GOOD GAME: Zuck’s NOT a bozo, social media resistance, women to the rescue

GOOD GAME: Zuck’s NOT a bozo, social media resistance, women to the rescue

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Fun Headlines

1. Tesla Stock Is Waiting For Godot

2. Jim Cramer on Meta: “Zuckerberg’s Not a Bozo, You Can Quote Me on That”

Zuck Sucking

1. Meta Employees Burned $221M in AI Tokens in One Month: Now Big Tech Starts Counting Every AI Prompt

2. Mark Zuckerberg said AI agent tech is advancing more slowly than expected in an internal town hall

Fighting Back Against Big Data Middle School Bro Bullies

1. Japan enacts social media law requiring flagging of AI content in elections

2. Law School Bans Laptops and Phones as AI Cheating Scandal Grows

3. Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta

4. Meta found to breach EU laws with 'addictive' Instagram, Facebook designs

5. California vs. Elon Musk: Tesla Snubbed as New EV Incentives Boost Rivian, Lucid

6. New 'Anti-Elon' ETFs Allow Investors to Avoid Tesla and SpaceX

7. Social Media's 'Big Tobacco Moment': Meta Faces $1.4 Trillion Fine for Allegedly Fueling Teen Suicide and Addiction

8. Google loses fight over record $4.7 billion EU antitrust fine

9. EU Proposal to Curb Minors’ Access to Social Media Coming Later This Year

Stakeholders Fighting Back

1. Paramount, WBD hit with lawsuit from 12 states, including California, to block merger

   1. The states are seeking to freeze the transaction, which could cost Paramount millions because it agreed to pay a $650 million “ticking fee” for every quarter the deal doesn’t close after Sept. 30

2. NY Attorney General Sues 3M, Others Over ‘Forever Chemicals’

3. New York City becomes first in the US to ban deceptive subscription practices

4. John Deere Farm Equipment Owners Have Right-to-Repair, F.T.C. Says

5. Power Workers Independence Day Strike Wins Pensions in Pennsylvania

Women to the Rescue

1. Judge Rules Trump's $1.8 Billion IRS Deal Invalid – Then Calls Lawsuit an Attempt to Manipulate the Courts

2. 35 Percent of Women on SPI Boards of Directors

   1. Swiss Performance Index

   2. At companies where women make up less than 30 percent of the board, the percentage of votes against female nomination committee chairs at this year’s annual shareholder meetings was 25 percent, up from 19 percent the previous year.

3. Women reach record share of Finnish company boards

   1. 37%

4. The women who wouldn’t let climate data disappear

   1. Rebecca Lindsey, Anna Eshelman, and Mary Lindsey

Stakeholders Rule!

1. Fortune 500 Land O’Lakes is letting workers choose what days and times they work—and the flex jobs are getting 25% more applicants than full-time gigs

2. He Earns $33 an Hour as a Costco Cashier. Now He’s a Millionaire.

3. Chief sustainability officers’ new pitch to CEOs: climate action isn’t about morals—it’s about money

Idiots Losing Money

1. Eric Trump Has Lost $600 Million of Daddy’s Money Betting on Crypto

2. Larry Ellison Loses $60 Billion

Speed Round of Stupid

1. Honda recalling more than 325,000 vehicles over potential crash risk

2. Costco CEO promises the $1.50 hot dog isn’t going away: ‘The price will not change as long as I’m around’

3. West Virginia spent $3M to create university program to fight ‘woke ideology.’ One student is enrolled

4. Olive Garden is bringing back its $100 unlimited pasta pass after a six-year break

5. Taco Bells Makes Urgent Changes After Outbreak of Explosive Diarrhea