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“Trump suffers historic rebuke as Dems romp in midterms,” the subheadline read in the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid. [TheTopNews] Read More.21 hours ago - TrashLab Raises $12 Million to Expand AI for Waste Haulers
What will TrashLab do with the funding? TrashLab announced a $12 million Series A on October 29, 2026, to expand artificial intelligence tools for waste haulers. Ventana led the round, with existing investors Bienville Capital, Harlem Capital, and CreativeCo participating. The funding will support additional automation and hiring across engineering, sales, and customer support. Ventana co-founder Vinay Kumar will join TrashLab’s board. Ershad Jamil, formerly chief growth officer at ServiceTitan and BuildOps, will serve as an independent director. Neil Chaudhary and John Tan founded TrashLab in 2022. Chaudhary previously worked at BCG and EY-Parthenon, while Tan held engineering roles at Stripe and Google. How does its software support waste haulers? TrashLab brings customer records, dispatch, routing, driver tools, truck cameras, billing, payments, and reporting into one platform. It aims to replace paper routes, spreadsheets, and disconnected legacy software. The system supports operators handling multiple services, including residential collections, commercial waste, roll-off containers, and septic work. The driver app also extracts weights from photographed disposal tickets. Billing tools can automatically add overage charges to customer invoices. Nearly 80% of TrashLab customers use Haul-E, the company’s AI agent, to answer incoming calls and record after-hours orders. TrashLab’s product documentation explains that staff confirm the resulting order requests. Automated call handling therefore does not mean every request becomes a confirmed job without employee review. What results have customers reported? First State Waste said it tripled its fleet while retaining the same small office team after adopting TrashLab. Its operations include roll-off containers, front-load collection, and portable toilets. President Mike Smith attributed the expansion without additional office staffing to the platform’s ability to handle different service types. Meanwhile, Uribe Refuse uses truck-camera information to connect service problems with customer notifications and billing. Owner Brad Uribe described containers not set out, blocked dumpsters, and overflowing bins triggering messages and invoice updates. These are customer-reported experiences, not independently verified guarantees of results for other fleets. What growth and rollout plans did TrashLab disclose? TrashLab says it serves hundreds of haulers across the United States and Canada, with more than 5 million tons of material managed through its platform. Annual contract value has grown more than sevenfold since 2024 as customers add modules. However, the company did not disclose revenue or the starting value behind that growth figure. Further AI tools for dispatch, billing, and collections remain under development, with rollout planned through 2027. These forthcoming… [TheTopNews] Read More.21 hours ago - Under Patagonian Spires: Where Pumas, Sheep Herding and Fine Dining Collide
Estancia Cerro Guido, a Chilean ranch that swapped puma bounties for conservation tours, offers travelers luxury experiences on the edge of the wilderness. [TheTopNews] Read More.21 hours ago - Dave Grohl recalls ‘sobbing’ after sharing a stage with AC/DC
Dave Grohl had a "wail" of a time sharing a stage with his heroes. [TheTopNews] Read More.21 hours ago - Who Counts in America?
Spotify Apple YouTube iHeart RSS About the guest Margo Anderson is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of The American Census: A Social History (Yale University Press, 2015). Her most recent piece is “The 2030 Census Is in Trouble.” The Trump administration recently proposed dramatic changes to the U.S. Census that could erase millions of people from the official count and obscure vital demographic data. If these plans move forward, the 2030 census would include new questions related to citizenship and a ban on questions about race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. These changes would have profound implications for politics, policy, and national identity, argues Margo J. Anderson, the nation’s pre-eminent historian on the U.S. Census. From the conversation What the administration has proposed … is to change the concepts that underpin the enterprise: who gets counted, where they get counted, and when they get counted. Margo J. Anderson Read the transcript Edited for length and clarity. Part 1: The origins of the U.S. Census and its relevance today Anne Kim: Let’s start with some basics. Because I think a lot of people just take the census for granted and don’t really know why it exists. But this is something that’s in the U.S. Constitution, right? Can you give us a little bit of the history of why we have it? Margo Anderson: Yes, in fact I carry around my Constitution at all times. In the 1780s, just after the Revolutionary War, a bunch of men got together in Philadelphia and wrote the document that we still use now. They put a census every ten years into that document for two purposes at the time. One was to allocate seats among the states according to their respective numbers in the House of Representatives and the votes in the Electoral College. And the other piece of it was to allocate tax responsibilities that the states would pay to the federal government. That latter piece of it never really worked out, but the representational part became an absolutely core factor in the structure of the American state. Anne Kim: And we’ll come back to that in a little bit. But I want to fast-forward to today, because census data is embedded in every interaction that citizens have with the U.S. government. On a practical level, can you talk about a few of the ways in which federal… [TheTopNews] Read More.21 hours ago - Musk Is No Defender of Western Civilization
When history looks back at the Trump Era, it may see Elon Musk as the poster child of hubris. In his own way, a South African immigrant may be doing more for the democratic socialist worldview than the DSA itself. It is ironic that conservative, self-styled defenders of Western civilization like Musk seem to spend so little time studying it. Musk appears oblivious to the Ancient Greek formula: Koros (unbridled wealth and good fortune) leads to hubris (arrogant pride), which leads to ate (ruin and madness). The Athenian statesman and orator Solon first described this formula. It was so central to his culture’s conception of human psychology that it underpinned many of Pindar’s poems, Herodotus’s histories, and Aeschylus’s tragedies. Aptly, the world’s first trillionaire is behaving with greater recklessness than any Bellerophon, Oedipus, or Creon. The consequences may not be those he wishes or expects, and they may upend not only his own fortune but his entire political project. Consider Elon Musk’s actions just in the last two years. Once seen positively as a tech genius pioneering solutions to climate change and space travel, he is reviled by many as a the arguable leader of a global far-right reactionary movement, or just an egomaniac pushing data centers on communities. Musk has threatened to retaliate against members of Congress if they investigate his government contracts and the DOGE fiasco. He used the influence he bought by spending lavishly on Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign to sabotage and dismantle government agencies—including USAID—with consequences that, depending on the reckoning, have resulted in hundreds of thousands or even millions of deaths. The titan is even conducting his own foreign policy via his ownership of Starlink, including most recently by intentionally hampering Ukraine’s ability to defend itself. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, in turn, called Musk a “genius” and said he is “in close contact with our American partners, including Mr. Musk.” Musk is spending unprecedented sums to purchase elections in the United States and is using control of his social media platform, X, to influence elections abroad. In this midterm cycle alone, Musk has spent a breathtaking $450 million on election efforts. Not content with trying to control government, elections, the military, and foreign policy, he is also spending to tilt culture and journalism toward the far right. This began, of course, with his $44 billion purchase of Twitter and subsequent alleged… [TheTopNews] Read More.21 hours ago
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