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In May 1965, during The Rolling Stones’ tour of the United States, Keith Richards woke up in his hotel room in Florida with three notes running through his head.
With just enough time to turn on his cassette recorder and play the basic sequence before falling back asleep, he captured the embryonic version of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” However, Richards considered the guitar part to be nothing more than a rough draft and was convinced that the main melody should be played by a horn section.
Days later, at RCA Studios in Los Angeles, the guitarist used a novel Maestro Fuzz-Tone distortion pedal to simulate the sharp attack of saxophones and trumpets in front of the band. Richards recorded that take as a simple guide demo, intending to remove it later; however, the rest of the band, manager Andrew Loog Oldham, and the sound engineer voted to keep the distinctive fuzz sound. The guitarist’s initial resistance was overruled by the majority, and the crunchy motif he had intended to discard ended up becoming the signature sound of the final track.
After its release, the song faced some radio censorship due to lyrics that satirized aggressive media commercialization and personal dissatisfaction. Despite the restrictions, the single rose to number one on international charts in the summer of 1965, cementing The Rolling Stones’ reputation and establishing Richards’ discarded take as one of the most defining riffs in Rock History.
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【BRUTAL】Elon Musk: "People who only ask questions to AI are going to get completely left behind," his statement is insane hahaha
Employee: "What's the right way to use AI?"
Elon: "Most people use it wrong."
Employee: "Huh?"
Elon: "You ask a question, read the answer, and that's it, right?"
Employee: "Isn't that how it's normally done?"
Elon: "That's wasting it."
Employee: "So what do you have to do?"
Elon: "Give the AI 50 subordinates."
Employee: "What? hahaha"
Elon: "First, an AI Chief of Staff plans the day."
Employee: "Okay."
Elon: "Then, an AI project manager assigns the work."
Employee: "I see."
Elon: "And more than 50 AI agents do the work."
Employee: "50?! hahaha"
Elon: "And on top of that, they can work 24 hours a day."
Employee: "But isn't that like a human company?"
Elon: "Exactly. AI manages AI."
Employee: "So what do humans do then?"
Elon: "They set the goals and make the important decisions."
Employee: "……"
Until now, AI was a human asking a question and getting an answer.
But with AI agents, you can divide the work, distribute it among multiple AIs, and even set up a system to review the results.
Of course, human supervision and quality control are still needed.
Even so, we've moved from the era where AI was just a simple assistant to the era where you direct an entire team of AIs.
From now on, those who know how to delegate work to AI will earn more than those who know how to use it.
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Stacy Keach, Who Played Badasses With the Best of Them, Dies at 85 hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
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Builders are sitting on 113,000 finished homes with no buyer.
In Feb 2022 it was 31,000.
Levels we haven't seen since 2009.
That's not a housing shortage.
That's inventory.
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🇬🇧 WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS, MAKE LEMONADE. BERNIE ECCLESTONE TOOK THAT PERSONALLY😂
Four robbers attacked the 80-year-old Formula 1 boss in London, leaving him badly bruised and stealing his Hublot watch and jewellery worth an estimated £200,000.
He sent a photo of his battered face to Hublot and suggested turning it into an advertisement.
Days later, his black eye was selling luxury watches in the Financial Times.
Imagine getting mugged and somehow making your own face a marketing campaign.
That's a businessman who refuses to waste even a black eye.
Source: Sky News, The Guardian, @cultination1 \ Writer: Naz
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Philip Seymour Hoffman left a fortune reported at $35 million to his partner, not his three kids. His accountant said he "did not want his children to be considered 'trust fund' kids." Years earlier, on camera, he explained what fame and money at 19 would have done to him: "I'd be dead."
In the video below, he tells 60 Minutes what he was on at 22. Then his son talks about growing up with that Oscar in the house.
"Drugs or alcohol or both?"
"All that stuff. Anything I can get my hands on."
"I was 22 and I got panicked for my life."
"I didn't have any money at the time."
"I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, oh my God, I'd be dead."
