Three daughters of Malcolm X are accusing multiple law enforcement agencies in a $100 million lawsuit of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader.
Zuck spent some time in the studio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-uVZzmMOeA
Amazon Haul is a sub-$20 discount online store to compete with the likes of Temu and Shein.
>Budget Chinese retailers such as Temu and Shein successfully made Amazon feel insecure enough for it to come up with its own version, Amazon Haul. The e-commerce giant had been talking about launching a similar discount store with all items priced under $20. It launched in beta today and is available as a separate tab on the Amazon phone app, titled Haul. > >It kept its promise and ensured a $20 price cap with most items under $10. The product categories include fashion, home, lifestyle, and electronics. It says the delivery time will be between one and two weeks, much longer than Amazon’s typical delivery timelines of within a week and a day or two if you’re a Prime member. However, the longer delivery times make sense since the Amazon Haul products will be shipped directly from a fulfillment center in Guangdong, China. > >Scrolling through the items, you’ll quickly realize they’re fairly poor quality but nothing different from what Temu and Shein offer. Unlike the regular Amazon, Amazon Haul is more for impulsive shopping during late-night doom scrolling. This might be why the feature is mobile-exclusive. It’s similar to the in-app shopping feature TikTok introduced because it knows how impulse shopping works.
Lack of moderation, spike in racist content had led to an exodus by brands.
> Elon Musk’s support for Donald Trump is set to boost X’s flagging business, with some marketers poised for a return to the social media platform in order to seek favor with the incoming administration.
> Media executives told the Financial Times that some brands were preparing to advertise on X once again, as its billionaire owner was likely to gain an influential role within a second Trump White House.
> Lou Paskalis, chief executive of marketing consultancy AJL Advisory and a former media executive at Bank of America, said some marketers are likely to reallocate spending back to X as “political leverage,” such as if they were seeking government contracts. He added companies would seek to get in the “good graces of Elon,” who has been given a wide remit by Trump as co-head of a new Department of Government Efficiency. > > “It could be seen as an official channel for White House communications,” said another advertising agency chief, adding that Trump’s victory has lent Musk new legitimacy as well as power over brands in sectors that could face new regulatory curbs from Trump.
Generative AI and new rules targeting tech giants are giving Ecosia and Qwant fuel to challenge Google and Microsoft and develop a web index for Europe.
> Ask the search engine Ecosia about “Paris to Prague” and flight booking websites dominate the results. Ecosia’s CEO, Christian Kroll, would prefer to present more train options, which he considers better for the environment. But because its results are licensed from Google and Microsoft’s Bing, Ecosia has little control over what’s shown. Kroll is ready for that to change. > >The Berlin-based company, which donates its profits to tree planting, and its Paris-based competitor Qwant are announcing Tuesday that they will team up to develop an index of the web. > > The for-profit joint venture, dubbed European Search Perspective and located in Paris, could allow the small companies and any others that decide to join up to reduce their reliance on Google and Bing and serve results that are better tailored to their companies’ missions and Europeans’ tastes. “We could derank results from unethical or unsustainable companies and rank good companies higher,” Kroll says of the eco-minded Ecosia.
Sanders’ analysis that Democrats lost because they failed working-class voters scorned by party chair Jaime Harrison
>Amid Democratic mourning over the loss of the presidential election to Donald Trump, the party chair risked deepening already growing divisions by rebuking the leftwing Vermont senator Bernie Sanders for saying Democrats have “abandoned working class people”. > >“This is straight up BS,” Jaime Harrison, the Democratic National Committee chair, said on Thursday. “[Joe] Biden was the most pro-worker president of my lifetime – saved union pensions, created millions of good paying jobs and even marched in a picket line.” > >Harrison also defended Kamala Harris, the vice-president who lost the election to Trump, for proposing policies that “would have fundamentally transformed the quality of life and closed the racial wealth gap for working people across this country”. > >He said: “From the child tax credits, to [$]25k for a down payment for a house to Medicare covering the cost of senior healthcare in their homes. There are a lot of post-election takes and this one ain’t a good one.”
Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, the billionaire Home Depot cofounder and a Republican megadonor, who in recent years became an outspoken supporter of former President Donald Trump, has died, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN. He was 95.
> Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, the billionaire Home Depot cofounder and a Republican megadonor, who in recent years became an outspoken supporter of former President Donald Trump, has died, the company announced Tuesday. He was 95.
>An outspoken Republican, Marcus has donated millions of dollars to the campaigns of right-wing politicians, including the late John McCain, current Florida governor Ron DeSantis and Trump. > >Later in his life, he frequently made appearances on right-wing television shows on Fox News and Fox Business, often talking about his support of Trump’s presidential aspirations. Some Trump opponents attempted to launch a boycott of The Home Depot in 2016 and in 2019 because of Marcus’ support of the Republican nominee for president. > >Marcus also said in 2022 in an interview with the Financial Times that he was “worried about capitalism” and that because of what he called the spread of “socialism” in America, “nobody works. Nobody gives a damn. ‘Just give it to me. Send me money. I don’t want to work — I’m too lazy, I’m too fat, I’m too stupid.’” > >“We used to have free speech here. We don’t have it,” Marcus told the newspaper. “The woke people have taken over the world. You know, I imagine today they can’t attack me. I’m 93. Who gives a crap about Bernie Marcus?”
Reddit is getting bigger.
>Reddit just turned a profit for the first time. As part of its third quarter earnings results released on Tuesday, the company reported a profit of $29.9 million, along with $348.4 million in revenue — a 68 percent increase year over year. > >The company hasn’t been profitable at any point in its nearly 20-year history. Since going public, Reddit lost $575 million during its first quarter on the market, but it decreased that loss to $10 million last quarter and is now finally in the black.
