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DOJ Alleges UC Medical School Discriminates In Race-Based Admissions

DOJ Alleges UC Medical School Discriminates In Race-Based Admissions Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into the University of California-San Francisco's (UCSF's) medical school has determined that the institution discriminates on a racial basis during its admission process. Signage on the exterior of a building at the UCSF Mission Bay campus in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2025. Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesThe investigatio...

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Iran Willing To Strike Deal With US Before Midterm Elections: Pezeshkian

Iran Willing To Strike Deal With US Before Midterm Elections: Pezeshkian Summary US-Iran talks uncertain: as Iran has stuck by its conditions while engaging Kushner-Witkoff in NY at UN. Iran threatens escalation beyond Persian Gulf: Tehran warned the conflict could spread to the Indian Ocean if attacked again. Yemen front intensifies: Saudi Arabia said it intercepted six Houthi ballistic missiles. Oil markets react: Renewed tensions pushed Brent crude to $106/barre...

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Wall Street's Nuclear Bull Case Requires Reactors To Actually Get Built

Wall Street's Nuclear Bull Case Requires Reactors To Actually Get Built Wall Street is largely on board with the nuclear bull case. But investor patience is thinning with an industry that is enjoying both political support and demand from deep-pocketed customers, yet still struggles to this day to get any projects actually started. We noted a similar sentiment with Barclay’s nuclear outlook, as investors increasingly want evidence of real delivery. New research from Jefferies and ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 3 hours ago

Columbia Professor Wins Award For Book On 'White Paint' Being Racist

Columbia Professor Wins Award For Book On 'White Paint' Being Racist Authored by Micaiah Bilger via The College Fix, Among the many woke winners of this year's prestigious National Book Awards is a black Columbia University professor whose screed attacks "white paint" as racist. Professor Wendy Walters' new book, "A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint," claims that white paint is not the "neutral" architectural design element that it initially appears to be. Instead, sh...

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Bessent Plays Hardball With "Bloomberg Bros": Yields Spike As Treasury Accepts Just 68% Of Maximum Buyback Offers

Bessent Plays Hardball With "Bloomberg Bros": Yields Spike As Treasury Accepts Just 68% Of Maximum Buyback Offers Two weeks ago, treasury yields spiked to a 3 year high (still well below 5%), after the first expanded Treasury buyuback operation which had a maximum capacity of $6 billion, resulted in just $5.187 billion in actual buyback offers accepted by the Treasury. That was a problem because as BofA's rates guru, Mark Cabana, wrote just ahead of the first buyback (his note is a...

Alt - Boing Boing - 3 hours ago

Federal judge tells Trump to turn the press passes back on

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly has granted a temporary restraining order reinstating Politico, MS NOW, and CNN to the White House press pool. He doesn't think DOJ has much chance of pulling this off. Reporters immediately reported for work, only to find they weren't allowed to enter the White House for several hours as their "hard cards" were turned back on. Read the rest The post Federal judge tells Trump to turn the press passes back on appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Senator Tommy Tuberville: pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers are furries

Ranting about "transgenderism" in Congress, U.S. Senator Thomas "Tommy" Tuberville (R—Alabama) briefly diverted his attention to a different group: furries. "Many" airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers, he said, are part of the furry community. If the thought represents a masterclass in the unprovable and unfalsifiable, it's one that's clearly been on his mind; Tuberville did not identify a source for his claim. Read the rest The post Senator Tommy Tuberville: pilots, f...

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Elizabeth Holmes is headed to a halfway house for people who need help finding jobs and housing

It is unclear whether her plea to pardon broker and President of the United States Donald Trump helped speed this along, but Elizabeth Holmes is getting out of prison quite a bit early. Just four years into an eleven-year term, Elizabeth Holmes will head to a transitional facility intended to help rehabilitated criminals find work, manage their finances, and re-enter society as a productive cog in our machine. Read the rest The post Elizabeth Holmes is headed to a halfway house for people who n...

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Greenland Mining Company Plans To Double Size Of Rare-Earth Mine As US Signs Agreement

Greenland Mining Company Plans To Double Size Of Rare-Earth Mine As US Signs Agreement Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Days after President Donald Trump announced a security agreement with Greenland and Denmark, Greenland Mines applied on Sept. 21 to double the size of its rare earth mine to supply magnet metals needed for electric vehicles, wind turbines, and defense systems on the island. The North Carolina-based company's Sarfartoq rare earth district in sout...

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'Palestinian Rachel Dolezal': Philadelphia Activist Admits She Lied About Being Palestinian And Black

'Palestinian Rachel Dolezal': Philadelphia Activist Admits She Lied About Being Palestinian And Black A Philadelphia activist spent years building a public persona around identities she apparently didn’t have, proving once again that even people obsessed with policing everyone else’s identity occasionally forget to check their own paperwork. Hannah Gann, a teacher and prominent local anti-Israel activist, admitted this week that she is a white woman who had falsely portrayed hersel...

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This. Is. Madness...

This. Is. Madness... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The View co-host Sunny Hostin cited the Lindsay Clancy mistrial Tuesday to relate a celebratory story about how in 1991 she was a lone jury hold out who flipped for a cannibal killer who boiled a woman and literally served her as soup. While the panel chewed over the Clancy debacle, Hostin announced she had effectively blocked a guilty verdict for Daniel Rakowitz - the East Village drifter known as the Butcher of ...

