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That's called price gouging
PepsiCo reported better-than-expected revenue in the third quarter despite weaker demand for its snacks and drinks in North America.
PepsiCo reports strong third quarter sales despite weakening demand in North America
PepsiCo reported better-than-expected revenue in the third quarter despite weaker demand for its snacks and drinks in North America.
bit.ly
October 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
That's called price gouging
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“The Founders would be so shocked about what’s going on!” says people who live in a country founded by rich white men who created a state under their control, owned human beings, despised democracy, and were out of their minds afraid the Illuminati would take over if a rival party won an election.
September 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
“The Founders would be so shocked about what’s going on!” says people who live in a country founded by rich white men who created a state under their control, owned human beings, despised democracy, and were out of their minds afraid the Illuminati would take over if a rival party won an election.
That three of the top 5 are grifters is.... not great.
if you can look at it without catching poster’s madness, the list of who actually gets engagement here is pretty interesting. somewhat dire at the top but quickly it’s real and high quality posters.
bluefacts.app/top-reach
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The Top 1000 Engaging users of the last week (updated daily) | BlueFacts
View the most engaging users on Bluesky by total number of likes and reposts, updated daily.
bluefacts.app
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
That three of the top 5 are grifters is.... not great.
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People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.
September 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.
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On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
September 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
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An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History
Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.
www.newyorker.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Mainstream media needs to stop pointing out what "RFK Jr. gets right," because there are many, many trained public health officials who get the same things right without all the batshit crazy eugenics and woo.
May 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Mainstream media needs to stop pointing out what "RFK Jr. gets right," because there are many, many trained public health officials who get the same things right without all the batshit crazy eugenics and woo.
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I do genuinely wonder how many people think what happened with Wikipedia is that “society accepted it” rather than that they put a ton of work into making it reliable, something that is not going to make AI reliable because no technology to actually understand meaning has been or can be invented.
Some of the anti-AI stuff feels a bit like when people would say "don't use Wikipedia as a source." It's just like anything else, a piece of information that you weigh against multiple sources and your own understanding of its likely failure modes
April 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I do genuinely wonder how many people think what happened with Wikipedia is that “society accepted it” rather than that they put a ton of work into making it reliable, something that is not going to make AI reliable because no technology to actually understand meaning has been or can be invented.
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They girlboss yassified Gilded Age space tourism.
It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism.
This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!
It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism.
This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!
How Katy Perry and Blue Origin's all-female crew are preparing for space
Katy Perry and an all-female crew will launch on the New Shepard rocket on April 14.
abcnews.go.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
They girlboss yassified Gilded Age space tourism.
It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism.
This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!
It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism.
This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!
The always clueless Tom Nichols.
I am not blaming Democrats for Republicans becoming fascists. I am blaming people who overused "fascist" for years for removing the power of that word and gutting it of meaning, and making it useless now that we need it.
Something I warned would happen.
Something I warned would happen.
March 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The always clueless Tom Nichols.
History repeats itself
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March 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
History repeats itself
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the shit the trump admin is doing now is built on shit the biden admin and democratic politicians were doing in 2023-2025. the legislation they passed falsely conflating opposition to genocide as support for terrorism. the surveillance and police violence.
March 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
the shit the trump admin is doing now is built on shit the biden admin and democratic politicians were doing in 2023-2025. the legislation they passed falsely conflating opposition to genocide as support for terrorism. the surveillance and police violence.
Money well spent /s
“The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism…despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.”
#ActuallyAutistic
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
#ActuallyAutistic
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.
www.reuters.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Money well spent /s
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“Let them suffer the consequences of their actions.”
I see this so much in my mentions, often from anonymous accounts who could be bots or ops for all I know, but whatever they are, they are trying to normalize a false bifurcation.
If “they” are suffering, so are people you consider to be “us.”
I see this so much in my mentions, often from anonymous accounts who could be bots or ops for all I know, but whatever they are, they are trying to normalize a false bifurcation.
If “they” are suffering, so are people you consider to be “us.”
February 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“Let them suffer the consequences of their actions.”
I see this so much in my mentions, often from anonymous accounts who could be bots or ops for all I know, but whatever they are, they are trying to normalize a false bifurcation.
If “they” are suffering, so are people you consider to be “us.”
I see this so much in my mentions, often from anonymous accounts who could be bots or ops for all I know, but whatever they are, they are trying to normalize a false bifurcation.
If “they” are suffering, so are people you consider to be “us.”
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Weihong Hu, a hotelier with close ties to Mayor Eric Adams, stole tens of millions from a temporary housing program that was designed to stop the spread of Covid-19 in New York’s jails, according to federal prosecutors in Brooklyn.
