“Having explained the general disposition of the lines, we now come to the distances and dimensions. One thousand paces contain a single rank of one thousand six hundred and fifty-six foot soldiers, each man being allowed three feet. Six ranks drawn up on the same extent of ground will require nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-six men. To form only three ranks of the same number will take up two thousand paces, but it is much better to increase the number of ranks than to make your front too extensive. We have before observed the distance between each rank should be six feet, one foot of which is taken up by the men. Thus if you form a body of ten thousand men into six ranks they will occupy thirty-six feet. in depth and a thousand paces in front.”
An army unsupplied with grain and other necessary provisions will be vanquished without striking a blow.
A general whose troops are superior both in number and bravery should engage in the oblong square, which is the first formation.
He who judges himself inferior should advance his right wing obliquely against the enemy's left. This is the second formation.
If your left wing is strongest, you must attack the enemy's right according to the third formation.
The general who can depend on the discipline of his men should begin the engagement by attacking both the enemy's wings at once, the fourth formation.
He whose light infantry is good should cover his center by forming them in its front and charge both the enemy's wings at once. This is the fifth formation.
We expect the impact of AGI to be uneven. Although some industries will change very little, scientific progress will likely be much faster than it is today; this impact of AGI may surpass everything else.
The price of many goods will eventually fall dramatically (right now, the cost of intelligence and the cost of energy constrain a lot of things), and the price of luxury goods and a few inherently limited resources like land may rise even more dramatically.
Technically speaking, the road in front of us looks fairly clear. But public policy and collective opinion on how we should integrate AGI into society matter a lot; one of our reasons for launching products early and often is to give society and the technology time to co-evolve.
The first step in that direction will be the release of GPT-4.5, known internally as "Orion."
Expected to be coming within the following weeks and months as confirmed by Altman—it will be OpenAI's last model built upon the traditional GPT technology, which is basically the ChatGPT we all know and love.
The real transformation will come with GPT-5, which is supposed to incorporate all of OpenAI's technologies, including the capabilities of the unreleased o3 model.
He who cannot depend either on the number or courage of his troops, if obliged to engage, should begin the action with his right and endeavor to break the enemy's left, the rest of his army remaining formed in a line perpendicular to the front and extended to the rear like a javelin. This is the sixth formation.
If your forces are few and weak in comparison to the enemy, you must make use of the seventh formation and cover one of your flanks either with an eminence, a city, the sea, a river or some protection of that kind.
When an enemy's spy lurks in the camp, order all your soldiers in the day time to their tents, and he will instantly be apprehended.
Consult with many on proper measures to be taken, but communicate the plans you intend to put in execution to few, and those only of the most assured fidelity; or rather trust no one but yourself.
In 55 B.C, the German tribes Usipetes and Tenctheri crossed the Rhine to the Roman occupied west bank and plundered corn they found there. Crossing back over they joined forces with the Sugambri tribe. When Caesar sent an embassy to the Sugambri and asked that the culprits be returned to him, the response was that the Rhine was the limit of Roman authority. Simultaneously, the Ubii tribe, an ally of Rome, asked for help against the Suebi tribe who were harassing them.
Caesar, deciding he had enough reasons to cross the Rhine, planned an expedition to attack the Sugambri.
AI will seep into all areas of the economy and society; we will expect everything to be smart. Many of us expect to need to give people more control over the technology than we have historically, including open-sourcing more, and accept that there is a balance between safety and individual empowerment that will require trade-offs.
While we never want to be reckless and there will likely be some major decisions and limitations related to AGI safety that will be unpopular, directionally, as we get closer to achieving AGI, we believe that trending more towards individual empowerment is important; the other likely path we can see is AI being used by authoritarian governments to control their population through mass surveillance and loss of autonomy.
The 2024 New York Mets turned in one of the bigger surprise seasons in franchise history, riding an incredible 100-game finish to the third National League Wild Card spot and two playoff series wins before eventually falling to the future world champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series. Not many saw a deep playoff run coming from the Mets, as the team entered the year with an over/under win total slightly above the .500 mark at most sportsbooks.
