Evolution of social media?

Statement from the Pakistan Foreign Minsters Office posted on X at 9:08pm Eastern US re the negotiations in Switzerland.

Now you get to argue w both the gov't and your health insurer to get medically necessary treatments. More friction = more $... for them. "I know you have thyroid cancer, and your Doctor is concerned it has metastasized into your lungs, but do you really need that biopsy? Like, really really?"

Quite foolish of Trump to burn these guys publicly.

This is a big deal, because it's the beginning of vacation season in Crimea, and this will crush tourism worse than it already was.

Here are some of the big numbers and trends that draw a fuller picture of how the war with Iran affected the US. | Analysis https://cnn.it/4ew3PIt

Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom’s access to Claude Mythos over claims of alleged ties to China.

"supplies restricted to ​government agencies responsible for essential services and security." I guess it won't be much of a holiday season there.

Both Republicans and Democrats in Congress are resisting President Trump’s calls to raise the Pentagon’s budget to its highest level in modern history. nyti.ms/4uN7NTd

Years after initial tests, researchers are now racing to see if a vaccine developed in 2011 can help fight the current Bundibugyo outbreak in Congo. www.wired.com/story/ebola-...

Wait, Republican Congress actually countermanded a Trump initiative?

No idea what happened to this guy, but I think this raises questions about a Congress person's right to privacy. Does the public have a right to know whether he had cancer? What about alcoholism? Drug addiction? Mental health issues? Depression vs psychosis?

Western officials and experts describe the memorandum to end the Iran war as a flawed document with vague terms that put the onus on the U.S. to deliver concessions. By threatening to resume bombing, President Trump may have already breached one provision.

More American soldiers died in WW1 from the flu than died in combat.

US tells ASML it is concerned China may have top chip tool, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4fVo1Gc

Hyundai to buy SoftBank's remaining stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 mln, newspaper says reut.rs/4guKz0A

Priorities.

Oh my.

New research reveals that off-the-shelf AI tools can help identify which errors in patients’ genomes might be causing the children’s diseases.

Remarkable video.

It seems v easy to predict that AI will revolutionize health care and dramatically increase access for everyone to incredibly good advice. Combined with robotics, it will be incredibly powerful.

Everyone senses that the capital available from markets is limited and everyone is trying to get capital while the getting is good, and importantly before rates go up. I wonder if this is secured or unsecured, and what will be the "use of proceeds"?

Vice President JD Vance warns U.S. critics in Israel against "attacking the only powerful ally" it has left in an extraordinary rebuke.

"Don't tell anyone about the tax side-letter...." (a stereotypical quote from M&A land, and every tax lawyers worst nightmare.)

Speaking of ballistic missiles..

This photo showing how a Ukrainian drone blew the lid off a fuel storage tank in Moscow — the perfect smoke arrangement, even the wispy white trail — looks 100% like a Martian attack. Russia's "Little Green Men" have come home to roost.

honestly, I think Trump should convert to Islam, just to see how many of them would follow.

New Fed "task forces" Warsh will be standing up to create changes at the Fed (presumably, in the direction he wants): 1. Fed communications; 2. Fed's balance sheet; 3. Use and reliance on existing data sources; 4. Productivity and jobs in a era of transformation; and 5. Fed's inflation frameworks.

The truly bizarre thing about this rant is that Trump is intentionally punishing *Republicans* (and by extension the Country) by leaving Pulte as Acting DNI. He is such a sociopath.

SCOOP from me and @mollytaft.com: As data centers become a hot-button issue in the lead up to midterms, Congress and the White House appear to be allowing a little-known regulation on how the government regulates data centers that hold federal data expire. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-us...

Australia's bourse operator ASX proposed capping the number of new shares large listed companies can issue in public takeovers and mergers without shareholder approval on Wednesday, in response to investor concerns over dilution.

Amazing what $70 billion in fresh funding will buy you.

Israel as you might expect is not pleased with the "deal" that no one has yet seen in writing, even though it was apparently already signed today electronically.

'signal messages'

The US secretly approved a financial and maritime arrangement between Qatar  and Iran , under which billions of dollars were paid to Tehran in exchange for free passage for Qatari tankers and ships through the Strait of Hormuz, three diplomatic officials now confirm.

And just like that, Spain is in last place in their Group.

There was a time when, in the face of such a statement, the SEC would have made Musk pay a heavy price as a reporting officer of a newly IPO'd company.

If you don't have a right to a Writ of Habeas Corpus, then you can be jailed forever with no right to ever see a Judge. HC has only been suspended in the US 3x in the history of the US. Once by Lincoln during the Civil War, again in 3 counties in SC to fight the KKK, and in Hawaii during WW2.

High gas prices have more Americans opting for EVs, ChargePoint data

Long VPN providers in the UK.

Confirmed: Political appointees already had their minds made up.

They won't say why McConnell was hospitalized. I'd guess it's for a stroke. He's had so many obvious TSAs.

This is absurd. Trump is taking funding passed by Congress under Biden for the purpose of helping green projects to get established and help overcome the advantages that incumbent fossil fuels sources have, he's taking that money and giving it to incumbent fossil fuel projects.

Gov. Newsom: "I'd like to say something to my wife: These times are not normal. They are not ordinary. I love you. I am sorry he is doing this. You have not earned a single one of the indignities that he is trying to inflict on you and our children."

If the US was smart, they'd send a bunch of troops home on rotation, while they can, then begin bringing them back if/as it becomes clear Iran is just slow rolling the whole thing.

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Blanche might be unconfirmable. Call it the revenge of the deposed Republican Senators.

Do they smell Impeachment?

To me, theobvious new dynamic in the Middle East will be Iran closing the strait of hormuz from time to time to force the US to pressure Israel to stop attacking into Lebanon or Gaza.