The Fintech giant spends more on running test suites than Agoda does for all its infra. Plus, why taking out a loan for equity can backfire, and why did Donald Trump’s social media company use a SPAC? | Continue reading
UPDATED (Anyone else remember Pam Bondi?) In case you haven't heard, Donald Trump's net worth just got much bigger. Incredible. Trump’s Republican billionaire skeptic became his Republican billionaire friend by giving him billions of dollars in exchange for policy favors on TikTo … | Continue reading
It’s springtime in the United States, and the country’s social media landscape is budding with change. Lawmakers in the Senate are considering a bill that could ban TikTok, or force a divestment from its Chinese parent company ByteDance. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s Truth Social is … | Continue reading
Donald Trump’s social media enterprise officially became a publicly traded company on Tuesday, with its stock price jumping as much as 59% to over $70 a share. We’d like to take this moment to welcome Trump Media, trading under DJT, to the world of meme stocks. Read more... | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2024 Concerning the size of the bond: For us, the story started yesterday with a post by Kevin Drum. The size of Donald Trump's bond had been reduced! Headline included, the Drumcat offered this: Trump fine cut in half—for now Donald Trump has been let off the … | Continue reading
Despite a litany of legal cases against him, former US President Donald Trump’s net worth is now greater than it… Continue reading Donald Trump’s net worth soars to $6.5bn after media group merger The post Donald Trump’s net worth soars to $6.5bn after media group merger appeared … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2024Cable star can't figure it out: Yesterday morning, in the 7 o'clock hour, Joe Scarborough gave voice to a long-standing bit of puzzlement.At this site, we're puzzled by Scarborough's puzzlement! That said, here's the question Scarborough posed to Michael … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2024 Cable star can't figure it out: Yesterday morning, in the 7 o'clock hour, Joe Scarborough gave voice to a long-standing bit of puzzlement. At this site, we're puzzled by Scarborough's puzzlement! That said, here's the question Scarborough posed to Michael … | Continue reading
Donald Trump’s conservative social media platform, Truth Social, will become a publicly traded company as early as next week. Shareholders in Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC) approved a merger with Trump Media and Technology Group on Friday morning, first reported by CNBC. R … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2024The candidate feeds on such meat: Briefly, let's recall the basic facts which were established in yesterday's report.Last Saturday, Donald J. Trump made an array of familiar yet very strange claims during his campaign rally in Vidalia, Ohio:At the start of h … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2024 The candidate feeds on such meat: Briefly, let's recall the basic facts which were established in yesterday's report. Last Saturday, Donald J. Trump made an array of familiar yet very strange claims during his campaign rally in Vidalia, Ohio: At the start o … | Continue reading
The parent company of Donald Trump’s social media company, Truth Social, could soon become a multi-billion dollar public company, depending on a vote scheduled for Friday. Trump could stand to gain over $3 billion if the proposed merger goes through, which could be his ticket out … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2024So did Ali Velshi and his erudite guest: Judged by any traditional standard, Donald J. Trump made some very strange statements during one of his endless speeches at a recent Ohio rally.The candidate spoke in Vidalia, Ohio last Saturday afternoon. In this r … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2024 So did Ali Velshi and his erudite guest: Judged by any traditional standard, Donald J. Trump made some very strange statements during one of his endless speeches at a recent Ohio rally. The candidate spoke in Vidalia, Ohio last Saturday afternoon. In this … | Continue reading
Donald Trump is a disgrace of staggering dimensions, but if there were to be a single quality in his Mount Everest of character deficits that render him utterly unfit to be president of the United States it is his cruelty. Cruelty and power are a terrible combination. When they c … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2024MacCallum thinks she may know: Why did Donald J. Trump say "bloodbath" during last Saturday's speech?Thanks to Acyn's early alert, the use of that word triggered a wave of blue tribe pundit reaction. Fox News veteran Martha MacCallum thinks she may know w … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2024 MacCallum thinks she may know: Why did Donald J. Trump say "bloodbath" during last Saturday's speech? Thanks to Acyn's early alert, the use of that word triggered a wave of blue tribe pundit reaction. Fox News veteran Martha MacCallum thinks she may know … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2024Donald J. Trump versus Yale: Donald J. Trump is smarter than we are, Michael Moore has now said.For ourselves, we can't swear that the Oscar-winning film-maker is wrong! Headline included, here's the start of Ron Dicker's report from HuffPost concerning w … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2024 Donald J. Trump versus Yale: Donald J. Trump is smarter than we are, Michael Moore has now said. For ourselves, we can't swear that the Oscar-winning film-maker is wrong! Headline included, here's the start of Ron Dicker's report from HuffPost concerning … | Continue reading
Donald G. McNeil Jr. and Joe Nocera debate D.A. Henderson and America’s response to the pandemic. | Continue reading
If there was ever any question that Donald Trump would be the 2024 Republican nominee, there isn’t anymore. Since he vacated the White House in 2021, the former president has silenced numerous rivals within his party — most recently ending Nikki Haley’s campaign in a Super Tuesda … | Continue reading
You won’t hear me say this often, but Donald Trump kind of sort of has a point. On Monday, the former president and presumed Republican nominee rebutted headlines that claimed he’d predicted a “‘bloodbath’ if he loses” the November election. To be sure, “bloodbath” isn’t a word y … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2024Segregation by viewpoint: We lost large chunks of time yesterday afternoon and then again this morning. This will likely be our only post today. We did want to highlight one presentation from the war of the past few days concerning Trump's "blood bath" comm … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2024 Segregation by viewpoint: We lost large chunks of time yesterday afternoon and then again this morning. This will likely be our only post today. We did want to highlight one presentation from the war of the past few days concerning Trump's "blood bath" com … | Continue reading
