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  1. Tariffs are hitting retailers hard, and consumers are starting to see increased prices.

    Companies can only absorb so much before the additional costs are passed on to consumers.

    Trump's trade war costs are hiring Americans.

    www.investopedia.com/what-big-ret...

    Major retailers that released quarterly results last week shared their perspectives on how consumers are faring and what tariffs mean for the industry.

    Here's What Big Retailers Are Saying About Consumer Trends and the Impact of Tariffs on Prices

    Major retailers that released quarterly results last week shared their perspectives on how consumers are faring and what tariffs mean for the industry.

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  2. Lavrov’s response 3 times is to insist that Russia has “never, ever targeted civilian sites.” So the apartment buildings and hospitals we see in flames every day and bodies of civilians is all made up apparently. This is who they are - liars and barbarians.

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  3. Twitter went algorithmic in early 2016.

    I hadn't appreciated that until researching for this piece. It made Trump the main character on media and political pros' social network, pushing him—and criticism/cheers/mockery of him—into tons more feeds.

    2016 was so close, without that he might've lost.

    ChatGPT and other generative AI isn't about to create superintelligence, but even if what we see now is it, the impact is on the scale of Google search and algorithmic social media, except maybe worse

    The Third Algorithm

    ChatGPT and other generative AI isn't about to create superintelligence, but even if what we see now is it, the impact is on the scale of Google search and algorithmic social media, except maybe worse

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  4. More broadly, AI generates an immense amount of slop: content that’s fake, low quality, usually somewhat off, but very cheap to produce. It’s flooding the internet, drowning out other things, and getting picked up as training data for AI models, like an algorithmic ouroboros

    Twitter went algorithmic in early 2016.

    I hadn't appreciated that until researching for this piece. It made Trump the main character on media and political pros' social network, pushing him—and criticism/cheers/mockery of him—into tons more feeds.

    2016 was so close, without that he might've lost.

    ChatGPT and other generative AI isn't about to create superintelligence, but even if what we see now is it, the impact is on the scale of Google search and algorithmic social media, except maybe worse

    The Third Algorithm

    ChatGPT and other generative AI isn't about to create superintelligence, but even if what we see now is it, the impact is on the scale of Google search and algorithmic social media, except maybe worse

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