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Use of the word "pronouns" in official congressional e-newsletters over time, by party

In case facts still matter

Interest on the national debt topped $1 trillion this fiscal year. That’s $87 billion more than we spent on defense.

When first reported, 2025’s jobs reports added up to 1.2 million new jobs. After revisions, the economy added just 116,000 — 90% less.

Tesla's Q3 revenues of $28 bn were flat year over year (Automotive -3% YoY). Net Income of $787 mn was down 43% from a year ago. Operating margins fell to 2.6% from 5.8% a year ago. Free cash flow of $1.5 bn was down 62% YoY due to a spike in capital expenditures (up 110% YoY to $4.7 bn)

Republicans have put $947 million of ads into the seven Senate toss-ups vs. $625 million for Democrats, a gap that opened almost entirely in September.  In the House toss-ups, the two sides are even.  My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

I think I'm losing the ability to grasp this reality... How the f it happened that now the whole Internet is temporary broken due to something predicted as a joke on xkcd?

I wish Westerners cared about Ukrainian people as much as they care about Palestinian.

Despite Trump using it as the excuse for the US to protect Putin's oil industry, yet more confirmation that diesel prices have zero correlation with diesel prices.

Trump says he brought in “$21 trillion” of investment vs. “less than $1 trillion” under Biden. Actual business investment: $14.5 trillion under Biden, $6.7 trillion so far under Trump. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

Just in case somebody is unaware. In a lot of cases you may set your UEFI/BIOS settings directly from Linux, and you don't need to reboot to "Enter BIOS".

official congressional e-newsletters mentioning "god" over time, by party

Google searches for health disinformation plunged after Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers. How much “turbo cancer” & ivermectin nonsense is fueled by Russian bots, and how many Americans have they killed? Bots spread disinformation. Humans search for it. When bots go down, so do searches.

Owning vs renting. The advantages of owning aren’t as big as you might think. US data.

pay attention to this token costs will likely continue to plummet, as AI improves the algorithms and GPU kernels

Data centers vs. everything else. Meanwhile, Connecticut and Massachusetts are stuck with massive housing shortages and some of the highest costs of living in the country.

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

You know who said "defund the police" the most over the past few years? Republicans. Full write up here: dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/who-kept-d...

I feel like it is time to declare the step #1 complete.

I am really having an insightful time over here with DCinbox - check out that middle line on Obamacare switching from R to D

On "AI" subject: Decision models like Jev seem like something to keep an eye on (along side "world models" like JEPA). Both are trying to be closer to direct semantic processing of "what to do", instead of being "chat bots". Jev seems to already solve some tasks hundreds times cheaper than LLMs.

Just an update on how annoyingly slow Trump's popularity is falling:

Share of official congressional e-newsletters using the word "woke" over time, by party

Just in case: I **still** cannot internalize that.

The Elections Results, Predetermined by Putin: United Russia is on track for a record 355 seats in Russia’s State Duma, the Central Election Commission says, giving the ruling party a constitutional majority and topping its previous high of 343 seats in 2016.

The number of apps have grown exponentially, but not the app revenue. www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-...

source: ourworldindata.org/grapher/elec...

Ukraine has shut down Russian exports of oil through the Black Sea, notwithstanding the Trump administration's pleas that the shipments be allowed to continue.

source: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Wage growth in immigrant-heavy sectors has not increased with immigration enforcement. States with more ICE arrests have instead seen slower wage growth in construction and hospitality.

Following weeks of White House attacks on Canadians as "perfidious" and "nasty people," amplified by extended smear campaigns on Rupert Murdoch TV, Republicans have started to hate Canadians.

One reason so many people mistake emotion for thought may be that the language surrounding public life has shifted away from evidence, logic, and verification—and toward feeling, belief, and emotional instinct. Research on millions of books shows that this reversal accelerated after 2007.

‘Social Security’s looming insolvency is the country’s most foreseeable problem, a blaring demographic siren threatening automatic benefit cuts in 2032. Congress is trying to work up the nerve to solve it.’ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Whoa. Fox accidentally reported the truth.

‘The use of Chinese models overtook US platforms globally for the first time in June, and accounted for more than 60% of market share last month, on OpenRouter, a tech platform that offers software developers access to hundreds of AI models.’ www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

For the first time in nearly 2 decades, a new Pew Research survey shows China is viewed more favorably than the United States in most countries surveyed—but the findings say more about a decline in U.S. soft power than a Chinese surge

From 2020-2025 Congressional Republicans told constituents that Democrats were saying and trying to "defund the police" more than 200x the amount of times Democrats actually said the phrase in official congressional e-newsletters.

July made it three months in a row where solar was the single largest source of electricity in the EU 🇪🇺 May: 23.5% June: 25.0% July: 24.9% All fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil etc.) combined were just narrowly higher in July at 25.4%.

Bond Yields at 19-Year High Send Warsh Credibility Warning www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Credit markets don’t deal well with uncertainty, and the sheer unpredictability of the pace and cost of AI financing is triggering a serious crisis of confidence right now.” www.ft.com/content/ac13...

Scientific rigor and US-Republicanism seem to be incompatible. source: www.pewresearch.org/politics/200...