From nj.com:
Trump ‘terminates’ $16 billion Hudson River tunnel project linking N.J. and N.Y.C.
President Donald Trump said he “terminated” the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel under the Hudson River in a surprise statement made during press conference Wednesday as tense negotiations over the federal government shutdown drag on.
“The project in New York — it’s billions and billions of dollars that (U.S. Sen. Chuck) Schumer (D-N.Y.) has worked 20 years to get,” Trump said, according to video of the event. “Tell him it’s terminated.”
Trump did not mention Gateway or New York’s Second Avenue Subway project by name, but called them the project in Manhattan.
Schumer is leading the Democrats effort to win back federal tax support for million of people covered by the Affordable Care Act, which lead to a government shutdown.
“We’re getting rid of programs that were negotiated in and they’re going to be terminated on a permanent basis,” Trump said. “We’re getting rid of billions of dollars of things we never wanted because of the fact they made this stupid move. They should really make a deal.”
Trump said U.S. Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is “terminating a tremendous number of democrat projects the project in Manhattan it’s billions of dollars that Schumer has work 20 years to get, it’s terminated.”
Officials of the Gateway Development Commission, the bi-state agency overseeing construction, have received no communication from Washington.
“We have not received anything new, said Steve Sigmund a spokesperson. “We are declining to comment.”
A source with knowledge of the project said work continues on the project and nothing has changed or is different than it was this afternoon.
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Trump realizes Russia isn’t Venezuela.
Donald Trump has hinted that he will not give Ukraine Tomahawk missiles ahead of his meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky.
In recent days, Trump had shown openness to selling Ukraine long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles, even as Putin warned that such a move would further strain US-Russia relations.
But following last night’s call with Putin, Trump appeared to downplay the prospects of Ukraine getting the missiles, which have a range of about 995 miles.
‘We need Tomahawks for the United States of America too,’ Trump said, adding: ‘We have a lot of them, but we need them. I mean we can’t deplete our country.’
“Tell him it’s terminated.”
One dem program or project per day gets a bullet in the head until a clean resolution gets signed.
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Trump realizes Russia isn’t Venezuela.
And Russia isn’t the United States of America either.
Agreed.
White Trash Eddie says:
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 am
Trump realizes Russia isn’t Venezuela.
And Russia isn’t the United States of America either.
I mean, he had to find Argentina’s money somewhere…
VAG,
The DOW is up 27% since April; NASDAQ is up 41%.
Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include an iris-scanning app that agents plan to use in the field.
Who’s moving to Argentina?
Cyprus is non-extradition, Pelosi and Schiff can go there.
I wanna live long enough to see Pelosi behind bars. And get a winning lottery ticket.
Don’t cry for me, Argentina.
ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa
Iris scanners, facial-recognition apps, phone-hacking software and cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases.
I wonder if the Ruby Ridge boys would have enjoyed this- or feared it.
Trump and the Young Republicans, where else can you still play Nazi dress up?
Besides, they’ll need the stolen billions, real estate in Recoleta or Palermo Chico are exxxxxxpennnnsive these days, at least $3m for an apartment. Gotta stretch those dollars.
Do NASCAR guys like warrantless searches?
If so, I have really misunderstood all these years that pesky document called the constitution.
Fear China.
No, I fear not being able to get car parts from China at a reasonable price.
Chicago says:
October 17, 2025 at 12:04 am
Ex: here is a tomahawk for you
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=budbknlkr8I
$7m fixer upper in Palermo Chico –
https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/detail/180-l-2813749-475mbp/exquisite-house-in-palermo-chico-buenos-aires-bu
Dollar don’t go to far anymore.
Phoenix-
It depends.
https://x.com/john_self/status/914919584406306817
Q: “Mr. Homan…”
Tom Homan: “I don’t have time today, folks. I’m 20 minutes late.”
Q: “Did you take the $50,000 cash in a bag?”
What is the most money you have ever held in your hand?
For me it was probably a few thousand, but definitely related to cashing out at a casino.
I did handle an $8M personal check once.
Ten 399. Doubt it holds under 400.
Surprised it went through
What is the most money you have ever held in your hand?
Democrats: It depends on how hard a traditional American is willing to work.
The average age of a U.S. Senator is 64.
The average age of a U.S. House Rep is 57.
The average age in America is 39.
These people squatting in seats for decades can’t accurately relate to, or represent, the needs of Americans.
We need term limits.
