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Insights here on how/why seemingly inexplicable changes are explicable and how predators use social camouflage. May be obvious to others, but a new way of thinking about it for me.
Richard Osman has nailed Russell Brand here all ends up
Explaining Brands spin of playing a victim trying to be silenced by the establishment who don’t like him speaking the truth
The real truth was he knew he was a sexual abuser and the walls were closing in on him
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If WFP, MoveOn and Indivisible actually had a clue, they’d be aware that 1) the election of the Senate Majority Leader is done by secret ballot, and, 2) no Senators are up for reelection in 2027. But charge with your imaginary weapons, children!
NYT reports that WFP, MoveOn and Indivisible are behind Van Hollen and threatening to primary any Senate Dems up for reelection next year who continue backing Schumer: nytimes.com/2026/11/12/us/po…
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To borrow from Howard Baker: it probably won't be long until Washington is seriously asking-what did the president know, and when did he know it?
GOP Senator to @kasie “Apparently the Department of Commerce greenlit the sale of $4 billion in advanced chips to the spy’s company,” Kennedy said, adding he’d like to see Jensen Huang, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Lutnick all testify
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The Scandal Is Bigger Than Jensen Huang
I argue the most alarming revelation in this mess may not be that America’s most influential AI executive was involved with a suspected Chinese spy—but that senior administration officials were warned about the danger and nevertheless continued relying on him.
American strategy has come to depend, to an extraordinary degree, on powerful private-sector actors whose incentives the government cannot simply assume will align with the national interest.
The power of these individuals is fast escaping the reach of the institutions responsible for guarding against technological and geopolitical risks.
The lesson of this scandal is not simply that these people are fallible. It is that we need institutions capable of checking their influence and managing the consequences of their mistakes before these individuals become too powerful to be held accountable.
Read it in @TheAtlantic here: theatlantic.com/internationa…
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Massie will get a vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Massie Trolls Mike Johnson for “Crashing Out” Over Epstein Files Act newrepublic.com/post/217937/… via @newrepublic
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And fittingly, the 10,000th kitty that has been fixed by @IslandsCat is, wait for it, an Orangey! An orangey mommy, actually. This is a non-profit that is dear to my heart because they saved The Eastside Orangeys, the Blondies, & thousands more. We all matter or none of us do.
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Last week @PulidoForTexas crushed his MAGA opponent and flipped a Republican House seat.
This week he just won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Tejano Album.
Felicidades and what a month for Congressman-Elect Pulido!
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She was a legendary campfire cook, a beautiful ballroom dancer, she loved movies, was a bossy momma, a reluctant hunter, a great laugher, fine canoeist, former drunk, and first woman governor of Texas to get there on her own credentials. texasobserver.org/molly-ivin…
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@AnthropicAI You stole my books, you fucking arseholes, pillaged what was not yours to train Claude. Have the decency to pay the authors you ripped off before your IPO. Fuck you @DarioAmodei, you pretentious, hyper ventilating clown.
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Not a possibility: under SpaceX's governing documents disclosed in its IPO prospectus, Musk can only be removed from his positions as CEO, CTO, and chairman by a vote of Class B shareholders—a class he almost entirely controls himself. cc: @RickPetree
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"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy...responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope."
— Wendell Berry, 1981
Dutch classical violinist Noa Wildschut performs II. Adagio from Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5.
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
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Today the American Cancer Society made important changes to their prostate cancer screening guidelines: Men 50 to 69 should get a PSA test every two years; Black men and men with a family history of prostate cancer should get one every year starting at 45; and starting at age 70, men should talk to their doctors about what's right to them.
I know firsthand the toll of this disease, and I know that catching it early saves lives.
So talk to your doctor, get screened, and let’s keep working to end cancer as we know it.
As rates of advanced prostate cancer continue to rise, the American Cancer Society is recommending that most men ages 50 to 69 get screened every other year. nbcnews.com/health/cancer/ne…
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Second well done article from the UK Telegraph this week, focusing on the larger, world wide analysis of #H5N1 and how these viruses reassort. |
Bird flu viruses gaining function through natural mixing, warn scientists
telegraph.co.uk/global-healt…
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Wachtel Lipton was already investigating the Alice Huang issue for the Nvidia Board. The 2nd affair finished Jensen Huang. The Board should now ask Wachtel to investigate if Jensen bribed Lutnick to spike the Megaspeed investigation by BIS. That’s the bomb they need to defuse.
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Richard Posner was a rare inquisitive and creative intellect among judges, which no doubt prevented his elevation to the Supreme Court.
Gift link: nytimes.com/2026/11/11/us/ri…
I had the trivial honor of receiving an "A" from him at the U of C law school, and the more trivial honor
Judge Richard Posner has died. nytimes.com/2026/11/11/us/ri…
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“6 months ago, Culper Research published a report…(raising) questions about Nvidia’s business in China and what he called an ‘uncomfortably close’ relationship between CEO Jensen Huang and a woman named Alice Huang… ‘We are short Nvidia for one reason: the company has a significant China problem.’”
The 31-Year-Old Trader Who Called Out Jensen Huang’s ‘China Problem’—and Shorted Nvidia wsj.com/business/nvidia-shor… via @WSJ
