Steven Wolfenstein

[LayoffHedge @LayoffAI]

It’s not even that 11/16 leadership positions are held by Indians at Cognizant.

It’s the fact they ADDED and HIGHLIGHTED the non-Indians only after the negative press.

You can’t hate these companies enough.

[Gideon @Gideonenko]

He promoted American restaurants instead of Vindeep Dikshit's bush meat and jungle juice bistro so obviously he had to be hated

[goldenlabubuwatch @pandawatch88]

Conspiracy Corner:
Citadel, Jane Street, and SIG have figured out how to use AI to bring S&P 500 correlations to all time lows, putting every HF and their models on edge looking for rotations in a hyperfragmented market, and get everyone trading 5 times more.

(Financial services industry is probably the top spender on AI. But I haven't seen fund results improving, so the money is being made elsewhere, or nowhere?)

[Politics Global @PolitlcsGlobal]

🚨🇮🇱 BREAKING: 11 countries have joined the UK in announcing plans to introduce or consider restrictions on trade in goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank

🇨🇦 Canada
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇫🇮 Finland
🇫🇷 France
🇮🇸 Iceland
🇮🇪 Ireland
🇳🇴 Norway
🇵🇱 Poland
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇪🇸 Spain
🇸🇪 Sweden

[Phryne Astynome @PAstynome]

The GOP is becoming very hostile to Europe. Let’s be honest, the changing demographics of the GOP is playing a role in this. The powerbrokers are disproportionately Hispanic, Indian, and Jewish and those guys all have an ax to grind with Europe.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: UK, France, & Canada announce coordinated sanctions targeting Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Anti-surveillance activists design a 3D-printed “Flock Sock” designed to cover Flock cameras without permanently damaging them.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: U.S. government takes minority stakes in quantum computing companies D-Wave, Rigetti, & Quantinuum.

[Catholics United Against The Jews @CathsAgainstJws]

Judensau sculptures were built by Catholics all over Europe in the middle ages. The Jews suckling the teat of the pig symbolize how Jews are nourished by what is spiritually impure, and the rabbi inspecting the pig’s anus symbolizes how rabbis seek wisdom in filth.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Iran starts with Kuwait and Bahrain.

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

Almost every promise of modern technology has delivered the opposite result

- Social networking made historically less social
- Unlimited information made people much stupider
- Technology use during childhood has made children less advanced

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 BREAKING: Republican Congressman Mike Collins signals his intent to end Social Security:

"[Old people need to] get off of Social Security [and] get back into the workforce."

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This sounds completely unreal but I double checked and it's true: the Eiffel Tower was closed on Monday due to a Hindu sect that demanded that all women "make themselves invisible" so their 93-year-old guru wouldn't have to see them.

The sect in question is BAPS - "Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha," which roughly translates to "the organization of Swaminarayan followers who believe in Akshar Purushottam, based in Bochasan" (a village in Gujarat).

It's a very wealthy organization with deep ties to Modi's BJP (Modi is himself from Gujarat), known for building mega-temples around the world and whose doctrine demands absolute obedience to a living guru as the sole path to God.

It's not their first controversy: in 2021, the FBI raided their massive New Jersey temple after workers - mostly Dalits, India's lowest caste (the so-called "untouchables") - alleged they'd been lured to the US on fake religious visas, had their passports confiscated, and were forced to work 13-hour days for about $1 an hour, confined to a guarded compound (see https://t.co/kTNzdZWtoe).

Long story short, they just opened a new mega-temple in France (the website: https://t.co/4g6HW9bBPy) - specifically in Bussy-Saint-Georges (30km away from Paris) - presented as "the biggest Hindu temple built in continental Europe in a traditional style" (https://t.co/exbFjzLe2k).

Their guru was there for the inauguration and, as you do, wanted to visit the Eiffel Tower while in France. But, thing is, his doctrine dictates that women must not be in his presence.

And here is where it gets unreal: when his entourage requested a private visit, the Eiffel Tower's management actually agreed to the terms and ordered all female employees - including subcontractors - to hide (https://t.co/Sm7yb5LMFq).

This was on Saturday and, France being France (in a good way), on Monday the women who'd been told to make themselves invisible made themselves very, very visible: the staff went on strike and shut down the Eiffel Tower.

So there you have it, unreal but true: the Eiffel Tower, symbol of the French Republic, is closed because a 93-year-old Hindu guru refuses to be in the presence of women.

(picture below the picture of their guru on his visit, taken from https://t.co/4FRKezWJvq)

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

“Such men are more likely to be lonely, prone to deaths of despair and unhappy,” said Brad Wilcox, a University of Virginia sociologist. “It’s never good for a society to have large numbers of unattached, dispirited and unhappy young men.”

[Talha Ahmad @talhaahmad967]

Netanyahu’s office leaked/discolsed about the UAE’s involvement in strikes on Iran during the war. Now the UAE is returning the favour by disclosing the 'intelligence sharing' in the middle of election season.

[Chet @ZoomerChetBaker]

I have an idea! Let’s abandon all white collar jobs to women, Tech jobs to Indians, construction to South Americans, and manufacturing to China for 40 years and then let’s blame White men for not being on the oil rigs and in the mines… even though they LITERALLY FUCKING ARE at a higher rate than anyone else. Can’t make this shit up. Total boomer communism.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran is launching ballistic missiles from all over the country in a large-scale wave, with more than 30 missiles fired minutes ago, one of the largest single waves in months. So far Yazd, Khomein, Zanjan, Qom, Isfahan, Khorramabad and Tabriz.

Explosions at the Muwaffaq Salti and Prince Hassan US air bases in Jordan minutes ago, the first targets. Initial reports of direct impacts at Muwaffaq with cluster munitions.

[Davis Winkie @davis_winkie]

NEW: Another 26 wounded US troops were just reported via the Pentagon's Defense Casualty Analysis System, raising the total number of US military casualties since the war's start to 838 — 18 killed (7 in accidents) and 820 wounded.

[Neet News @NeetNewsClips]

FINANCIAL TIMES: Young male college grads are now jobless at the same rate as non-grads

[Korobochka (コロボ) 🇦🇺✝️🇷🇺 @cirnosad]

Ansarallah doesn't have Russia as its backer so it will not fall. Saudi Arabia will be crushed.