1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.
Imperiled ‘cloud jaguar’ spotted in Honduras' Sierra del Merendón mountains for the first time in a decade
2026 April 13
www.scientificamerican.com/article/impe...
i might give this one a try, too…
but, first things first…
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The Wage Standard: What's Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It
Arindrajit Dube
The Economics of Inperfect Competition Joan Robinson
Well… it seems i have a book to find…
Arindrajit Dube’s
triumvirate of endemic monopsony
• concentration
• search frictions
• job differentiation
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Monopsony: The hidden power keeping wages low
2026 April 21
www.npr.org/sections/pla...
thank you bell hooks
I'm sorry Dave, I really need you to agree to these new terms and conditions.
Alex Jones has looked like he's about to explode for two decades.
This could be his Mr Creosote moment.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Penis costume protester prevails in court
Alabama officers said the woman's costume created a public safety threat and arrested her at an October "No Kings" rally.
www.courthousenews.com/penis-costum...
Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.
Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.
Finally. Fake news we can trust 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
yuck…
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Deloitte just axed $50K IVF funds, halved parental leave and cut PTO — and your employer could be next
2026 April 19
finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...
jointly and severally liable 🤣
Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series
Book cover for "The Diversity Myth" an anti diversity and inclusion book by Peter Thiel and David Sacks.
At some point, y'all are going to have to stop pretending to be surprised that most Silicon Valley VCs support Trump. Y'all can't be surprised every time.
No it's not a *vibe shift*.
They've felt this way since way before Trump.
hachyderm.io/@mekkaokerek...
Valentina Gomez is a thoroughly hateful and unpleasant person.
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Failed MAGA Candidate Hit With Travel Ban After Anti-Muslim Rants
2026 April 20
www.thedailybeast.com/failed-maga-...
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«Nothing can stop us now that we’re in charge of a website.»
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«Nothing can stop us now that we’re in charge of a website.»
Yeah. "I disagree with the Court's legal analysis" is one thing, but "the Court isn't using legal analysis to decide cases" is another. The latter is no longer in the realm of law and should not be treated as if it is.
I share Steve’s concerns. An observation:
The Court’s immense power, such as it is, is contingent upon its at least plausibly appearing to do law. This may seem like an academic debate, but it’s literally over whether the Court is doing law or something else. That matters.
Our relationship with sadness runs deep because sadness is not a single emotion. It is a convergence of love, memory, limit, and longing. It is the honest response to change in a world we do not fully control.
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Read some REAL
AMERICAN HISTORY and you’ll find this cruelty is the SAME AS IT EVER WAS.
What is so bewildering about the cruelty is how it has been allowed to pass, its casualness. Donald Trump hovers above the circus of death and chaos. (Billy…, in Saw, pops up rasping, “I want to play a game”.)
A lot of our big “we’re gonna hold big tech accountable” bills actually hand them + the government unprecedented power to track, censor, and deplatform internet users—and would require us to link our identities to everything we do online, meaning no more privacy. Greatly reducing opposition to them
And the big cultural push around “big tech reform” is the idea that we’re protecting children from the harms of big tech, when we’re actually giving big tech the very power they seek to destroy the world for all children. And that is no longer hyperbolic when Palantir is announcing it via manifesto
«Abdulrahman Abohatem said he took action after noticing something was wrong.»
2026 April 15
abcnews.com/news/story/g...