That was 60 Minutes in 2006, just before he won the Oscar for Capote.
He signed his will on October 7, 2004, when his son Cooper was his only child. Two daughters, born in 2006 and 2008, were never added.
The estate went to Mimi O'Donnell, the mother of all three. They never married.
In a 2014 court filing, his accountant said Hoffman turned down setting money aside for the kids, and that his wishes still hadn't changed a year before he died. Because they were not married, estate lawyers told CNBC the tax could run from about $12 million to close to $15 million.
He stayed sober for about two decades. Then he started using again.
On February 2, 2014, he was found dead in his Manhattan apartment. A drug overdose. He was 46.
Mimi, writing in Vogue four years later:
"For the first time I realized that his addiction was bigger than either of us."
"How do I tell my kids that their dad just died? What are the words?"
Cooper was 10. Today he is an actor himself. On TODAY last year:
"We have an Oscar at the house... you don't want to step into something and not do it as well as that person did."
"He was nice. He was a good guy."
Sober at 22.
Dead at 46.
Was keeping the money from his kids the smartest thing he did as a father, or a mistake that handed millions to the IRS?
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Walmart and Kroger are quietly rolling out an internal store technology across America that could either modernize retail or bankrupt the middle-class family budget.
Starting across thousands of locations heading into 2027, traditional paper price tags are being ripped off grocery shelves and replaced with cloud-connected digital screens. Raise the price of bottled water by 20 percent the second the afternoon temperature hits 90 degrees. Surge the cost of ground beef, milk, and sandwich bread between 5 PM and 6 PM when exhausted commuters are rushing home from work. Drop prices at 10 AM on a Tuesday, then hike them right back up the minute the after-school crowd walks through the sliding doors.
Every price change happens wirelessly in seconds from a central corporate dashboard. No store employee has to touch a single shelf.
Walmart has already signed a massive deployment deal with VusionGroup to wire 2,300 American supercenters with EdgeSense digital shelf rails by 2027. Kroger is expanding its own Microsoft-backed system called EDGE across hundreds of supermarkets. Over 60 million digital price tags are already blinking on US grocery aisles right now.
This is not supply chain inflation. This is Uber-style surge pricing built directly into the shelves where Americans buy baby formula, eggs, and medicine.
Last week I sat down for coffee with a former retail pricing director who spent 14 years building supermarket margin algorithms before leaving the industry. What he shared over the table completely changed how I look at a grocery aisle.
"Retailers just turned static shelves into live stock tickers. The question is not whether grocery chains will use instant price changes, because they already spent billions installing the hardware. The question is how much extra money a family of four will lose every week simply because both parents work until 5 PM and cannot shop during off-peak hours."
Here is how the digital grocery pricing system actually works, how it tracks you in the aisle, and the exact phone settings and checkout playbook you need to beat it.
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BREAKING: Microsoft $MSFT falls 3% in just 30 minutes after Anthropic launches Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards and Claude Data.
Excel has owned the spreadsheet market for over 40 years. Now an AI company is coming straight for it.
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Ford copied a college professor's basement invention onto millions of cars and paid him $0.
His name was Robert Kearns.
He fired his own lawyers, rejected a $30,000,000 settlement because Ford wouldn't admit he invented it, and beat Detroit in federal court.
This is the story of Robert Kearns and why every car on Earth still blinks in the rain like his injured left eye.
