Tech (1)
- 23 Major News Sites Have Blocked the Wayback Machine – Digital History In Danger
- Missouri Town Council Approves Data Center. A Week Later, Voters Fire Half of Council
- Man charged in arson attack on Sam Altman’s house had AI CEO kill list, prosecutors say
- Disney Layoffs of 1,000 Employees Are Underway; CEO Josh D’Amaro Says Cuts Will ‘Streamline’ Operations: ‘I Know This Is Hard’
- Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking starting in June
- Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’
- Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa” | Meta’s new rules let it ban users or suppress comments that include the word “antifa” alongside “content-level threat signals.”
- The US government wants Reddit to snitch on one of its users through a grand jury
- The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire
- Amazon is still paying Jeff Bezos an $80,000 yearly salary—but $1.6 million for travel and security
- Wind farms provided 41% of country's electricity in March
- Rockstar hackers release their stolen data, reveal that Rockstar was right to not pay them anything for it
- Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
- Man who vandalized Sam Altman's home claimed AI would end humanity, charged with attempted murder
- From Molotov cocktails to data center shutdowns, the AI backlash is turning revolutionary
- Apple chooses Amazon satellites for iPhone, years after rejecting Starlink offer.
- Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal
- IBM folds to U.S President anti-DEI push, admits no misconduct but pays $17M penalty | IBM is first firm to pay penalty under U.S President’s “Civil Rights Fraud Initiative.”
- Two-year-old Surface PCs get $300 price hikes as sub-$1,000 models go away
- GTA Leak Raises Take-Two Interactive Stock Value By Over $1 Billion
Fake History Porn (1)
- As a publicity stunt to portray himself as someone who cares about working-class people, Adolf Hitler orders a Bratwurst and a Diet Coke to the Fuehrerbunker from a Berlin restaurant, leaving a generous 100 Reichsmark tip, 1942
- Donald Trump closes the strait of Betlehem and steals money from the poor to build a ballroom, ca. 25 a.d.
- Hippocrates, The Father of Medicine, fails to cure Epstein of Priapism 380 BC
- Michael Jackson saves a baby from falling off the balcony, 2000
- Joe Rogan welcomes Adolf Hitler to his podcast, circa 1944
- On April 14, 1986, President Ronald Reagan shot one of his advisers in the face. The adviser had just told him he could boost his popularity by ordering McDonald's to the White House. Reagan, furious about the ludicrous and degrading idea, screamed, 'What next? Should I publish myself as Jesus??!!!
- On April 30, 1992, during the LA riots, a white man was reportedly seen exploiting a young man struggling with drug addiction, paying him for an unclear and undisclosed service.....
- Bryan Cranston Anna Gunn, 2007
- John Wilkes Bluth arrested for the assassination of President Ben Franklin on this day in 1865 (colorized)
- (1988) Iran holds its first Gay Pride parade themed “The Straight of Hormuz”
- Europe enters a post-war rationing period, 1945.
- A newly discovered manuscript from the Ming Dynasty is translated (c. 500 BC)
- "The resurrection of Epstein", 1525-1526, Oil on canvas
- Folk legends Peter, Paul and Mary discuss their final performance (2008).
- Donald Trump comforts Jon Stewart while he is sick in bed with covid (2020)
- Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed (1997)
- Ghengis Khan in 1223. He was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire, and was famous for stapling an 8 pack of hotdogs to his forehead to protect him from arrows.
- Israeli Defense Forces spokesperson shows proof of dead Hamas militant in Gaza [foreground] while explaining they did everything possible to protect civilians [background] during Operation Cast Lead in 2009.
Finance (1)
- How is the market still headed back to all time highs after news like this?
- Sen. Roger Marshall: "I'm sorry that gas prices are going up, but help is on the way, and your national security is even more important than your pocketbook."
- Advertisers demand billions of dollars from Google in escalating monopoly battle
- 'Bit of pain' worth long-term security from Iran, Bessent tells BBC
- Hungary’s New Leader Reveals Viktor Orbán Was Paying CPAC
- JD Vance Accidentally Admits Trump Is Committing “Economic Terrorism” | The vice president struggled to defend Donald Trump’s blockade of the Hormuz Strait.
- Trump said it himself, years ago, "The economy just does better under Democrats." If we had elected Kamala, we would still have allies, stocks would be soaring, prices would have fallen, humanitarian programs would still be in place, our public systems would be funded, and we would not be at war
- More Young Americans are having nervous breakdown because they simply can not afford the cost of Living. Sad. Stay Strong everyone. 😢💰💰🇺🇸
- The Case for Qualitative Research in Emerging Market Equities
- GOP Senator Says Sorry About Your Gas Prices but Iran War Is Worth It | Republican Senator Roger Marshall says war is more important than your pocketbook.
- Trump Blockades Hormuz, China Sails Through Anyway and Iran Posts DC Gas Prices
- Investors are writing off any move from the Fed this month—collapsing talks in Iran have sealed the deal
- Chick-fil-A slammed for 'shrinkflation' of signature sandwich
- The Case for Qualitative Research in Emerging Market Equities
- Amazon to buy Globalstar to bolster Leo satellite business in deal worth about $11.6 billion
- Can you blame them 🤷♂️
- Everything is up today
- This is what a rigged system looks like.
- 43% of young American college grads (22–27) are now underemployed — the highest rate since the pandemic. They’re nannying, working as baristas, and taking retail sales jobs that don’t require a degree.
- TIL that Soichiro Honda was rejected by Toyota for an engineering job, and went on to build Honda—a company whose cars are now driven by millions of Americans.