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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Amazon deleted its arbitration clause in May 2021, after roughly 75,000 Alexa owners filed individual claims and left it holding the arbitrators' bill. On August 14 the same sentence came back, close to word for word. If you've ordered anything since, that's how you agreed.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Nvidia's August 17 8-K discloses a $105 billion capped, conditional guaranty on OpenAI's Ohio data-center leases. That number's public only because Nvidia's own filing rules forced it into disclosure, an obligation OpenAI doesn't carry yet.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Fifteen days after telling the SEC an AI-spending slowdown could hurt its results, SK Hynix sold $26.5 billion of stock at $149 an ADS. If you bought the July 10 Nasdaq debut, $149 is your basis.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Nvidia's venture arm was inside the $2 billion round Poolside needed for its 40,000-GPU cluster. The round collapsed in April. Nvidia declined to lead a rescue. Four months later it paid $6 billion for Poolside's training system and offered jobs to 109 of its engineers.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Equifax, Experian, TransUnion and Dun & Bradstreet each told California they sold or shared consumer data with a GenAI developer last year. It's a yes-or-no box on the state's data broker form.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

TikTok had tracking code running on the Hims & Hers checkout page. So did Meta, Snap, and Google. At least 15 ad platforms in all, per the FTC's complaint. The code reported what you did on the way to an erectile dysfunction or antidepressant order.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Larry Ellison collects about $2.3 billion a year in Oracle dividends on a $1 salary. Oracle's compensation committee cut his $5,207,393 bonus to zero so the money could go to "capital expenditures supporting future growth." The dividends are 445 times the bonus.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The chairman of the House Ethics Committee, the only body that fines House members for filing late, disclosed three stock sales 196 days past the legal deadline. Rep. Michael Guest's office says he doesn't believe he needs to recuse from his own case.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"We will have a price that's available on that flight, on that time to you, the individual." Delta's then-president, talking to investors on the Q2 2025 earnings call. Josh Hawley read it into the Senate record on August 4.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Gabriel Perez read Trump's speeches before Trump did. He used Kalshi to bet on which words would come out, allegedly clearing roughly $100,000 in three months against a $175,000 White House salary.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Search "health tips" on TikTok: an agency counted 42 of the top 50 results with signs of AI generation. Some of those synthetic doctors sell supplements. One of the products is Rosabella moringa capsules.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A jury found in April that Ticketmaster's monopoly added $1.72 to what you paid per ticket, in the 22 states whose damages claims reached that question. The Justice Department filed that case in 2024. It never got that verdict.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

LocateSmarter demanded the last four digits of your Social Security number just to stop selling your data. Its own privacy policy says opt-out requests "need not be a verifiable consumer request." California fined it $116,490.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Watertown, NY's fire chief waited 5 years 3 months for a $1.4 million ladder truck. REV Group closed the plant that was supposed to build it. Your town buys off the same short list. American Industrial Partners spent twelve years assembling REV, then cashed out $127.6 million in 2024.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Trump, at the podium on August 10 signing an executive order on childhood vaccines: a kid's dose "looks like the size of a bottle of soda poured into a little child's body." A dose is 0.5 mL, so filling a 20-ounce bottle takes 1,182 of them. PolitiFact rated it Pants on Fire.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Bowlero's then-president, Lev Ekster, on what dynamic pricing was for: "fill the centers on the weekends at the highest price we can." Eleven bowlers put that line in a federal antitrust complaint in May, next to a $284.36 charge for two hours and three people.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If your team uses Jira or Confluence: opt out of Atlassian's new data policy this week and the company says your data clears out in 30 to 90 days. Its own support docs say the aggregated leftovers can be kept for up to seven years.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A four-member FTC voted 4-0 in 2022 to put Twitter under federal privacy supervision until 2042, with a $150 million penalty. On May 15, X Corp. asked the FTC to end it 16 years early.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

ICE posted paperwork on August 10 requiring the identity file LexisNexis keeps on you, the one landlords and lenders pull, to connect by API to Palantir's platform. 404 Media found it the same day. Forty-one hours later, ICE pulled the document.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Search the annual report Microsoft filed on July 29 for "25 years" and you get zero hits. Its CFO told analysts that same day the company is stretching data center life from 15 years to 25. The earnings release filed with it doesn't carry the number either.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Delta published a rebuttal to "misinformation" about how your ticket gets priced. The misinformation was its own president, who told investors the goal was a fare priced "to you, the individual."

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Your Kroger discount is picked by a profile 84.51° keeps on you. Kroger owns 84.51° outright, and its June 18 earnings release says the division those profiles feed grew profit over 20% in a year.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Health insurance premiums reflect these underlying costs... they do not drive them." Cigna CEO David Cordani, written testimony to House Ways and Means, Jan. 22, page 4. Your job-based premium is the thing he was describing.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Florida's attorney general sued Roku over kids' voice recordings and location allegedly sold to data brokers, then closed the case on June 26 for $0. His complaint had asked for up to $150,000 per violation involving a child. If you own a Roku, none of it reaches your own data.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

DEA signed a no-bid contract for a masked-browsing tool called Chameleon on September 9, 2025. It posted the public notice asking if anyone else could do the work the next day. Comments closed September 25, sixteen days after the award already existed.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Your egg carton got more expensive two months running: up 4.0% in May and 4.3% in June, seasonally adjusted, with the 12-month line still down 27.9%. Trump's own BLS published the June numbers July 14. Five days later he posted that egg prices are "dropping FAST."