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Rare Moomin mug sells for €46k

If you like Tove Janssen's Moomin, with its nearly perfect charm-disquiet ratio, you'll surely love the above "Diving with Shells" mug with Moomintroll enjoying a dip. The €46,023 sale price, though, set a record at Muumimukit rahaksi, a website specializing in Moomin rarities. Read the rest The post Rare Moomin mug sells for €46k appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 4 hours ago

Disney built a subway inside Houston's airport

This week on the popular theme park podcast Disney Dish with Len Testa and Jim Hill, Disney historian Jim Hill tells the story of The Walt Disney Transportation Company and its one achievement: installing a PeopleMover in what was then called The Houston Intercontinental Airport (now The George Bush Intercontinental Airport). Read the rest The post Disney built a subway inside Houston's airport appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Boing Boing - 4 hours ago

A dolphin in Australia steals food from fish in the grossest way

If you have ever eaten French fries in the vicinity of seagulls, you have experienced kleptoparasitism, even if you don't know the word. Seagulls snatch fries from humans. Bald eagles harass ospreys into dropping fish. Pea crabs live inside mollusks like clams and oysters and steal their food. Read the rest The post A dolphin in Australia steals food from fish in the grossest way appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Zero Hedge - 4 hours ago

Ugly 7Y Auction Tails As Foreign Demand Slides Despite Record High Yield

Ugly 7Y Auction Tails As Foreign Demand Slides Despite Record High Yield After yesterday's dismal 5Y aucton which pushed yields to multi-decade highs, moments ago the Treasury completed its last coupon auction of the week, selling $44 billion in 7Y paper. It was another ugly auction, if not quite as ugly as yesterday's shitshow. The sale stopped at a high yield of 5.085%, up from 4.512% a month ago and the highest yield on record for 7 Year paper! It was tailed the When Issued 5...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 5 hours ago

Satellite Images Reveal Rapid Expansion At Seven Chinese Nuclear Sites

Satellite Images Reveal Rapid Expansion At Seven Chinese Nuclear Sites Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, China is rapidly expanding infrastructure tied to its nuclear weapons program, with satellite images revealing major construction at seven sites as Beijing faces growing scrutiny over its expanding arsenal. An investigation published Wednesday identified activity at Pingtong, Zitong, Lop Nur, Jiuquan, Mianyang, Jinta and Guangyuan. The satellite imagery docume...

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Just Torched Doomsday AI Bros, Says STFU About Existential Risk Or Shut It Down

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Just Torched Doomsday AI Bros, Says STFU About Existential Risk Or Shut It Down The CEOs behind frontier AI keep talking like bystanders - warning seemingly daily about 'existential risk, runaway superintelligence, and competitive pressure' that's totally out of their control, so they need big brother to help slow them down.  Jensen Huang isn't buying it. In an interview on The Ezra Klein Show this week, the Nvidia CEO took what the labs call an existenti...

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White House Restores Access For Banned Media Outlets After Judge's Ruling

White House Restores Access For Banned Media Outlets After Judge's Ruling Update (1230ET): Following US District Judge Timothy J. Kelly's earlier decision, the Trump administration said in a legal filing that it has restored access for now to three media outlets the president had banned from White House grounds last week. Reporters from CNN and MS NOW started returning to the White House grounds after a federal court had ordered a suspension of the ban. The networks made announc...

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Crude Tumbles On Return To Alleged Deal In Motion Iran Headlines

Crude Tumbles On Return To Alleged Deal In Motion Iran Headlines Update(1225ET): Crude tumbles on a new Reuters report signaling a return to [dubious?] 'deal in motion' headlines: US and Iran reportedly discuss phased deal to reopen Hormuz and end US blockade, according to Reuters citing sources This seems just a reiteration of Iranian demands, but crude still reacted (per Rtrs): A senior Iranian official said the most plausible way to end the impasse would be a phased arrangement...

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FERC Rejects ComEd's Cancellation Of $20 Billion Data Center Contract

FERC Rejects ComEd's Cancellation Of $20 Billion Data Center Contract By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday rejected Commonwealth Edison’s “notice of cancellation” of a transmission security agreement, or TSA, for a 1.8-GW, $20-billion data center PowerHouse Hillwood Holding is developing in Joliet, Illinois. In part, the contract dispute centers on the TSA’s credit support requirements. PowerHouse Hillwood contends it met the agreemen...

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NatGas Spikes As Major West Virginia Pipeline Declares Force Majeure

NatGas Spikes As Major West Virginia Pipeline Declares Force Majeure TC Energy's Columbia Gas Transmission pipeline system issued a notice requiring an "immediate pressure reduction" on Mountaineer XPress Line 100 between the Mt. Olive Compressor Station in Jackson County and the Saunders Creek Regulator Station in Cabell County, West Virginia, warning that an "expected mechanical issue" would reduce scheduled volumes. Columbia Gas Transmission moves Appalachian NatGas to markets ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 6 hours ago

Anthropic CEO (Again) Warns Poorly Managed AI Could Be 'Risk To Humanity'

Anthropic CEO (Again) Warns Poorly Managed AI Could Be 'Risk To Humanity' Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that artificial intelligence could "be a risk to humanity as a whole" during a briefing before the United Nations Security Council on Sept. 23. Amodei was among the top AI executives who spoke at the meeting - organized by France during the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering of world leaders - which also included statements...

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Goldman Puts Almonty At "Center" Of Western Tungsten Race

Goldman Puts Almonty At "Center" Of Western Tungsten Race Three weeks after Jefferies chemicals and materials analyst Laurence Alexander initiated coverage of Almonty Industries with a "Buy" rating and a 12-month price target of $26.25, framing it as a play on the "Western Tungsten Re-Shoring Trade," Goldman Sachs launched coverage early Thursday, describing the miner as "at the center of the Western tungsten investment narrative." Goldman metals and steel analyst Nick Cash notes t...

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Are Bonds About To Crash The Stock Market?

Are Bonds About To Crash The Stock Market? Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance There. I’ve said it. I’ve gone from pussyfooting around and saying the AI bubble could pop in 6 to 10 months…which I still believe…to the very definitive statement that if the bond market keeps acting like this, the equity markets will get slaughtered. And I mean, wrath of God type shit. This isn’t even a particularly sophisticated thesis. After all, if I’m delivering it, it can’t be. It’s just math. Tre...

Alt - Boing Boing - 7 hours ago

Set up one PC with Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office for $32.97

TL;DR: This $32.97 (reg. $418.99) bundle gives one PC perpetual licenses for Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office Professional 2021, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, and Publisher. A Windows PC isn't much use without an operating system, and for plenty of people, it isn't quite ready for work until Word and Excel show up, either. Read the rest The post Set up one PC with Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office for $32.97 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Zero Hedge - 7 hours ago

McDonald's Sinks To Four-Year Low As Deutsche Bank Sours On Turnaround Hopes

McDonald's Sinks To Four-Year Low As Deutsche Bank Sours On Turnaround Hopes McDonald's shares tumbled as much as 5.9% on Wednesday, the sharpest intraday decline since the early-2020 Covid selloff, before closing down 4.8% at their lowest level since 2022.  The Big Mac quick-service restaurant chain's investor day heightened Wall Street concerns that softening US sales, coupled with plans for massive investments across restaurant locations, could pressure cash flow and sharehold...

