Tech (1)
- PSA: Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8
- GameStop CEO says eBay shut his account after buyout funding stunt / He has put up personal items, including a pair of socks, to fund his US$56 billion bid for the platform
- Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors
- Microsoft made Copilot a co-author on every VS Code project, reverted after developers revolted
- "Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original
- "It is frustrating to see policymakers suddenly claim everything is 'for our safety'" - Stop Killing Games joins pushback against age verification laws
- A Michigan farm town voted down plans for a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began
- Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
- Spooked by Mythos, U.S President suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good | U.S President forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing.
- More Than Half of Gen Z Users Cancel and Renew Streaming Services for a Single Title, Won’t Purchase Full-Price Video Games, New Study Finds
- RIP social media. What comes next is messy | As social media splinters, how can we keep the new online spaces from devolving into toxic pits of despair?
- The Anti-AI Data Center Rebellion Keeps Growing Bigger - Public support for AI infrastructure has fallen sharply across party lines
- Taiwan cops say student's radio kit brought bullet trains to a standstill
- Spirit Airlines' workers lose paychecks and benefits as executives seek $10.7 million in “retention” bonuses
- Meta asks California judge to throw out landmark social media addiction verdict
- Apple quietly axes 128GB Mac Studio amid supply constraints and local AI frenzy — highest memory capacity reduced to 96GB, two months after discontinuation of 512GB model
- Most AI coding is “like taking your Ferrari to buy milk”: IBM’s Neel Sundaresan
- Kevin O'Leary says opponents of his Utah data center are 'professional protesters' — and some are powered by AI
- Microsoft may shelve 2030 clean energy target as AI lifts power use, Bloomberg News reports
- TikTok’s algorithm favored Republican content in 2024 US elections, study finds
Fake History Porn (1)
- Archaeologists unveil a tablet from 312 BCE that states “The Parthians are twelve days away from developing nuclear weapons”
- Kurt Cobain, 5 April 1994.
- Keith Flint of The Prodigy and Sinéad O’Connor, backstage at the Féile Festival, Ireland. (1995)
- White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card tells President George W. Bush that a second plane has hit the second tower on September 11, 2001.
- David Attenborough comes into the world May 8, 1926
- 1938, Reichsführer Adolf Hitler requests that the Reichsgericht overturn his conviction for treason during the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch.
- Soviet machinegunner excuting a surrendering German Red Cross worker (Spring 1945, colorized)
- On May 5, 1978, Gianni Versace revolutionized fashion.
- USSR GA- 1965
- Actor/ comedian Kevin James as his, “Paul Blart” character in the movie: “Paul Blart: Mall Cop”. (2009)
- Janet Jackson’s infamous wardrobe malfunction controversy in the 38th annual Super Bowl. (2004)
- Emperor Hadrian enters the Pantheon (126 AD)
- Heroic Israeli Settlers prevent shipments of weapons grade food and water from entering the Gaza Strip during Operation Cast Lead in 2009.
- Donald Trump, upon learning Mitt Romney had lost the 2012 presidential election. (November 6, 2012)
- HasBeen is a company that created "Pay~Doh" a modeling compound for young children. The product was first manufactured at Mar-a-Lardo to deter extraordinary flatulence and anal leakage. This has been replaced with the popular brand of adult diapers called "DEPENDS" 1930
- A white American couple celebrates the lynching of Emmet Till in Mississippi with a noose themed cake. 1955.
- (2003) recent national guard entrant Pete Hegseth was glazed by all present at Guantanamo Bay in what was described to him as a hazing ritual. This is what gives his hair its shiny appearance even today!
- Alex Jones sneaks into Bohemian Grove (2000)
Finance (1)
- if California's billionaire wealth tax passes, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang would owe $8 billion dollars.
His response: "I don't mind paying taxes."
- Korea surpasses Canada as world’s seventh-largest stock market
- Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky regrets not obsessing over hiring sooner
- There’s no such thing as the petrodollar
- Anthropic quietly doubles its estimate for how much engineers can expect to spend on Claude Code tokens
- Consumers Are ‘Running Out of Money’ and Cutting Back, CEOs Warn
- SEC proposes allowing public companies to opt out of quarterly earnings reports
- Remember the BIDEN ECONOMY and how we needed the TRUMP ECONOMY?
- Republicans preaching for patience during the rise of gas prices
- "Buy and hold" is advice I hear constantly, but nobody ever explains how to actually decide what to hold.
- Pumping until the midterms or until the SpaceX IPO?
- Experts say end of war won't fix Trump's gas mess in time for GOP: 'Could get a lot worse'
- Unbreakable Stock Market
- Mississippi, one of the most impoverished states in the U.S., passed legislation last year that will fully eliminate individual income tax in the state by 2040, a move that will allow residents to keep more of their money
- SpaceX continues preparations for IPO by dissolving xAI as a separate company and forming SpaceXAI as a sub division
- Good read on what happens when SPAC fine print meets the courtroom. $14.4M settlement
- A year on from Liberation Day, Trump's tariffs have done "significant damage" to the U.S. economy, says Moody's chief economist
- BREAKING: The average price for a gallon of gas in the US rises to $4.56, now up +66% since December.
- Fewer American workers earn a living wage, report says
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Overcharged $2.67B and You May Be Owed $333
Videos (1)
- They’re Afraid to Say Biden Won the 2020 Election
- Ronald Reagan: The Man Who RUINED America
- Ex-MAGA diehards share why they left, stopped supporting Trump
- EXCLUSIVE: FBI opens 'HIGHLY unusual' CRIMINAL probe into journalist who wrote exposé on Kash Patel
- Epstein roars back for Trump! Island lies CRASH the party on Capitol Hill
- Chris Stapleton and Mickey Raphael perform Willie Nelson's pro-immigrant song "Living in the Promiseland" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
- Donald Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled since just before he returned to the White House, estimated wealth has reached $6.5 billion, the highest point recorded since at least 2001
- Marlon Brando hated Burt Reynolds with a passion. For example Reynolds was considered as Michael Corleone in The Godfather, but Brando threated to quit if he was cast. One reason was probably because Reynolds made an impression/mocked Brando in a 1963 Twilight Zone episode. Here's the impression.
- 20 years since the funniest case of mistaken identity ever to grace a news channel, when the BBC accidentally put a random Guy on air and interviewed him about Apple Inc vs Apple Corps.
- Epstein Scar | New LEGO Video from IRAN
- Jonathan Swan grilling Ted Cruz about the deficit. 5 years later we are about to spend 1 billion dollars for a ballroom
- The Overworked and Underpaid Epidemic
- May 5: Epstein survivors break silence in state legislation FOR THE FIRST TIME, telling their stories of what happened. I wonder why this is NOWHERE to be seen in the news.
- Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars
- FedEx driver sentenced to death by lethal injection for murder of seven-year-old in Texas
- What Did Ancient Humans Do all Day Before Jobs Existed?
- New Trump song dropped The Epstein Class
- Popular British tech reviewer Mrwhosetheboss says he was strip searched and held in detention without access to friends and family while visiting the US
- Report exposes sketchy no-bid deals as costs spiral on Trump's vanity ballroom project
- Ted Turner, founder of CNN, TNT and Cartoon Network, anti-WMD, anti-drilling and universal healthcare proponent, dead at 87
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