Corp Love

Corporations Are Not Our Friends.

That so many people sincerely believe that a corporation is or can be their friend, or even love them, boggles my goddamn mind. The world just does not work that way. No corporation loves you. It simply cannot. As an amoral entity, it has no feelings, no loyalty and no personal attachments. It can and will throw you away like trash the moment doing that benefits it more than keeping you around.

Happens all the time. An individual person can love you. Nothing beyond that can — and certainly not a corporation.

Why you didn’t get the job after 100 rounds of interview, homework assignment and stool sample.

Medicare announces lower prices on 10 common, high-cost drugs. The negotiations with drugmakers are projected to save older adults $1.5 billion in out-of-pocket costs when the new prices go into effect in 2026.

On the Record: Music Before Mass Production. Despite advances in technology, the fledgling music industry had a problem: it could not mass-produce phonograph records. For a brief period, every recording committed to wax was unique, forcing labels to find creative ways of meeting demand.

These Retail Sales, in Face of Dropping Prices of Goods Retailers Sell, Support Solid Growth in โ€œRealโ€ GDP & Inflation-Adjusted Consumer Spending.

The Share of Million-Dollar Homes in America Just Hit an All-Time High. This is bad for everyone everywhere.

JD Vance Is the New Sarah Palin.

Ukraineโ€™s incursion disrupts Putinโ€™s war of attempted conquest.

An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, not a comet, new study finds. I’m sure the dinosaurs feel very consoled by that clarification.

The IRAโ€™s Labor Provisions Look Like Theyโ€™re Working.

Blackstone raised rent prices at double the market rate โ€” up 79% at one building โ€” in San Diego, report says.

US Inflation Is Looking Good, Except for Housing Costs.

Conservatives exhibit greater metacognitive inefficiency, study finds.

Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book we bought from major online retailer.

Press reaction to Trump campaign email leak starkly different from 2016, when Clinton was hacked.