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What T. Boone Pickens Would Ask About AI CapEx

What T. Boone Pickens Would Ask About AI CapEx Authored by Patrick Feeley via Substack, I keep waiting for someone in the AI discussion to talk like an owner. What we get instead is a week of model releases, token counts, and model-lab valuations that look like oil majors, while the harder questions about turbines, interconnect queues, and who answers for the spend sit offstage. That imbalance would have driven T. Boone Pickens up a wall. Boone passed away in Dallas on September...

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Xi At WH: We Should Strengthen Communication, The Thucydides Trap Can Be Overcome

Xi At WH: We Should Strengthen Communication, The Thucydides Trap Can Be Overcome Arrival Ceremony and initial Trump-Xi remarks: Xi: "We Should Strengthen Communication... the Thucydides Trap can be overcome." The moment of President Xi's arrival at the White House: NOW: Trump welcomes Xi Jinping to the White House. pic.twitter.com/zvXVkxqaGj — Clash Report (@clashreport) September 24, 2026 For more of our analysis and what to expect: Read: Mr. Xi Comes To Washington: What...

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New Home Sales Soared In August, Prices Plunged As Mortgage Rates Spiked

New Home Sales Soared In August, Prices Plunged As Mortgage Rates Spiked With homebuilder confidence plumbing new depths (and Housing Starts and Permits plunging), expectations were surprisingly for a small bounce back in new home sales in August (after collapsing in July). Analyst consensus was correct, with a 6.4% MoM jump (+1.3% MoM exp) with July's 10.5% MoM plunged revised dramatically higher to just 4.3% MoM decline. August was the biggest surge in sales since February, but s...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 8 hours ago

Biden-Nominated Judge Dismisses Michigan Case Accusing Oil Majors Of Suppressing Renewables

Biden-Nominated Judge Dismisses Michigan Case Accusing Oil Majors Of Suppressing Renewables Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, A federal judge dismissed an antitrust lawsuit in which Michigan accused four major oil companies of acting as a cartel to block renewable energy. U.S. District Judge Jane Beckering in Grand Rapids on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit filed in January by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, against BP, Chevron, Exxon, Shell, and the Ameri...

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Panic At CNN As Paramount Seeks Elon Musk Equity Investment

Panic At CNN As Paramount Seeks Elon Musk Equity Investment Paramount is weighing whether to bring Elon Musk on as an equity investor in its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to a report from Semafor. David Ellison has been sizing up potential investors as he works to lock down financing before the merger closes. Paramount has not said how much money it hopes to raise, and the size of any Musk investment remains undetermined. A Paramount spokesperson declined to comment,...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 9 hours ago

"Way Shorter Than Beijing Hoped": China Stocks Tumble As Trade Truce Disappoints

"Way Shorter Than Beijing Hoped": China Stocks Tumble As Trade Truce Disappoints Chinese stocks slipped overnight as the two-month extension of the US-China trade truce fell short of some Wall Street expectations (some desks were hoping for +6 months), offering limited reassurance that today's talks would deliver a long-lasting trade deal, stabilize bilateral ties, and ease uncertainty over global trade. The mainland CSI 300 Index dropped 1.7%, while the Hang Seng China Enterprise...

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They Used AI To Race-Swap Him...

They Used AI To Race-Swap Him... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Stanford University took a real photograph of three students in a dining hall, ran it through artificial intelligence, and published the result as a "Welcome Home" banner. However, one of those students, Hispanic undergrad Billy Ramirez, class of 2027, was gone. In his place stood an AI-generated Black woman. The two students next to him had their faces slimmed and altered. Clothing was even changed in...

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Oil Jumps As Iran Warns War Could Expand To Indian Ocean If US Attacks Resume

Oil Jumps As Iran Warns War Could Expand To Indian Ocean If US Attacks Resume It was just this month which saw the Iran conflict spill over into a renewed fight between the Saudi coalition and Yemen's Houthi rebels. Now Iran is threatening to expand the fight further, even into the Indian Ocean. Yahya Rahim Safavi, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, warned Thursday of another significant expanse of the war if the Islamic Republic suffers attack again. "Since the...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 10 hours ago

Japan Breaks The 'Debt Causes Inflation' Narrative

Japan Breaks The 'Debt Causes Inflation' Narrative Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, A dollar today buys nearly twice as many Japanese yen as it did fifteen years ago. Crude oil, in yen terms, is up roughly 70% year to date. Food prices are similarly elevated. Japan imports most of the energy and much of the food it consumes, paying for it in dollars that keep getting more expensive. Those facts alone should lead us to conclude Japan has an inflation proble...

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Aramco CEO Eyes "Fourth and Fifth" Oil Export Routes To Break Hormuz Chokehold

Aramco CEO Eyes "Fourth and Fifth" Oil Export Routes To Break Hormuz Chokehold Brent crude futures climbed back above $104 a barrel early Thursday as Iran threatened to widen the Middle East conflict into the Indian Ocean and optimism surrounding yesterday's meetings between US and Iranian officials on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly faded. A focal point this morning is Nikkei Asia’s interview with Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser, who said Aramco is studying additional cru...