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ask Gemini when your flight leaves and it opens your Gmail to answer, and the prompt you typed becomes training data. So does the answer. Google made that feature free to every US personal account on March 17, and the same post says it doesn't train "directly" on your inbox.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Oracle's FY2025 10-K described a customer as "an artificial intelligence (AI) product company that uses OCI." The 2026 edition deletes it and links to a marketing page. Backlog that year went $138B to $638B. S&P estimates roughly half is OpenAI's. Odds are your 401k owns Oracle.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A federal audit out July 22 ranks Walmart a top-3 employer of Medicaid enrollees in all 6 states it could measure. Congress set the new Medicaid work floor at 80 hours a month and left the employer coverage rule at 30 hours a week. At 28 hours, your employer owes you nothing.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

South Korea's regulator found TikTok's tracking code inside 71,000 Korean companies' sites and apps, logging what 9.45M people clicked, bought, searched, and left in their carts. It fined TikTok $7M on July 22. TikTok's U.S. policy names the same tool, and nobody here has to ask you.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Whoop's privacy policy names a marketing platform, Segment, as a recipient of your heart-rate, sleep, and stress data. It appears once, buried in the section written for South Korea's regulators. The version U.S. members read says Whoop "never" shares their data, "period."

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"I recommended to the president that we shut the country down." Anthony Fauci, Holy Cross, October 6, 2020, calling it "the most crucial" decision of his role. Asked on HillTV, July 25, 2022, if he'd back closing schools again: "I didn't recommend locking anything down."

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Allstate's chief claims officer told a Senate subcommittee, under oath, that above a preset dollar limit an oversight team reviews your storm damage estimate, and it "could be amended" before you ever see it.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In April, Thomson Reuters told the public its $22.8M DHS contract "does not include CLEAR." Eleven weeks later DHS made its case for renewing that same contract line with no competing bid, up to $25M a year. CLEAR leads the bundle now. Register to vote, and you're in scope.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Somewhere in NetNut's enrollment code is a screen that asks your permission before it turns your smart TV into someone else's proxy server. Forensic investigators found it. On the 2 million-plus devices already enrolled, it has never run.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

CMS told a federal watchdog, in writing, that its Medicare AI denial program was just "guidance," so Congress got no vote on it. The GAO rejected that and forced the vote anyway. On July 16, all 50 Senate Republicans present voted to keep the program alive.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Google's new terms of service take effect July 30. The setting worth finding before then is called Save Media. It's been on by default since June, feeding your Lens photos and voice searches into Google's AI training, kept up to four years even if you delete your account.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Electronic Arts' interest bill is about to jump 30-40x, from $53M a year to as much as $2B, because Saudi Arabia's PIF and Jared Kushner's firm are loading it with $20B in expected junk-rated debt to buy it. Spend in Madden, EA Sports FC, Apex, or The Sims? You help cover it.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

California fined Datamasters $45,000 for selling mailing lists sorted by health condition. The state's privacy regulator counted 435,245 records tagged with Alzheimer's, 857,449 with bladder-control problems, 3.7 million health tags in all. The fine wasn't for any of that.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

PolitiFact rated it 'Mostly True.' Snopes rated it 'true.' The claim: undocumented immigrants pay more federal tax than Amazon, GM, IBM and Netflix combined. Both checked the same SEC filings, and both counted GM's $1.888 billion as federal. Most never reached the Treasury.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Two states banned surveillance pricing this year. Both wrote the ban to cover groceries. Neither one touches your Uber, your flight, or your hotel booking, the exact pricing the House is investigating right now.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

On July 20, Republican Warren Davidson moved to write the president, the VP, and the Cabinet into his own party's stock-trading ban. His party's Rules Committee voted him down, 4-8, on Record Vote No. 396. Under the bill's closed rule, that vote is final.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In January, Cigna's CEO told lawmakers that AI is "never used for a denial," per KFF Health News. Ten months earlier, a federal judge had read Cigna's own defense of the process: an algorithm decides in 1.2 seconds, and a medical director just clicks the button to sign off.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson never said the CVS Caremark settlement was worth "$13 billion." He said "billions in real savings." Reporters did that math. And $4.5 billion of their number is a figure CVS wrote for its own investors, now attached to your drug costs.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ford's board tied CEO Jim Farley's bonus to one number: repairs per 1,000 vehicles. His own AI-first engineering cuts made it worse. Three years and ~300 veteran hires later, Ford fixed it. Farley's pay hit a record $27.5 million, up 11%, the year Ford lost $8.2 billion.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Show a checkout fee and let people opt in: 15% pay it. Hide it and pre-check the box: 75% pay it. Hopper ran that exact test on its own customers, more than once, and it just cost the company $35M in an FTC settlement.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Sen. Jerry Moran bought Alphabet stock the same morning his committee heard the case against regulating it. 384 days later, a week before Congress reopened that same fight, he sold it.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The private equity firm Apollo Global Management owns 97% of the company running 16 hospitals that carry Duke University's name. Duke's own stake is 3%, bought in 2013 for about $700,000. No law requires your hospital to tell you if it runs the same way.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Federal regulation still caps your credit card late fee at $8. Your issuer can legally charge you $41 anyway. Both numbers are correct. A judge killed the $8 rule 15 months ago, and nobody at the CFPB ever updated the code.

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Unfiltered Ledger @unfilteredledger.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Zillow and Redfin look like two apps competing for your apartment search. A contract the FTC just made public says otherwise: for buildings of 25 or more units, Redfin is barred from showing anything except Zillow's own listings, for up to ten years.

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