Here's a new kind of virus that scientists have generated with AI. And here's my story about what it means for us to have gotten to this remarkable moment: nyti.ms/4bBhoWB (Gift link) 🧪

BREAKING

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 6d ago

TRUMP: GAS PRICES COULD FALL IF STRAIT OF HORMUZ REOPENS

i like how he has more service ribbons and commendations than patton and macarthur combined

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 6d ago

This is a man who has a hard time looking in the mirror

yes elon sir please spend a great deal of money engineering this solution

Jeroen Baert@jbaert.bsky.social · 7d ago

Must sound so cool if you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

oh dear

yup

Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social · last wk.

As Cornyn noted at Blanche's confirmation hearing—and as Blanche agreed!—this doesn't change the underlying settlement between Trump and the government, which required the fund to be established. Trump could sue to enforce the settlement. Or Blanche could resurrect the fund once he's confirmed.

it's sort of remarkable that trump seems completely and totally unfamiliar with the rally around the flag effect, for which, we're probably lucky.

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · last wk.

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

A massive silver lining to the ultrawealthy cynically abusing tax-advantaged accounts is that they've committed to that specific path of abuse, foreclosing all others. It's trapped in there, and we can decide when it comes out and what happens as it does.

George Pearkes@peark.es · last wk.

A 100% tax on all IRA income (capital gains or ordinary income) above $10mm (or some similar amount, indexed to inflation) balance with contributions also capped at that amount is trivially easy to write into law.

We appear to have dropped a mega bomb on a....taxi driver. Centcom's only statement is "We are aware of the reports and looking into them" Gift Link www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/w...

Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians (Gift Article)

The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.

nytimes.com

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. The strike hit a densely populated neighborhood .. .. the evidence raises questions about what the United States was targeting and why such a large munition was used.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/w...

A artificial-intelligence tool dubbed Raygun can miniaturize or supersize a natural protein without disrupting the protein’s shape or ability to function go.nature.com/4fFKvdT

This AI ‘Raygun’ can shrink and supersize proteins — opening the door to easy editing

Nature - Model modifies existing proteins using probability approach.

go.nature.com

Guys, you're still trying to replace Powell. I told you we can't do it, and we can't do it. Now, what we might be able to do is re-create him. Re-create him in the aggregate.

Dario Perkins @darioperkins.bsky.social · last wk.

New Fed communication model - we dont know why they did what they did, but we know - in some detail - why some officials wanted to do something different to what they did. Useful

Loved the game, elite vibes, but do not understand what compelling narrative is there. No idea why my character was doing any of this. Was a I hero? Saving this land and its peoples? Like the gentle folk of the woodlands who, when I approached, would vomit pure death upon me from their worm faces?

IGN@ign.com · 2w ago

The Elden Ring movie from A24 and director Alex Garland has officially wrapped filming and will release on March 3, 2028. https://bit.ly/4h17Fwe

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: In this piece I critique a recent piece from @edzitron.com comparing the AI(LLM) boom to the "Subprime" Mortgage Crisis (and implicitly the GFC of 2007-2009). The ? is:"How big of a macrofinancial threat is the AI(LLM) Boom?" www.crisesnotes.com/sigh-no-ed-z...

*Sigh* No Ed Zitron, AI bond issuance is not AI’s "Subprime Mortgage Crisis”

EDITORIAL NOTE: Given the importance of this issue, and in a desire to be fair when writing such a critical piece, I sent a draft of this article to Ed Zitron to review and give his response to. I've ...

crisesnotes.com

I just call them pants

The Verge@theverge.com · 2w ago

HBO Max is putting on vertical shorts

that bad eh

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2w ago

ISRAELI PM NETANYAHU: TRUMP MEETING WAS ONE OF BEST I'VE HAD WITH HIM

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

This bio reads like a television series that has gone on at least three seasons too long.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2w ago

roald dahl's grandson is a former london-based journalist who once freelanced for the daily dot and then married princess raiyah of jordan during covid but then got divorced and moved to the US where he became a cop in south carolina and just married an american tiktoker

PC slow for about a year, which I ignored and was apparently a failing hard drive. Finally cloning it over and Git diff gives me a fun peek at whatever sectors were corrupted. For my entire main project, looks like the only casualty was.....the water quality in this picture from gudvangen Norway?

"The companies that are eating our lunch competitively should be compelled to give me free pre-release access to their frontier models for....uh.......peer review"

Reuters@reuters.com · 3w ago

Musk proposes peer review for frontier AI models in Economist interview reut.rs/4bGouZL

[Fry seeing his dorm room for the first time] Fry: "Hey, pretty nice for a single. Two desks, two chairs, a couple of beds." [knock at the door] Fry: "A woodpecker."

Materialist Gnostic@walmsley.bsky.social · 3w ago

"A problem that solves itself? Sounds like a job for me, Bender."

An unrepentant draft dodger cynically putting self-serving words into the mouths of fallen soldiers. This should be career ending. Instead, it will barely register.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"

As the US industrialized, workers and businesses entered protracted labor disputes over what a fair pay increase would be to keep up with the cost of living. Workers thought businesses were gaslighting them about how much prices were going up...🧵

Lemondrop 👉 anime arbor! 📚@lipstick-lemondrop.bsky.social · 4w ago

holy moly @hausofdecline.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com ???

The latest round of Trump tariffs are pretty amazing. If they go forward North America will no longer have an integrated car production industry but country-by-country silos. Which also means... a lot less car production. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Imposes Additional Tariffs on Canada

DEFENDING AMERICAN WORKERS AND ENSURING FAIR TRADE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed three Proclamations pursuant to Section 338 of the Tariff

whitehouse.gov

"LLM proves X conjecture is true" seems like a much, much heavier lift than chewing through tokens until you find a counterexample

If there is ever a wikipedia article for Thirsty Bitch...

Another aspect to this: the feds have pointed to supposedly ongoing FBI investigations as a reason for blocking state/local officials from accessing evidence in these shootings. Will they no longer have that excuse now?

Quinta Jurecic@qjurecic.bsky.social · 3w ago

Somebody registered that all these Section 111 cases were backfiring

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*