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Investors Warn of ‘Rot in Private Equity’ as Funds Strike Circular Deals
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I don't understand why apologizing for a mistake and pledging to fix is so difficult.
This amounts to thousands of real people who didn't realize their activity was publicly accessible retroactively for over a month. That's not fake news. It deserves to be recognized. 🤷🏻♂️
This amounts to thousands of real people who didn't realize their activity was publicly accessible retroactively for over a month. That's not fake news. It deserves to be recognized. 🤷🏻♂️
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I don't understand why apologizing for a mistake and pledging to fix is so difficult.
This amounts to thousands of real people who didn't realize their activity was publicly accessible retroactively for over a month. That's not fake news. It deserves to be recognized. 🤷🏻♂️
This amounts to thousands of real people who didn't realize their activity was publicly accessible retroactively for over a month. That's not fake news. It deserves to be recognized. 🤷🏻♂️
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These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
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I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
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Real fixed investment in US factories inched down further in data released today as CHIPS ACT projects complete & tariffs weigh on the manufacturing industry.
Construction activity is now down more than 8% from the mid-2024 record highs
Construction activity is now down more than 8% from the mid-2024 record highs
December 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Real fixed investment in US factories inched down further in data released today as CHIPS ACT projects complete & tariffs weigh on the manufacturing industry.
Construction activity is now down more than 8% from the mid-2024 record highs
Construction activity is now down more than 8% from the mid-2024 record highs
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This is so ridiculous, even for this absurd administration.
Burgum: "Today we're sending notifications to the 5 large offshore wind projects that are under construction that their leases will be suspended due to national security concerns ... the Dept of War has come back conclusively that these large offshore wind programs create radar interference"
December 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This is so ridiculous, even for this absurd administration.
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I’m sorry, but blue states need to start finding ways to protest this politicized punishment. Perhaps they could refuse to pay federal employer taxes on state employees, for starters.
December 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I’m sorry, but blue states need to start finding ways to protest this politicized punishment. Perhaps they could refuse to pay federal employer taxes on state employees, for starters.
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Everything is for sale. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/22/us/politics/trump-donors-fundraising-benefits.html
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have inte
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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At this cognitively-intense season your brain is
BUSY🧠 ✨🎄!!
Fascinating insights from @erictopol.bsky.social & @jonykipnis.bsky.social how our brains deal with waste products & the incredible way our waking & sleeping hours are affected.
Take time for your mind & #BrainHealth
#spéirghorm #Xmas
BUSY🧠 ✨🎄!!
Fascinating insights from @erictopol.bsky.social & @jonykipnis.bsky.social how our brains deal with waste products & the incredible way our waking & sleeping hours are affected.
Take time for your mind & #BrainHealth
#spéirghorm #Xmas
How Our Brain Drains Its Waste Products
and its relevance to our sleep quality and risk of neurodegenerative diseases
A podcast with @jonykipnis.bsky.social and illustrative text summary of 3 of his recent review articles
erictopol.substack.com/p/how-our-br...
and its relevance to our sleep quality and risk of neurodegenerative diseases
A podcast with @jonykipnis.bsky.social and illustrative text summary of 3 of his recent review articles
erictopol.substack.com/p/how-our-br...
How Our Brain Drains Its Waste Products
Particular Relevance to Sleep, Alzheimer's Disease and Immune Surveillance
erictopol.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
At this cognitively-intense season your brain is
BUSY🧠 ✨🎄!!
Fascinating insights from @erictopol.bsky.social & @jonykipnis.bsky.social how our brains deal with waste products & the incredible way our waking & sleeping hours are affected.
Take time for your mind & #BrainHealth
#spéirghorm #Xmas
BUSY🧠 ✨🎄!!
Fascinating insights from @erictopol.bsky.social & @jonykipnis.bsky.social how our brains deal with waste products & the incredible way our waking & sleeping hours are affected.
Take time for your mind & #BrainHealth
#spéirghorm #Xmas
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download your own copy. make this thing samizdat, until CBS is forced to air it.
I'm still able to download it, but just in case I've re-uploaded it here drive.google.com/file/d/1GRcg... and here drive.proton.me/urls/X8C14W3...
