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It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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This will allow a major private medical school like HMS or Johns Hopkins to pick up the IPD on the cheap. www.ipd.uw.edu

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Still thinking about the Sassoon letter. www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sassoo...

submitted 9 days ago • 244 comments

The dollar is substantially overvalued, and more so than in ten years after today's disappointing inflation numbers. Once more, I strongly recommend anyone with investments to place them outside the U.S. with heavy exposure to BRICS.

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Let us hope this question remains purely hypothetical. I can't see a relationship between a sleep-deprived, adderall-fueled Musk and a teetotaler Trump lasting long. Without further ado, another free article about our constitutional crisis, courtesy of the NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/o...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Now why would Trump fire election security experts? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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China will soon be able to produce 3nm AI chips on a scale greater than TSMC and with higher yields all using domestic technology. www.powerelectronicsnews.com/china-invest...

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The dollar is sinking while yields on our debt are rising. This is typically only seen in economies that are in sectoral decline or financial crisis. Another free article for you good folks: on.ft.com/3Qdt06V

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Penn State has halted submission and *acceptance* of NIH grants pending the resolution of the overhead rate cut. This lost time will never be recovered. The economic cost to Pennsylvania is enormous and the cost to humanity immeasurable.

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Please enjoy this free article about our new open embrace of bribery of foreign public officials. I'm certain President Xi Jinping will love it. on.ft.com/40LbLPi

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Some are justifying Trump's legalization of bribing foreign officials by suggesting that China will bribe if we don't. Not anymore. I personally know 3 former Hunan CDC workers jailed for 10 years for taking reagent companies' bribes. The world's upside-down now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-co...

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Please enjoy this free opinion piece from five highly respected economists and former Treasury Secretaries describing our descent into pariah state status. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

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$TLK, Indonesia's state-owned telecommunications company, is priced obscenely cheap right now. It's plunged due to a corruption investigation into its Commissioner at his previous job. The underlying business is fine. Note that there is a 20% dividend withholding tax for US investors.

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My wife works as a lab technician at a local hospital. She was warned by the other staff that today would be brutal, and it has been. More domestic violence and subsequent hospitalization happens on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day of the year. I never would've guessed, but I'm into eSports.

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a good bit of evidence that trump represents bona fide confederate government is that he keeps tripping every wire placed by the 14th amendment talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

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This feels like an epochal moment for academia. Universities were built to create, store, and propagate knowledge. Machines can do all that, in tandem with or better than humans, so they struggle to embrace AI. Now, the value of a college degree is questionable, and funding just got eviscerated.

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Just imagine what would happen if universities decide to compensate for lost NIH overheads by deep cuts to their Division 1 football and basketball teams. Yeah, I know, unthinkable because modern research universities know what's the more essential component of their mission

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I work as a staffer at a leading medical university. The NIH cuts are going to devastate the school, and we were already partially subsidizing our hospital. Our budget is public and audited. finance.jhu.edu/wp-content/u... America will no longer lead in science. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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NIH indirect funding rates to support university administration, staffing, IT, and infrastructure will be dramatically cut. This may seem positive at first blush, but universities are already highly decentralized. Duplication of effort is the problem, and this will exacerbate it.

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I'm a Sr. Systems Engineer at America's first research university, stuck in an unfulfilling role. I've tried to educate my co-workers on AI and MLOps, but instead of taking on ambitious new projects, they doubled my menial tasks. My demanding, egotistical manager offers no incentive to innovate.

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