How do they "restart" a war that wasn't a war in the first place? 🤔

It is entirely possible that none of the US ships were hit... But these are military vessels that can return fire and defend themselves. The point of these attacks is to illustrate that the Iranians can apply significant force to any civilian vessel trying to navigate the strait.

every day I am forced to watch markets think we've solved world peace by 9am only to think World War Three is about to start at 12:30

Iran state Mehr News agency reporting air defence activity in western Tehran. Things may be escalating quickly…

instagram is currently reel after reel of realtors bitching about how their clients can’t sell their homes because they won’t reduce the price….

Michael Lewis's book The Fifth Risk is all about how the modern federal government was set up to reduce & eliminate a vast array of invisible problems, which it has done so well that it opened a door to wreckers who claim it did nothing, & are now making that lie true—with disastrous results

U.S. intel also indicates that Iran retains about 75% of its pre-war inventories of mobile launchers & about 70% of its pre-war stockpiles of missiles, per a U.S. official. The regime has also been able to recover underground storage facilities & repair damaged missiles

SCOOP: A confidential new CIA analysis delivered to policymakers this week concludes that Iran can survive the U.S. naval blockade for at least 3 to 4 months before facing more severe economic hardship, a finding that contradicts those hailing an imminent collapse 🧵

Also - there are no "left wing" billionaires. Liberal, sure? But it's aesthetics, not actual leftism.

Love how the price of Brent is dropping despite the fact that *zero* ships have transited in the last 24 hours. It just seems like everything is vibes based only these days.

I'm assuming Iran gets virtually everything they want out of this. Can't see why they wouldn't.

And most of those corps are posting profits due to circular investment in private AI corps, based on nothing resembling profitability. The economy is a house of cards.

18 games into his MLB career, Kazuma Okamoto moved back in the box by more than half a foot. Ever since? He's been a top-5 hitter, with a .308/.400/.708 line. On how a big step back might have been a big step forward .. www.mlb.com/bluejays/new...

Before the war the largest LNG buyer in India said they would start buying more when prices dropped to $6-7 per mmbtu. So, it is easy to see why LNG is doomed in India. And elsewhere.

"Globally, LNG trade has dropped to around 33 mt in April — down 10% year-on-year and marking a multi-year low" That is some serious flaring.

This is Huge. "NEW exclu from @NBCNews team: "Trump’s abrupt U-turn on a plan to re-open the Strait of Hormuz came after backlash from allies. Saudi Arabia suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, sources say." www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

4/ Good on Gulf anger at DC "You cannot say:
“Please open your skies& bases, expose your energy infrastructure”... Then say: “Oh by the way, if Iran attacks you with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles & drones in several waves,we still won’t retaliate because Donald Trump is busy chasing The Deal"

Kinda (un)cool how this frames it to imply he goes from £35K annually to -£7K... Except if you read it, he says he "might" get a fine, and his revenue won't slide to zero. He will still get his £35K. Has more regulations to comply with. Woe is him.

NEW: The Trump administration blitz that flooded Minnesota with immigration agents hobbled federal efforts to pursue serious crimes. By April, prosecutors had brought charged just eight people with drug or gun crimes, the fewest in more than two decades. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

“.. hyperscalers’ earnings growth this quarter was boosted by an unusually large contribution from equity stakes in private companies .. another sign of just how comically codependent the AI tech industry has become.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/be97...

NHL officially informs teams of the 2026-27 Salary cap and payroll range: Floor: $76.9M Midpoint: $90.4M Ceiling: $104M Maximum salary: $20.8M

By endlessly cycling on the language/electability debate, the elite establishment continuously divides the lower classes, with the objective of preventing coalition building and sustaining their control over the levers of power. If everyone focuses on this, they won't focus on the real problems.

On the topic of absurdly hyperbolic negativity around the Chayka hiring - this article is very much the sort of take that makes zero sense - and is riddled with factual inaccuracies. sports.yahoo.com/articles/map...

As someone who wrote a PhD dissertation on aerial perspectives of landscape, where oblique views are devoid horizon line, I've noticed that GenAI can't handle linear perspective. The orthogonals leading to vanishing point don't align & the vanishing point congests w clutter rather than disappearing.

The overwhelming consensus among the people I encountered during my visit was that separatists are a small but loud minority, fuelled by the algorithm on one particular social media platform (along with a large helping of foreign interference) that is bending reality into something unrecognizable.

If I'm going to continue to make 400 times the salary of the average employer and get a nine-digit golden parachute regardless of the company's performance, then certain sacrifices are going to have to be made.

Gotta be clear about what I am seeing from my own children (aged 13 and 10) and their friends. They are *vehemently* opposed to AI use when it comes to learning and school work and *anywhere* really. They know it hallucinates. They know it prevents them from learning *how* to do things.

Twitter is saying Elon posted as his mom while trying to post as his dad

This is a normal thing. Welcome to the world of building HSR, Canada.

LoL. So... The Leafs drafting first is... Wild. LoL.

The IRGC pretty clearly has the support of the Supreme Leader ... Government appears to be squeezed out of this equation a bit.

It's insane how billionaires have somehow convinced *anyone* that they can't possibly get ahead on $990,000,000. Woe is them.

It's sort of wild that oil prices still haven't hit the *nominal* high from 2008. The peak in July 2008 was $147.27... in today's dollars that equates to around $220 Brent prices are currently around $112. Just absurd.

Can someone explain to me how the Leafs not having a president was "key" to them not making the playoffs? I don't think another suit in the suites upstairs makes any difference to the team on the ice.

Ok so - since nobody else seems curious enough to actually bother doing a serious comparison of Chayka's *total* draft record vs the rest of the NHL for the 4 years from 2016 through 2019, I have gone ahead and done some quick "big picture" analysis.

If nothing else, he clearly stated the issues with the team's D group, speed, and transition game through the NZ... All of which are fairly obvious, but goes well beyond anything we have heard from anyone in management/coaching for a while.

On the Chayka hire... I feel ambivalent. Specifically this means I have competing thoughts that pull in both positive and negative directions... Not indifference. I like that they went towards a more analytical and data based decision making model. I'm ok with hiring Sundin as a player bridge.

It's telling that Chayka is getting grilled like this while Quenneville and Bowman were served up softballs to talk about charity work they did or whatever.

Gotta be honest. Having Steve Simmons decide you are the worst before you actually do anything is a very solid way to convince people you really might be alright.

lmao www.euronews.com/next/2026/05...

It's going to be really easy to ignore the media if they all try to tear him down immediately. Not sure the access brigade is thinking this through lol.

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LoL Simmons just goes for the jugular immediately. Guess he got used to being frozen out by MLSE.

So the big frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI are likely going to get drastically more expensive fairly quickly as they try to line up IPOs - gotta prove profitability. There is also a drastic push to reduce the *size* & *energy requirements* of models as they try to increase efficiency.

So far: - US support turns out to be a map + insurance - Iran lobbing things at ships crossing (UAE tanker for sure, US ship maybe not) - Trump either decided last minute to turn the warship around or Iran fired at it and it turned around

Except the US definitely didn't get attacked by the Iranians... definitely.

And which side has lied more persistently when it comes to this conflict? 🤔

UST 30s knocking on heavens door again. 5% back in sight

Eight different goal scorers for Colorado as Wild give up 9 goals, most in franchise history. And @MileHighRoach may have lost his voice after this bonkers game 1-0 Avs in series

The Avalanche and Wild are on pace to score a combined 105 goals through seven games.