Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Target Expects to Lose $1 Billion Due to “Shrink” This Year
May 18th, 2023Via: CNBC: Target said Wednesday that organized retail crime will fuel $500 million more in stolen and lost merchandise this year compared with a year ago. Target’s inventory loss, called shrink, totaled about $763 million last fiscal year, based on calculations from the company’s financial filings. With the anticipated increase, shrink this year would surpass […]
Why California’s Suburb Could Disappear in a Couple of Decades
May 18th, 2023In short, the state is drastically restricting building homes on land outside of areas that are already built up. They want to pack more people into existing neighborhoods. Via: California Insider: Related: Leaving California – The Untold Story
OpenAI Will “Join Forces” with Microsoft and Google on Artificial Intelligence
May 18th, 2023What, precisely, does, “Join forces,” mean? It’s not explained in the article. Via: CNBC: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will join forces with key leadership from firms like Microsoft and Google this week as a secretive meeting of the business and political elite kickstarts in Lisbon, Portugal. Artificial intelligence will top the agenda as the ChatGPT […]
Russell Brand & RFK Jr.
May 13th, 2023RFK Jr. on Covid scam: “This was a military project from the beginning.” Via: Russell Brand:
Taiwan Says Its Military Won’t Let the U.S. Blow Up Semiconductor Factories
May 11th, 2023In other news, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Sold 85% of $4 Billion Position in Taiwan’s TSMC. Via: Antiwar.com: Taiwan’s defense minister on Monday pushed back against the idea of the US bombing the island’s semiconductor factories in the event of a Chinese invasion. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) recently said the US should “make it very […]
The Censorship-Industrial Complex: Top 50 Organizations To Know
May 11th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: The “Censorship-Industrial Complex” is just the Military-Industrial Complex reborn for the “hybrid warfare” age. Much like the war industry, pleased to call itself the “defense” sector, the “anti-disinformation” complex markets itself as merely defensive, designed to fend off the hostile attacks of foreign cyber-adversaries who unlike us have “military limitations.” The CIC, however, […]
AI Chatbot to Replace Human Order-Takers at Wendy’s Drive-Thru
May 9th, 2023Via: Techspot: Your next interaction at the drive-thru could be with an AI chatbot instead of a human order-taker, and you might not even know it. Fast-food giant Wendy’s has partnered with Google to trial an artificial intelligence chatbot at one of its restaurants in its home state of Ohio. The chatbot will be trained […]
$50 Trillion For What?
May 8th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: Biden official: It's going to cost trillions of dollars. There's no doubt about it.?? Me: So, if the U.S. spent $50T to become carbon neutral by 2050, how much is that going to reduce world temperatures??? Biden official: *No answer* pic.twitter.com/6u8QmeJRdq — John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) May 4, 2023 Biden Deputy Secretary of Energy […]
Biden Wages War on Small Businesses During National Small Business Week
May 8th, 2023Via: Real Clear Wire: President Biden claims to support small businesses during National Small Business Week this week, but his actions speak louder than words. Biden is waging war on small businesses, hitting them hard with new regulations, taxes, and inflation. At the same time Biden gave his pro-small business remarks on Monday morning, First […]
Monetizing Poverty: Meet Airbnb Rooms
May 8th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: Is This Dystopia? … That line’s been bouncing around my head since I saw Silicon Valley’s latest innovation, Airbnb, Inc.’s (ABNB) “Rooms”. Instead of renting out a vacant apartment for a night, you sleep in a guest bedroom (or, in some cases, the living room) of strangers’ homes. Flashback: L.A. Coliving: PodShare
