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'Oh my ears and whiskers! How late it's getting!' #finance #law #markets #economics #politics #foreignaffairs Analytical opinions.

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Ed Bradford @fullcarry.net · 02/10/2026
All you need to know about the labor market. AHE
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 3h
lol "wedding shape" We all know what comes next ... Dad Bod.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 3h
inflationary.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 13h
This is my shocked bunny rabbit face.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No one can say they didn't see it coming.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#AllYourPrivacyIsOurs
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It was a 737 Max 8. When they pulled out of the near super-sonic dive, the forces sheared off the rudder of the aircraft. Kudos to Boeing for a design that left the wings still on. The movie is going to make the landing in the Hudson look like a walk in the park.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
militarytimes.com
Hegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academies
Military academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.”
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I will see your Bad Bunny and raise you one mariachi band.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why would a guy who quit his job as a State Attorney General to become Deputy Director of the FBI quit before he's even been there a year? Hunh.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Hey Claude, please write a Petition for Certioroai for this case."
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Forcing a response from NATO so that Putin can threaten to nuke Europe and then negotiate a stand-down seems like a likely end to the Ukraine situation. Putin's ego will not let him simply withdraw from Ukraine.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#AllYourPrivacyIsOurs
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I hope the USPTO grants the mark -- possible only because they might all fear being fired if they don't. If they grant the mark, we will see a helluva lot less MAGA references and I'm totally cool with that.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
nytimes.com
Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how we're regulating AI? With a State AG asking the judiciary to impose guardrails based on ... existing laws? This makes no sense. If OpenAI violated laws or regs, prosecute them. Alternatively, have the Gov adopt an EO or get legislation passed in the ALL REPUBLICAN state wtf.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 28/09/2026
Britain’s chief diplomat has said that the U.K. will not ditch its ban on directly engaging with Russian officials after Donald Trump invited Vladimir Putin to the G20 meeting in December.
politico.eu
Miliband distances Britain from Trump’s G20 Putin invite
The U.K. foreign secretary says London still won’t directly engage with Moscow after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Damn, they look younger every year.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 27/09/2026
Cook County leaders and health officials sounded the alarm Wednesday, warning that changes in the Medicaid work requirement may lead to hundreds of thousands of Illinois residents losing coverage.
chicagotribune.com
Cook County leaders warn of ‘devastation’ with 100 days to go before Medicaid work requirements take effect
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Reuters @reuters.com · 25/09/2026
Japan's bond 'falling knife' stalls repatriation rush reut.rs/4xEZXfP
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Japan's bond 'falling knife' stalls repatriation rush
The tide of Japanese money returning home has begun, but a much larger repatriation of overseas assets is being held back by uncertainty over where Japanese bond yields will peak ​and how much further the central bank will have to raise interest rates.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 25/09/2026
OpenAI to preview GPT-6 Cyber within days, Fortune reports reut.rs/4AtwGrf
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OpenAI to preview GPT-6 Cyber within days, Fortune reports
OpenAI is set to preview a cybersecurity-focused AI model, GPT-6 Cyber, within ​days and launch a new product designed ‌to help customers deploy it more securely and automatically, Fortune reported on Thursday, citing multiple sources familiar with the ​plans.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
XJP is a totalitarian leader. It's astonishing to think how much additional power this gives him in his home country -- power that he routinely abuses to suppress the kind of rights every American takes for granted. Imagine having "social scores" that determine what kind of public transit you ride.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once again, Republicans -- all of them -- enable Trump's worst impulses without even so much as an inquiry.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
100 seems like a lot.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh my, Dario wants a two class control structure like Elon at SpaceX and Zuck at Meta. I have a hard time seeing Anthropic's shareholders suddenly just get OK losing all the value associated with a control premium.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2026
Journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were allowed back into the White House around noon on Thursday. Their return came after a chaotic morning in which the Trump administration had blocked them from entering, despite an overnight order from a federal judge. nyti.ms/4iNtlwS
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 24/09/2026
Republican Joe Straus spent 10 years as the speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. Now he’s the latest to join a chorus of GOP leaders voicing doubts about US Senate nominee Ken Paxton.
bloom.bg
Texas Republicans Splinter as MAGA Candidates Test Party Limits
Republican Joe Straus spent 10 years as the speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. Now he’s the latest to join a chorus of GOP leaders voicing doubts about US Senate nominee Ken Paxton, who’s trailing Democrat James Talarico in polls with less than six weeks until Election Day.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
S&P futures still down 40 points.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you weren't aware, the correlation between 10 year USTs and Brent Crude price is now .96 which is kind of amazing and probably not a sign of a healthy US bond market. Geopolitics is driving markets and the economy.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/09/2026
Hedge funds sour on basis trade as Treasury selloff continues reut.rs/4hmHdvn
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Hedge funds sour on basis trade as Treasury selloff continues
Like Treasuries themselves, the Treasury basis trade has fallen out of favor lately.
