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My top 60 of #2025 #Wrapped2025
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Oh noooooooooooo!
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Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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The new crime survey is out - the "Lawless Britain" picture in full
- Violence at lowest since records began in 1981
- Corroborated by hospital figures for knife wounds
- Robbery: record low
- Overall crime 78% below 1995 peak.
- Shoplifting up
More:-
comment.press/lawless
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BREAKING: "Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble," per AFR
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Remembering Carrie Fisher (1956–2016) on her birthday!
Here she is promoting STAR WARS (1977) on French television and casually speaking fluent French.
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People mock GDP per capita and economic freedom at their own peril.
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According to Ramp AI, while token volumes continue to rise, spending on tokens is stagnating because token prices keep falling.
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“We are very worried about this catastrophic thing that we alone laid the groundwork for, and we alone can mitigate or prevent.
But at the end of the day we care more about our investors than the future of humanity, so we’ll just proactively hire a crisis PR firm instead.”
NEWS — Silicon Valley is preparing for a potential AI catastrophe ahead of the 2028 presidential election.
Executives at OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI firms are privately gaming out the political fallout from a major AI incident as soon as 2027, @axios reports.
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There are times when you think AI has gone too far, but then there are moments when you see Uncle Phil from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air scoring Mesut Özil's goal against Ludogrets, and suddenly it all feels worthwhile.
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Pakistan’s solar revolution is extraordinary. Solar power rose from just 2% of grid generation in 2019 to 22.5% in 2025, growing 55% annually. By November 2025, solar supplied nearly a third of electricity, overtaking gas. A remarkable bottom-up energy transition.
(Link below)
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Moody’s and S&P rated this company as investment grade and its debt is going to be all over retirement and annuity accounts:
SpaceX looks to raise $40bn to buy Nvidia chips in financing led by Apollo ft.trib.al/AXTvVlK
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I’ll take $5,000 dollars over socialism.
It’s not a hard choice.
Vote RED!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Opposing socialism on ideological grounds while simultaneously advocating for government-issued "free money" represents a contradiction, as state-funded monetary benefits are a form of public resource distribution rather than free-market capitalism.
britannica.com/money/socialism
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Steve Eisman says Michael Burry’s AI depreciation thesis “too academic” and says an OpenAI failure is the much larger risk
“I think, with all due respect to Michael, I think his argument is too academic."
"Put it this way: if AI succeeds because Anthropic and OpenAI grow like crazy and the hyperscalers do well, et cetera, et cetera, it’s not going to matter if the depreciation schedule changed from three to four years to five to six years."
"At the same time, if OpenAI fails and the whole chain goes in reverse, we’ll have a massive correction which has nothing to do with the depreciation schedule."
"I mean, I think what he’s deep down trying to point out is maybe there’s something wrong here, but I don’t think the thing that he’s pointing to as being wrong is important enough.”
Jensen Huang jokes ten Somaek drinks left him with no trouble kissing a Korean man on the mouth, and says he has a lot of fans, especially in Samsung's supply chain group
Jensen Huang: “And I’ll just tell you, I’ll just say this one inappropriate thing. I’ve only been kissed in the mouth by a man in Korea.”
Juju Chang: “Lori’s like, ‘Where is this going?’”
Jensen Huang: “I don’t know. And it was a Samsung employee, Jay.”
Juju Chang: “Wow, this is getting really good. Okay.”
Jensen Huang: “But we have some serious things I’ve got to say. But I just, what is that drink called where soju goes into the beer? It’s called something.”
Juju Chang: “Soju bomb?”
Audience: “Somaek.”
Juju Chang: “Somaek. Soju and maekju. Somaek.
Jensen Huang: "And it goes, right? And then you drink about 10 of those, and you have no trouble kissing a man in the mouth.”
Juju Chang: “No wonder you’re so popular in Seoul.”
Jensen Huang: “Well, I have a lot of fans. Many of them supply chain of Samsung.”
Juju Chang: “Exactly.”