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Following his speech, the president is planning on setting off fireworks for 40 minutes in an attempt to break the world record for fireworks. Firework manufacturers have said this will cost many millions of dollars, but the White House is yet to disclose exactly how much they are spending and how they obtained the funds.

Those USAID funds, and funding for dozens of other programs, aren’t going where they’re legally supposed to anymore, so probably from there.

After attending the Supreme Court hearing earlier this year, Trump falsely claimed in a Truth Social post that the U.S. is “the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!”

This is such a stupid and easily disproved take. I’ve had relatives claim to me that the US is the only country with birthright citizenship. It’s very common in the Americas.

And even if it wasn’t, and the US was the only country with birthright citizenship, isn’t that our choice as a nation? Do we have to do what other countries do? If we’re going to do that, can we start with universal healthcare and then revisit birthright citizenship after, say, better protections for unions, guaranteed parental leave, guaranteed vacation time, unlimited sick time, higher taxes on the wealthy, abolition of at-will employment, and about 100 other policies the US is the only wealthy nation either not to have or to have a legal framework against?

How is this not fraud?

After briefly pushing SpaceX’s market value close to $3 trillion, investors have begun reassessing whether the stock’s rapid advance can be justified by fundamentals.

Nothing in the stock market has been about fundamentals for a very long time. Especially regarding Musk companies.

Originally enacted in 1964 to protect workers during the transition from private to public ownership of mass transit, the provision now blocks the modernization of transit operations: no legacy US heavy-rail system has automated its operations to permit trains to run without onboard crew. In contrast, countries like France and Canada, each with robust labor protections, automate without conflict.

Okay, can we get those robust labor protections first, and then fully automate public transit?

Ok so when a dozen people all go to say the same thing, when do the other people get to speak? 36 minutes later. They get 3 minutes each. These elected officials can spend a half fucking hour listening to their citizens.

Energy is not only a property of matter. Photons have energy, no mass, and are not matter but in fact force carrier particles.

Also of note: According to the Financial Times, some of these SPV deals are being cut up, pooled together and resold to investors as new asset-backed securities.

Oh good. That risk-obfuscating strategy has never caused any economic problems and has only had positive results.

It’s cover. They’re not laying off because of AI. They’re laying off to make line go up.

An inquiry could ultimately see justice department officials, including the acting attorney general, brought before her court to testify.

Don’t waste time having them testify. They have no qualms lying under oath. Subpoena documents. That’s the only way to get at the truth.

Violate the law. The US civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s have a lot of success stories, and stories of challenges/failures that careful study of would really equip today’s civil rights advocates well.

I’m skeptical of just a mathematical model without tying it to real data, no matter how hard the researchers try to make it “realistic.” You can make a mathematical model that says anything. That said, I did find this part interesting:

Burgess and his colleagues delved into the mechanics of ambition after earlier work found that fisheries performed best when boats stopped searching for more fish once they reached higher-than-average catches. They wanted to see if the mathematics supported the strategy in other realms of life, too.

The change will de-emphasize the effects of methane, a main component of natural gas that has a potent effect on the climate but breaks down more quickly than carbon dioxide.

I hate language like this. Carbon dioxide doesn’t break down. It’s stable. So methane breaking down in 100 million years would be “more quickly” than carbon dioxide. This turn of phrase puts an inaccurate picture in the layman’s mind of greenhouse gases that’s very avoidable. Just say “but eventually breaks down, unlike carbon dioxide.” There, fixed in the same number of words.

Some details that seemed important to me:

The protesters tried to stop ICE from transferring Martin Soto – who announced the strike – but officials said that they were able to move him to the Elizabeth contract detention facility.

Laura Herman, who serves as legal director of the advocacy organization Make The Road New Jersey, said that lawyers had communicated with the US attorney’s office. The US attorney’s office claimed he would not be transferred Sunday because of a federal judge’s order prohibiting him from being moved out of state as his habeas petition proceeds through court, according to the City.

So federal court has forbidden them from transferring him out of state, and they decide to transfer him. They moved him to another ICE facility in New Jersey (where he was initially), so this doesn’t break that order, but who would trust ICE to do that?

No I think they mean the linked webpages in the results are websites entirely generated by AI that Bing search has indexed. I’ve noticed this, too, especially looking for guides or help with very niche topics. It’s incredibly frustrating that not just the search engines but the web itself is filling up with AI slop.

This combined with the OpenAI and Anthropic price increases mean I have hope the bubble will pop by the end of the year. Microsoft has to report their stats as a publicly traded company, and both Anthropic and OpenAI are aiming for IPOs in H2, so they will have to disclose stats for that as well. When all of their “customers” go up in smoke once the real price tag hits, they won’t be able to hide it.

AI in its present form is just too expensive without venture capital footing 90+% of the bill. They burned through that too quickly. They didn’t get the traditional economy addicted to AI enough; most companies can unwind most of the changes they have made to roll AI into their operations.

Edit: GitLab might be screwed, though.

“Iran now knows without doubt it needs a nuclear weapon to survive, and will probably threaten the Strait of Hormuz in perpetuity,” the Nato source added.

This is Trump’s legacy. There’s no way to undo this. No amount of diplomacy or military action will ever be able to change their minds after what the US has done. It doesn’t matter who gets voted into office for the next 30 years. The Iranians won’t forget this.

No, sales are going down because prices are going up. If you have a fixed inventory and sales go down, you lower prices to increase demand and move the product and keep your revenue stream. But in this case, they’re moving supply away from this market (consumer hardware) to a different market (AI data centers). So the supply is going down with (previously) fixed demand, driving prices up. The “motherboard sales are collapsing” headline comes from looking at the consumer hardware slice of the computing hardware market. If you look at total sales from each manufacturer, so include the AI data center sales in the analysis, they’re not having any trouble moving inventory nor keeping up their revenue stream overall.

Was it built specifically for promotional material like this picture? Or does NASA really stamp their logo on anything they build larger than an envelope?

Wholeheartedly agree. The point I’m more trying to make is that they can survive much longer without popular support than other kinds of movements. So Palantir can be very successful for a long time aligning with the regime, even if it will ultimately fall. They can (and probably plan to) jump ship before that fall, like German companies that aided the Nazis did after WWII.