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“A year out from Argentina’s presidential election, Peter Thiel has become an avatar for the left’s charge that President Javier Milei is putting the country up for sale,” Bloomberg reports. “Opposition lawmakers launched a five-hour congressional hearing Friday into Thiel’s interests in Argentina, ramping up scrutiny on the tech billionaire who has purchased a mansion […]

“President Trump updated his defamation lawsuit on Thursday against The New York Times and the book publisher Penguin Random House, expanding on his argument that several reporters had disparaged his record as a businessman in articles and a book about him,” the New York Times reports. “The new filing adds specific claims of inaccuracies to […]

"It's called the US Space Academy. That's a big deal."

Annual subscriptions see the biggest bump.

Tesla holds its Cybercab launch event in Austin on September 3, and it’s being sold as a milestone. Here’s my prediction: it’s going to look a lot like the last time Tesla launched this car, back in October 2024.

Expect a big robotaxi fleet number as the headline, a steering wheel and safety monitor finally coming out, and almost nothing that touches the one thing actually holding the program back.

Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Service will be spotty to non-existent in the coming weeks. News Who Remembers VMforce? Salesforce modus operandi on full display: A breathless press release (albeit very light […]

Bret Baier corrects Trump on air after Trump complained about Fox's reporting on Truth Social

Everyone knows now that the deep sea has a monopoly on strange fish. There is the uncanny inflation of the gulper eel, the peeled-grape eyes of the barreleye, and the eternal frown of the sea toad. These spooky fish's great and insurmountable distance from us might offer som...

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A man living in the United States illegally was sentenced for killing a missing man in the Hudson Valley. Continue reading…

“The Trump administration is negotiating a long-term stake in a vast share of Venezuela’s oil fields, according to three people close to the discussions, a costly and legally precarious proposal that aims to nudge reluctant energy companies to drill in the risky region,” the Washington Post reports. “The contours of the plan, which is still […]

Reservoirs have rebounded from critical levels, but an emergency order absolves the city of requirements to resume releasing water for the Nueces River Delta.

“Do we need to look at the ceiling before going to the bathroom? Can we actually trust the water is safe to drink?” asks one GSA worker.

Trump: The crew named a lunar crater in loving memory of Reid's wife who we lost to cancer. I wish they'd name something like that after me. I like that

Trump: The people behind me, that's a good looking group of people. I don't like speaking with those people behind me. They look too good

Trump: A nation cannot be first on Earth if we're going to be second in space. It just doesn't work that way. It... eh, it makes sense. I was going to say, does it make sense? I guess it does, when you think about it

We watched the latest episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” last night and I am still clenched.

As the USS Abraham Lincoln sails home, Pete Hegseth is seeing his worst nightmare growing daily: angry military folks who talk to the media, because he has lost their trust.

The post Hegseth is Being Confronted by his Worst Nightmare, Too appeared first on emptywheel.

It’s been a good but busy week. Lots of work got done. Though I think I am still lagging according to my TODO list. On a side note, I have been fairly active, with standard two days of P.T. and two days of pickleball. I have not made any progress on running. I...

Redheads feel your pain. And then some.

I got this tidbit, the wackiest medical trivia of my life, a couple years ago from a doctor at Johns Hopkins. I was there real shortly after another doc told me in scary tones that a weird bump could be something awful and had to be dealt with post-haste. Spoiler alert: Turned out fine. Sometimes a bump is just a bump. But before removing it, the specialist asked a question unlike any I’d ever gotten from a doctor.

See, I must’ve flinched more than the Hopkins doc thought I should when she commenced to burn my flesh, because she stopped the procedure to ask, “Did you used to be a redhead?”