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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 13m

Absolutely rock-solid work from Zelenskyy

NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 15m

Zelenskyy says Ukraine will nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, if he delivers Tomahawk missiles and helps secure a ceasefire. The missiles, with 1,500 km range, would let Ukraine hit deep into Russia. Trump says he’s “sort of” decided, but wants clarity on how they'd be used.

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vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 25m

It’s not a mistake that less than a week ago Tucker was saying “You are being played as a fool and Israel thinks you’re an idiot and they go around saying it” and where we are now

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vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 25m

It’s sad to think Tucker and the podcast bros have this much influence on international affairs but a good outcome nonetheless

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Corry Wang @corrywang.bsky.social · 16h

From 1840 to 1850, private Britons cumulatively invested 40% of British GDP into the country’s first rail network. For reference, the equivalent today would be the tech industry spending like, $10 trillion dollars on a single thing

Anyways it’s confirmed, guess we’re all doing this again guys

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vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 18h

Pak the cah in woostah

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vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 18h

Nice try CIA

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 18h

Wooster

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vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 19h

Jeffries 🤝 Jefferies

Failing to manage large bureaucratic institutions

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vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 20h

Seemed like a uniquely bad and borderline fraudulent business not systemic to much else in the economy but ymmv

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vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 21h

Agree, we keep an ICE SUV for long trips but I’d prefer another EV

vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 22h

Besides little to no maintenance I think the best part of an EV for me will be not ever having to stop at a gas station. Very annoying.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting take by Fox- the railroad boom eclipses all bubbles, even AI data centers www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The AI Spending Boom Is Massive But Not Unprecedented

The boom in capital expenditures related to generative artificial intelligence is generating lots of questions about whether it is sustainable. Coming up with definitive answers to them is something o...

www.bloomberg.com

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Tyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · 1d

NextEra SVP Petter Skantze says battery storage is now “the cheapest form of new capacity” in the US w/ “order of magnitude” faster deployment than gas w/ more modularity & flexible siting to enable higher system utilization & large load integration — #GridFWD in Monterey, CA 🔌💡

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vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 1d

Between this and the bigger Zuck announcement earlier this year, PE/PC is in for a penny in for a pound at this point

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2d

They used to just let you be named stuff like this

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinela...

Rhinelander Waldo - Wikipedia

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vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 2d

People on here know this already but MoCo is one of the richest counties in the country. Only brokes don’t want woke, or something.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 2d

Bros…yes you did

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 2d

With this, QUAL and other factor ETFs it all comes back to the concentration issue. SPHQ caps out at 5% eg

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Michael Santoli @michaelsantoli.bsky.social · 2d

This phase of the market advance has been led by higher-volatility, lower-quality stocks. Here's the S&P 500 quality-factor ETF relative to the broad S&P 500, back to a 10-year relative-performance low.

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vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 2d

It pops when MSNBC anchors say “this will just keep going up”

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vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 3d

People forget that WFE stocks can double and then double again pretty quickly

vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 3d

Except he sucks at negotiating, is weak and has backed out of all of his tough guy positions on trade

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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