Tom Davis

[Emir Han @RealEmirHan]

“Life is short..” — James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano in the best commercial of all time

[Bite-Sized Nostalgia @landofthe80s]

RIP to actress Anne Schedeen, who starred as Kate Tanner on NBC’s "ALF." She was 77. 🙏

[The Folio Society @foliosociety]

Just 24 hours left…
Our Limited Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville launches tomorrow.
Our Publishing Director Tom Walker and Production Director Kate Grimwade share a glimpse at the design and production thinking behind this monumental Folio book. https://t.co/rrsvHwAjQZ

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Belgium v Egypt is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both present-day countries contain battlefields where Napoleon personally commanded an army.

Egypt had the Battle of the Pyramids. Belgium had Waterloo.

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Sure, 4K is nice, but there was nothing like sitting two inches away from one of these sweet bastards while your mother predicted you’d be as blind as Ray Charles by the following Thursday.

[Tom Davis @Tom_TD]

@maybeimabelle 19,000 regrets

[Tom Davis @Tom_TD]

@meetjayed Very sad to go through this and have no work around that support since I have no way of contacting a manager or supervisor.
I thought you owned a good business and took pride in it, but it does not seem like that right now.
You can reach out to me if you want to know the problem

[Tom Davis @Tom_TD]

@meetjayed and keep asking impossible questions hoping I get so angry, I'll give up.
FundedNext support seems intent on stonewalling clients, never allowing issues to go to the appropriate department or forwarding it to a manager who actually knows what he is doing.

[Tom Davis @Tom_TD]

@meetjayed Mr Jayed, I am a FundedNext client who reached out to support to expose a situation and was met along 3 days with ignorance from multiple people (every time someone diferente replies na email) who know nothing what about Metatrader

[Mario Andretti @MarioAndretti]

In the game of life, Alex Zanardi left nothing in the tank. I remember when he asked me to write the foreword for his book. I asked him anything you want me to say? He said: Well, I need to order new legs- how tall do you think I should be?

[Casey Mattox @CaseyMattox_]

I think of this a lot while on this website.

[Vinegar Syndrome @VinegarSyndrome]

Vinegar Syndrome Ultra is proud to present @Joe_Dante’s EXPLORERS on 4K UHD in both theatrical and home video versions. This VSU entry is newly scanned and restored from its 35mm original camera negative and features a brand new extended making-of documentary produced exclusively for this release. Rob Bottin effects, ILM visuals, Ethan Hawke’s and River Phoenix’s film debuts, and a Jerry Goldsmith score make this ‘80s riff on ‘50s sci-fi a cult classic.
🛸 Pre-order link in comments 🛸

[Ellen Barkin @EllenBarkin]

trump reading from scripture presents 2 problems for him…scripture and reading

[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.

[The Folio Society @foliosociety]

Nothing compares to seeing it all come together ✨

Two years after illustrating our Folio book of The Underground Railroad, Jamaal Barber finally sees the finished book, with every artwork in place.

https://t.co/JwRY5nEMZA

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Your smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds.

Not a guess. Not a theory.

A peer-reviewed study by researchers at UC Davis, UCL, and UC3M tested it.

Samsung TVs: every minute.
LG TVs: every 15 seconds.

Even when you're just using it as a monitor.

Here's how to turn it off for every brand:

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

England’s 1986 World Cup song “All the Way” was sung by the squad themselves, as the official anthem for Mexico ’86 rather than handing it off to a pop act. And it shows 😂

[The Folio Society @foliosociety]

Our Folio Summer Collection is on the horizon. Can you guess which titles are coming this May?
We’ll be revealing everything in 24 hours. Let the countdown begin ⏳
https://t.co/xeTN24I9yC

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

Excited to contemplate what it will be like for historians of 21st century America, excavating the ruins of Washington in AD 4500, & coming across this footage preserved in the ruins.

“Only with the blessing of the sacred rabbit would the American people go to war.”

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Big opportunity for Spain to charge €2 million per ship here