Facts are Important

Committed to Debunking false information that threatens our society

[Beth Kindig @Beth_Kindig]

Morgan Stanley projects Big Tech capex could hit $1.16 trillion in 2027, with Google leading spending at $350 billion and Amazon following at $308 billion.

$GOOG $AMZN $MSFT $META

[Dan Why-Ner @ReallyDanWeiner]

The Mets are wearing their normal uniforms and not the Friday blacks because Emma Stone is there filming a movie that involves the Mets. I presume it's a horror movie.

[Michael McLean @cornoisseur]

I believe this will be the largest geothermal building in the Midwest. 120 closed loop bores.

https://t.co/tx49ltZb9q

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

Anthropic engineer:

"You're not supposed to prompt Claude. You're supposed to build a system that prompts itself."

In 45 minutes she shows exactly how Anthropic builds agents that remember, fix their own mistakes and get smarter with every run.

This beats any paid course on agents I've seen.

Watch it, then read the guide on building loops below.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

In this post I explain why the Nazis really were the worst regime of the 20th century -- and possibly, of all of history so far.

They were less like conquerors, or even other genocidaires, and more like an alien armada bent on annihilating the entire rest of the world.

[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

I found this very interesting. Percentage of adults living in their birth state.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

If you were ranking regimes instead of individual leaders, the ranking might be something like:
1. Nazis
2. Imperial Japan
3. Khmer Rouge
4. Soviet Communist Party
5. Mao-era CCP
6. Young Turks
7. North Korea
8. DERG
9. Suharto
10. Idi Amin

[Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 @jmhorp]

Norway has a *lower* top marginal income tax rate than the US, but they apply that rate to a lot more people. Is this what Democratic Socialists in the US want? It doesn't seem to be what they are proposing

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

Counterpoint:

[Frank Calabrese @FrankCalabrese]

I am making a submission for Chicago AI slop map of the year

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

Tonight I heard a failed and desperate president who as war spirals and prices rise is as always focused on his grievances, his shame, and above all his fear of the accountability that will come with defeat.

I also heard a president signaling his unmistakable intent to attack these elections and our voting rights, just as he tried to throw out our votes and seize the presidency in 2020.

Our answer will be overwhelming.

Across Georgia a wave of defiance is building to rebuke him so decisively that no president ever again dares such brazen corruption and abuse.

The power of the presidency is nothing compared to the power of the people.

[A.J. Manaseer @AJManaseer]

Remarkable chart produced by @richsday in today’s A City That Works newsletter.

It’s astonishing that Brandon Johnson and his ideological allies see this and think to themselves “let’s propose an ordinance that makes it more expensive and perilous to rent out housing.”

In any case, the landlords of Chicago think them for their service as rents soar. 🫡

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

As I tell Coleman Hughes: "I think if an alien were coming to earth, and they were studying America and Europe, the last 20-30 years, they would say these are the best run societies in human history."

This is what populists don't understand.

Stop listening to grifters.

[build mixed use taco-houses 🌐🥑 @yimbyism]

There is a minor wave of tax cuts ongoing in the Nordics. Finland is looking to cut corporate tax from 20% to 18%, Denmark from 22% to 19%. Meanwhile, Melat Kiros thinks "above 50%" is a good target for America's corporate tax rate.

[Alok Kumar @Alokkumarzz]

Bill Ackman literally gave a 44-minute masterclass that explains money better than any business school.

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.

[GURGAVIN @gurgavin]

SOMEONE JUST FILED FOR A S&P 500 & NASDAQ 100 ETF THAT EXCLUDES ONLY ELON MUSK’S COMPANIES

THE FUNDS ARE CALLED EX-ELON ENTERPRISES ETF

THE FUND EXCLUDES ANY COMPANY “FOUNDED, CONTROLLED, OR LED” BY MUSK CITING GOVERNANCE CONCERNS & POLITICAL RISK

$SPNE $QQNE

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

We quite literally spend more on education than any other developed nation and get middling results for it

[Facts are Important @PoliticsCountry]

@EyeOnStalk @lorintbc He was critical under Obama. More so than almost anyone at the time

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