> Reddit’s advertising revenue grew to $315.1 million, while “other” revenue reached $33.2 million on account of “data licensing agreements signed earlier this year.” Both Google and OpenAI have cut deals with Reddit to train their AI models on its posts.
> A Russian court has ruled that Google owes Russian media stations around $20 decillion in fines for blocking their content, and the fines could get bigger. > >To put that into perspective, the World Bank estimates global GDP as around $100 trillion, which is peanuts compared to the prospective fine. Google would therefore have to find more money than exists on Earth to pay Moscow - but on Tuesday fell a little short of that mark when it posted $88 billion quarterly revenue. > >The bizarre amount has been calculated after a four-year court case that started after YouTube banned the ultra-nationalist Russian channel Tsargrad in 2020 in response to the US sanctions imposed against its owner.
> The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week. Owing to compound interest, Google is now on the hook for an insane amount of money, or what the judge on Monday called “a case in which there are many, many zeros.”
i feel like Goku would do well with the younger demographics but they would be outnumbered by the boomers and gen Xers who would vote for Superman
Tyler, the Creator rarely does anything by the book, and he dropped his new album 'Chromakopia' at the unusual hour of 6 a.m. ET on Monday.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nt1Nw4wT6I7VlzNknxTiIz3hfED0ttO8Q
Wizards Of The Coast has announced multiple sets and a special Secret Lair drop at MagicCon
Celebrities have reportedly become unwitting participants in foreign influence campaigns.
>Since The Office ended, Brian Baumgartner—who played the show’s subdued, perfunctory "Kevin Malone"—has made a second career for himself as one of the top earners on Cameo, the website that allows celebrities to leave personalized messages for fans. A report in 2021 claimed that Baumgartner had made over a million dollars through Cameo videos alone. > > However, it would appear that, in one case, Baumgartner’s friendly online videos accidentally contributed to an aggressive disinformation campaign aimed at toppling the current president of Moldova. A new report from Wired claims that Baumgartner was one of a number of celebrities who recently made a Cameo video decrying the President Maia Sandu. "We, Hollywood stars, support the people of Moldova in their desire to overthrow you, Sandu," the actors said. That video was subsequently tied into what has been described as a "tide of disinformation unprecedented in complexity and aggression" aimed at the tiny eastern European nation.
China's CVERC accuses U.S. of fabricating Volt Typhoon cyberattack claims to conceal global cyber espionage.
> China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) has doubled down on claims that the threat actor known as the Volt Typhoon is a fabrication of the U.S. and its allies. > > The agency, in collaboration with the National Engineering Laboratory for Computer Virus Prevention Technology, went on to accuse the U.S. federal government, intelligence agencies, and Five Eyes countries of conducting cyber espionage activities against China, France, Germany, Japan, and internet users globally. > > It also said there's "ironclad evidence" indicating that the U.S. carries out false flag operations in an attempt to conceal its own malicious cyber attacks, adding it's inventing the "so-called danger of Chinese cyber attacks" and that it has established a "large-scale global internet surveillance network."
> "The U.S. military base in Guam has not been a victim of the Volt Typhoon cyber attacks at all, but the initiator of a large number of cyberattacks against China and many Southeast Asian countries and the backhaul center of stolen data."
the t_d thread about this devolved into christian infighting arguing that catholics aren't real christians: https://archive.is/MLUgX
actually he has 12 suits, one for each of his "rules for life": https://lgfgfashionhouse.com/en/catalog/jordan-peterson-book/
hygrometer / humidifier / dehumidifier
off-planet backups
negative latency networking
psychedelic nanobots
Yeah that's what I was gonna answer. Especially the /r9k/ board. Greentext stories about getting so flustered when a qt3.14 makes eye contact that you spill your spaghetti.
write in Kamala for some position other than pres, then you can say you voted for her and it wouldn't be a lie
If you can figure out what street they're on you could look in Google Street View to see how much trash was in the area previously.
part of the government efficiency is getting rid of some states. cutting the ones that are dead weight, merging the redundant ones, selling some off to other countries.
The history of the UkraineTakeShelter website he built is quite a rabbit hole.
- How a well-meaning tech solution for Ukraine almost became a 'Craigslist for pedophiles'
- A Website Resettling Ukrainian Refugees Got Adoring Headlines. Experts Say It Was Too Good to Be True.
While the American media gushed over UkraineTakeShelter, local activists on the ground in Poland and experts involved in privacy and humanitarian tech looked at the site with concern, outrage, and horror. Here was a site that had made headlines around the world — appearing in overwhelmingly positive stories on CNN, The TODAY Show, and ABC, among many others — but that didn’t verify hosts’ identities until March 21, nearly three weeks after it had gone live, a decision experts said put refugees that used the site at risk for human trafficking. In addition, the lax security measures have also exposed the private data of the hosts opening their homes to refugees, allowing anyone to see information including hosts’ phone numbers and email addresses with a few clicks.
"Look, I definitely agree I should have had a better verification system in place at the start," he says. "But the way I see it is, it's better late than never to add these features."
Trump also appeared to forget that he was no longer in charge of foreign policy, leaving one interview early to “deal with” a conflict in Afghanistan.
“He [Trump] also seemed to think that he still had some foreign policy powers,” he noted. “There was one day where he told me he needed to go upstairs to deal with Afghanistan, even though he clearly didn’t,” he said, adding that Trump actually called the nation “the Afghanistan.”
lol at the image of trump saying "i have to go deal with the afghanistan" whenever he has to leave an interview to take a shit.
he wrote a memoir that released last month
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Gavin Newsom's ex-wife and Don Jr's fiancee. Got fired from Fox News for sexual harassment. Would show her colleagues dick pics of men she'd slept with.
