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Battery storage growth<\/a> in Texas is wild<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a drone cargo plane<\/a>, designed for logistics and disaster response. It is the first unmanned aircraft for high-altitude, it can operate using very short runways, and is adaptable to either landing full of cargo, or dropping it by parachute to the ground. The capacity is one ton<\/a>, with a range of over a thousand miles, with AI systems for loading and unloading in under five minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The international order follows the law of the jungle much more than it follows international law<\/a>. There are five major kinds of fights between countries: trade\/economic wars, technology wars, capital wars, geopolitical wars, and military wars. Let\u2019s begin by briefly defining them<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rummler\/Obama covered up<\/a> the prostitution scandal, and instead blamed the Secret Service: ten members lost their jobs over the scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These developments do not represent isolated events but markers of an industry shifting toward broader participation, tighter regulatory scrutiny<\/a>, and more strategic use of airspace management. The trajectory of drones in the next 12 to 24 months will be shaped as much by policy choices and manufacturing strategy as by technical innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 Charity suffereth<\/a> long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also revealed the lack of talent<\/a> on the Democratic team. You may have seen the clip of AOC trying to answer a question about U.S. support for Taiwan\u2013a question that foreseeably is likely to come up, but about which she evidently has never spent a single moment thinking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chicago Office Sales<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

