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🇺🇸 **Trump Forewarns Of Massive Debt If Supreme Court Reverses Tariffs: 'We Would Have Give Back Trillions And Trillions Of Dollars'**
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**DNA tests: Who is getting rich with the data from our genes?**
"_50 million people worldwide have already had their genes tested, providing private providers with valuable data. The data sets are already being used and monetized by pharmaceutical companies. Critics fear that insurance companies or banks will also access the genetic data of potential customers in the future._"
#Video length: fifty-one minutes and fifty-five seconds.
Finally, overcome the problems with my computer, now I am back!
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The only reason most CEOs are obsessed with AI is that it drives the stock price up. Consequently, their compensation goes up. No technical reason. No wish to reinvent the workforce. No long-term plan. Just a market craze.
#AI #ceo
https://futurism.com/ceos-ai-disaster
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“Consumer prices rose 0.4% in August, driving the annual inflation rate to 2.9%, the highest since January, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Thursday. The reading marked an acceleration from the 2.7% increase seen in July, with price hikes driving up the cost of Americans’ most basic needs.” https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/economy/us-cpi-consumer-price-index-inflation-august
🇫🇷 **France credit score downgraded to lowest on record amid political crisis**
"_....Fitch downgraded France's sovereign credit score on Friday to the country's lowest level on record, stripping the eurozone's second-largest economy of its AA- status..._"
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“Unemployment, inflation and GDP growth will be worse this year than projected, budget office says”
https://apnews.com/article/cbo-outlook-trade-tariffs-58a06e8b72aab4f145e2ca18f44549a4
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#OTD in 1756 German writer Benedikte Naubert was born.
She "anonymously published more than 50 historical novels and is considered a pioneer of the genre in the 1780s. Naubert wrote under the pseudonyms Verfasser des Walther von Montbarry, Verfasser der Alme, Verfasserin des Walther von Montbarry, and Fontanges. Today she is largely unknown, even in Germany."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedikte_Naubert
Books by Naubert at PG:
🇺🇸 🇨🇳 If it is only a threat, the Chinese may well be able to ignore it.
🔗 https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/asia-c2h6qh4lz/-/a-4Gc482uqS1WOZadsO1VmDg%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0.
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CEOs Are Obsessed With AI, But Their Pushes to Use It Keep Ending in Disaster
https://futurism.com/ceos-ai-disaster?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All About Artificial Intelligence @all-about-artificial-intelligence-Futurism
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Inventor of the essay Michel de Montaigne died #onthisday in 1592. He was 59 years old. Here he is on the importance of facing death head on: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/that-to-study-philosophy-is-to-learn-to-die-1580?utm_content=buffer372d1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer #OTD
**Martin Luther And The Reformation**
Whilst reading a book concerned with the field of psychoanalysis, I came across a fact that I did not know. Martin Luther, the German theologian who launched the Reformation in the 16th century, suffered from chronic constipation. It is said that he received inspiration for the ideas behind the Reformation whilst in the 'sewer'.
🔗 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3944549.stm.
#History #Histodon #MartinLuther #Constipation #Lavatory
#Image attribution: Lucas Cranach the Elder, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Luther_(1483%E2%80%931546)_MET_DP159769.jpg.
🖥️ **Two Thoughts On Artificial Intelligence**
AI is a tool for a limited number of tasks where it can be beneficial; contrary to popular belief, it is not a panacea for all of mankind's ills.
Irrespective of the share prices of companies that produce AI products, it is not sentient and it is doubtful if it ever will be.
@gutenberg_org A comment not related to the content of the toot; but, Samuel Langhorne Clemens's moustache is certainly impressive.
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5 Infamous Kings of Assyria
https://www.thecollector.com/kings-old-middle-assyrian-periods/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The Ancient Land That Birthed Ares and Spartacus | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/thrace-ancient-history/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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@mrundkvist Nothing so strenuous as a hike; but, hopefully, a quiet day of productive reading.
🇺🇸 **US students' reading and math scores at historic lows: 'Devastating trend'**
"_The report shows almost half of high school seniors are now testing below basic levels in math and reading, and approximately 35% are at or above a proficient reading level, while 32% of them had a below "basic" reading proficiency._"
🔗 https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/us-students-reading-math-scores-historic-lows-devastating/story.
#News #Education #Learning #School #Reading #Maths #Mathematics #Math
🇺🇸 📱 **Wireless Data Use Surges**
"_Americans used 132T megabytes of data last year, shattering the 100T MB record set just the previous year. This record amount of data was driven by a 32T MB year-over-year increase, the single largest jump in U.S. history._"
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Tech bros must be stopped before we drown in an ocean of AI slop
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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