Note to the Los Angeles Dodgers: spam season ticket email solicitations do not make me want to become a fan of your baseball team.
This is certainly a white collar crime, Startup founder accused of tricking JPMorgan
In a complaint filed on Tuesday, the Department of Justice accuses the fintech founder of “falsely and dramatically inflating” the number of clients her startup served to “fraudulently induce” JPMorgan Chase into acquiring the company.
I mean, really though, shouldn’t JPMorgan Chase have done a better job of research before shelling out $175 million dollars for a startup?
Is this really worth taxpayer funds to prosecute?
If any institution can absorb $175 million dollars, it’s surely JPMorgan Chase.
Sometimes the internet is amazing.
I don’t know where this quote comes from, but I love it.
Let’s be simple and calm. Like streams and trees.
Today’s Wordle is not a word, it is an Acronym.
I’m annoyed by this being added to a word list by the New York times.
What a difference 50 years makes.
That’s a big change to Hong Kong.
A vampire vulture
A lazy Caturday watching the backyard.
This is the way.
Deserves got nothing to do with it.
It’s not Caturday, but here’s a picture anyway.
Zoe sits where she normally doesn’t sit.
Police, police unions and pro-police organizations will always tell you the answer to crime, as in having less crime, is more police, but that is not the truth. More police leads to more crime because the police have to justify their presence.
Nobody wants more police in their neighborhood. Except the police. They always want more police.
*Note, I have no way to validate the image is accurate and it may be a joke image: That does not change my opinion though.
Nick Heer giving more credit to people than they deserve, just because they work in government
it seems unlikely to me for representatives of the Vatican to be using a knockoff.
Sometimes the internet is awesome.
I find it curious that the rhetoric around competition changes when a company acquires around 50% to 70% of a specific market.
Then, instead of competing, the company is magically abusing it’s leading position in the marketplace to avoid competition.
Deadly Fungus Detected in Most U.S. States
The Last of Us is real and it’s starting now.
Ummm, anyone remember this asshat saying he could shot someone on 5th Avenue in New York and nothing would happen?
That’s what they call foreshadowing.
I’m sickened that half this country thinks he is worthy of the highest political office we have.
Chris Christie,
But look at the end, being indicted, never helps anybody.
And yet, no one in the Republican Party is seriously distancing themselves from his dumb lying ass.
On Camera Market Analysis
This is a weird one to me. The analysis just doesn’t make sense for a remembrance post. But, Om is a Silicon Valley expert so, surely he knows more than I do.
Om Malik on DPReview being shut down
Steady demand for multiple years is not a healthy market? Sure it’s less than the demand from a decade ago, but demand for cameras and lenses is not dropping off a cliff.
He then goes on to compare site visits for DPReview, a review site, and Petapixel, “another photography website that aggregates and publishes more “photography” related click-friendly content”. He determines that DPReview “wasn’t that good” with 1.9 million visits in January 2023 (down from 3 million in 2021) while Petapixel saw “its traffic surge” with 2.2 million visits in January 2023 (up from 1 million in 2021).
Om’s analysis: