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The dollar sank to its lowest level in more than three years on Thursday
and the FTSE 100 closed at a record high as Donald Trump’s latest trade threats and the weakening economy appeared to bring forward interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.
Foreign exchange traders sold the dollar in favour of the yen and the euro,
which both climbed by about 1% against the US currency to leave it almost 10% down on its value against a basket of currencies since the beginning of the …
Eh, that's it, I guess. No 300 million dollar unveiling event for this
kernel, I'm afraid, but you're still supposed to think of this as the
"happening of the century" (at least until the next kernel comes along).
-- Linus, in the announcement for 1.3.27
Thanks, Jack White!
"On Sunday night, the Cactus Club launched a campaign with a video on social media, explaining that if all of their followers donated just one dollar, they would have more than enough funds to pay for the remainder of the construction. On Monday, they received a surprise donation from none other than Jack White, who kicked in the $20,000 necessary to fund the bump out extension."
Dignan analysiert: Apples KI-Rückstand ist so gravierend wie Microsofts „Mobile-Fail“. Perplexity als Allheilmittel? Kaum. Aber Tim Cook braucht dringend eine Story für den Kapitalmarkt—zur Not für 20 Mrd. Dollar. #TechDebatte #Apple
SpaceX soll zwei Milliarden US-Dollar in xAI investieren
Fünf Milliarden will Elon Musks KI-Unternehmen in einer neuen Finanzierungsrunde aufnehmen, der größte Teil kommt von SpaceX.
https://www.
Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, which makes robots to inspect infrastructure, raised a $125M Series D at a $1.25B valuation, up from $633M in December 2023 (Ian Thomas/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/gecko-robotics-…
AirPods: 100 Milliarden US-Dollar Umsatz im Jahr 2026?
Apple soll auch in den kommenden Jahren noch viele Kopfhörer verkaufen. Counterpoint rechnet mit einem Meilenstein schon im kommenden Jahr.
https://www.
HHS facing billion-dollar backlog of delayed grants after DOGE (Alexander Tin/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hhs-facing-billion-dollar-backlog-of-delayed-grants-after-doge/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p57#a250711p57
What Is Dollar Weaponization and How Has It Sped Up De-Dollarization? #forex
The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history | Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/03/2025/the-us-dollar-is-on-track-for-its-worst-year-in-modern-history
Selenskyj fordert Halbierung der Preisobergrenze für russisches Öl
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj hat die westlichen Industrieländer aufgefordert, ihre Preisobergrenze für russisches Öl zu halbieren. Diese liegt derzeit bei 60 Dollar pro Barrel. "Jeder unserer Partner weiß, welcher Preisdeckel nötig ist - 30 Dollar (pro Barrel), nicht mehr", sagte Selenskyj in seiner abendlichen Videobotschaft.
Selenskyj bezog…
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Der Dollar steht, ähem, günstig, eine Gute Gelegenheit™ mal wieder an das Internet Archive zu spenden, ist es nicht?
Die haben ja in letzter viel gespeichert, was von US-Regierungsseiten gelöscht wurde. Brauchen also Geld für zwei, drei neue Festplatten.
Ja, ich wünschte, sie würden sich internationalisieren. Damit die Daten nicht nur in den USA liegen. Damit wir eine Spendenquittung für's Finanzamt bekommen könnten. Aber ist wie es ist.
„Methodisch mag es da Unterschiede geben, doch der Trend ist stets der gleiche: Wer viel besitzt, kann sich die besten Anlageprofis leisten und dadurch höhere Renditen erwirtschaften als Normalverdiener – und wird somit fast von allein noch reicher.“ -So die SZ.
Das Schlüsselworte sind hier „quasi“ und „fast“, denn: natürlich passiert es nicht von alleine, sondern es wird dafür weltweit geschuftet, in Lohnarbeit oder sklavenähnlichen Verhältnissen. Und: Ein Großteil des Reichtums besteh…
💸 Under shadow of Trump warning, Africa pioneers non-dollar payment systems
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/24/markets/trump-africa-non-dollar-payments/
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Went out to see Stewart Lee doing his "Man Wulf" show at the Royal Festival hall.
