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Haviv Rettig Gur dropping one truth bomb after the other, on the Jewish community of New York
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Something All Must Witness To Believe
For those of you itching to see Puddles the Clown combine The Who’s “Pinball Wizard” with Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues,” this is for you.
Enjoy. Or hate. It’s a free country.
Well, relatively, anyway.
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@ProfDBernstein @SenWarren C‘mon David. Doing a leveraged buyout, loading the acquired company with debt and stripping its assets has been a common private equity strategy for decades. Don’t you remember the ad called “Stage” that essentially sunk Romney’s campaign? Here is a link
youtube.com/watch?v=oLo0Jw…
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@SenWarren Your claim is that investors intentionally pay billions of dollars for a viable company because they *want* it to fail and go bankrupt? C'mon, man.
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How private equity gutted local malls: Joann Fabrics, Red Lobster, Claire's, and more.
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@dilanesper Two leaders of other countries tried similar insurrection tactics as Trump did, namely Bolsanaro of Brazil and Yoon of South Korea. They are now serving 27 years and a life sentence, respectively. Meanwhile, Trump is grifting billions and plotting Round 2. What is wrong with us?
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I have a kind of bothsidesism on January 6 that nobody is going to like.
I think partisan Republicans and conservatives mostly underplay how bad it was.
But I also think Democrats pretend it was going to or could have or still could work, and that's not true either.
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Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946.
For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids.
An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better.
This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.
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Larry Goldberg retweetledi
June 1, 1933: The "Fund of German Trade and Industry" is created, a huge slush fund administered by Martin Bormann in the Führer's name. The regime used the funds to compensate SA Stormtroopers who committed street violence, subsize the SS, and enrich Nazi party officials.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Q: Do you believe people who committed violence against Capitol police officer on January 6 should be eligible for compensation from this DOJ fund, and are you or your family members going to be seeking compensation from that fund? TRUMP: Yeah. It will all be dependent on a committee
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A CNN reporter, a BBC reporter, and an Israeli commando are captured by Hamas in Gaza. The leader of the terrorists said he'd grant them each one last request before they were beheaded.
The CNN Reporter said, "I’d like one last hamburger with fries.”
The leader nodded and said it would be done.
The BBC Reporter said, "I want to describe the scene here and what’s about to happen so my government knows I did the job until the end.”
The leader nodded and said it would be done.
Then he turned to the Israeli commando and said, “And what is your final wish?”
“Kick me in the butt,” said the soldier.
“Do not mock me, Jew.”
“I’m not kidding. I want you to kick me in the butt.”
So the terrorist leader shoved him into the open and kicked him in the behind. The soldier went sprawling but rolled to his knees, pulled a pistol they hadn't found, and shot the leader dead. Then he grabbed a rifle from another terrorist and suddenly they were all dead or fleeing.
"You could've done that all along?" asked the Brit.
"Yeah, why did you want to be kicked in the butt?" asked the American.
“If I hadn't," replied the Israeli, “You two would have reported that I was the aggressor."
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Larry Goldberg retweetledi
We developed such effective vaccines and pasteurization that people now think preventable diseases are fake and basic precautions are tyranny.
Koena Moabelo🇿🇦@Koena_za
What’s a problem humanity solved so well that younger people don’t even realize it used to be a huge issue?
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@elonmusk The most cringe sexual encounter of all time is when you offered to buy a woman a horse in exchange for a handjob.
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By far the most embarrassing thing about this is that the hedge fund guy was using the MOST CRINGE website on the entire Internet for milf sex 😬
x.com/i/grok/share/4…
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Can't stop thinking about Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive worth $828 billion, spending $290 million to elect Trump, becoming $563 billion richer since Trump was elected and ending humanitarian aid that will lead to the deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest kids on the planet.
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Larry Goldberg retweetledi
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These two giant turtles have been fighting each other for more than 120 years.
According to the zoo, one turtle stole the other’s food 120 years ago, and since that day they became enemies.
There hasn’t been a single day where they don’t fight for 2–3 minutes😂
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@dilanesper There has been no liberal majority on the Supreme Court since 1971. The Burger Court was centrist-- it made some liberal decisions and some conservative ones. If you really think it was a liberal court, please name 5 liberal justices who were a majority.
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This shows you how people get misled by talking points.
The last DEMOCRATIC APPOINTEE majority at SCOTUS was 1969. But because that talking point gets repeated so often, people don't realize the Court stayed liberal for many years thereafter. (Roe was in 1973.)
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@SeQuestoEunUomo @dilanesper What the hell are you talking about? The last Supreme Court with a liberal majority was the Warren Court, which ended in 1969.
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@ASFleischman Netanyahu is borrowing Trump‘s playbook. Maybe Karoline Leavitt is moonlighting during her maternity leave.
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Scott Wu in 7th grade at the MathCounts national championship.
The last answer is the most insane.