[If you can’t pay the fine, don’t do the crime.] As a result of last year’s judgement against them for business fraud, Donald Trump and the Trump Organization owe a massive sum of money to the state of New York. An attempted appeal is in the works, but they‘re required to post a … | Continue reading
Former President Donald Trump has been quick to take advantage of an unexpected and nefarious benefit offered to politicians in the age of AI. Instead of saying that their quotes were taken out of context when facing unfavorable media coverage, they can now simply claim that the … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2024A peculiar report in the Times: How many black votes could Donald Trump win in November? It's a scary topic! This morning, a report on that question appears above the fold on the front page of the New York Times. In print editions, the dual headlines say … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2024 A peculiar report in the Times: How many black votes could Donald Trump win in November? It's a scary topic! This morning, a report on that question appears above the fold on the front page of the New York Times. In print editions, the dual headlines say … | Continue reading
According to reports in the Washington Post, former president Donald Trump asked Elon Musk if he would be open to… Continue reading ‘Trump asked Elon Musk if he wanted to buy Truth Social’ says report The post ‘Trump asked Elon Musk if he wanted to buy Truth Social’ says report a … | Continue reading
Facebook’s stock has fallen sharply after former President Donald Trump went on a rant on two separate occasions about the… Continue reading Meta’s stock falls after Donald Trump’s ‘enemy of the people’ comment The post Meta’s stock falls after Donald Trump’s ‘enemy of the people … | Continue reading
Donald Trump took to Truth Social in the early morning hours of Tuesday to opine on the state of his race to win back the White House this November. And while that’s not unusual, Trump decision to coin a new nickname for himself certainly is. The new name? Honest Don, if you can … | Continue reading
Donald was cutting a swathe through a jungle of old Java code, when he found this: protected void waitForEnd(float time) { // do nothing } Well, this function sure sounds like it's waiting around to die. This protected method is called from a private method, and you might exp … | Continue reading
Donald Trump called into CNBC’s Squawk Box on Monday where he talked about crypto, tried to defend his complete 180 on a TikTok ban, and promoted his new sneakers. The former president also railed against Facebook, calling it the “enemy of the people.” But there’s one thing Trump … | Continue reading
As pressure mounts on TikTok following recent congressional legislation, former President Donald Trump has gone on the record in support… Continue reading Trump defends TikTok against ‘enemy’ Meta The post Trump defends TikTok against ‘enemy’ Meta appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
Donald Trump appeared to come out in defense of TikTok, the social media platform facing a potential ban by Congress, in a flurry of posts late Thursday on his social media platform Truth Social. The platform, it should be noted, experienced a widespread outage as the former pres … | Continue reading
Truth Social, the social media platform launched by Donald Trump in 2022, suffered a widespread outage on Thursday. And it’s unfortunate timing for the former president. He was right in the middle of furiously tweeting (or Truth-ing, to use the site’s tortured parlance) about Pre … | Continue reading
Palaeontologist Donald R. Prothero squares up to the tough task of explaining how life and climate have shaped each other over the 4.5 billion years of Earth's history. Amazingly, his book mostly succeeds | Continue reading
We chew through the primary results and brace for a Biden v. Trump rematch. Plus: TikTok, Supreme Court sanity, and much more. | Continue reading
Elon Musk met with Donald Trump in Florida this past Sunday, according to a new report from the New York Times. And while it’s not clear what the two men discussed, news of the meeting comes as Musk has ratcheted up his rhetoric against illegal immigration and Trump looks for new … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2024 Morning Joe flogged four meaningless clips: Citizens, can we talk? Donald J. Trump has been making lunatic statements ever since he and Melania descended the escalator in June of 2015. Strike that! At that time, he'd already been making crazy statements for … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2024Morning Joe flogged four meaningless clips: Citizens, can we talk?Donald J. Trump has been making lunatic statements ever since he and Melania descended the escalator in June of 2015.Strike that! At that time, he'd already been making crazy statements for so … | Continue reading
John Halpin in Persuasion: Donald Trump made an entire career out of whining about the mainstream media and still lives on nuggets of outrage dispensed to the faithful about how unfairly the media covered his glorious rule and the election he says was stolen from him. Democrats c … | Continue reading
“The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to ban the Republican former president over the Capitol riot.” – The Boston Globe - - -The nation’s temperature is running hot, and tensions continue to f … | Continue reading
"A flurry of new 2024 presidential election polls have a common thread: Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is leading incumbent President Joe Biden in a hypothetical November matchup," CNBC reports."In four separate surveys released over the weekend by The New York Times/Siena C … | Continue reading
I was never a good student; I drove my public school teachers mad and dropped out of two colleges without attending class much. I was too distracted and messed up to learn. Now, well into my 70s, photography has inspired me to learn and work hard at it. I spent two hours with my … | Continue reading
In the past few months, we’ve seen a deepfake robocall of Joe Biden encouraging New Hampshire voters to “save your vote for the November election” and a fake endorsement of Donald Trump from Taylor Swift. It’s clear that 2024 will mark the first “AI election” in United States his … | Continue reading
Donald Trump supporters are creating and sharing AI-generated images of the former president with Black voters. The photos appear to be an attempt to inflate Trump’s popularity with the Black community, which may be irreparably harmed by his ties to white supremacist groups, but … | Continue reading
Climate policy has been all over the place lately thanks to pressure from interest groups, pre-election jitters, and the plausibility of a re-elected President Donald Trump laying waste to existing climate policy.But further in the future, beyond the ups and downs of electoral po … | Continue reading