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[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

I’ve seen people talking about ticks but no one is really talking about the disease Alpha Gal that is spreading like wild fire all throughout Appalachia.

I forgot to mention, you can’t have dairy products either.

This is the biggest health epidemic no one is talking about.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more.

Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged.

Here's what happened:

Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it."

And the exact emails are now PUBLIC.

Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem.

The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately."

Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call.

Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price.

Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed.

Same playbook with Hanes:

Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased."

Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins.

But it gets even worse...

Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site.

Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing.

They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS.

The mechanism is simple but terrifying:

If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers.

Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings."

Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products.

Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform.

So turns out, you were never comparison shopping.

You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors.

"Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable."

3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on.

This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat.

And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE.

"Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

[Blue Navy Fella NW 🇺🇸 🇺🇦🦩 @BlueBizNW]

@tomharvill @TheTNHoller @TNSenateDems @yarbro @PaulRoseTN @Kanew It does give the state a reason to fire a state employee, who either intentionally or by error, uses the term “West Bank

[isabelle @isareksopuro]

i made a map to monitor data centers all around the world

tracks construction + nearby power plants + local AI legislation, and follows the politicians behind their bans (+ if they're getting paid to do so!)

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

sam altman watching ChatGPT hallucinate live on stage is the funniest thing i've seen all week

the CEO of OpenAI, on stage, in front of everyone, watching his own AI just make things up in real time

and his face says it all

this is the guy telling us AGI is coming soon btw

[Jeremy @Jeremybtc]

Anthropic accidentally leaked their entire source code yesterday. What happened next is one of the most insane stories in tech history.

> Anthropic pushed a software update for Claude Code at 4AM.

> A debugging file was accidentally bundled inside it.

> That file contained 512,000 lines of their proprietary source code.

> A researcher named Chaofan Shou spotted it within minutes and posted the download link on X.

> 21 million people have seen the thread.

> The entire codebase was downloaded, copied and mirrored across GitHub before Anthropic's team had even woken up.

> Anthropic pulled the package and started firing DMCA takedowns at every repo hosting it.

> That's when a Korean developer named Sigrid Jin woke up at 4AM to his phone blowing up.

> He is the most active Claude Code user in the world with the Wall Street Journal reporting he personally used 25 billion tokens last year.

> His girlfriend was worried he'd get sued just for having the code on his machine.

> So he did what any engineer would do.

> He rewrote the entire thing in Python from scratch before sunrise.

> Called it claw-code and Pushed it to GitHub.

> A Python rewrite is a new creative work. DMCA can't touch it.

> The repo hit 30,000 stars faster than any repository in GitHub history.

> He wasn't satisfied. He started rewriting it again in Rust.

> It now has 49,000 stars and 56,000 forks.

> Someone mirrored the original to a decentralised platform with one message, "will never be taken down."

> The code is now permanent. Anthropic cannot get it back.

Anthropic built a system called Undercover Mode specifically to stop Claude from leaking internal secrets. Then they leaked their own source code themselves. You cannot make this up.

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

U.S. police kill civilians at a rate nearly incomparable to other wealthy democracies.

It's not just "a few bad apples."

[Blue Navy Fella NW 🇺🇸 🇺🇦🦩 @BlueBizNW]

@Mylovanov Imagine what Ukraine could do with a tomahawk missile right now.

[Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen]

Tennessee is considering a bill that would lock up foster kids with no release date, even if they haven’t been charged with a crime. You can help kill this bill today.

Here's an example of what it looks like when kids are locked up indefinitely:

Ricardo Luna Jr. had gotten in a fight at school. Instead of getting school discipline like detention or even suspension, he was handed over to the Texas Youth Commission.

They sentenced Ricky to...however long it took for them to determine that he was "rehabilitated."

For 4 years, Ricky was beaten and s*xually assaulted by staff. His head was bashed against the concrete.

Ricky wasn’t alone.

