Altman is such a bizarre mix of evil, God complex, techno fascist, and sociopath that it's head spinning.
The whole valuation of OpenAI hinges on him continuing to baffle investors and tech ceos with AI/religious bullshit to keep up the appearance that his org is worth all the money they are sinking into it.
OpenAI doesn't even have an edge on model capability and development anymore. Their early lead is gone.
His org is heading towards either complete collapse or complete absorption by a larger tech giant within the next year.
This is a fascinating. I, naively, assumed all pts on thyroid replacement needed it. Gosh, 1 in 4 pts could stop the med
I bet if you used a proper placebo the discontinuation rate would be even higher
I also wonder how many other meds such a process would be feasible for
The downtown Chicago, Illinois office vacancy rate rose to an all-time high of 28.6%, having now hit new record highs for 15 consecutive quarters.
Almost half of the 40M SF of vacant office space downtown has been available for at least three years.
Up from 13.8% when the COVID-19 pandemic began.
"Companies cutting back on office space as they adapt to remote work trends have left downtown with a far smaller office tenant base than it had before 2020 and decimated property values, creating rampant distress and scaring off many institutional investors needed to fuel the market’s recovery."
-Crain's
#commercialrealestate
Iranians are afraid of only one thing: the Islamic regime surviving.
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Is this a warning sign of a private credit crisis, or just market panic? Blue Owl Capital, often considered a poster child for the private credit boom, closed at a record low as worries grow about the health of the $1.8tn market. The stock fell 1.4% to $8.45, slipping below its previous low from late 2022. It is now down 68% from its all-time high.
Iran's "10-point response" according to NYT 👇
Essentially the regime is asking Trump to admit defeat and surrender. It just shows how badly they are misjudging the situation, and miscalculating Trump's next moves.
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San Francisco @sfgov employs 34k or ~4% of the population.
For comparison Singapore, w country-level obligations beyond SF, employs ~2.6% of the population and provides better infrastructure and services. This includes defense ministries.
SF could cut 10k deadweight "jobs".
BREAKING: Iran has delivered its highly anticipated "10-point" response to the US' "15-point peace plan."
Iran's 10-point plan includes:
1. Guarantee that Iran will not be attacked again
2. Permanent end to the war, not just a ceasefire
3. End to Israeli strikes in Lebanon
4. Lifting of all US sanctions on Iran
5. End to all regional fighting against Iranian allies
6. In return, Iran would open the Strait of Hormuz
7. Iran would impose a Hormuz fee of $2 million per ship
8. Iran would split these fees with Oman
9. Iran to provide rules for safe passage through Hormuz
10. Iran to use Hormuz fees for reconstruction instead of reparations
President Trump's "deadline" for a peace deal with Iran is 25 hours away.
Die Lions können gegen den HC Davos ihre Siegesserie Zuhause fortsetzen. Genf bezwingt Fribourg. https://www.nzz.ch/sport/play-offs-zsc-und-servette-gleichen-in-der-halbfinal-serie-aus-ld.1932532?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026040669d1a601d2d3b66987fc9ea5
🦔Oracle hired a new CFO this week with a base salary of $950,000 and a performance bonus targeting $2.5 million, effective immediately. This comes days after the company eliminated between 20,000 and 30,000 jobs by email, filed 3,126 H-1B petitions for foreign workers, and reported that its 5-year credit default swaps just hit a record high breaking the previous level set in December 2008.
My Take
The Oracle story keeps adding chapters. Lay off tens of thousands by email at dawn, file hundreds of foreign worker petitions, watch your debt insurance costs hit levels not seen since the financial crisis, and then bring in a new CFO at nearly a million dollars in base salary plus a $2.5 million bonus target. Every one of those decisions has an internal logic. You need financial leadership to navigate $124 billion in debt and a collapsing stock price. But the sequence laid out together is a precise illustration of how the costs and benefits of these decisions get distributed.
The people who built Oracle's products for decades absorbed the downside last Tuesday morning. The new CFO starts this week at compensation most of those workers will never see in a lifetime.
