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This is bullshit. And it’s illegal. We'll see President Trump in court.

Nancy Pelosi says Trump and Republicans may try to rig vote counts in the midterms: “We have to be on guard…They may try to creep into the technology and create a false count." Un. Freakin. Real.

So horrible.

Year-to-date all Mag 7 stocks have underperformed SPX. $META and $GOOGL which had been holding up well all year, have underperformed in recent weeks as investors struggle with a California jury verdict finding the companies negligent for a 20-year-old woman's mental health problems, awarding her $6 million in damages for her excessive use of their platforms as a child. The verdict found the companies negligent, stating that the design and operation of their platforms made them addictive and that they either knew or should have known their products posed a danger to children. The case has far-reaching implications, with thousands of similar cases in the pipeline and governments around the world considering measures to protect young social media users, including bans, restrictions on design features, and laws requiring platforms to protect children from harmful content. This conjures up memories of adverse tobacco verdicts in the 1990s where juries started finding tobacco companies liable for smokers’ addictions and health injuries, despite warning labels on cigarette packages disclosing tobacco’s risks since the 1960s. Where is this headed? IMO, the $6M jury verdict will get overturned on appeal (this trial was in CA state court where judges’ biases often lead to errors that get overturned at the appellate level). There is no question that the plaintiff in the case had a traumatic childhood, but there was a real dispute about whether social media was the principal cause of that trauma. Here the plaintiff testified that her mother had abused her physically and psychologically as a child. One issue may be that the judge instructed the jury to consider whether the companies’ negligence was ‘a substantial factor’ in causing the harm — not the primary factor but a substantial factor. Beyond this specific verdict, we may be headed for an outcome where $META and $GOOG place a minimum age on using their platforms that requires uploading government-issued identification. The impact on children is what juries tend to find most objectionable, and that’s an easy fix. At META’s forward P/E of 16x and GOOG’s forward P/E of 22x vs 10-15% forward 5-year Rev and EPS growth, both stocks seem very cheap.

Cory Booker was just speaking to an empty Newark Airport with no lines saying, "Donald Trump has bought chaos to our airports." This is what an imbecile looks like. 😂

$GOOGL just released TurboQuant which is a new compression method that can cut LLM cache memory by at least 6x & deliver ~8x speedups without sacrificing quality This could make local AI inference far more capable with larger context windows & less memory strain across devices

🚨 “I Pushed him TWICE... Then He Kicked the Crap Out of Me" – Neighbor Breaks Silence on Viral Beatdown Ronnie Taylor, the guy "Reacher" star Alan Ritchson beat up explains how the fight started in the first place. “I did push him because he was coming towards me on his bike. He did it again a second time. I pushed him a second time, then he got off his bike and kicked the crap out of me.”