At the time, the Texas Youth Commission was being exposed for widespread abuse inside its facilities. Investigations revealed that staff at multiple locations had:

- S*xually abused children
- Allowed children to be r*ped
- Severely beaten children
- Ignored or covered up complaints
- Retaliated against whistleblowers

Dozens of employees were eventually fired, arrested, or forced out. But not before thousands of kids had been exposed to it.

Kids were recommended for continued imprisonment for such "crimes" as falling asleep (while heavily medicated), daydreaming, sitting in the wrong place, and just the opinion of staff that they needed to stay.

Fortunately, Ricky had a loving father, Ricardo Sr., who fought to get him out. Otherwise, he would've been locked up there even longer.

If Tennessee bill SB1868/HB2526 becomes law, this same indefinite imprisonment will be used against foster kids, who don't have parents fighting for them.

They won't need to be charged for a crime. They can be imprisoned at any age, as there is no minimum age listed in this bill. There is zero due process, as the judge can just decide that it's probable that they "require" it. And they can be left in there indefinitely.

We’re going to stop this from happening. I’ll explain how you can help in the comments.

[Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen]

Tennessee is considering a bill (SB1868/HB2526) that would lock up foster kids indefinitely, even if they haven’t been charged with a crime. You can help kill this bill today.

Here's what happens when kids are locked up without a crime:

Hillary Transue was a teen in Pennsylvania. She made a MySpace page mocking her high school’s strict vice principal. At the end she wrote, "When you find this I hope you have a sense of humor." He didn’t.

Instead of detention or a meeting with parents, Hillary was taken to juvenile court before Judge Mark Ciavarella. Her hearing lasted about 60 seconds. She was handcuffed right there and locked up. Her mother was horrified as Hillary who had never been in serious trouble, was treated like a dangerous criminal.

Years later it was revealed Ciavarella was taking millions in kickbacks from private detention centers to lock up thousands of kids in the now-infamous Kids for Cash scandal.

Fortunately for Hillary, she had a loving family and "only" spent about a month locked up.

SB1868/HB2526 would allow Tennessee to detain foster kids, potentially until they are adults, without a charge even being filed, based on predictions about their behavior.

We’re going to protect these kids from ever being put through that. I’ll explain how you can help in this thread.

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

We are on the fast-track to the end of the era of private, anonymous internet use.

Instagram's (Meta) announcement of ending E2EE on May 8th is not just a coincidence...it very much fits into the bigger picture we're seeing in America and around the world.

🟠Encrypted messaging is being phased out because platforms and government will need visibility to enforce new laws.
🟠KOSA & COPPA 2.0 require platforms to detect AND monitor AND intervene. Can't do that with E2EE
🟠State level age-verification laws require ID checks, behavioral monitoring...can't have user privacy and do that
🟠OS level age-verification would essentially make encrypted spaces "non compliant spaces"
🔴This won't just be Instagram - all Meta messaging will follow, as will every other messaging platform...like dominos.
🔴This has nothing to do with "protecting kids." It's all about Big Tech and Big Government having full control.

[chiefofautism @chiefofautism]

someone built a $96 3D-PRINTED MANPADS rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor and piano wire

its called Project Canard

it integrates with distributed camera nodes to triangulate airborne targets and update flight paths in real-time

it proves the barrier to advanced hardware has completely collapsed, moving precision weapons from defense labs to consumer garages

the entire launcher and interceptor frame is 3D printed in PLA and runs off a standard off-the-shelf ESP32 microcontroller

it even spins up a local Wi-Fi network so you can monitor live telemetry and arm the system directly from your laptop

[Felix Prehn 🐶 @felixprehn]

Private equity firms bought 500 hospitals. Death rates in their emergency rooms went up 13%. They fired 12% of the staff. Then they paid themselves billions in dividends.

A Harvard study just confirmed what doctors already knew: people are dying so investors can hit quarterly targets.

Exactly what happens. A PE firm buys a hospital using debt. The debt gets placed on the hospital's balance sheet, not the firm's. Now the hospital owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed. To service that debt, the hospital cuts costs. Costs mean nurses.

The numbers from the Harvard/University of Chicago study are horrifying. After PE acquisition, emergency department salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Hospital-wide employees were cut 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits.

