Christopher Peters

Of course Bari Weiss has pushed CBS reporters to pursue the James Talarico was in a mental hospital and Abdul El-Sayed is tied to the Muslim Brotherhoid stories. Of course she has. www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

> For Trump, results have often revealed the art of no deal apnews.com/article/trum...

> Meta’s communications officer Any Stone responded to Mediaite’s request for comment by deferring to its X account 😂 www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...

extremely conflicted feelings arising from my discovery in the course of using AI agents for work / research purposes, that it can do expenses in Concur

The pre-industrial 1850-1900 baseline had 15.5°C as the average annual global maximum temperature. Times have changed. So far this year the planet has seen 160 days above 15.5°C, currently in a tie with 2024 for the most such days, followed by 2023 with 154 and 2025 with 152.

Broadcom stock is up just 3.8% YoY during the AI boom Hock Tan derided.

> The quick brown fox jumps … > Ray Dalio warns …

NEW: researchers say one 'zombie' study in Iran, 20 years ago, has skewed the world's medical evidence base for using Prozac to treat depression in children. They stop short of saying don't use Prozac this way, but want clinical guidelines revised. @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Suspended animation Dismal jobs report with only 29,000 jobs created in the month and tepid wage gains. Losses in local government employment shaved 17K from the total Wage gains continued to cool. Benefit costs are cutting into wage gains, much to the dismay of workers.

The tech bros work together and think alike, and Elon is the primus inter pares. bsky.app/profile/medi...

Tennessee fails to execute the lone woman on its death row, Christa Pike, as planned, after injecting her twice with a lethal drug. Attorneys for Pike say that she is being treated at a hospital, but they did not know her condition.

🇮🇩 Women fight fires and sexism in Indonesian Borneo More than 100 women in Indonesian Borneo have joined a volunteer initiative dubbed "Power of Mama" -- patrolling daily for smoke and flames and jumping in to put out fires when needed.

They meant the "fascism" of giving people healthcare, education, food assistance, etc. because black and brown people would benefit. If any of *that* was going on they'd be marching on Washington with all their guns drawn.

'‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years. 🇨🇭 has lost almost 1/5 of its ice in just 5 yrs, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moonlike rock deserts' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rapists have rights to co-parenting with their victims if she conceives…. And there’s nothing right about that. A rapist will walk free his whole life and nothing changes for him, but victims are never the same.

Inshallah he shows up in every close race

Students should be given more access to AI during exams, bc early evidence suggests it improves their performance. Randomization would be appropriate to adjudicate concerns and accelerate learning.

(WSJ) - Kalshi said on Monday that it would ban former Republican Rep. George Santos from using its platform for life after a federal regulator alleged that the ex-congressman made more than $17,000 by placing bets on his attendance at President Trump’s State of the Union address.

> In Ukraine, Russian soldiers are increasingly surrendering to machines www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

> Dalio Says Sell Bonds, Buy Gold, Bitcoin as Debt Crisis Looms Well I guess it’s a good thing Dalio is so accurate with his predictions, or people wouldn’t be able to benefit from all his good advice! archive.is/jlUBAg

Yep, clearly Ed Zitron’s a public relations specialist not economist.

> Russians pull billions from banks, fearing Kremlin will seize deposits for war www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

I am not the first to make this point but imagine a woman president obsessing constantly over her “ballroom” as the economy imploded and her war spun out of control

Left- Funeral for the IDF soldier who always told his wife how many houses he had demolished that day. Right- Israel blocks crucial supplies from entering Gaza, putting thousands of Palestinians at risk.

New reporting reveals Ohio Republican Gov. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy hired his mother to manipulate clinical trial data for an Alzheimer's drug he owned the rights to. This scheme boosted Ramaswamy's company stock price and generated a $1.4 B IPO, where he then cashed out before the stock tanked.

> Bayesian model averaging in the M-open framework academic.oup.com/book/12043/c...

People talk about super-intelligence like it’s a future only thing.

“Maybe Jackie Robinson should start a Negro league” — Smith in 1947

Words to remember from Aaron Swartz

Trump pushing his way into the soccer celebration is normal-level ugly, but Trump doing it while the top NYT headline is about US troops dying is, to me, a good deal uglier.

I really hate the “I don’t owe anyone anything” mentality because we actually owe each other and this planet a lot. You don’t have to be selfless all the time or burn yourself out but you should be kind and helpful and compassionate to the best of your ability. We need to care about each other more

Newsmax spews propaganda designed to undermine confidence in democratic institutions. I've lived and worked in Beijing and know that their elections are a farce designed to bolster the authority of the CPC, nothing more.

Is Kimi K3 vaporware? Won’t complete any actual requests for me.

> Russian soldiers only live an average of 20 to 30 minutes on the battlefield because of Ukraine’s artificial-intelligence attack drones, CIA Director John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

When you block the promotion of our top naval officers because they don't fit your preferred demographic, you’re not defending the country. You’re betraying the values that define it.

GOLDMAN: “.. Based on details in the CPI report, we estimate that the core PCE price index rose 0.18% in June (vs. our expectation of 0.24% before the CPI release), corresponding to a year-over-year rate of +3.33%. Additionally, we expect that the headline PCE price index declined 0.06% in June ..”

> Warsh Says Fed Has ‘No Tolerance’ for Elevated Inflation What inflation? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A lot of the people posting terrible takes about sexual violence victims know they’re wrong. It is an expression of solidarity with perpetrators, who tend to occupy higher positions of power, versus victims, who tend to be disempowered. Sometimes it is because they are perpetrators, too.

He came to the US 35 year ago. He worked in construction and built a small business. He sent 3 kids to college. Now he's dead at the hands of ICE. They claim he "weaponized" his car against them. Sound familiar? @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social on the latest casualty of Trump's deportation regime.

It’s a tough read, because we are in the middle of it, but the thing that has stuck out to me so far is that any country and any world leader can get anything from Trump if they flatter him or give him something golden…

Only the president is for sale.

What about the Russians that are staying in Trump properties in Florida just to give birth so that their kids can get a US passport??

"AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IS NOT FOR SALE!" Says the charlatan who launched "The Trump Gold Card" in December of last year. For only $1,000,000, the The Trump Gold Card entitles the holder to US citizenship and residency.

Good write-up.