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Deeper Into the Mechanisms of Donald Trump’s Censorship Regime

Deeper Into the Mechanisms of Donald Trump’s Censorship Regime

Published by Sam Flores

The regime of Republican President Donald Trump is an enterprise built on perfidy, corruption and bigotry. It is clear, given the conduct of the administration and how it operates the censorship regime it established to put up a supposed defense of the First Amendment rights for its MAGA adherents and members of far-right movements. Of course, there is a double standard at work. As I’ve said time and again, nothing that President Trump and his inner circle have done since returning to the White House has been done to the benefit of the country as a whole. Rather, it is a tiring, seemingly daily slump from one crisis to the next. There has yet to be a reprieve. This is especially true in the face of Trump’s efforts to censor his opponents through intimidation and persecution. Events of recent weeks solidify my observations, including my views that Trump is the most injurious president to the sacrosanct protection of our collective freedoms of expression. Let’s consider the simultaneous censorship mechanisms at work in the U.S. Justice Department …

Wix Tumbles After Cutting 20% Of Workforce, Warns Of Deeper Growth Slowdown

Wix Tumbles After Cutting 20% Of Workforce, Warns Of Deeper Growth Slowdown

Published by Jenni Sidey

Website builder Wix announced an “organizational realignment” on Monday that will cut roughly 20% of its workforce, as the company warned of a sharper-than-expected slowdown in its Partners business. The restructuring is designed to streamline operations, discontinue lower-priority initiatives, and reallocate resources toward Wix’s core growth areas. “The organizational realignment to streamline operations and reallocate resources to support the Company’s top strategic priorities. This includes the scaling down and/or discontinuation of certain activities, initiatives, products, and subsidiaries,” Wix wrote in a Form 6k filing earlier this morning. As of 1Q26, Wix had 5,277 employees, so a 20% cut would represent about 1,055 layoffs. Wix is a SaaS website builder that competes with platforms such as Shopify, Squarespace, GoDaddy, and WordPress-related services. There was no mention of whether AI-related efficiencies contributed to the white-collar layoffs. The 6k filing noted that it expects 2026 free cash flow, excluding acquisition and restructuring costs, of about $420 million, roughly $20 million above its prior plan. This restructuring is a move to support profitability. “While Wix Harmony and Base44 continue …

Texas Senate race shows the rot runs deeper than Trump

Texas Senate race shows the rot runs deeper than Trump

Published by Sam Flores

During this year’s Republican Senate primary campaign in Texas, the National Republican Senatorial Campaign distributed one of the most devastating campaign advertisements ever made. This video wasn’t an artificial intelligence slop insult fest or a Nixonian ratf**k. It was a recitation of one candidate’s long list of crimes, corruption and scandals since 2015 — six long minutes of one shocking incident after another, all taking place in plain sight, well known to state officials and voters alike. The ad wasn’t about a Democrat or a run-of-the-mill crooked businessman. It was about the state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who would go on to win the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate over the powerful incumbent Sen. John Cornyn on May 26. And Paxton was helped across the finish line by none other than Donald Trump, his spiritual soul brother who offered an enthusiastic endorsement. (The ad has now been “unlisted” on YouTube, but it is still available on X and other social media platforms.)  The age of Trump is rife with corruption and degeneracy, and it’s …

‘Backrooms’ Takes You Deeper Inside the Internet’s Most Uncanny Horror Myth

‘Backrooms’ Takes You Deeper Inside the Internet’s Most Uncanny Horror Myth

Published by skeptic

The 20-year-old filmmaker Kane Parsons has risen to the top so fast that he’s had zero time to process how far he’s come. “It’s been go, go, go,” Parsons tells WIRED. “Even the tiniest bit of a break,” he says, would give him some better perspective on everything that’s happened over the past few years. But for the moment, he’s soaking up the limelight—and thinks it’ll be at least another month before he has the space to reflect on his big break. Backrooms, a moody horror piece that stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve, is a cerebral expansion of Parsons’ atmospheric YouTube web series of the same name. It marks his feature debut as A24’s youngest director to date, at the helm of a movie long anticipated by a huge and hungry internet fan base. You could hardly ask for a better kick start to summer blockbuster season. Yet Parsons makes his meteoric success sound like something of an accident. “I never went into making that first short or making the series with the intention …

I dug deeper into my Oura Ring data using this free app – here’s what I found

I dug deeper into my Oura Ring data using this free app – here’s what I found

Published by skeptic

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways  Simple Wearable Report turns Oura data into a lab-style report. The free tool provides an option to upload to chatbots. You can use it to send to doctors or query an AI.  Health trackers like Apple Watches and Oura Rings already do a fine job at providing insights into health patterns and trends. But sometimes, software comes along that offers a little something else as well. Enter Simple Wearable Report, a free tool that transforms Oura Ring data into a helpful, easily scannable report. An Oura Ring user on the r/ouraring subreddit created Simple Wearable Report after wanting to explore their health patterns using AI or easily share data with their PCP. After generating this report, the Simple Wearable Report provides an option to upload this report to an AI tool of your choosing, including Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini, and query the AI to further understand trends.  Also: Whoop vs. Fitbit Air: I’ve tested both trackers for health and fitness, and this model wins …

SpaceX-Tesla Merger Speculation Grows As Decade Of Cross-Company Deals Reveal Deeper Integration

SpaceX-Tesla Merger Speculation Grows As Decade Of Cross-Company Deals Reveal Deeper Integration