December 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
download your own copy. make this thing samizdat, until CBS is forced to air it.
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZero
#ChineseNewYear of the horse.
We'll be there promoting free historical smartphone walking tours (on IzI.travel.en) and showing the Chinese Family Stories: From Exclusion to Pillars of the Community documentary (available on YouTube).
#ChineseNewYear of the horse.
We'll be there promoting free historical smartphone walking tours (on IzI.travel.en) and showing the Chinese Family Stories: From Exclusion to Pillars of the Community documentary (available on YouTube).
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZero
#ChineseNewYear of the horse.
We'll be there promoting free historical smartphone walking tours (on IzI.travel.en) and showing the Chinese Family Stories: From Exclusion to Pillars of the Community documentary (available on YouTube).
#ChineseNewYear of the horse.
We'll be there promoting free historical smartphone walking tours (on IzI.travel.en) and showing the Chinese Family Stories: From Exclusion to Pillars of the Community documentary (available on YouTube).
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SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves.
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
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Overall, this big @nytimes.com investigation identified $500m+ that was donated to Trump-backed groups AFTER the election from 346 donors.
It found that more than half of the donors have benefited in some way from actions by Trump or his administration. (gift link)
It found that more than half of the donors have benefited in some way from actions by Trump or his administration. (gift link)
December 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Overall, this big @nytimes.com investigation identified $500m+ that was donated to Trump-backed groups AFTER the election from 346 donors.
It found that more than half of the donors have benefited in some way from actions by Trump or his administration. (gift link)
It found that more than half of the donors have benefited in some way from actions by Trump or his administration. (gift link)
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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This is an amazingly thoughtful, information-rich thread. By a sitting member of Congress! How about that.
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is an amazingly thoughtful, information-rich thread. By a sitting member of Congress! How about that.
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2/ The Danish head of its CDC is like: are you fucking crazy? We are a small country with universal healthcare. You shouldn't do what we do. We should do what you used to do.
December 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
2/ The Danish head of its CDC is like: are you fucking crazy? We are a small country with universal healthcare. You shouldn't do what we do. We should do what you used to do.
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Out of 5,748 mass shootings in the U.S. in the past, only 5 were committed by trans or non-binary people. Joe Rogan needs to stop taking horse dewormer and stop making crap up just to fearmonger and spread hate.
December 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Out of 5,748 mass shootings in the U.S. in the past, only 5 were committed by trans or non-binary people. Joe Rogan needs to stop taking horse dewormer and stop making crap up just to fearmonger and spread hate.
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Sixers vs Knicks box at the half.
December 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Sixers vs Knicks box at the half.
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“ALPRs, operating at the scale that they’re operating now, with the kind of vendors that are running these systems now, are posing a direct public safety threat,” particularly in this political climate, EFF’s @tsnvaa.bsky.social told @kqednews.kqed.org. www.kqed.org/news/120669...
California Cities Double Down on License-Plate Readers as Federal Surveillance Grows | KQED
California municipalities continue to press ahead with automated license-plate reader contracts, betting the technology’s public-safety value outweighs demonstrated risks to data privacy and civil liberties.
www.kqed.org
December 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“ALPRs, operating at the scale that they’re operating now, with the kind of vendors that are running these systems now, are posing a direct public safety threat,” particularly in this political climate, EFF’s @tsnvaa.bsky.social told @kqednews.kqed.org. www.kqed.org/news/120669...
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I'm increasingly convinced Trump's inner circle is giving him busy work (the White House ballroom, Kennedy Center, presidential plaques, gold decorations, etc.) while they essentially run the government. He admits that he doesn't even know who he is pardoning anymore.
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"
December 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I'm increasingly convinced Trump's inner circle is giving him busy work (the White House ballroom, Kennedy Center, presidential plaques, gold decorations, etc.) while they essentially run the government. He admits that he doesn't even know who he is pardoning anymore.
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What does it take to achieve the highest level of human performance? Across athletics, science, chess, and music
@science.org
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@science.org
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
What does it take to achieve the highest level of human performance? Across athletics, science, chess, and music
@science.org
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@science.org
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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It's the oil, everyone.
December 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
It's the oil, everyone.