Average age of congress members:
1985 – 50
2005 – 56
2025 – 59
Number of congress members over the age of 67 (today’s retirement age):
1985 – 30 (5.6%)
2005 – 49 (9.2%)
2025 – 125 (23%)
Over the age of 80:
1985 – 2
2005 – 9
2025 – 20
Grim – my comment is in MOD it was directed to you.
Here it is again without the links.
Grim – I am working on an observability platform for AI.
We are concerned about the impending tidal wave of AI lawsuits, so we plan to either buy or build a solution to meet regulatory requirements and establish a well-documented trail of controls surrounding our AI implementation.
Any thoughts on AI observability?
Buy Category….
arize.com
fiddler.ai
evidentlyai
Build Category… in Github
OpenLLMTelemetry (using whylabs)
whylabs-oss (Startup that went under its opensource now)
openllmetry (another opensource).
or something like Prometheus + Grafana + LLM…..
Phoenix – re: Average age of congress members
That is directly tied to people not smoking anymore and Calcium Channel Blockers, Statins and ACE Inhibitors etc.
Better and longer living thru chemistry….
Average age could be 100+ once they start giving everyone in Congress super stem cell shots weekly.
For Tom Homan was $50k
according to the FBI
Chicago says:
October 17, 2025 at 7:56 am
What is the most money you have ever held in your hand?
Do you have to return bribe money when caught by the FBI or you get to keep it?
Homan = pre-crime…
We are going to need some Precogs….. The legal principle of being innocent until proven guilty? The FBI targeting individuals who have not yet committed a crime? That is a pre-crime…giving $50,000 to a private citizen in hopes they might commit a crime if Trump were elected and that citizen was appointed to a position of power?
Who is Julian Jace Caldera anyway and why would he go to the FBI to set this up?
Have to remember Homan and Caldera worked for the Obama administration. What happened back then were their bribes paid to approve contracts? Seems possible…
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/ex-ice-officer-tom-homan-fbi-sting-rcna234467
Juice: AI lawsuits over what?
Can t take Trump seriously, the start of the week, I might send Tomahawks to Ukraine, at the end of the weeks after a call with Vlad, I wont send Tomahawks to Ukraine, because I need them.
Schumer has been in office since January of 1999, almost 27 years. It is time to go, we need Sandy from Yorktown Heights, I mean the Bronx, she will make sure that Deloitte stops dumping chemicals in rivers in poor rural areas.
Term Limits are a must President one 6 year term, US Senators 2 6 years terms,House of Reps, three 4 year terms.
3B – where do I start?
From a consumer side, insufficient user consent or the AI was mean to me or was wacist… There are waves and waves of lawsuits in the courts already and many more coming. Suing anyone and everyone with deep pockets.
3b – Tomahawk is no joke. $12 million dollars a pop. We will send the old stock inventory circa the 1990s that is expired and only cost $1 million a pop when it was built and order new ones at $12 million a pop.
We have ones that can probably black out Moscow. EMP/anti-electrical weapon, it drops carbon fiber filaments to blanket electrical grids and causes short circuits.
The 1,000-pound warhead packs a punch too. Should put some nice holes in the Kremlin… Stock up on potassium iodide tablets, you never know when you might need them.
Juice: Got it. I had not thought about the potential for lawsuits, but it makes sense. Lawyers will be very busy.
Juice: I understand those Tomahawks can do major damage. I would think Putin was very concerned about that.It appears Vlad talked Trump out of providing them at least for now.
BTW – Ukraine developed it’s own Tomahawk called the Flamingo…. They dug up some small soviet era turbo fan jet engines that were buried in a landfill and refurbished them to make their weapon, it’s basically a giant flying bomb built and what is apparently a 2,000lb bunker buster bomb.
They claim to now be producing 20o units monthly.
Russia says it shot one down.
https://defence-blog.com/russia-claims-to-down-ukraines-new-fp-5-cruise-missile/?amp
Speaking of Bribes.
Curtis Sliwa says he was offered $10 million to drop out of the NYC mayoral election.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP1xMaxgZAq/
Day 17 of the government shutdown. I haven’t really noticed any difference. I guess those not getting paid are noticing. I wonder when Schumer will cave. Only a matter of time I suppose. New York losing all types of government funding. AOC nipping at his heels. He just doesn‘t have any leverage.
