Ireland is now confronting a full-scale energy protest movement that has gone far beyond symbolic demonstrations. What began as opposition to rising fuel costs has escalated into coordinated nationwide disruption, with farmers, haulers, and transport operators blocking major motorways, fuel depots, and even the country’s only oil refinery. The scale is unprecedented, with convoys and blockades reported in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick, and beyond, effectively bringing parts of the country to a standstill. The immediate driver is energy prices, which have surged sharply due to geopolitical tensions, particularly conflict in the Middle East. Diesel, petrol, and heating fuel costs have…
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In the 55 years since Walt Disney World first opened its gates, the theme park has undergone plenty of changes—and in many ways, it’s stayed the same. Some attractions from the park’s opening day in 1971 and the decade that followed have cemented themselves as indisputable classics, such as the Jungle Cruise and the Haunted Mansion (both iconic enough to have warranted their own film adaptations). One such ride is Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, which opened in the Magic Kingdom’s Frontierland area in 1980. The mine train roller coaster went largely unchanged for more than 40 years, before the park…
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. When assessing home price momentum, ResiClub believes it’s important to monitor active listings and months of supply. If active listings start to rapidly increase as homes remain on the market for longer periods, it may indicate pricing softness or weakness. Conversely, a rapid decline in active listings beyond seasonality could suggest a market that is heating up. Since the national pandemic housing boom fizzled out in 2022, the national power dynamic has slowly been shifting directionally from sellers to buyers. Of course, across the country, that shift has…
Waymo and Waze are teaming up to help prevent people from driving into potholes. On Thursday, the companies announced a joint pilot program that will take pothole data collected by Waymo’s robotaxis and display it on Waze for Cities. The robotaxis already have cameras, radar, and other sensors that can be used, among other things, to note potholes. Waze, the community-driven GPS navigation app, and Waymo are both owned by Google parent Alphabet. The tool is an additional means of spotting potholes on Waze. Users have long been able to report any potholes they see through the Waze app. “This…
The U.S. Forest Service is closing three-quarters of its research facilities as part of a reorganization that has experts worried about the number of scientists that will be leaving the agency, and how the disruption could affect crucial wildfire and climate change data. The change comes as parts of the U.S. face what is expected to be a catastrophic wildfire season. The most recent wildland fire outlook shows that wildfire activity is already “well above average,” with more than 16,000 wildfires reported this year. Under the reorganization plan, the Forest Service will close 57 of 77 research facilities, as well…
COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, when you were on Commodity Culture at the end of last year, you said you had a panic cycle in 2026 and that war was going to unfold. Then you said Netanyahu orchestrated this war long before anyone else. It has now come out that he gave a presentation on war, and Trump said, “Sounds good to me.” I don’t know how you do it, but you are the real deal. Josh REPLY: The computer has been amazing. It has taught me a lot. It also warns this is by no means over. Trump did not include…
Issa Rae’s next project is coming to you vertically—and on TikTok. Hoorae Media, the star’s media production company, and TikTok announced on Wednesday a partnership to bring free exclusive micro-series content to TikTok and its PineDrama app. The collaboration launches later this April starting with Screen Time, produced by Hoorae Digital. This will be Hoorae’s first micro-drama series, with the media company co-developing a slate of additional micro-series with TikTok as part of the deal. The partnership marks Rae’s return to her digital roots, she said at TheWrap’s Creator x Hollywood Summit on Wednesday. Her first digital series, “The MisAdventures…
Economists and academics are still not clear on how, exactly, AI will change the jobs that are most vulnerable to its advances. Some jobs may disappear altogether, while others will simply evolve and be augmented by AI. But new research from Goldman Sachs this week indicates that the workers whose jobs are hit hardest by AI will find it particularly difficult to secure a new job—and suffer real economic setbacks in the aftermath. Drawing on four decades of federal data—which captured the lives of over 20,000 Americans from the 1950s to 1980s—the report found that the workers who were most…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 413.10 points or -0.73% to 55,895.32 • Shanghai decreased 28.826 points or -0.72% to 3,966.171 • Hang Seng decreased 140.62 points or -0.54% to 25,752.40 • ASX 200 increased 21.40 points or 0.24% to 8,973.20 • SENSEX decreased 931.25 points or -1.20% to 76,631.65 • Nifty50 decreased 222.25 points or -0.93% to 23,775.10 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD increased 0.00446 or 0.63% to 0.70888 • NZDUSD increased 0.00514 or 0.88% to 0.58714 • USDJPY increased 0.129 or 0.08%…
A Wisconsin city just made a historic push to say no to big tech’s data center frenzy. Voters in the Milwaukee suburb of Port Washington just overwhelmingly passed a measure to limit the construction of future data centers unless the community gets a say. Port Washington residents voted on the referendum earlier this week, which made it to the ballot through a grassroots effort that required collecting signatures across the 12,000-person town. The backlash against big tech’s AI plans was prompted by a controversial project in the area known as the Vantage Data Centers Lighthouse Campus, a sprawling $15 billion…