1. Get fired from Comcast for sexual harassment
2. Get hired by Larry Ellison's Paramount
3. Immediately get mired in an investigation over leaking inside information to a media manipulator who seeded favorable stories in the press
4. Get sued by that same media manipulator for failing to pay
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Man.
The world fucking is on fire.
So go be as corny and cringe as you wanna be without hurting people.
Live whats left of your only life.
If you can’t be free in your body at least go be free in your mind and soul.
Fuck the haters.
JPM, on $ORCL:
“.. it may also be helpful to provide a distinct Scenario B framework for what the business looks like excluding the OpenAI mega-deal ..”
Oracle is building yesterday's data centers with tomorrow's debt | Discussion
Probably got breakfast in bed. Scrolling Schefter’s tweets. Text his scouts. Laughing at the Chiefs paying 15 mill a year to Walker.
Fine piece from Gerard Baker @wsj.com
"It was said of Churchill that he mobilized the English language & sent it into battle. Trump’s trick with the mother tongue is to douse it in gasoline, set it on fire & drop it in a dumpster in the middle of his own parade ground."
www.wsj.com/opinion/in-a...
This is, quite simply, not remotely true. One generation ago? In 2002? What about two and three generations ago? Nope. Not remotely true. It doesn't advance discussions of political economy to make absurd claims like this.
I can't decide if I should be relieved my work hasn't been stolen in this way or offended that I'm not prominent enough for Grammarly to steal my work. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/a-lo...
Clegg, Sandberg and Susan Decker (ex Yahoo)
Like the right wingers who are now upset at another forever war, congrats on learning that you are a complete idiot.
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…It also deployed a reporter to the West Coast to retrace her steps in a journey that began on a tony resort island along the South Carolina coast.”
Journalism, ladies and gentlemen:
“To identify key players in the woman’s account and attempt to evaluate her claims, the newspaper scoured court records, police reports and old newspaper clippings in multiple states….
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
Page One in Miami:
@miamiherald.com
I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth
This has been my assessment of Elon since about 2017 or so and it’s only gotten firmer: a dumb person’s idea of a smart person. (Like somebody said about Trump being a poor person’s idea of a rich person.) He started his career by building city guide software for newspapers, very dot-con.
Solipsism is a common side effect of many hard drugs.
Like a lot of things rich guys believe and fund, the AI consciousness thing is in part driven by a desire to abscond from the responsibility of what they've made. It also explains why so many of them think we're in a simulation. Doesn't matter if everybody died if we're all just 1s and 0s baby!
The Dan Brown of the science thriller
A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found …
“The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.”
washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...
I don’t even get the point of the post; they miss….empty snow covered playgrounds?
I take my kid to this all day? Is this somehow not normal anymore?
In November, HSBC forecast that despite a growing user base, OpenAl's compute power obligations will total $1.4 trillion by 2033. OpenAI later clarified it would be closer to $600bn by 2030, but just the rental space for all those data centres, for instance, will cost $620bn, analysts point out.
"OpenAl needs to generate $200bn in annual revenue by 2030 to justify their projections. That's 15x growth in five years while costs keep exploding," George Noble, a veteran financial analyst, said in a post on X. "The diminishing returns are becoming impossible to hide. Competitors are catching up. The lawsuits are piling up," Noble added.
Even this piece about “experts” gets stuff wrong, it was blatantly obvious that HSBC estimate was wrong in November, and quotes a guy off of Twitter who is saying stuff that’s numerically incorrect. They need more than that revenue! AhhhHhhhhh
I think we need people to start listening to new experts that said this many years ago
In an interview, EIC Jeffrey Goldberg says the Atlantic added 50 journalists in 2025, for a total of 200+, and has ~1.5M paying subscribers, up from 1M in 2024 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
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My bets are on Ethan Hawke and Sean Penn
Moscow is providing Iran with intelligence about the locations and movements of American troops, ships, and aircraft, multiple sources say. https://cnn.it/4aUIOGV
