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Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach. The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

If this tweet has exactly 1 like in 24 hours I’ll give that person $1,000,000

Evangeline Lilly just said what nobody inside Marvel was willing to say out loud Disney laid off almost the entire Marvel visual development team artists who spent 10 to 16 years building the visual identity of the MCU. Lilly's response : "SHAME ON YOU for turning your back on the people who built the power you are now using to throw them away." She called it "disgusting and horrible." These are the people who designed Iron Man's suits. Thor's hammer. The Infinity Gauntlet. Every world, every costume, every frame that made the MCU what it is. Let go. While Doomsday trailers are playing in Las Vegas. Andy Park — Director of Visual Development for 16 years — posted on social media that it was the "end of an era." He worked on over 40 films. His last project was Avengers Doomsday. The people who built Marvel's greatest chapter won't be there to see it open. Evangeline Lilly said shame on you. She's right.

Mark Cuban just told a conference that one of his Shark Tank companies is saving $50,000 a month with an AI agent that takes pictures of boxes. RebelCheese ships vegan cheese around the world. UPS and DHL bill on a stack of variables: dimensional weight, zone, fuel surcharge, residential delivery, address correction. About five percent of those invoices come back wrong. Almost always in the carrier's favor. The agent does four things. Photographs the box at packout. Reads the dimensions. Pulls the published rate. Reads the carrier invoice. If the numbers don't match, it files the credit request before the 30-day dispute window closes. That last step is the whole game. UPS and FedEx require disputes inside 30 days. A small business shipping a few hundred boxes a week never had time to find errors AND file claims AND fight the rejection AND refile. The math on hiring someone to do it never penciled. So an entire industry got built to catch the overcharges. Sifted, 71lbs, Reveel, ICC. They charge 15-30% contingency on whatever they recover. Reveel's own data says 75% of parcel credits owed by UPS and FedEx go unclaimed every year. About $1.25 billion sitting on the table. RebelCheese just clawed back their share for the cost of running an LLM. Notice what kind of work this agent does. Not creative. Not strategic. It photographs, reads, compares, files. The first wave of agentic AI is winning on tasks where the labor cost was the only thing keeping a structural overcharge alive. Carrier billing. Hotel folios. Insurance EOBs. Cloud invoice reconciliation. Payroll deductions. Telecom contracts. Every one of these has a 3-7% leak that exists because the audit cost exceeded the recovery. The complexity was the moat. The complexity is now the input.

@prakdadlani You gave him too much of your time anyway. Should have cancelled the deal ages ago

2 months ago, a buyer from Delhi came to our factory. He walked through the entire setup, criticized whatever he could, and spoke like he was going to do big business with us. He liked our product, asked for samples and full specs, and we shared everything without delay. We quoted INR 410 for 10,000 pieces, payment in cash. Then the calls started. Not with clear decisions, but with small complaints about things that did not really matter. While we responded properly and took in whatever feedback we could, we also made it clear what we could change and what we could not. Then came the haggling. He countered at INR 390. After some back and forth, he finally confirmed at INR 400. He said “done,” asked for the PI, we sent it, and then he went completely silent for a week. No calls, no messages. During that same time, all material costs went up. Then suddenly, he called again and said he was ready to confirm, but now he wanted only 3,000 pieces and also asked for a 4% cash discount (even though the quotation was already based on cash), as if he was doing us a favor. Work was slow and we had some stock, so after thinking it through, we agreed to a 1% discount and sent a revised PI. Once again, silence. After a few days, he said he was in China and claimed prices there were cheaper. I knew that was not true, so I simply wished him well and told him to buy from China. But he came back again, saying he still wanted to buy from us. This time, he asked for a full cost breakdown including plastic, electronics, labor, packing, and our profit. We work transparently, so we shared it. Then he said our profit was too high and demanded that we reduce it. We told him cost is a fact, profit is our principle, and flatly refused. He kept pushing. He asked for detailed molding costs like plastic rates, cycle time, burn loss, and labor. That was the point where it was no longer about business. It was about control. So instead of arguing, we calmly told him the goods were sold out. He got livid, started shouting, and said we had no right to sell the goods since he had already “confirmed the order.” I stayed calm, said sorry, and ended the conversation. Now, even if he comes back ready to pay more, I will not supply to him. I have seen how these deals end. They always bring stress, delays, and problems. Some business gives you money but takes away your peace. Over time, you learn it is better to do less business with the right people than chase more business with the wrong ones. I would rather have fewer orders, better sleep, and a clear mind than deal with this kind of harassment.

Rep. Maggie Goodlander brought the receipts.

@timothsmith1972 @StevenProfB @AirCanada Lol

@StevenProfB @AirCanada Husband: I'm going to be with her every second of the day while on vacation. I think Ill call the airline to get another seat. 12 rows back should work. Wife: THEY MOVED YOUR SEAT! Husband: I better send a note showing my displeasure.

. @AirCanada just decided to separate my wife and me on our upcoming overseas flight. We had bought and paid for adjoining seats. Now, one week before departure, they notified me that they’re changing MY seat and moving me 12 rows back. No explanation, no apology. Unacceptable.

