<p>Currently accepting applications for business partners (must provide snacks).<br><a href="/tags/cats/" rel="tag">#cats</a> <a href="/tags/catsofmastodon/" rel="tag">#CatsOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/cat/" rel="tag">#cat</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#business</a></p>
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<p>Crepe ⭖<br>A software suite that manages your <a href="/tags/cooperative/" rel="tag">#cooperative</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#business</a> with absolutely no org chart. Responsibilities are self-assigned and small enough to complete in a single part-time day.<br>No bosses, no CEO, no chief anything, and no titles. Just software designed to maximize the efficiency, impact, and income of contributors (both as a group and individually) in a highly pro-social, uncompromisingly cooperative culture.</p>
<p>Amid concerns over the Biden administration's regulation of the crypto industry, billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen, a longtime Democrat, donated more than $5 million to groups supporting Trump ahead of the 2024 election.</p><p>Since then, he's gotten what he called for: a hollowed-out Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-valley?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-valley?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-valley?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/finance/" rel="tag">#Finance</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/siliconvalley/" rel="tag">#SiliconValley</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a></p>
<p>In a drastic reversal, Trump has gone from embracing “the opportunity to build even more bridges” with Canada in 2017 to threatening to stop the opening of the Gordie Howe bridge until Canada “treats the U.S. with … Fairness and Respect.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-michigan-canada-gordie-howe-bridge-reversal?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-michigan-canada-gordie-howe-bridge-reversal?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-michigan-canada-gordie-howe-bridge-reversal?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/michigan/" rel="tag">#Michigan</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#Canada</a> <a href="/tags/bridge/" rel="tag">#Bridge</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/trade/" rel="tag">#Trade</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#Economy</a></p>
<p>Today is the official launch of my new blog: <span class="h-card"><a href="https://blog.stygiantech.dev/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>buildnotes</span></a></span> </p><p>Build Notes is a more focused blog through my personal business, Stygian Tech designed to highlight how I think about the products I build and the space in which I operate</p><p>The Digital Renaissance will remain my home for my less refined and broader thoughts and opinions, but this will be my home for talking about my apps, why I build them, and the like</p><p>Check it out at <span class="h-card"><a href="https://blog.stygiantech.dev/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>https://blog.stygiantech.dev/</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#Blog</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a></p>
<p>"Sleazebags"* -- What Trump called the relatively small-sized businesses that brought the <a href="/tags/tariffs/" rel="tag">#tariffs</a> case to the Supreme Court.</p><p>It sounds like he plans on stiffing them (not paying them back their revenue lost because of Trump's tariffs, like the Supreme Court ordered), because when asked whether he planned to pay them as ordered, he said, "We'll be in court for the next five years."</p><p>/1<br><a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/scotus/" rel="tag">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#business</a></p><p>* c/o CNN (live press conference coverage video)</p>
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<p>New Portland Trail Blazers Owner Played Key Role at Company Oregon Accused of Predatory Lending<br>---</p><p>Documents obtained by ProPublica and Oregon Public Broadcasting reveal that Tom Dundon was behind what regulators called an “aggressive push” to waive proof-of-income requirements at Santander Consumer USA.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tom-dundon-moda-center-portland-oregon?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/tom-dundon-moda-center-portland-oregon?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tom</span><span class="invisible">-dundon-moda-center-portland-oregon?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/portland/" rel="tag">#Portland</a> <a href="/tags/oregon/" rel="tag">#Oregon</a> <a href="/tags/nba/" rel="tag">#NBA</a> <a href="/tags/basketball/" rel="tag">#Basketball</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/cars/" rel="tag">#Cars</a> <a href="/tags/loan/" rel="tag">#Loan</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a></p>
<p>SBI Holdings is exploring plans to build a large-scale immersive arena in Tokyo aiming to replicate the "Sphere" in Las Vegas. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/04/01/companies/sbi-sphere-arena/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/04/01/companies/sbi-sphere-arena/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.japantimes.co.jp/business/</span><span class="invisible">2026/04/01/companies/sbi-sphere-arena/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon</span></a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#business</a> <a href="/tags/companies/" rel="tag">#companies</a> <a href="/tags/sbi/" rel="tag">#sbi</a> <a href="/tags/tourism/" rel="tag">#tourism</a></p>