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- Is Google collecting data on you using AI? Had visions of South Park's Human Centipede episode after reading that. (HT Borepatch)
- The FBI's investigation into Thomas Crooks - a bungled job or a coverup? Time for a new investigation.
- Why Rep Clay Higgins may be right to vote against the release of the Epstein files.
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- VDH: Why our systems collapse. He's not wrong.
- Google on bringing back accounts censored after Biden's insistence.
- From the archives: The West Wing pilot script.
- Living in the Grey Zone of Political Violence. (HT Execupundit)
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- If you want to support Israel perhaps the best way is to simply buy Israeli products. (HT Execupundit)
- From the archives: The Diversity Myth by Peter Thiel.
- Marc Andreessen on Elon and Trump.
- A way to see if there's personal info about yourself on the Internet. Of course you have to trust Google to do it.
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- First it was the Trump Administration telling illegal immigrants to deport themselves - now is Wall Street telling Google to break itself up?
- Leo XIV named first American Pope.
- Interesting - the trues size of countries.
- Albertexit? I've been talking about this for a while. Remember Alberta doesn't have to be the 51st state either. They could be a stand alone nation on the population scale of about Finland's.
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- The USA is by far the largest investor in AI.
- Chrome on the chopping block as Google's antitrust search trial moves forward.
- From the archive: Louis L' Amour on writing.
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- Glenn Reynolds: Learning to live with AI. Seems lots of people were thinking about robots and AI over Easter.
- The Network School Fellowships. $100,000 in funding. If I were young and free - I would apply for this. In life you have to ask for the order! And yes I see the I see the irony of the first two posts.
- Google found guilty of monopolization again! Meant to like to this last week.
- Why China and Qatar are funding Julliard, not just Harvard.
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- Michael Wade on Churchill: The Man Who Saved the World. Nice synopsis of the indispensable man.
- California has spent billions on homelessness but they lack hard data. That's not a bug but a feature as that's the outcome government and NGO's want.
- Matt Stoller: A Post Google World. They ditched the "Don't be evil" slogan long ago.
- How the Opiate Conspiracy Widened (long read but worth it)
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- VDH on the myriad projections of the 2024 election. Projections in the psychology sense.
- The Daily Coach on Tom Hanks 3 pieces of advice. Good advice.
- Organic farming activism threatens millions - and the environment.
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- VDH on how Trump can win - or lose - the election. Just having people open their eyes to what's going on around the country will help ensure a Trump victory.
- Judge rules Google is a monopoly. What it means.
- From the archives: Peter Joseph Safar's rules for life. The "father of CPR" led an amazing life.
- Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was selected as Kamala Harris' choice to join her on the ticket as VP - 71% of people polled never heard of him. Put me in that 71% too.
And Google is equally bad as Meta. If you find your sources for news are lying to you - get a new source.
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- The tale of Bill Reynolds. Good on ya mate!
- The Democrats crossed the Rubicon. Great analogy!
- Google's AI wasn't a mistake. We know. We were there. Google ditched the saying, "don't be evil" long ago. (HT Execupundit)
- Taming the Mammoth by Tim Urban. Couple of years old but new to me.
Many a truth is said in jest.
- Have long said this how they should divide up sports as well
- Heh Heh
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- Article from last year on what ails Google and how to turn it around. Though it relevant in helping explain why Gemini AI was such a flop.
- Panera Bread exempt from California's new $20 an hour minimum wage law. Gavin Newsome is SO corrupt!
- New research grants push psychedelic studies beyond therapeutics.
- 37 pieces of career advice from Ryan Holiday. (HT Steve Layman)
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- RFK Jr. wins big court win against the Biden Administration's use of social media censorship.
- House committee issues unprecedented subpoenas to Harvard in anti-Semitism investigation.
- The Waymo Jihad. As an aside Dune is one of my favorite books and it is in large part an allegory for Islam with the overland spice trade that historically went through Saudi Arabia.
- The media is covering up key facts about the Lakewood Church shooting.
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- And just like that I added this hotel to my wish list.
- Interesting: Google's AI model for more accurate weather forecasting.
- There's a special place in hell for people who falsify data on Alzheimer's research.
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- About those sanctions - Russia now sells more oil than before the war.
- More on Samsung considering switching to Bing from Google. The news caused Google's stock to drop 4%.
- Buy American (at least when it comes to stocks)
- Speaking of American stocks - Tesla shares drop as Musk announces price cuts ahead of earnings call. Tesla set to report earnings today. They have a hard time keeping up with demand so I expect the numbers to be great.