The Mets let postseason hero Daniel Murphy walk to the division rival Washington Nationals, however, and did not do much to supplement their roster otherwise. Their winter was largely quiet, focusing on retention rather than upgrading. On the premise that the team would improve with their young talent and other prospects on the way, the Mets’ only true upgrade came with the addition of Cabrera at short.
The 2016 Mets ended up sneaking into the playoffs as a Wild Card team, where they’d lose in historic and dramatic fashion to Madison Bumgarner and the San Francisco Giants, and would not make the playoffs again until 2022. Despite their loaded crop of young talent, strong job of retaining talent and a hungry roster, the Mets would never get “back” to where they were in 2015, which remains the team’s most recent pennant.
Regardless, those three teams are the perfect examples of good processes: teams that built upon their upstart seasons, added star power when the timing was right, and for two of them, winnings titles was the result.
The Mets still have work to do and are not far removed from a 90-loss season. However, with the duo of Stearns and owner Steve Cohen in charge, the Mets found the perfect time to jump on the free agent market and execute an incredibly aggressive winter. In the end, the Mets walk away with likely the second-best offseason haul in baseball, next to the Dodgers.
The Mets used the right processes this winter by waiting out key markets and now figure to be one of the World Series favorites in 2025. It might not have always been the most fun winter, and it was assuredly more stressful than others, but they made every move they needed to make while compiling one of their most complete rosters in recent memory.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has tied himself closely to Trump and, as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, used his opening remarks at the hearing on Feb. 5, to echo the president's sentiment.
"It is incredibly alarming and disheartening to hear stories about financial institutions cutting off services to digital asset firms, political figures, and conservative-aligned businesses and individuals," Scott said.
Nathan McCauley, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anchorage Digital Bank, during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025.
His executive order on crypto promises "fair and open access" to financial services. And Trump appointed venture capitalist David Sacks, a longtime ally of Elon Musk, as the White House's first AI and crypto czar.
Meanwhile, the SEC has already signaled a rollback of rules that previously kept banks from holding bitcoin on their balance sheets, and the FDIC is under pressure to revise guidelines that made it harder for banks to serve digital asset companies.
Among the Choke Point incidents that most caught the ire of crypto investors were the forced closures of Silvergate Bank and Signature Bank in 2023, following the meltdown at Sam Bankman Fried's FTX months earlier. Silvergate and Signature were the leading FDIC-insured banks for crypto firms.
Silvergate Capital, the bank's parent, acknowledged in its bankruptcy filing last year that there had been a "rapid contraction" of it business in early 2023, but said it had "stabilized" and was able to "meet regulatory capital requirements" and "had the capability to continue to serve its customers."
The upper photo is a view from 16 miles up, showing the Dead Sea; below it is the fortress from 10,000 feet. At Masada one finds no water or vegetation, only heat. It sits in the Desert of Judah stretching from 21 miles west at Hebron to the Dead Sea, where the Jordan River ends. Masada is a lozenge-shaped table mountain 730 yards long and 215 yards wide, sitting 440 feet above the Dead Sea. Its main access point is a steep old road from the east called the Snake Path.
Masada was one of the three treasuries of King Herod, who also had a small palace there. Fortified by Jonathan, brother of Judas Maccabeus circa 140 B.C, protected by a Jewish garrison until the establishment of Judea as a Roman province in 6 A.D, and retaken by the Jewish soldiers under Manaemus during the confusion of the Jewish revolt of 66 A.D, it was overrun by the Sicarii in 70 A.D. Under their leader, Eleazar, the Sicarii set about terrorizing the surrounding territory.
"it's a brand new day for crypto in America," said David Marcus, the former head of crypto at Meta and current CEO of infrastructure startup Lightspark, in an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box" last week. What's happening under Trump, he said, is "quite a polarity flip of atmosphere and energy for our entire industry."
Trump Media debuted on Nasdaq under the ticker "DJT" last March, completing its merger with Digital World Acquisition Corp. The stock nearly doubled in value in 2024, with its namesake, Donald Trump, winning the U.S. presidential election in November. As of Friday's close, the stock was down about 11% year to date giving it a market capitalization of $6.59 billion.