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justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
they're saying the AI can do math and science again, so it's time to reread Thurston's On Proof and Progress in Mathematics, a lovely articulation of the social work of assembling understanding, i.e., the best reason to tackle hard problems. www.ams.org/journals/bul...
When I started as a graduate student at Berkeley, I had trouble imagining
how I could "prove" a new and interesting mathematical theorem. I didn't
really understand what a "proof was.
By going to seminars, reading papers, and talking to other graduate students,
I gradually began to catch on. Within any field, there are certain theorems and
certain techniques that are generally known and generally accepted. When you
write a paper, you refer to these without proof. You look at other papers in the
field, and you see what facts they quote without proof, and what they cite in
their bibliography. You learn from other people some idea of the proofs. Then
you're free to quote the same theorem and cite the same citations. You don't
necessarily have to read the full papers or books that are in your bibliography.
Many of the things that are generally known are things for which there may be
no known written source. As long as people in the field are comfortable that
the idea works, it doesn't need to have a formal written source.At first I was highly suspicious of this process. I would doubt whether a certain idea was really established. But I found that I could ask people, and they
could produce explanations and proofs, or else refer me to other people or to
written sources that would give explanations and proofs. There were published
theorems that were generally known to be false, or where the proofs were generally known to be incomplete. Mathematical knowledge and understanding were
embedded in the minds and in the social fabric of the community of people
thinking about a particular topic. This knowledge was supported by written
documents, but the written documents were not really primary.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"inexplicably diverted"
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 23/09/2026
FT Exclusive: Billions of dollars of Rosneft’s foreign earnings were funnelled through a Kremlin-backed money laundering network, putting the state oil group at the heart of Russia’s efforts to circumvent sanctions and supply its war in Ukraine. ft.trib.al/eYbw0gW
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Politico @politico.com · 23/09/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge appeared skeptical of the Trump administration’s move banning POLITICO, CNN and MS NOW from the White House, and said he will rule on the matter soon.
politico.com
Judge appears skeptical of Trump’s effort to ban news outlets from White House
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, said he would rule soon.
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The Hill @thehill.com · 23/09/2026
CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked President Trump questions on the war in Iran at the UN General Assembly, to which he responded that she 'should not be here' after Trump banned CNN from the White House. #trump #CNN #UnitedNations
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Definitely not central planning of resource allocation a/k/a communism. #MakeTheMarketsFreeAgain
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I wonder how SpaceX is coming along with it's orbital data centers. They really need to be able to relaunch Starship to get the launch coata sufficiently low to make it economically feasible.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Insanity.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Insanity.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Flashback to Dec 2024. How much more important does it look today to repurpose data centers mining unpopular crypto-currencies.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
White House’s legal defense for banning press is they “violated the standards of professionalism and decorum.” Lie. But SCOTUS might go for it. After all, it’s possible a reporter could be so undecorous. And who’s to say what that is? Same logic they used for the Muslim ban and the insurrection.
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Katie Fallow @katiefallow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The White House's brief responding to CNN/Ms Now/Politico's TRO motion is a joke - legally, constitutionally, and logically. (1/5) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Make liquidity great again.
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump to Iran: "I'll have more flexibility after the election." #IFKYK
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Globalists? Uh oh.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 22/09/2026
NEW PAPER: In a new paper, jointly published in @agu.org Earth's Future & @ametsoc.org BAMS, and co-led by Melissa Kenney, @costasamaras.com and me, 175 authors outline priorities to guide the future of scientific assessments of climate change in the United States. 🧵
doi.org
Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States
A network of climate assessments plays a critical role in synthesizing the state of science to support evidence-based decision-making To support future U.S. and sub-national climate assessments, ...
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@ml8ml8 @ml8ml8.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Truly amazed he did not try to rebrand it as "Trump Intelligence."
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This part was really something: "Schnell’s Sept. 18 email statement to The Dartmouth was itself '100% AI-written,' according to a Pangram test."
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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