Published by Jenni Sidey

Wedbush Securities’ Dan Ives has pointed out for months the potential for a SpaceX-Tesla merger, discussing the possibility with Bloomberg in February and, more recently, on a podcast where he said the probability is 80% by 2027. Polymarket odds of a merger by the end of the year stand at 32%. Now, CNBC has joined the growing speculation that Musk may eventually merge Tesla and SpaceX into one mega-company. The report said: The two companies already have a laundry list of shared resources, and Musk has discussed with colleagues the possibility of folding the companies together, according to people familiar with the talks who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the topic. A current Tesla employee told CNBC that many workers at the electric vehicle company have long expected such a transaction to eventually take place and that the topic is openly discussed internally. Another person close to the company said that shared challenges tied to power and compute constraints have led to regular collaborations. Both companies already overlap across AI, …

DraftKings pushes deeper into federally regulated sports prediction markets through Railbird

DraftKings pushes deeper into federally regulated sports prediction markets through Railbird

Published by skeptic

DraftKings is moving further into federally supervised prediction markets after Railbird Exchange submitted its first group of event contract certifications to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The filings appeared in the CFTC’s Designated Contract Market products database under the name “REX.” They include six binary option templates connected to sports results and player performances: GAMEWIN, GAMESPREAD, GAMEPROPERTY, ENTITYSTAT, ENTITYOUTPERFORM, and ENTITYACHIEVEMENT. Regulators classified the submissions under “Event” and “Binary Option” products after the certifications were filed May 22. @DraftKings' DCM, Railbird Exchange, LLC, d/b/a DKeX, just filed its first product certifications with the CFTC. 6 binary option templates in the "Event" category — GAMEWIN, GAMESPREAD, GAMEPROPERTY, ENTITYSTAT, ENTITYOUTPERFORM, ENTITYACHIEVEMENT. Template-style filing (not… — PredictionMarketPulse (@PredMP) May 26, 2026 It appears to be the strongest signal so far that DraftKings plans to build a much larger sports-focused prediction market business through Railbird Exchange, the federally licensed exchange operator the company bought last year. News of the filing first surfaced on X through PredictionMarketPulse, which called the submission Railbird’s “first product certifications with the CFTC.” DraftKings and …

Trump’s Missing Ambassadors Are a Sign of a Deeper Problem

Trump’s Missing Ambassadors Are a Sign of a Deeper Problem

Published by Daniella Wilson

The United States is fighting, in some form or another, with almost everyone. America’s in a hot war with Iran and a cold war with China and Russia (even if President Trump hasn’t figured that out). Trump has ignited various trade wars, and keeps talking up a possible conflict with Cuba. And just for good measure, the president seems still obsessed with grabbing Greenland, which would spark a confrontation with NATO, the most powerful and successful alliance in history—and one supposedly led by Washington. This might seem like a good time for some traditional diplomacy: deploying ambassadors to smooth ruffled feathers, assure friends and warn enemies of American resolve, and work out details on trade and other issues that require professional attention. The problem is that those ambassadors don’t exist. As The Wall Street Journal reported last week, the Trump administration has left more than 100 ambassadorships unfilled, including some to important U.S. allies. This is an unprecedented number of vacancies, even for a White House that has shown little interest in traditional diplomacy. (At …

The Deeper Lessons of an Edgy ‘SNL’ Tradition

The Deeper Lessons of an Edgy ‘SNL’ Tradition

Published by Daniella Wilson

Even by the standards of shocking Michael Jackson jokes, it was a shocking joke. “Michael Jackson did nothing wrong,” Michael Che, a co-anchor of Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update,” said during last night’s episode. “He was right to molest all those kids.” This was delivered with palpable surprise at the words coming out of his mouth, but Che kept going: “They were lucky. I would have paid him to do it. And I did! That’s right, when I was 10 years old, Michael Jackson molested me, and the only thing it gave me was a fetish for middle-aged white women.” He then smiled and said, almost as an aside, “That is not why I have that.” Che, of course, wasn’t saying what he actually thinks about the late pop star or his own personal sexual preferences. He was participating in a tradition where he and co-anchor Colin Jost each write “Weekend Update” material that the other man has to deliver cold, without seeing the joke ahead of time. The goal is to make their co-anchor …

Death Valley stars tease “deeper” Chapel and Janie relationship in season 2

Death Valley stars tease “deeper” Chapel and Janie relationship in season 2

Published by Daniella Wilson

This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. In a hazy police station atrium in south Wales, police consultant John Chapel and DI Janie Mallowan are confronting a murder suspect. Their evidence? Impeccable. Their psychological profiling? Absolutely top-notch. Surely, they’ll get this “whodunnit” wrapped up in no time. Except – CUT! – there needs to be another take. As Death Valley stars Timothy Spall and Gwyneth Keyworth wait, a smoke machine revs up again, to create the illusion of a stultifying, overheated summer day inside Trebach Police Station. In reality, it’s a chilly November morning, and Trebach Police Station is a set deep within Roath Lock Studios in Cardiff, fully laid out with corridors, stairs, interview rooms, CCTV nerve centres and offices. There’s even a vending machine filled with real food – apparently, regularly raided by members of the cast. Not far away lies the cozy cottage of actor-turned-sleuth Chapel, stuffed with mementos from his career including a BAFTA award and two – count them – framed copies of a Radio Times cover from when …