Tech (1)
- AI models are choking on junk data
- Big Tech cut 80,000 jobs and blamed AI — Experts say a real problem is that companies are 25% to 75% overstaffed
- GameStop Is Offering to Buy eBay for $56 Billion, CEO Ryan Cohen Says
- Spirit Airlines shuts down as company says it can't keep up with higher oil prices
- ‘Silicon Six’ accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years | US taxation
- Sam Altman says the quiet part out loud, confirming some companies are ‘AI washing’ by blaming unrelated layoffs on the technology
- GameStop Proposes to Acquire eBay at $125.00 Per Share
- Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks
- Jensen Huang says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China — says US export policy 'has already largely backfired'
- Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names | Facial recognition
- Microsoft Defender wrongly flags DigiCert certs as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha
- Japan is deploying ultra-cheap cardboard drones built for swarm warfare and expendable combat missions — $2,000 expendable combat drones cost less than some gaming PCs
- Hemp can be used to create a plastic alternative
- Why are so many schools making pupils learn on screens? | Schools | The Guardian
- Anthropic nears $1.5 billion AI joint venture with Wall Street firms, WSJ reports
- The Audio Industry Is Grappling with the Rise of ‘Podslop’ | Over the past nine days, 39% of new podcasts were likely AI-generated, according to the Podcast Index
- For the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 new Chinese EVs
- Australian police officers can be tracked due to a security flaw in tasers and body-worn cameras
- The Rise of Emotional Surveillance
- Signal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in development
Fake History Porn (1)
- JD Vance loses his virginity at an IKEA (2002)
- First successful transplant of a child’s mind into an adult’s body, 1984
- A than 53yo Donald Trump with his than 18yo daughter, Ivanka. (2000)
- Pete Hegseth stops top brass saying “diversity is our strength”, 1984
- Pete Hegseth live from the situation room, 1984
- Rudy Giuliani attempts to convince police officers that there are martians roaming the building (1996)
- On September 11, 2001, Rudy Giuliani’s approval rating skyrockets to 99.9%. The rest of his legal career is completely and totally unblemished.
- Shortly before a meeting on whether he should run for president in '24, RFK Jr prepares to eat a quick snack. (2020)
- British pop/rock band 'Dexy's Midnight Runners' on the set of the video to their smash hit, 'Come On Eileen!' (1982)
- 🍄 trumpedo FAFO 8-7-2019
- Prince, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame c.2009
- Designs considered for the Nazi party logo, 1920
- The all time legendary rockstar Elvis Presley right before his untimely death at just 42 years old. (1977)
- The first Spirit Airlines flight. May 29, 1992.
- Invisible hand of the market guides President of France Emmanuel Macron, 2017.
- Pete Hogsbreath, drunk again, giving unwanted attention to a US soldier at a function 1999
- World renowned math teacher Jeffrey Epstein is all smiles in yearbook photo (1975)
- Johnny Knoxville agrees to enter an inpatient opioid dependence management facility (2020)
Finance (1)
- GameStop Is Offering to Buy eBay for $56 Billion
- Sounds good in theory...but in reality?
- McDonald’s is quietly phasing out a popular customer perk nationwide
- Dedicated Trump voters find out that Trump robs them to help the rich
- Remember
- GameStop makes $55.5bn takeover offer for eBay
- Opinion | America Is Officially an Empire in Decline
- Foreclosure filings hit their highest level since 2020
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Nvidia now has "zero percent" market share in China — says US export policy "has already largely backfired"
- Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers | AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on.
- Stock market today: S&P 500, Nasdaq, Dow futures climb as the US and Iran inch toward peace talks
- In 2008, the banks that caused the financial crash were handed $700 billion in taxpayer money. Not one senior banker went to prison.
- ‘Wow!’: CNBC host stunned as ‘truly incredible’ US jobs number plunges to 189,000 — the lowest level since 1960s
- For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers.
Instead, wealth and power has accumulated in the hands of the top 1% at the expense of the rest of us.
It’s unsustainable.
- Americans are increasingly bleak about their own finances, most say using the US military against Iran was a mistake: ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll
- A Russian tanker loaded with 730,000 barrels of crude is heading towards Cuba despite the US naval blockade
- You'll Gasp When You Hear How Many Chinese EVs You Can Buy For the Price of a Single US Car
- Tech layoffs are skyrocketing: Tech companies announced 81,747 layoffs in Q1 2026, the highest quarterly total since at least Q1 2024.
Layoffs have more than DOUBLED from the previous quarter and have risen +580% since Q4 2025.
- Democrat and Republican Voters United on Key Issue: Hatred of Data Centers