250 S. Wacker Drive ?74%
$23.8M vs $90M in 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n

175 W. Jackson Blvd ?87%
$41M vs $306M in 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

600 W. Chicago Ave ?82.5%
$89M vs $510M in 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

311 S. Wacker Drive ?85%
$45M vs $302M in 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From below, hundreds of AI-native startups<\/a> are entering every vertical. When building a credible financial data product required 200 engineers and $50M in data licensing, markets naturally consolidated to 3-4 players. When it requires 10 engineers and frontier model APIs, the market fragments violently. Competition goes from 3 to 300<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Great quote from the owner\u2026 \u201cThere are towns across America that wish they were Music City \u2014 and we’re trying to be Las Vegas. Why?\u201d. Absolutely terrible quote from the mayor<\/a>. \u201c It\u2019s not up to me whether he keeps that business open, the market evolves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Yes, a human still decides which tools the agent is allowed to use<\/a>. That’s a real marketing surface. But once the agent is running, the runtime purchasing decisions are pure optimization. The land grab is making it onto the allowlist, then being the best option once you’re there.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This buy-then-convert pattern turned out to be surprisingly common. Using searches of Becker\u2019s, CHOW<\/a>, and hospital finance websites, I found 25 cases of for-profit hospitals getting acquired by nonprofits<\/a> in the last decade. In over half those cases, the newly acquired hospital almost immediately (within a year) enrolled in the 340B Program. The remainder did not enroll because they were not 340B-eligible even after conversion (e.g., they did not meet eligibility criteria such as the DSH threshold). Here\u2019s the full timeline of the acquisitions I found:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These findings suggest economic policies implemented in the 1970s<\/a> had nothing to do with the Midwestern population declines that occurred after the 1970s. Rather, these data are consistent with a long-term and large-scale shift in preferences that began long before the 1970s, one that was not unique to the Midwest. It is foolhardy to center public policy around this false narrative, and, unsurprisingly, the administration\u2019s attempts to reverse this trend have not only failed but have also economically<\/a>hurt<\/a>Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cfindings indicate that we are currently unable to distinguish clinically meaningful<\/a> MRI abnormalities from incidental findings,\u201d the study authors concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Companies report that they face a \u201creviewer lottery,<\/a>\u201d where critical questions hinge on the approach of a small number of individuals at FDA. Some FDA review teams are creative and forward-leaning, helping developers design programs and overcome obstacles to get needed products to patients, without cutting corners. FDA\u2019s Oncology Center of Excellence (OCE), for example, is repeatedly identified as a model for providing predictable yet flexible options for bringing new drugs to cancer patients. OCE is now a dialogue-based regulatory paradigm that has facilitated efforts by academia, industry, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and others to develop new cancer therapies and launch innovative programs and pilots like Project Orbis, RealTime Oncology Review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In effect, two separate but related<\/a> campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He then<\/a> goes on to list what he thinks is going to happen, for which the point summaries<\/a> are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 There will be more software than ever before
\u2022 AI-enabled or AI-centric software is simply moving up the stack of what a product is
\u2022 New tools will be created with AI that do new things
\u2022 Domain experience will be wildly more important than it is today because every domain will become vastly more sophisticated than it is now
\u2022 Finally, it is absolutely true that some companies will not make it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Circle Pines man<\/a> worked for the Minnesota Department of Corrections until this past October. As wild as Brown\u2019s story is, this is even wilder. Department of Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell thanks<\/a> the immigration authorities for their efforts. \u201cIf these federal allegations are accurate, this individual engaged in sophisticated efforts to misrepresent their identity, extending well beyond Minnesota,\u201d Schnell said. \u201cWe are grateful to USCIS and ICE for their work in investigating and addressing immigration fraud.\u201d Now that is wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But here\u2019s what should keep software founders up at night: the line only moves in one direction<\/a>. Every model generation pushes it higher. What\u2019s above the line today will be below it in eighteen months. You can\u2019t build a business on the assumption that your moat is permanent when the water level is rising on a schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business has never been better for lobbyists<\/a> paid to push the agendas of foreign countries and companies, but critics say the surge undermines Trump\u2019s \u2018America First\u2019 pledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne third of the total package price, with the land, is in the regulatory costs,\u201d one builder noted, including \u201cyour wetland fees, your park dedication fees, your permit costs,<\/a>\u201d and more. Thus, a house in Corcoran, Minnesota, that costs $182,000 to build will have an all-in cost of $372,000, including $56,000 in administrative costs alone! Throw in a modest profit margin, and you\u2019re well out of \u201cstarter\u201d range in the area. The same goes for estimates from Michigan<\/a> and New Jersey<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Post published their reporting three weeks before the end 2020 presidential election<\/a>. Within 48 hours, 51 former intelligence officials signed a letter calling it likely Russian disinformation. They knew it was authenticated. They coordinated with the Biden’s Autopen campaign to sign it anyway. Twitter locked the New York Post’s account. Facebook suppressed the story. The corporate media called it a smear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese carmakers have lower cost structures<\/a>, driven by tighter control over their supply chains and a stronger focus on the China market. This puts Western OEMs in a tough spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putting data into glass is as simple as etching<\/a> it (to be clear, this is technically not etching, which is a chemical modification of glass\u2019 surface\u2014here, lasers burn features into the interior of the glass). But that\u2019s been one of the challenges, as the writing is typically a slow process. However, the development of femtosecond lasers\u2014lasers that emit pulses that only last 10-15<\/sup> seconds and can emit millions of them per second\u2014can significantly cut down write times and allow etching to be focused on a very small area, increasing potential data density.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Granting Permission to Yourself<\/a>: American Medical Records Requests are Often Absurd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there was something special about the original M5<\/a>, launched in spring 1985, and it wasn\u2019t only that it was the second car after the M1 to use the two-digit model code and get a proper WBS motorsport prefix on the VIN plate. Almost four decades later, there\u2019s still something magical about the M5, and it remains the car that\u2019s referenced as ground zero when it comes to super saloons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Reichel, executive director of the Sierra Avalanche Center, explained that the conditions became lethal as the massive storm<\/a> delivered heavy snow on top of a base that had been transformed by an exceptionally dry January and start to February. The fresh snow, he said, fell on a \u201clayer of snow that weakened and became unstable during the warm, dry weather.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing on OBFCM data from ~1 million vehicles (2021\u20132023), it reveals significant gaps: PHEVs emit 3\u20135 times more CO? than approved,<\/a> with only ~25\u201330% electric driving due to frequent combustion-engine use even in battery-discharge modes. 2. Average real fuel consumption for PHEVs is 5.9 l\/100 km, comparable to pure combustion-engine vehicles, undermining their climate benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’re always the angriest when you’re a bit guilty. Rice presided over the Domestic Policy Council when BIden opened the borders, assuring Trump’s return. Now she vows to perpetuate the cycle of crude partisan revenge<\/a>. She seems confident she’ll remain in the elite pursuing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More Billing Codes See Skyrocketing<\/a> Billing. T1019 is not the only billing code with explosive growth from 2018 to 2024, although it is the code with the highest amount paid out in that time. Twenty-two other codes saw anywhere from 200% to over 10,000% increases. Eight codes had over 500% more payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The old view: Everything is gray, no absolute right or wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n