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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“If he starts to make news.” Ouch. FOXNews strays hurt twice as much 😂

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026

Trump on China: "We get along with very. Well have a good relationship. Now, somebody said 'Oh, they spy on us.' I said, 'Maybe they do. But we spy on them too.'" (China has reportedly helped Iran kill American troops in Iran)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"You fucking losers would be lucky to have me represent this festering stinkhole."

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It was great to join CNN International/PBS on Amanpour and Company to discuss the OpenAI/HF incident, and how this is actually a story about OpenAI’s intent and lack of responsibility in deploying the most rudimentary security practices. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwv8...

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What Really Happened When OpenAI Bots Escaped a Cybersecurity Test? | Amanpour and Company

YouTube video by Amanpour and Company

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We live in hell.

Elon Musk's xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says.

A federal appeals court judge ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual’s right to privately possess images or videos of child sexual abuse created using AI — if the material does not depict a real person and remains in the home.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

2:05 pm 2:21 pm @atrupar.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

BLACKROCK: It’s not a K-shaped economy. It’s gator jaws. 🐊 (via @talsmith.bsky.social)

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Here’s NBC’s Kristen Welker yukking it up with Trump ethnic cleansing czar Stephen Miller at last month’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. This morning, Trump urged his FCC chairman to investigate Welker and give her "rebuke or punishment" for saying he had “mixed results” in his endorsements.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 28/08/2026

Happy Tan Suit Day to all who celebrate. (Originally August 28, 2014)

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Schiff:

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Bond market, .. you in danger, girl. 👀

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“Soylent Green is people!”

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Vote like your life depends on it, or the life of a friend, relative, or neighbor. Because it does. We’re the decoys now.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hormuz traffic vs. the 10-year yield is a great chart. 🔥 @bloomberg.com

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Being on Bluesky is always a good reminder of how Republicans win elections

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A sailor from the USS Lincoln's wife was on with Jake Tapper telling the truth about how terrible the deployments are. She had a line I think we need to hang around this administrations neck. "They support our troops until our troops need support".

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15/08/2026

If you ever want to see how consent gets manufactured this is how it happens. Journalism should not be printing things that operate as marketing. This only serves to inflate the bubble and con retail investors. Shameful.

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you invested $1 in the stock market in 1802 at 20 years old you would probably have died by 1822.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

George Benson releases his “Give Me the Night” LP 46 yrs ago today. After a month in the studio, he said, “I’d packed my bags — when [producer] Quincy Jones called and said they had ONE more song. .. I wanted to go home but he insisted: ‘Man, it’s a good song. It won’t take long.’” Three Grammys.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's a healthcare economy, and the rest of us are just living in it.

Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" shows change in employment since January 2025. Healthcare and social assistance has added 952,000 jobs through July 2026 with consistent monthly growth, while the rest of the economy has lost 362,000 jobs over the same period, meaning all net job creation has come from a single sector in an unusually unbalanced labor market.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Fell for it again.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

What the hell is the matter with people...?

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 07/08/2026

Trump can defeat or abuse you, but he can't take your dignity. To lose your dignity to Trump, you must give it to him voluntarily, which so many have been willing to do.

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Milwaukee's DrAwkward @hotshotrobot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Meanwhile, in New York:

A photo of Zohran Mamdani looking nonchalant as the caption explains: "As of March 20, 66,000 HOLES FILLED"

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Two rich dudes in their 70s want to know why people living paycheck to paycheck aren’t happy.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/08/2026

OpenAI and Anthropic are time bombs at the heart of the AI industry, which is why hyperscalers and NVIDIA continue to prop them up. Without them, hyperscaler revenue growth stalls, and the entire con collapses. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-demand-bubble/

To put things really simply, Anthropic and OpenAI are a way that hyperscalers can feed their revenue to themselves by spending money on capex, backstopping compute contracts, or doing direct equity investments.

Their continued existence allows the AI bubble to continue inflating, but this can only continue as long as venture capital and hyperscalers are capable or willing to invest. There is simply not the demand — not from open source, not from other AI labs, not from self-hosting, not from anywhere — to justify the capex or the massive data center buildout.

And for those arguing that there would be a dot-com bubble recovery story, I must be clear that if there isn’t demand today, it won’t magically appear tomorrow. AI GPUs will cost just as much to run in five years as they do today, as will unfinished data centers cost just as much to finish, as will electricity remain expensive, and all this will be happening after it’s easy to raise venture capital to actually buy the compute.

To quote my buddy Kasey, every major cloud compute provider is solely standing on OpenAI and Anthropic.

OpenAI and Anthropic are time bombs, and when either of them explodes, everybody will ask why we didn’t see the brutality that follows coming.

The truth is that nobody wanted to look.

To stare at these numbers and reconcile with their meaning is to acknowledge that the current state of the tech industry is based on mania, deceit, circular financing, and outright cons, and that the ascent of NVIDIA was primarily driven by three companies building compute capacity for two unsustainable companies that became existential to their growth, inspiring hundreds of billions of dollars of waste by obfuscating how little real demand existed.

