EGAN-JONES: “.. The cost of losing global leadership can be stark. Take, for example, the United Kingdom. Were the United Kingdom a state in the United States, it would have the lowest GDP per capita of any state.”
OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer: (via CNBC/Kate Rooney)
I have reanalyzed polling microdata from two surveys in Wisconsin, generously shared with me by State Navigate, and put the results up Strength In Numbers for all to learn from. As far as I know this is the only public autopsy from Tuesday's miss www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-13...
I re-analyzed the raw data from Wisconsin's primary polls. Here's what actually went wrong.
What raw data from Wisconsin's Democratic primary reveals about demographic weighting, late movement, and who answers polls
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EKWUEME: “.. They will manipulate oil prices down until the SPR runs dry. .. See the blue horizontal line at the bottom of the chart? That's the physical market. Everything else is paper.”
Hundreds of millions of $ wasted on planes and warehouses never used for deportations www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
Homeland Security Paid $464 Million for Airplanes. Then It Parked Them.
The agency used a no-bid contract to buy 10 used jets, saying they were urgently needed for deportation flights. But the fleet has largely sat idle for months.
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FY2026 US Defense Budget: $900 billion. Interest Expense on US Public Debt over the last 12 months: $1.37 trillion. 💰 (chart via Bilello)
"They almost ran over us!" Is the new "Just plant a gun and sprinkle some crack on them."
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · yesterdayThe only two positions are Abolish Police or Point Guns At Moms Any rational reform position went out the window when kidnappings started. By terrorists whose uniforms say police The police that don’t kidnap don’t arrest them. They aid them How is a mom to know which police to run to or run from?
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Worrying about Google Glassholes almost feels quaint in comparison.
German nonprofit files criminal complaint over Meta smart glasses privacy - Engadget
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Fabulous.
@filmlinc.bsky.social · yesterdayIntroducing a younger Indy in its prologue (played by River Phoenix), Steven Spielberg's INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE screens on a long-dormant 70mm 🎞️ blow-up print (unseen in a New York City cinema since 1989) on August 29 and September 1! 🎟️: filmlinc.org/films/indiana-jones-the-last-crusade
Gemini now has 1B monthly users, their 14th app to do so, and hit that milestone faster than any other app in its history. The impressive part is this is just counting users of the Gemini app or website, not the integration into their various Workspace apps.
Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users
But will Gemini's surge survive slowing model releases?
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".. The robot arms would swing out of control, smashing into carefully calibrated equipment, and sometimes they would unexpectedly drop hunks of steel 5 feet down to the floor." @propublica.org $GD www.propublica.org/article/gene...
Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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The president of the United States sleeping on camera while its under qualified head of health services trembles his way through a rant full of lies about vaccines. Just as measles, once considered eradicated, is now at a 35 year high. Welcome to America. A modern day kakistocracy.
".. This attempt to position Meta as a champion of decentralized technology is comical. .. the only reason Meta isn’t talking up an all-powerful closed AI model .. is that it has so far failed to build a competitive one." @opinion.bloomberg.com $META www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Don’t Buy Zuckerberg’s ‘Good Guy of AI’ Act
After seeing a video of Mark Zuckerberg sparring with a UFC champion on a barge in the middle of Lake Tahoe, you might be inclined to dismiss his man-of-the-people essay published on Monday morning. I...
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Donald Trump is building an American secret police. Killings at the hands of ICE agents confirm that we’re not teetering on a slippery slope, but plunging down a vertical drop. There is a silver lining: Many Americans are standing up. If you’re one of them, thank you, and keep going.
ICE Age
America’s Secret Police
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Straight out of the “sick sticks” in “Minority Report.” Philip K. Dick would be proud. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/ice-...
Can anyone tell the difference between the ICE officers in this video and a literal street gang?
Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 2d agoVideo of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
June 28: Belgium’s diamond industry gifted Trump an 18-karat gold ring encrusted with 321 diamonds and 75 gemstones. July 24: European diamonds got their exemption from Trump’s tariffs. I'm investigating what looks like cartoonish corruption.
China sales numbers are in: EVs up while everything with an engine collapses
China sales numbers are in: EVs up while everything with an engine collapses
The structural collapse of gas car sales has continued in the world’s largest auto market, with July numbers showing that the only type of vehicle doing well is pure battery-electric cars, while sales of every other type of vehicle continue to drop precipitously for months on end.
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Hearing the same from @joetrippi.bsky.social
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 2d agoI've written a lot more about "America's new swing voter" today, showing how "anti-system orientation" is distinct from left-right ideology & driving much if not most of the gains for (1) the DSA in primaries and (2) the Democrats for the general election. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-11...
