Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

The five stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. We've heard all kinds of denial. Are we entering the anger stage? www.politico.eu/article/dona...

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Crossplay is just Scrabble.

This is insane… US Dollar share of global reserve currency has fallen to its lowest levels this century. It’s literally unprecedented.

US had so many privileges because rest of world trusted our sanity, judgement, currency, and courts. This administration is destroying that trust which will lead to greater competition, higher costs of capital, and nuclear proliferation.

Europe has been our ally for 75 years. This is no way to treat a friend. This is destructive. This is childish. This is dumb.

The USA is controlled by 1 President, 5 Justices, and 50 Senators. You could fit that many on a bus. Even House at 218 is a small crowd. Going forward our reforms should include expanding Congress and Supreme Court to reduce our risk of a single cabal seizing power.

This is welcome news www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/10/n...

After WWII the world swapped imperialism for free trade trade and the global economy boomed from $1 trillion to $100 trillion (real dollars) over the next 75 years. The Trump Administration's preference for "the iron law of power" over rules is certain to backfire economically for all of us.

Loss of trust in America is just beginning to show its effects. Just today: EU and Mercosur (LatAm) agree to form free trade zone with 700 million people Cory Doctorov calls for UK or EU yo start cloning US tech titans, putting trillions of value at risk www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The more Americans allow the President to behave like a thug, the more the honor of all Americans is diminished.

One result of USA abandoning the international norms will be a growing proliferation of nuclear and biological weapons among the smaller states. They must now protect themselves from all comers including from the USA.

It's a key moment for Germany. They have no choice but to rearm. Will they fund a larger combined European military? Or will they try stay separate? If the latter, they will need their own nuclear weapons soon.

The more we let them break the law the more laws they will break

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

The FIFA Peace Prize doesn't mean what it used to

Sick of fundraising appeals that claim "an anonymous person will match your donation". Obviously a cheap manipulation tactic. Have you no integrity?

One of the greats, on character www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

We are opening applications for our 2026 cohort of FutureHouse AI-for-Science Independent Postdoctoral Fellows! Apply our AI tools to specific problems in biology and biochemistry, in collaboration with world-leading academic labs 1/3

Edison Scientific announces $70M seed 🧪 Kosmos reportedly can digest and synthesize across thousands of articles in a single night "Try Kosmos on our platform: platform.edisonscientific.com"

Mit prof of fusion shot outside his home today. A few days after Brown shootings in science lab. I really hope they are disconnected. But extra caution for scientists right now.

"You can't make the authoritarian the center of your message. Make the people the center." "Household incomes, schools, and healthcare are the very issues that affect whether people feel the political system is working for them" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Actually agree it would be smart for USA to focus on Latin America... BUT let's do it in a collaborative way not a threatening way. It never makes sense to pivot away from Europe.

The Gulf stream is shifting away from Europe and toward... Maine!? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Surely they would never try this in USA www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...

One result from US Navy actions happened on Wall Street: Venezuelan bonds are up from 16 cents to 30 cents. A quick 88% return for whoever had the foresight.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

A few times a day I get a spam text so I carefully report it as spam and block the number. But they just keep coming. How many different numbers could they have?

A total of 1.8 million patent applications were filed in China last year, accounting for nearly half of the global total and more than three times the number submitted to the United States, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

What is the point of socializing a "50 year mortgage" or a "15 year car loan" at this moment in history? Does it mean they foresee that long duration interest will rise substantially?

Classic China strategy: Sell solar cells below cost, drive the competition out of business, own the market. Sell EVs below cost, drive the competition out of business, own the market. And now in 2025: Give LLMs away for free...

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Researchers tested Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve AI agent on 67 mathematical problems and found that it discovered improved solutions to about 20 of them (Adam Zsolt Wagner/@azwagner_) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

From Dec. 10, young teenagers in Australia will be banned, under new legislation, from social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok — one of the toughest online crackdowns in the democratic world. Here's what to expect. ⤵️

Admire Warren Buffett not for making billions but for remaining sane after he made billions. Imagine the strength of character.

cc: Janet Mills leedrutman.substack.com/p/why-americ...

Brazil's Embrapa programme - a large public #R&D effort to create agricultural #innovation - shifted research to local needs and raised agricultural productivity by 110%, far outweighing its costs. Ariel Akerman, Jacob Moscona, Heitor Pellegrina, Karthik Sastry cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

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Beijing believes it is racing against the USA to be #1 in science. Trump thinks we win by... cutting science programs while blocking foreign PhD students from coming here to help. Has there ever been a policy more destructive to America's future? www.scmp.com/opinion/worl...

France puts a former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, behind bars www.economist.com/europe/2025/...