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Foreign Businesses Are Fleeing Cuba as Its Economy Collapses (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/foreign-businesses-are-fleeing-cuba-as-its-economy-collapses-f9b369bf?st=F9XCPf
http://www.memeorandum.com/260607/p12#a260607p12

UMG shares jump 10% following Pershing Square's €56B offer, which is a 78% premium to their April 2 close; UMG is down nearly a third since its 2021 listing (Mateusz Rabiega/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ackmans-pershing-squa…

Federal Prosecutor Used Fabricated Quotes in Court Filing (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/federal-prosecutor-used-fabricated-quotes-false-cites-in-filing
http://www.memeorandum.com/260306/p125#a260306p125

I have some sketches of an essay that I need to write, but I think it's worth brain-dumping a bit more in the mean time.
#LLMs are an attempt to make tech grow forever. But like, how many "your mom/a friend, but done by a precarious worker instead" apps do we really need? Everything right now is in the AI grift hole, but there's almost nothing of interest (even if you ignore the ethical concerns). Like, no, I don't fucking want a robot to lie to me about my groceries. That doesn't sound like a useful feature. There's a lot of useless shit being pumped out to prop up the bottom line, and a lot of people just want to be able to use their old phone for more than a couple of years.
No one is happy with this. No one wants this. Except the billionaires who are forcing us all to drink the capitalism koolaid, because they'd rather exterminate life on earth than live in a world where they experience consequences.
Nothing grows forever. That's not how literally anything in reality works, or has ever worked, at all in history. Some people think that the universe itself may work like that, but that's only an educated guess. Finite things don't grow forever. Every organism, every society, every technology, every dynamic and adaptive system we have ever known goes through a growth phase and then goes in to a stabilization phase. Or, following a Malthusian pattern, grows until it reaches a catastrophic point and collapses. Like lemmings. Or reindeer. Or cancer.

IRS staffing shortage collides with GOP's tax cut campaign pitch (Danny Nguyen/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/06/irs-falls-short-of-filing-season-staffing-00860634
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p106#a260406p106

Note to Democrats: Paying taxes is not a moral failing (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/democratic-tax-plans-2028
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p35#a260407p35

'They're spinning': Republicans, grappling with midterm anxiety, go negative (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/04/gop-allies-warn-white-house-its-positive-economic-message-is-falling-flat-00905945
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p105#a260504p105

Breaking down the redistricting arms race following the Supreme Court's VRA ruling (Andrew Howard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/04/breaking-down-the-redistricting-arms-race-00904113
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p35#a260504p35

Mullin refuses to commit to following court orders for DHS (Jennifer Scholtes/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/02/congress/mullin-refuses-to-commit-to-following-court-orders-for-dhs-00946961
http://www.memeorandum.com/260602/p81#a260602p81

Scientists warn Trump plan to axe US ocean monitoring system will leave world 'flying blind' (Karen McVeigh/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/05/trump-plan-ocean-monitoring-system-concern-scientists
http://www.memeorandum.com/260605/p24#a260605p24