As of Friday, a trust where President Trump is the sole beneficiary owns 52% of the voting power of the company's stock, the filing states.
Trump publishes posts on Truth Social, where he has 8.9 million followers. On X, owned by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has been helping with the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, Trump has 100.9 million followers.
Trump Media now has $776.8 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments, with $9.6 million in debt.
"You cannot get away from the anti-union propaganda or being surveilled, because when you walk into work they have cameras all over the building," said Medelius-Marsano, who is an organizer with CAUSE. "You can't get into work without scanning a badge or logging into a machine. That's how they track you."
CAUSE representatives have also made their pitch to RDU1 employees. The union has set up a "CAUSE HQ" tent across the street from the warehouse and disbursed leaflets in the facility's break room.
Union elections at other Amazon warehouses in New York have finished in defeat in recent years, while the results of a union drive at an Alabama facility are being contested. Organizers have pointed to Amazon's near-constant monitoring of employees as both a catalyst and a deterrent of union campaigns.
The NLRB has 343 open or settled unfair labor practice charges filed with the agency against Amazon, its subsidiaries and contracted delivery companies in the U.S., a spokesperson said.
Humans literally evolved to live in small communities who had to share both resources among themselves and hunting/foraging ranges with other communities. For most of our species' time on Earth, the health of the community was the health of the individual. We literally evolved shame and embarrassment specifically to better understand when we were stepping on each other's toes, emotions you rarely see outside of dogs and other species in a similar position. The tragedy of the commons is entirely a money thing, where the individual can both siphon resources from other communities and hide how much resources they're actually sitting on. It is not fundamental to the human condition.
"Where 100 years ago in a factory you would've had a supervisor come around to tell you if you're slacking off, now in a modern warehouse like Amazon, you're tracked digitally through a scanner," Starn said.
The arguments over what this image tells us about the rower positioning are on-going.
Many historians assert the three types were placed along each side of the ship at three levels bottom to top and superimposed over each other, but this configuration is problematic. Collisions between the oars were likely and the requirement for longer oars for oarsmen farther from the water sacrificed mechanical advantage because of the inefficient angle of attack.
Regarding multiple rowers per oar we take Thucydides word (Book 2, 93.2) that each rower during the Peloponnesian War used one oar.
That leaves us with the rowers seated next to each other as the remaining option. Let us look at some quotes from those who have made a contribution to solving the mystery.
Workers at an Amazon warehouse outside St. Louis, Missouri, filed an NLRB complaint in May. The employees accused Amazon of using "intrusive algorithms" that track when they're working to discourage them from organizing, The Guardian reported.
The employees withdrew their complaint on Tuesday. Hards disputed the workers' claims.
However, the Trump administration is attempting to purge the NLRB, with the president firing the chair of the organization on his first day in office last month. Trump has put Musk, a notorious opponent of unions, in charge of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, with the goal of cutting government costs and slashing regulations.
The Punic Wars fought between Rome and the Carthaginian Empire comprised three separate encounters over 118 years, starting in 264 B.C. and ending in 146 B.C. The first was a battle for control of Sicily, the second the famous war with Hannibal, and the third resulted in the destruction of the Carthaginians. The first war, which we will concentrate on here, saw the initial efforts by Rome to deploy naval forces and use them in battle. The fact that Sicily is an island made this war as much about navies as armies.
Thanks to you, I now have realistic expectations for this bull run. I entered crypto earlier last year, and your insights on cycles and market connections have been invaluable. I now understand how global markets impact crypto, so I'm watching traditional market tops closely. Without your guidance, I’d probably be holding blindly instead of actively managing my positions. Growing my portfolio from 69k to 451k in a few months has been incredible. Special thanks to Albert Freeman for his expertise, which has been essential in navigating this complex landscape.
The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which sought to represent BHM1 workers, has said the AtoZ app can access a user's GPS, photos, camera, microphone and WiFi-connection information. The union also claims that "Amazon can sell the data collected to any third party companies and that data cannot be deleted." The technology raises several concerns, including that it may suppress "the right to organize," RWDSU said.