Adams Donor Weihong Hu Is Accused of Taking Millions From Covid Housing Program
Brooklyn’s U.S. attorney said Weihong Hu and two men set out to “line their own pockets” at the height of the pandemic. Ms. Hu has helped raise funds for Mayor Eric Adams of New York.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Weihong Hu, a hotelier with close ties to Mayor Eric Adams, stole tens of millions from a temporary housing program that was designed to stop the spread of Covid-19 in New York’s jails, according to federal prosecutors in Brooklyn.
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Perspective: Voters were right about the economy. The data was wrong, writes former U.S. Comptroller Gene Ludwig.
Ludwig on why inflation and unemployment are worse than they seem👇
Ludwig on why inflation and unemployment are worse than they seem👇
How Democrats Were Tricked Into Believing the Economy Was Strong
Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.
www.politico.com
February 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Perspective: Voters were right about the economy. The data was wrong, writes former U.S. Comptroller Gene Ludwig.
Ludwig on why inflation and unemployment are worse than they seem👇
Ludwig on why inflation and unemployment are worse than they seem👇
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Everyone loves Mark Cuban’s pharma company because he doesn’t profit off of cancer patients *as much* as some others but at the end of the day he’s doing it because he is profiting off of cancer patients.
They literally add a 15% markup to their production cost, plus a $3 “pharmacy fee” & shipping.
They literally add a 15% markup to their production cost, plus a $3 “pharmacy fee” & shipping.
January 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Everyone loves Mark Cuban’s pharma company because he doesn’t profit off of cancer patients *as much* as some others but at the end of the day he’s doing it because he is profiting off of cancer patients.
They literally add a 15% markup to their production cost, plus a $3 “pharmacy fee” & shipping.
They literally add a 15% markup to their production cost, plus a $3 “pharmacy fee” & shipping.
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Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde doing God's work and showing more strength and courage than billionaires.
Bishop at inaugural prayer service urges Trump to 'have mercy' on LGBTQ children, immigrants nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
Bishop at inaugural prayer service urges Trump to 'have mercy' on LGBTQ children, immigrants nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
Bishop at inaugural prayer service urges Trump to 'have mercy' on LGBTQ children, immigrants
Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders on LGBTQ issues and immigration within hours of being sworn in as president.
nbcnews.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde doing God's work and showing more strength and courage than billionaires.
Bishop at inaugural prayer service urges Trump to 'have mercy' on LGBTQ children, immigrants nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
Bishop at inaugural prayer service urges Trump to 'have mercy' on LGBTQ children, immigrants nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
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Is it fine to call everyone who voted for this president racist, bigoted fuckwads, or are people still trying to pretend this had something to do with groceries??
January 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Is it fine to call everyone who voted for this president racist, bigoted fuckwads, or are people still trying to pretend this had something to do with groceries??
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To be clear, this is about getting people to quit so they can shrink the federal workforce and fuck up services that everyone depends on, from social security and Medicare to FEMA and national parks management.
They want civil servants to quit. That’s the whole plan.
www.npr.org/2025/01/20/n...
They want civil servants to quit. That’s the whole plan.
www.npr.org/2025/01/20/n...
Trump seeks to end telework for federal workers
President Trump has signed an executive action ordering federal agencies to bring their workers back to the office full time. Roughly 1.1 million federal employees are telework-eligible.
www.npr.org
January 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
To be clear, this is about getting people to quit so they can shrink the federal workforce and fuck up services that everyone depends on, from social security and Medicare to FEMA and national parks management.
They want civil servants to quit. That’s the whole plan.
www.npr.org/2025/01/20/n...
They want civil servants to quit. That’s the whole plan.
www.npr.org/2025/01/20/n...
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When you're listening do people whose only response to Trump is "he can't do that" then you're ignoring the people who are telling you that there are ways that he can do it and that you should be preparing for it. I'm just saying.
January 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
When you're listening do people whose only response to Trump is "he can't do that" then you're ignoring the people who are telling you that there are ways that he can do it and that you should be preparing for it. I'm just saying.
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Ok I’m gonna spell the plot out. It has nothing to do with TikTok as a platform and everything to do with major corporations ignoring a national security law passed by Congress and upheld by SCOTUS because a man who isn’t even president yet told them to.
That’s the plot!!!
That’s the plot!!!
January 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Ok I’m gonna spell the plot out. It has nothing to do with TikTok as a platform and everything to do with major corporations ignoring a national security law passed by Congress and upheld by SCOTUS because a man who isn’t even president yet told them to.
That’s the plot!!!
That’s the plot!!!
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"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission."
Lina Khan really is That Girl.
Lina Khan really is That Girl.
UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.
fortune.com
January 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission."
Lina Khan really is That Girl.
Lina Khan really is That Girl.