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As more call center workers are asked by strangers if they’re bots, surreal conversations are prompting introspection about what it means to be human.

Zohran Mamdani's shock win has Wall Street fretting over "hot commie summer"

Lmao what

It’s not Mets baseball if you’re not booing

We’re at the part of the season where we’re booing the Mets. It’s officially summer

SiIvaGunner started with a simple premise: trolling people looking for game music with mashups. It has grown into something greater: a volunteer, non-profit, artist-managed collective in the service of great rips and one the best parts of YouTube. For @aftermath.site aftermath.site/siivagunner-...

Me, a millennial, listening to Mario Kart World’s OST

Ambitious reading list for Puerto Rico. What else should I add? -The Breaks of the Game (I want to keep making a dent in this one) -Careless People -Abundance -Character Limit

The breakup between Trump and Musk is playing out in a manner befitting an era of hyperreality: with stunning speed, wild recriminations, and in public via television and their own social media platforms.      Head here for the timeline of how it all went down: bloom.bg/3SzqEAC

Tesla’s shares dropped 14% on Thursday in New York, the stock’s biggest decline since March 10, as Elon Musk and Donald Trump feud devolved into a public war. The rout erased about $150 billion from the electric-vehicle maker’s market value

Tesla uses a third of the number of sensors that Waymo vehicles have. Whereas Waymo employs an array of different kinds of sensors — cameras, radar, and lidar — Tesla utilizes only one. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Taylor Swift's fortune has swelled to $1.4 billion as she enters a new era of owning all of her music

Mark Zuckerberg has done everything he can to win over Trump, and it’s not clear how much he has to show for it. Read The Big Take

INBOX: Bloomberg publishes an “atlas” to the Trump family’s “money-making machine”: “.. In any other era, this scale of presidential moneymaking would threaten to be the story of the year, but political uproar has hogged most of the attention.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Trump's sons stand to make millions from a tiny bank. It follows a lucrative pattern they've embraced since their father's reelection

They might kill a guy in the sidetalk video

This article is rad, and really encapsulates why Cartoon Network was always my favorite channel growing up. This bit in particular. But sadly, it also encapsulates why they are now struggling so much to stay afloat.

Cartoon Network and Adult Swim are struggling to survive Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav and the era of streaming. Great reporting from @felixgillette.bsky.social 🎁

Pointed: The world’s only news quiz where getting 9/10 questions can sometimes mean you’ve scored only better than 9% of players 💀 bloomberg.com/pointed

FDA leaders pushed Pfizer and Moderna to quickly file for full approval of their Covid shots for kids before President Trump took office. Those applications are still pending, and children's access to the vaccines is in doubt

Bloomberg News has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for a collection of essays by contributor @langealexandra.bsky.social. The series published in Bloomberg CityLab explores how urban design and architecture impact parents and kids 🧵

“The outage of those key systems occurred on April 28 and lasted nearly 90 seconds, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing the matter because it isn’t public. Following the incident, multiple employees were placed on trauma leave, the people said.”

Trump proposed deep cuts to domestic agencies and steep increases for national security. See the changes from his first budget.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said that planned US tariffs on foreign imports will add $900 million in costs in the current period

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An elite US college education is a stretch even for parents making $300,000. See how much you could pay — or save — at the top schools.

The US market exceptionalism of the past several years is now in the process of completely reversing, potentially for a long time to come.

What a grim thesis: “Where previous generations found identity in work, war or religion, today’s masculine ideals are being forged in the churn of Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X.”

Mets moment (ump called the first out a catch when it hit the ground)

Important Michael update: Switch 2 pre-order is acquired (from Target)

Important update at REGENERATOR: Henry Blodget has asked the AI-generated executive he sexually harassed to do a better job of editing his posts moving forward

Henry Blodget working at REGENERATOR:

Is Henry Blodget ok

NEW: Apple is planning a lighter and cheaper Vision Pro, plus a new tethered version with zero latency for enterprise apps. It’s also working on Meta Ray Ban-like non-AR glasses as Tim Cook has prioritized true AR glasses. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

New: RFK Jr. warned FDA staff about the influence of the “deep state” on the agency in an all-hands meeting where he also made off-color comments about children with developmental disabilities

In this week’s Pointed News quiz: tariffs? tariffs! tariffs. www.bloomberg.com/games/pointed/

Meet the Trump Shock. After decades of navigating the effects of the China Shock, the world has a new jolt to the system to deal with. And that means a global economy shaped by two colliding shocks from here on out. Our new @bloomberg.com Big Take: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

BREAKING: China will impose a 34% tariff on all imports from the US starting April 10