Hards said the RWDSU's claims are inaccurate and denied that the company sells any data affiliated with AtoZ use. She said AtoZ users must give the app permission to access things like their GPS location.
As China's real estate market continues to collapse, high-rise apartments—once a symbol of prestige—have fallen from grace. More and more residents are moving out, opting for pricier low-rise buildings instead of staying in high-rises. Some even believe that these buildings, which once stood as monuments to China’s economic boom, will eventually become worthless.
Fortunately for Alphabet, YouTube is still booming, Luria said.
YouTube is "becoming such an important media destination that the momentum there is greater than what you would just see from the advertising growth," said Luria. He noted that some creators have migrated to YouTube amid the TikTok ban.
The uncertainty over TikTok's future in the U.S. has yet to impact advertisers who are still running campaigns on the ByteDance-owned platform, said Kate Scott-Dawkins, the global president of business intelligence of media investment firm GroupM.
If TikTok eventually does get banned in the U.S., Scott-Dawkins said she expects Meta and Alphabet would inherit much of those ad dollars but noted Snap, Pinterest and others could also pick up scraps.
Snap and Pinterest also reported their fourth quarter results last week. Pinterest said its sales jumped 18% year over year to $1.15 billion while Snap reported $1.56 billion in revenue for the period, marking a 14% increase from the previous year.
But not every digital advertising player had good results for the quarter.
Despite ad tech company The Trade Desk on Wednesday reporting a 22% year over year increase in fourth-quarter sales to $741 million, that figure came in below Wall Street estimates, which sent shares tanking. CEO Jeff Green attributed the miss to "a series of small execution missteps" during an analyst call.
Although companies are pumping money into digital ad platforms, there's a chance that high inflation, tariffs and weaker economies outside of the U.S. put pressure on the ad market, experts said.
This growth in the power of the federal government resembles the welfare experiments of Europe in the twentieth century, which failed. What is there in the progressive ideology that drives it to duplicate a failed system? Why don’t they understand the communism analogy?
Communism had many friends until the Soviet Union failed. Now, those friends are hard to find because they don’t want to embarrass themselves by supporting a philosophical system that is unworkable and idealistic. The problem was that Marx fitted the data to his system instead of the reverse. If he had done his analysis correctly, he would have seen the fundamental flaws in his point of view.
When you talk about the Carthaginian phalanx, what exactly do you mean? Do you believe they operated in a similar fashion to the Macedonian phalanx, or are you using the term to mean a mass of heavy infantry that fought hand-to-hand with spear and shield?
I have found no evidence that the Carthaginian “phalanx” resembled the Greek version. By Carthaginian phalanx I refer to a massed infantry formation equipped with swords versus spears. This is specifically pointed out by Livy and others writing about the Battle of Cannae. The Punic center used Roman weapons captured at Trasimene which would not have included phalanx type spears. Livy goes on to say, “The Gallic and Spanish contingents carried shields of similar shape, but their swords were of a different pattern, those of the Gauls being very long and not pointed, those of the Spaniards, who were accustomed to using them for piercing rather than cutting, being handily short and sharply pointed.”
Also, the consul Publius Laverius Laevinius is thought to have had four legions with accompanying allies at Heraclea in 280BC, so was there a specific law limiting a consul's command to two legions, or are you talking about the customary allocation? Of course, at Cannae there were 8 legions plus allies, so they could clearly change things when they needed to!
At Zama, Hannibal did not use a tightly packed infantry, deploying three massive lines instead. Again I quote Livy. “Hannibal put his elephants (80 of them) right in the van of his army; behind them were the Ligurian and Gallic auxiliaries with a certain proportion of troops from Mauretania and the Balearics. In the second line he stationed his Carthaginian and African troops together with the one legion from Macedonia; Then a moderate distance to the rear of these, came a reserve of Italians and Bruttians.
Distances and Intervals:
“Having explained the general disposition of the lines, we now come to the distances and dimensions. One thousand paces contain a single rank of one thousand six hundred and fifty-six foot soldiers, each man being allowed three feet. Six ranks drawn up on the same extent of ground will require nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-six men. To form only three ranks of the same number will take up two thousand paces, but it is much better to increase the number of ranks than to make your front too extensive. We have before observed the distance between each rank should be six feet, one foot of which is taken up by the men. Thus if you form a body of ten thousand men into six ranks they will occupy thirty-six feet. in depth and a thousand paces in front.”
eneral advice:
“Men must be sufficiently tried before they are led against the enemy.
