2026-03-02 02:32:04
Moscow gloats over potential oil price spike from Iran war – POLITICO #iran
Moscow gloats over potential oil price spike from Iran war – POLITICO #iran
Lots of good in this by Martha Lane Fox: 'The impact [of AI] won’t arrive as one big shock. It will seep in through a thousand local compressions: a team of ten becoming a team of seven...the entry-level rung thinning out' but OTOH 'When the cost of trying falls, the number of attempts rises' https://
Moscow gloats over potential oil price spike from Iran war (Eva Hartog/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-oil-price-iran-war-strait-of-hormuz/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p73#a260301p73
https://www.resetera.com/threads/newsis-consumer-gpus-to-increase-in-price-next-year-rtx-5090-to-increase-from-2000-to-5000.1394815/ I bought my ASRock AMD RX 9070 XT not long after it launched, for fea…
Which countries are paying the highest price for particulate air pollution? #environment
Framework says it is raising DDR5 RAM prices to charge $10 per GB, after a price hike earlier in December due to "substantially higher costs" amid the AI boom (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/850376/framework-ram-memory-ddr5-price-hikes…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Mercury Rev & Margo Price:
🎵 Sermon (Edit)
#NowPlaying #MercuryRev #MargoPrice
https://mercuryrev.bandcamp.com/track/sermon-feat-margo-price
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ebgXFpdY6sGhgIBtuS1xS
PriceGhost is a service that you can run on your server to check the prices of products on Amazon, Aliexpress, etc. at the frequency you select. In addition, if you create a Telegram bot, you can configure it to send you notifications in case of price changes. This way, you don't have to constantly check the price either in the online store or on the PriceGhost web interface.
At the moment, it is running in a Docker container on my home server and works like a charm.
Giants co-owner Steve Tisch needs to pay a price for his startling lack of judgment https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7012707/2026/02/01/steve-tisch-giants-epstein-files-nfl-owners/
I strongly endorse the first part of what @tarheel said here: make plastic more expensive. Bake its human and environmental costs into the price of the products that use it.
I’m not optimistic about that happening under anything like current political conditions, but still important to note what a good idea that would be if we did it.
https://mstdn.io/@tarheel/115651260261673168
A kilometer at the cost of thousands of lives: the true price of the Kremlin's fake victories: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/01/a-kilometer-at-the-cost.html
from my link log —
Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold for $$$$ to private equity firm.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/
saved 2019-11-23
Putin must be very happy with the petrol price these days.
Netflix actually won by walking away from the WBD bid, collecting a $2.8B termination fee and driving up the price and debt load of the Paramount-WBD merger (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/netflix
Cowboys, Eagles, Bills get Raiders asking price for Maxx Crosby in latest trade rumor https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-eagles-bills-raiders-asking-price-maxx-crosby-tra…
The price of silver smashed through the $90 mark Wednesday morning
for the first time in weeks
as the metal recoups gains it lost after a late January crash,
though the precious metal remains far from the record highs it previously hit above $120.
KEY FACTS
The price of silver is $90.68 as of 9:25 a.m. EST, up nearly 4% but down slightly from a high of $91.18 reached earlier in the morning.
Amazon may be in fairly big legal trouble here: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/amazon-bu…
Cowboys, Eagles, Bills get Raiders asking price for Maxx Crosby in latest trade rumor https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-eagles-bills-raiders-asking-price-maxx-crosby-tra…
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
AVON: Someone has a very expensive sense of humor.
DORIAN: Everything has it's price, Avon. You have to decide whether you want to pay it or not. That's all.
VILA: Well, I don't believe in paying.
I'm glad I just bought a 2TB DRAM cache SSD I didn't really need for a still-normal price, because I have a sinking feeling that we don't really know yet how bad it's going to get
xAI launches Grok Business, priced at $30 per seat/month, for SMBs, and Grok Enterprise, whose price is not listed publicly, for larger organizations (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/musks-xai-launches-grok-business-a…
💸 Why the price of coffee has skyrocketed: from Brazilian plantations to specialty coffee houses
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-12-28/why-the-price-of-coffee-ha…
Sources: theaters earned $25M from Netflix's Stranger Things finale over New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, selling concession vouchers in a new price strategy (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/box-office-stranger-things-…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
The Everly Brothers:
🎵 The Price of Love
#TheEverlyBrothers
https://onlyeverlybrothers.bandcamp.com/track/the-price-of-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/2I4zsNp4WNePXjVcGmeKDY
Trump says he's dropping push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland, Oregon, for now (Michelle L. Price/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-guard-withdrawal-cities-6b7b02b832b24e17e6db483eb6c74425
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p72#a251231p72
OVH (#16276) releases prices updates on additional services (e.g., dedicated and VPS 2026 line) to take effect 2026-04-01.
