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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Corporate income taxes are $77 billion lower than last year, primarily due to the Republican tax cuts for the rich.

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Well, That Was Fast: Trump Tax Law’s New Corporate Breaks are Already Worsening the Deficit

Corporate income taxes for the fiscal year that ended in September are $77 billion lower than in the previous year, a 15 percent drop.

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 23h

We’re outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

It’s clearer than ever before.

What’s happening in Illinois is an unprecedented, unlawful abuse of power.

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Trapped in a Suburban Hellhole @carljanderson.bsky.social · 22h

Speaking of AI..

It wouldn't surprise if Deepseek was an Chinese head fake to get us to burn all this capital for fear of losing to "China".

In the meantime, look at what China continues to do in renewals.

The world is going to need more energy that it will need more AI.

Trapped in a Suburban Hellhole @carljanderson.bsky.social · 23h

Someone asked who was President during that election, right?

Trapped in a Suburban Hellhole @carljanderson.bsky.social · 23h

ChatGPT is giving him these percentages, right?

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Trapped in a Suburban Hellhole @carljanderson.bsky.social · 1d

God damn it.. I need to understand the options markets better, cuz I'd make a bet that by 11/1 he backs out, especially as the markets crash for the next couple of weeks.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Trapped in a Suburban Hellhole @carljanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Did anyone ask him to explain where in Article 1 a supermajority is mentioned to pass legislation?

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence reut.rs/4h2JXgV

Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence

Apple was hit with a lawsuit in California federal court by a pair of neuroscientists who say that the tech company misused thousands of copyrighted books to train its Apple Intelligence artificial intelligence model.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

EISMAN: Tesla’s earnings “are down 60% from 2022 through 2025. And the stock is slightly higher. ..

“.. it’s a cult.”

@electrek.co $TSLA
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Trapped in a Suburban Hellhole @carljanderson.bsky.social · 1d

"Stand back and Stand by" feel to all this.

There are going to the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, 1776ers, 3%ers, Klan and Boogaloo Bois all taking arms to these rallies..

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Trapped in a Suburban Hellhole @carljanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, 1776ers, Klan, 3%ers and the Boogaloo Bois will ensure this isn't peaceful.

Trapped in a Suburban Hellhole @carljanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking @democrats.org

This is NOT the new generation of leadership the polls are saying you need.

Fucking hell @kenmartin.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

There really needs to be a massive betting line on which bubble will crash first, crypto or AI.

Lucky for the billionaires who created the bubble, Trump installed the guy who started the run on SVB then wailed until he was bailed out, David Sacks, as his Crypto/AI Czar.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 1d

Morgan Stanley drops restrictions on which wealth clients can own crypto funds

Morgan Stanley's move marks the latest expansion of access to crypto at the world's largest wealth management firm.

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Trapped in a Suburban Hellhole @carljanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Do it.

Couldn't happen to a better set of companies.

Trapped in a Suburban Hellhole @carljanderson.bsky.social · 1d

We are nuking both Norway and Venezuela, aren't we?

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

María Corina Machado of Venezuela wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key figure in unifying Venezuela's political opposition.

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Trapped in a Suburban Hellhole @carljanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Guessing GPT5 will start teasing Geocentrism as a valid theory.

Take out that political bias of Copernicus and Galileo.

(Facts have ALWAYS tended to be PROGRESSIVE)

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Trapped in a Suburban Hellhole @carljanderson.bsky.social · 1d

The damage caused by this absolutely stupid regime is going to be felt for decades after they're all dead.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Trapped in a Suburban Hellhole @carljanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Just make this end already.

There is no there there.

The actual humans still want to perform human actions with other humans.

Also, someone tell me how this gets not only profitable, but market making profitable.

Salesforce report led 66 points of GM.

