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8 weeks to stop the spread. NEW: President Trump says he's been briefed on Hantavirus. "It's very much, we hope, under control." "I think we're going to make a full report about it tomorrow. We have a lot of people — a lot of great people are studying it. It should be fine, we hope." …
Psilocybin ‘magic’ mushrooms cause you to grow new brain cells, repair damaged brain cells and create new neuro pathways that stay with you for the rest of your life. This has been scientifically proven.Psychedelics give full access to your entire brain pic.twitter.com/eFLf3ItXR8 — ĐⱤØ₲Ø🇺🇸 (@KAGdrogo) April 24, 2026 CNN — Shrooms, Alice, tweezes, mushies, hongos, …
The AI era already feels like a dystopian fever dream straight out of a bad sci-fi novel, but leave it to a software engineer to push the accelerator straight into the abyss. Enter Alexander Liteplo, the software developer behind RentAHuman.ai, a freshly launched platform that lets autonomous AI agents “search, book, and pay” actual human …
Layoffs over the last year: • UPS: 48,000 • Amazon: 32000 • Intel: 27,159 • Microsoft: 15,387 • Nestle: 16000 • Verizon: 15000 • Google: 12000 • Chevron: 8000 • Paramount: 7000 • Walmart: 7000 • Procter & Gamble: 7000 • Estée Lauder: 7000 • Citigroup: 6500 • Disney: 5500 • Salesforce: 5000 • HP: …
Congress just made them a $6 billion giveaway for issuers. US Congress just legalized the largest wealth transfer in financial history. Nobody noticed. Section 11 of the GENIUS Act prohibits stablecoins from paying yield to holders. Tether holds $135 billion in Treasuries earning 4.5%. That’s $6 billion annually. Passed to you: $0. Tether keeps everything. …
2025 treated the market well. What a great year for stocks. S&P 500 +16.9%Dow +13.5%Nasdaq +20.8%Russell 2000 +11.3% The recipe for a great year for #stocks =The AI BoomResilient (higher income) consumersCost cuttingGood supply chain management to minimize tariffs… pic.twitter.com/YLMOg7Sh6m — Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) December 31, 2025 Today, both of our independent measures of inflation, …
This seems like a foolproof way to create a denial of service attack. — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) October 7, 2025
The AI money loop is creating a surge in valuations that feels unstoppable, but it hides enormous risk. Nvidia’s investments into OpenAI, Oracle’s GPU purchases, and OpenAI’s massive capacity orders keep pumping cash around in a cycle that inflates stock prices far faster than real-world growth. Each transaction looks like progress, but the system depends …
❗️The US will call on the G7 countries to create a mechanism to confiscate $300 billion in frozen Russian assets, – Bloomberg According to the agency, Washington proposes not only to use the profits from these funds, but also to use the assets themselves to finance Ukraine's… pic.twitter.com/A3GAcFYY14 — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@front_ukrainian) September 12, 2025 “The …
Context at 11:22 “I started noticing something wasn’t right with home appraisals,” says Mitch Vexler, a whistleblower and property appraisal expert. He tells Daniela Cambone: “They were inflating property values to raise taxes, and that was fueling trillions of dollars in school bond debt that I think will skyrocket.” Regarding the magnitude of the problem, …
via notayesmanseconomics As this week has progressed with the Western Capitalist Imperialists struggling with rising bond yields China can afford a wry smile. We noted the all-time lows being seen as its benchmark 10 year yield went below 2% as autumn turned to winter last year. Well now it is 1.75% as those invested in …
California, Oregon and Washington announced a new West Coast Health Alliance on Wednesday Saying the three states share a commitment to ensuring that public health recommendations are guided by safety, efficacy, transparency, access and trust, the alliance said it will start coordinating health guidelines by aligning immunization recommendations informed by respected national medical organizations The …
The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Hurricane Erin is still expected to churn up dangerous waves and rip currents and could bring tropical force winds to North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
In July 2025, Cortical Labs released something no lab had done before. The CL1 is not a prototype or proof of concept. It is a working biocomputer built from live human neurons. The brain cells are real. Grown from stem cells. Wired to silicon. Kept alive inside a sealed system that regulates heat, oxygen, and …
Researchers at MIT have unveiled a chip-based 3D printer small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, capable of fabricating solid objects in seconds using light alone. The device, developed by PhD candidate Sabrina Corsetti and her team in the Photonics and Electronics Research Group led by Professor Jelena Notaros, emits reconfigurable visible-light …
