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1. It’s All About the Power….Data Centers Need Electricity

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2. Only Fans $7.2B in Revenue 46 Employees

Prof G Blog Loneliness is lucrative. Leonid Radvinsky, the secretive owner of OnlyFans, received a $700 million windfall last year, while the platform’s top tier of content creators — mostly women — earn millions annually. With $7.2 billion in annual gross revenue and just 46 employees, OnlyFans may be one of the most profitable companies on the planet. The site is viewed as a porn-centric hub where men pay women for sexual content. The company claims it’s giving creators and their 378 million fans (greater than the population of the U.S.) something mor: an opportunity to forge “authentic connections.”

Some crazy stats:

• The top 0.1% of creators capture 76% of revenue and earn an average of $146,881 per month. The average creator earns just $150 to $180 per month.

• Private messages drive about 70% of revenue vs. only 4% from actual subscriptions. Seventy-one percent of users are male, but 84% of creators are female. About 0.01% of subscribers are “whales,” who generate more than 20% of all revenue.

• Eighty-five percent of users access the site via mobile.

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3. Top 1% of Earners Now Have More Wealth than Middle Class America Combined

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4. Subprime Auto Loan Delinquencies Break-Out Above 1990’s Record

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5. Streaming Inflation

Wolf Street Companies have spent billions of dollars buying sports programming, and they have shuffled programming around, and some have stripped some programming from basic streaming services. So prices alone may not reflect the whole picture.

Since 2019, subscriptions have soared, according to the WSJ:

• Disney+ +172%

• Apple TV +160%

• Peacock +120%

• Hulu +58%

• Paramount+ +40%

• Netflix +38%

• HBO Max +23%

https://wolfstreet.com/2025/11/12/inflation-rages-in-streaming-services/

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6. Artificial Intelligence Index

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7. Today, Airbnb generates nearly as much revenue as the 3 largest US hotel chains (Marriott, Hilton, & Hyatt) combined!

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8. From breadwinners to bystanders: The death spiral of the American working man

by John Mac Ghlionn, opinion contributor - 09/30/25 7:30 AM ET

Something strange is happening in America’s job market. For the first time in living memory, young men with college degrees are struggling to find work, while women with the same qualifications are thriving. What once seemed fixed — the old order of men filling the top jobs and women fighting for entry — has been flipped. And the consequences could be severe.

The numbers paint a disturbing picture. Men with college degrees are now more likely to be out of work than women with the same education. To compound matters, men’s pay has barely budged since 1979, whereas women’s earnings keep climbing. More worrying still, a growing number of men are no longer looking for work at all. They have simply checked out.

This isn’t the ebb and flow of a normal cycle. In truth, it looks like a structural shift.

The industries that once absorbed educated men — technology, finance, law, consulting — are no longer safe havens. Tech firms are cutting staff. Startups are sputtering. Artificial intelligence is eliminating entry-level jobs faster than new ones appear. White-collar ladders that once led to stability are now missing rungs or disappearing altogether.

The opposite is happening in sectors long seen as female domains. Health care, education and social services are adding jobs at breakneck pace as the population ages. America needs more nurses, teachers, and caregivers every year. These are professions with real future demand. Yet men remain mostly absent. They linger at the margins, clinging to shrinking fields while growth passes them by.

This matters far beyond the job boards. When young men cannot find meaningful work, the effects ripple outward. Families weaken. Communities fracture. Depression, drug abuse and social withdrawal rise. Marriage rates drop because men cannot offer the stability once expected of them. Birth rates sink as couples delay children under financial strain — a slow suffocation of society itself.

The economy, too, suffers. If half the workforce fails to adapt to where jobs exist, the mismatch will create permanent dysfunction. Some industries will be desperate for workers, while others sit crowded with idle men. Growth will sputter. Productivity will sag. A two-speed society will emerge: women advancing into the expanding professions of care and communication, men languishing in declining sectors or falling out of the labor force altogether.

The road ahead looks grim unless something changes. The future will be built on jobs that demand patience, empathy and steady communication. Teaching, nursing, counseling and care work form the backbone of any strong society. They keep communities together, help the sick recover and guide children into adulthood. They carry respect, decent pay and growing demand. Yet men hold back.

Pride and habit stand in the way. Nursing carries a feminine label. I’ll admit it myself — when I hear the word “nurse,” my mind still drifts to a woman in scrubs. The teaching of small children is dismissed as women’s work.

That instinct feels natural, but it is a learned reflex. It blinds men to jobs that could offer real stability and meaning. And it can’t go on. The shortages grow deeper, the gaps wider and the cost heavier.

This requires a radical rethink. No lectures, no guilt trips — just a cultural reset. Men should feel pride in classrooms and hospital wards — the same pride they feel on construction sites or in boardrooms. These jobs build the future as surely as bridges or businesses. Without men stepping forward, the nation grows weaker, poorer and more unprepared.

The stakes are enormous. If men cannot find their footing in the economy of tomorrow, America will face not only labor shortages but a fracture along gender lines. The divide will not be between rich and poor alone, or Black and white, but between men and women. Women, by instinct and tradition, tend to marry up — to seek partners with stability and status. But what happens when millions of men cannot offer either?

The country is already seeing the rise of sexless young men, drifting without purpose, cut off from work, family and the prospect of building a future. Whole swaths of men risk becoming spectators to prosperity. And history leaves little comfort here: when large groups of disaffected men gather at the margins, frustration festers into something darker — resentment, rage and revolt.

America has a choice. It must recognize this great gender flip for what it is — a slow-motion crisis — and act while there is still time. That means breaking down the cultural barriers that keep men from entering growing fields. It means raising wages and status in the professions that need workers most. It means preparing boys from an early age for a world where communication and care matter as much as coding and capital. That does not mean treating boys like girls, but equipping them with the full range of skills needed to lead families and hold their own in tomorrow’s economy.

