‍

Blake, Wm. Jerusalem the Emanation of the Giant Albion, object 23. 1804.

‍

Young TikTokers are making videos saying it’s “impossible” to find a well-paying corporate job in 2023.

One fitness influencer with 600,000 followers said she has “a bone to pick with America,” explaining: “So, I'm headed to my serving job … I fucking hate it. I have my literal business marketing degree that put me in a cute $80,000 in debt and I make more serving sushi rolls.”

“I'm an almost 25-year-old chick going against corporate ass America … people with so much experience. All I got is my degree. People say get your degree, but then they don't talk about how you need experience. The degree was the experience.”

A different TikToker echoed these sentiments in a video with almost a million views, saying: “I know my worth in the workplace and I can't get a job. Now, I can get a job for $18 an hour, but $18 an hour in this economy doesn't cut it. I need to be making at least $70,000 a year and that's not even to be living lavish. That's to be fucking surviving.”

She added that she had just been laid off from a well-paying job and had applied to over 500 jobs since, only receiving one interview, which didn’t go anywhere, and rejection letters from the rest.

One user said that unless you have connections at a company or are extraordinarily qualified, “there's a 9 out of 10 chance that you are not getting the job.”

There are likely lots of reasons for this trend, including an unstable economy—job openings fell to their lowest level in two years this October—and the rise of AI that both replaces jobs and filters through applications automatically, only seeking a select type of candidate.

This all comes as a new Business Insider survey found that 28% of Gen Z preferred socialism over capitalism.

‍

Blake, Wm. Mary Wollstonecraft, Original Stories From Real Life. 1791.

‍

A former Harvard Medical School professor named Merle Berger has been accused by a former patient of inseminating her with his own sperm, without her knowledge, during an IVF procedure.

Sarah Depoian claims in a new lawsuit that Berger told her the sperm was from a “medical resident who resembled her husband, who did not know her, and whom she did not know.”

This occurred in 1980, but the horrific secret did not surface until Depoian’s daughter, Carolyn Bester, took at-home DNA tests that linked her to Berger’s relatives.

Bester: “To say I was shocked when I figured this out would be an extreme understatement. It feels like reality has shifted.”

“My mom put her trust in Dr. Berger as a medical professional during one of the most vulnerable times in her life. He had all the power and she had none.”

Berger’s legal representation has denied the allegations and suggested they’re fabricated.

Ian Pinta, lawyer: “The allegations concern events from over 40 years ago, in the early days of artificial insemination. The allegations, which have changed repeatedly in the six months since the plaintiff’s attorney first contacted Dr. Berger, have no legal or factual merit, and will be disproven in court.”

‍

Blake, Wm. The Number of the Beast is 666, object 62. 1805.

‍

Despite only making up 15% of the settler population in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Jewish Americans have been at the forefront of expanding settlements on land expropriated from Palestinians, leading to the rise of “settler violence.”

The Guardian reports that many of the 60,000 Americans living there have little to do with settlement, but there is “a core of ideologically driven U.S. citizens” who have disproportionately contributed to the 500 Palestinians killed in the West Bank this year, including dozens of children.

Hadar Susskind, president of Americans for Peace, says these settlers draw inspiration from two Americans known as the godfathers of violence against Palestinians.

The first is Baruch Goldstein, a doctor from Brooklyn, who murdered 29 Muslim worshippers in the West Bank in 1994.

Goldstein was a follower of the second inspiration, American Rabbi Meir Kahane, who founded the extremist Kach party that was banned in both Israel and the U.S. under anti-terrorism laws.

Susskind: “Those people are the prophets of the settler movement.”

“Earlier this year I led a trip to Israel and Palestine. We went to Hebron and stopped in Meir Kahane park where they have a shrine to Baruch Goldstein. His grave is there. It’s shocking that they have a public park named after an American whose party was declared so racist that it was not allowed to be in the Knesset, a person who espoused violence and hatred. And then a shrine to Baruch Goldstein who took those lessons from Kahane and actualized them in murdering a group of people at prayer.”

‍

Blake, Wm. The Sun at His Eastern Gate. 1816.

‍

As renewable energy grows in popularity, the same problems keep emerging: wind can stop blowing, the sun can stop shining, or there could be too much energy for a grid to handle.

As a result, companies have started turning to batteries. And the key to successful battery systems lies under Earth.

A growing number of companies have started using common rocks that connect directly to solar and wind, or electricity sourced through the grid. These systems turn captured energy into heat stored in the rocks. 

When users need power, the heat is converted into steam or electricity. Examples of this system include Brenmiller Energy, which uses crushed volcanic rock, while Antora Energy uses graphite, and Rondo uses bricks.

Doron Brenmiller, chief business officer at Brenmiller Energy: “When selecting the material, a few things come into consideration. First, heat capacity. Then you have to think about other parameters like cost, the availability of the material, and what happens to the material over time. We use volcanic rocks because they have particularly good heat capacity, and they can be sourced quite easily.”

Ry Storey-Fisher, Antora’s policy manager: “In our case, we use blocks of solid carbon. This is an earth-abundant material that’s produced in millions of tons a year… These blocks stay stable to extremely high temperatures, and we basically heat those up to thousands of degrees Celsius in an insulated container, like a shipping container-sized module.”

‍

Blake, Wm. Night VI. object 248. 1795.

‍

U.S. ETF assets have more than doubled in five years, with over 1,000 new funds and a $11 trillion jump in annual trading volumes.

Despite this growth, the number of Authorized Participants (APs), crucial for ETF liquidity, remains almost unchanged.

Over half of all U.S. ETF flows are controlled by just three firms: Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan. This raises the risks of mispricing, especially during market stress.

Taisiya Sikorskaya, a PhD candidate at London Business School: “Our message is that investors and retail traders have to be aware of this. This mispricing that we find exists exactly in times when investors would like to rebalance, would like to fly to safety.”

Athanasios Psarofagis, Bloomberg Intelligence ETF Analyst: “If something does happen again, are other APs going to step in? You know, we like to think that they will, and hopefully that they will. But I don’t know if we have enough data to say, ‘Oh yeah, this will definitely happen.’”