Hedgie🤗
Howard Lutnick will testify to Congress about Jeffrey Epstein next month http://dlvr.it/TRvQY2
What will Trump do tomorrow night?
Proof that the Japanese are much smarter than the Europeans 👇
DISTURBING! After years of scandal and delay, the Public Health Agency of Canada has not only renamed the Vaccine Injury Support Program to “Impact Assistance,” but they’ve also scrubbed all of the data!
Thankfully, I have receipts
Israel hit the exact building in the university that was guarded by IRGC. The question of an Iranian student is finally answered 👇
NEW: Vice President JD Vance is on standby, prepared to jump into sensitive negotiations with Iran if there is a direct meeting with Iranian officials. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/06/vance-is-on-standby-in-iran-talks-00860811
Horrific.
84-year-old Miriam went to a Canadian ER for pain.
Before the doctors figured out she had a fractured pelvis, they offered her MAiD.
“I just wanted to find out why I was in pain — I did not want to die."
She made a complete recovery.
Killing is NEVER the solution.
After reading this piece on Sam Altman, one can reasonably conclude he’s put profit over loyalty, principles, and company governance.
There’s business savvy and ruthlessness, and there’s Sam, who at multiple points in his career has been the subject of investigations and forced departures from companies he’s founded.
When those closest to him raise alarms, they should be heeded by those whom he tries to con into business dealings.
While Dario is also insufferable, it should be obvious to all why both him and Elon, who worked closest with Sam, find him to be a dishonest swindler.
The last takeaway I have — this article is written by a gay Democrat, one of Sam’s own people, and even he is quite unconvinced that Sam is a good person.
OpenAI was clearly changed from a non-profit to for-profit to benefit Sam. It’s clear he lied to Elon and his co-founders.
“I think there’s a small but real chance he’s eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer.”
This is the truth and the world sees it.
R to @tomdabassman: 4/ Die „mangelnde Bereitschaft, sich mit dem AstraZeneca Impfstoff impfen zu lassen“ bereitete dem Kölner Corona-Krisenstab im Hinblick auf die „für den Herbst anvisierte Herdenimmunität“ offenbar große Sorge.
Die anvisierte Herdenimmunität schien den Mitgliedern am 19.02.21 daher „unwahrscheinlich“, weshalb man die Notwendigkeit sah, kommunikativ auf eine „mediale Rehabilitierung des
AstraZeneca-Impfstoffs“ Einfluss zu nehmen - ungeachtet der bis dahin bereits bekannten heftigen Impfreaktionen nach diesem Vakzin (https://www.siegener-zeitung.de/lokales/siegerland/siegen/heftige-nebenwirkungen-medizinisches-personal-verunsichert-zweifel-an-astrazeneca-impfstoff-7LNN37Z2V7LP2OYUVJVM6JSEGX.html?outputType=valid_amp).
The more you hear Jen Newsom lecture about her obvious disdain for boys, the more you understand why Gavin Newsom said that their son was a huge fan of Charlie Kirk
Vance is on standby in Iran talks http://dlvr.it/TRvNxM
This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is not causing more severe illness than in recent seasons. However, because RSV activity began later than expected across much of the U.S., higher levels may continue into April in many regions. Stay informed and take steps to protect your health. Visit http://www.cdc.gov/fluview for CDC’s latest influenza surveillance report.
R to @tomdabassman: 3/ Bereits am 03. Februar 2021 war das in den Kölner Corona-Protokollen zitierte Kölner Impfziel offiziell verkündet worden:
„Laut Schätzung der Expertenkommission sei eine Herdenimmunität in Köln im September dieses Jahres zu erreichen.“
https://www.doccheck.com/de/detail/articles/31521-mutationen-die-koeln-strategie
Do No Harm is suing the federal government over a discriminatory scholarship that excludes qualified students pursuing healthcare professions unless they can prove Native Hawaiian ancestry. 🩺
Read the full story in The Washington Post. ⬇️
Perspective by Martin G. Lee, MD: The Age Illusion — Limitations of Chronologic Age in Medicine https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2516973
#MedicalEthics #MedicalPractice
R to @Quo_vadis_BRD: 2/ Siehe Spahns Auftritt in der Corona-Enquete-Kommission via @tomdabassman:
1/ Die CORONA-PROTOKOLLE KÖLN vom 19. Februar 2021 belegen das Kölner Impfziel „HERDENIMMUNITÄT“, das „für den Herbst anvisiert“ war.
