Bernard
@bernardtmartin.bsky.social
The man behind the curtain at #Politics #Economics #marketing #mfg #H2P My personal acct. Stuff that interests me. Follow at ur own risk
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Formula 1 arrives in Las Vegas: Lando Norris seizes control of the championship fight
A pivotal race that’ll likely crown a new champ.
Lando Norris leads his nearest rival Oscar Piastri by 24 points. I asked them both about their theory of the title fight.
www.nbcnews.com/sports/formu...
A pivotal race that’ll likely crown a new champ.
Lando Norris leads his nearest rival Oscar Piastri by 24 points. I asked them both about their theory of the title fight.
www.nbcnews.com/sports/formu...
Formula 1 arrives in Las Vegas: Lando Norris seizes control of the championship fight
Eyeing his first F1 world championship, Norris said he's aiming to go flat-out and continue his run of victories to close out the season with three back-to-back race weekends to go.
www.nbcnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Formula 1 arrives in Las Vegas: Lando Norris seizes control of the championship fight
A pivotal race that’ll likely crown a new champ.
Lando Norris leads his nearest rival Oscar Piastri by 24 points. I asked them both about their theory of the title fight.
www.nbcnews.com/sports/formu...
A pivotal race that’ll likely crown a new champ.
Lando Norris leads his nearest rival Oscar Piastri by 24 points. I asked them both about their theory of the title fight.
www.nbcnews.com/sports/formu...
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Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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🗨️"Actions of the Belarusian regime must be clearly identified as a hybrid attack against an EU Member State. The EU must consider new sanctions against the responsible Belarusian officials and institutions,” urged Lithuanian Deputy Minister Sigitas Mitkus during 🇪🇺 #GAC.
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www.urm.lt/naujienos/14...
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www.urm.lt/naujienos/14...
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🗨️"Actions of the Belarusian regime must be clearly identified as a hybrid attack against an EU Member State. The EU must consider new sanctions against the responsible Belarusian officials and institutions,” urged Lithuanian Deputy Minister Sigitas Mitkus during 🇪🇺 #GAC.
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www.urm.lt/naujienos/14...
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www.urm.lt/naujienos/14...
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How I imagine William of Orange whenever he decided to reply to correspondence from James II.
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
How I imagine William of Orange whenever he decided to reply to correspondence from James II.
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It’s amazing how this story has gone from 0 to 60 in UK press. There’s been no mainstream coverage to date but this morning the story is leading BBC News site & bulletins.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts
Speaking exclusively to BBC News, CEO Sundar Pichai said the artificial intelligence boom had been an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
It’s amazing how this story has gone from 0 to 60 in UK press. There’s been no mainstream coverage to date but this morning the story is leading BBC News site & bulletins.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This is the new image I meant to put as main pic. It shows the change in Thiel's holdings. Those letters NVDA stand for Nvidia and the words next to it are self-explanatory "SOLD ALL".
Thiel, the closest thing that Silicon Valley has to a bond villain, has pumped & dumped. So...what happens next?!?
Thiel, the closest thing that Silicon Valley has to a bond villain, has pumped & dumped. So...what happens next?!?
November 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is the new image I meant to put as main pic. It shows the change in Thiel's holdings. Those letters NVDA stand for Nvidia and the words next to it are self-explanatory "SOLD ALL".
Thiel, the closest thing that Silicon Valley has to a bond villain, has pumped & dumped. So...what happens next?!?
Thiel, the closest thing that Silicon Valley has to a bond villain, has pumped & dumped. So...what happens next?!?
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NEW: Peter Thiel has blinked. Yesterday, I posted an article about the "Great AI Bubble". And today, we find out that he's bailed on the market.
Has he cut & run? Or is this some 3-D chess-type voodoo? Thoughts please.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Has he cut & run? Or is this some 3-D chess-type voodoo? Thoughts please.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Peter Thiel Gets Out of Dodge
Yesterday, I published on "Great AI Bubble". Today, Silicon Valley's Dr Evil dumps his stock
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
NEW: Peter Thiel has blinked. Yesterday, I posted an article about the "Great AI Bubble". And today, we find out that he's bailed on the market.
Has he cut & run? Or is this some 3-D chess-type voodoo? Thoughts please.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Has he cut & run? Or is this some 3-D chess-type voodoo? Thoughts please.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Gearing up for the final pledging event of our ‘Scaling Up Renewables for Africa’ campaign.
All eyes on Johannesburg!
All eyes on Johannesburg!
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Gearing up for the final pledging event of our ‘Scaling Up Renewables for Africa’ campaign.
All eyes on Johannesburg!
All eyes on Johannesburg!
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“The Russian car market is on the way to becoming like Cuba, or the USSR", reports one Russian paper today. Another writes about “the crisis in mortgages and housing construction.” #ReadingRussia
"Russia's car market on the way to becoming like Cuba, or the USSR” warns Russian paper
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
“The Russian car market is on the way to becoming like Cuba, or the USSR", reports one Russian paper today. Another writes about “the crisis in mortgages and housing construction.” #ReadingRussia
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Sir Isaac Newton's 'Trinity College notebook' page written somewhere between 1661 and 1665, when he was an undergraduate at that same college.
