Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“The European Union has imposed a €200m ($232m; £173m) fine on Chinese-owned online retailer Temu for having illegal products such as dangerous baby toys and faulty chargers for sale on its platform. The European Commission said the company had ‘failed to diligently identify, analyse and assess the systemic risks’ of the products and the harm they could cause to consumers. Temu has been under investigation since October 2024 over whether it has been meeting its obligations as a designated Very Large Online Platform under EU law. The online retailer said it disagreed with the decision and deemed the fine disproportionate, and was now considering available options.” (05/28/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k2ydn1rz8o
Source: New York Times
“Why Texas Students Are Being Tackled and Tasered, and Trump’s Latest Target for Retribution.” (05/28/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzTT6deD9z0
Source: Freedom’s Phoenix
“Jay Noone (Man Camp; Local Silver Mint) on the upcoming Man Camp at Porcfest 2026. Porcfest will not be held at Roger’s Campground, but rather in locations all over New Hampshire from June 21-28, 2026.” (05/28/26)
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/396368-2026-05-27-2026-05-28-ernest-hancock-interviews-jay-noone.htm
Source: Bitcoin.com
by Wolfie Zhao
“The companies that once competed primarily on mining outcomes are increasingly being judged by a broader set of capabilities: infrastructure control, power access, cooling capacity and the ability to serve demand beyond Bitcoin alone. In other words, Bitcoin mining is evolving from a pure commodity hash business into a broader energy-backed compute infrastructure industry.” (05/28/26)
https://news.bitcoin.com/the-future-of-bitcoin-mining-is-bigger-than-bitcoin/
Source: TomDispatch
by William D Hartung
“Donald Trump’s America is a scary place in significant part thanks to an unholy alliance of MAGA devotees who don’t believe in science and see intellectuals as public enemy number one, and a gaggle of Silicon Valley militarists who think that they’re the smartest people in the room, if not the universe. Add in White Christian nationalists who abuse religious precepts to sow hatred and division and you have the foundations of the political base that elected Donald Trump (twice!). And worse yet, those groupings are likely to be with us long after our current president has gone off to that great cheeseburger stand in the sky.” (05/28/26)
https://tomdispatch.com/donald-disaster-trump/
Source: Politico
“AI divisions at the White House, new inflation data, and Jill Biden’s new book.” (05/28/26)
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POLL2991106875.mp3
Source: Free the People
“Economists Have to Keep Teaching the Same Lessons | Guests: James Harrigan & Antony Davies.” (05/27/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7NeW6VSk0I
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“Media outlets are filled with stories about how AI is taking all the jobs. There are also plenty of stories telling us that soaring deficits and rising debt are going to bankrupt the government. These problems are 180-degree opposites, sort of like saying that someone is seriously overweight, but needs to put on a few pounds. Either can be true, but they can’t both possibly be true. There is zero recognition of this fact in elite intellectual circles. To make the logic clearer, the AI taking all the jobs story is one of abundance. … The out-of-control debt and deficit story is one of scarcity.” (05/28/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/28/four-reasons-were-being-lied-to/
Source: Law & Liberty
by John O McGinnis
“AI will not kill the legal profession, but it will impact what clients buy and what law schools need to teach.” (05/28/26)
https://lawliberty.org/the-unbundling-of-legal-education/
Source: SFGate
“Sean Donovan has rented his childhood home in San Francisco on Airbnb for years. Tech workers in town for conferences, and families coming for graduations are common customers, but last month he had a new guest: a robot that he said left a mess. Donovan alleges that a San Francisco startup booked his home on Airbnb last month ‘under false pretenses’ to conduct tests on the ‘robotic prototype,’ and left the place in shambles, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in San Francisco County Superior Court. He’s seeking more than $12,000 for a laundry list of damages from the Bot Company, (identified in court records as ‘Botco’) for personal property damage and unauthorized entry into a locked closet. Donovan told SFGATE that he and his partner had never put more hours into fixing the house after an Airbnb rental.” (05/27/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/airbnb-startup-robot-damages-lawsuit-22279560.php
