All the free giveaways of 'my route to instant wealth through AI publishing' promising ad revenue riches or Kindle e-book sales have so far turned out to be a variant of clickbait, seemingly originating from only one or two people. Encouraging, though, that AI has not yet improved online mendacity.
🚨 Funeral for a Glacier – While Governments Bury Their Heads in the Sand 🚨
🏔️ Yala Glacier, Nepal, is dead.
🔥 Melted beyond recognition.
🌊 Thousands more glaciers vanishing yearly.
🌍 This is climate collapse in action.
Shocking stats in today's FT: "England faces driest year this century."
April rainfall more than 50% below average across most of the country…
No. They live behind electric fences, don't go out at night, need private security. Cities have the world's highest homicide rate. Roads more pothole than tar, street lights dont work, no free quality healthcare or education. Debt is expensive. They can go for weeks without water or electricity...
What’s the plan @teamlabouruk.bsky.social? We need to change health messaging on #COVID. Roll out hepas to care homes. Wave incoming from China! 🚨 koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-05...
Just when hearing Are You Experienced was released by Jimi Hendrix this date 58 years ago makes me feel old, along comes Led Zeppelin to say they'll be releasing their first album in 40 years to make me feel young.
RFK Jr is the Paula White of medicine.
Leavitt thinks the Librarian of Congress checks library tickets and puts returned books back on the shelves. She has no idea that the role is a very high-level leadership & management role. She probably also thinks the Surgeon General does appendectomies.
One has to wonder who profits from the well-choreographed sophisticated campaign of proliferating total nonsense using scientific-looking graphs to make the anti-vaccine garbage look credible to data illiterates. Who benefits from effectively killing millions of people, and why?
To break through climate apathy, stop using scientific terms & complex graphs, don't focus on consequences in terms of hot days and storms. Reframe to exploit the real fears and prejudices of people: crops fail, famine triggers massive flows of migrants to your town.
What if human beings are the organic computing prototype of an alien intelligence, and because they haven't been able to iron out all the kinks they're about to sunset it?
When I was running digital business seminars 15 years ago, I'd inevitably get asked what I thought of recently launched Bitcoin. I'd say if you have any money that you can afford to lose, buy Bitcoin and hold it till it hits $50k. They'd laugh...
Close Encounters of the Sixth Kind.
We’ve now identified a more advanced tactic, which we call “Chameleon ads“. After setting up their Facebook pages and advertiser accounts, scammers initially upload harmless-looking ads for approval. socialmedialab.ca/2025/04/21/t...
A survey of US teens and parents: 48% of teens say social media harms people their age, up from 32% in 2022, and girls' experiences skew more negative at times (Pew Research Center)
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Good news in the current fog of trade. Prada acquired Versace (previously acquired by Michael Kors) for $1.4 billion. Maybe Italy is finally starting to build fashion empires to eventually rival the French (LVMH, Kering), who have been steadily acquiring Italian luxury brands.
Probably. But it is unlikely that Trump is aware of this agenda. It's aligned with Project 2025's drive to build an American Empire.
In producing the tariff leaderboard and publishing the equation used to calculate the tariffs, they just copy/pasted output from ChatGPT - not realizing that AI has developed a sense of humor.
BREAKING: Executive Order will change New Mexico to Old America (New America being reserved for Greenland).
BREAKING: Executive Order will change offensively Mexican state, city and area names like Texas, Florida, Chicago, Miami, Seattle, Los Angeles, Mar-a-Lago to Real American names.
BREAKING: Executive Order will change Alabama, Illinois, Connecticut and 23 other US states with offensively Native American names to Real American names.
BREAKING: Executive Order will force MacDonalds to rename its menu items without the offensively Scottish prefix. The chain will now be known as Donald's.
BREAKING: Executive Order will force Olive Garden to rename its dishes without using Italian words which real Americans find offensive.
Elon has morphed again. Now he's a sober, serious, seemingly troubled businessman again. It's like the ketamine wore off and he discovered he became a total jerk without realizing it. Was there an intervention? I hope he's back to the guy I used to be in awe of.
American companies manufacture in China, Bangladesh and elsewhere then ship from there to hundreds of countries, without their goods having to enter or leave the US. Not even profits get repatriated. So no tax income for the US. Tax reform would make more for America than tariffs, without the harm.
I'm very anti-ageism. But the problem with allowing members of Congress and the Senate to stay in office forever is that the 'checks and balances' lose their teeth, and get a bit wobbly.
Those clinging to the delusion that climate collapse is a hoax will surely soon start waking up to reality? Or is the immediate future so scary for them that they retreat further into denial?
Hubris is the new Kool-Aid.
Kawasaki's hydrogen-powered electric horse may be technologies response to Ford's apocryphal line: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." I do want one. www.designboom.com/technology/k...
If the Chinese soldiers captured fighting Ukraine alongside Russian troops are not simply mercenaries, this is a game changer.