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☆ Elon Musk has a lot to lose — or gain — based on who wins the presidential election
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

While Musk is increasingly flexing his political power, whoever wins the White House could drastically impact the billionaire and his businesses. Here's how things could shake out for Musk under a second Trump administration versus a Biden win. Tusk said Biden doesn't think of Elon as a rival — he probably doesn't think about him at all. Advertisement"On the Trump side, Musk needs to be careful and not go headlong into this. Musk and Biden campaign representatives did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.

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☆ I met a guy on a plane. Shortly after, I quit my job and moved in with him.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Nancy Brier | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A guy sat near meThe flight was about to take off when a guy my age rushed onto the plane. He plunked into an aisle seat and settled in. Lights dimmed, and the movie started. Six months later, I quit my job, moved to California, and started life as a freelance consultant. I've never returned to corporate work and still have a soft spot for that in-flight movie, "A Simple Twist of Fate."

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☆ Here's why the internet keeps telling people to look at their keyboards
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Camilo Fonseca | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A new social media trend is urging users to "look between" certain letters on their keyboard. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. That's because of a new trend that is enthralling — and irritating — thousands of users on X and other similar platforms. cheaters will tell you they love you and then their actions tell you to look between h and l on your keyboard. that's all we baggin' this year, trust — ً (@ahdebee) April 21, 2024look between Y and I on your keyboard, that’s all I want.

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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to United Auto Workers members at the UAW's Community Action Program (CAP) legislative conference in Washington, U.S., January 24, 2024. The United Auto Workers union is endorsing President Joe Biden for reelection this year, UAW President Shawn Fain announced Wednesday at a union conference in Washington, D.C."Today, I'm proud to stand up here with your International Executive Board and announce that the UAW is endorsing Joe Biden for President of the United States," Fain said. "We will reelect Joe Biden." "Look, I kept my commitment to be the most pro-union president ever," Biden said following the endorsement announcement. Biden threw his own punches at Trump, who he expects to face in a general election rematch in November.

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☆ A former OpenAI exec says AI could be the last technology humans ever invent
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

So now you start compounding the implications on life sciences, and biosciences and it gets really, really exciting. I will say this, I don't think that it is currently popular to espouse an overwhelmingly positive sentiment, because I think it is seen as naive. I think we are so wrapped up in the Terminator Skynet idea, and I just don't think that's even remotely interesting given what we think we're building. I point to nuclear as the best example of how one policy, especially influenced by public perception, can have a really, really incredible consequence on the human experience. I think there is not enough attention paid to the issue of AI versus AI.

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Then Jimmy Carter called for help from his family’s peanut farming warehouse. “I can use my time better than that.”As president, Jimmy Carter sent her abroad as an official diplomat. Lillian Carter, a nurse, delivered Eleanor Rosalynn Smith and a few days later brought young Jimmy Carter back to the Smith home to meet the baby. Jimmy Carter was a smitten newlywed, writing in poetry that his wife's beauty struck songbirds into silence. First, Jimmy Carter sat at her bedside in his wheelchair.

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May 3 (Reuters) - An autopsy showed Tyre Nichols had a legal amount of alcohol and a trace amount of marijuana in his blood when Memphis police beat the Black man to death after a traffic stop in January, ABC News reported on Wednesday, undermining police claims that Nichols was high. Nichols' death provoked widespread outrage after police video showed officers beating and kicking Nichols, 29, as he cried out for his mother near his family home in Tennessee. Nichols' blood alcohol level was .049%, well below the .08% legal limit in Tennessee, and he had trace amounts of marijuana in his system, ABC reported. The video showed the first emergency medical technician to treat Nichols first asked him, "What'd you have? Crump and Romanucci are representing Nichols' family in a $550 million federal lawsuit against the city of Memphis.

☆ How did Memphis medical workers respond to Tyre Nichols after police beating?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Over the next few minutes, officers brutally beat Nichols; several officers punch him and kick him in the head and he is hit with a baton. 8:38 p.m.His beating at the second scene over, Nichols is dragged across the asphalt to sit propped up against a patrol car, hands apparently cuffed behind him. The two fire department EMTs arrive with bags, which they place on the ground; their driver remains in the vehicle, the department said. The requested ambulance arrives, according to the fire department account, about 17 minutes after officers stopped their beating of Nichols. Medical workers can be seen tending to Nichols as he is propped up against the police car.

☆ Businesses, not governments, will need to lead the transition to clean energy, executives say
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Josée Rose | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The transition to clean energy isn't a choice, executives told Insider. Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest on the culture & business of sustainability — delivered weekly to your inbox. Motsinger said the move to sustainable business practices, infrastructure, supply chains, and products couldn't wait for the government to mandate such moves. Fitzgerald added that it's key to develop trust among all sides so that businesses could roll out new technology. Once we have safe, reliable, and affordable options in those areas, Fitzgerald said attention might turn to areas considered harder to decarbonize — processes like steelmaking, cement production, and construction.

☆ Disney CEO Iger makes profitable streaming a priority
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Dawn Chmielewski | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File PhotoNov 28 (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) Chief Executive Bob Iger said on Monday one of his top priorities is to make the company's streaming business profitable. Iger is responsible for Disney's all-in embrace of streaming, and the launch of its marquee service, Disney+, but he acknowledged the measurement of success has changed. Disney joins a number of media companies seeking to grow their streaming services without sacrificing its film or television businesses. From a sound stage on Disney's lot, Iger said he returns to the company he led for 15 years with a sense of urgency. He offered no timing on the restructuring of the company's film and television distribution group, Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution.

☆ Disney CEO Bob Iger calls the drive to make streaming profitable a priority
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Dawn Chmielewski | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

☆ Disney hiring freeze will stay in place, CEO Bob Iger tells employees
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Alex Sherman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Chief executive officer and chairman of The Walt Disney Company Bob Iger and Mickey Mouse look on before ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, November 27, 2017 in New York City. Disney Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger said during his first town hall since returning to the company that he won't remove the company's hiring freeze and that he will reassess its cost structure. Iger kicked off the town hall Monday quoting from the song "What'd I miss?" He replaced his hand-picked successor Bob Chapek, whose nearly three-year run as CEO ended abruptly after a dismal fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report. Iger joked his wife, Willow Bay, told him he should run Disney again so that he wouldn't run for U.S. president — something Iger has thought about in the past.

☆ How a media executive you've never heard of brokered one of the most consequential deals in Hollywood — and brought us 'Seinfeld'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Jane Biondi Munna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

In a new book, Jane Biondi Munna recounts highlights from her father Frank Biondi's career. In a new book, Biondi's daughter, Jane Biondi Munna, recorded and compiled the story of his career. The author, Jane Biondi Munna, and her late father, Frank Biondi. Apparently some guy, some comedy writer, was living in his car — actually living in his car — when he sold the show to Castle Rock, and Castle Rock sold it to NBC. From LET'S BE FRANK: A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father, The Media Mogul You've Never Heard of by Jane Biondi Munna.

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