Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

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I've added a few zoom shots and some music to fully enhance the tragedy of the Trump's second Nobel Peace Prize snub. The crowd behind him really seemed devastated for him. Americans might be struggling to buy food and gas but they never got dissed by the Nobel Committee.

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New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

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And for the millionth time, no one is saying “AIs are conscious” here. The point is that a computer that reasons like a person obviously poses challenges to those millennia of ideas, even if you do not personally subscribe to them. It raises heavy questions. It’s not a big nothingburger yawnfest.

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EMERGENCY PROTEST AGAINST ICE. Protestors gathered at Foley Square on Friday after an ICE agent shot Bronx man Oscar Belgal last night. Hundreds of New Yorkers took to the streets demanding ICE get out of NYC and out of our communities everywhere. An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.

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