Growing crypto empires, wasting millions of dollars in computing power and inappropriate chatbot conversations + this day in history w/obscene window stickers and our song of the day by Jezus Martinez on your #MorningMonarchy for May 13, 2025.
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U.S. and China agree to slash tariffs for 90 days in major trade breakthrough
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/12/us-and-china-agree-to-slash-tariffs-for-90-days.html
Dow jumps more than 1,100 points, S&P 500 rises 3% on China-U.S. temporary tariff cut
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/11/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
What To Watch For When The Details Of The Trade Deal With China Are Announced
https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/what-to-watch-for-when-the-details-of-the-trade-deal-with-china-are-announced/
‘Real Time’: Bill Maher Compares Gen Z To ‘The White Lotus’ Character In Anti-Woke Rant (Audio)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/real-time-bill-maher-compares-gen-z-to-the-white-lotus-character-in-anti-woke-rant/ar-AA1EvnEt // https://mediamonarchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/maher_lotus.mp4
Officials Are Denied Access to Library of Congress After Trump Names New Boss; A brief standoff unfolded on Capitol Hill after library workers turned away two top Justice Department officials installed by Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, who has been named acting librarian.
https://archive.is/L636y
Firing of Top Copyright Official Raises Alarm Amid AI Debate; Shira Perlmutter’s dismissal followed the firing of her boss and the release of a report on whether scanning works to train AI algorithms constitutes infringement
https://www.billboard.com/pro/copyright-office-shira-perlmutter-music-ai-debate-analysis/ // https://archive.is/QL4FP
Shira Perlmutter: American people of Moldovan-Jewish descent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shira_Perlmutter
Sam Altman’s eye-scanning ID project launches in U.S. with six locations; World is opening six U.S. retail locations for eyeball scans: Austin, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Nashville, Miami and San Francisco.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/30/sam-altman-eye-scanning-id.html
Democrats push back against Trump’s growing crypto empire
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/07/democrats-push-back-against-trumps-growing-crypto-empire.html
Video: JPMorgan uses new feature to limit Zelle payments originating from social media; CNBC’s Leslie Picker breaks down the latest details on JPMorgan’s new restrictions to Zelle payments.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/jpmorgan-uses-new-feature-to-limit-zelle-payments-originating-from-social-media/vi-AA1Eckt9
Labor Department Admits Hundreds of Thousands of Biden Jobs Were Fake
https://townhall.com/columnists/ej-antoni/2025/05/12/labor-department-admits-hundreds-of-thousands-of-biden-jobs-were-fake-n2656813
Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it; Spotify, SoundCloud and other platforms have pulled the song, but its spread underscores the challenges tech platforms face in removing content that violate their policies.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ye-song-glorifying-hitler-gets-millions-views-x-platforms-struggle-rem-rcna205905
The greatest protest song against Israel, corrupt American politicians, the corporatization of rap music by Zionist entities, and all slaves who adhere to the status quo. This is punk rock in the 80s. It’s a new dawn for hip hop. All 2020s rap has been rendered obsolete.
https://x.com/K06boat/status/1920462727710970057
“HEIL HITLER” (often censored as “HH”) is the eighth track from Kanye West’s upcoming studio album, CUCK.
https://kanyewest.fandom.com/wiki/HEIL_HITLER
Video: #KanyeWest Antisemitic Tirade // MSNBC #Shorts (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hcEHT7qpSAo
Ye – “Heil Hitler” (Audio)
‘Cuck’
YZY – TBA
*Ye – “Heil Hitler” https://x.com/kanyewest/status/1920387087049572704 // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuck_(album) // ‘Cuck’ is the upcoming twelfth studio album by the American rapper Kanye West. Media personality DJ Akademiks announced the album under the title ‘WW3’ during a live stream on April 2, 2025, a week after the release of the title track as a single on March 26. On May 7, West released a music video for “Heil Hitler”, featuring people draped in animal skins singing the chorus and a sample from a speech by Adolf Hitler. [Dave] Blunts, who wrote the entirety of Cuck, denied the album was antisemitic, describing it as follows: “It’s about one man going between hurt, betrayal and pain and he’s putting that shit down…”*
Search: please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad
https://search.brave.com/search?q=please+maintain+eye+contact+for+the+duration+of+the+ad&source=desktop&summary=1&conversation=ca620b61e42148f9effc07
Inventing the Adventure Game 1984
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43939781 // http://www.warrenrobinett.com/inventing_adventure/
‘Adventure’ 1980 video game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_(1980_video_game)
Tariffs are game over for the arcade business; As tariffs rock the automotive, aviation, and tech industries, one writer asks: what about the little sticky hands you can win at Dave & Buster’s?
https://sherwood.news/business/tariffs-are-game-over-for-the-arcade-business/
Search: metal gear solid v transgender
https://search.brave.com/search?q=metal+gear+solid+v+transgender&source=desktop&summary=1&conversation=64a1c3c956e5fa4a2cc2d2
Sam Altman Admits That Saying “Please” and “Thank You” to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power; “You never know.”
