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Strategy based on data analysis and economics

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

the technology worked but not in a way that provided value, also known as it not working

[DubbleDee @DSaDarryl]

@business In India they would say:
Medical “operation is successful, Patient is dead”

The point of doing this stuff is to extract value. Everything else is just performative BS.

[DubbleDee @DSaDarryl]

@BBCBreaking Why is a British soldier in northern Iraq?

[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

Groups represented by a lobbying firm owned by Kory Teneycke, Premier Doug Ford’s campaign manager got more than $100 million in grant money from the Skills Development Fund (SDF) , a Trillium analysis has found.
https://t.co/BNuKApa3JG

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

It would be pretty cool if billionaires started competing over who could plant the most trees, house the most homeless people, and remove the most pollution from the Earth.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The Guardian regurgitates British state propaganda by accusing a UK "influencer" of spreading "Iranian regime messaging". On a visit to Iran, Bushra Shaikh reported the effects of US-Israeli air strikes, including one on a girls' school that killed some 170 Iranians, mainly children.

That used to be called journalism – stuff the Guardian and BBC claim to do. The Guardian amplifies calls for Shaikh to be investigated for "sanctions violations".

The Guardian sees a particularly sinister agenda in Shaikh's posts because:

* They "appeared timed to coincide with critical events in Iran, including the intensification of the conflict, ceasefire talks and nationwide protests in January" – that is, her posts were topical and newsworthy.

* They showed a “highly calculated pattern of social media manipulation” – that is, she was good at promoting her posts.

* They attracted "disproportionately high engagement” – that is, lots of people were interested to read her posts.

* They "offer followers unmediated, at times citizen journalist-style access to a war zone" – that is, she didn't have to submit her reports to Guardian editors so they could edit out information that might embarrass western leaders.

Shaikh herself is reported as being "aligned with anti-imperialist, anti-colonial frameworks” – that is, she doesn't simply regurgitate British state propaganda, like the UK corporate media.

This Guardian hit-job isn't about getting to the truth. It's the paper desperately trying to protect its traditional information monopoly for "liberal-left" audiences, and thereby remain useful for the security services.

[Edward Gofsky @EdwardGofsky]

$SPY ~ 1929/2000/2026 analog. ~ A 20% gain in the S&P 500 tech sector in four weeks has happened only three times in the last 100 years. 1929 Radio Mania. 2000 DotCom Mania. 2026 (April/May) "AI Mania". All 3 featured “circular financing” or “round tripping” accounting. $QQQ $GLD

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

India is still on fire it's been 10 days and some places have hit 45C every day

They have no AC and nearly 2 billion people have to live AND work in this

Within a decade or two it is going to be unlivable and they are all going to migrate

THEN you will be complaining

[Alan Fisher @alanthefisher]

The SpaceX IPO is reallying going to be the first domino that takes everything down.

>S&P 500 rules are waved to fast track SpaceX into the fund
>Mutual Funds will be forced to buy SpaceX stock using retirement funds & 401ks
>SpaceX is now tied to Xai which is losing a shitton of money
>Xai is tied to Nvidia
>Nvidia is tangled into every AI company in existence and we're already seeing cracks

And on top of all of this we have the dumbest administration of all time that's going to do a rug pull with the whole thing.

[CJ Werleman @cjwerleman]

🚨 New study shows the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Washington Post, CNN, Politico, USA Today and Axios collectively used the term "savage" 16 times for the killing of Israelis, but never for the killing of Palestinians.

Likewise, "slaughter" appeared 120 times in relation to the killing of Israelis, but only once for Palestinians.

"Massacre" was used 344 times in relation to Palestinians killing Israelis, but never for Israelis killing Palestinians.

"Barbaric" was used 14 times to describe the killing of Israelis, but zero times in relation to the deaths of Palestinians.

The cable coverage displayed a similar pattern.

MSNBC, presenters and guests used
"massacre" 177 times, "barbaric" 46 times, "savage" 23 times and "slaughter" 102 times in relation to Israeli deaths.

They never called the killing of Palestinians "barbaric" or "savage". In relation to Palestinians, they only used “massacre" eight times and "slaughter" four times.

References to "savagery" and "barbarism" echo the logic of settler colonialism, identifying the uncivilised natives as a problem to be solved.

Credit: ‘How to Sell a Genocide: Media’s Complicity in Genocide’ by Adam Johnson.

[Ted Rutland @TedRutland]

If we are going to call the cost of public services a “loss,” then Canadian police forces lost $20 billion last year while delivering no birthday presents and also killing a lot of people.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: India’s national exam board admits its grading portal had cyber vulnerabilities flagged by a teenage researcher.

[Back On This App and It’s Still Hell @wickdchiq]

I don’t want to hear anyone complaining about how far ahead China is in renewables. We had the advantage for years and squandered it through politics and policies

[Barchart @Barchart]

Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.A now holds 32% of its total assets in cash, the most in history 💰💵🤑

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Britain has the least generous state pension in the G7 - measured as a percentage of average earnings - and the highest rate of pensioner poverty in western Europe. And Jeremy Hunt thinks pensioners have got it too good?

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

للتنبيه العاجل:
وقف إطلاق النار بين إيران والولايات المتحدة يُعدّ، من دون أي لبس، وقفاً شاملاً لإطلاق النار في جميع الجبهات، بما في ذلك لبنان.
وإن انتهاك هذا الوقف في أي من الجبهات يُعد انتهاكاً له في جميع الجبهات.
وتتحمل الولايات المتحدة وإسرائيل مسؤولية تبعات أي انتهاك للهدنة.

[DubbleDee @DSaDarryl]

@globeandmail @globebusiness Faces crippling debt? That’s a new one - who suggested that to you?

[Rohit Parulekar @RohitP_liberty]

The problem now is, Modi doesn’t care whether public sentiment is against him. He has ensured that election results are now independent of who really votes for whom.

[Sandeep Manudhane @sandeep_PT]

The reason Modi remains totally silent on crises like the CBSE OSM fiasco is that the issue will then reach the entire Indian population quickly, which otherwise would be restricted to a small group of directly affected folks, as the entire Godi Media suppresses stories with an unmatched zeal, and WhatsApp University creates diversions and new nonsense every hour. So issues die their unnatural early death, and he simply moves on.

Repeat on loop.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Many MPs tell us that the current state pension age is 'unsustainable'. Which is odd, really, given that they can claim parliamentary pensions as soon as they turn 55.