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✍️🤖📖 Stopping AI Slop Before It Takes Over

Jul 31, 2026

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7 min read

✍️🤖📖 Stopping AI Slop Before It Takes Over

Amazon wants to launch their own mobile phone company, and King James choose the NBA team he'll probably retire from

🏛️ Why Are The Stock Market And The Economy So Out of Sync?

Jul 24, 2026

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9 min read

🏛️ Why Are The Stock Market And The Economy So Out of Sync?

Tesla is spending more than ever, and Christopher Nolan‘s IMAX film “The Odyssey” has a HUGE opening weekend

☀️ Whatever Happened To The “Song of the Summer”?

Jul 17, 2026

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8 min read

☀️ Whatever Happened To The “Song of the Summer”?

Funflation is back, and Chipotle is opening their first restaurant in Mexico

🏡 Imagine Buying A Home In San Francisco With AI Stock Options

Jul 10, 2026

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7 min read

🏡 Imagine Buying A Home In San Francisco With AI Stock Options

Fiat launches their new car Topolino in the U.S. for $13,995 dollars, and xAI is now officially rebranded as SpaceXAI

🤖 Should The U.S. Government Take An Equity Stake In AI Companies?

Jul 3, 2026

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9 min read

🤖 Should The U.S. Government Take An Equity Stake In AI Companies?

LeBron James is leaving the LA Lakes but isn't retiring just yet, and SpaceX might launch their own mobile phone service

🔊 2026 FIFA World Cup: Entertainment or Sporting Event?

Jun 26, 2026

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10 min read

🔊 2026 FIFA World Cup: Entertainment or Sporting Event?

Peter Thiel starts his own secret society, and the Olympic Committee is giving each Olympic athlete $10,000 dollars

🚀 Could SpaceX Bring In $1 Trillion Dollars In Revenue By 2030?

Jun 19, 2026

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8 min read

🚀 Could SpaceX Bring In $1 Trillion Dollars In Revenue By 2030?

Bad Bunny met privately with Pope Leo XIV, and Sam Bankman-Fried thinks he’s getting a presidential pardon

⚽ The 2026 FIFA World Cup Begins!

Jun 12, 2026

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8 min read

⚽ The 2026 FIFA World Cup Begins!

Move over FAANG now we have MANGOS, and the CPI just hit 4.2% but no one’s worrying (except me!)

💪 What's Behind America's Obsession With Protein Maxxing?

Jun 5, 2026

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11 min read

💪 What's Behind America's Obsession With Protein Maxxing?

Tesla stars building Optimus robot factory, and the New York Giants just signed Odell Beckham Jr. to a 1 year, $1.3 million dollar contract

👷‍♂️ The Blue Collar AI Revolution

May 29, 2026

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12 min read

👷‍♂️ The Blue Collar AI Revolution

BTS creates their own Oreo, and will Simone Biles compete in the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics?

🏖️ Is the Classic American Summer Vacation at Risk from Rising Gas Prices?

May 22, 2026

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10 min read

🏖️ Is the Classic American Summer Vacation at Risk from Rising Gas Prices?

Sir David Attenborough gets a bug named after him, and Scarlett Johansson joins the cast of 'The Batman Part II'

🚀 Elon Musk's Ambitions For SpaceX Are Out Of This World

May 15, 2026

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11 min read

🚀 Elon Musk's Ambitions For SpaceX Are Out Of This World

LeBron James might retire from the NBA, and Anthropic could be worth $1 trillion dollars

💰 The National Debt Just Hit $39.2 Trillion Dollars!

May 8, 2026

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11 min read

💰 The National Debt Just Hit $39.2 Trillion Dollars!

GameStop tries to buy eBay for $56 Billion dollars, and Ask.com shuts down

🇺🇸 Welcome To Stagflation USA!

Apr 30, 2026

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10 min read

🇺🇸 Welcome To Stagflation USA!

Nvidia's market cap is worth over $5 trillion dollars, and Taylor Swift fights back against AI

🌮 The Origin Story Of “Taco Tuesday”

Apr 23, 2026

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9 min read

🌮 The Origin Story Of “Taco Tuesday”

Ryan Reynolds is writing the next Deadpool, and SpaceX might be buying Cursor

⛽ Why Gas Prices Won't Come Down As Quickly As They Went Up

Apr 15, 2026

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9 min read

⛽ Why Gas Prices Won't Come Down As Quickly As They Went Up

McDonalds partners with Red Bull on new energy drink, and Coachella is for Influencers this year

👨‍🌾 Farmers Are Worried About The Rising Price Of Fertilizer

Apr 10, 2026

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7 min read

👨‍🌾 Farmers Are Worried About The Rising Price Of Fertilizer

Amazon signs package delivery deal with the USPS, and Intel teams up with Elon Musk's Terafab

🛢️ The Price Of Oil Is Soaring

Apr 1, 2026

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17 min read

🛢️ The Price Of Oil Is Soaring

Stephen Colbert is writing a new Lord of the Rings movie, and 12 tons of KitKat bars shaped like Formula 1 race cars were stolen

🐂 Beef Prices Are Rising

Mar 25, 2026

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16 min read

🐂 Beef Prices Are Rising

Amazon is making a cell phone (again), and Max Verstappen won his first endurance racing....before they took it away from him

🥬 Lettuce Talk About Rising Prices

Mar 18, 2026

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14 min read

🥬 Lettuce Talk About Rising Prices

Stewie gets his own 2-season spinoff from Family Guy, and YouTube is now the world's biggest media company

₿ Is Michael Saylor Still Right About Bitcoin?

Mar 11, 2026

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17 min read

₿ Is Michael Saylor Still Right About Bitcoin?

Ben Affleck sells his AI filmmaking startup InterPositive to Netflix, and Anthropic sues the Trump administration

🫧 Has The AI Bubble Already Burst?

Mar 4, 2026

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17 min read

🫧 Has The AI Bubble Already Burst?

Anthropic's lose is OpenAI's gain, and Zendaya & Tom Holland may have just gotten married

🥇 The Business Of The 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics

Feb 25, 2026

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15 min read

🥇 The Business Of The 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics

Paramount Skydance raises their offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, and the rich are trying to live forever

🐰 Bad Bunny’s Growing Business Empire

Feb 19, 2026

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13 min read

🐰 Bad Bunny’s Growing Business Empire

OpenAI acquires OpenClaw’s creator, and Elon Musk ‘s X is about to launch stock and crypto trading,

🧊 What If Data Centers Didn't Need To Be Cooled?

Feb 11, 2026

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13 min read

🧊 What If Data Centers Didn't Need To Be Cooled?

Jennifer Garner’s company Once Upon a Farm IPOed, and MrBeast just bought a bank!

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