Huge place. Ginormous! Easily the biggest place I've ever seen him perform.
He mocks the 60 million dollar netflix special offensive comedians doing their skits about how they're not allowed to say stuff, while actually saying the stuff they say you're not allowed to say and suffering nothing but millions of dollars for it.
There are things you're *actually* not allowed to say this month of course. But they will not say the things that can get you 14 years in jail: like pointing out the government's collaboration in a genocide and supporting those who oppose it.
The man wulf just mocks the weak instead.
And Stew does too, while by mocking the wolf inside him showing he could be them. Sort of. Only he can't, because even though it's enjoyable and funny and easy to deconstruct, it's still fundamentally inane.
Stew's voice and accents and singing and impersonations have improved considerably!
Great costume. See the show if you can.
#stewartLee #comedy #london
A small price to pay for having billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations, wouldn’t you say?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/09/europe-june-heatwave-study-climate-breakdown-tripled-death-toll
The Chicago Tribune is offering buyouts to the newsroom's 75 union members; the newsroom last went through buyouts in 2021, when nearly 40 people left (Kaitlin Washburn/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/2025/06/12/chicag…
Corruption & incompetence all in one!
Amtrak brings in Elon Musk's "Hyperloop" company to reassess plan for building new Northeast Corridor rail tunnel in Baltimore.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12…
Vier Billionen US-Dollar: Nvidia kommt Microsoft und Apple zuvor
Nvidia schreibt am 9. Juli 2025 Geschichte. Erstmals ist ein Unternehmen an der Börse mehr als vier Billionen US-Dollar wert.
https://www.
I am 100% certain that the intractable and ancient questions of “What is ‘human?’” and “What is ‘intelligence?’” will finally be resolved once and for all by corporate lawyers in a contract dispute with billions of dollars at stake
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/agi-may-be-impossible-to-define-and-thats-a-multibillion-dollar-problem/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Parlor Greens:
🎵 Driptorch
#ParlorGreens
https://parlorgreens.bandcamp.com/album/driptorch-200-dollar-blues
https://open.spotify.com/track/1tXTo9iAt2yWE8PIAVfcEw
I've heard the 'main' Kevin Smith stories so many times, I think this maybe round 4-5 of the George Carlin casting tale...
...but I genuinely love his delivery & punchline every time. 😂
▶️ Kevin Smith: The $30 Million Dollar Man | Whiskey Ginger
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WymwLg…
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor der Columbia University und Wirtschafts-Nobelpreisträger bekommt von der #Trump - Regierung die Mittel für eine Vortragsreihe in Dänemark gekürzt, die der dortige Botschafter schon frei gegeben hatte. Es geht um lachhafte 10 tsd Dollar. Stiglitz bedankt sich mit dem Florett in einem Meinungsartikel in der NYTimes
Amazon reorganizes its healthcare business into six "pillars" to simplify its structure, following executive departures and its struggles in the market (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/amazon-reorganizes-i…
Throwaway #WWDC25 thoughts:
• No trillion dollar company needs anyone’s defense
• Having said that, Liquid Glass is cool and I hope they sort out accessibility contrast / legibility
• People who remember Vista but not Aqua are, uh, not old heads I guess. It’s fine but not a great comparison there
»Integration von Grok Telegram schließt 300-Millionen-Dollar-Deal mit #Musk:
#ElonMusk's KI-Chatbot Grok soll für ein Jahr in den Messenger Telegram integriert werden. Das hat Telegram-Gründer #PawelDurow
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThisClassicalLife
David Bowie:
🎵 Dollar Days
#DavidBowie
https://open.spotify.com/track/1k5GEEuEoBiklGgmQcD62s
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Tommy Richman:
🎵 Million Dollar Baby (Main Version)
#NowPlaying #TommyRichman
https://djsal.bandcamp.com/track/tommy-richman-million-dollar-baby-still-tippin-remix-clean
https://open.spotify.com/track/55HpRb1dWGT3JeX9RpDpLa
Selenskyj fordert Halbierung des Ölpreisdeckels
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj hat die westlichen Industrieländer aufgefordert, ihre Preisobergrenze für russisches Öl zu halbieren.