We are going to need some Precogs….. The legal principle of being innocent until proven guilty? The FBI targeting individuals who have not yet committed a crime? That is a pre-crime…giving $50,000 to a private citizen in hopes they might commit a crime if Trump were elected and that citizen was appointed to a position of power?
Tom Homan should tell reporters this very thing- right after he tells them whether or not he took the money, and whether he declared it on his taxes.
And just to stick it to the libs, he should donate that $50k to Turning Point USA.
oops.
We are going to need some Precogs….. The legal principle of being innocent until proven guilty? The FBI targeting individuals who have not yet committed a crime? That is a pre-crime…giving $50,000 to a private citizen in hopes they might commit a crime if Trump were elected and that citizen was appointed to a position of power?
Tom Homan should tell reporters this very thing- right after he tells them whether or not he took the money, and whether he declared it on his taxes.
And just to stick it to the libs, he should donate that $50k to Turning Point USA.
I searched for the ocean temperature in Atlantic City using ChatGPT. It said it was 70 degrees. I got excited to get in one last swim in 2025 tomorrow. I then clicked the link and 70 degrees was the longitude for the buoy that had the thermometer on it. The water temperature was actually 64 degrees.
I think, large centers where Naturally Intelligent (NI) humans actually check the results of AI, is what I would be working on. Especially considering how AI is going to be putting all of them out of business.
Lib – Swim now? let me know when you will be there so I can steal your stuff off the beach.
Only in a hottub for me, mine is out back ny hottub time machine…Thanks for the reminder I will turn on the heater for the weekend it’s going to be around 70 degrees.
“One dem program or project per day gets a bullet in the head until a clean resolution gets signed.”
Republicans losing their Sh1t when the Dems use the same Minority Rule. tactic Mitch McConnell used for years.
In other wonderful news, took the D to his neuropsychologist this morning at Children’s Specialized in Union. This is pretty much the only pediatric therapy center that takes insurance in NJ since the reimbursement rate from insurers is so low. Gator said that it’s down to $17 for a session. That’s now below minimum wage. For years have been going out of network , getting balanced billed and paying a portion out-of-pocket, which Gator arranged through the owner of a local therapeutic center. The waiting list at Children’s Specialized is currently 2000 people long.
I hope the Dems keep the government closed indefinitely until they figure this shit out.
Again, why is socialized medicine fine for the expensive boomers (cost of healthcare increases astronomically with old age), but not for the cheaper and healthier citizens in our country?
Anyone want to answer?
Lib you reminded of the old stock market meme “we are about to see who is swimming naked” , looks like Bitcoin had some margin calls as it is dropping again. Banks are also getting shaky
re: “I hope the Dems keep the government closed indefinitely until they figure this shit out.”
So you admit it is the Democrats that shut down government? Look dude there is an election coming. Last thing we need is Turncoat….You know Benedict Arnold was forced to flee the USA with his family and never set foot again in the United States.
Women’s healthcare and children healthcare are the lowest reimbursements. I hear stories for certain female same day procedures reimburse at like $280, so you close your office for 4 hours to make that while losing on your overhead
And on the Tunnel. I hope one of the current two tubes, has to be shut down indefinitely. It’s only a matter of time too. Sandy did a job on them. Saltwater and electricity are not good for each other.
It think we are at the inflection point for Trump and MAGA. He is going way to far with everything and this has always been the cause of his many business failures. When the shit starts hitting the fan, rather than slowing the fan down, he just double downs on the shit. The economy is clearly in terrible shape. The National Guard ploy is completely backfiring. His handling of Ukraine is an utter embarrassment and even the cease fire in Gaza is showing some signs of cracking. The longer this government shutdown continues, the worse it will look for the inept party that has complete control over the three branches. Add in the upcoming market implosion and the continued drop in Trump’s approval ratings (besides his temporary blip from the Gaza settlement) and I think the “winning,” is fading.
Just my 2 cents, but the government workers I know (and I live with one) who are currently working for free, are not blaming the shutdown on the Dems. This will start to become a real issue for Trump, in the next couple of weeks. He is not making many friends right now.
BTW Lib – Not to harp on this since it is your kid but the Democrats are firmly in control here when it comes to reimbursement rates in New Jersey.
New Jersey regulates health insurance reimbursement rates through various laws and the Department of Banking and Insurance. Mostly for certain markets like individual and small group plans, and state-funded programs like Medicaid. For instance, the state has a rate review process for certain plans and recently introduced a commission to review and approve or deny applications from carriers that want to lower reimbursement rates for specific procedures.