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Judge Orders Trump To Temporarily Restore CNN, MS NOW, And Politico Access To White House

Judge Orders Trump To Temporarily Restore CNN, MS NOW, And Politico Access To White House Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump to temporarily restore White House access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico while they challenge the revocation of their press passes in court. Federal Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a temporary restraining order against the White House ban, reinsta...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 11 hours ago

60 Minutes' "Pardon Economy" Bombshell Ignored The Clintons... And Joe Biden

60 Minutes' "Pardon Economy" Bombshell Ignored The Clintons... And Joe Biden Authored by Paul D. Thacker via RealClearInvestigations, When Bari Weiss was hired to lead CBS News last year, many of the network's star reporters feared the centrist founder of The Free Press news site would turn the network into a mouthpiece for the Trump administration. Longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley was fired after he accused Weiss of "murdering the show." If the season premiere o...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 13 hours ago

Escobar: The Calm Before The Showdown

Escobar: The Calm Before The Showdown Authored by Pepe Escobar via LewRockwell.com, The only art that the Prince must totally master it's the art of war - Machiavelli The Supreme Warrior Wins Without Fighting -Sun Tzu This was supposed to be the calm before the storm. Where the Epstein Syndicate would schmooze the Global South gathered in New York for the - comatose - UN General Assembly and seduce them with assorted "gifts", wooing them away from the impending Great Debacle ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 14 hours ago

In Red Sea Crisis, Somaliland Seizes Leverage For US Recognition

In Red Sea Crisis, Somaliland Seizes Leverage For US Recognition Authored by Dan M. Ford via Responsible Statecraft, The president of Somaliland took advantage of the geopolitical and global economic turmoil caused by the Iran War to visit Washington this week in an effort to advocate for American recognition of Somaliland and for the deepening of economic ties between the two. President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, known as Irro, made a public appearance at the Hudson Institut...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 15 hours ago

China Floods Europe With Cheap Cars, Grabs Record Market Share As Domestic Brands Buckle

China Floods Europe With Cheap Cars, Grabs Record Market Share As Domestic Brands Buckle Europe is becoming a glaring case study in how globalist leaders can destroy an entire automotive manufacturing base by flooding the continent with cheap Chinese cars and sending domestic automakers spiraling into crisis, while their policies simultaneously spark what Nomura analysts have said will be political blowback over an 18-month election cycle, with shifts toward the right already visibl...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 16 hours ago

Anti-Immigration AfD Now The Most Popular Party In Key Western German State In A National Vote

Anti-Immigration AfD Now The Most Popular Party In Key Western German State In A National Vote Via Remix News, The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is known for its strength in the east of the country, but its popularity in Western Germany is also only growing, including in the country's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia. This latest Forsa poll points to incredible growth of the AfD in a very short time in the voter-rich Western German state. It is ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 17 hours ago

The Muse Is Loose: Inside Zuckerberg's $100-A-Month Bet That You'll Let Facebook Run Your Life

The Muse Is Loose: Inside Zuckerberg's $100-A-Month Bet That You'll Let Facebook Run Your Life Those lucky enough to be living under a rock in the past month, would be surprised to learn out that after trading near the year's lows in mid-August, Facebook Meta stock just hit a 2026 high, and it is all thanks to the constant buzz over the release of its Muse AI agent two weeks ago, which has not only taken the tech world by storm, but sent Meta shares an additional 21% higher in that ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 19 hours ago

Korea Picks A $22 Billion Texas Gas Plant As First Down Payment On Its $350 Billion Pledge To Trump

Korea Picks A $22 Billion Texas Gas Plant As First Down Payment On Its $350 Billion Pledge To Trump Ten months, one tariff threat and several "sleepless nights" later, South Korea has finally found somewhere to put the first piece of the $350 billion it promised to invest in America. The winner is a gas-fired power complex in Encinal, Texas (population 540, where real estate is about to ballistic), and it is built to feed the one thing Washington can never get enough of: electricity...

Alt - Boing Boing - 19 hours ago

Your DVD shelf is collecting dust: Digitize it for $29.99

TL;DR: DVDneXtCOPY DVD Ripper converts your discs, including copy-protected ones, into MP4, MKV, AVI, and MOV files that play on the devices you actually use. Get it for $29.99 (reg. $59.99). Discs don't age well. The player in the living room is probably the last one in the house, and the shelf of movies sitting next to it plays on nothing else you own. Read the rest The post Your DVD shelf is collecting dust: Digitize it for $29.99 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Zero Hedge - 19 hours ago

Hurricane Polo Disrupts Mexican Ports, Puts Key Asia Trade Gateways At Risk

Hurricane Polo Disrupts Mexican Ports, Puts Key Asia Trade Gateways At Risk Hurricane Polo weakened to a Category 4 storm early Wednesday after strengthening into an "extremely dangerous" Category 5 storm and churning 210 miles south of Zihuatanejo, Mexico, in the Pacific Ocean. The storm risks disrupting critical maritime shipping lanes along Mexico's Pacific coast. FreightWaves reports that Mexico's Navy restricted major container port Manzanillo to ships of at least 500 gross to...

Alt - Boing Boing - 20 hours ago

Actor Richard Harrison, who battled Nazis and ninjas, dead at 90

Actor and director Richard Harrison, famed for low-budget but eminently memorable military epics, spaghetti westerns and martial arts flicks, is dead at 90. His friend Joan Borsten announced his death on social media and eulogized "an A-life in B-movies" Harrison never let his movie star status, especially in Italy where he couldn't walk down the street without being recognized, go to his head. Read the rest The post Actor Richard Harrison, who battled Nazis and ninjas, dead at 90 appeared f...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 20 hours ago

China Expands Export Controls On Drug Precursor Chemicals Ahead Of Trump-Xi Talks

China Expands Export Controls On Drug Precursor Chemicals Ahead Of Trump-Xi Talks Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, China has added more chemicals to its export control list for drug precursor substances ahead of a high-stakes meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington. Fentanyl precursors are displayed at Reuters' office in Mexico City on Oct. 4, 2023. Claudia Daut/ReutersThe Chinese commerce ministry announced on Sept. 22 that...

