www.wsj.com/finance/leop... okay, his resume is FTX, Open AI (fired for leaking), and an AI hedge fund—the most crowded bubble ever—that blew up well before the bubble burst, and he’s still worth a friendly WSJ profile? “Ambitious young smart ass blows up hedge fund” so what

His Wedding Guests Were Arriving—Just as His $45 Billion Fund Was Falling Apart

Leopold Aschenbrenner was hailed as the ‘Nostradamus of AI.’ But his Situational Awareness hedge fund took on too much leverage, leading to a crash he never saw coming.

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“Musk excels not because he can’t stop winning, but because he understands that, in the financialized logic of our age, winning is less important than the perception that you will win. Speculation beats fundamentals.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The Myth of SpaceX

The company has mutated into something that defies both comparison and logic.

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Most convincing take on Iran War I've seen, sadly. Why sue for peace if we've shown we'll still mount "mow the grass" attacks when it suits us, and they can make everyone hurt by closing the strait and launching drone attacks, + earn cred with their allies www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/iran-em...

Iran Embraces a Forever War

Tehran’s new strategic calculus.

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$300 million in private funds becomes $1 billion in public money. Don't tell me--those private funds are "spent" with no receipts. A better idea: keep it a like it is, call it a monument to lawlessness. Voila! Its art! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

G.O.P. Proposes $1 Billion in Immigration Bill for Trump’s Ballroom Project

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Trump wanted to be Putin, now he is. Iran is our Ukraine, imagined as a quick success but surprisingly tough & resilient. China is now the US, lamenting its rival’s action, but happy to see it mired in conflict. Imagine year 4…

Maybe Trump is desperately looking for an exit from Iran, but equally plausible: He’s doing a Netanyahu—keep the war going because he’s going to jail when it ends. In the meantime, market manipulation with Friday good news, setting up shorts, that surge on reality bad news. Rinse & Repeat

Billionaires buy the govt to avoid taxes, get crazy rich stealing our intellectual property to build AI, driving the country into a catastrophic debt crisis while risking a world-wide job apocalypse which would destabilize the planet. Let’s seize the AI winner, and use the revenue to pay the debt

Here we fixed this for you, @wsj.com We see you trying to help JD pretend he doesn’t have to wear this war when he runs for president. Nope.

Nobel Committee is considering giving Obama another Peace Prize, just to poke the orange bear

So, Trump calls his own bluff, getting Pakistan to post his off-ramp cover story as their own. Good for the world, but Iran surely knows he Taco’d, so next round will be worse. Trump lost the war in Ukraine, lost Europe & NATO, now lost war in Iran. At least we don’t have healthcare.

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

apocalypse averted - this is the moment for republicans to make sure he can never threaten again, not a minute to lose, remove him now

#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks Good morning, friends! Since today is Good Friday, I thought I would remind all of the ChristoFascists and Christian Nationalists of the following facts. Help me spread the message by reposting.

Brown University is home to George Orwell's original manuscript of 1984. Most of it is marked up heavily in Orwell's hand-writing but this untouched page caught my eye.

An apt summary, awful reality, stupid decisions and self contradictory strategies. This won’t end well

TommyBoy@tampatom69.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I hate this timeline.

Mr. Buria told Mr. Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events, the officials said. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Votes to Fund Most of D.H.S. in Bid to End Airport Crisis

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The is is spot on www.facebook.com/reel/7753033...

16K views · 429 reactions | Donald Trump is comfortable as a wartime president, just as long as his advisory is the American people. From the latest episode of The David Frum Show, available wherever...

Donald Trump is comfortable as a wartime president, just as long as his advisory is the American people. From the latest episode of The David Frum Show, available wherever you get your podcasts....

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“We negotiate with bombs,” he says. I, for one, would like to see him try that.

My fear: dirty bomb within 5 years “We’re massively denigrating Iran’s ability to project power, but exponentially increasing their desire to do so...Iran will feel existentially threatened by the U.S. and Israel...Up until now, I didn’t think Iran would seek a nuclear weapon. And now I do.”

Our blood & pricey weapons, they get the treasure www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Saudi Prince Is Said to Push Trump to Continue Iran War in Recent Calls

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In retrospective this is weird that Wikileaks did not reveal the Epstein case. It's almost like Assange was not that uncompromised truth-seeker as he pretended to be.

Consider the fact that we have a president who has worse things to say about Robert Mueller than he does about Jeffrey Epstein.

Imagine voting rights being as important as gun rights.

Spread this dear ones: "Bernie Sanders is suggesting the Epstein files be read during the filibuster on the SAVE Act this week. Let's get this to TREND! Answered that for you

(graphic from Daily Kos)

Tell Trump that, sadly, you need to keep your military ready to defend Greenland, which has recently come under threat.

What a paragraph. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-questions-what-girls-were-doing-in-school-to-begin-with/

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)