I’m sure I will be much better behaved with this new account.

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Corgi filed for a MANGOS ETF. That’s the latest attempt at a cute acronym which stands for Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI and SpaceX.

I live in LA, taught at Harvard and was an English major. I have a gift for declining grandeur.

Trump may have alienated the Iran doves by bombing Iran, but at least he then also alienated the Iran hawks by chickening out and giving in to the Islamists. That's the type of Art of the Deal only he can pull off.

No one is more obsessed with Israel than those who are supposedly devoted to freeing US policy from Israeli influence.

There is no agreement. There is allegedly a ceasefire to create space for negotiations. The last time this happened, Iran and its proxies spent the “ceasefire” violating it by firing on its neighbors and closing the strait. But it’s the Israel lobby that you’re worried about?

Keane: I cannot square some of the things that are coming out of the administration from reliable sources. When I heard it from the Iranians I dismissed it, that is the same nonsense we always hear. But when they hear from administration sources things that you have heard of what is in this deal that it makes no sense whatsoever

Be like Dan

Every 4 to 8 years, a new group arrives in Washington convinced they have discovered the ultimate solution to the Iran problem, an idea so brilliant no one has ever considered before: if the United States is nice to the mullahs and showers the IRGC with money and goodwill, the Islamofascist regime in Tehran will transform into a normal state. This cycle has been repeating itself for nearly half a century.

During the harassment campaign that I was subjected to in the academy, from which I barely emerged unscathed, I was called many things. But in general, I was not described in the terms of classical antisemitic tropes. As a "Zionist," I was assumed to be complicit in "capitalist-imperialism," but I was not generally associated with money, banking, or finance. I was a "white colonizer" and a "supporter of genocide." I was told many times that I had no right to object because I was "white." I had "Jewish privilege" and I couldn't be a real victim. I was treated as inherently uncredible and as someone who did not deserve to be in the academy because I was a "Zionist." Yes, I was assumed to be an agent of power. But it was not because I was imagined as a hook-nosed banker. It was because I was imagined as a colonizer, an imperialist, a supporter of apartheid and genocide, a "right-wing fascist." I was not targeted by classical antisemitism. I was targeted by antizionism. It really is not acceptable for Jewish organizations that claim to oppose anti-Jewish persecution and defamation to ignore the ideology that is actually causing harm to Jews. If these organizations present themselves as advocates against anti-Jewish discrimination, then it is reasonable to expect them to speak clearly about the persecution that exists in the present, to name it and teach the public about it as it actually exists.

I’m not a comms expert but I would advise the administration not to use talking points taken from John Kerry and Ben Rhodes 2015. Even Obama was more restrained in his support for his deal.

Then release the text! This game is embarrassing.

As SpaceX continues to soar after-hours, it is reminiscent of how everyone was cautious ahead of Google's IPO more than 20 years ago and all that one did was go straight up for 15 months.

He has nothing to say for himself, so his whole campaign will be lies about Jews.

The reason large AI companies with virtually unlimited capital, compute, and computer science talent have not transformed biology is very simple. They do not understand biology. In biology, the hardest problem is not accessing information. We already have enormous amounts of publicly available data, papers, databases, omics datasets, and experimental results. Much of it remains underutilized. Most of it can be converted into computable formats straightforwardly. The difficult part is knowing which questions matter. What do we actually understand? What don’t we understand? Which hypotheses are worth testing? Which experiments would meaningfully reduce uncertainty? Where are the conceptual bottlenecks preventing progress? These are scientific judgment problems, not database problems. What biology lacks is not data. It lacks enough biologists with strong quantitative and computational skills who can identify important questions and use available tools to answer them. Biology is different from coding. The challenge is not retrieving information. The challenge is deciding what information is worth generating in the first place. Once AI companies recruit enough biologists who know how to identify important questions and how to use quantitative tools to address them, the opportunities will be enormous. The bottleneck is not the databases. The bottleneck is biological insight.

Important to understand that while this lady sounds like a lunatic – She also has the most popular political Substack in the world. This is how all the middle-aged ladies in your Facebook and Instagram feeds have been completely radicalized.

‘Historian’ Heather Cox Richardson tells Jim Acosta: “It's not really a stretch to say that the same impulse that created the UFC fight on the white House lawn... ...is the impulse that really pushed lynching in the late 19th century." Acosta nods right along with this batsh*t insanity. Because of course he does.

It’s funny because his campaign is supposed to be “I’m pretending to be one of Maine’s overlooked working class voters” and in reality he’s just ranting about Israel like every other excessively online socialist

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