I read all 277 pages of SpaceX's IPO filing so you don't have to. Losses up 700%. Revenue decelerating. 107x price-to-sales multiple. It's a trainwreck. Full breakdown below 👇

What a woefully unprepared representative. She's running unopposed and her constituents can do better.

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more. Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged. Here's what happened: Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it." And the exact emails are now PUBLIC. Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem. The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately." Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call. Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price. Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed. Same playbook with Hanes: Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased." Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins. But it gets even worse... Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site. Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing. They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS. The mechanism is simple but terrifying: If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers. Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings." Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products. Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform. So turns out, you were never comparison shopping. You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors. "Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable." 3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on. This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat. And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE. "Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

The Islamic Republic’s relationship with Iranians is not a social contract, but a predatory lease signed in 1979 that has long since expired. Iranians don't seek to renegotiate the contract, but to evict the landlord. My @TheAtlantic essay theatlantic.com/internationa…

🔥NEW (old) EPISODE🔥: The Revolution Will Be Advertised with Ian Reis | HHR113 Dan & Mike are back in the podcast studio recording episodes and doing interviews to resurrect the High Hash Rate podcast for 2025! However, before we the new episodes come out, there are a few episodes we recorded in October 2024 that we thought were lost forever. Fortunately, we were able to recover them and queue them to be published! This episode is the second recovered interview recorded in October 2024 with @onesien from the @flirtingwithbtc podcast. We discuss his latest venture Next Block, a new way to market direct to consumers without paying legacy social media.

Hey @sit_edu, my close friend in the State Department was on a conference call with a group of your masters students who asked if the World Bank was an NGO then asked for a definition of multilateral and bilateral organizations. Do better.

C'mon @ElectrifyAm ! Your system didn't work, my wife was not informed of a fee, received no notification, and gets hit with a $50 idling fee at your charger!? No credit? No refunds? Great policy!

Expanding @F3TheCapital to Potomac, MD. F3's Mission: "To Plant, Grow and Serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership" First workout target: Wed, October 3rd. PM me if you're interested. @Horshack_F3 @F3Expansion

Yooooooo!!!! @Burnpit360 @iava @DAVHQ @VFWHQ @AmericanLegion @wwp @TAPSorg @Gruntstyle @MilitaryOfficer @votevets @AMVETSHQ @VVAmerica @ReserveOrg @FealgoodF Apologies to anyone I missed!!!!

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Ok. Who broke @Google Search?

When your vendor knows you intimately AND has a hilarious sense of humor. #strosniders #hardware

How are people unit testing data transforms or machine learning code? Asserting actual vs. expected output on rows and columns can be overly brittle. And upstream changes to data transforms can mean updating ml code expected output (e.g., probabilities). Is there a better way?

Hello #DataAISummit ! @IQVIA_developer and @IQVIA_Tech is representing @IQVIA in force this week. #deltalivetables #Lakehouse DLT

gas is $7 a gallon right now in LA. If i drive 30 min to see you, you better be at my funeral dawg

I LOVE working in #healthcare supporting our clients where #AI and #machinelearning are some of the tools in the #Developers tool-belt!!! 🙏💘 Great start to Valentine's Day weekend! linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…

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