Zachary Ross

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[Michael Green @profplum99]

Hysterical. 'No industrial policy?' The transcontinental railroads were built on 130 million acres of federal land grants and massive state loans. Throw in 40% protective tariffs shielding Carnegie's steel from foreign competition, national guard crushing labor resistance, and political office for sale, and it looks a lot like massive state intervention.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The Wizard of Oz turns 87 this year, and back in 1998, critic Rick Polito wrote what might be the greatest one-line TV listing ever for TCM.

[Zachary Ross @cravenbrain]

@TonyNashNerd Memento and The Prestige are his best movies. Tenet may be the worst movie ever made.

[Zachary Ross @cravenbrain]

@RaoulGMI @SantiagoAuFund Perplexity refines this to: Bessent appears to be using swap-line diplomacy and allied financial links in Asia and the Gulf to support offshore dollar liquidity and reinforce dollar dominance.

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

🚨 Scientists discovered unusual black fungi growing inside the remains of Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, one of the most radioactive environments on Earth. These fungi include species like Cladosporium sphaerospermum, Cryptococcus neoformans, and Wangiella dermatitidis, all known for their high melanin content.

What makes these fungi remarkable is their ability to perform a process called radiosynthesis. Similar to how plants use sunlight for energy through photosynthesis, these fungi appear to use ionizing radiation. Their melanin pigment interacts with radiation and converts it into chemical energy, allowing them to grow even in extremely radioactive conditions.

This phenomenon was studied in multiple experiments, including research published in 2007 in the journal PLoS One (Study on radiotropic fungi behavior). The findings showed that radiation exposure actually enhanced fungal growth, suggesting that these organisms are not just resistant but may actively benefit from radiation.

The discovery has gained attention from organizations like NASA. Experiments conducted aboard the International Space Station in 2019 demonstrated that Cladosporium sphaerospermum could reduce radiation levels, supporting its potential use as a natural radiation shield for astronauts. This could be valuable for long-duration missions, such as travel to Mars.

In addition to space applications, these fungi are also being explored for bioremediation. Their ability to absorb and interact with radiation makes them promising candidates for cleaning up radioactive waste sites and contaminated environments.

Overall, this discovery highlights a rare and fascinating adaptation of life, showing that some organisms can not only survive but thrive in conditions once thought completely uninhabitable.

[Zachary Ross @cravenbrain]

@rcwhalen vainglorious abomination

[Zachary Ross @cravenbrain]

@NewLowObserver Oslo?

[Nazem Alkudsi @LongArcNews]

We published the full analysis.

The transmission chain — from Hormuz to fertiliser feedstock to grain prices to sovereign fiscal stress — mapped end to end.

This is not a 6-week disruption. It is an 18-month repricing of the global food system.

Read it here: https://t.co/JAHdYvXZbe

https://t.co/T8jKNOIXKb

[Michael Green @profplum99]

100% correct

[Michael Green @profplum99]

Zaphod Beeblebrox: “he is a controversial and flamboyant figure who invented the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster and is famous for his outrageous behavior, which serves to distract from the galaxy's true rulers.”

[Zachary Ross @cravenbrain]

@DarioAmodei You ought to cite Richard Brautigan, and maybe Adam Curtis too.

[Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. @RudyHavenstein]

I'll make this easy for you...

[Craig Brockie @CraigBrockie]

Scientists just cracked the multiple sclerosis code after decades of searching.

Two specific gut bacteria are triggering the disease, and they've proven it using identical twins and mice.

This changes everything we know about MS:

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

After being thrown at, Lenny Randle drops the perfect bunt so he can absolutely destroy the pitcher

[Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. @RudyHavenstein]

People forget that President Ford used to taunt the turkeys before he had them killed.

[Zachary Ross @cravenbrain]

@profplum99 @barryknapp Schopenhauer would be proud.

[Alex Johnson @AlexH_Johnson]

Holy fuck.

[Nate Friedman @NateFriedman97]

I asked Curtis Sliwa "are you okay with losing and knowing you contributed to Mamdani's victory?"

I did my best to relay the concerns of capitalist america and used @BillAckman's tweet as a reference "a vote for Curtis Sliwa is a vote for Zohran Mamdani"

This was Sliwa's response.

[Adam Butler @GestaltU]

Here’s a hard truth about modern society.
We don’t practice Capitalism anymore.

Rather, for the last 40 years we’ve been conducting a horrific experiment called “neoliberalism”. And we’re near the terminal point in that experiment, a stage I’ve been calling metastatic market fundamentalism.

Capitalism is agents organizing to seek profit by serving the needs and wants of customers. Metastatic market fundamentalism treats citizens as feedstock for corporate profits.

Social media is a canonical example. It’s established fact that Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram etc. algorithms, which are tuned to maximize advertising revenues via limbic activation, and produce political division and derangement, depression, and a host of other problems. But regulating against these algorithms might impair corporate profits, so America doesn’t regulate them. Because the system isn’t designed to protect the rights of Americans to not be exploited by corporations for profit. The system is to designed to protect corporations’ rights to extract maximum profit from citizens.

This is pathological sociopathy at societal scale.

I adore Capitalism. It’s a truly miraculous tool, but shouldn't be used to solve all problems.
Take science: it is unequivocally the optimal way to seek empirical truth and model reality. But science can't address which questions are worth asking, or what priorities are most important to citizens under resource constraints.
Similarly with Capitalism. It is an unparalleled engine for allocating resources and commercializing innovation, but it is a terrible arbiter of human values. When we ask the market to decide what constitutes a good life or a just society, it defaults to the only answer it knows: whatever is most profitable. That is the metastatic cancer.
A functional society knows when to invoke science, or capitalism, or democracy, or the judicial process, or the deliberative bodies that define its public good. The central challenge of governance is to protect the sovereignty of each institutional sphere, ensuring that the logic of the marketplace does not set the curriculum for our schools, write the laws for our courts, or determine the mission of our hospitals.

So here’s where we are: We built the most powerful resource allocation machine in history, then let it allocate us. We became the resource. The product. The feedstock. If you think I’m being dramatic, ask yourself - when did we last make a major policy decision that hurt corporate profits but helped actual humans? That silence you hear? That’s the cancer winning.

[Zachary Ross @cravenbrain]

@Karpyperth @hardrock_fracer @JoshCrumb @abaxx_tech @ErikSTownsend @MacroVoices Amen. I also jumped on Abaxx back then, in a smallish way. Thanks @ErikSTownsend