Colossus@colossusmag
Scott Wu is the co-founder of Cognition AI, one of the fastest-growing companies in history. He’s also the greatest competitive programmer the US has ever produced. You may have seen him doing impossible card tricks and mental math. You’ve never seen him asked about weed, Michael Jordan, cancer, and human consciousness over a punnet of strawberries. That is what Colossus editor-in-chief Jeremy Stern did on a recent visit to San Francisco. For those less familiar with @ScottWu46: In 2nd grade, he entered a math competition for 7th graders, lost, and was so furious he still fumes about it 20 years later. The next year he entered the 9th-grade division as a 3rd-grader and got a perfect score. Then he won first place at the US national middle-school math competition and three straight gold medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics, where he became the greatest American gold-medalist and coach in history. Most of the people running the biggest AI companies met as teenagers, competing for their countries on international math and science teams. OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Alexandr Wang, to name just a few. Most agree that the von Neumann among them was Scott Wu. In November 2023, a few weeks after his mother died of lung cancer, on the day Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI, Wu founded his own AI company: Cognition. He was 26 and saw earlier than almost anyone that AI would converge on agents that work in the background, 24/7, like coworkers. He shipped Cognition’s AI software engineer Devin in March 2024. It worked poorly, and he took intense public criticism for it. Now, in its first 18 months of service, Devin has generated $445 million of revenue run rate and usage has doubled every eight weeks. The US Army, Goldman Sachs, and Mercedes-Benz are all customers. Cognition is raising at a valuation around $25 billion. @JeremySternLA sat down with Wu, the emperor of the nerds, to ask the questions we’d all ask one of the smartest people in America—building the most consequential technology of our generation—if we ever got the chance. As well as MJ and weed, they talk about the cluster of competitive math prodigies behind so much of AI, what makes us human when AGI arrives, and why Wu believes he was put on this earth to teach AI how to code. Read the piece below.
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Scott Wu solved a Putnam problem in 90 seconds. beat Mango at Melee. raised from Peter Thiel over chess.
I beat him at N64 Smash once. nobody's writing a Colossus piece about it, but I'd like it in the record.
Colossus@colossusmag
Scott Wu is the co-founder of Cognition AI, one of the fastest-growing companies in history. He’s also the greatest competitive programmer the US has ever produced. You may have seen him doing impossible card tricks and mental math. You’ve never seen him asked about weed, Michael Jordan, cancer, and human consciousness over a punnet of strawberries. That is what Colossus editor-in-chief Jeremy Stern did on a recent visit to San Francisco. For those less familiar with @ScottWu46: In 2nd grade, he entered a math competition for 7th graders, lost, and was so furious he still fumes about it 20 years later. The next year he entered the 9th-grade division as a 3rd-grader and got a perfect score. Then he won first place at the US national middle-school math competition and three straight gold medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics, where he became the greatest American gold-medalist and coach in history. Most of the people running the biggest AI companies met as teenagers, competing for their countries on international math and science teams. OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Alexandr Wang, to name just a few. Most agree that the von Neumann among them was Scott Wu. In November 2023, a few weeks after his mother died of lung cancer, on the day Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI, Wu founded his own AI company: Cognition. He was 26 and saw earlier than almost anyone that AI would converge on agents that work in the background, 24/7, like coworkers. He shipped Cognition’s AI software engineer Devin in March 2024. It worked poorly, and he took intense public criticism for it. Now, in its first 18 months of service, Devin has generated $445 million of revenue run rate and usage has doubled every eight weeks. The US Army, Goldman Sachs, and Mercedes-Benz are all customers. Cognition is raising at a valuation around $25 billion. @JeremySternLA sat down with Wu, the emperor of the nerds, to ask the questions we’d all ask one of the smartest people in America—building the most consequential technology of our generation—if we ever got the chance. As well as MJ and weed, they talk about the cluster of competitive math prodigies behind so much of AI, what makes us human when AGI arrives, and why Wu believes he was put on this earth to teach AI how to code. Read the piece below.
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@OleTimeHardball Barry Bonds in his prime, on steroids, was by far the best hitter ever in baseball.
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You have your choice of any player, in his prime, to fill this DH spot. Who gets the call?
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@YaronWeitzman The Sixers spent 5 years in cap hell because they overpaid Tobias, and Morey put them right back into cap hell with no money to fill out a roster for the foreseeable future.
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@YaronWeitzman You are way too kind to Morey. He didn't pick Maxey, he gets no credit for McCain because he traded him for peanuts, and he lucked into VJ because Ace Bailey did not want to play here.
The PG signing was a double disaster. It led to the Embiid extension. 1/2
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Some quick early thoughts on the Sixers and Morey “parting ways”:
- Morey deserves a ton of credit for nailing his draft picks (Maxey, McCain, VJ).
-The PG signing obviously hasn’t gone well, but it’s important to remember the Sixers had a use-it-or-lose-it max cap slot thanks to Maxey delaying his extension.
-One thing Morey did exceptionally well in Houston was finding undervalued role players (PJ Tucker being the classic example). He never really replicated that in Philly.
- The Embiid extension was bad. But I also think it was more complicated than people want to admit. Once the Sixers gave PG that deal, it would’ve been difficult to deny Embiid his extension without seriously upsetting him. And remember, this was a point when the organization, and most of the public, believed the team was a legitimate title contender.
- Last but not least: the McCain trade! I know many people think it was mainly about ducking the tax, and maybe that was part of it, but I actually think it had more to do with how Morey evaluated McCain as a player. Like he said publicly, he believed he was selling high. And I have a feeling we’re going to learn that everything surrounding the deal — the backlash, McCain’s playoff performance, etc — played a major role in this decision.
- The idea that it's Bob Myers finding a replacement for Daryl Morey is just kind of weird. It's like one more blow to the head of Daryl from the Steph Warriors.
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