https://futurism.com/altman-please-thanks-chatgpt
Video: Being Polite to ChatGPT Costs Millions — Sam Altman Says It’s Worth It #shorts (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x24G7_DphtM
The Books – “I Didn’t Know That” (Audio)
‘The Way Out’
Temporary Residence – July 20, 2010
*The Books – “I Didn’t Know That” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP88rsuQ0K0 // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Out_(The_Books_album) // https://genius.com/The-books-i-didnt-know-that-lyrics // https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-books/2010/aladdin-theater-portland-or-2bd2a0ba.html // ‘The Way Out’ was the fourth and final studio album by American musical duo, the Books. The album’s cover is a take on that of early 1970s editions of ‘The Way,’ an illustrated version of The Living Bible. ‘The Way Out’ has been called a sound collage. Paste Magazine called it the duo’s “most dazzling work to date” in which they “[strike] an ideal balance between found-sound collage and original vocalizations”, with a greater emphasis on soundbytes. NME included it in their list of the “Most Underrated Albums of 2010”. We saw them on this tour with The Black Heart Procession (which I fell asleep to) at the Aladdin Theater on our anniversary before we were married.*
Why Gen X is the real loser generation; Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s
https://archive.is/VzNVq
Malicious npm Packages Infect 3,200+ Cursor Users With Backdoor, Steal Credentials
https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/malicious-npm-packages-infect-3200.html
Report: Meta’s AI Chatbots Can Have Sexual Conversations with Underage Users; Digital companions with celebrity voices can be made to engage in sexual roleplay.
https://gizmodo.com/report-metas-ai-chatbots-can-have-sexual-conversations-with-underage-users-2000595059
Video: Meta’s AI chatbot is under fire for having inappropriate conversations (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3N19hVGl0nA
Hard Archive – “Kate Hikes and The Awakening – ‘I Feel Like Saying N… Today’ [1988]” (Audio)
Digital Single
YouTube – May 6, 2025
*Hard Archive – “Kate Hikes and The Awakening – ‘I Feel Like Saying N… Today’ [1988]” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO9RjTzvM6g // https://mediamonarchy.com/20250131pumpupthavolume/ // Extremely rare cover version of Nate Higgs banned funk pop single “I Feel Like Saying N… Tonight” (#PumpUpThaVolume: January 31, 2025 ♬) performed by Kate Hikes and The Awakening. “Where were you when White Guilt died?”*
May 2015 – Page 2 – Media Monarchy
https://mediamonarchy.com/2015/05/page/2/
‘Intruder Spray’: Subway Restaurant Armed With Traceable Synthetic DNA Mist
https://mediamonarchy.com/newworldnextweek-intruder-spray-subway/
#MorningMonarchy: May 13, 2016 – Calvin Klein’s new up-skirt ad may be scandalous — but it’s hardly surprising 👗
https://mediamonarchy.com/20160513morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: May 13, 2016 ♬ Hood Internet & Negativland
https://mediamonarchy.com/20160513pumpupthavolume/
#ThisDayInHistory/#MorningMonarchy: May 13, 2019 – Charges dropped against Florida man arrested over ‘obscene’ window sticker (Audio)
https://mediamonarchy.com/20190513morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: May 13, 2019 ♬ Daddy Long Legs & Laissez Fairs
https://mediamonarchy.com/20190513pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: May 13, 2020 – Johns Hopkins Launches Online Contact-Tracing Training Course
https://mediamonarchy.com/20200513morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: May 13, 2020 ♬ BDAY BOY Stevie Wonder & Wye Oak
https://mediamonarchy.com/20200513pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: May 13, 2022 – Singer Nick Cave confirms *another* son has died
https://mediamonarchy.com/20220513morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: May 13, 2022 ♬ Gene Loves Jezebel & Death Cab For Cutie
https://mediamonarchy.com/20220513pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: May 13, 2024 – The Shah of Iran said the Zionist lobby controls the US government and media all the way back in the 70s
https://mediamonarchy.com/20240513morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: May 13, 2024 ♬ Soul Asylum & Soft Play
https://mediamonarchy.com/20240513pumpupthavolume/
Jezus Martinez – “Flu Fog” (w/Empress Kirsten)
‘Flu Fog’ (EP)
Jezus Martinez – May 16, 2025
*#PumpUpThaVolume / #TruthMusic: Jezus Martinez – “Flu Fog” (w/Empress Kirsten) https://jezusmartinez.bandcamp.com/track/flu-fog-ft-empress-kirsten // https://jezusmartinez.bandcamp.com/album/flu-fog-ep // Florida MC’s Jezus Borgia and Mike Martinez protest modern society’s many ills on the title track of their just-released EP, available now via the artist.*