Valor is superior to numbers.
The nature of the ground is often of more consequence than courage.
Few men are born brave; many become so through care and force of discipline.
An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.
Troops are not to be led to battle unless confident of success.
!summarize #socialmedia #predictions #digital
!summarize #socialmedia #future #prediction #digital
An army unsupplied with grain and other necessary provisions will be vanquished without striking a blow.
A general whose troops are superior both in number and bravery should engage in the oblong square, which is the first formation.
He who judges himself inferior should advance his right wing obliquely against the enemy's left. This is the second formation.
If your left wing is strongest, you must attack the enemy's right according to the third formation.
The general who can depend on the discipline of his men should begin the engagement by attacking both the enemy's wings at once, the fourth formation.
He whose light infantry is good should cover his center by forming them in its front and charge both the enemy's wings at once. This is the fifth formation.
We expect the impact of AGI to be uneven. Although some industries will change very little, scientific progress will likely be much faster than it is today; this impact of AGI may surpass everything else.
The price of many goods will eventually fall dramatically (right now, the cost of intelligence and the cost of energy constrain a lot of things), and the price of luxury goods and a few inherently limited resources like land may rise even more dramatically.
Technically speaking, the road in front of us looks fairly clear. But public policy and collective opinion on how we should integrate AGI into society matter a lot; one of our reasons for launching products early and often is to give society and the technology time to co-evolve.
The first step in that direction will be the release of GPT-4.5, known internally as "Orion."
Expected to be coming within the following weeks and months as confirmed by Altman—it will be OpenAI's last model built upon the traditional GPT technology, which is basically the ChatGPT we all know and love.
The real transformation will come with GPT-5, which is supposed to incorporate all of OpenAI's technologies, including the capabilities of the unreleased o3 model.
He who cannot depend either on the number or courage of his troops, if obliged to engage, should begin the action with his right and endeavor to break the enemy's left, the rest of his army remaining formed in a line perpendicular to the front and extended to the rear like a javelin. This is the sixth formation.
If your forces are few and weak in comparison to the enemy, you must make use of the seventh formation and cover one of your flanks either with an eminence, a city, the sea, a river or some protection of that kind.
When an enemy's spy lurks in the camp, order all your soldiers in the day time to their tents, and he will instantly be apprehended.
Consult with many on proper measures to be taken, but communicate the plans you intend to put in execution to few, and those only of the most assured fidelity; or rather trust no one but yourself.
Punishment, and fear thereof, are necessary to keep soldiers in order in quarters; but in the field they are more influenced by hope and rewards.
Good officers never engage in general actions unless induced by opportunity or obliged by necessity.”
In 55 B.C, the German tribes Usipetes and Tenctheri crossed the Rhine to the Roman occupied west bank and plundered corn they found there. Crossing back over they joined forces with the Sugambri tribe. When Caesar sent an embassy to the Sugambri and asked that the culprits be returned to him, the response was that the Rhine was the limit of Roman authority. Simultaneously, the Ubii tribe, an ally of Rome, asked for help against the Suebi tribe who were harassing them.
Caesar, deciding he had enough reasons to cross the Rhine, planned an expedition to attack the Sugambri.
AI will seep into all areas of the economy and society; we will expect everything to be smart. Many of us expect to need to give people more control over the technology than we have historically, including open-sourcing more, and accept that there is a balance between safety and individual empowerment that will require trade-offs.
While we never want to be reckless and there will likely be some major decisions and limitations related to AGI safety that will be unpopular, directionally, as we get closer to achieving AGI, we believe that trending more towards individual empowerment is important; the other likely path we can see is AI being used by authoritarian governments to control their population through mass surveillance and loss of autonomy.
