Decided to pull out an important part of the interview. Generative AI is often justified with comparisons to the cost of Amazon Web Services ($57bn) or Uber's ($32bn) in losses, when its costs and losses are hundreds of billions of dollars worse. And there's no post-bubble redemption story.

Staggering levels of corruption. They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families. And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.

Free newsletter: The dawn of token-based-billing has shown that generative AI doesn’t have a return on investment. It's too unpredictable, too unreliable, you can't easily measure the cost of tasks, and organizations are already pulling back. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

Oh look -- the Secretary of Energy is lying

New interview with Coefficient Giving CEO @albrgr.bsky.social youtu.be/0SLzoKxQqHg?... One theme: it's time to scale. More funds (Strep A Vaccine is the latest addition), more partners, larger checks.

Ken Paxton was indicted for scamming his own friends. He convinced them to invest hundreds of thousands in a company while secretly pocketing a commission. Paxton sold out his own friends for a quick buck. What makes you think he won't sell you out in the Senate?

Smart people do smart things.

This is clearly the plan.

Yeah 60 Minutes is completely dead. To be fair I stopped watching the program as soon as Bari Weiss showed up. It was a good run.

On target

Let’s call them the Trump/Rubio/Vance/Musk cuts. Because all 4 of them worked to make this happen

So the guy who invited the Taliban to Camp David and gave control of the Strait of Hormuz to Islamic Republic of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is now telling us he just had "a very good call with Hezbollah." Sounds great.

Could the NAACP's proposed boycott of flagship schools in eight Southern states work? With some fine-tuning... absolutely. My column for @theathletic.com ... with help from Maurice Jones-Drew, @alpha1906.bsky.social and the legend, Dr. Harry Edwards (FREE LINK) www.nytimes.com/athletic/732...

Axios is going to report a deal is 48 hours away at least once a week for the next 3 years

“donald trump’s brownshirts” Ossoff going way harder than i expected wow

Ossoff: While you pay more for everything, Trump wants your tax dollars for what many are calling the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom. He forced out that Republican, the one who made him release the Epstein files. That is true commitment to the cover-up.

The people who led the negotiating of Trump's slush fund were all Trump's personal lawyers, who had worked with one another. There was no-one there representing the public interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

Paul Krugman's primer on The New Inequality with lots of nods to recent Greg Ip column in the WSJ. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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Murder.

👏👏👏

Trump bought stock in the UFC’s parent company while promoting fights set to take place at the White House on his birthday, HuffPost has learned

I know there is a lot going on, and not all of this is new, but numerous aspects of this OMB proposal are highly alarming and would, if enacted, effectively force American scientists receiving federal funding (which is...most of them in some capacity or another) to stop engaging with the public.

Springsteen spoke for America last night from Nats Park when he said Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund is "an American outrage." The people’s representatives in Congress cannot allow hundreds of millions of our tax dollars to be showered on MAGA partisans and white nationalist foot soldiers.

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

Buried deep in this reporting is a demonstration of how Elon Musk's decision to gut USAID and its medical support programs in subsaharan Africa can be directly connected to the way in which Ebola ballooned very dramatically in the Congo, clearing 1000 cases in just a couple of days.

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton

Instead of engaging with me and others about the poor conditions, ICE sent in an armored vehicle and a line of armed agents that only poured gasoline on the fire. Civilians were tackled and restrained, and agents fired pepper balls and spray into the crowd. 2/4

If you're interested in the hot (yet complex) field of cancer immunotherapies with >2,000 approved or in the works, I've done a rundown and future outlook erictopol.substack.com/p/the-remark...

I've got to say that I'm really disappointed in the recent discourse surrounding the RCP8.5 scenario. The lack of context and understanding is something I expected from the usual suspects, but it's frustrating to see such bad takes from people and outlets who should know better.

There is no strict Constitutional prohibition against looting the Treasury to give money to traitors, so it's hard to see what Democrats are upset about. by Jonathan Turley

There is profound disappointment in him’: mood in Russia turns against Putin www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

LUCE: “I would love to think that billion-dollar ballrooms, .. overt patterns of insider trading and $1.8bn slush funds for January 6 thugs is what is driving the US public’s seemingly decisive move against Trump. But I’m pretty sure it is about the state of the economy.” www.ft.com/content/2051...

Potential to eliminate the need for Covid mRNA booster shots by using an immune system enhancer "mannadjuvant" www.nature.com/articles/s41... ASC=antibody secreting cells, D=days,

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

All McConnell had to do was whip people to convict on Jan 6th and this wouldn't be happening

Only 21% of legal experts think the federal government still merits the presumption of regularity (the assumption that govt. officials act lawfully and in good faith) in court. Federal judges were higher at 47% but that will decline when they learn about this case brightlinewatch.org/erosion-of-t...

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In case you missed it live, you can now view the full recording of this lively discussion on how/where to find timely, nuanced, and accurate wildfire-related information in the 2020s. Thanks to UC ANR Fire Network for hosting!

Wow

I think a lot of people should go to prison when this is over

How many millions of our tax dollars are they going to be paid for refusing to show up for a deposition?

Todd Blanche may single-handedly cost House Republicans another 5-6 seats this November with his lawless blatant corruption.

Honestly, we need to start showing this again. In prime time. To adults.

Trump stole money from your Medicaid for these freaks to cash out, and any elected representative who isn't loudly opposed to his slush fund is helping him rob you.

Fuck it. Let's try.

Shapiro: Somehow, he can’t find the money to pay for healthcare, but he can steal from you to pay off the criminals who stormed the Capitol.

Republican voters don't want conservatives anymore. They want cult members.