Sunday, September 7
A New Theory of the Universe’s Origins Without Inflation
How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution?
This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Research hopes to address as a team of researchers from Spain and Italy proposed a new model for the events that transpired immediately after the birth of the universe.
This study has the potential to challenge longstanding theories regarding the exact processes that occurred at the beginning of the universe, along with how these processes have governed the formation and evolution of the universe.
Saturday, September 6
Headlines
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Hundreds arrested in immigration raid at Hyundai battery plant. Most of the 475 workers who were arrested at the Georgia factory, a joint venture between the automaker and battery company LG Energy Solution, were South Korean nationals. A US official said those arrested were not legally able to work in the US and called it “the largest single site enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security investigations.” South Korea has raised concerns, and the arrests are likely to increase tensions between the US and South Korea, following intense tariff negotiations that ended with a 15% import tax on South Korean goods and a pledge by the country to invest $350 billion in the US.
Google fined $3.5b in EU ad-tech antitrust case. The European Union slapped the American search giant with its second-largest antitrust fine ever yesterday (the largest was also against Google), after its competition regulator found the company had unfairly favored its own advertising tech. The decision comes as President Trump has claimed the bloc discriminates against American companies in its tech regulation. In a Truth Social post yesterday, the president threatened a trade probe in order to “nullify the unfair penalties being charged to these Taxpaying American Companies.”
Anthropic to pay $1.5b to settle authors’ copyright claims. In the first major settlement by an AI company over training its model on copyrighted works, Anthropic has agreed to shell out $1.5 billion to resolve claims by authors that it downloaded pirated copies of their books for training. The settlement must still be approved by a judge, but if it had gone to trial and lost the case, Anthropic could have faced $1 trillion in damages to the authors of 7 million books, per Bloomberg. The deal comes as dozens of suits remain pending against Anthropic and its competitors in the AI space over the use of intellectual property to train their models.—AR
Robert Reich
The jobs crash
Friends,
Sorry to intrude on you again today, but this morning’s jobs report shows that Trump’s economy is experiencing a jobs crash.
When I say jobs crash, I mean that employers have essentially stopped hiring. Today’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the economy added only 22,000 jobs in August (relative to the normal monthly gain of 180,000 to 200,000).
The revised figures for June, based on added data, show that 13,000 jobs were lost that month. That’s the first net loss in monthly jobs since the start of the pandemic.
Trump blames Jerome Powell and the Fed for not cutting interest rates sooner, but that’s not the reason employers have stopped hiring. They’ve stopped because the risk is too great.
At A Glance
Bookkeeping
> 1,135: Billionaires living in the US, as of 2024—collectively worth $5.7T.
> ... and 595,000: How many people have $1M+ in their 401(k) account.
> $50K: The amount mystery novelist James Patterson is giving 12 writers to finish their books. (w/video)
Browse
> Ten best US national parks for fall foliage.
> Make trending lattes—from banana to s'mores—at home.
> Iconic college football game day traditions.
> Are we in the age of the anti-rom-com?
> Best and worst states for owning an electric vehicle.
Listen
> Is curiosity the key to aging well?
> Milk.com could be worth millions, but one man is holding on.
Watch
> Three habits of highly successful risk-takers.
> How the sunfish—dumbest animal alive—survives.
> Rise, comeback, and ultimate death of the Choco Taco.
Long Read
> What it's like to become an 80-year-old for a day.
> The case for channeling your inner "Swamp Thing."
Most Clicked This Week: Common traits of people raised by helicopter parents.
Historybook: Magellan’s ship Victoria completes circumnavigation of the globe (1522); Social work pioneer Jane Addams born (1860); Munich massacre takes place at Munich Olympic Games; 11 Israeli athletes and coaches killed by terrorist group (1972); Idris Elba born (1972); Actor Burt Reynolds dies (2018).
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2025 US Open wraps this weekend; see latest updates and schedules for both the women's and men's tournaments (More)
> College Sports Commission approves 8,300 name, image, and likeness deals for college athletes worth nearly $80M; the commission is tasked with approving contracts between athletes and third-party entities (More)
> "Bluey" animated feature film, based on the popular children's TV show, sets August 2027 release date (More) | Justin Bieber's second surprise album of the year, "Swag II," released this morning (More)
Science & Technology
> New study suggests thumbnails instead of claws provided certain rodent species an evolutionary advantage, allowing the animals to better manipulate food (More, w/photos)
> Spaceflight accelerates aging of stem cells, lowering their production of healthy new cells; findings suggest health risks of long-duration space flights (More) | What are stem cells? (More)
> Fine particle air pollution linked to Lewy body dementia; particles can trigger formation of protein clumps in the brain, a hallmark of the disease (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.8%, Dow +0.8%, Nasdaq +1.0%) ahead of today's jobs report release—the first since President Donald Trump's firing of Labor Department official who oversaw the monthly reports (More)
> Justice Department opens criminal probe into Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over mortgage fraud allegations (More) | Stephen Miran, Trump's pick for Fed board, faces Senate confirmation hearing (More)
> Software giant Atlassian to acquire The Browser Co., a startup offering AI-enhanced web browsers, for $610M (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> President Donald Trump will sign an executive order today rebranding the Defense Department as the Department of War, a title last used in 1947; Dept. of War will be the agency’s secondary title until Congress approves the change (More)
> DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D) sues the Trump administration in effort to end deployment of National Guard; decision follows federal judge's ruling this week that the Guard's deployment in California was unlawful (More)
> Third earthquake hits Afghanistan as the death toll from Sunday's earthquake exceeds 2,200 people, with over 3,600 others injured (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Brainwashing
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Here recently, I am amazed by what I see on television. When I say television, I am speaking about HULU, Prime, and Netflix that includes both movies and series.
First of all, all the main characters drink wine or hard liquor every night after work and many of them smoke cigarettes, despite the warnings from the Surgeon General about the negative side effects of smoking and alcohol.
Many of the people I know, do smoke and do drink alcohol but they don't drink alcohol every night otherwise we'd have tons of more people with lung cancer, heart and liver disease not to mention obesity.
Another problem, at least for me, is how commercials are made.
Commercials now how to include blacks, whites, Asians, and Latinos regardless of what the commercial is about, implying that these four groups are constantly getting together... this is not indicative of what is going on in today's society.
Additionally, movies (including series) must have a gay couple, either two females or two males, that are either married or dating, regardless of the plot. And, if it takes place in Europe then there has got to be at least one mixed racial couple involved.
Again, this does not reflect current US or Global demographics... in fact, my research indicates these groups only represent less than 5% of the general population... AND YET, these movies and series producers want us to think the percentage is substantially higher.
This misleading concept leaves me with a negative feeling after watching current movies and/or series. I doubt I am the only one who feels this way and yet, movies and series continue to be made and released this way.
Eventually the public is going to TURN AGAINST these types of movies and series...
This type of brainwashing is UNACCEPTABLE...
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