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Sir Isaac Newton's 'Trinity College notebook' page written somewhere between 1661 and 1665, when he was an undergraduate at that same college.
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In case you were asleep, Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirms that there will be no Palestinian state on the territory of the current Israel/Palestine. Instead there will be ethnic cleansing, forced deportations, mass arrests and genocide.
November 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
In case you were asleep, Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirms that there will be no Palestinian state on the territory of the current Israel/Palestine. Instead there will be ethnic cleansing, forced deportations, mass arrests and genocide.
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meaning it has a nonzero probability of being on the other side of the barrier. Quantum tunneling is responsible for nuclear fusion in stars, radioactive decay, and scanning tunneling microscopy.
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
meaning it has a nonzero probability of being on the other side of the barrier. Quantum tunneling is responsible for nuclear fusion in stars, radioactive decay, and scanning tunneling microscopy.
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Quantum tunneling is a process where a particle can pass through a barrier that it normally would not have enough energy to overcome. This happens because the particle has a wave-like nature and can exist in a superposition of states,
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Quantum tunneling is a process where a particle can pass through a barrier that it normally would not have enough energy to overcome. This happens because the particle has a wave-like nature and can exist in a superposition of states,
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I tend to be sarcastic and obviously obtuse, something chatbot replies reliably never detect and simply agree with my dumbass assertion.
November 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I tend to be sarcastic and obviously obtuse, something chatbot replies reliably never detect and simply agree with my dumbass assertion.
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I’d like to say fuck you preemptively to any airline that attempts this strategy of torture. It’s miserable enough already.
November 16, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I’d like to say fuck you preemptively to any airline that attempts this strategy of torture. It’s miserable enough already.
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Tonight the Waning Gibbous Moon continues to appear close to Jupiter. Clouds and rain here. 🔭 🧪
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Tonight the Waning Gibbous Moon continues to appear close to Jupiter. Clouds and rain here. 🔭 🧪
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People seem to think democracy is ineffective, while autocrats get things done. But this case shows something we know: as autocrats purge dissenters and hire yes-men, their hubris leads to self-destructive mistakes. It is counterintuitive, but autocrats perform worse than deliberative democracies.
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
People seem to think democracy is ineffective, while autocrats get things done. But this case shows something we know: as autocrats purge dissenters and hire yes-men, their hubris leads to self-destructive mistakes. It is counterintuitive, but autocrats perform worse than deliberative democracies.
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1/ The vast number of Russian casualties sustained in the war in Ukraine will one day require a reckoning, warns a Russian warblogger. He laments that Russia missed the opportunity to conquer Ukraine in 2014 after the revolution which ousted the pro-Russian leadership. ⬇️
November 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
1/ The vast number of Russian casualties sustained in the war in Ukraine will one day require a reckoning, warns a Russian warblogger. He laments that Russia missed the opportunity to conquer Ukraine in 2014 after the revolution which ousted the pro-Russian leadership. ⬇️
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Denny’s has agreed to be taken private in a $322 million deal.
Denny’s to Go Private in $322 Million Deal
Denny’s stockholders will receive $6.25 a share in cash for each Denny’s share, a 52% premium to its closing stock price on Monday.
on.wsj.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Denny’s has agreed to be taken private in a $322 million deal.
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
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BREAKING: The Israeli military says it has begun a wave of air attacks on southern Gaza as the precarious ceasefire comes under threat.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7g8svh
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7g8svh
October 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
BREAKING: The Israeli military says it has begun a wave of air attacks on southern Gaza as the precarious ceasefire comes under threat.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7g8svh
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7g8svh
For anyone who's been watching for any amount of time, this was to be expected.
BREAKING: An Israeli security official says the transfer of humanitarian aid into Gaza is halted “until further notice” after a Hamas ceasefire violation.
Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire
Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.
bit.ly
October 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
For anyone who's been watching for any amount of time, this was to be expected.
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With the government closed and official data collection on hold, economists are scrambling to find any clues on the economy.
They’re looking at paychecks, restaurant reservations, Broadway show bookings and even Statue of Liberty visitor numbers.
They’re looking at paychecks, restaurant reservations, Broadway show bookings and even Statue of Liberty visitor numbers.
The government isn’t releasing economic data. Private firms are stepping in.
The government shutdown has prompted private firms to release their own economic data, filling a gap left by the absence of official figures.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
With the government closed and official data collection on hold, economists are scrambling to find any clues on the economy.
They’re looking at paychecks, restaurant reservations, Broadway show bookings and even Statue of Liberty visitor numbers.
They’re looking at paychecks, restaurant reservations, Broadway show bookings and even Statue of Liberty visitor numbers.
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Source:
Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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