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The loudest man on the internet went quiet on the two biggest stories of the year. That tells you more than anything he could have posted. Elon Musk has not meaningfully commented on Artemis II or the Iran war. The man who posts 50 times a day about everything from birthrates to memes had one word for humanity's return to the Moon: "Godspeed." On a war he helped make possible by getting the President elected: silence. Both silences are strategic. Artemis II launched on a NASA rocket. Not a SpaceX rocket. The SLS that Elon has spent years calling wasteful, bloated, and "jobs-maximizing" just successfully sent four humans around the Moon. Every headline celebrating NASA's achievement is a headline not celebrating SpaceX. He can't trash it because SpaceX builds the Artemis lunar lander. He can't celebrate it because it validates the government rocket he wants to replace. So he said one word and moved on. The Iran war is worse for him. Elon was the single largest force behind Trump's 2024 victory. DOGE, rallies, X amplification, direct influence. Now that presidency is producing a war with no exit, $2 billion a day in costs, an F-15 shot down, a missing pilot, bombed bridges, and 35% approval ratings. Every fallout from this war traces back to the administration he helped install. Owning the win means owning the wreckage. He joined a Trump-Modi call on the crisis quietly. No post. No screenshot. No "interesting discussion." The man who live-tweets rocket explosions went dark on a war that's reshaping global energy markets, crashing his own customer base's purchasing power through oil prices, and threatening the geopolitical stability his satellites depend on. Elon isn't silent because he has nothing to say. He's silent because everything he could say costs him something. Loudest voice on the internet. Two biggest stories of the year. Zero engagement. That's not an observation. That's a position.

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I am the VP of Workforce Economics at Oracle. We are worth $420 billion. On Tuesday, we sent 30,000 employees a termination email at 6 AM. Not 9. Not business hours. Six in the morning. They woke up to the word "eliminated." The email came from "Oracle Leadership." Not a manager. Not a name. Oracle Leadership. It said: "We are grateful for your dedication, hard work, and the impact you have made." By the time they read the word "grateful," their access to email, files, and Slack had already been revoked. The gratitude was the last Oracle communication they received. We did not eliminate the roles. We eliminated the salaries. In the same fiscal year, we filed 3,126 H-1B petitions to hire foreign workers. 436 this year alone. The roles are identical. The pay is not. An H-1B software engineer earns $87,000. The domestic median for the same work is $106,000. Eighty-three percent of H-1B workers are classified at entry-level wages for senior positions. The industry calls this a skills gap. It is a pay cut that requires a passport. The visa is tied to the employer. If the worker leaves, they lose their legal right to remain in the country. If they negotiate, they risk the same. If they organize, the sponsor declines to renew. That is retention. Our revenue this quarter is $17.2 billion. Up 22%. Net income up 95%. We have $553 billion in committed future contracts. Up 325%. These are not the numbers of a company that needs to lay anyone off. We took a $2.1 billion restructuring charge. That is the cost of the gratitude. It frees up $8 to $10 billion in annual cash flow. That cash services $156 billion in AI data centers we are building. Starting 2028, OpenAI pays us $82 million per day. Larry Ellison is worth $189 billion. He pledged $51 billion in Oracle shares as collateral for the Stargate AI venture. Announced at the White House. The stock rose 4% on Tuesday. The day of the 6 AM emails. Wall Street did not see 30,000 people. They saw the margin. Amazon laid off 30,000 since October. Filed thousands of H-1B petitions in the same window. This is not one company. This is the operating model. Fire the salary. Keep the role. Fill it with someone whose legal right to remain in the country depends on your continued sponsorship. Pay them less. They will not complain. They cannot. One employee's father worked at Oracle for 20 years. No phone call. No meeting. An email at 6 AM and a locked laptop. The role is still open. The people we fired are free. The people we hired are not.