Fanta in Europe 11g real sugar(not sucrose) Minimal preservatives. @fssaiindia What are you guys doing?

CM Rekha Gupta thinks everybody is a fool. New session of Pvt schools had started on 01 April. From 15 Mar to 01 April, middle class parents were forced to buy overly expensive books, stationary & dress from school vendors only. Now when everyone has already bought books, stationary & dress, CM is talking about inspection. Why is she not talking about exorbitant fee hike by Pvt schools ?

@sumit_218 No. why did the fan break? They just replaced your fan to close this issue, as your post got traction. Did they say what happened?

Appreciate the quick response from @atombergtech 👏 After raising my concern about the broken BLDC fan, the service team promptly visited and replaced the faulty part free of cost. Issue is now resolved. Good to see responsive customer support and accountability. 👍 #Resolved

Concerned about safety ⚠️ My 2-year-old Atomberg BLDC ceiling fan suddenly broke today without any warning. The outer casing shattered and exposed internal components (images attached).

🚨 NEW COURT FILING — OpenAI's own solicitation emails to Musk For three days, OpenAI's lawyer Savitt has been framing Musk as a founding donor who broke his pledges. Today Musk's lawyers filed the receipts to show what actually happened: Altman's October 2015 email to Elon Musk: > "As discussed I think starting with a $100MM commitment (and leaving the time unspecified) is the way to go..." Then the number: > "Can you donate $30MM over the next 5 years?" Musk responded: > "Let's discuss governance. This is critical. I don't want to fund something that goes in what turns out to be the wrong direction." Altman to Musk, a few months later: > "Can you do $20MM a year for the each of the next 3 years?" Musk delivered $38 million plus the office rent. Two and a half years after Musk left the OpenAI board, the asks resumed. July 22, 2020, OpenAI's CFO to Musk's family office: >"It would greatly help the nonprofit org if you're willing to assist with covering... landlord passthroughs and security costs." Musk agreed. He funded OpenAI's rent. Under California law, when a charity solicits and accepts donations, a fiduciary relationship forms between the person who asked and the person who gave. A legal duty to use the money for the declared charitable purpose. Altman and the CFO solicited. Musk donated. OpenAI accepted. Then converted the charity into an $852 billion company. The trust was breached.

I can walk into any private school in Delhi for an inspection, anytime. Every school will state it clearly on its notice board, on its website, and at any store it operates that parents are free to buy uniforms, books and stationery from anywhere. There will be no coercion, no captive buying, no single-vendor diktat. Ensure this without exception. Any violation, any manipulation, will invite the toughest action available under the law. A takeover is not beyond consideration. My inspections are not a gimmick. They are enforcement in action. They are driven by the voices of parents who have written to me, telling me where I must go next. Keep sending your suggestions. Fixing Delhi is our responsibility. My Delhi. My responsibility. #ViksitDelhi

It is actually disturbing how dumb the average person is Red gives you a 100% chance of living, you literally get nothing beneficial out of choosing blue

Left behind in Kabul. Alone. He waited 47 days. K-9 Chaos was not a dog who did his job. He was a dog who had DECIDED, completely, permanently, without reservation, that Lieutenant Marcus Webb was coming back for him. No matter how long it took. At Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, on the morning of August 30th, 2021, a three-year-old Belgian Malinois sat in an empty aircraft hangar. The last American plane had left six hours ago. The evacuation was over. Chaos had been left behind. Not intentionally. The chaos of the withdrawal. The panic. The rush. Webb had been separated from Chaos during the final evacuation. Put on a different plane. Told Chaos would be on the next flight. There was no next flight. Chaos survived the first day alone. Waiting at the hangar where Webb had left him. Chaos survived the first week. Scavenging food from abandoned military supplies. Chaos survived 47 days in Taliban-controlled Kabul. Alone. Hiding. Waiting. Because Chaos survived on the belief that Webb wouldn't leave him forever. Back in the United States, Webb was losing his mind. Filed reports. Called congressmen. Contacted rescue organizations. Went on the news. "I left my dog in Afghanistan," he said on CNN, his voice breaking. "I left my brother. And I'm going to get him back." The military said it was impossible. Kabul had fallen. Taliban controlled the airport. No way to extract a dog. Webb didn't care about impossible. He contacted Pineapple Express, a veteran-run extraction operation. Gave them Chaos's last known location. Sent photos. Videos. Anything that could help. For 47 days, Webb didn't sleep. Didn't eat properly. Just waited for news. On October 16th, 2021, his phone rang. "We found him," the voice said. "We found Chaos." A rescue team had infiltrated Kabul. Used Webb's intel. Found Chaos still at the hangar. Still waiting. Forty-seven days later. Chaos was emaciated. Dehydrated. Traumatized. But alive. The extraction took three days. Smuggling Chaos out of Taliban-controlled territory. Through checkpoints. Through danger. But they got him out. On October 19th, 2021, Chaos landed at Dulles International Airport. Webb was waiting on the tarmac. When they opened the crate, Chaos didn't move. Stared at Webb like he was seeing a ghost. "It's me, brother," Webb said, kneeling down. "I came back. I promised I'd come back." Chaos stepped out slowly. Walked to Webb. Collapsed into his arms. The reunion video went viral. Seventeen million views in three days. But what people didn't see was what happened after. For six months, Chaos wouldn't sleep unless Webb was in the room. Wouldn't eat unless Webb fed him. Wouldn't go outside unless Webb went first. "He's terrified I'll leave him again," Webb said in an interview. "And I don't blame him. I left him once. In the worst place. At the worst time. He waited 47 days for me. And I'll spend the rest of my life making sure he knows I'm never leaving again." Three years later, Chaos still sleeps with his head on Webb's chest. Still follows him everywhere. Still making sure Webb doesn't disappear. K-9 Chaos. Survived 47 days alone in Kabul. Extracted by heroes. Reunited with his handler. Home. facebook.com/share/1HLX9dCv… #LostAndFound #doglover #seniordogs #animalwelfare #militarydog #k9hero #dogrescue #Kabul #47Days #LeftBehind #BroughtHome

