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Nikkei falls nearly 9%.
FYI, I believe the DOW circuit breaker would kick in at around a 7% loss, but I'm not certain.
BREAKING: Topix futures suspended due to rapid fall triggering "circuit breaker"
BREAKING: Nikkei futures suspended after rapid fall triggered "circuit breaker"
During impromptu ranting press conference on Air Force One, Trump stops to inform reporter that their head is blocking camera aimed at him. Seriously.
Report: The new Secretary of the Interior demands staff provide him freshly baked cookies, still warm
Jay North, best known for starring in the "Dennis the Menace" TV series, dies at 73. Peace.
NASDAQ futures down ~1000 points (approaching 6%).
DOW futures now down almost 1700 points.
Asian markets reportedly in panic mode before their opening in a couple of hours
Trump makes Nero look sane by comparison.
CNN has a DOW Futures, etc. ticker up now. I've NEVER seen them run a Futures ticker like that. DOW futures down almost 1600 points.
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/06/nih-firings-cancer-immunotherapy-treatment/
Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures plunge as Trump tariff rout set to escalate - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-futures-plunge-as-trump-tariff-rout-set-to-escalate-220537788.html
BREAKING: DOW futures fall 1500 points within 15 minutes of open Sunday
Don't ask #Google Gemini when to watch "Saturday Night Live" because it will spew misinformation at you. In fact, SNL has been running live to the West Coast for years now.
Please, if you want the public at large to pay attention to what you're saying, avoid using terms like kleptocracy or oligarchs. You're just turning people off using words that many won't know offhand. Just say BILLIONAIRES. Everybody knows that one!
I don't usually agree with Sen. Rand Paul about anything. But man, he is 100% correct about the risks Trump's tariffs represent to the economy, and the GOP politically.
I just discovered that the National Museum of American History has a UCLA Computer Club "Moose" IBM card as a display. The moose was there since the IBM 360/91 was the only system that most students had access to at that time, and was used in batch mode (students not working on our ARPA projects that most students and faculty didn't even know existed at UCLA that is). The museum URL says this dates from the 60s, but it actually extended well into the 70s.
The Campus Computing Network's (CCN, not to be confused with CNN!) 91's resource usage was billed in so-called Machine Unit Seconds (MUS - ah, Moose!), that different departments and projects were allocated for their work. Of course the museum write-up doesn't discuss any of that backstory. I have multiple decks of these cards around somewhere from some classes where I had to submit jobs that way, even though I was simultaneously working on ARPANET.
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_690512
National Museum of American HistoryUCLA Computer Club Punch CardIn the 1960s, when UCLA (the University of California at Los Angeles) purchased a commercial computer from IBM, students formed a club where they could…