For #Fis & #fintechs: Both cash & paper checks in her handbag. So much for Gen X & Millenials being digital payment natives. Stop assuming age determines usage. cc @clagett.bsky.social @psbdc.bsky.social @strategistjim.bsky.social @dionlisle.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/p...

"The good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice." - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Prediction: Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

"Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble." - John Madden

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." - Booker T. Washington

"It's the rough side of the mountain that’s the easiest to climb; the smooth side doesn’t have anything for you to hang on to." - Aretha Franklin

“Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it.” - Mark Twain

"Anyone who thinks they're too small to make a difference has never met the honeybee."

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"Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society." - John Lewis, one of the leaders of the Selma to Montgomery marche

Global music streaming revenue topped $20B in 2024, a 7% increase over 2023.

"All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing." - Philip Roth

"A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream." - Liza Minnelli

"It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject ... the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual." - Sir Alexander Fleming

“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light." - Stanley Kubrick

Some of the storm damage in SEVA yesterday.

A reminder to please always add alt text to images as a service to users like me who can’t recognise any celebrity who became famous in the last ten years

"When you’re righteous, you don’t have to tell people that you’re righteous." - Shaquille O'Neal

"Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence." - Tennessee Williams

Gen-X knows 🤣

Germany’s ‘firewall’ against populism has held so far. Sunday will be its biggest test.

I really, really, really don’t like Steve Bannon.

Don’t feed the chickens.

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Nice way to end the day.

Pentagon removes CNN out of their workspace and gives the spot to Newsmax.

Why do I think talking out loud to an AI wearable is so much dorkier than using an app or taking a photo? I use my phone constantly when I'm out in the world But I cannot imagine SPEAKING to a device in public. Feels so crass, like playing a video on speaker without headphones

Dear @Doge If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing

Michaud shares a chart regularly that describes the market share shift by the biggest banks. This is despite a growth cap on Wells Fargo and lack of growth at Citi.

Chiefs vs. Eagles Who’s it gonna be?

People get triggered way too easily.

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy." - Arthur Ashe

The best security is invisible. It doesn’t add friction. It eliminates risk before users ever feel it. With scams evolving fast, fintech’s next evolution won’t be better fraud detection. It will be making fraud structurally impossible. And that shift is already happening. https://buff.ly/4jJBlgi

"Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move." - Ossie Davis

Elon Musk has too much power now.

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Canada has readied a list of $105 billion in US goods that it’s prepared to counter-tariff.

The US imported $38.5 billion in agricultural goods from Mexico in 2023 and $26 billion of booze in 2022.

Mexico and Canada are the US’ top trading partners for vehicles and car parts, accounting for nearly half of US motor vehicle imports in 2023.

The Pentagon has informed the press corps that NBC, NYT, NPR, and Politico will “rotate out of the building” to give space to New York Post, Breitbart, and OANN.

Unions and industry experts have warned officials about the rising safety concerns stemming from a shortage of air traffic controllers, especially as air travel rapidly returns to pre-pandemic levels.

"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on ... you're wasting your life." - Jackie Robinson Breaking news: spending your day on BlueSky is also a waste of your life.

OpenAI has evidence that its models helped train China’s DeepSeek. Of course.

I thought we would use BlueSky to escape politics. Guess I was wrong.

"We love the things we love for what they are." - Robert Frost

I've saved up enough to retire to a small island

Major police unions that backed Trump 'deeply discouraged' by Jan. 6 pardons www.alternet.org/trump-jan-6-...