Some of monthly dedicated server price increases are mostly in the 3%-15% range. Some VM price increases are much higher, around 40%-60% in most cases! Lock in long-term prices now if you can.
Kangol’s Silence to Rabbit Torture is LOUD – Ban Angora NOW! #AnimalRights
Netflix actually won by walking away from the WBD bid, collecting a $2.8B termination fee and driving up the price and debt load of the Paramount-WBD merger (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/netflix
Been waiting for Apple to update the Studio Display since mine got damaged in the move. Couldn’t bring myself to rebuy the same thing at full price.
Was using a tiny non-retina screen for a while, but lately I’ve been back at the desk more.
Picked up a Samsung ViewFinity S9 to try. ~$760 USD on Coupang TW for 5K, kinda wild.
More plasticky than Apple’s, but for the price I’m pretty happy lol.
Tonight marks not only the end of the year but also the end of our Trust Us Ticket sale.
🎉 Secure the best deal now and save over 35% off the regular ticket price: https://tickets.plainschwarz.com/bbuzz26/c/8Hvk0ZvJA/
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate
knowledge of its ugly side.
-- James Baldwin
Don’t buy more soft synths you don’t really need. Don’t buy more soft synths you don’t really need. Don’t buy more soft synths you don’t really need … 🎹
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/make-music-change-lives-software
A blog post by Anthropic pointing out that Claude Code can refactor legacy COBOL applications appears to have sent IBM’s share price down by double digits.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/a
Maxx Crosby trade rumor gives Seahawks, Lions and Bears the Raiders' asking price https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/detroit-lions/news/maxx-crosby-trade-rumor-seahawks-lions-bears-raiders-asking…
2026 NFL combine: Top prospects explain why they rejected transfer portal NIL paydays
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-combine-top-prospects-explain-rejec…
‘Terrified’ Americans are faced with life-or-death choice after sky-high Affordable Care Act price hikes | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/health-insurance-premiums-affordable-care-act-obamacare-aca-b2909554.html
⭐️Silver hit $79 (£58) an ounce for the first time last Friday,
a new peak, up from $56 at the start of December, and just $29 an ounce at the start of 2025.
Analysts have attributed the jump in the price of silver to expectations of US interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve in 2026,
leading to increased demand for hard assets that protect against inflation and currency debasement.
New restrictions on silver exports from China, which begin on 1 January,
have c…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115802426808343705
A small price to pay to keep having billionaires, though, amirite?
Stadiums & concessions stands price gouge because THEY CAN. Regulators simply let them despite it already being illegal.
▶️ We Uncovered the Illegal Scam Happening at Every Stadium
https://youtube.com/watch?v=w7LPPTLDXu4&si=4JQb5GPHC3VAwpvp
1/ I hate Bitcoin with a probably-unhealthy intensity and have a hook set up so I get notified on big moves (e.g. down 5.3% today). When they come in I glance at the chart and occasionally get stuck for a few minutes. Stock markets have been explained as an argument between buyers & sellers as to the correct value of the underlying real-world thing. But…
#Bitcoin
Xiaomi launches the €999 Xiaomi 17, the €1,499 17 Ultra, and the €1,999 Leica-branded Leitzphone, all featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, in Europe (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/886322/xiaomi-17-release-specs-pric…
Trump delays increased tariffs on upholstered furniture, kitchen cabinets and vanities for a year (Michelle L. Price/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-kitchen-cabinets-furniture-tariffs-a89ea5c044af3c2ac8ffcb481e0150ef
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p27#a260102p27
Wanted this deluxe physical version of Resident Evil: Requiem for Switch 2. Been looking for any kind of (legit) preroder anywhere for it for weeks. It comes out tomorrow, and it's never been anywhere available for preorder that I've seen. Everyone snapped it up or they blew it with the preorders? Anyway. I have no idea. To hell with it, I guess 😂 If anyone runs across someone selling one at RETAIL price, lmk. (I'm not paying a dollar over retail.)
The Betrayal of Ukraine: Peace, Power, and the Price of Electricity
How Farage, Musk, Thiel and the Trumps hope to profit from the surrender of Ukraine
https://www.theangrydogs.com/p/the-betrayal-of-ukraine-peace-power
@… For me, the question remains, why roll out AI “summaries” at all? None of the cited benefits are very compelling. For example, wouldn’t non-native speakers be better served by translations? If not, why?