Sie widerlegen damit den Ex-CDU-Gesundheitsminister, der in der Corona-Enquete-Kommission des Bundestages im Dez. 2025 mitgeteilt hatte, dass ein „Infektionsschutz gegenüber Dritten“ angeblich „nie Ziel“ der Impfstoffbeschaffung gewesen sei.
Herdenimmunität jedoch bedeutet Gemeinschaftsschutz, und somit „Infektionsschutz gegenüber Dritten“.
https://api.rkileak.com/f/StadtKoeln/Koeln_Corona-Krisenstab_Protokolle_Teil-2_Sitzungen-91-120_Session-115_p1254-1314.pdf
I only accept meeting requests from a certain C-Suite as tentative.
Follow me for more passive aggressive work tips.
GC kassiert gegen den FC Sion eine Niederlage und verliert zum sechsten Mal in Folge. Servette triumphiert mit 3:0 über Luzern. https://www.nzz.ch/sport/fussball/super-league-st-gallen-schlaegt-den-fc-zuerich-und-rueckt-thun-etwas-naeher-gc-verliert-zum-sechsten-mal-in-folge-ld.1932524?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026040669d16dc1d2d3b66987fc9d04
The residency “cap” was only in the number of Medicare funded residency spots. Yet, despite the cap in funding, there was no slowing the pace of residency spot creation. In fact, the rate of growth in residency spots outpaced population growth.
Hospitals make money off of residency spots. They get inexpensive labor, the equivalent of 2-3 NPs per resident.
There’s no reason they should get federal subsidies on top of that, also.
Proof that we live in a simulation: The leader of the greatest world superpower threatens to send Iran back to the Stone Age, while standing next to a giant bunny 🐰
The Easter Bunny went from making sure Joe Biden didn’t talk to small children to being Donald Trump’s Secretary of War.
Seien wir ehrlich: Die Lektionen aus dem 2. Weltkrieg, die für die Gründer der BRD noch sehr präsent waren, geraten zunehmend in Vergessenheit.
Grundrechte als Abwehrrechte des Individuums gegenüber dem Staat werden schrittweise ausgehöhlt.
Auch die Kriegsdienstverweigerung verliert an Bedeutung.
Und einige wenige üben Zwang über viele aus – ohne selbst bei Fehlverhalten ernsthafte Konsequenzen befürchten zu müssen.
Eine Entwicklung, die dringend umgekehrt werden muss.
So what I think is happening in the media space is that high profile narratives of intrigue etc, obviously pushed, are composed, LLM-style, of parts of earlier narratives lodged in the collective mind. The new scripts are probabilistic syntheses of their elements.
Luigi combines JFK shooting (we have footage of the crime), Unabomber stuff (he's against the establishment and wrote a manifesto), Manson stuff (girls fall under his spell!), and so on.
Charlie Kirk mystery built with the same structure. With different elements.
Disappearance of that newscaster lady's mom in Arizona is Lindbergh baby case, only it's an elder. Weak production, though. Cancelled.
Even the anti-war movement going on now is a pastiche of Vietnam Era tropes, with Trump as Nixon (impeach him) and the leaders of Iran as misunderstood freedom fighters à la Ho Chi Minh.
This is your world now. Don't be mistaken. And don't think I'm saying everything is "fake." Or that we live in a big "S" Simulation.
Real events can be molded through this process into what I'll call "Large Language Media." The tell is their strange halo of familiarity, of having been assembled from pre-existing units, as it is with AI-written prose.
Got it?