Zukerberg’s Metaverse is Aborted

by Chris Black >$24,000,000,000 down the drain >Microsoft pulls out from Metaverse >Echo VR shut down >Crayta shut down >Metaverse avatars still don’t have legs >Facebook will focus on copying ChatGTP AI instead Literally no normal person ever wanted the VR meme.  The actual thing that will probably catch on when 6G brings gigabit speeds … Read more

Half of Murders in U.S. Now Going Unsolved

by Chris Black Baltimore and Detroit have higher murder rates than Northwest Europe during the Late Medieval period. The murder rate in England at the end of the Late Medieval period was equal to the average murder rate in all US cities today. The murder rate went through the roof and the clearance through the … Read more

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz: We need 40 soccer fields full of solar installations per day

Scholz called for more speed to make industry climate neutral by 2045. “We need to put up four to five new wind turbines per day by 2030 and the equivalent of more than 40 soccer fields full of solar panels per day,” he said. https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article244130393/Olaf-Scholz-Deutschland-wird-das-Problem-der-Arbeitslosigkeit-hinter-sich-lassen.html This is what extreme corruption and ideological insanity looks like. … Read more

How to save journalism…

The Washington Post reported, “Scores of news organizations — including The Washington Post — on Friday demanded congressional leaders release a trove of surveillance footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that the House speaker provided exclusively to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has downplayed the violence.” None of these … Read more

The market rally peaked?

Morgan Stanley sees the potential for a technical bounce in stocks, but Wilson feels earnings estimates remain far too high and fundamentals will eventually drag prices lower. pic.twitter.com/18vViX5BNF — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) March 6, 2023 High yield spreads appear to be mispricing the potential risk in those credit markets, as bank standards of tightened … Read more

People are slowly waking up…

“People are slowly waking up from the fog”https://t.co/MJ1sdff2id pic.twitter.com/sTTtnAJoBa — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) March 6, 2023 🤡🌎 pic.twitter.com/CUKis8vqoD — Clown World Today (@cwt_news) March 6, 2023 https://twitter.com/PhilipSoos/status/1632741791391973377 https://twitter.com/burningplat/status/1632777633673904128

Report: DHS Maintains Secret Domestic Intelligence Program

via breitbart: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretly maintains a domestic intelligence program that allows agency officials to interview willing Americans without their lawyers present, raising civil liberties concerns, according to a report. The secret program is called the “Overt Human Intelligence Collection Program” and enables the federal government to interview Americans in prison and jail, … Read more

“I Can’t Get My Money Out”: Billionaire Mark Mobius Says China Blocking Investment Outflows

Emerging markets investment pioneer Mark Mobius says that China is blocking his ability to withdraw money from the world’s second-largest economy (ZeroHedge) “I’m personally affected because I have an account with HSBC in Shanghai. I can’t get my money out. The government is restricting the flow of money out of the country,” Mobius told Fox … Read more

Deporting Fentanyl Dealers Violates Sanctuary City Policies, Says SF Supervisor

San Francisco County Supervisor Shamann Walton told San Franciscans this week the U.S. shouldn’t deport illegal immigrant drug dealers for selling fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid that was largely responsible for nearly 2,000 drug overdose deaths in the city since 2020. “There’s been a drug issue in this country for a very long time. But … Read more