Or we could do nothing. We could pretend the market will sort itself out, that men will adapt on their own, that things will somehow balance. But inaction carries a heavy price. If men continue to fall behind, the consequences will reach every corner of society. The crisis will not stay confined to the job market. It will spread to the school, to the streets, to the very spirit of the nation.

John Mac Ghlionn is a writer and researcher who explores culture, society and the impact of technology on daily life. https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5528062-gender-flip-job-crisis/

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9. Five Takeaways From Warren Buffett Thanksgiving Letter

Business Insider Here are five main takeaways from the letter, paired with key quotes:

1. He's not planning to sell a bunch of stock right now

Buffett said he plans to keep a "significant" amount of his class-A shares. That is, until shareholders reach the same level of comfort with newly appointed Greg Abel as they had with Buffett and his long-time partner, Charlie Munger.

Key quote: "That level of confidence shouldn't take long. My children are already 100% behind Greg as are the Berkshire directors."

2. He's accelerating donations

Buffett said he'll donate more than $1.3 billion of Berkshire Hathaway shares to four family foundations: his late wife's, and one for each of his three children.

Key quote: "The acceleration of my lifetime gifts to my children's foundations in no way reflects any change in my views about Berkshire's prospects."

3. He wants Berkshire CEOs to be humble — and in it for the long haul

Buffett said he hopes that, "with a little luck," Berkshire will only have five or six CEOs over the next century.

Key quote: "It should particularly avoid those whose goal is to retire at 65, to become look-at-me rich, or to initiate a dynasty."

4. He thinks pay transparency efforts have backfired

Buffett said that reforms aimed at pay transparency actually sought to "embarrass" CEOs, but instead made them more competitive.

Key quote: "The new rules produced envy, not moderation."

5. He says investors should expect big stock drawdowns — and be patient for rebounds

Buffett noted that Berkshire stock has fallen 50% or more on three separate occasions in its 60 years under his leadership — and has always come back eventually.

Key quote: "Don't despair; America will come back and so will Berkshire shares."

https://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway-thanksgiving-letter-main-takeaways-greg-abel-2025-11

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10. Listening to music most days could guard against dementia, study suggests

Story by Maggie Penman-Washington Post

Listening to music most days could guard against dementia, study suggests© Maansi Srivastava/For The Washington Post

Regularly listening to music is linked to a lower risk of developing dementia, according to a new study.

In the study, published in October, researchers looked at data spanning a decade and involving more than 10,000 relatively healthy people, aged 70 and older, in Australia. People who listened to music most days slashed their risk of developing dementia by 39 percent compared with those who did not regularly listen to music, the study found.

“I have started myself listening to music more than I was,” Ryan said. “I would encourage people to be listening to music, because if it’s something they take pleasure from and it’s also stimulating their brain, why not?”

What happens to the brain when we listen to music

At Princeton University’s Music Cognition Lab, researchers have conducted studies looking at what happens to people’s brains when they listen to music. They’ve found that various parts of the brain are activated, including motor areas, sensory areas, the regions that process emotions and those involved in imagining or daydreaming. This could be the key to what makes music powerful for boosting brain health.

“One of the things that seems to be really important is just getting all those areas to talk to each other in meaningful ways,” said Elizabeth Margulis, director of the lab and a trained pianist who wasn’t involved in this new study. “That’s something music is exceptionally good at doing.”

Margulis pointed out that the study’s finding applies to listening to music as well as playing it. There was slightly less benefit associated with regularly playing music, with a 35 percent reduction in the risk of dementia, though the researchers suspect that’s because it’s a smaller group of people than those who regularly listen to music.

A takeaway is you don’t need to learn an instrument to benefit from engaging with music, though research has shown that taking music lessons can increase gray matter in the brain, even for people who aren’t particularly skilled.

Music also has a transportive quality, Margulis said. If you listen to a song that you first heard during a certain time of life, you may find yourself transported back to that time, especially with the music you listened to in adolescence.

“That tends to be the music that people remember best and have the most memories associated with,” Margulis said. She added that adolescence often is the time when people are defining themselves, which gives that music added meaning.

This can even be seen in people who are experiencing cognitive decline or diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

“They may not even recognize themselves in a mirror, they don’t know where they are or how they got there, but you put on a song from when they were 14, and they reconnect with that self they had lost,” said neuroscientist and musician Daniel Levitin, who also wasn’t involved in the new research.

Anecdotally, Margulis said, the effect seems to remain for a while even after they listen to the music.

“They’re a little more present, a little more able to interact,” Margulis said.

Music as medicine

Levitin has written a new book, “I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine,” bringing together research about how music can be used as therapy for things including depression, pain and neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s.

“Listening to music is neuroprotective,” said Levitin, explaining that it builds resiliency and protects the brain by wiring new neural pathways. “It’s a myth that you don’t grow new neurons, and throughout the lifespan, you’re growing new pathways.”

Levitin added that while listening to music from the past can bring back memories and provide comfort, there is also a benefit to listening to new music and challenging yourself. He also encourages people to play music.

“You can start playing an instrument at any age, and you don’t need to be Herbie Hancock,” Levitin said. He recalled giving his grandmother a keyboard for her 80th birthday and watching her practice almost every day until she died at 97. Levitin said for him, playing music brings an immersive joy.

“If I’m lucky, I disappear, and the music plays me,” he said.

But he emphasized that just being around music — whether that’s listening or playing it — shows benefits. And it’s something pretty much everyone has access to.

“That’s the lovely thing,” Margulis said, on how accessible music is to everyone.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/listening-to-music-is-linked-to-lower-dementia-risk-study-suggests/ar-AA1QnacJ

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