Berkshire Hathaway, which has the odd tradition of reporting on Saturday mornings, turned in a real flop. Profits down 30%. But the stock has been garbage for a while, so maybe this was priced in. It'll be interesting what it does on Monday. I don't know how anybody justifies to themselves buying BRK when the executives of BRK, with an enormous cash pile, refuse to buy their own shares. If you believe in BRK because you think it's a wisely run business, then ironically you shouldn't be buying their stock.

https://x.com/Rothmus/status/2027457693984907713?s=20

The guy at my gym was doing 1200+. But they were not particularly short movement. It was impressive considering I only do 375.

Chicken livers wrapped in bacon is a favorite T-Day appetizer for me, and I have no problems with a fried beef liver with onions, though it has to be warm.

said in The Epstein File: It’s not the headline above but in the video Lutnick says he and Epstein were a ‘one and done’. He says he met him once and immediately recognized this guy was a pervert and stayed away. Files say differently. https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/2020829280414970018?s=46 https://x.com/osint613/status/2027472961574179124?s=46

This is from 10 years ago... https://www.theguardian.com/cities/the-northerner/2016/jun/20/forgotten-neighbourhood-gorton-manchester-decline-urban-regeneration Living there in the 80's was just awful. Quite a lot of Manchester improved substantially after the IRA did the city a big favour and blew up the city center in 1996, but the improvements didn't extend that far.

An excellent interview with Fiona Hill from yesterdays Global Story on BBC World Service: https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct71b2

The Witch 2: The Other One Link to video

Wonder if they tried using AI to review their textbooks for correctness.

Mamdani probably just showed him her picture. [image: 1772165063889-img_0820.jpeg]

Choot ‘em

There was a famous one they named Nim Chimsky as the idea was to use him to disprove Chomsky’s theory that language was uniquely human.

Chess is imposing to the uninitiated. Most casual fans could spend their entire lives studying a library’s worth of chess theory, only to still be routinely humiliated by competitive players. Simply getting started is difficult, too. The basic rules require a decent amount of time to memorize before anyone can make their first moves, a hurdle that has stopped plenty of people from ever trying the game. But what if there was a way to quickly improve your abilities without spending hours hunched over the board? If the mental strain that comes with learning chess isn’t enough, will some actual, physical pain do the trick? That’s what YouTuber Fletcher Heisler, aka Everything Is Hacked, wondered before embarking on the monthsong, tortuous journey of designing, building, and playing a custom chess set capable of delivering a Taser-like shock whenever it detects an error. As recently highlighted by Hackaday, the results are as fascinating as they are sometimes difficult to watch. Link to video

She did it I again. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/veteran-airline-stowaway-arrested-again-newark-milan-flight-rcna260805 Svetlana Dali was taken into custody in Milan after, authorities alleged, she sneaked onto United Flight 19 at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, which departed at about 5:30 p.m. ET Wednesday. Dali made it past ticketing agents, and when the United in-flight crew realized she was aboard without a ticket, the Boeing 777-200 was already over the Atlantic Ocean, according to sources. She pretended she couldn't hear questions from crew members when she was asked whether she had a ticket or was traveling improperly, a source familiar with the matter said.

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/48044958/brady-tkachuk-miffed-white-house-ai-doctored-video Brady Tkachuk, the Ottawa Senators captain and a Team USA gold medalist, said he didn't appreciate the AI-doctored video released by the White House that made it appear he was disparaging Canadians. The video, published Sunday by the White House's official TikTok account, featured doctored footage from a Tkachuk brothers' news conference at the 4 Nations Face-Off last February. While "Free Bird," the goal song for Team USA, played in the background of the video, Brady Tkachuk was made to say, "They booed our national anthem, so I had to come out and teach those maple syrup eating f---s a lesson." The clip, which discloses that it used AI-generated media, has 11.1 million views on TikTok and has been widely viewed on other social media platforms.

More fun between the two countries. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-pakistan-airstrikes-513791ef82fb8c2e4acce08c2b80c41a Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Kabul and two other Afghan provinces early Friday, Afghanistan’s government spokesperson said, hours after Afghanistan launched a cross-border attack on Pakistan in the latest escalation of violence between the neighboring countries that made a Qatar-mediated ceasefire appear increasingly shaky. At least three explosions were heard in Kabul, but there was no immediate information on the exact location of the strikes in the Afghan capital, or of any potential casualties. Government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said Pakistan also carried out airstrikes in Kandahar to the south and in the southeastern province of Paktia. Two senior Pakistani security officials told The Associated Press that Pakistan’s military carried out airstrikes targeting what they described as Afghan military facilities in Kabul, Kandahar and Paktia provinces, allegedly destroying two brigade bases, but they didn’t mention any potential casualties. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to media on the record.

What could go wrong when you have a petulant sore loser with nearly unlimited executive order power combined with his favorite narcissistic false reality topic of a stolen election?

Grok was asked for a one sentence summary, which is a neat trick.

[image: 1772145662235-05576284-1083-427b-b1c4-392ed6a47d80-image.png] A snowmelter if there ever was one.