It seems to me that AI must be crammed into the DL at any price.
@… For me, the question remains, why roll out AI “summaries” at all? None of the cited benefits are very compelling. For example, wouldn’t non-native speakers be better served by translations? If not, why?
It seems to me that AI must be crammed into the DL at any price.
Did someone in Washington D.C. say "Drug prices are coming down by 150%, 200%, 400%, even 600%"? 🤔
#USA #inflation #prices #phrama #sarcasm
Looking through the Nintendo Store to see how Switch 2 people live, and it’s pretty shocking that Nintendo never discounts their games, like ever. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is still at full price.
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
RUSSIA FACES PRICE SHOCK, GOLD RESERVES ARE GONE Vlog 1302: War in #Ukraine
According to data from #Russia’s Ministry of …
"AI-Powered Price Optimization": US-Zustelldienst Instacart manipuliert Preise
Sogar bei Selbstabholung setzt Instacart für bestellte Lebensmittel höhere Preise an, individuell unterschiedlich. Selbes Produkt, selbe Zeit, selbe Filiale.
"Fossil fuel pollution’s effect on oceans comes with huge costs"
#FossilFuels #Oceans #Environment
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Belair Lip Bombs:
🎵 Price of a Man
#TheBelairLipBombs
https://thebelairlipbombs.bandcamp.com/track/price-of-a-man
https://open.spotify.com/track/1BGZifRIVvisuEy9JfCeTe
Hetzner (#AS24940) is raising prices across the board by more than 30% in many cases on April 1, 2026 (no joke).
https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructu…
I had a question about Olympic success and wealth, and I’m glad someone else did too. And, they brought all the Python!
https://towardsdatascience.com/the-price-of-gold-is-olympic-success-reserved-for-the-wealthy-adade0233d61/…
I got the #InnioasysY1 music player.
Before that it was between a 1st gen ipod shuffle, my android phone with a usb c to aux adapter, my android device with a aux jack, and my iphone.
But I settled on the Innioasys Y1 and enjoy it. Put rockbox on it and its awesome. An ipod would be double the price and I don't care this thing works fine for me.
As well as this rockbox the…
[OT] We may soon all be hanging on to our old laptops until an AI bubble burst makes chips affordable again https://mashable.com/article/laptop-price-increase-ddr5-ram-ai All signs point to big laptop and smartphone price increases due to escalating memory shortage.
Information Manipulation is a market.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/price-bot-army-global-index
I guess, for very obvious reasons, @… is not going to post about how they’re going rise the price.
Maxx Crosby rumor gives Cowboys, Bills, Eagles and Patriots minimum trade price https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/maxx-crosby-rumor-cowboys-bills-eagles-patriots-minimum-trade…
Nvidia stock is down 4% , as investor concerns around the AI infrastructure boom dampen enthusiasm about the chipmaker's better-than-expected earnings (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/nvidia-nvda-stock-price-q4-earnings.html
Dollar General agrees to pay $15m to settle price-gouging claims | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/20/dollar-general-settlement-price-gouging
EU considers full ban on Russian oil services to replace price cap, source says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/30/eu-considers-full-ban-on.html
December 18, 1978
Iran: Not A Good Day To Be The Shah
– Peace Talks On Hold
– OPEC’s Big Price Boost
https://pastdaily.com/iran-not-a-good-day-to-be-the-shah-peace-talks-on-hold-opecs-big-price-boost-de…
Maxx Crosby rumor gives Cowboys, Bills, Eagles and Patriots minimum trade price https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/maxx-crosby-rumor-cowboys-bills-eagles-patriots-minimum-trade…
I would like to say "American Exceptionalism" is just a joke.
But when people enter the price of their product directly in the description - ignoring that the Internet is worldwide and the world use several currencies and there is a need to convert - it is ALWAYS in American dollars.
I have yet to see an exception.
Cowboys free agency: Why Brandon Aubrey's reported $10 million asking price is absurd but reasonable
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-free-agency-brandon-aubrey-…
Since bidding for WBD began in September, its stock price has risen 148% and Paramount raised its bid by 63%, a testament to David Zaslav's dealmaking abilities (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/warner-bros-paramount-netflix
Just in time for the midterms!