A separate study found patients undergoing surgery at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days.

Steward Health Care, owned by Cerberus Capital, filed bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt after closing hospitals across Massachusetts. The CEO lived on a $40 million yacht while emergency rooms went dark. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared because a PE fund extracted more cash than the system could survive.

The private equity industry has poured over $1 trillion into healthcare. They operate a quarter of ERs nationwide. This isn't going away.

The investing angle nobody talks about.

Non-PE hospital operators like HCA Healthcare (HCA) and Tenet (THC) are the direct beneficiaries. Every time a PE hospital closes or deteriorates, patients flow to the nearest competitor. HCA has returned 1,200% since 2011. Patient volume from PE closures is a structural tailwind nobody's pricing in.

Medical staffing firms (AMN Healthcare, Cross Country) charge premium rates specifically because PE hospitals cut staff. The staffing shortage IS the business model for these companies.

The disruption play: outpatient surgical centers (SCA Health, now part of UnitedHealth) are pulling profitable procedures out of hospitals entirely. PE-owned hospitals lose their highest-margin surgeries to outpatient, and the death spiral accelerates.

Pull up tradevision and monitor healthcare M&A alerts, hospital closure filings, and patient volume migration data. When a PE-owned hospital announces "restructuring," the patient volume shift to competitors like HCA starts within 30 days. That 30-day window is when the competitor's earnings revisions haven't updated yet. Free to try.

(a private equity firm bought your local hospital. borrowed $500 million in the hospital's name. fired 12% of the nurses. emergency room deaths rose 13%. then they paid themselves dividends. nobody went to prison. they're currently buying another hospital.)

[Blue Navy Fella NW 🇺🇸 🇺🇦🦩 @BlueBizNW]

What could possibly go wrong? 🤷‍♂️

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔 Cortical Labs taught 200,000 human brain cells to play Doom. The neurons are grown from blood cells, mounted on a silicon chip, and kept alive in a nutrient solution. Game data gets translated into electrical signals sent to the neurons, and their firing patterns control movement and shooting. An independent researcher taught the system to play in seven days using just Python. The CL1 biological computer costs $35,000 and has been shipping since last summer. The CIA's In-Q-Tel is among the investors.

My Take
Doom is the benchmark because it's computationally lightweight but complex enough to demonstrate real learning. The neurons play like beginners, but they're adapting in real time with minimal training data, which is something conventional AI struggles with. A rack of these units uses 850-1,000 watts compared to tens of kilowatts for equivalent AI workloads in a data center. That efficiency gap is why this matters beyond the novelty.

The ethics questions are coming whether we're ready or not. Right now it's 200,000 neurons, far from the 86 billion in a human brain. But Cortical Labs says scaling to hundreds of millions is achievable without major changes. At some point someone has to decide what level of biological complexity deserves moral consideration. The company requires ethics approval and a proper lab to buy one, but not every country will have the same standards. If biological computing turns out to be cheaper and more efficient for certain tasks, the incentives to scale are obvious. We're figuring out the rules while the technology moves forward.

Hedgie🤗

[Blue Navy Fella NW 🇺🇸 🇺🇦🦩 @BlueBizNW]

@RedPandaKoala South Park for the win🥇

[Blue Navy Fella NW 🇺🇸 🇺🇦🦩 @BlueBizNW]

@AJEnglish @mohamedwashere I do not want to hear another republican talk about Benghazi ever again, when Trump is responsible for multiple burning embassies and consulates.

[Blue Navy Fella NW 🇺🇸 🇺🇦🦩 @BlueBizNW]

At long last!!!
Today I received an email that will change my life. I have officially been invited to join the #Illuminati! 👁️🪬

[Blue Navy Fella NW 🇺🇸 🇺🇦🦩 @BlueBizNW]

@PoliceThePolic1 Everyone involved is or was a cop in this dept. The victim, herself a former police officer at the same dept, called her former boss for help to pick up her kids from the shooter, (their dad.) Instead, the Chief called him.

https://t.co/0KT1kYCX4I