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From 3,000 feathers to pet portraits, Rolls-Royce rides high on custom craze
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Investors are buying up vast tracts of timberland across U.S. in one of market's longest-term bets
Timberland managers buying for pension funds and other institutional investors can wait decades for returns, but the market can also be a profit trap.
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Trump's student loan overhaul could lead to more bankruptcy filings, former judge says
After nearly three decades as a bankruptcy judge, Sarah Sharer Curley writes about the legal process in her new book, "The Price of Forgiveness."
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Move over, pervert glasses – the latest toxic trend is robogroping
Whenever a new technology is created, it will, without exception, immediately be used to harass girls and women You may be familiar with rule 34 of the internet, which states that if something exists or can be imagined, there will almost certainly be online porn of it. Now let me introduce my rule 35: whenever a new technology is created, it will, without exception, immediately be used to harass girls and women. See, for example, Meta’s “ pervert glasses ”. As anyone could have foreseen, putting a tiny camera and microphone into smartglasses would immediately lead to people using them to record and harass women. Lo and behold, that is exactly what happened. So-called manfluencers have filmed themselves trying to flirt with women in public spaces and then uploaded the footage to TikTok. The women in these videos are often not aware they’ve been recorded until their identities are shared o
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Inside the long, bitter fight over one man’s quest to build the biggest AI datacenter in California
A modern-day prospector promised rural Imperial thousands of jobs and millions in tax revenue – but his plan has set off a firestorm of resistance Sebastian Rucci zoomed in on a map in late 2024, looking closely at a large block of brown earth. The barren plot sandwiched between sprawling alfalfa fields and sleepy desert suburbs was exactly what he’d been searching for – the perfect place to realize his dream of building the largest artificial intelligence datacenter in California. The dusty expanse wasn’t an obvious location. It was in the Sonoran desert, just north of the Mexican border, where temperatures regularly rose past 100F (37.8C). Water was scarce in the once-booming agricultural area, which gets its supply from the beleaguered Colorado River. And then, there was the city of Imperial – population 22,000 – to win over. As controversial datacenter projects have sprung up across
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'Everyone laughed' when he started a pumpkin farm—now it brings in $2 million a year
Kelly Schultz bought a pumpkin farm in 1996. He transformed it into a seasonal attraction that draws in 100,000 visitors each fall.
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Berkshire shares buck market sell-off, rally to highest since Buffett said he would step down as CEO
Berkshire Hathaway shares are at their highest level since Warren Buffett told shareholders at the May 2025 annual meeting he planned to step down as CEO at the end of that year.