The 2024 New York Mets turned in one of the bigger surprise seasons in franchise history, riding an incredible 100-game finish to the third National League Wild Card spot and two playoff series wins before eventually falling to the future world champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series. Not many saw a deep playoff run coming from the Mets, as the team entered the year with an over/under win total slightly above the .500 mark at most sportsbooks.
The Mets let postseason hero Daniel Murphy walk to the division rival Washington Nationals, however, and did not do much to supplement their roster otherwise. Their winter was largely quiet, focusing on retention rather than upgrading. On the premise that the team would improve with their young talent and other prospects on the way, the Mets’ only true upgrade came with the addition of Cabrera at short.
The 2016 Mets ended up sneaking into the playoffs as a Wild Card team, where they’d lose in historic and dramatic fashion to Madison Bumgarner and the San Francisco Giants, and would not make the playoffs again until 2022. Despite their loaded crop of young talent, strong job of retaining talent and a hungry roster, the Mets would never get “back” to where they were in 2015, which remains the team’s most recent pennant.
Regardless, those three teams are the perfect examples of good processes: teams that built upon their upstart seasons, added star power when the timing was right, and for two of them, winnings titles was the result.
The Mets still have work to do and are not far removed from a 90-loss season. However, with the duo of Stearns and owner Steve Cohen in charge, the Mets found the perfect time to jump on the free agent market and execute an incredibly aggressive winter. In the end, the Mets walk away with likely the second-best offseason haul in baseball, next to the Dodgers.
The Mets used the right processes this winter by waiting out key markets and now figure to be one of the World Series favorites in 2025. It might not have always been the most fun winter, and it was assuredly more stressful than others, but they made every move they needed to make while compiling one of their most complete rosters in recent memory.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has tied himself closely to Trump and, as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, used his opening remarks at the hearing on Feb. 5, to echo the president's sentiment.
"It is incredibly alarming and disheartening to hear stories about financial institutions cutting off services to digital asset firms, political figures, and conservative-aligned businesses and individuals," Scott said.
Nathan McCauley, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anchorage Digital Bank, during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025.
Trump is paying them back in a variety of ways.
His executive order on crypto promises "fair and open access" to financial services. And Trump appointed venture capitalist David Sacks, a longtime ally of Elon Musk, as the White House's first AI and crypto czar.
Meanwhile, the SEC has already signaled a rollback of rules that previously kept banks from holding bitcoin on their balance sheets, and the FDIC is under pressure to revise guidelines that made it harder for banks to serve digital asset companies.
Among the Choke Point incidents that most caught the ire of crypto investors were the forced closures of Silvergate Bank and Signature Bank in 2023, following the meltdown at Sam Bankman Fried's FTX months earlier. Silvergate and Signature were the leading FDIC-insured banks for crypto firms.
Silvergate Capital, the bank's parent, acknowledged in its bankruptcy filing last year that there had been a "rapid contraction" of it business in early 2023, but said it had "stabilized" and was able to "meet regulatory capital requirements" and "had the capability to continue to serve its customers."
!summarize #rocket #scientist #irondome #unitedstates
The upper photo is a view from 16 miles up, showing the Dead Sea; below it is the fortress from 10,000 feet. At Masada one finds no water or vegetation, only heat. It sits in the Desert of Judah stretching from 21 miles west at Hebron to the Dead Sea, where the Jordan River ends. Masada is a lozenge-shaped table mountain 730 yards long and 215 yards wide, sitting 440 feet above the Dead Sea. Its main access point is a steep old road from the east called the Snake Path.
Masada was one of the three treasuries of King Herod, who also had a small palace there. Fortified by Jonathan, brother of Judas Maccabeus circa 140 B.C, protected by a Jewish garrison until the establishment of Judea as a Roman province in 6 A.D, and retaken by the Jewish soldiers under Manaemus during the confusion of the Jewish revolt of 66 A.D, it was overrun by the Sicarii in 70 A.D. Under their leader, Eleazar, the Sicarii set about terrorizing the surrounding territory.
!summarize #davidletterman #latenight #television
"it's a brand new day for crypto in America," said David Marcus, the former head of crypto at Meta and current CEO of infrastructure startup Lightspark, in an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box" last week. What's happening under Trump, he said, is "quite a polarity flip of atmosphere and energy for our entire industry."
