Tech (1)
- From Molotov cocktails to data center shutdowns, the AI backlash is turning revolutionary
- 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
- Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’
- Man charged in arson attack on Sam Altman’s house had AI CEO kill list, prosecutors say
- Disney Guts Key Marvel Studios Team with Major Layoffs
- Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking starting in June
- Disney Layoffs of 1,000 Employees Are Underway; CEO Josh D’Amaro Says Cuts Will ‘Streamline’ Operations: ‘I Know This Is Hard’
- John Deere Pays $99 Million To Settle ‘Right To Repair’ Class Action
- Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal
- Flood of AI-generated job applications straining HR professionals in Metro Vancouver. With a significant number of resumes that “look perfect,” the traditional screening mechanisms used by HR professionals no longer work
- Apple chooses Amazon satellites for iPhone, years after rejecting Starlink offer.
- 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 Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire
- The US government wants Reddit to snitch on one of its users through a grand jury
- Engineers have developed a material capable of self-repairing more than 1,000 times, which promises to extend the service life of key components in airplanes, cars, and wind turbines for centuries
- Two-year-old Surface PCs get $300 price hikes as sub-$1,000 models go away
- Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plug-ins used in thousands of websites
- Wind farms provided 41% of country's electricity in March
- Amazon is still paying Jeff Bezos an $80,000 yearly salary—but $1.6 million for travel and security
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.
- Joe Rogan welcomes Adolf Hitler to his podcast, circa 1944
- Marie Antoinette orders sweet pastries and Diet Perrier from Door Dash to show she is a woman of the people (c. 1792)
- Real estate developer Donald Trump at a deposition after cutting off heat and hot water to rent-stabilized tenants, 1981
- Hippocrates, The Father of Medicine, fails to cure Epstein of Priapism 380 BC
- Michael Jackson saves a baby from falling off the balcony, 2000
- 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.....
- 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??!!!
- Bryan Cranston Anna Gunn, 2007
- The legendary rapper LL Cool J “rocking his bell”. (1985)
- Europe enters a post-war rationing period, 1945.
- 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”
- Folk legends Peter, Paul and Mary discuss their final performance (2008).
- Businessman Mike Lindell recommends oleander to Ben Carson for treating his COVID-19 symptoms, 2020
- "The resurrection of Epstein", 1525-1526, Oil on canvas
- Donald Trump comforts Jon Stewart while he is sick in bed with covid (2020)
Finance (1)
- The Stock Market is in its most overextended state in history, surpassing even the most euphoric periods of the early 2000s and the 2021
- More Young Americans are having nervous breakdown because they simply can not afford the cost of Living. Sad. Stay Strong everyone. 😢💰💰🇺🇸
- 7-Eleven plans to close 645 stores in the U.S. this year
- Investors are writing off any move from the Fed this month—collapsing talks in Iran have sealed the deal
- The Case for Qualitative Research in Emerging Market Equities
- Ben & Jerry’s co-founder wants the company to be independent once more
- Riding the high of Trump's latest tax cuts, corporations are seeing record profits and will make over $1.1T in stock buybacks this year — an all-time high.
Meanwhile, layoffs have totaled 1.1M so far in 2025 — the highest level since the pandemic.
"New Golden Age" for whom?
- UK could adopt EU single market rules under new legislation
- How is the market still headed back to all time highs after news like this?
- Hungary’s New Leader Reveals Viktor Orbán Was Paying CPAC
- I’m stuck out of the market
- Advertisers demand billions of dollars from Google in escalating monopoly battle
- SEC Officially Approves Major Overhaul of Day Trading Regulations
- 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
- Tesla is the perfect example pf how the market can be irrational
- Disney Layoffs of 1,000 Employees Are Underway; CEO Josh D’Amaro Says Cuts Will "Streamline" Operations: "I Know This Is Hard"
- JD Vance Accidentally Admits Trump Is Committing “Economic Terrorism” | The vice president struggled to defend Donald Trump’s blockade of the Hormuz Strait.
- Regretting not having cash during the dip, but hate selling my winners
- Nvidia stock is on a 10-day winning streak and up 18% over that stretch
- Everything is up today