🚨 Musk's lawyers just showed the jury the most damaging document in evidence on Brockman: November 2017 Brockman writes in his private diary: >"the true answer is that we want [musk] out... if three months later we're doing b-corp then it was a lie" >“can’t see us turning this into a for-profit without a nasty fight. i’m just thinking about the office and we’re in the office and his story will correctly be that we weren’t honest with him in the end about still wanting to do for profit just without him” January 1, 2018 Brockman emails Musk: >"it's an honor to work alongside you. every meeting with you, i continue to learn, grow, and see the world in a new way" Brockman was planning to oust OpenAI co-founder Musk while publicly thanking him for the privilege of working alongside him.

You cannot buy a new gas turbine until 2030. Order books at GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi stretch to 2029. Turbine prices have nearly tripled since 2019. Every AI data center needs power and every gas plant needs a turbine. And every turbine has one part that bottlenecks the entire industry: The blade. It has to survive in gas 500°C above the melting point of the metal it's made from and spin at up to 20,000 RPM under 10,000 g of centrifugal force. Each blade is grown as a single crystal of nickel superalloy, pulled through a vacuum furnace at 3 mm per minute. A set of blades costs $600,000 and takes 90 weeks to grow. The same metallurgy powers modern jet engines. Only 3 companies on Earth can build one. China spent $42 billion trying to catch up. They bought a Russian fighter engine, took it apart, and copied every part. Their copy ran 30 hours between overhauls versus 400 for the original. Modern Western engines run 4,000. You can reverse engineer the shape of a turbine blade. You cannot reverse engineer 60 years of metallurgy.

68 college students played video games an hour a day for 30 weeks. They got measurably smarter. EEG brain scans confirmed it. The setup was simple. Half the group played League of Legends, an action game. The other half played Legends of the Three Kingdoms, a strategy card game. Same hours, same schedule, no gaming experience for anyone going in. Both groups improved on attention, working memory, and executive function. The League group's gains were significantly larger in spatial attention and spatial working memory. The benefits were still measurable 10 weeks after the gaming stopped. None of this is new. Daphne Bavelier's lab at the University of Geneva has been replicating this finding since the early 2000s. Her 2018 meta-analysis in Psychological Bulletin pulled data from 8,970 participants across 15 years and found the same thing. Action games train attentional control, a brain skill that transfers to other tasks. Strategy games train deliberation, which mostly stays inside the strategy game. The mechanism is the counterintuitive part. Action games train your brain by giving you no time to think. The brain can't deliberate. League of Legends throws 9 champions, hundreds of minions, dozens of abilities, mana, cooldowns, and map state at you, all updating in milliseconds. The brain learns to perceive faster instead. That perceptual speed transfers to anything else that demands the same skill. Including surgery. The 2007 Rosser study in Archives of Surgery found that laparoscopic surgeons who played video games more than 3 hours a week made 37% fewer errors, completed procedures 27% faster, and scored 42% higher on overall performance. The top third of gamers made 47% fewer errors. Laparoscopic surgery is a 2D screen with distorted depth perception, remote-controlled instruments, and multiple data streams updating in real time. The cognitive profile is almost identical to an action video game. The 10-week persistence is the part that should change how this gets discussed. If the gains were just from practicing the game, they would have disappeared the moment the students stopped playing. They didn't. The 30 weeks rewired the perceptual system, and the rewiring stayed.

🚨Dear Jio, I know my recharge is expiring you’ve reminded me 10 times already. But blocking my outgoing call to repeat it again?! What if it’s an emergency? Do I really have to wait for your reminder to finish before I can call for help? Reminders are fine. Interrupting calls is not.

This ARMY OFFICER fought for 10 long years to clear his name but Supreme Court thinks that's NOTHING It is threatening him of reversing the Divorce UNBELIEVABLE They initiate contempt of court if anyone says anything wrong about them but they care a ZILCH for a man's entire life going to dogs over false allegations!!!!