Randy Kates

Randy Kates

@randykates.bsky.social

Advanced Mfg & Life Sciences guy looking for what’s great today & what’s next. ATL based Hokie 🦃 Stay Thirsty...

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Randy Kates
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The ole “1 + 1 = 48% Valuation equation” that we all almost forgot from business school.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. Today, Skydance has a market cap of under $40 billion — less than half the predecessor companies’ combined value.” @variety.com $SKYD variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Randy Kates
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This feels like a “Double-Streisand” effect: We didn’t want you to tell anyone, but we are now telling everyone you told someone, and now we want you to tell everyone you’re sorry you told anyone.” Do I have that correct?✔️🏆

Euromaidan Press@euromaidanpress.bsky.social

South Korea called for an apology after Zelenskyy revealed the transfer of two North Korean POWs to Seoul at the UN Seoul said the transfer was supposed to stay secret. Kyiv's presidential adviser said "there was no agreement to remain silent." 🔗 buff.ly/Oqg9MGb

Randy Kates
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Once they announce the new “Stay At Home Truck Driver Czar” position, everything will be just fine here…💩

George Pearkes@peark.es

Reuters' White House reporter says the 90d diesel export ban is not happening, per a White House official. The one Politico source saying "whoever talks to him last will get their way" seems 100% correct.

Randy Kates
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Let me guess - this mystery new trucking company owned by SpaceX. Amiright?

Electrek@electrek.co

Tesla Semi wins 2,500-truck order, doubling US electric Class 8 fleet

electrek.coTesla Semi wins 2,500-truck order, doubling US electric Class 8 fleetTesla has been named the primary truck supplier for the largest electric Class 8 order in US history: 2,500 battery-electric trucks bought through a new shipper alliance called ZET SCALE. The order on its own would nearly double the number of electric Class 8 trucks on US roads, and the alliance says it’s targeting more than 10,000 over time. more…
Randy Kates
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Is Bezo's Spaceship Company designing these things?

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

'The £419.99 question [the price of the new Dyson CameraJet released last month] is whether adding cameras, AI, fluid dynamics and real-time feedback produces enough additional clinical and behavioural benefit to justify the premium': ft.trib.al/aFu9nw2

Randy Kates
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You know, the small biz billionaires who don’t have trucks or deliveries. Those people are looking right thru it…

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler dismisses record-high diesel prices: "Small businesses are looking through this right now"

Randy Kates
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I was today years old when I first learned about “sleep physicians” and their pixie magic. Now starting my gofundme to get that $20k.

Bruce Feldman@brucefeldmancfb.bsky.social

Memphis went to Vegas in Week 0 and upset UNLV. The game kicked off at 9 pm CT and the Tigers outscored UNLV 20-7 in the second half. How? My story on the best $20,000 any college coach spent this offseason. It wasn’t on a player. It was on a sleep physician: www.nytimes.com/athletic/757...

nytimes.comThe best $20,000 this CFB coach spent wasn’t on his roster. It was on a sleep physician (Gift Article)Sleep science is part of the "next wave" of performance enhancement, says Memphis coach Charles Huff.
Randy Kates
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One math problem it won’t solve: “How many people gonna buy a foldable iPhone that costs as much as a small car and has less functionality?”

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Breaking News: OpenAI said it cracked one of math’s biggest unsolved problems, another dramatic sign of how A.I. will transform the field.

nyti.msOpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics.
Randy Kates
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Drinking water may not be necessary, with water fountains.

LiveSquawk@livesquawknews.bsky.social

US Pres. Trump: China Has Very Little Involvement With Iran - Hormuz May Eventually Not Be Necessary, With Pipelines

Randy Kates
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“Whenever mankind invents a machine that promises to save him time, he immediately devises a method for spending twice as much time learning to use it.” - Mark Twain on Ai probably…

Randy Kates
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At least we have learned the identities of the losers of the Space Force Fantasy Football League last season…

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump is speaking to complete silence at the NASA center. Not a single person is applauding or reacting to anything he says during his brazenly partisan speech.

