Warren Buffett has said he is waiting for a larger move to the downside
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Citing reporting by ProPublica, eight Democratic U.S. senators have criticized the Trump administration’s demands to access the health data of millions of people as a condition of giving lifesaving aid to other countries.
https://www.propublica.org/article/senators-letter-health-data-africa-humanitarian-aid?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Congress #Trump #Health #PublicHealth #Data #Africa #Geopolitics
8月18日，微信公众号“上海网络辟谣”发文表示，社交平台上有多个账号以“**档案局”、“**档案馆”为名义，利用 LLMs 等工具编造发生在真实地标的灵异事件，为账号售卖的商品及私域群组引流。此前，多地网信部门、公安部门曾查处虚构灵异事件或摆拍吸引流量的违法行为。
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/bXfIWPw5dj6a4XFiS4uYQw
#怪谈文化 #互联网谜团 #兔子洞 #灵异 #灵异事件 #互联网 #中国 #新闻 #WeirdCulture #InternetMysteries #RabbitHoles #Supernatural #SupernaturalIncident #Internet #China #News
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🛑🇺🇸Republicans, Trump, and US media ignore and silence evidence that Russia helps Iran strike American bases, killing soldiers in Middle East (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/4110730-zelensky-us-ignores-evidence-that-russia-helps-iran-strike-american-bases-in-middle-east.html #Ukraine #Brussels #Belgium #Press #Media #News #USA #US #America #Trump #London #Republicans #Democrats #CNN #ABC #NBC #CBS #FoxNews #Berlin #Lebanon #Germany #UK #Headlines #UAE #Oman #Jordan #Kuwait #Qatar #Bahrain #Iraq #Syria #Egypt #SaudiArabia #russiaUkraineWar
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers #Israel
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The $1 Trillion Black Box
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The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spending.
https://www.propublica.org/article/military-defense-spending-budget-series?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Military #Defense #Pentagon #Army #Navy #Government #USPolitics
"The people building and using AI at full power are living in a very different world from everyone else."
Tag yourself!
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/ai-elite-vs-ai-skeptic-doomer
#news #technology #TechNews #AI #LLMs
Options: (choose one)
Golden End is out now.
The Gods still walk among mortals.
At a sacred festival, Tirak survives what should have killed him.
His father does not.
Now ancient tablets have fallen into his hands, and the truth buried beneath worship, law, and fear begins to surface.
Dark fantasy. Active Gods. Mortal consequences.
Read Golden End:
https://www.oliviernorion.eu/books/golden-end/
#fantasy #release #news #books #Bookstodon #epicfantasy #darkfantasy #readers #update
NEW: Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held.
But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would largely be missing.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-midterm-elections-takeover
NEW: Who’s Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter?
A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine.
So, the real Robert did some reporting of his own.
https://www.propublica.org/article/impersonating-propublica-reporter
New records obtained by ProPublica detail at least a dozen SpaceX investors with addresses in mainland China, Hong Kong or Russia who acquired stakes in SpaceX years ago through a middleman firm in the U.S. called Tomales Bay Capital.
https://www.propublica.org/article/spacex-elon-musk-ipo-foreign-investors-china?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #SpaceX #ElonMusk #Business #Finance #Musk #China #Russia
Italian port authorities and dockworkers have intercepted multiple shipments of raw materials and precision components heading for the weapon factories of the genocidal “Israeli” state.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement reported that three of four Indian shipments of military-grade steel were detained and placed under investigation in Italy.
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/03/30/israel-weapons-war/
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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
A likely strike by the United States hit the central Iranian city of Isfahan early Tuesday, sending a massive fireball into the sky, and Tehran struck a fully loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker in the Persian Gulf.
The attacks were testament to the intensity of the monthlong war the U.S. and Israel launched against Iran, which has maintained its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, closing off the vital waterway for global energy shipments.
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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
Tequila Talk w frmr #GOP Congressman Joe Walsh & me; #Orban losing? #JDVance 's sad Orban crush (worked out great!), how Orban is #Putin 's bitch.. Will be interesting at #EU & #NATO this week!
Watch👇the rest!
https://api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy/articles/substack-com-blueamp-note-p-193720619.html #news #trump #politics #hungary #fascism #democracy #europe #france #uk #ukraine #italy #ai #russia #usa #us #america #culture #tv #unitedstates #press #us #economy #media #socialmedia #straitofhormuz #iran #israel #middleeast #lebanon
Raw Story:
'The vibes aren't great' at the White House as Trump chaos grows: Politico
Politico’s Dash Burns claimed White House insiders admit things are not going well on multiple fronts.
Speaking with the hosts of “Morning Joe,” Burns claimed Trump insiders are dismayed at how badly things are going...
“Listen, the vibes aren't great,” ...
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-chaos-vibe/
"[A] recent survey of 5,000 white-collar US workers found that 40% of non-managers say AI saves them no time at all at work, while 92% of high-level executives say it makes them more productive."
Good insight into which jobs can be safely automated.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/ai-productivity-workplace-errors
#news #technology #TechNews #LLMs #workslop #AI #work #automation
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NEW: Colorado Marijuana Regulators Pledge Crackdown on Intoxicating Hemp
Citing potential tax avoidance and “serious risks to public safety,” the Marijuana Enforcement Division warned companies about selling illegal chemically converted hemp as marijuana.
https://www.propublica.org/article/colorado-marijuana-regulators-crackdown-intoxicating-hemp
"Police use of facial recognition technology is dangerous, and stories of people wrongfully arrested because of police reliance on incorrect facial recognition results continue to surface."
Front page of the Scottish paper The National today
( Full story here: https://www.thenational.scot/news/25536879.nationals-front-page-today-genocide-happened/ )
#politics #palestine #gaza #israel #zionism #palestinianholocaust #gazagenocide #news
NEW: Missouri’s Governor Is Opposed to Out-Of-State Funding, but Not for His Own Ballot Measure
Gov. Mike Kehoe says “out-of-state special interests” are influencing citizen-led efforts to amend the state constitution. His own ballot measure, a push to eliminate the state income tax, has received $1.9M from a mysterious Delaware nonprofit.
https://www.propublica.org/article/mike-kehoe-missouri-amendment-5-dark-money?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Missouri #USPolitics #Constitution #Vote #Election #Elections
NEW: Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-voter-registration-election-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #KenPaxton #Vote #Election #Law #TX #USPolitics
After James Talarico accused Ken Paxton of committing voter fraud, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found that the Democratic Senate candidate may have voted in up to five elections using an address where he no longer lived.
https://www.propublica.org/article/james-talarico-texas-election-law-ken-paxton?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Krystal and Emily discuss the Houthis attacking a Saudi ship as Trump is sidelined in negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz.
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Wednesday they had launched a missile attack on a Saudi oil tanker off the coast of the kingdom's Red Sea port city of Yanbu and another missile attack on a Saudi oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoKFDurJsVM
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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
⚠️⛔️It appears Ukrinform has lost perspective. Russia is hitting civilian targets across Ukraine, but Ukrinform fails to stress this point in their reporting, instead highlighting property damage over the fact civilian casualties and targeting is occurring #Ukraine #Media #News #Ukrinform
https://t.me/liveukraine_media/40979
⚠️🇷🇺Meanwhile, Moscow appears to be under drone attack again. We are monitoring the situation (VIDEOS) #Ukraine #Press #Media #News #Headlines #Russia #Moscow #russiaUkraineWar
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers
From 2024, I can't recall if I read about this at the time, but pretty wild.
"(In the) multi-person video conference, it turns out that everyone [he saw] was fake."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk
#news #OldNews #technology #TechNews #DeepFakes #scam #security