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Ghost towns and wasted caviar: Saudi Arabia’s futuristic agenda was already in trouble. War in Iran plunged it deeper into jeopardy. on.wsj.com/3PQ2svK

This was such a dishonest post. Bier was pretending that, if tweets containing a link tended to get lower reach, it was because of some UI problem, but to the extent that this problem was real it had always existed and tweets with links only started getting less reach after the algorithm was modified to penalize them, which we know because Musk literally said they did that! People keep avoiding links to this day because they believe, I think correctly, that this is still the case. The truth is that Bier knows perfectly well that it's why posts with links are being deprioritized, and he also knows that everyone hates that, but he can't say it because Musk made the decision to deboost links and he doesn't want to antagonize him, which is why he has to beat around the bush and post nonsense about how that was because of the UI.

Feel like not enough people are aware of this part of the California high-speed rail story:

"I think Nate is dumb because his election forecast was wrong" is one of the single best predictors for someone being an absolutely brainless idiot I've literally never seen it said by someone who wasn't a grifter, completely brain-poisoned, or a total moron. 100% hit rate.

Nate Silver literally just made a normal quote tweet. The site features are so badly designed that when the X management interacts with normal use of them, they see this use as dishonest. X could easily design quote posts so that they have two posts in them, giving us more context. But they haven't done that. Instead often people take screenshots instead of quote posting, which is another sign of design fail.

Well @benthompson woke up with some strong feelings about what is going on over at OpenAI

@buccocapital @nikitabier @NateSilver538

@nikitabier @NateSilver538 The algorithm destroyed the reach of replies, so why would he respond to you that way? Can't be mad at people responding to the incentives of the system

@NateSilver538 Can you stop quote tweeting without the context? It’s intellectually dishonest.

NASA’s Curiosity rover just captured something truly magical on Mars: rare, iridescent “mother-of-pearl” clouds shimmering high in the alien sky!These aren’t ordinary clouds. While Earth’s clouds are made of water droplets, these Martian beauties are formed from dry ice — frozen carbon dioxide crystals floating at dizzying altitudes where temperatures plunge to unimaginable lows.What makes them absolutely breathtaking is the rainbow-like glow. As the Sun slips below the horizon, the last rays of sunlight catch the tiny, perfectly uniform ice crystals, scattering light into vivid, shifting colors of pink, blue, and green. The result? A spectacular iridescent display that looks more like cosmic art than weather.These clouds only appear briefly during specific seasons on Mars, glowing brightest right after sunset when the sky turns deep purple and the crystals act like floating prisms.It’s a stunning reminder of how strange and beautiful the Red Planet can be — a world where clouds are made of frozen CO₂ and sunsets paint the heavens with otherworldly rainbows.What other rare space weather phenomena or breathtaking celestial events would you love to see captured by our rovers on Mars? Drop your ideas in the comments! Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS

The Trump Administration has appealed Judge Fred Biery's 1/31 habeas corpus ruling releasing 5-year-old Liam and his father Adrian Conejo Arias.

Excellent piece from @WSJ on the legal and strategic pitfalls of pursuing a bombing campaign against civilian infrastructure in Iran. With a small contribution from yours truly. wsj.com/world/middle-e…

US sending nearly all JASSM-ER cruise missiles to CENTCOM, leaving "only about 425 JASSM-ER out of a prewar inventory of 2,300" for other contingencies. When does the US lose conventional deterrence against China? We're edging dangerously close. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Shut up about grindset if you really wanted to make money you'd be in a dinghy in the strait with a pair of binoculars and fifteen polymarket tabs

INDOPACCOM gonna fight the PLA with a single M2 that they hid under a tarp in the parking lot

You're already paying for the war with higher prices for gasoline, heat, and airfare but Trump's plan is to add on higher mortgage rates and cuts to housing and education. nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/…

Because Waymo is rapidly scaling up its operations, we're rapidly accumulating more evidence on the question of whether it's safer than human drivers. The case for Waymo being safer than human drivers in in some sense almost twice as strong as it was in October.

In suit seeking return of 2020 election records, Fulton County requested info from DOJ regarding timing of events leading up to the search warrant. DOJ says that info is privileged. But senior DOJ official Harmeet Dhillon previously discussed the timeline in an interview:

Again. And again, the question is why. Because corrupt autocrats stick together? The fake "conservative values" propaganda? Or simply because Putin desperately needs to keep Orbán to sabotage the EU and the Trump admin seems to do whatever Putin wants?

Treasury announces it has removed from its sanctions list Mikhail Mikhaylovich Zadornov, who was designated under Biden's EO on Russian election interference and "harmful foreign activities" of the Russian Federation, although he was sanctioned in 2022 ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions…

He needs to give an explanation for this, because if he's just blocking promotions because of race or gender....there's a word for that.