If we cannot get it right in the People’s Republic of New Jersey how the heck to we expect it to happen at a Federal Level?
“If we cannot get it right in the People’s Republic of New Jersey how the heck to we expect it to happen at a Federal Level?”
Because it needs to be at the Federal Level.
Lib – American Medical Association (AMA) lobbies Congress against single payer…
If the doctors don’t want it, then it’s not going to happen.
And to be clear here they the doctors seem to be OK with the current bureaucratic bloat of the States managing health care and getting reimbursed from the Feds.
Methinks they don’t want to kill the golden goose. Physicians in the EU don’t make anywhere near as much.
“Methinks they don’t want to kill the golden goose. Physicians in the EU don’t make anywhere near as much.”
Their goose is going to die a slow death as more and more people are negotiating with their health care providers outside of their insurance. You have to have a catastrophic illness or witness a family member try to deal with insurance to see how bad it truly is.
In our case, Cobra is nearly 4K. The D, doesn’t work on the exchange for two major reasons. First, it would cost 6K-8K a month. Second, all of his doctors are in Philly, and the exchange does not cover you when you are out of state. So our plan is to get D on Medicaid (he qualifies), and then purchase the insurance for the rest of our family on the exchange for closer to 2K a year. Now trying to get a child on Medicaid is a whole other animal that requires lawyers, enormous amounts of research and friends in the government (which is really the saddest part of it). When you are healthy, our current method of healthcare, though pricy, seems great. But it simply DOES NOT WORK for catastrophic health issues. Why? Because, it’s so time consuming and painful to get to work that it’s easier to just plead poverty and go to the hospital and get the care performed for free. Sadly, this is what a lot of America does. Just ask Darkie. The current system is already broken. Trust me on that.
By the way, I have filled three medium length file cabinet drawers with the D’s health care related paperwork. And it’s a good thing I do it, because it’s not unusual for BCBS to ask me to send them a check for 2 to 4K for overpayments that occurred to OON providers over two years prior. This alone, speaks volumes to the giant cost-killing bureaucracy that is US health care today. At this point, dealing with the insurance company has honestly been more painful and time consuming than time spent treating the brain cancer. And we were in and out of the hospital for the majority of two years initially.
I see the market capitulated. What did the TACO do now? Promise the White House Chinese food contract to Xi Jingping?
Yes Lib —> South Park and not even a classic……. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAfy26xs6e0
Lib – DGX Spark..
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1979177894690652216
This state has failed to complete nearly all major projects that were funded over the course of decades. Even if you funded it, it would still never get built.
Grim – want one?
https://marketplace.nvidia.com/en-us/developer/dgx-spark/
Even if you funded it, it would still never get built.
It’s impossible to fill everyone’s pockets with everyone else’s money.
Juice, looks like you are in my wheelhouse. It sounds like you need a Governance framework more that adding an AIOPs solution to your Observability stack.
If it is just AIOPS then take a look at BigPanda. Its cost effective.
I just delivered a Grafana/Prometheus solution to consolidate all our Infrastructure Visibility . Next up is APM and then AIOPS. I am starting a POC with Dynatrace. That will cover APM for the start of the year and I can leverage their AIOPS as a follow-on.
My advice is don’t build. The hardware maintenance will kill you. Go with a SaaS if you can. I had IBM pitching Instana last week which for us would be tied to a Fusion deal for Kubes hardware.
Entrenched Absolutism is never a recipe for success. Just saying.
Lib: Noe the market is back the other way again. It makes no sense to comment on the markets up or down these days until the end of the day. that’s certainly what it looks like.
Lib: Sorry, I ready your comment wrong.
Thanks Fab – I am actually happy to see the AI pivot worked for you and you are gainfully employed.
Now we need to find something for Lib… Perhaps we could put a suit on him and run him for Congress?
Government?
I’ve got the autistic son. That seems to be the trick. I could never run though. My past is checkered with Louis Farrakhan Halloween costumes and just my college yearbook alone, where I photobombed the Caribbean Student Organization group photo, would do me in.
You could run as a Republican?
Lol!!!
Moderator: “Who’s the best modern-day U.S. president?”
Andrew Cuomo: “Bill Clinton.”
Zohran Mamdani: “FDR.”
Curtis Sliwa: “[Former NY Gov.] George Pataki.”