Can we finally admit that tariffs did not create an inflationary shock to the economy? https://t.co/qG0rv9cVK6 — Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ (@FreightAlley) July 9, 2025 🚨 BREAKING: US Inflation Index drops to 1.66%. The experts are fuming. Cut interest rates. pic.twitter.com/zdZbyKJUOd — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 9, 2025 🚨 HUGE NEWS: Since President Trump took office… …
End the Federal Reserve Comparing Costco Prices for the same items from 1997 vs 2025 – Mac and cheese $7.89 -> $14.84– Cheesecake $10.99 -> $19.99– Chimichangas $8.99 -> $17.99– Butter $5.49 -> $13.49– Hotdogs $5.89 -> $16.49– Ribeye Steak $13.60 -> $55.61 pic.twitter.com/AZxOBf5vhC — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) May 3, 2025 Read this very …
Abstract It is challenging to emulate biological forms and functions with artificial machines: Fluidity and adaptability seen in cellular organisms, characterized by their ability to deform, split, merge, and engulf, are hard to recapitulate with traditional rigid robotic structures. A promising avenue to tackle this problem is harnessing the supreme deformability of liquids while …
JUST IN: Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche has said that it would invest $50 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, amid concerns about the impact of possible new White House tariffs on pharma goods from abroad. The investment will create more than 12,000 jobs, Roche said — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 22, 2025
A Colorado regulatory panel agreed Friday to raise fees on industrial companies by as much as 67% and to implement a new system, beginning in 2027, under which those firms must report even small levels of emissions for 342 different toxic air contaminants. … However, groups such as the Colorado Chamber of Commerce, American Petroleum …
The selloff we’re seeing in the markets these past few days? It’s not Trump’s doing, it’s the negotiators at work. The attempt to manipulate sentiment and create market panic is palpable. Investors are being played by those behind the scenes who are using the market to force political pressure, all in an effort to extract …
by Michael So many of the major problems that our world has had to deal with in recent years have been caused by mad scientists doing things that they should not be doing. Unfortunately, the global scientific community continues to show no restraint whatsoever. The things that I am about to share with you in this …
A new shape-shifting robot from the University of California, Santa Barbara, can switch between solid and liquid states on command. Inspired by embryonic cells, this breakthrough in programmable micro-materials is straight out of sci-fi. If you grew up with Terminator 2, you know exactly where this is going. A machine that flows through cracks, reforms …
BREAKING: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. pauses a multimillion-dollar contract from the Biden administration to create a new COVID-19 vaccine. Via: Fox News pic.twitter.com/QxhdU9Jlv6 — Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) February 26, 2025 FIRST ON FOX: Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has paused a multimillion-dollar contract from the Biden administration to create …
DJT filed to create ETFs tracking bitcoin and different US sectors (manufacturing etc.) – https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-media-files-trademark-investment-products-targeting-bitcoin-us-industries-2025-02-06/ They also gave key cabinet members like Kash Patel (next FBI director), Linda McMahon (Secretary of Education) and Robert Lighthizer (US Trade Negotiator for Trump) 1MM in stock vesting through 2027 – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-04/kash-patel-s-800-000-trump-media-award-raises-conflict-questions-for-fbi-pick (Non paywall – https://archive.ph/YrE76) and https://ir.tmtgcorp.com/financials/sec-filings/ h/t …
by Mike Maharrey A Texas Republican has introduced bills that would create transactional currencies backed 100 percent by gold and silver. The passage of this legislation would open the door for people to easily use sound money in everyday transactions and create competition for rapidly depreciating fiat dollars. Rep. Mark Dorazio filed HB1049 and HB1056. The language in …
If the deal goes through, the merged group has the potential to deliver revenue of 30 trillion yen ($191.4 billion) and operating profit of more than 3 trillion yen, Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe said. Discussions are set to conclude in June 2025. Nissan’s strategic partner, Mitsubishi, has been offered the chance to join the new …
Foreign aid is important. But not as important as help for Americans — that should be the top priority — Matt McCann (@mccannltc) December 13, 2024
Great strides have been made in technology and artificial intelligence, making humanoid robots seem like a not-so-distant reality. In a recent episode of Opening Bid, Citi Global Insights analysts Rob Garlick and Wenyan Fei discussed their research on the advancement of humanoid robots over the next 25 years. “Robots are hardly new, but there’s a …