I realize it’s difficult to think about scary things, and how easy it is to dismiss me as a doomer or a catastrophist, but mine is a logical and rational argument in an era poisoned by hype and grifting at a scale unseen in history.

The greatest lie of this era is that the tech industry is building the next industrial revolution, when what they’re actually building is a monument to everything that’s wrong with modern capitalism — wasteful expenditures disconnected from any real benefits generated as a means of pursuing growth at all costs, setting up a collapse that will tear a hole in the tech industry and the markets, and leave the world full of half-built monoliths sold to local communities as job creators.

The fact we’re talking about compute futures is a joke. The fact we’re talking about AI factories is a joke. Almost every aspect of the AI bubble is a joke, and in the end, investors and the general public will be the punchline. The rich will have gotten richer, the banks will have harvested fees, the hedge funds will have traded and taken profits, the private credit funds will have gotten their fees, and anyone who didn’t have an active inside track will be fucked.

All of this could’ve been avoided, but the world has a cult-like obsession with the wealthy, believing that the CEOs of the largest companies in the world could never make a bad decision, and that any executive is automatically smart by virtue of being rich and powerful.

And oh, how silly that’ll look in retrospect.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026

BREAKING: Republicans are no longer worried about deficits and debt Bessent: "I'm not as bothered by it ... if '26 is flat to slightly up, this isn't wasteful social spending "

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

THE $168 BILLION WAS TAKEN ILLEGALLY AND THE GOVERNMENT DIDN’T WANT TO GIVE IT BACK. Kill me I’ve wasted my life.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is rape culture.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Flock doesn't just search for cars, it searches for you. "'FreeForm' searches... allow cops to use Flock’s system as though they would use a search engine, with Flock’s AI and image recognition interpreting what footage and which people are relevant to a police officer’s search." @404media.co

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How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars

Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Me...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

As Bowie would say to Mark Goodman two years later: “.. Having watched MTV over the past few months, .. I’m just floored that by the fact that there’s so few black artists featured on it. Why IS that?”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The easiest possible layup for a President at war with another country would be to explain that they are attacking us. Trump won't do that because he views Minnesota as a bigger enemy than Iran.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/07/2026

Reading the Euromoney 2005 awards from July 1 2005 and learning about how "Lehman Brothers has been one of the more conservative credit derivatives houses."

Awards for excellence – Best credit derivatives house
Awards for Excellence 2005

July 1, 2005

5 min read

Awards for Excellence 2005

Lehman Brothers

Lehman’s steady but sure approach in CDOs and CDS is paying dividends

Jim Ballentine
Jim Ballentine, Lehman Brother’s global head of structured credit, told Euromoney last year: “In certain respects people are getting ahead of themselves, looking at structured products because they are structured products, rather than focusing on the value that these products are adding.” He looks smart now.

Lehman Brothers has been one of the more conservative credit derivatives houses. It has focused on doing the right things for its credit derivatives clients. If that has meant missing out on a few extra cents per share over the years, so be it. And it has protected the bank from the reputational risk that the likes of Barclays Capital and Bank of America have run selling synthetic structured credit products. Lehman Brothers’ refusal to get ahead of itself is one of the reasons that it is our credit derivatives house of the year.

That’s not to say that Lehman can’t handle complicated products. There is more to its credit derivatives capability than flow CDS business. “In our overall structured credit business, CDOs is front and centre and correlation trading is front and centre,” says Ballentine.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

#MNgov @startribune.com www.startribune.com/mike-lindell...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This chart pair never gets old. (via B of A)

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“.. Where is my manufacturing renaissance?!? .. Oh wait it's right there at 1% y/y growth if I just squint hard enough.” @bobeunlimited.bsky.social

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Well, that was ....something. Article about to drop. But that speech was not only bonkers, the documents prove, in some places, the OPPOSITE of what he's claiming.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Unearthed records just revealed that Ken Paxton owns 15 homes on a government salary. This includes luxury real estate in Hawaii, Utah, and Florida.

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Man’s Search for Memeing @pxmorris.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Remember that kid in grade school you played tag with But he called everything “base” And eventually everyone just got annoyed and stopped playing with him? Sometimes that kid becomes president.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Wow

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Still thinking about this Cembalest chart:

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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

NEW: Sports betting companies DraftKings, FanDuel, bet365 & Fanatics dropped $29m into a super PAC called Win for America in the 2nd quarter, bringing the total raised to $70m this year.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 14/07/2026

"believes" lmfao *OPENAI PLANS TO RELEASE HOME SPEAKER AS FIRST HARDWARE PRODUCT *OPENAI BELIEVES DEVICE DOESN’T VIOLATE APPLE’S TRADE SECRETS *OPENAI PLANS TO UNVEIL SPEAKER THIS YEAR, WITH RELEASE IN 2027

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