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Screenshot from NY Mag feature on how much people make in NYC: "Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."

Screenshot from NY Mag feature about how much people make in NYC: "Consultant $17,000,000 $9.5 million from consulting fees $7.5 million in stock in companies that went public The big-picture way that I make my money is consulting; that work covers my day-to-day. Separate from that, I had stock in a couple of companies that went public. Because I made money later in life, my tastes and needs are a lot simpler. I don't spend money on things like having multiple homes, or flying private, or watches, or boats. I make enough money that I do what I want and I don't think about it. I also don't believe in leaving my kids a crazy amount of money because everyone I know who has that is fucked up, so why would I do that to them?"

When people in the future ask what America was show them this

He has also deported dozens of dissidents back to Iran, where they were likely executed.

the "'Alex Bores Used To Work For *spooky music* Palantir' –PaidForByJoeLonsdaleCoFounderOfPalantir" scandal really illustrates how the central crisis of Citizens United was that it legalized ratfucking

The Race at the Center of Everything A Kennedy heir, a Never-Trumper, and two Albany lawmakers walk into a forum...

Excellent piece by @michaellangenyc.bsky.social on the race for NY-12. I think Michael is right on three key points:

• Nina Schwalbe is great but won't win.
• The race is between Micah Lasher + Alex Bores.
• Alex's best shot is to win via AI as wedge issue.

www.michaellange.nyc/p/the-race-a...

The Campaign to Take Down Alex Bores Is Just the Beginning A leading AI industry-backed Super PAC is targeting a pro-regulation candidate — and building a strategy that other politicians will have to contend with.

"[The] goal is not actually to kill Alex's race. Their goal...is to scare other legislators into submission."

I profiled NY-12 Democrat Alex Bores & the AI industry's strategy against him for Politico Magazine:
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Today, Ekrem Imamoglu stands trial on the most Kafkaesque allegation of establishing a " criminal organisation for illicit gain." The most threatening political rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan allegedly sought, through this purported network, +

Here’s a piece I wrote in 2007 about how an over-reliance on militarized drug war tactics has basically thinned out the herd and ensured only the most efficient and adaptive operations survived. We’ve been selectively breeding highly evolved supertraffickers for decades. Sit this one out, Stephen.

I’m briefly in India. This is a facile observation, but Americans have barely scratched the surface in understanding how the rest of the world is reacting to this war. It’s already an Iraq War-style disaster in the global imagination, underscored by the thuggishness and caprice of the Trump approach

AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

Wounded Knee. Tulsa. My Lai. Abu Ghraib

And now, Minab

We need to talk about the horror when 180 little schoolgirls, boys and teachers were obliterated by U.S. Tomahawk missiles last week. And tell Congress: Not one more dime for these war crimes

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

The consequences of this war for Americans will be bleak and take decades to unfold, but it will impoverish and provincialize them in ways that would have been unimaginable ten years ago

Threading some stuff about oil & oil markets, just basic but hope it helps:
1/ oil markets are what you call “finely balanced”. Supply is usually very very close to demand/consumption. Demand is hard to shift *quickly* in response to supply hiccups.
So even small supply changes = big price effects

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

How Researchers Won a Legal Fight to Access X's Data Under the DSA A Berlin court has delivered a consequential ruling, ordering X to grant Democracy Reporting International access to its publicly available data.

A Berlin court has ordered X to grant researchers API access under the Digital Services Act. Daniela Alvarado Rincón, Simone Ruf and Jürgen Bering explain how they won the case, and why it’s a major step for researcher data access.

Russians are providing military technology to Iranian proxies

War is the worst of human endeavors, but the reason militaries do not fight by pure thuggery, as the United States now does, is that it ultimately puts us more at risk and defiles us as a country. What are we even fighting for if we are nothing but the biggest bully on the block?

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

‘Useless to keep appealing to Trump’ on Iran says Spanish Culture Minister We spoke to the Spanish Culture Minister Ernest Urtasun.

‘Useless to keep appealing to Trump’ on Iran says Spanish Culture Minister
www.channel4.com/news/useless...

For anyone who would like the clip (including George).

There is a clear trend that emerges. Countries first tap into the solar market, then a year later they seek to deploy batteries.

Europe did that after the gas crisis caused by Russia's attack on Ukraine. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How Fossil Fuel Disruptions Lead to Booms in Solar and Batteries Past oil crises forced countries to cut fuel use and pay high prices, but now falling prices of clean tech offer another solution.

Past fossil-fuel price spikes left import-dependent countries with two options: pay up or cut fuel use. Now there is an alternative in solar and batteries.

I looked at recent examples in Europe, Pakistan, Cuba to glean what might happen with the war on Iran.

🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

As Italy approves a decree to reimburse gas plants for carbon costs and gas prices jump 80%, it’s worth recalling that in 2018 both Italian and Spanish power prices were tightly linked to gas. Since then, Spain has largely decoupled, mainly thanks to renewables. Italy hasn’t.

And which country is the major importer of LNG from the Gulf? That's right, Italy. Instead of spending these funds to decouple from gas, they will be used to preserve the same model that brought Italy to the number one spot in European electricity prices.

Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

“politicians must stop prioritising socially and ecologically destructive growth that only increases the profits of the world’s richest individuals and corporations”

So says a UN rapporteur

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

Crucial and powerful essay by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social. Lest we forget.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Opinion | Of Course Trump Bombed Iran

Sorry Steve Wertheim, but this is bullshit:

"Yet for all its Trumpian characteristics, this war is the logical conclusion of how the United States has long dealt with Iran."

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/o...

About a year ago, Trump lectured Ukraine’s president that he had no cards.

Today, it seems, the US is begging Ukraine for interceptor drones.

”I tried donating blood today. Never again!

Too many stupid questions. Whose blood is it? Where did you get it from? Why is it in a bucket?”

You donate one kidney, you are a hero. You donate three kidneys, suddenly you are a villain. Make it make sense!

Passivhaus Retrofit Case Study Series | Stretford EnerPHit Retrofit YouTube video by Passivhaus Trust

If you liked Guy Martin's House Without Bills, architect Hannah Dixon / Progress in Practice and the builder Josh Day / Mysza Group take a deep dive into this EnerPHit retrofit project

From the @passivhaustrust.bsky.social Retrofit Case Study Series

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgY2...