Amazon's price predicting algorithm, "Nessie", was paused
during the holiday shopping season and Prime Day, when it feared customers or journalists might notice the price increases, then turned back on once attention died
down.
www.cnbc.com/2026/04/20/c...
Amazon pressured major brands like Levi Strauss & Co and Hanes to inflate prices of listings on rival online marketplaces as part of wide-ranging price-fixing scheme, according to California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
A lot of engagement-farming wannabe weather influencers out there trying to convince you they know more than NOAA's Climate Prediction Center:
www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ana...
Reminder that the Department of Homeland Security is still shut down.
It’s day 65, and @SpeakerJohnson still refuses to bring up the Senate’s bipartisan bill to fund TSA, FEMA and the Coast Guard.
No thanks, "activewear," you sound exhausting.
Translation:
This deal is about to be exactly like the JCPOA, minus Obama’s signature
Yes, let's have discovery on The Atlantic's extremely well-sourced/diversely sourced article on Kash Patel being a drunk.
This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong.
fr on exposure damage
wtaf
"The Trump administration cut the agency deeply last year, leaving some forecasting offices short-staffed...
“You’re missing data from the Four Corners region, the northern Plains, part of the central Plains, and that’s where the storms were developing,” he said..."
www.nbcnews.com/weather/torn...
The circle of death is:
Cut faculty (or non-replace) so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so you cut faculty so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so then the market has spoken.
The "very progressive" Democrat Analillia Mejia wins in a conservative district. Pay attention, DNC! 😉
Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch cracks jokes about gravity and how she still feels like she's floating when she wakes up from sleep.
😂
Ask all your Republican and Republican leaning fam in Minnesota. Are the Boundary Waters worth their slavish devotion to pedophile billionaires and being able to say shitty things about pronouns?
1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.
The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.
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Parents of 11,000 U.S. citizen children were detained between January and August 2025, per ProPublica. At least 32 children ended up in foster care across seven states. Advocates say the real number is likely much higher.
Renewables generated over a third of US electricity in March 2026 for the first time, surpassing gas as wind and solar reached a record 26% combined share. The milestone reflects rapid structural growth, especially in solar. Ember buff.ly/XdDNJ1F
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Later this month, viewers will be able to watch a smattering of short films from filmmakers near and far.
Like, for example, a Secretary of Defense citing a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction to promote wars of aggression.
People asked how we got here, check out the drawing...
Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs.
Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026.
This is what corporate greed looks like.
A tweet quoting Senator Andy Kim criticizing being denied a briefing on the Iran war, with a video still of him speaking at a press conference alongside other officials.
It's so bad they won't even brief Congress.
mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates. Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just
what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...
As intended, ‘time and again, we're seeing school administrators target general and innocuous messages about inclusivity—or books that include gay or transgender characters.’ New from @enbrown.bsky.social ➕ loaded more sex & tech news, including @masnick.com on 230’s slow💀 reason.com/2026/04/15/a...
John Eastman is a 65 year old millionaire, and his consequences for conspiring to overthrow the Constitution is retiring from his profession a little sooner than he might like, plus whatever shame that brings.
I’m sorry, but for me this is mostly highlighting the overall lack of consequences.
Report: Peter Thiel is spending big against Redistricting in VA- targeting Black voters with racial messages
open.substack.com/pub/graveinj...
honestly it’s hilarious that he’s trying to fight the pope and the pope is like “I don’t think about you at all”