Randy Kates
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They also need to get their clock labels corrected.

Flightradar24@flightradar24.com

NTSB finds evidence of birds and fan blade fatigue in Ryanair 737 engine fan blade out event. A passenger was partially ejected from a window during the accident. www.flightradar24.com/blog/flight-...

Randy Kates
@randykates.bsky.social

"Nil for me, but not for thee." - Lane Caesar

NFL Daily News@insidenflnews.bsky.social

Jayden Daniels informs LSU it can no longer use his name, image and likeness, per ESPN. The Daniels family is "deeply disappointed and feels profoundly disrespected" that LSU gave Daniels' number to another player. He feels he's being treated differently than Joe Burrow.

Randy Kates
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Called the DABO. And looks just about right...

InsideEVs@insideevs.com

BMW challenged graduate students from Clemson University to create a car that produces more electricity than it uses. This is what they came up with.

insideevs.comClemson's Solar-Powered EV Project Looks Like A Cardboard Shoe. But It's A Lot More Clever Than It LooksBMW challenged graduate students from Clemson University to create an energy-positive car that produces more electricity than it uses. This is what they came up with.
Randy Kates
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Sure, but at the end of the day Co-Pilot still feels like an Ai version of AOL dial up.

Barchart@barchart.com

Microsoft $MSFT added $450 Billion in market cap today, the largest single-day value add in history 🚨 🚨

Randy Kates
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Yes, I would like “Sh*t CEO’s with plummeting stock prices say” for $500 Alex.

The Guardian@theguardian.com

‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit

theguardian.com‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbitBillionaire in interview with the Economist admits he was too consumed by politics and shares predictions about AI Elon Musk has admitted he became too consumed by politics during his volatile alliance with Donald Trump and his brief appointment as the president’s financial axman, running the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge). The world’s richest person, and briefly its first trillionaire after his SpaceX company floated on the US stock exchange in June, made the confession in a wide-ranging interview with the Economist published on Thursday. He shared his positions on subjects from foreign wars to AI, and made a number of eye-opening predictions for the future. Continue reading...
Randy Kates
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Man, I wish I had such a great excuse for poor test scores back in the day…

Fortune @fortune.com

Students using AI shortcuts for their homework may be sacrificing their test scores—even years down the line. https://bit.ly/4wVeSma

fortune.comStudy finds AI boosted homework scores 18%—then tanked exam results 20% | FortuneThere’s a massive debate over whether Gen Z is the first generation to be less cognitively capable than their parents. A study of 26,800 high school students suggests AI incentives only point in one d...
Randy Kates
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Do we think this is Chinese Ai or Canadian wildfires or Spain winning that is causing this?

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. Tropical storm poised to hit basically every major US LNG export plant this week.” @bloomberg.com #TropicalDepression2

Randy Kates
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Playing “War Reality Show” seems to be getting real people killed. Stupidity is always a bad strategy, it sometimes just takes longer than you think to float to the top.

Randy Kates
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Does anyone know what the “explosive scale” is? Asking for a friend who’s looking for some new material. Is it going #3, or just #2 Squared, or more like the sphincter earthquake scale?

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social

Health officials identify source of US explosive diarrhoea outbreak

bbc.co.ukHealth officials identify source of US explosive diarrhoea outbreak The US Food and Drug Administration says iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms and sold at Taco Bell and Walmart locations was the source of cyclosporiasis infections.
Randy Kates
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“Atlanta Public Library says it is increasing book reading by 25% when they lock you inside for several days.” Looking for series b investors…

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com

With funding from tennis star and angel investor Venus Williams, the French app WeWard says that it increases walking time by almost 25%.

techcrunch.comVenus Williams-backed WeWard can now lock your apps until you hit your steps | TechCrunchWith funding from tennis star and angel investor Venus Williams, the French app WeWard says that it increases walking time by almost 25%.