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There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man."
A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life.
Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
@SoundDobad I know this may sound petty, but I can’t stand it when people put photoshop a meth pipe in my mouth. A crack pipe doesn’t have that little bowl at the end. This is why we can’t trust AI. Please make the appropriate edit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Last week, Michael Harnett of BofA included this chart in his May 22 "Flow Show."
As this reposted thread below details, we have not seen the market this concentrated around a single theme in 150 years.
If the EU, China and India find ways of adapting their energy supply to a post-Gulf reality then Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz looks less like an act of grand strategy and more like an act of desperation
@RealCandaceO Who ever said that Moscow (or St. Petersburg) are not attractive cities? Well - if you take your Russia image from James Bond movies maybe. BUT: If you want clean, go to even clearer dictatorships...Minsk is terrificly clean, e.g.
Social media is increasingly anti-social
Only 7% of Instagram time & 17% of Facebook time is spent on content from friends or followed accounts. The rest is algorithmic video from strangers.
This is what happens when you condition algorithms on looking time rather than real social engagement. TikTok set the template; everyone copied it.
And over half of the long posts on Meta are written by AI. People are not engaging, or even creating the content on those platforms anymore.
Real human content and conversation has migrated away from these platforms to substack, discord, etc. https://t.co/qQzCIsxtPS
Mit dem Einkommen abnehmende Zustimmung zur AfD bei der #Bundestagswahl 2025. Hohe Zustimmung bei Netto-Haushaltseinkommen < 2.500 Euro. Deutlich niedriger bei Netto-Haushaltseinkommen > 5.000 Euro.
Before Brexit, there were about 300K net migrants a year, mostly from the EU.
After Brexit, immigration shot up to 900K, and EU migration was negative.
It’s amazing how stupid Brexit was from every possible perspective.
Populism is a low IQ movement.
I said this to @citrini last night, but in the future, will we really need storage?
I take a ton of photos of my kids, and they are on my phone and in a cloud. But in the future, won't I just tell a model "generate a photo from my son's 7th birthday" and it'll be just as good?
CHART OF THE DAY: On Apr 16, the IEA made a headline-grabbing warning: Europe had "maybe 6 weeks or so of jet fuel left." It's week seven; the planes are still flying. Since those headlines, European wholesale jet fuel prices have fallen ~30% to a ~3-month low.