1953 - 1963
- on his wedding night in 1953, a champagne cork hits engineering professor Robert Kearns in the left eye and leaves him legally blind on that side
- driving his Ford Galaxie through light Detroit rain in 1963, he notices standard wipers scrape non stop across dry glass while the human eyelid blinks and pauses every few seconds
- working in his basement with standard transistors, capacitors, and resistors, he builds the first electronic intermittent wiper and files for US Patent 3,351,836
1963 - 1969
- Kearns drives his prototype straight to Ford headquarters in Dearborn, where Ford engineers test his car and promise a supply contract once the unit passes durability specs
- right after Kearns receives his patent in November 1967 and explains how his timing circuit works, Ford abruptly cuts contact and cancels the deal
- in 1969, Ford rolls out intermittent wipers on its Mercury line and installs the system across millions of cars while paying Kearns $0
1978 - 1990
- Kearns sues Ford in 1978 and runs straight into Detroit's attrition math: dragging one individual through 12 years of federal motions usually bankrupts him long before a jury sits down
- Ford's legal team argues Kearns invented nothing original because transistors, capacitors, and resistors already existed in electronics catalogs
- representing himself alongside his son Dennis, Kearns reads the opening line of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities to the jury and asks if Dickens wrote nothing new because every word was already in the dictionary
1990 - 1995
- before verdict in 1990, Ford offers $30,000,000 to settle out of court, and Kearns turns it down because Ford refuses to put in writing that he invented the intermittent wiper
- the federal jury rules Ford infringed his patent, forcing Ford to pay $10,200,000 to close all appeals
- Kearns immediately takes Chrysler to trial without a law firm, wins an $18,740,465 judgment, and defeats Chrysler's final appeal at the US Supreme Court in March 1995
To this day, Kearns's basement prototype sits in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and his blink circuit runs inside 1.4 billion cars on the road.
Giant corporations still run the math that 12 years of legal fees will break a solo builder cheaper than paying a 30 cent royalty.
Every once in a generation, that spreadsheet runs into someone who values the truth on the record more than $30,000,000.
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Skydance’s David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz are pushing to finalize a “Barbie 2” deal by the end of the year, according to two sources:
• Previous negotiations, led by CAA’s Bryan Lourd, broke down after Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling sought roughly $25M each, plus larger shares of the sequel’s back-end profits
• Then-WBD CEO David Zaslav balked at the demands, shutting down talks as the studio faced a year-end deadline to renew its Barbie licensing rights
• Kreiz has close ties to the property, having previously served as Mattel’s CEO
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In the EU, as in much of the world, big cities keep growing at the expense of emptying regional areas. Providing services to regional areas becomes increasingly harder. HT @iamjosepferrer
A professional film budget is obvious to financiers and production partners. An amateur budget stands out as inferior. Make your movie. Know your true costs. FilmBudget.com Worldwide #AFM
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🇮🇹 ISO GRIFO
#Italian coachwork
#Chevrolet V8 power, and engineering by former #Ferrari chief engineer Giotto #Bizzarrini created one of the most distinctive grand tourers of the 1960s.
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The 50 worst performing S&P 500 stocks in the 2nd half of 2026 so far.
Notice a theme?
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🚨🇺🇸 WOW! Jeff Bezos wants the bottom 50% of American earners to pay ZERO taxes...
And he has a question for Washington:
“Why is a nurse in Queens making $75,000 a year paying $1,000 a month in taxes?”
Bezos argues that the bottom half of earners contribute just 3% of tax revenue anyway.
His solution? Stop collecting it from them entirely.
“We shouldn't be asking this nurse to send money to Washington. They should be sending her an apology.”
Writer: Samuel
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Skydance has uncovered “tens of millions” of dollars in luxury hospitality spending under the former Warner Bros. Discovery regime, including expenses for dining, travel and gifts, according to two sources:
• The former WBD regime spent in ways big and small — like stacks of receipts for sandwiches and green juices from the gourmet grocery store Erewhon
• The company expects to save “millions” by reducing spending on outside vendors, studio services and redundant marketing budgets
• One source even suggests press junkets will be revamped
Read the full cover story: wp.me/pc8uak-1lI5Jm
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Agents now make up the majority of web traffic, write more than half of new articles published online, and generate most of the code pushed to production.
This is what the early stage of a platform shift looks like: adoption is measurable, but the business models it enables mostly aren’t visible yet.
Welcome to the agent economy.
a16z.news/p/welcome-to-the-b…
Move over, B2B and B2C - the B2A economy is here
Agents are the primary users of the Internet, and soon will be the primary customers for every product
Our thesis @a16z on the massive opportunity here 👇 (cc @venturetwins)