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Marxist-Maxxing: Hasan Piker Calls For "Literal Communist Revolution" Inside Dem Party

Marxist-Maxxing: Hasan Piker Calls For "Literal Communist Revolution" Inside Dem Party The Democratic Socialists of America's unofficial cheerleader, far-left streamer Hasan Piker, has stated an inconvenient truth for the Democratic Party: its far-left fringe will eat the party alive, quite literally. Listen to Piker in his own words: "I will throw you in prison. I want Chinese-style communism to happen inside of the Democratic Party right now. I want to do cultural revolution shit...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 21 hours ago

Harvey Weinstein (Finally) Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison

Harvey Weinstein (Finally) Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a 2006 sex crime. The Sept. 23 sentencing was for the sexual assault of then-TV production assistant Miriam Haley, and comes after Weinstein's 2020 conviction was overturned. A jury found Weinstein guilty at last year's retrial. In 2024, Weinstein's conviction for this same crim...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 22 hours ago

The Sudden AI Panic Has A Lot To Do With The November Midterms

The Sudden AI Panic Has A Lot To Do With The November Midterms Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via The Daily Signal, We're about 40 days, close to 40 days, out of the midterm, and all of a sudden there's been a melodramatic announcement that artificial intelligence could destroy the human race. I think everybody's always accepted that remote possibility, and it's been very popular in popular culture, such as "The Terminator" series. But why did all of a sudden we hear about it no...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 22 hours ago

Check Your Freezer: Popular Pasta Sold Nationwide Recalled Over Deadly Bacteria Contamination Fears

Check Your Freezer: Popular Pasta Sold Nationwide Recalled Over Deadly Bacteria Contamination Fears Shoppers who picked up frozen pasta at Walmart recently may want to check their freezers as a popular store-brand dish has been pulled from shelves across the country over contamination concerns. Gias Foods has issued a nationwide recall of two lots of its bettergoods Authentic Italian Lemon Alfredo Fettuccine after testing revealed the product may carry Listeria monocytogenes, a b...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 23 hours ago

Trump Social Media Firm Sues Ex-Co-Founder, Claims He Gambled Away Company Cash in Wild Slot Machine Spree

Trump Social Media Firm Sues Ex-Co-Founder, Claims He Gambled Away Company Cash in Wild Slot Machine Spree X Strategies, the Florida social media firm that powers some of President Donald Trump's most-followed social media accounts, is taking its former co-founder Derek Utley to federal court, accusing him of quietly draining at least $5 million from the company to fund a jet-set lifestyle and a staggering gambling habit, according to POLITICO. The company filed a 34-page complai...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 23 hours ago

Second Shot At The Second Amendment: Could Heller Be Undone By An Errant Qualifier?

Second Shot At The Second Amendment: Could Heller Be Undone By An Errant Qualifier? Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, Many of us are gearing up with columns previewing the Court's October term and have highlighted the upcoming arguments over bans on AR-15s and semiautomatic weapons in out of the Seventh Circuit in Chicago (Viramontes v. Cook County) and the Second Circuit in New York (Grant v. Higgins). A recent column from Professor Rory Little suggests that t...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Beijing Moves Down The AI Stack: After GPUs, China Is Coming For Broadcom's Switches

Beijing Moves Down The AI Stack: After GPUs, China Is Coming For Broadcom's Switches Xi Jinping lands in Washington for a state visit today, but as Bloomberg sums up the mood in one line: the two leaders "may find common ground on AI safety, but neither is willing to give ground in the technology race." And right on schedule, the FT reports that Beijing has started counting Broadcom switches. According to the FT, China's State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission ...

Alt - Boing Boing - 1 day ago

At Trump's midterm "Trumpapalooza," "any Republican" will do

Turns out Walter Masterson's question to voters at Trump's mid-term Republican convention was so difficult it was unfair: Who are you voting for? Perhaps they are ashamed. Maybe they really do not know. Certainly, MAGA does not care who it votes for or what their values are, so long as they are "Republican." Read the rest The post At Trump's midterm "Trumpapalooza," "any Republican" will do appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Missouri Congressional Map Returns To Supreme Court For Third Time

Missouri Congressional Map Returns To Supreme Court For Third Time Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The dispute over Missouri's new congressional map returned to the Supreme Court for the third time, with justices considering whether the state can use the GOP-backed map in the midterm elections. The new map could help Republicans gain an additional U.S. House seat in the Nov. 3 elections. The Supreme Court has twice prevented the state from using the redrawn congr...

Alt - Boing Boing - 1 day ago

The Lotus card shuffler fills the gap between $20 junk and $5,000 casino machines

The Lotus is a card-shuffling robot. It bridges the gap between super-cheap card shufflers that don't really work and casino-grade ones that cost thousands of dollars. This one is under $100, and it looks great. From the company's Our Story page: "At the bottom, you have $20 plastic shufflers that jam, break, and sound terrible. Read the rest The post The Lotus card shuffler fills the gap between $20 junk and $5,000 casino machines appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Senate Panel Rejects Immunity For Ex-Fauci Aide

Senate Panel Rejects Immunity For Ex-Fauci Aide The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs rejected on Sept. 23 a bid to seek immunity for a longtime special assistant to Dr. Anthony Fauci. The vote on a resolution authorizing an application for a court order compelling testimony under immunity from the assistant, who was not identified, fell short of the required two-thirds of members. All eight Republicans, but no Democrats, voted in favor. Two Democrats ...

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Trump Meets Venezuela's Rodriguez In New York

Trump Meets Venezuela's Rodriguez In New York Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump and Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez met Tuesday night on the sidelines of a United Nations reception, their first face-to-face talks since American forces seized then-President Nicolas Maduro in January. Venezuela's Interim President Delcy Rodriguez and U.S. President Donald Trump (R) meet on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Se...

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Save on this resource: Microsoft Project is available for $55

TL;DR: A one-time $54.97 payment gets you Microsoft Project Professional 2024 for Windows, the scheduling and resource-planning tool that normally lists at $1,129.99. Project auto-populates start and end dates from task dependencies, so moving one milestone reshuffles everything downstream without you rebuilding the timeline by hand. Read the rest The post Save on this resource: Microsoft Project is available for $55 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Obama on Trump's press ban: "You can't do that and say that you are still living in a democracy"

Former President Barack Obama made the remarks Monday at Salem State University, after Trump barred CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from White House grounds because of coverage he described as "fake news." Speaking with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin at Massachusetts' Salem State University, Obama called freedom from government retaliation against critical journalism a "foundational" issue. Read the rest The post Obama on Trump's press ban: "You can't do that and say that you are still living in a d...

