Could not come up with more ways to screw everyone if they planned it this way.
- Iran in control of hardliners and the strait
- GCC paying through the nose to export, with more conflicts looming
- Isrsel committed to mowing nuclear grass indefinitely
- US ???
Scoop: AFP snapped an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt that incensed the White House—resulting in complaints to news agency and its ultimate removal from the wire service.
We found the photo in question and have the behind-the-scenes story in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karoline-l...
Absolutely INSANE twilight aurora just now from my driveway in North Pole, Alaska. Incredible motion and color, one of the best of the season. Watch until the end, wow!
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This is absolutely what he believes.
If he does this. He’ll stick with it until someone has the balls to tell him tha it’s an economic disaster.
Wwwwhhheeee!!!!
Can’t he just buy a super yacht like everyone else who is super wealthy but lack a penis.
We’re gonna need a bigger Nuremberg.
Of the many images captured months ago during a Thanksgiving briefing, one of Karoline Leavitt incensed the White House, resulting in a remarkable chain of events that led to its removal from the phot...
An interesting failure mode of LLMs in finance I’ve started encountering is that they will relay things like sell side estimates as truth because they appear very high quality and are associated with prestigious institutions. It probably cribbed from IDEF marketing docs! bsky.app/profile/olej...
Andz
Vincent Ledvina
Oliver Darcy
Like idk, maybe im crazy that "trump doesnt care if its closed, and hes just going to leave europe and the gulf to solve it" doesnt feel like it should be bullish to me
Administration officials assess that forcing the waterway back open would mean extending the military mission
Appropriations levels are law and Trump is violating the constitution by not taking care that they be faithfully executed and he has been since the day he began executing the powers of the presidency in 2025.
Isaiah Bishop
tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world
Aaron Clauset
For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals.
The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster.
grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
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Noam Ross
The Fig Economy
FWIW datapoint of one. When messing around with Claude on this topic the other day it reminded IDEF before ITA, claiming it had broader exposure to frontier defense tech. Maybe for whatever reason it’s bubbling to the top of lllm responses.