The most profitable “nonprofit” in Texas is Houston Methodist hospital. They paid their executives over $47MM in 2024. - CEO Mark Boom $7.25MM - Kevin Burns $3MM - Roberta Schwartz $2.8MM - Mick Cantu (legal) $2.5MM - Dirk Sotsman $2MM - Shlomit Schall $1.4MM 11 more between $900-$1.1MM

Radiologist here. I'm ready to replace ill-informed hospital administrators with AI.

“Utterly impossible” Bill Raftery could not believe what he just witnessed

The uniparty in action

@francisdeng Now do $ per hour after taxes

Jeff Bezos on the exact moment he realized he would never be a great physicist: "I wanted to be a theoretical physicist. I went to Princeton. I was a really good student, I got A-pluses on almost everything. I was in the honors physics track, which starts with 100 students and by quantum mechanics it's down to 30." Then came the homework problem: "I can't solve this partial differential equation. It's really, really hard. I've been studying with my roommate Joe, who was also really good at math. The two of us worked on this one problem for three hours and got nowhere." They decided to visit Yasantha, the smartest guy at Princeton: "He was Sri Lankan. In the Facebook, which was an actual paper book at that time, his name was three lines long. I guess in Sri Lanka when you do something good for the king, they give you an extra syllable on your name. The most humble, wonderful guy." Jeff continues: "We show him the problem. He stares at it for a while and says, 'Cosine.' I'm like, 'What do you mean?' He says, 'That's the answer.' I said, 'That's the answer?' He said, 'Yeah, let me show you.' He sits us down, writes out three pages of detailed algebra, everything crosses out, and the answer is cosine." Jeff asked if he solved it in his head: "He said, 'No, that would be impossible. Three years ago I solved a very similar problem and I was able to map this problem onto that one. Then it was immediately obvious the answer was cosine.'" Jeff reflects: "That was an important moment for me. Because that was the very moment I realized I was never going to be a great theoretical physicist."

Be aware of the Private Equity whores being shoved into HHS and CMS...we know it's bad but look how they are getting into the government, along with United Healthcare being sucha huge government contractor..people turn a blind eye to all of this and then do the standard PE bitch which we have heard 100s of times.. It's much worse than what you posted as this group allows the activity

@StevenFulop Agree this is likely. What are policies you all are suggesting in response?

Good question

Parker waited over half-an-hour for the Bx36 bus on Tremont Avenue, one of the slowest buses in the country. Mayor Mamdani is hoping to revive a busway project that was shelved by the Adams administration — so long as the federal government doesn't get in his way.

The modern laptop designers mind cannot comprehend this much I/O

@zerohedge Guys, this is almost solely due to the nurses strike that ended last month. Move along.

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yo so just to recap the most INSANE week of 2026 (and how 99% of it was caused by 1 fucking company 😂): - U.S. starts war with Iran, kills supreme leader khamenei USING CLAUDE (anthropic) to facilitate it. - anthropic tells pentagon to “fuck off” for trying to use claude for mass surveillance - public loves it - claude hits #1 in app store BUT THEN - Trump blacklists their ass RIGHT BEFORE openAI swoops in to steal the ENTIRE DEAL becoming the flagship ai model of the U.S. military in <24hrs - Anthropic then accused china of hacking claude but it backfires - public calls them hypocrites (dario’s losing hair at this point) - boris cherny (creator of claude code) sees all this drama, yawns and ships 4 BANGER products that threaten OpenClaw’s market share on personal agents - then anthropic’s Head of ‘Special Projects’ saw this and shipped a feature that lets you steal memory from chatgpt and upload it to claude in <60 seconds - switching costs to claude went to ZERO. - oh yea and openAI raised $110B, jack dorsey replaced 4000 jobs with AI, Perplexity became the default AI assistant for Samsung phones(!) and Nvidia CRUSHED earnings my entire job is to keep up with AI and i’m fucking exhausted see you at market open tomorrow!

