past half-century, an anti-democratic movement has coalesced in the US. It draws on super-wealthy funders, ideologues…purveyors of disinformation and Christian nationalist activists….it rejects the idea of America as a modern pluralistic democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

Opinion | Don’t Believe Him Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“In Trump’s first term, we were told: Don’t normalize him. In his second, the task is different: Don’t believe him,” our columnist Ezra Klein says.

Thank you Ezra. I defintely needed this perspective. These first two weeks have been confusing and exhausting.

Removing Carbon From the Sky Could Be the Next Climate Gold Rush Investors are betting that they can make a dent in global warming, and healthy profits, with companies that alter the atmosphere.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/c...

Charlie, you're giving the a-holes and trolls a platform by responding to them. Ignore them. They'll implode like a spoiled todler once they lose the attention.

DeepMind AI weather forecaster beats world-class system Artificial-intelligence model provides forecasts 15 days out, as well as the probability of accuracy. And it does so faster than the best operational model.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Chart showing that the cumulative passenger miles traveled without a plane crash by US airlines is 2.3 light years.

Sometimes, the most important news is when something *isn’t* happening:

Since the last plane crash by a US airline, they have transported passengers for more than two *light-years*

The World’s Doomsday Plant Vault Gets Thousands of New Seeds A storage facility in Norway built to safeguard crop diversity recently received more than 30,000 samples as concerns grow about climate change and food insecurity.

www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/w...

How GE Vernova plans to deploy small nuclear reactors across the developed world GE Vernova plans to roll out small modular reactors aimed at slashing exorbitant costs associated with building traditional nuclear plants.

How GE Vernova plans to deploy small nuclear reactors across the developed world www.cnbc.com/2024/11/30/g...

Blueskying and CNBCing at the same time. You have mad skills.

Personally I want to see conservative views on Bluesky along with healthy debate, just no MAGA.

I’m struggling with that myself. I think I’ve decided to keep all my finance/investment stuff on X and everything else here.