A contrast in consuming news on social vs TV: endless loops of clips on TV animate the sense of 'chaos/clashes' without explaining who is initiating or doing the violence

There's similar divergence when you check ur feed at night vs reading homepage headlines in the morning

Apple's additional $110 billion in share repurchases is the biggest US buyback ever.

All told, Apple is responsible for the top six of the 10 largest share-repurchase announcements ever made in the US.

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Not everything has to be a subscription company. Peloton should be a good subscription company. It's just not very good at it.

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“The move has paid off, in a very big way. Today, Berkshire’s 5.9% stake in Apple is worth about $157 billion..,Berkshire is sitting on about $120 billion in paper gains, likely the most money ever made by an investor or a firm from a single stock.” wsj.com/finance/stocks…

An interesting media+technology argument about what the authors describe as a moral panic over campus protests and Pro-Palestinian activism. How waves of news perpetuate and amplify claims and negative perception:

jewishcurrents.org/anatomy-of-a-m…

“The largest union of academic workers, which represents more than 48,000 grad student workers throughout the Univ of California system, will hold a strike authorization vote…in response to how universities have cracked down on students’ Gaza protests.” theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Big tech dividend mania:
Sales Down? / Need to spend a lot on AI?
PRESS DIVIDEND!
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Peloton's fall from $160 peak covid to... $3
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'The ability to make substantial investments in frontier tech with largely unproven business models is its own reflection of power.' finance.yahoo.com/news/big-techs…

'.. More than 25,000 patients are now starting on Wegovy each week in the US, Novo Chief Executive Officer Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen said Thursday .. up from about 5,000 in December.'

Bloomberg $NVO
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'Many Black entrepreneurs flock to Atlanta, a city where Black Americans are prominently represented in the ranks of business, government and culture. But start-ups in Atlanta typically struggle to secure adequate financing, local entrepreneurs said.' nytimes.com/2024/04/30/bus…

House passes antisemitism bill over complaints from First Amendment advocates washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

Four UCLA student reporters attacked by counterprotesters latimes.com/california/sto…

Media criticism on my feed:
-Absence of 'outside agitator' evidence
-Outlets using images of violent police crackdowns to reinforce 'clashes/chaos' stories
-Disproportionate coverage
-Brazen anti-Palestinian prejudice
-De-centering Gaza
-Support for repression of journalism

“There was a deliberate effort to limit or clear out observers, media or otherwise.”

The Outside Agitators On Campus Were The Police defector.com/the-outside-ag…

NYPD forced out Columbia Daily Spectator reporters in front of Hamilton and locked the doors to John Jay Hall—where all of our stuff was, including my wallet and driver’s license—to prevent us from re-entering the building.

One officer told us: “It’s the gate, or it’s arrest—you choose.”

The brinksmanship between Novo Nordisk and McDonalds is going to kick off an evolutionary doom loop where hyper-fit Americans unhinge their jaws and eat one giant hamburger for sustenance every three weeks like a Kimodo Dragon