I just think it's really interesting that the leading outlet pushing the "Epstein Mythology" narrative is Compact Magazine, which is funded by Soros' Open Societies and Peter Thiel. Thiel has a lot of egg on his face with respect to Epstein given the releases of the last 12 months or so and Soros' nephew Peter is a circled name in Epstein's black book (i.e. accused of actively enabling sex trafficking by Epstein's former butler). The Epstein case and all of its "conspiratorial" bents have been around since 2019, and in some circles before. Yet, only when the Epstein case became truly inconvenient for the Big Tech oligarchs like Thiel/Musk and for the Trump administration, did this narrative become so prominent so suddenly. Compact seems to be in the middle of most of it. Also notable is that a lot of the "independent" voices making the Epstein mythology narrative previously cultivated public trust in figures like Musk or Thiel as well as the incoming Trump administration or figures currently serving in it (e.g. Tulsi Gabbard). Never before it was a problem for those actors were they interested in questioning the Epstein case, even when there were many years to do so. I don't think it's fair to say they have only noticed just now that something may have been "off" with aspects of the sex trafficking story or certain Epstein victim's testimonies. Those issues have been around for years and even those like myself have asserted that the sex trafficking case was intentionally being made to dominate the focus around the Epstein case so that it was only about the sex crimes, not about the financial crimes or about the clear existence of a supranational network (or networks) that Epstein was operating on behalf of. Yet, now that they question the sex trafficking narrative or the possible role of a government, they are uninterested in these other questions of power or of oligarchy. Instead it is about age of consent laws, or about pre vs post puberty minors, or about "anti-semitism" or a desire to see "conspiracy" where there is none. Go back to sleep. The real enemy is the woke mind virus and Elon and Peter are the "cool" billionaires. Regarding the thread below, my problems with Shellenberger's specific views expressed in this tweet thread are as follows (at least these are the problems that came to me while I read it): 1. He assumes the released emails to date is all the evidence there is to see on Epstein and potential intelligence ties. The released emails don't cover all of his email addresses, they are unencrypted ones he obviously wouldn't use for sensitive comms, and what has been released by the DOJ is estimated to represent just 2% of all of its Epstein-related documentation. 2. He assumes that, if Epstein did have an intel affiliation, there would be an email saying "thanks so much for all your hard work jeff, much love, mossad/cia/mI6" or something similar 3. I don't think Shellenberger (or others making similar arguments) understands how intelligence agencies actually work. These agencies routinely serve oligarchs and their networks, intelligence agencies frequently use private companies and businessmen as cover or fixers and, as my books show, US and Israeli intelligence relied on the same close-knit group of actors with these affiliations over many decades and these actors, Epstein included, represented oligarch interests who have clear influence over national governments and their intelligence agencies. Much of my work on intelligence agencies, particularly US intelligence, shows how they have sought to largely move into the private sector to work beyond the scope of federal oversight, this was their game plan beginning with Iran Contra and the creation of Thiel's Palantir to replace Total Information Awareness. Several big Silicon Valley companies are now so intertwined with intelligence agencies you can't tell where one ends the other begins. Israel has an admitted policy of using its tech companies, particularly in cybersecurity, for conducting Mossad and other intelligence ops they used to do "in house." Intelligence agencies are useful to the elite because they are used to shield the criminality of the powerful by offering it state protection. They are used to help the powerful consolidate their control, they go after their competitors in arms, drugs and sex trafficking and make sure they have that shit buttoned up. They keep law enforcement from digging too far into billionaires' activities. They overthrow governments for billionaires and the multinational corps they control. They do not run the show and, oddly, the Epstein emails that have been released do actually shed light on some of these powerful billionaires who are running things, it just seems that these narratives, such as what you see from Shellenberger below, seem to conveniently ignore their existence. Journalism, to me, is about holding the powerful to account, not trying to minimize the crimes of the powerful only when the billionaire you attached yourself to and whose reputation you helped launder gets outed for lying about his ties to Epstein.

Medicaid data has been open sourced, so the level of fraud is easy to identify. @DOGE is not a department, it’s a state of mind.