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Faster, pussy cat. "Hiring slowed last month, as U.S. employers added just 75,000 jobs even as the unemployment rate held steady at 3.6%. The report suggests businesses are increasingly cautious in the face of the Trump administration's ongoing trade wars. And it could increase the odds of interest rate cuts." Ouch. "Barnes & Noble (B&N) is close to securing a $436m deal to be bought by hedge fund Elliott Management, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), amid speculation that Waterstones boss James Daunt could lead both retailers." And then they'll over leverage BN, give all the top people bonuses for their "great business acumen" and close up shop by Christmas. Or at least that's a possibility. The over leveraging and bonuses will happen regardless. Although the rumors of Waterstones turning a profit is a hopeful sign. (Grokked from Kameron Hurley) "Thirty-five years ago in Moscow, working on what he says was "an ugly Russian" computer that was frankensteined together with spare parts, Alexey Pajitnov started a side project that has become the second-best-selling video game of all time: Tetris." Did you ever play so much you would dream about playing Tetris? "As another hurricane season begins, emergency managers and other officials throughout the Southeast and along the Gulf Coast are applying lessons they learned last year during Hurricane Michael. Those lessons include how they conduct evacuations." "Scientists have detected radio waves emanating from the space between a pair of galaxy clusters—evidence of intergalactic magnetic fields and fast-moving particles in the space between these giant galactic assemblages." Man, the latency lag time would be a killer. The On the Media podcast with… "Since Amazon’s founding in 1994, the corporation has taken over industry after industry, defining what we buy and how we buy. Stacy Mitchell is the co-director of Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Earlier this year she wrote an article for The Nation called, 'Amazon doesn’t just want to dominate the market — it wants to become the market.' Stacy and Brooke talk about the history of regulation of corporate concentration and where the movement is headed." (Full disclosure, I sell t-shirts on Amazon through their merchant program.) And this is how Amazon will make money while losing on every sale (as the worry went in the late 90s investor circles). "Three-quarters of Americans say they want to keep in place the landmark Supreme Court ruling, Roe v. Wade, that made abortion legal in the United States, but a strong majority would like to see restrictions on abortion rights, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll." It's that last part that keeps fucking us up, and why Right-to-Life claims a majority, but doesn't really have it. "Just about 50 years after New York police clashed with gay rights activists at the Stonewall Inn, the city's police commissioner, James O'Neill, has apologized for the department's raid on that tumultuous night in 1969." The arc is long. "A powerful explosion in the southern Swedish town of Linkoping on Friday damaged buildings and lightly injured 25 people, police said." "The US and Russian warships came somewhere between 50 feet and 165 feet of each other, according to the two opposing reports, with both sides alleging their ships were forced to perform emergency maneuvers to avoid a collision, which can be seen in video and a picture of the event obtained by CNN." Oh my Russian friends, this is not a good thing. Someone will fuck up, and then we'll be shooting at each other. No one wins that war. "'Tariffs are a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful word if you know how to use them properly,' Mr. Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingram on Thursday in France, where he was taking part in 75th D-Day anniversary commemorations." Our stable genius president, everybody. Again, the man is playing Chutes and Ladders while the rest of us are playing chess. That's why he looks so inscrutable. "President Donald Trump repeated his criticism of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate increases and said the stock market would be 10,000 points higher had the Fed kept rates lower." The man is a complete idiot. "An unidentified man is in federal custody after he asked about buying grenades and discussed possibly detonating them in Times Square, according to law enforcement sources." Ah, another lone wolf. You know, if all these lone wolves got together, they might form 4Chan.