EA’s microtransactions are gonna have microtransactions
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 20h agoEA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest
Based on current returns, Stevens needs at least +20 margin out of Wayne to close the gap. Could narrow based on the e-day - absentee breakdown She’s at +1 right now
Axios got some anonymous sources to tell them that Black democrats aren’t welcome in the CBC if they don’t support Jeffries as leader, so it must be true! Its obvious bullshit, and frankly insulting to the political acumen of the leadership of the CBC.
Axios@axios.com · 21h agoSome members of the Congressional Black Caucus want a condition for incoming Democrats seeking to join their ranks: You have to support House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for speaker.
It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough
Still wild to me we’re literally fighting a war entirely outside of trading hours
it sounds like Stevens just isn't a very good politician
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 3d agoDoesn't really seem like she even wants the seat
Why is @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social participating in an organization that promotes what is basically an evangelical, pre-millennialist, fundamentalist christian theology?
Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 4d agoI was today years old when I learned that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand attends a bible study group that teaches that Jewish people killed Jesus, which has been used to justify antisemitism and associated violence against us Jews.
If Russia or China were using a super pac to drop $40 million into a senate primary election, the same people calling criticism of aipac antisemitism would be losing their shit.
the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 4d agothis persistence of trying to make claims of AIPAC interference by Muslim Democrats into bona fide antisemitism is fucking gross and driven by blantantly motivated reasoning
seems like Netanyahu is trying to set conditions for a potential ground invasion of Iran. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026...
Israel and US consider Iran land blockade
Plan would require pressing Tehran’s neighbours such as Iraq and Pakistan to close border crossings
telegraph.co.uk
I'm proud to announce this morning that I ALSO failed to do basic due diligence to air gap my hacking software and it immediately proceeded to do exactly what it was programmed for the only conclusion to be made is that the singularity has arrived and you should give me large sums of money
How could you ever trust the judgement of a development team ever again for thinking this is a good idea. People should be fired for this.
Joanne Stocker@joannestocker.bsky.social · 5d agoWell this is a nightmare
“What is their plan to make money?” seems like a question investors should have been asking a while ago
Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 6d agoTotal AI-related physical investment continued to rise in Q2, although at a slower pace than at the beginning of the year The amount of spending in AI-related physical investment categories is now approaching 1.5% of GDP, nearly 4% if you include software investments
American automakers have been cooked by this administration in historic fashion. I expect gm and ford will be sold for parts to foreign corporations by the end of the decade.
Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · last wk.Impossible to tell if that look in her eyes is the glint of the delighted true believer finally getting the fascism she wants or the terror of someone whose company is hostage to the mercurial dictator she's introducing. In the end, it does not matter one bit.
When Elon Musk says "zero" children died in Africa from his DOGE cuts, he really means zero children died who are *worthy of any concern.* It's vile coded signaling to his global fascist audience. From me and @polphilpod.bsky.social, a deep dive into Musk's fascism: newrepublic.com/article/2135...
The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” Kids
In his explosive interview with The Economist, the SpaceX billionaire inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism.
newrepublic.com
Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
Schatz has the same pathology as Newsom: a need to show "I'm just like you" to awful people with bad values. It's not even cynicism; it yields no additional votes. Destroying USAID was an illegal act by white nationalists with genocidal intent and it has killed people. That's more than just "bad."
Aaron Huertas@aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 2w agoGross to see a senator skip over the part where the aid was cut off illegally and without warning. Cooking their brains on a right wing owned social media site.
Making a decision that directly results in the deaths of thousands to millions makes you a murderer. The appropriated budget for all of FY 2024 was $35 billion. Not only did it save lives, but it stabilized governments and reduced refugees, and it was cheaper than 5 months of Trump’s Iranian folly.
Its also worth noting that the US is not the only country that has cut aid recently and it simply wouldn’t pay to imply that your clients are also implicated in crimes against humanity.
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 2w agoJust to be clear: Ian Bremmer has always been like this with rich people (it’s how his company makes money), it was just easier to look past it when it involved wars and not children being intentionally starved to death.
Taking away someone's food and medicine makes you responsible for their death
One of the annoying things about some IR experts is that they seem to think they are authorities on topics outside of their areas of specialty.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2w agoFuck you, Ian Bremmer, you abject ghoul.
SBU buying up MAGA influencers like Liverpool buying up overpriced strikers
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2w agoI guess Russian transfers stopped?
As I wrote at the time, USAID was the first federal agency killed by conspiracy theory. Joe Rogan floated these theories, Musk believed them, and the Trump administration let the richest man in the world condemn the most vulnerable to death. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
The Death of USAID
The most consequential legacy of DOGE will be human misery on a massive scale
donmoynihan.substack.com