James William Sharp

NASA could have completed 31 Artemis II missions around the Moon for the price it cost Gavin Newsom to build a high speed rail to nowhere. Insane.

This was a wild watch. Gotta ban H1Bs

Sky full of stars. Following a successful lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026.

"Los hombres en la parte superior de la pirámide responden racionalmente a la repentina abundancia de parejas abandonando por completo el compromiso, ya que el incentivo para sentar cabeza ha sido estructuralmente demolido. Al mismo tiempo, las mujeres que acceden periódicamente a ese nivel superior, por muy brevemente que sea o bajo qué condiciones, recalibran permanentemente sus expectativas al alza, elevando sus exigencias hasta quedarse fuera del mercado realista de hombres que las habrían hecho genuinamente felices. Ninguno de los dos grupos actúa de forma irracional dados los incentivos que se les presentan, lo cual es precisamente lo que hace que esto sea tan dañino: Las aplicaciones no han corrompido el carácter individual tanto como han envenenado todo el mecanismo de coordinación a través del cual generaciones de gente corriente encontraron una pareja duradera. La consecuencia no es una cultura de citas que sea meramente insatisfactoria, sino una que es estructuralmente incapaz de producir los resultados que la mayoría de sus participantes realmente desean."

What do you call it when your enemies are gloating about your downfall but half of your people still refuse to see it?

*IRAN ACCEPTS CEASEFIRE, DEAL APPROVED BY NEW SUPREME LEADER: NYT The Strait of Hormuz is open.

The B-52s are turning back Long your longs

TRUMP DECLARES TWO-WEEK CEASEFIRE: US WILL SUSPEND BOMBING AND ATTACK ON IRAN FOR TWO WEEKS, WHILE IRAN WILL AGREE TO IMMEDIATE OPENING OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ

Having a wife is crazy because its like Palantir for what we need from the grocery store

A POTENTIAL DEAL BETWEEN THE U.S. AND IRAN IS EXPECTED TO BE FINALIZED TONIGHT, ACCORDING TO CNN, WITH A REGIONAL SOURCE INDICATING THAT POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS FROM BOTH SIDES ARE IMMINENT AND TALKS BEING DIRECTLY GUIDED BY ASIM MUNIR.

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…

The Citrini article reminded me of a story when I first started trading, they told me I was never going to compete with hedge funds because they "bought satellite imagery of walmart parking lots to estimate earnings" Turned out to be reasonably unhelpful. But one thing I did learn is that my CIO would go into the retail stores he was thinking of buying the debt of and monitoring who, and what kinds of people were buying. Human intelligence when investing is more underrated than ever in a world of LLMs and instant research. Go use the product you want to invest in. Go to the store. Buy the service. See it with your own eyes. Maybe not everyone should go into an active war zone, but if you want to, at least take videos

I personally don’t feel sorry for myself and try my best to not commiserate with the students or folks with established careers who find their skillset to be less relevant. I’ve seen how brutal it can be to procure a new job for both groups and wouldn’t wish that on anyone right now. It’s still true that you have to soldier on, and have to constantly learn new and relevant skills in your chosen field, otherwise you’ll be left behind quickly nowadays. I wouldn’t confuse a criticism of the current university system with “feeling sorry for myself.” My point stands that university system (in the United States at least) should either regear itself to focus on educating the youth in a way that promotes a love of country and a love of learning in general or retool to train the most elite minds, future doctors, lawyers, and engineers. It’s failing to do both right now, most colleges aren’t worth the $200k+ 4-year enrollment, much less the 4 years itself that it takes to get the degree. The fully backed gov loans are an issue because students do not have the given intellectual ability to break into a top tier career are needlessly wasting their time and money trying to do so. Or simply use the university system as a way for Mom and Dad to pay their bills while they party as hard as they can for a few years. Either way, most students don’t graduate with any love of country or love of learning, and with limited prospects of landing an “elite career.” There should still be jobs and opportunities for them once they graduate high school. Or we could make subjects like business or CS into a sort of trade, where after highschool you enroll in a program that trains you to work in a given business field or at a technology company after receiving a year or two of training. Business apprenticeships seem like the best option forward for most people of reasonable intellectual ability. Our current university system is not incentivized to treat their subjects as trades though and do nothing to ensure that low to average tier students get jobs within 6 months of graduation. Best of luck to you, I hope you can find a new job in your field or something adjacent to it. I also hope you soldier through these challenges and learn a new skills as you continue your job search.

@JamesSharp77 @charlesmurray "Albeit, feeling sorry for themselves and constantly complaining is not the answer, it’ll only make their very limited prospects worse." Then you go on to do just that.😂 Do you have any sympathy for 40 or 50+ tech workers out of work who can't get even a reduced pay job?

This post has attract more hostility than anything I've posted for months. I guess Boomers really are out of touch after all. Well, to be fair, Boomers plus every single American generation that preceded them.

*NASA'S ARTEMIS CREW CAPSULE MAKES CLOSEST APPROACH TO MOON

NOW - Artemis II crew nears their closest approach to the Moon, Earth can be seen setting over the Moon's horizon in the distance.

JUST IN: one person has been hospitalized after an assault at the Bethesda Metro station on Wisconsin Ave this afternoon. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services were called out just before 3:30pm for a serious injury (ALS-2) assault. A second person is also being evaluated on scene… otherwise information remains limited. #wmata

Warren Buffett: "The insurance business provides us with float and float is money that we hold that doesn't belong to us. It's like a bank having deposits." "To date, with Berkshire, in the 29 years we've been in the business, it appears that our float has not cost us anything."

Not long ago @romanhelmetguy posted course offerings from Harvard today and 100 years ago, and what struck me was the near total elimination of introductory survey courses (eg "Modern Europe from 1500-1789" or "English literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare"). Instead they get highly politicized courses on very narrow subjects. So eburke here is right, but I would just add that Harvard makes little effort to provide a "common frame of reference." If the humanities courses must all be for beginners it's also because Harvard doesn't lay the groundwork for going deeper.

All I feel is gratitude for this experience.