Amazon CEO Says Tariff Price Increases Likely to Hit Your Wallet This Year
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-ceo-says-tariff-price-increases-likely-to-hit-your-wallet-this-year-2000712020
Filing: Chinese AI startup MiniMax seeks to raise up to ~$538.5M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 25.4M shares at a price range of ~$19.40 to ~$21.20 per share (Shivangi Lahiri/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific…
Free Style: George Pickens is the real deal, for a real price https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/free-style-george-pickens-is-the-real-deal-for-a-real-price
Proposed Trade Has Raiders Land Superstar WR for Low Price https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/eagles-trade-rumors-aj-brown/
American businesses and consumers absorbed nearly 90% of the 2025 tariffs’ economic burden.
The researchers weren’t working from theory: They tracked actual transaction-level import price data
and found that prices paid by U.S. importers rose nearly one-for-one with tariff rates.
These results confirm what research on the 2018-19 tariffs already established and echoes other studies of the last year.
The bottom line is that, faced with tariffs,
foreign exporte…
Review of Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold: sturdy but poor camera performance and has some unique design flaws that make it even less polished than regular foldables (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
Trump threatens Canada with 50% tariff on aircraft sold in US, expanding trade war (Michelle L. Price/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-aircraft-carney-d8692117bfcf11cf948f834534e7eb88
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p140#a260129p140
Hands-on with Galaxy S26 Ultra's Privacy Display: very impressive with a dual-pixel system that allows users to toggle viewing angles to prevent side-peeking (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/884337/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-priv…
Maxx Crosby trade rumor gives Seahawks, Lions and Bears price point for Raiders star https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/seattle-seahawks/news/maxx-crosby-trade-rumor-seahawks-lions-bears-price…
Legal activist Emily Galvan Almanza chronicles the many ways in which the justice system targets the poor.
It’s not news that judicial outcomes are often tied to the wealth and influence of a defendant:
Not only do the well-to-do have the resources to hire good lawyers,
but juries themselves tend to be made up of older, wealthier, white people.
A predictable result, writes Galvin Almanza, is that defendants of color, represented by appointed public defenders, pull lo…
The price of Russian OIL has dropped by another $3.5! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/the-price-of-russian-oil.html
Tributes for Dallas Cowboys Superfan 'Ms. Price' Pour Out After Passing https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/tributes-dallas-cowboys-superfan-ms-price-pour-out-after-passing
Amazon is paying ~16x Microsoft's price per OpenAI percentage point, while getting none of Microsoft's exclusives, showing the cost of being late in AI (Om Malik/On my Om)
https://om.co/2026/02/27/amazon-the-cost-of-ai-lateness/
There's a Better Way to Stop Price Gouging (Tim Wu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/opinion/price-gouging-mamdani.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260217/p32#a260217p32
PRICES TO THE MOON, LIFE IN THE DITCH! 🚨 Why Are Russians Panicking About 2025?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/27/prices-to-the-moon-life.html
India-based Ultrahuman launches the $479 Ring Pro, available for pre-order globally, excluding the US, after the ITC ruled in favor of Oura in a patent dispute (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/ultr…
Storied Law Firm Pays Brutal Price for Surrendering to Trump (The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/storied-law-firm-pays-brutal-price-for-surrendering-to-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p19#a251220p19
Samsung reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to ~$65.6B, vs. ~$65.28B est., and operating profit up 200% to ~$14.06B, driven by memory chip price surge and HBM demand (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/samsung-record-q4-2025-profit-…
Analysis: DRAM and NAND memory prices have jumped 600% over the past year for routers and set-top boxes, hitting telcos targeting aggressive broadband rollouts (Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/in
IDC: global smartphone shipments will fall 12.9% YoY to 1.12B units in 2026, the market's largest-ever decline, as surging memory prices drive up device costs (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel…
Anthropic says it will upgrade power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases to minimize the effects of its data centers (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/anthropi…
Instacart says it is ending all item price tests effective immediately, and won't charge different prices for the same items, after a report into the practice (Chris Wack/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business…
Samsung shares surged 5.4% to a record high after a report said the company plans to price HBM4 chips at ~$700 per unit, 30% higher than the previous generation (Kurt Schussler/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, above the marketed range of $15 to $17 per share, giving it a market value of about $2.1B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-22/bitgo-is-said-to-price-us…
Global smartphone shipments in 2026 are set to shrink 2.1% due to rising memory costs, led by Chinese OEMs; DRAM price surges are set to raise costs by 10%-15% (Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/in
Dutch payments company Adyen reports H2 2025 net revenue up 17% YoY to €1.27B and forecasts 2026 net revenue growth at 20%-22%, vs 22.8% est.; ADYEN falls 15% (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/adyen-stock-price-earnings.html