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peterdelevett.bsky.social

Silicon Valley transplant since the dot-com daze. Journalist turned venture capital story teller. Family, music, travel, coffee. Image by Freepik; opinions by me.

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Remember that viral video of @billgates.com filling a pothole? Yeah, same startup. Check it out below!

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Energy Secretary Chris Wright outlines nine pillars for “American energy dominance” including nuclear expansion, grid strengthening, and critical minerals development. Amazingly, the team he needs to deliver it were told to take early retirement or they would be part of a reduction in force.

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The premise of all the concern over pediatric transgender medicine is that it's being given too quickly to too many children, and I continue to find it odd that every scrap of evidence I can find suggests that this isn't happening and never was.

submitted 32 days ago • 90 comments

Big hearts to Costco Diversity has been proven to yield better results.

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By this Pam calculation, one pill has to kill more than five people. Math is hard.

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Here’s a coffin for anyone who anticipates dying of embarrassment

submitted 195 days ago • 5 comments

Every business owner should do this. Make Trump own it. He expects biz owners to weather the backlash on his behalf because he thinks Americans works for him and not the other way around.

submitted 35 days ago • 9 comments

Bessent is really awkward in press conferences and I think it’s because you can’t lie with this frequency and density on Wall Street and not risk fines, lawsuits, or prison.

submitted 35 days ago • 42 comments

For the Daily Beast, I wrote about the coward Jeff Bezos: "I know a line on a receipt is a small thing, but capitulation always starts small. With that small thing, Bezos has granted the President of the United States veto power over how he runs his business. " www.thedailybeast.com/no-bar-is-to...

submitted 34 days ago • 34 comments

A colt named Journalism is the betting favorite in this weekend's Kentucky Derby. If metaphor carries the day, that poor horse is gonna break down and get boltgunned right to hell in front of millions.

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"It is hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, someone who is in need of help." - Pope Francis

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Dem leaders and operatives saying “focus on pocketbook issues,” completely miss that due process is a pocketbook issue. Tourists, students, investors, citizens all depend on rule of law. Just because lawlessness is state-sponsored, doesn’t mean it ain’t crime, and crime is bad for the economy.

submitted 44 days ago • 45 comments

A DOGE MYSTERY! I'm trying to find OPM request for proposal #47QFEA24K0008. DOGE says they saved $318,310,328 by cancelling it. But OPM won't release this doc, and it's not listed in govt databases. Free @nytimes coffee mug to anyone with a copy! I'm at [email protected]

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

During a speech earlier this week, Trump's Secretary of Education Linda McMahon kept referring to "artificial intelligence" as "A1" — like the steak sauce. Maybe she shouldn't be in charge of the Department of Education...