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Iran Vows To 'Paralyze' Regional Airports Which Prevent Its Flights From Landing

Iran Vows To 'Paralyze' Regional Airports Which Prevent Its Flights From Landing Facing crippling US sanctions against its aviation sector as part of the Trump/Bessent Economic D-Day initiative, Iran is warning that if regional countries join the sanctions action, their own airports could be targeted. Iran's Supreme National Security Council has on Wednesday put neighboring states who are allies of Washington on notice. The statement warned their airports will be "paralyzed" if the...

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Shareholders Sue New York Times Over 'Biased' Israel Coverage

Shareholders Sue New York Times Over 'Biased' Israel Coverage Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Shareholders sued The New York Times on Sept. 23, alleging the company has failed to prevent false reporting about Israel and other topics. The State Board of Administration of Florida, representing the Florida Retirement System Trust Fund and National Center for Public Policy Research, filed the lawsuit in a New York court. "The Company's repeated publication of mater...

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Apple's macOS 27 installs a lot of AI bloatware

I've been advised that if I don't want Apple "Intelligence" on, I should stay on OS 26 and decline the chance to install nearly 30GB of stuff I don't want. Remember when Apple put U2 on your iPod and wouldn't let you delete it? Read the rest The post Apple's macOS 27 installs a lot of AI bloatware appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Sea turtles are nesting on the U.S. West Coast for the first time on record

California certainly has adult sea turtles, but we've never seen them lay eggs this far north before. NOAA studies green turtles in Southern California. Over the last 20 years, roughly 60 have been spotted in San Diego Bay. Turtles also appear around Seal Beach and the San Gabriel River. Read the rest The post Sea turtles are nesting on the U.S. West Coast for the first time on record appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Only 7% Of Voters Rank Data Centers As A Top Political Issue; New Survey Finds

Only 7% Of Voters Rank Data Centers As A Top Political Issue; New Survey Finds Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, A new poll from the Rainey Center for Public Policy shows just 7 percent of registered voters view data centers as a top-three national political issue, confirming that fewer than 10 percent prioritize them at the federal level. The Washington Examiner reports that the survey of 1,004 registered voters found that found that national concern over data center...

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Let's get dangerous again: Darkwing Duck set to return

Disney has greenlit a new Darkwing Duck series, with Mark Hamill taking over as Drake Mallard and Seth Rogen voicing Launchpad McQuack. Negaduck and Megavolt are also returning, because some problems really do survive every reboot. The original "Darkwing Duck" series ran for 91 episodes, beginning on Disney Channel and then airing on ABC from 1991-1993, eventually making its way to video games and comic books. Read the rest The post Let's get dangerous again: Darkwing Duck set to return appe...

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'Mr.Gold' Warns Higher Rates Will Blow Everything Up

'Mr.Gold' Warns Higher Rates Will Blow Everything Up Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Financial writer and precious metals expert Bill Holter (aka Mr. Gold) has warned for years about what happens in the end when a debt bubble pops.  Mr. Gold explains, “This bubble is like any other bubble in mankind’s history..." "  In the 1920s, credit was extremely easy.  When credit tightened, it was the wealth effect in reverse.  We saw this again in the early 1970s.  We saw this again ...

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"This Nor'easter Is Going To Be An Ordeal"

"This Nor'easter Is Going To Be An Ordeal" The US East Coast has avoided any tropical development so far this year, but a developing nor'easter in the Atlantic just off the North Carolina and Virginia coast could still deliver hurricane-force winds and heavy rain, with the greatest impacts expected in the Northeast later this week and into the weekend.  "Oh, this Nor'easter is going to be an ordeal. This storm will be a monster and will be lashing the coast for several days. Thank...

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Jelly bean isopods, rubber ducky isopods, and other pill bugs people keep as pets

I watched this video on The Kid Should See This; it's a time-lapse of "jelly bean" isopods eating chunks of sweet potato. I've not heard of jelly bean isopods before, so I looked it up and learned that it's a rare color variety of pill bug that came from a single colony on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia and comes in a variety of colors: orange, gold, red, yellow, black, striped, and speckled. Read the rest The post Jelly bean isopods, rubber ducky isopods, and other pill bugs people keep a...

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Kalshi's $5,499 Question: Wash Trading, Or A Subsidized Volume Machine?

Kalshi's $5,499 Question: Wash Trading, Or A Subsidized Volume Machine? Kalshi's Ethereum perpetual futures contract has a favorite trade size, and it's $5,499. A CoinDesk analysis published Monday pulled 3,450 trades in the contract, a futures product with no expiry that tracks the spot price of ether, from 23 one-hour windows between September 17 and 20. Of those, 1,406 landed within $2 of $5,499. That's $7.7 million of the $13.5 million sampled, or 57% of the dollar volume. Bi...

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Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in New York case

Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein was today sentenced to 15 years in prison on his most recent sexual assault conviction in New York. His victim, production assistant Miriam Haley, told the Manhattan court in an impact statement that Weinstein abused his position and power and that "It is a life sentence for me." Read the rest The post Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in New York case appeared first on Boing Boing.

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More US Homebuyers Apply For Riskier Mortgages As Interest Rates Top 7%

More US Homebuyers Apply For Riskier Mortgages As Interest Rates Top 7% Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, Higher interest rates pushed prospective homebuyers toward riskier mortgages last week, new industry data show. The total volume of mortgage applications declined almost 2 percent for the week ending Sept. 18, according to a report released by the Mortgage Bankers Association on Sept. 23. This represented the third consecutive weekly drop. Applications for a mor...

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US Diesel Craters, EU Prices Skyrocket As Politico Reports White House Preparing Plan For 90-Day Export Ban

US Diesel Craters, EU Prices Skyrocket As Politico Reports White House Preparing Plan For 90-Day Export Ban Summary:  New Politico Report Suggests White House Preparing For Diesel Export Ban "Definitely Doesn't Work": U.S. Energy Sec Rejects Diesel Export Ban, Risks Creating Bigger Supply-Squeeze Later Politico Reports White House Prepares Plan For 90-Day Diesel Exports Ban Diesel is certainly top of mind in the White House as a global refining crisis has sent prices at the pump ...

