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Watch Out For Flooded Streets -- In Unexpected Places
The city is asking drivers to be extra careful to avoid flooded streets through Wednesday morning — because fallen leaves may lead to unpassable roads in unexpected places.
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Two New Local Albums Celebrate The Tried, True And New
You know where you are from the opening flourish of Joe Flood’s “Hard Time Blues,” as a warbling harmonica cuts a line through a swinging rhythm from two guitars, a bass, and janky percussion. “It’s been hard times,” Flood sings. “They cut me open, sewed me up / I’m still not quite the same / People dying / Friends and loved ones up and gone / And only life to blame.” The lyrics talk about hardship, but Flood sings with the easy confidence of a seasoned pro. It’s all a setup, as it turns out,...
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Startup Superstars Give Guv Some Tips
Fiber. Family. Football?
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Build Back Better Billionaires
Build Back Better Billionaires
By Michael Every of Rabobank
Before internet memes allowed for spontaneous sarcasm to go viral, work-based humor used to be based around coffee mugs and posters. The reigning king of these David Brent / Michael Scott media was: “You don’t have to be mad to work here – but it helps!”
Yet what else is there to say of a day where a bankrupt meme trade US stock just a year ago was responsible for pushing the stock of another US firm - whose polarizing CEO...
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Facebook hoaxes helped boost insurrection, white nationalism, and COVID. Employees are fed up
A new bundle of reporting is out on what's being branded as the "Facebook Papers," a mountain of leaked internal company documents and communications currently being combed over by a variety of news outlets. There are several new revelations this time around, although we may be stretching the definition of "revelations" for anyone who has been paying attention.
The main takeaway is that inside Facebook itself, there appears to be a rapidly increasing gulf between topmost company executives and...
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Peak Gamma: 'ARKK Doomsday Downside' Trades & A Tesla Tumble
Peak Gamma: 'ARKK Doomsday Downside' Trades & A Tesla Tumble
Yesterday, we highlighted the 'gamma bomb' that sent TSLA stock soaring above $1000 and the company's market cap above $1 trillion as total options volume of 3.55mm contracts in TSLA was also a single-day record.
However, as Nomura's Charlie McElligott notes, most stunning was the fact that 54% of yesterday’s record options volume / flow was concentrated in the 10/29 weekly options, including 1.2mm Calls for just...
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Build Back Better is getting worse and worse
Democrats are at risk of producing legislation that is so compromised and slapdash that it would amount to a tragic missed opportunity.
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FDA advisers review Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids
U.S. health advisers are deliberating whether kid-size doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine are safe and effective in young children
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San Francisco Prosecutors Quit, Residents Fed Up With 'Zero Consequence' Policies
San Francisco Prosecutors Quit, Residents Fed Up With 'Zero Consequence' Policies
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin faces a second recall effort over failure to prosecute crimes
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Facebook froze as anti-vaccine comments swarmed users
Last spring, as false claims about vaccine safety threatened to undermine the world's response to COVID-19, researchers at Facebook found they could reduce vaccine misinformation by tweaking how vaccine posts show up on users' newsfeeds
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'Every hate crime is an attack on the community': Hate crimes against Asians rose 76% in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated an already prevalent issue in our country, racism against Asian Americans. Reports indicating the surge in hate crimes against the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community continue as people report more often, allowing data to be more accurate. But while each report indicates alarming rates, newly republished data by the FBI has found that the percentage difference between crimes reported in 2019 compared to 2020 is a lot than what data previously...
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How An Independent Record Store Capitalized on Demand in Nyack, New York
Main Street Beat has focused on both nostalgia and the current scene with their selection of records, books and clothing in a thriving business district.