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M.C. Escher (Dutch, 1898-1972) Hand with Reflecting Sphere [Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror](January 1935) Lithograph on brown wove paper, 43.5 x 25 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Trump was a cognitive test. America failed.

Great article. Love the line, "Someday, someone, somewhere will make a lot of money shorting Tesla or SpaceX. But it’s unlikely to be you." As they say, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent... meanwhile they pick your pocket with the index inclusion.

would love even one reporter to ask what he’s working on if he’s not replying to constituents or colleagues, not voting on bills and not authoring legislation

Welp there’s no unseeing this

To some random fidelity post

The consumer discretionary ETF has ~47% of its assets in 2 stocks.

“HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN” the president says about a congressman who hasn’t been seen publicly in nearly three months, hasn’t voted since March 5, and has yet to tell his constituents where he is.

Don't look now, but the price of Bitcoin (#$BTC) is nearly $69,420. (Nice)

Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true.

Maybe I'm too nihilistic (and I haven't read the exact facts here but certainly read many of Left's research reports over the years) but all research is biased. You go into reading a report like that expecting everything tilted in one direction. You know that the writer already has their position...

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This is still broken for me. Claude thinks it's an authentication issue (it's not). But i have a new thing i want for Christmas: When will @nugs.net get a family plan? I'm moving in shortly with another nugs subscriber and seems rather silly to pay 2x for one product.

Or stated differently: Pessimism sounds smarter but optimism is more fun and in this case, profitable.

I am begging Democratic leadership: don't make fear the strategy for 2028. The GOP attacks everyone. It doesn't matter if it's a woman, a man, a Christian, a moderate, or a progressive. Pick the best candidate. Trust voters. Meet the moment instead of running from it. #ProudBlue

This is incredible work. Took me a sec.

It's 20days til MSGoose night 1.

Occasional reminder that the US congressman from the great state of NJ, Tom Kean Jr. hasn't been seen in 3mo. Hasn't voted once in the House during that time. Nobody knows where he is. Maybe he's dead for all we know. If you don't show up to work for 3mo, how do you still have a job?

Cool but what happened to the ICE agents that shot Renee Goode and Alex Pretti?

"Bondi refused to answer questions about Trump's involvement in the release of case files on Jeffrey Epstein during a closed-door interview with House lawmakers. Bondi cited her ability to decline questions b/c she agreed to appear voluntarily, and was accompanied by a lawyer from the DoJ."

Consumers getting tapped out👇 Survey data showing investor's cash holdings at multi-decade lows. The yield curve un-inverting. 3 massive IPOs sucking capital out of the market. Data center resistance/overbuild. You have all the ingredients of a shift in the winds, but timing it will be tricky.

An entertaining read / A scary question.

It's ok. I'll just listen to 5/22 Big Modern! for the 7th time.

Tech is Now a Larger Share of S&P 500 Than at Dot Com Peak paulkedrosky.com/chart-of-the...

so uh... i heard there was a decent red bird the other day... where the boards at??

I think about this a lot.

We live in a banana republic. Also, not that it really makes a difference, but she's 82yrs old! How f'ed in the head do you have to be to bring a lawsuit like this to an 82yr old SA survivor? Just unbelievable levels of vindictiveness, pettiness, and smallness.

They will need to appropriate minimum several hundred million dollars just to get the white house back to some kind of normality and sweep it for hidden cameras and listening devices and the media will cover the expense as their first scandal

Did you actually read his commentary? This person has looked around at his social institutions, the corporations, oligopolies, and particularly his elected officials and surmised that they are no longer operating for his benefit but for their own. That just seems like a fact.

My partner and i have discussed this topic at length. It's all a little unnerving. Of course more people are using AI and AI companies themselves are in an arms race to be "the best" but feels like there's more to this than we truly understand or are ready for.

@davewhamond.bsky.social 😂😂😂

Kynance Light, 2022 by Hazel McNab. British contemporary artist. Linocut, pape

I would add Mitch McConnell to this list as well.

So is it that the dog pee kills the center but actually waters the area directly around the 🎯 Asking for a friend.... What kind of homeowners let their dog do this to their already struggling lawn. Smdh

As @mcopelov.bsky.social often and correctly notes: performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties.

This is an incredible YEAHHH placement by Cotter (timestamp). I'm way behind on my listening but I have a feeling I'll listen to this one a lot more this year.

Doug Burgum didn't know that solar power works when the sun's not shining, so I'm not really surprised he's out of the loop on the history of papal encyclicals.

Credit card got hit for $23.50 for a Spotify family plan. I actually need 7-users vs. the current 6 i think it gives you. Are there cheaper/better plans out there from other providers? (Also spare me the Spotify sucks soapbox replies, we all already know that)

One of my pet issues -- this stuff truly upsets me in a way that other topics don't. Pure corruption that keeps us from having nice things. But this article shows that we CAN have nice things if we actually follow the will of the people. defector.com/free-easy-de...

I can't really dog on Trump too much for capitalizing random words - I do that Shit without even realizing it.

I'm not a lawyer, so it took me a little while to really get what was going on in this case but it's pretty outrageous.

being a smarty pants is over-rated www.ft.com/content/5891...

I stumbled upon this one by accident. This has to be the prettiest first 5 minutes of flodown I've ever heard. In fact, the first three songs (and I'm sure the rest of the show which I haven't listened to in ages) are fantastic.

This is one of those articles that i know is going to trigger the shit out of me and I cannot wait to read it.