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Bonds Crash Most Since Liberation Day After Catastrophic 5Y Auction; 2nd Biggest Tail On Record

Bonds Crash Most Since Liberation Day After Catastrophic 5Y Auction; 2nd Biggest Tail On Record Coming into today's 5Y auction, the bond market was collapsing, with yields across the curve soaring but especially the 5Y exploding a crazy 15bps heading into today's auction (of 5 Year treasuries), a massive concession which we thought would lead to "lots of demand" for today's offering.  *TREASURY 5-YEAR YIELD RISES 15 BASIS POINTS ON DAY TO 4.99% At least there will be lots of deman...

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Tom the Dancing Bug: Elon Musk and His DOGE Pals vs. Giant A.I. Robots!

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Elon Musk and his DOGE Pals are up against giant A.I. robots! -> ANNOUNCING The Tom the Dancing Bug Community Saves America Drive! For every Tom the Dancing Bug book(s) order through the end of September, $20 will be donated to Spread the Vote to help voters VOTE. Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing Bug: Elon Musk and His DOGE Pals vs. Giant A.I. Robots! appeared first on Boing Boing.

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CFTC Chair Pushes Tokenization As SEC Opens Door To Onchain Stocks

CFTC Chair Pushes Tokenization As SEC Opens Door To Onchain Stocks Authored by Ezra Reguerra via Cointelegraph, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Michael Selig said financial markets should prepare for "mass tokenization" as regulators adapt existing frameworks for blockchain, artificial intelligence and onchain markets. In remarks delivered Tuesday at the US Treasury Market Conference, Selig said tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) could become the found...

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Brazil's Socialist Lula Cries 'Foreign Interference' At UN As Bolsonaro Ties Him In Runoff Polls

Brazil's Socialist Lula Cries 'Foreign Interference' At UN As Bolsonaro Ties Him In Runoff Polls "Flávio Bolsonaro has moved marginally ahead of Lula in a potential run-off, with the race effectively tied," Daniel Lavarda, HSBC's head of Brazil macroeconomic research, wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday.  Lavarda said, "Worsening approval ratings weigh on Lula's prospects, reducing probability of re-election to 18% (per to our model)," adding, "With the race tied up, the outcome ...

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Market Warning Signs And The 'Perfect' Hedge

Market Warning Signs And The 'Perfect' Hedge Via Crescat Capital, We showed in prior letters that the US stock market has recently reached all-time high valuations across a variety of dimensions. Now, the market is flashing warning signals of a potential major market top based on a variety of divergent technical and cross-market indicators. We show four of these in this letter: New 52-week Highs vs. Lows Chart Normally, when a stock market index moves up and down, the underlyin...

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Spain Clears Way For US Extradition Case Against Cox Media Heir Turned Communist Financier

Spain Clears Way For US Extradition Case Against Cox Media Heir Turned Communist Financier The Spanish government has begun a process that could soon lead to the US extradition of Jim "Fergie" Chambers, the communist centimillionaire and heir to the massive Cox media fortune. Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Chambers moved a step closer to extradition to the US after Spain's Cabinet allowed the case to proceed to court. Chambers has been detained since his July 10 arrest in Ibi...

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Traders Have Modest Hopes For A Trump-Xi AI Deal

Traders Have Modest Hopes For A Trump-Xi AI Deal While we will provide a more detailed preview of the Trump/Xi summit in a subsequent post, there are signs that President Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, may emerge from their upcoming summit with an agreement about the artificial-intelligence industry, an increasingly prominent flash point between the world’s two biggest economies. But, as Bloomberg's Jacob Gu  notes, fund managers say it’s unlikely to be significant e...

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Oil Holds Highs After Total Crude Stocks Rose, US Production and Gasoline Demand Dipped

Oil Holds Highs After Total Crude Stocks Rose, US Production and Gasoline Demand Dipped Oil prices reversed initial losses (Brent back above $100) on Wednesday amid persistent Middle East supply risks, as investors weighed the prospect of improved Saudi export flows and U.S.-Iran diplomacy against the potential for further disruptions. Saudi Arabia has begun testing its East-West pipeline for structural integrity and pressure, a step toward restoring oil flows after attacks knocked...

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Pezeshkian Lashes Out In UN Speech: The Nuclear Bombs Are In Israel, But Inspectors Sent To Iran

Pezeshkian Lashes Out In UN Speech: The Nuclear Bombs Are In Israel, But Inspectors Sent To Iran Summary: Pezeshkian Addresses UN As expected, the United States delegation immediately walked out as Iran's president began speaking, in front of what was not a very well attended address to begin with. He listed out a series of war crimes by the US aggressor but an accompanying theme was Iranian defiance while under the bombs. He also featured the Minab girls school attack by the US, u...

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San Francisco Sues Truth Social Over Early Access To Trump's Posts

San Francisco Sues Truth Social Over Early Access To Trump's Posts Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, San Francisco filed a lawsuit Sept. 22 against the parent company of Truth Social over President Donald Trump's posts, claiming the company created a corrupt business scheme through its $100,000-per-month Truth API plan that allows subscribers to get his posts before they become public. City Attorney David Chiu claims in the lawsuit, filed in San Francisco Superior...

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Full trailer for "You Can See Everything" with Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes

You Can See Everything, a documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim profiling Theranos fraud Elizabeth Holmes, was revealed two weeks ago. The very idea of Fielder interviewing Holmes was enough to capture the internet's attention, and the teaser clip sent it into a frenzy. Read the rest The post Full trailer for "You Can See Everything" with Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes appeared first on Boing Boing.

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10Y Yield Spikes Above 5.00% After Blowout Beats For US PMIs

10Y Yield Spikes Above 5.00% After Blowout Beats For US PMIs With 'hard' economic data still somewhat muted, expectations were for a modest retracement in US PMIs from recently optimistic levels in preliminary September data. Instead, the 'soft' survey data soared: Flash US Services PMI Business Activity Index: 58.7 vs 55.8 exp (August: 56.5). 59-month high. Flash US Manufacturing PMI: 57.0 vs 53.7 exp (August: 53.9). 52-month high.  The headline flash SandP Global US P...