Trump Media debuted on Nasdaq under the ticker "DJT" last March, completing its merger with Digital World Acquisition Corp. The stock nearly doubled in value in 2024, with its namesake, Donald Trump, winning the U.S. presidential election in November. As of Friday's close, the stock was down about 11% year to date giving it a market capitalization of $6.59 billion.
As of Friday, a trust where President Trump is the sole beneficiary owns 52% of the voting power of the company's stock, the filing states.
Trump publishes posts on Truth Social, where he has 8.9 million followers. On X, owned by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has been helping with the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, Trump has 100.9 million followers.
Trump Media now has $776.8 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments, with $9.6 million in debt.
"You cannot get away from the anti-union propaganda or being surveilled, because when you walk into work they have cameras all over the building," said Medelius-Marsano, who is an organizer with CAUSE. "You can't get into work without scanning a badge or logging into a machine. That's how they track you."
CAUSE representatives have also made their pitch to RDU1 employees. The union has set up a "CAUSE HQ" tent across the street from the warehouse and disbursed leaflets in the facility's break room.
!summarize #islam #Joerogan #gadsaad #religion
Union elections at other Amazon warehouses in New York have finished in defeat in recent years, while the results of a union drive at an Alabama facility are being contested. Organizers have pointed to Amazon's near-constant monitoring of employees as both a catalyst and a deterrent of union campaigns.
The NLRB has 343 open or settled unfair labor practice charges filed with the agency against Amazon, its subsidiaries and contracted delivery companies in the U.S., a spokesperson said.
!summarize #tragedyofcommons #gametheory #mathematics #math #strategies
Humans literally evolved to live in small communities who had to share both resources among themselves and hunting/foraging ranges with other communities. For most of our species' time on Earth, the health of the community was the health of the individual. We literally evolved shame and embarrassment specifically to better understand when we were stepping on each other's toes, emotions you rarely see outside of dogs and other species in a similar position. The tragedy of the commons is entirely a money thing, where the individual can both siphon resources from other communities and hide how much resources they're actually sitting on. It is not fundamental to the human condition.
"Where 100 years ago in a factory you would've had a supervisor come around to tell you if you're slacking off, now in a modern warehouse like Amazon, you're tracked digitally through a scanner," Starn said.
The arguments over what this image tells us about the rower positioning are on-going.
Many historians assert the three types were placed along each side of the ship at three levels bottom to top and superimposed over each other, but this configuration is problematic. Collisions between the oars were likely and the requirement for longer oars for oarsmen farther from the water sacrificed mechanical advantage because of the inefficient angle of attack.
Regarding multiple rowers per oar we take Thucydides word (Book 2, 93.2) that each rower during the Peloponnesian War used one oar.
That leaves us with the rowers seated next to each other as the remaining option. Let us look at some quotes from those who have made a contribution to solving the mystery.
Workers at an Amazon warehouse outside St. Louis, Missouri, filed an NLRB complaint in May. The employees accused Amazon of using "intrusive algorithms" that track when they're working to discourage them from organizing, The Guardian reported.
The employees withdrew their complaint on Tuesday. Hards disputed the workers' claims.
However, the Trump administration is attempting to purge the NLRB, with the president firing the chair of the organization on his first day in office last month. Trump has put Musk, a notorious opponent of unions, in charge of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, with the goal of cutting government costs and slashing regulations.
!summarize #jpmorgan #stocks #investing
The Punic Wars fought between Rome and the Carthaginian Empire comprised three separate encounters over 118 years, starting in 264 B.C. and ending in 146 B.C. The first was a battle for control of Sicily, the second the famous war with Hannibal, and the third resulted in the destruction of the Carthaginians. The first war, which we will concentrate on here, saw the initial efforts by Rome to deploy naval forces and use them in battle. The fact that Sicily is an island made this war as much about navies as armies.
!summarize #kansascity #chiefs #nfl
Thanks to you, I now have realistic expectations for this bull run. I entered crypto earlier last year, and your insights on cycles and market connections have been invaluable. I now understand how global markets impact crypto, so I'm watching traditional market tops closely. Without your guidance, I’d probably be holding blindly instead of actively managing my positions. Growing my portfolio from 69k to 451k in a few months has been incredible. Special thanks to Albert Freeman for his expertise, which has been essential in navigating this complex landscape.
