Paul Semenza
@paulsemenza.bsky.social
Professor, consultant. Interested in technology, policy, business.
@thr.com does a good job of making the point clear
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1h agoJust to make the point abundantly clear, Chris Wallace is now a paid advisor to an investment firm that has a large stake in Paramount and a vested interest in getting the Warner Bros. merger over the line. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Don't look inside this hot stinking bag of garbage - just buy it! FOMO
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h agoMORGAN STANLEY: ".. On Aug 6th, investors will see an unlock of around $100bn worth of incremental $SPCX, which we see as an opportunity to gain exposure to a potential generational compounder that converts energy into a networked/swarming intelligence at scale." [Jonas]
Reasons differ, but overall a positive trend to have relatively weak D candidates drop out in red states. Interesting that there could be at least 5 independents in the Senate. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Julian Beaudion Quits Senate Race in South Dakota, Clearing Way for Independent
The decision by Julian Beaudion, the Democratic nominee, to leave the race was the third recent withdrawal by a Democratic Senate candidate in a red state.
nytimes.com
Since he is actually hand waving to a broad economic argument (as opposed to the actual goal of empowering resource extraction), here is the share of GDP
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸@patriottakes.bsky.social · 18h agoTrump announces he is rolling back protections for endangered species
If Cornyn and Tillis had done the right thing, then we would have had to say that they were assholes who destroyed democracy, BUT they did do that one teensy go thing at the end. Now we don't to add the but
Jack Hopkins-The Original@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 2d agoCornyn lost his primary. Tillis is walking. Neither has a donor, a term, or a future to protect. Both caved before lunch Monday. www.JackHopkinsNow.com
You know, it is really hard for me to be shocked anymore, but this is something
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 23h ago"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."
"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."
A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing
Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.
npr.org
DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...
I don't think practice has any effect
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d ago43-time Club Champion.
It's really cool that hack Brendan Carr gets bribes to do what he would do anyway because he's a hack
Corey Johnson@coreygjohnson.bsky.social · 2d ago🧵Alert: The backstory on this story may interest you. Or it may bore you. Either way, here it goes. I first asked the FCC for Chairman Brendan Carr's 2025 financial report on June 24.
When Whitehouse is on, he's on. This is a flamethrower.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayWhitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
The only good Republican is an ex-Republican.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"
Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
And then Shaun Maguire says people don't understand
Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 2d agoHilarious. Paul Graham tweeted an unmarked chart that supposedly represents one startup's revenue growth (with no y-axis, no indication of what startup does). Commenter adds a joke annotation. Musk takes that meaningless chart, minus the limited context, and claims its proof that AI is exploding.
Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce
Reuters@reuters.com · 2d agoMichigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E
"Only a handful of stores are opening, so the damage to local grocers and bodegas may be limited at first, but they'll still have to compete against city-subsidized prices, which could drive their prices higher."
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
This is banana republic stuff - we all know that, right?
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
Who killed housing affordability in San Francisco? Despite what the internet's most vitriolic keyboard warriors would have you believe, this is a complicated question. From @esksf.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2026/08/san-...
Who killed housing affordability in San Francisco?
Despite what the most vitriolic keyboard warriors on the internet would have you believe, this is a complicated question
missionlocal.org
Possibly the greatest single male athletic performance of all time Original post
www.mirror.co.uk/sport/golf/g...
Golf course where North Korea leader 'scored 11 holes-in-one in first round'
Stunning pictures of Pyongyang Golf Course show where Kim Jong-il - current leader Kim Jong-un’s father - played his one and only game and outshone every pro golfer who ever lived
mirror.co.uk
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”
