"One of the major concerns of historians and academics, as society moved into the electronic age, was that many of the written documents -- letters, diaries, messages and memos -- so important in reconstructing events later would be deleted over time and not left for archivists to pore over as in previous centuries.

"Well, historians need not worry about memo deletions as far as Vice President Dick Cheney’s files are concerned.

"He doesn’t write memos. He leaves no paper trail. On purpose.

"Speaking last week at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., Ford’s one-time White House chief of staff said: “Researchers like to come and dig through my files to see if anything interesting turns up.”

“I want to wish them luck,” the vice president said to a laughing audience. “But the files are pretty thin. I learned early on that if you don’t want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don’t write any.”

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-sep-23-na-ticket23-story.html

There are approximately 1.4 million kilometers of active submarine cables in the world today.

Coming Wednesday…

aetherczar.substack.com/p/527-a-scientific-superstar-is-born

"“DeepSeek shows that it is possible to develop powerful AI models that cost less,” said Vey-Sern Ling, managing director at Union Bancaire Privee. “It can potentially derail the investment case for the entire AI supply chain, which is driven by high spending from a small handful of hyperscalers.”

"The rout in Nasdaq futures comes at the start of a big week for earnings from major tech companies including Apple Inc. and Microsoft. Profit growth is expected to have slowed while valuations remain inflated, once again causing concern over the large AI-driven rally in the sector."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nasdaq-futures-slump-china-deepseek-022904517.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CDeepSeek%20shows%20that,in%20the%20sector.

"DeepSeek’s threat to American firms riding the AI boom operates at multiple levels. The first layer of the business model challenged by the Chinese company includes the firms working on AI models themselves. Goldman Sachs estimates that in 2024 there was around $68 billion of investment in the sector in the United States. But DeepSeek seems to have undercut the entire market on price by a factor of around 20. Early estimates show that DeepSeek input and output tokens — that is, the smallest unit of text processed — are around 96% cheaper than alternatives."
https://unherd.com/newsroom/deepseek-could-crash-the-us-ai-industry/#:~:text=DeepSeek%E2%80%99s%20threat%20to,cheaper%20than%20alternatives.

JUST IN:

Another blow is coming from the Chinese DeepSeek AI

They launched now a multimodal "Janus-Pro-7B" model with image input and output.

@Megatron_ron

"The real question is, what shape will this new paradigm take? The West’s answer to the Chinese one is being constructed as we speak, and currently, it's the American oligarchy under Donald Trump's leadership that's shaping it. Many seem quite content with this direction. While I'd choose this over the Schwabian version any day, I'm under no illusion that it will be any less dystopian."
https://www.alilybit.com/p/what-chinas-deepseek-ai-really-means#:~:text=The%20real%20question,any%20less%20dystopian.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Following the launch of China's "DeepSeek" AI, at least $1 trillion dollars have been annihilated from the U.S. stock market.

BREAKING: Trump reinstates over 8,000 military members fired over Covid-19 vax mandate

https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-reinstates-military-members-8000-to-receive-back-pay?utm_campaign=64483

Here’s a List of The Incredible Amount of Work From Trump’s First Week

https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/01/27/heres-a-list-of-the-incredible-amount-of-work-from-trumps-first-week/

@AcrossTheSpectrum

JUST IN - Trump to sign executive order banning "transgender people" from U.S. military service.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/474znwroaz/

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Civil War map from 1865 showing Union gains since the start of the war
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@r_mapporn

JUST IN - Israel's Netanyahu says Elon Musk "is being falsely smeared" as a Nazi, he "is a great friend of Israel."

https://x.com/netanyahu/status/1882392668497756279

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