The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which sought to represent BHM1 workers, has said the AtoZ app can access a user's GPS, photos, camera, microphone and WiFi-connection information. The union also claims that "Amazon can sell the data collected to any third party companies and that data cannot be deleted." The technology raises several concerns, including that it may suppress "the right to organize," RWDSU said.
Hards said the RWDSU's claims are inaccurate and denied that the company sells any data affiliated with AtoZ use. She said AtoZ users must give the app permission to access things like their GPS location.
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As China's real estate market continues to collapse, high-rise apartments—once a symbol of prestige—have fallen from grace. More and more residents are moving out, opting for pricier low-rise buildings instead of staying in high-rises. Some even believe that these buildings, which once stood as monuments to China’s economic boom, will eventually become worthless.
Fortunately for Alphabet, YouTube is still booming, Luria said.
YouTube is "becoming such an important media destination that the momentum there is greater than what you would just see from the advertising growth," said Luria. He noted that some creators have migrated to YouTube amid the TikTok ban.
The uncertainty over TikTok's future in the U.S. has yet to impact advertisers who are still running campaigns on the ByteDance-owned platform, said Kate Scott-Dawkins, the global president of business intelligence of media investment firm GroupM.
If TikTok eventually does get banned in the U.S., Scott-Dawkins said she expects Meta and Alphabet would inherit much of those ad dollars but noted Snap, Pinterest and others could also pick up scraps.
Snap and Pinterest also reported their fourth quarter results last week. Pinterest said its sales jumped 18% year over year to $1.15 billion while Snap reported $1.56 billion in revenue for the period, marking a 14% increase from the previous year.
But not every digital advertising player had good results for the quarter.
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Despite ad tech company The Trade Desk on Wednesday reporting a 22% year over year increase in fourth-quarter sales to $741 million, that figure came in below Wall Street estimates, which sent shares tanking. CEO Jeff Green attributed the miss to "a series of small execution missteps" during an analyst call.
Although companies are pumping money into digital ad platforms, there's a chance that high inflation, tariffs and weaker economies outside of the U.S. put pressure on the ad market, experts said.
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This growth in the power of the federal government resembles the welfare experiments of Europe in the twentieth century, which failed. What is there in the progressive ideology that drives it to duplicate a failed system? Why don’t they understand the communism analogy?
Communism had many friends until the Soviet Union failed. Now, those friends are hard to find because they don’t want to embarrass themselves by supporting a philosophical system that is unworkable and idealistic. The problem was that Marx fitted the data to his system instead of the reverse. If he had done his analysis correctly, he would have seen the fundamental flaws in his point of view.
I have found no evidence that the Carthaginian “phalanx” resembled the Greek version. By Carthaginian phalanx I refer to a massed infantry formation equipped with swords versus spears. This is specifically pointed out by Livy and others writing about the Battle of Cannae. The Punic center used Roman weapons captured at Trasimene which would not have included phalanx type spears. Livy goes on to say, “The Gallic and Spanish contingents carried shields of similar shape, but their swords were of a different pattern, those of the Gauls being very long and not pointed, those of the Spaniards, who were accustomed to using them for piercing rather than cutting, being handily short and sharply pointed.”
Also, the consul Publius Laverius Laevinius is thought to have had four legions with accompanying allies at Heraclea in 280BC, so was there a specific law limiting a consul's command to two legions, or are you talking about the customary allocation? Of course, at Cannae there were 8 legions plus allies, so they could clearly change things when they needed to!
At Zama, Hannibal did not use a tightly packed infantry, deploying three massive lines instead. Again I quote Livy. “Hannibal put his elephants (80 of them) right in the van of his army; behind them were the Ligurian and Gallic auxiliaries with a certain proportion of troops from Mauretania and the Balearics. In the second line he stationed his Carthaginian and African troops together with the one legion from Macedonia; Then a moderate distance to the rear of these, came a reserve of Italians and Bruttians.