Die Preisobergrenze für russisches Öl liegt derzeit bei 60 Dollar pro Barrel. Selenskyj will diese halbieren. "Jeder unserer Partner weiß, welcher Preisdeckel nötig ist - 30 Dollar (pro Barrel), nicht mehr", sagte er in seiner abend…
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Meta investiert 3,5 Milliarden US-Dollar in Brillenhersteller
Für etwa 3,5 Milliarden US-Dollar bekommt Meta 3 Prozent Anteile an Essilor Luxottica – dem Brillenhersteller hinter Ray-Ban, Oakley und Co.
https…
Two Dimensional Silver Dollar Game
Ryohei Miyadera, Enchong Li, Akito Tsujii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06307 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…
Help me reach this epic goal of getting an dollar https://ko-fi.com/raysofred/goal?g=0
1st day in #copenhagen this year. Found a place with Guinnes for 25
DKK (approx 2,5 euro/ 2,50 dollar). Fun night out without spending that much on beer.
Und jetzt stellt euch vor, was mit den prognostizierten Effizienz-Gewinnen von #KI passieren wird wenn diese Kosten dann mal verrechnet werden …
https://www.hei…
This was foreseeable. Want to go on vacation on the state's dime? Pull your kids out of school and get vouchers.
Reminds me of the time I saw my sister-in-law tell her first grader to read a book for a treat. That was her idea of teaching her kid how to read. Both she and my brother benefited from special education throughout their schooling. The state was fine with them homeschooling. I believe they were eventually convinced by her parents to send the kids back to school. My pare…
Euro gegen Dollar https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9995
Trump legt wieder nach - Seifenoper kostet Musk schon 34 Milliarden Dollar #News #Nachrichten
Aaron Rodgers contract: Deal includes these six incentives that could be difficult for the Steelers QB to hit
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…
Grok 4 kommt – und mit ihm ein 300 US-Dollar teures Abo
Gratis-KI weicht immer mehr teuren Abo-Modellen. Auch Elon Musks xAI kündigt neben einem neuen KI-Modell ein teures Abonnement an.
https://www.
Trump’s ‘revenge’ tax could see dollar dive five per cent | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/investing/trumps-revenge-tax-could-see-dollar-dive
@… @… You don’t become a trillion dollar corporation by owning the costs of your mistakes I suppose… bit of a dick move to take away money folks might already have spent.
Veo3 shows that particular blindness that tech people have to the way culture develops.
It looks impressive now, but that's because it usually takes a lot of work to film shots like this. Once people learn to recognize video AI's "style", that style becomes synonymous with cheap crap.
It happened with images, and it will happen with video. They made a billion dollar machine that instantly devalues whatever the machine produces.
Sources: Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to CEO, replacing Alexandr Wang, who is set to join Meta after its investment in Scale AI (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Perplexity Max: 200 US-Dollar im Monat
KI wird teurer: Perplexity bringt ein neues Abo heraus. Max kostet 200 US-Dollar im Monat und beinhaltet dafür alle künftigen Anwendungen.
https://www.he…
Cowboys need 6th-round pick to prove he's better than 2 million-dollar signings https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/04/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-69-og-ajani-…
BlackRock halted Ukraine recovery fund following Trump victory, France working on replacement, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/blackrock-halted-ukraine-recovery-fund.html
House GOP probes whether NY Gov. Kathy Hochul pulled Medicaid funds to plug billion-dollar hole in state budget (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/02/us-news/house-gop-probes-kathy-hochul-over-hoarding-medicaid-funds-to-plug-billion-dollar-budget-hole/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p106#a250702p106
Onze accountants in Nederland.....
"Volgens de Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM), die nauw met de Amerikaanse waakhond samenwerkte, hebben honderden medewerkers van Deloitte, PwC en EY vijf jaar lang gefraudeerd bij het maken van examens."
https://www.…
Die geplante Übernahme der historischen #Wasserrechte des Shoshone-Kraftwerks durch den Colorado River District sorgt für Streit zwischen West- und Ost-Colorado.
