brain still getting used to to seeing "Iran War" and not reading Iraq and having to realise every time that oh yeah they're really doing this all over again
Runako
@runakog.bsky.social
Builder of tech, startups, and ATL. O(1) chill.
If states are the laboratories of democracy, then Florida is Walter White’s RV methmobile. It’s cooked up a home-insurance crisis “fix” that only insurance companies could love Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Florida Chooses Insurers and Their Profits Over Homeowners
US states are supposedly the laboratories of democracy, cooking up and testing local solutions to national problems. But some of those labs are more like Walter White’s RV methmobile: They’re not alwa...
bloomberg.com
Once again, those of us who understand the Times is a problem are in a tiny minority
Mediagazer@mediagazer.com · 11h agoThe NYT added 280K net digital-only subscribers in Q2, below 295.3K est., forecasts Q3 digital-only subscription revenue below est.; NYT drops 8%+ pre-market (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
A day of remembrance and celebration Happy Fade In The Water day
DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
"We were fine with SpaceX being with $50tn dollars in 2050. But draw the line at 8% increase in CapEx spend."
i mean if you bought it at a near *$2tn* valuation and NOW you think maybe there's some issues here then i don't know what to tell you
The Strait is open again they say - huzzah - and then I check and we’re at 3 crossings today
i get it, i do, but the notion that it's above-consensus AI spending that kiboshes this thing is just bizarre to me. The whole set-up is bonkers in so many dimensions and people are sucking their teeth and saying 'ooh punchy AI spending, i'm not sure about all this'. Nuts
CNBC@cnbc.com · 15h agoSpaceX dives over 8% after AI spending surge rattles investors
Drone attack on an oil refinery in Ufa, Russia. ~1,500 km from Ukraine's border.
I had two A+ immigration lawyers, the full backing of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and direct support of Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock's teams, and I still lost half a year of my life, three speaking opportunities, and tens of thousands of dollars in wages. Imagine a normal person.
What is truly "shocking" about the polling miss in Michigan is that it is completely average for a primary "The expected error on the margin between two primary candidates in a race for governor or U.S. Senate is a whopping 13.0 points." blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/2026-texas...
Do we really know who's leading the Texas Senate races?
Primary polls have historically been rather unreliable, and a surge in new primary voters means turnout assumptions matter more than usual
blog.fiftyplusone.news
|horses|@chemotaxis.bsky.social · 13h agoPolling is like really fucked. Strikes me as a huge problem honestly.
⚡️ 'Modified drone' found next to Ukrainian transport plane at German airport. Flights at Germany's Leipzig/Halle Airport were suspended overnight on Aug. 5 after a "modified drone" was sighted and later found next to a Ukrainian Antonov Airlines An-124 transport aircraft.
'Modified drone' found next to Ukrainian transport plane at German airport
Flights at Germany's Leipzig/Halle Airport were suspended overnight on Aug. 5 after a "modified drone" was sighted and later found next to a Ukrainian Antonov Airlines An-124 transport aircraft. The ...
kyivindependent.com
I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.
Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 20h agoOne way to be safe is to never write an electability take
couple months ago: let's show these assholes why americans are drowning in medical and other personal debt now: wait what we don't even have the weaponry now either
Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2
Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints
Soldiers can no longer make anonymous reports of discrimination, and commanders can more easily dismiss complaints they disagree with.
trib.al
No, I don't care if Emily Moreno "asked her dad to keep quiet." I also don't want to unpack the trauma that has her sitting between an abuser at home, and a dad that defends that abuser, while she goes to work every day to promote another abuser, and makes sure anti-abuse legislation doesn't pass.🤷🏿♂️
New KFF analysis finds that ACA Marketplace insurers are proposing a median premium increase of about 15% in 2027. This would be the second consecutive year of double-digit premium hikes. https://on.kff.org/4h9Ou3p
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...
"social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music" (so, female-coded professions. guess who this will hit the most?)
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Indeed, I heard at a private event just the other day that every 15th Flock camera contains a magical golden egg
Christopher Anders @chrisanders74.bsky.social · 2d agoWould have been better to have clarified that *some* flock cameras have 2-3 lbs of copper and 1-2 grams of gold. However, only 5 of them have a golden ticket.
The full read of the post on Twitter.
Faytuks Network@faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 2d agoInternal figures claim the U.S. Army has exhausted nearly all of its ATACMS and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM) stockpiles during the ongoing five-month war with Iran. The severe depletion, including around half its global Tomahawk supply,… https://x.com/FaytuksNetwork/status/2084588400749793754
Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
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
Demanding to examine a child's genitals for them to play sports is fucking insane
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