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OpenAI, Anthropic To Brief UN Security Council On AI Risks

OpenAI, Anthropic To Brief UN Security Council On AI Risks Authored by Ezra Reguerra via Cointelegraph, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are expected to brief the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday as the body examines artificial intelligence risks and their implications for international security. According to CNBC, the UN confirmed Altman and Amodei's participation. Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue and Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the UN's Indepen...

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"The Danes Lied The Most": What's Really In The Text Of Trump's Landmark Deal With Greenland

"The Danes Lied The Most": What's Really In The Text Of Trump's Landmark Deal With Greenland Authored by John Weeks via AntiWar.com US To Establish Two New Military Bases In Greenland The United States plans to open two new military bases in Greenland, an expansion made possible by a new security agreement between the US, Denmark, and the semi-autonomous Danish territory of Greenland. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, and Greenland Prime...

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Former Utah Postal Worker Indicted After Hundreds Of Mail-In Ballots Allegedly Dumped

Former Utah Postal Worker Indicted After Hundreds Of Mail-In Ballots Allegedly Dumped Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, A former U.S. Postal Service worker has been federally indicted after prosecutors say he discarded roughly 300 mail-in ballots meant for Utah voters ahead of the state's June primary election. Damon Matai Seei, 34, of Payson, was indicted by a federal grand jury Sept. 16 on a charge of unlawful secretion, destruction and delay of mail. He was ar...

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Cargo Vessel Struck By Unknown Projectile In Hormuz, Casualties Reported

Cargo Vessel Struck By Unknown Projectile In Hormuz, Casualties Reported Just the day after the White House reported its envoys had a "very productive" 3-hour long meeting with the Iranian side at the UN in New York, and as President Masoud Pezeshkian is readying to address the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, there's been another tanker attack incident in the Strait of Hormuz. UKMTO cites in a fresh alert that a cargo vessel has reported being struck by an unknown projectile, res...

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Britain To Appoint A Dedicated Tax Agent To Every Single Billionaire

Britain To Appoint A Dedicated Tax Agent To Every Single Billionaire Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance The United Kingdom is about to discover the part of the Laffer Curve where the billionaire taxpayers simply get on a plane and go somewhere else. His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs has now assigned a dedicated “compliance manager” to every billionaire it has identified with a UK tax footprint, dramatically expanding the government’s oversight of the country’s richest people, accor...

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"Developments Can't Be Ignored" As Brent Tumbles On Iran Talks, Saudi Pipeline Restart Hopes: UBS

"Developments Can't Be Ignored" As Brent Tumbles On Iran Talks, Saudi Pipeline Restart Hopes: UBS Brent crude slipped below $99 a barrel, falling as low as $97.77 in the overnight hours, as renewed US-Iran diplomacy and prospects for restored Saudi oil exports eased supply concerns. But as Goldman Sachs energy experts warned on Tuesday, the global refining nightmare will persist through next year. The benchmark has slipped nearly 11% since mid-month after topping out around $109....

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LNG Buyers Scramble For Conflict-Free Supplies Beyond Gulf As War Rejiggers Global Energy Flows

LNG Buyers Scramble For Conflict-Free Supplies Beyond Gulf As War Rejiggers Global Energy Flows Since the early days of the US-Iran conflict, we have tracked the rewiring of global energy flows. That theme continues today and is accelerating as LNG buyers seek supplies and shipping routes well beyond the Gulf. Before the conflict, roughly one-fifth of global LNG trade transited through the Strait of Hormuz, concentrating risk at a single chokepoint. That vulnerability is now driving...

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European Commission Proposes Energy and Water Efficiency Disclosure Rules For Data-Centers

European Commission Proposes Energy and Water Efficiency Disclosure Rules For Data-Centers Authored by Zachary Skidmore via Data Centre Dynamics, The European Commission (EC) has submitted a proposal to require data centers across Europe to disclose their energy and water efficiency metrics. The European Union (EU) aims to triple its data center capacity over the next five to seven years. This has raised concerns about the build-out's potential impact on the power grid and nat...

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China Ranked #1 In World At Math; USA 27th...

China Ranked #1 In World At Math; USA 27th... How do math skills compare around the world? This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, ranks participating countries and economies by the average mathematics scores of 15-year-old students in the most recent PISA 2025 study, published in September 2026. PISA assesses students in mathematics, reading, and science. Its mathematics assessment goes beyond memorizing formulas or procedures, measuring whether students can apply...

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BBC Memory-Holes Comedy Sketches That Satirized Racism

BBC Memory-Holes Comedy Sketches That Satirized Racism Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The BBC has completely cut multiple sketches from 2006 comedy skit show That Mitchell and Webb Look after dumping the Bafta-winning series back onto its streaming service for its twentieth anniversary. The official line is that some of the old material no longer "works today." What no longer works, it turns out, is comedy that satirised and mocked the very mindset of racism. A BB...

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The State Of Democracy

The State Of Democracy After eight consecutive years of declining scores, the 2025 EIU Democracy Index showed a stabilization of democracy around the world. In the latest edition, almost 75 percent of countries either saw their score improve or remain stable compared to 2024, as the global average score across 167 countries and territories improved slightly to 5.2 out of 10. You will find more infographics at Statista The index, which assesses electoral processes, governance, c...

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Flash In The Pan Already Burned Out: German Economy Loses Its Hormuz Boost

Flash In The Pan Already Burned Out: German Economy Loses Its Hormuz Boost Submitted by Thomas Kolbe That Was a Short-Lived Boom. After just a few weeks, the special economic effect of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has already evaporated, according to Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs. In its monthly report, the ministry states that energy-intensive sectors and companies in German industry benefited from a massive disruption of supply chains in Asia following t...

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Nordics Consistently Lead The World In Gender Equality

Nordics Consistently Lead The World In Gender Equality For the 17th consecutive time, the World Economic Forum has named Iceland the most gender-equal country in the world. This is according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2026, which was released earlier this week. Iceland is the only country to have closed its gender gap by more than 90 percent and one of only four economies that have consistently been in the top 10 since the index's inception in 2006. As Statista's Felix Richt...