Der Deal im Umfang von 99 Millionen Dollar soll #Umweltschutz durch eine neue Instream-Flow-Regelung ermöglichen, stößt ab…
Krypto-Scam: Nigerianischer Prinz statt US-Präsident
Kryptowährung im Wert von 250.000 US-Dollar konnte ein Betrüger ergaunern – er gab sich als Mitglied eines Trump-Spendenkomitees aus.
https://www.
A look at celebrity impersonation scams and the steps taken by Hollywood to combat them, including a likeness management tool CAA is developing with YouTube (Rebecca Keegan/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Advancing Exchange Rate Forecasting: Leveraging Machine Learning and AI for Enhanced Accuracy in Global Financial Markets
Md. Yeasin Rahat, Rajan Das Gupta, Nur Raisa Rahman, Sudipto Roy Pritom, Samiur Rahman Shakir, Md Imrul Hasan Showmick, Md. Jakir Hossen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09851
#urgewald mit neuer Studie zum fossilen Geschäftsmodell der #DeutscheBank veröffentlicht. Sie trägt den schönen Titel "#Fossile aus Leidenschaft". 45 Millionen US-Dollar täglich hat die Deutsche Bank s…
Bericht: Viele G7-Staaten wollen Ölpreis-Obergrenze kappen
Die meisten G7-Staaten sind offenbar bereit, auch ohne die USA die Preisobergrenze für russisches Öl auf 45 Dollar pro Barrel zu senken. Das berichtet die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters unter Berufung auf vier mit der Angelegenheit vertraute Insider. Es gebe eine entsprechende Initiative der europäischen Länder sowie positive Signale aus Kanada, Großbritannien und möglich…
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Watching the 1967 movie "Billion Dollar Brain" and totally distracted by the fact that Harry Palmer's seedy office is, I think, roughly the location of my office desk.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061405/mediaviewer/rm2192045569/
Spinning an endless growth story isn't merely ideological. It's a firmly materialistic undertaking.
Companies that appear to be growing have market caps that are an order of magnitude larger than companies that are consisdered "mature" and at the end of their growth phase.
For every dollar that Ford brings in, the market is willing to spend $8.60 on its stock.
For every dollar Tesla brings in, the market is willing to spend $118 on its stock.
That…
Rev. Jamal Bryant: Target Is Canceled. Dollar General’s Next | Atlanta Daily World
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2025/06/02/rev-jamal-bryant-target-is-canceled-dollar-generals-next/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
King Kong & D. Jungle Girls:
🎵 Boom Boom Dollar (Boom Boom mix)
#KingKong #DJungleGirls
https://open.spotify.com/track/04ftl6Ym44kJPVnJVq7Wzq
Sources: Amazon weighs another multibillion-dollar investment in Anthropic, as it seeks to position itself ahead of Google, which has invested $3B in Anthropic (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3e569928-dc0e-4baa-80c3-b51d24facb23
„Nach mehr als dreißig Jahren löst Deutschland Japan als größten Gläubiger der Welt ab. Das Nettoauslandsvermögen der Deutschen belief sich Ende des vergangenen Jahres auf 3,6 Billionen Dollar.“ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/deu
Cowboys $6 million trade acquisition named one of the best moves of NFL offseason https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-6-million-trade-acquisition-named-one…
»Kontroverse um Streaming-CEO – 694 Millionen Dollar für Waffen: Künstler reagieren auf Investments von Spotify-Chef Daniel Ek:
Der schwedische Techgründer kauft sich bei einem Unternehmen ein, das KI-Kriegsmaterial entwickelt. Erste Bands ziehen ihre Musik von der Plattform ab.«
Ich kritisierte Spotify schon lange, da es auch gnadenlos die Musiker*innen ausnimmt. Nun ist dies ein Argument mehr um es nicht mehr zu nutzen.
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Ein humanoider Open-Source-Roboter für 3000 US-Dollar
Hugging Face stellt einen humanoiden Roboter für 3000 US-Dollar vor, der gehen und mit Objekten interagieren können soll.
https://www.