For years, Marc Benioff, the C.E.O. of Salesforce, loomed over San Francisco as the city’s most generous donor, and a decidedly progressive one.
But Benioff’s growing embrace of President Trump underscores how some tech leaders have shifted to the right, a turn that is increasingly alienating some allies.
The latest: Heather Knight, a Times reporter, obtained screenshots of internal documents and communications about Salesforce pitching ICE on using its artificial intelligence tools to help staff up. Among them was a five-page memo to the agency arguing that the company could help “nearly triple its work force.”
No, Dgx spark is overpriced and an underperformer.
My current rig blows that toy out of the water.
Mac Studio M2 Ultra is way faster.
I am in the process of selling my current GPUs for Blackwell 6000 pros.
$9,000 GPUs…..lol put it on the company card.
All that power. Hardware never went away.
We are all a construct.
That’s nothing. I really really really wanted a hard drive for my TRS 80 because I was sick of cheap cassette tapes eating up all of my programming.
The first hard drives for the TRS-80 were very expensive, with an 8.4MB drive from 1982 costing around \$7,150 (equivalent to over \$24,000 today).
re: “cassette tapes ” I feel ya… Had an TRS and and Commodore 64 with tape…Floppy was ok on the Apple II and an IBM clone.
Cassette tape I think was around 60 bytes per second. A floppy was infinitely faster at few kilobytes per second. First hard drives back in the 1980s might have been a megabyte per second.
Just bought a Gen 5 ssd card, and put it in my kids playstation.. It copied a stored game off the internal drive about 300 GB game total time to move it was only 40 seconds….. 14,000–14,900 MB/s for sequential reads and 12,700–14,000 MB/s for sequential writes speeds in the newer M.2 Gen 5 SSD…. That in most cases is twice as fast or more than the Gen 4 cards.
Had the TI-99/4A as a kid. Made a program that was kind of like excel to keep track of stats for our baseball team. Ruled on the video game Quark. Such a dork.
I think my once-a-week fifth grade gifted program classroom had one or two of those TI computers. I didn’t get to do much with it. Soon after I got an Atari 800, which was a pretty poor computer. I programmed some BASIC with it, had some game cartridges, had a tape storage deck that seemed to fail to load more than half the time and took 10 minutes or more it seemed. One year of school it was the Trash 80s. The Apple 2 was the main school computer for Jr High but I think by my senior year IBM PCs were at the high school and I had a PC clone at home for high school and university. I was never that much of a programmer, but did lots of word processing and spreadsheets for school. WordPerfect and Lotus123 were the leading programs then. Nothing was quite WYSIWIG back then. I don’t remember exactly when I could finally tell exactly what my printout would look like on screen. Maybe by 1991. Macs got that ahead of the PC crowd, but cost a good bit more.
Good day for the market! And Geo. Santos is free.
Donald Trump announced on Friday he had commuted the sentence of George Santos, the disgraced former New York representative and serial fabulist who had been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after a short-lived political career marked by outlandish fabrications and fraudulent scheming.
In a Truth Social post, Trump called Santos “somewhat of a ‘rogue’” but expressed sympathy for the New York Republican. Santos was sentenced in April after pleading guilty last year to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
“I just signed a Commutation, releasing George Santos from prison, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump said in the lengthy post. “Good luck George, have a great life!”
The United States pardon attorney tweeted a photograph of the signed commutation shortly after Trump’s post, writing that he was “honored” to have “played a small role” Trump granting Santos clemency.
“Thank you, Mr. President for making clemency great again,” he wrote.
Santos reported to a federal prison in New Jersey in July and began serving an 87-month sentence for charges that ultimately led to his expulsion from Congress in 2023. Trump’s post suggested he was moved by a letter penned by Santos that was published in a local Long Island newspaper this week. Santos wrote about his life in solitary confinement and made direct plea to the president for a “chance to rebuild”.
Ex-NJ Councilman’s Son Arrested Again For Child Porn, Prosecutor Says
A 26-year-old man arrested two years ago on child porn charges alongside his father, a then-councilman in Bergen County, has been arrested again for the same.
Steven K. Grossman, of Tenafly, was arrested Friday, Oct. 17, following a search of his home, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
The investigation revealed that Grossman used the internet to view, download, and possess more than 100 digital files depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children, the prosecutor said.
Gary,
About those peace deals.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/810522741931143
I guess Santos can finally finish up that cure for cancer.