@blondesnmoney i mean.. they got sanctions releif and tens of billions. not sure they are losers
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Another economist win
Cluseau Investments@blondesnmoney
War is over in 4 weeks. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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@BehavioralMacro those have been kinda trading to the inverse of each other tho
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@jonathanchait They won’t survive because it’s an oxymoron of a term. You can’t be a liberal apartheidist
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Hasan Piker is an authoritarian. So is Netanyahu. If liberal Zionists want to survive, they must fight both. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/…
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@mark_ungewitter Sometimes lines on a chart don’t really equal up to the vibe when you visit a place
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China tech is no world beater. At least by this reckoning.
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@TheStalwart Makes sense when you consider Sam Altman is also a former crypto guy
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Interesting that a former crypto guy has this job at OpenAI
The San Francisco Standard@sfstandard
OpenAI’s global policy chief, Chris Lehane, thinks the discussion around AI has gotten out of hand. "When you put some of those thoughts and ideas out there, they do have consequences.” 📝: @ceodonovan sfstandard.com/2026/04/15/ope…
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@daveweigel That. Jr also it’s ValleyWag blog
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“From the team that bankrupted Gawker” — Thiel’s beef w Gawker was that they accurately revealed he was gay, right?
Max Tani@maxwelltani
the phrase "AI tribunal for investigating the media" has a feverish, conner o'malley-esque quality to it...
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@TheStalwart true, but also theyve been flat to down for 6 months
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The weird thing about how stocks have gone vertical over the last two weeks is that the initial drop itself wasn't that severe. It was that slow drip.
It's one thing to go vertical after a steep drop. But this a rare "take the stairs down, take the elevator up" type scenario
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Nightlife in nyc is shifting from alcohol-induced socializing to activities that combine connection with intellectual interest.
Out: clubbing, drinking games, bars without themes.
In: lectures at bars, philosophy clubs, board game nights, reading meetups.
Gen Z'ers are paying $40 a ticket to attend these things.
Someone is going to build a massive platform aggregating these activities for the next generation.
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@BehavioralMacro this guys first post on his profile is a retweet about ivermectin curing cancer... so uhh... idk, man
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@SpecialPuppy1 trump and tariffs oddly enough
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What’s the cause of this?
Archie Hall@ArchieHall
AMERICA'S TAX REVOLT Republicans and Democrats alike seem to be ditching the idea that most Americans ought to be paying very much in taxes at all. Increasingly, voters seem to agree. For Tax Day, I wrote about this troubling development for @TheEconomist. Link in next post.
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@rwlesq That’s not what the essay or book is arguing at all man. I think you might have been the incurious one
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Even after the death of its author, "Bullshit Jobs" remains a cancer on the discourse. It was perhaps the most incurious book I have ever read (strictly speaking, I only read the first third).
Companies are not "subsidizing" anyone. If they are hiring someone to do something, there is almost certainly a reason beyond "we wanted to give this random person money." If you can't figure out why, it is probably a problem with you.
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@InVitroFuture @tacitdimension I’m aware Israel also tortures their rivals and dissidents to death
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@tacitdimension They publicly torture political rivals and dissidents to death, that seems pretty significant. #EJK" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas#EJK
Obviously as the less powerful party they have a much lower total body count, but it's hard to make a case that they're any more respectful of human rights/IHL
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What's the argument for Hamas being worse than Israel?
Oren Kessler@OrenKessler
1) Pod Save America gives Hasan Piker softball opportunity to say he can't actually *mean* it when he says Hamas is "1,000x better" than Israel 2) Piker declines opportunity: "I mean it" 3) Headline of Ezra Klein's NYT op-ed, "Hasan Piker Is Not the Enemy," mysteriously changes
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@MartinShkreli Hey Martin actually you’re wrong and you just can’t admit to yourself when you mistate things. Partly how you got yourself in the slammer
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dear community notes - i am right and you are wrong
1) payroll tax goes to the federal government
2) a company that has accrued NOLs does not owe tax - the implication that they are dodging something is confiscatory
in summation, eat shit and die
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Palantir very plainly paid $23m in income tax and $156m in payroll tax. That's 0/2. Are you retarded?
Elizabeth Warren@SenWarren
If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than: Tesla Southwest Disney Live Nation HP United PayPal CVS Health Palantir Citigroup PG&E 3M That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax. It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.
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@sharghzadeh Walkable urban homes sell for multiple millions lol you’re a rube
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@TheStalwart This is like Kodak becoming a bitcoin miner
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@GergelyOrosz Apples quality hasn’t degraded at the hardware level. And the software issues aren’t as structural as what’s happening with windows
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When you look at the big 5 tech companies, you understand something is missing:
Apple: Quality degrading across the ecosystem
Amazon: Day 2, quality only getting worse
Microsoft: pushing Copilot everywhere (AI slop)
Google: pushing Gemini everywhere (AI slop)
Meta: ads, ads, ads
Karri Saarinen@karrisaarinen
I keep thinking I miss having someone like Steve Jobs in the industry. He had some standards. He cared about quality, coherence, and making great products. He could be ruthless and he had plenty of flaws, but it still felt like he and Apple were trying to make something genuinely great above all else. They had their opinions and you could respect that. They didn't try to force you, but make their case why they think it's good. Now tech feels driven by trend chasing, fear, scale, revenue comparisons, endless games and everyone talks their book. Investors come first, business goals next, and users last if not at all. I wish there would still someone like Steve still around
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@GentleDoofus They made a show together guess they like cooperating
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Very weird that the MR. ROBOT guy is the only person consistently in the Julia Roberts business these days.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
Sam Esmail's ‘PANIC CAREFULLY’ will be the first IMAX digital release presented entirely in the 1:43:1 aspect ratio during the entire film. • Starring Julia Roberts & Elizabeth Olsen • Described as a paranoid thriller that is a mix of ‘Mr. Robot’ and ‘Silence of the Lambs’
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@WhereHasThisCol @daveweigel Yeah man it’s the dems that’s re dumb not the guy posting pics of himself as Jesus then saying he was a “doctor” while his supporters nods along and approve of a foreign war
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@daveweigel Have you talked to any Democrats lately? Filled with hate and dumb AF. Of course they will vote for gerrymandering or anything that they think might harm Trump. They have zero principles. I understand how Hitler came to power.
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Jibes with my story: Rs ran an effective campaign to drive down Spanberger's numbers but a crucial slice of voters are saying "don't care, still voting gerrymander" semafor.com/article/04/14/…
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024
State Navigate poll | 4/10-4/13 LV (Virginia surveyed) Do you support the Virginia redistricting amendment? ✅Yes 50.7% ❌No 45.4% —— Governor Abigail Spanberger approval ✅Approve 47% ❌Disapprove 47% —— President Trump approval ❌Disapprove 57% ✅Approve 42% statenavigate.org/va/state-navig…
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@Sturgeons_Law I don’t think his streams break the tens of thousands? That’s really not many people
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Even drugs aside, it's hard to avoid how depressing this whole scene is. Here, he's sitting in an empty club with 2 other guys doing nothing. In the Orlando Asian Mogger clip, he's browsing clothes in some generic mall store. It's amazing that so many people watch this.
FearBuck@FearedBuck
The moment Clavicular overdosed on stream
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