Kaiko: the USD1 stablecoin launched by Trump's World Liberty Financial is off to a sluggish start, with muted inflows and little organic demand (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/trump-usd1-stablecoin.html
Pizza-Roboter erstellt 100 Pizzas pro Stunde automatisch
XRobotics hat einen kompakten Pizza-Roboter entwickelt. Riskiokapitalgebern ist das 2,5 Millionen US-Dollar wert.
https://www.
Ukraine gets $1.7 billion loan from Canada backed by Russian assets: https://benborges.xyz/2025/06/30/ukraine-gets-billion-loan-from.html
Inside the Billion-Dollar Effort to Make Trump Feel Good About Himself (Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-dear-leader-bondi-noem-republican-propaganda-1235356187/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p39#a250606p39
Mike Lindell heads into defamation trial planning to testify
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/i-have-nothing-to-hide-i-am-a-former-crack-addict-mike-lindell-plans-to-testify-at-his-billion-dollar-defamation-trial/
IF YOU EVER FEEL HEAVY
BECAUSE YOU CARE DEEPLY ABOUT INJUSTICE, SUFFERING AND ECOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION,
REMEMBER THAT A TRILLION
DOLLAR PROPAGANDA MACHINE
WAS BUILT TO MAKE YOU NUMB
AND IT DIDN'T WORK ON YOU
-- Natasha Jay
https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/1147281
Sources: Meta is in talks for a potential multibillion-dollar investment in Scale AI, Meta's largest external AI investment; Scale AI was last valued at ~$14B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
His head makes me think of Humpty Dumpty, but he's also known as 'Dollar Store Nosferatu'.
Who is he?
Während Microsoft tausende Mitarbeiter entlässt, feiert das Unternehmen gleichzeitig enorme Einsparungen durch Künstliche Intelligenz. 🤖 Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff verkündete stolz, dass allein in den Call Centern über 500 Millionen Dollar weniger Kosten als im Vorjahreszeitraum anfielen.
Zum Artikel:
A profile of LA-based Whatnot, a livestream marketplace valued at ~$5B, which has raised $700M since 2019 and expects its GMV to grow 100% YoY to $6B in 2025 (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/16/whatnot
Enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to $60M, and launched an enterprise coding AI agent called Clark (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/07/supe…
Paramount said late Tuesday that it had agreed to pay Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the editing of an interview on the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” an extraordinary bribe to a sitting president by a major media organization.
Paramount said its payment included Trump’s legal fees and costs and that the money, minus the legal fees, would be paid to Mr. Trump’s future presidential library. (wink, wink)
The deal is the clearest sign yet that Trump’s ability to intimi…
More than half of America’s billion-dollar start-ups were founded by at least one immigrant,
and a quarter have a founder who arrived as a student.
https://bsky.app/profile/economist.com/post/3lqkuci6bxe2a
An interview with ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, as the company navigates political instability in The Netherlands and abroad and the impacts of Trump's trade war (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…
https://youtu.be/tJsC6fpQ7Pw
More Abdullah Ibrahim
aka Dollar Brand
– African Music Forum
https://
The last time a Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump moved to slash Medicaid spending, in 2017, a key political force stood in their way:
GOP governors.
Now, as Congress steamrolls toward passing historic Medicaid cuts of about $1 trillion over 10 years through Trump’s tax and spending legislation,
red-state governors are saying little publicly about what it does to health care
— even as they face reductions that will punch multibillion-dollar hole…
Ripple has applied for a national banking license, which would place Ripple's dollar-backed stablecoin, RLUSD, under the US OCC's regulatory remit (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/rip
Spyware-Attacke gegen WhatsApp: NSO Group will neue Verhandlung
Zu 167 Millionen US-Dollar Strafzahlung verurteilt, stellt der Pegasus-Hersteller NSO Group einen Antrag auf Zurückweisung oder Neuanordnung des Verfahrens.
…
A profile of LA-based Whatnot, a livestream marketplace valued at ~$5B, which has raised $700M since 2019 and expects its GMV to grow 100% YoY to $6B in 2025 (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/16/whatnot