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Volkswagen considering first-ever plants shutdown really hits "Germany economic fall" home

"There are no more cheques coming from China" CEO referring to falling profit in VW's biggest market

Europe's car market shrunk after covid and co was facing demand shortfall of ~2 plants

Being late a summer is better than being late a life. Weekend #GLMusicDiscovery. Solid mentorship by Baz with tropical twist from UK producer Mau Kilauea

https://youtu.be/RDGgiJ868fg

Sadly ESG isnt around anymore to witness the dark ways big tech is hiding their energy use. The real ocean boilers.

$AMZN $GOOG $FB

Writing in wordpress is increasingly frustrating. First coding tutorial from me.

https://www.generalistlab.com/value/tutorials/sqlalchemy-custom-sorting-function-with-arguments/

Several points from $SQ Q2 call:

- in 9 months, Amrita spent 800M to repurchase shares from 1B authorization announced last Oct. Resulting YoY share count change: +32M. Can we stop calling employees shareholders, please? Better new 3B authorization make a dent.

-The SQ platform grew enormously, I understand moving fast culture and post covid tendie fat-statis grew technical debt. Jack even mentioned lag behind competitors offers in some cases. New backend, orders migration. SQ offerings sound will be ready by end of 24'. For prime sales motion time with marketing dolla kicking back in for GMV, now that business margins are finally in order.

-was out of loop w/ mining initiative. One analyst asked, Jack explained. Main ASIC provider Bitmain's chips are 6n. $SQ - 3n. Big market, superior product chip ecosystem (open source, composite building blocks structure), w/ Core Scientific contact already in place. Announcement missing dates. Nonetheless, Jack sees it as major revenue line.

Guys now nearly as old as my dad. Ambiance at sunset of careers. Wonderful track with Laid Back touches.

#GLMusicDiscovery

https://youtu.be/CXbQUbLtC5A

Joey on $ANGI revenue: "We have not yet found the turn on revenue growth but believe that will come in time"

Investors were patient getting margins in order. That executed nicely, but its the first time I read they don't know levers to grow revenue, leaving off to organic?

Stress relief Q2 reports from Angi (derivative of $IAC) and $APPS both with again rising sequential Q revenues.

Hopefully will have time this week to listen to calls.

"Satellite connection was cut off not only on the territory of Ukraine, but also all over most of Europe." Ukraine's gov IT guy on 22' March events.

With the flood of information back then, this was lost.

Nigeria's population: 230M+

- ~30% live in extreme poverty

- ~75% of population is under age of 24

Oil has been a blessing and a curse. Extracts, sells raw, buys refined. Foreign capital left. Sector is a mess. Corruption, theft, attacks, division. But locals are stepping up.

Exceptional quality track found in a mediocre set.

Viken Arman - Hope. Some nostalgic sense around those organ-like notes.

#GLMusicDiscovery

https://youtu.be/FujffBUM0Q0

If Zuck makes compelling chat agents that would attempt to fill "lonely" hole. That's actually a massive first person data harvester far superior to any cookies, esp. coupled w/ their decades worth work on personality from likes and other interactions.

Some fear disappointing fans, others stay in comfort. But I admire artists who stretch & go through genres. While all in electronic, Aphex showed us the range. Alberto Balsam is just a classic bridge of his poles.

#GLMusicDiscovery

https://youtu.be/ihyQf8mww3o

"smoking has declined basically in tandem with the rise of the smartphone. This makes sense. They’re both something to do with your hands in the empty moments, before or afterwards, when you’re waiting for something else to happen. Both of them will also kill you"

There are businesses, that hire writers, that train GPTs, that would ultimately replace Onlyfans creator human PMs.

Vice aired this in September 2022. Attempt to dig answers for US youth's shift towards conservativism.

Didn't know PragerU is farm for conservative influencers, with increasing budget

Ebb and flow.. Sadly crucial foreign policy is tangled up here as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkUlx2L6t8o

Trump on $TSMC:

“stole our chip business[..]should pay [US] for defence[..] You know, we’re no different than an insurance company[..] Taiwan doesn’t give us anything”

Taiwain is US' biggest arms client. Jensen should sit him on a lap & explain things beyond his checkers board.