Scott Rose @rprose.bsky.social · 1d

SoftBank, once best known for having lots of money, is seeking a $5b margin loan (on ARM shares!) to invest in OpenAI

A generational all-in bet on AI infrastructure and we are nearing the finance equivalent of turning over couch cushions to find cash to pay for it
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SoftBank in Talks for $5 Billion Margin Loan Backed by Arm Stock

SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to borrow $5 billion from global banks, refilling its coffers at a time Masayoshi Son is accelerating the Japanese investment firm’s bets on artificial intelligence.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Tomorrow: The AI Bubble is built on impossible promises. GPUs die in 5 years, nobody has built a 1GW data center, and they have the power to do so. Stargate Abilene won't have enough power before 2028.

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Everybody is very casual with how they talk about Sam Altman’s theoretical promises of trillions of dollars of data center infrastructure, and I'm not sure anybody realizes how difficult even the very basics of this plan will be.
Nevertheless, everybody is happily publishing stories about how “Stargate Abilene Texas - OpenAI’s massive data center with Oracle - is open,” by which they mean two buildings, and I’m not even confident both of them are providing compute to OpenAI yet. There are six more of them that need to get built for this thing to start rocking at 1.2GW - even though it’s only 1.1GW according to my sources in Abilene.
But, hey, sorry - one minute - while we’re on that subject, did anybody visiting Abilene in the last week or so ever ask whether they’ll have enough power there?
Don’t worry, you don’t need to look - I’m sure you were just about to, and had simply been busy! - but I did the hard work for you and read up on it, and it turns out that Stargate Abilene only has 200 megawatts of power - a 200 megawatt substation that, according to my sources, has only been built within the last couple of months, with 350 Megawatt of gas turbine generators that connect to a natural gas power plant that might get built by the end of the year in the event that one of the multiple construction firms involved . Said turbine is extremely expensive, featuring volatile pricing (for context, volatility fell in Q2 2025…to 69% annualized, meaning that if you had these prices across the entirety of a year you’d see swings of 69% up or down) and even more volatile environmental consequences, and is, while permitted for it (this will download the PDF of the permit), impractical and expensive to use long-term.
Analyst James van Geelen, founder of Citrini Research recently said on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast that these are “not the really good natural gas turbines” because the really good ones would take seven years to deliver due to a natural gas turbine shortage.
But th…

$Stargate Abilene does not have sufficient power to run at even half of its supposed IT load of 1.2GW, and at its present capacity - assuming that the gas turbines function at full power - can only hope to run 370MW to 460MW of IT load. I’ve seen article after article about the gas turbines and their use of fracked gas - a disgusting and wasteful act typical of OpenAI - but nobody appears to have asked “how much power does a 1.2GW data center require?” and then chased it with “how much power does Stargate Abilene have?” The answer is not enough, and the significance of said “not enough” is remarkable. Today, I’m going to tell you, at length, how impossible the future of generative AI is. Gigawatt data centers are a ridiculous pipe dream, one that runs face-first into the walls of reality. The world’s governments and media have been far too cavalier with the term “gigawatt,” casually breezing by the fact that Altman’s plans require 17 or more nuclear reactors’ worth of power, as if building power is quick and easy and cheap and just happens. I believe that many of you think that this is an issue of permitting - of simply throwing enough money at the problem - when we are in the midst of a shortage in the electrical grade steel and transformers required to expand America (and the world’s) power grid. I realize it’s easy to get blinded by the constant drumbeat of “gargoyle-like tycoon cabal builds 1 gigawatt data center” and feel that they will simply overwhelm the problem with money, but no, I’m afraid that isn’t the case at all, and all of this is so silly, so ridiculous, so cartoonishly bad that it threatens even the seemingly-infinite wealth of Elon Musk, with xAI burning over a billion dollars a month and planning to spend tens of billions of dollars building the Colossus 2 data center, dragging two billion dollars from SpaceX in his desperate quest to burn as much money as possible for no reason. This is the age of hubris - a time in which we are going to watc…$

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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 1d

NEW: L.A. Times journalists just voted to authorize the newsroom’s first open-ended strike.

Eighty-five percent of the @latguild.bsky.social voted to support the strike. Just over 200 workers — 98% of members — took part in the historic vote.

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