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For more than 150 years, horse-drawn carriages have been a fixture in Manhattans Central Park. Now, a growing online movement is trying to push them out. Pure joythe feeling I have when I ruin the sale of a horse carriage guy, Kristina Papilion, who posts under the handle @spare_time_gurl, said in a video posted last month. The horse guys hate to see me coming, she added in another. @kristinapap Despite a horse collapsing and dying last week blocks from Central Park – & it being NINETY DEGREES in NYC TODAY – the Central Park horse carriages were still operating. Speak up and help save the horses!!!#centralpark #nyc #newyork #fyp #horse #horses original sound – spare_time_gurl Papilion never intended to become a horsefluencer, as she calls her now-viral series. A New York City local who visits the park almost daily, she felt compelled to speak out after a carriage horse named Lady collapsed and died last month. @kristinapap Another horse died in Central Park today!!! RIP Lady @Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AlexandriaOcasio-Cortez @Zohran Mamdani #centralpark #nyc original sound – spare_time_gurl At the end of July, I was in California when I recorded a video about how the industry needs to end, Papilion tells Fast Company. I decided to wait and re-record when I got back to New York, thinking it would carry more weight. But before I even could, Lady collapsed and died on 11th Avenue. Thats when I postedthe same day she died. Ladys death has revived a long-running debate over an industry some see as a tourist draw and others as animal abuse. (Fast Company has reached out to the Transport Workers Union for comment.) Since then, Papilion has made it her mission to educate tourists about carriage horses and push back against handlers who, she says, work them during periods of extreme heat. While the drivers may resent her, many commenters cheer her on. Girl, thank you for what youre doing, one wrote. Youre literally my hero, added another. @kristinapap Saturday, August 16 @ 11:30am | Everyones favorite coachman being the horse lover that he is this morning #nyc #centralpark original sound – spare_time_gurl My hope is that the more people see how outdated and cruel this practice is, the harder it becomes to ignore, Papilion tells Fast Company. If the videos push things in the right direction, its worth every aggressive run-in. Papilion is not the only influencer using their platform to speak up about the practice. This is the type of shit that pisses me the fuck off, TikToker Dylan Kevitch remarked in a video posted last month as he biked through Central Park. Just give me five seconds. @dylan.kevitch Save a horse and ride a cowboy! #fyp original sound – msjacksonn89 A few seconds later, he rode past a carriage pulled by a white horse. Put the fucking horse back in the fucking barn, he shouted at the handler. The clip has since gained 2.6 million views. I go to Central Park almost every day to ride a bike, and it kills me to see these adorable horses in the beating sun, Kevitch tells Fast Company. I wanted to take advantage of my platform and use my voice. Ladys death comes three years after another high-profile death of a carriage horse named Ryder. The horses death spurred Ryders Law, a bill introduced in 2022 to phase out and ban horse-drawn carriages in the city by 2026. For the first time, the Central Park Conservancy has thrown its support behind the bill,
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Confidence in finding a new job is at an all-time low among workers, while job huggingthe trend where “workers hold onto their jobs for dear life”is at an all-time high, according to a new survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released on Monday. The New York Fed’s Survey of Consumer Expectations for August found respondents believed they had only a 44.9% of finding another job after losing their current onethe lowest in the surveys history since June 2013. That’s 5.8% lower than in July, the previous month. The findings are in line with a July report, which found the majority of employees plan to stay in their current job for at least the next six months, with Gen Z workers reporting the highest desire to stay put. Another interesting finding: 39.1% of those surveyed expect the unemployment rate will be higher a year from now, up 1.7% from July, and a point above the 12-month average. Additionally, respondents expect inflation to go up in the short term, but remain unchanged in the medium-to-long term. They also believe their spending and household income growth will remain the same. The survey results reflect Americans’ general feelings of overall economic uncertainty in the face of higher prices, Trump tariffs, inflation, and the increasing cost of living. The news comes at the same time as August’s weak jobs report. As Fast Company previously reported, last month U.S. employers added only 22,000 jobs. That was as unemployment hit 4.3%, the highest rate since 2021 during the pandemic. Setting aside the pandemic period, it was the largest share of unemployed Americans since September 2017, with over 25% going over six months without a job.
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Its a whole new world? Shares of Eightco Holdings, a relatively unknown company that runs an inventory-management platform among other things, increased by more than 4,000% on Monday after it announced a $250 million private placement to adopt a buying strategy to purchase Worldcoin. It is the latest small publicly traded company to pivot to a digital-asset treasury in the hopes that the value of the tokens increases over time. Here’s what to know about the news. What is Worldcoin? Worldcoin is the native crypto token for the World blockchain, launched by OpenAI’s Sam Altman. Eightco also announced Dan Ives, an analyst who previously worked at Wedbush Securities, as its new chairman. Eightcos offering, per its release, is expected to close by the end of the week. It also announced plans to change its ticker from “OCTO” to ORBS. The change is pending approval by the Nasdaq exchange, where shares of Eightco are traded. How has Eightco Holdings stock reacted? The news sent Eightcos stock price skyrocketing. After closing at $1.45 a share on Friday, the stock peaked at $83.23 in midday trading on Monday. As of roughly 1:30 pm ET, shares were trading for around $64, about a 4,334% increase. What does Eightco actually do? The Florida-based company was spun off from Vinco Ventures in 2022 and was previously called Cryptyde. According to its most recent annual financial filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Eightco initially comprised three core business units: Web3, Bitcoin mining hardware, and corrugated packaging. In 2022, it acquired Forever 8, which offers funding for e-commerce businesses that sell on Amazon and other platforms. What else is there to know? Digital asset treasuries have become increasingly common this year, although the extent to which they will pay off remains as speculative as the broader crypto market. Notably, Trump Media, parent company of the president’s Truth Social platform, announced plans in May to build a vast Bitcoin reserve with $2.5 billion from institutional investors. In addition to its Worldcoin treasury strategy, Eightco Holdings also announced on Monday a $20 million strategic investment from BitMine Immersion. BitMine, a blockchain mining and hosting company, is also publicly traded and has seen its share prices increase by almost 683% over the past six months. The investment appears to be a bet on the long-term viability of Ethereumand the crypto space as a wholeaccording to company leadership. BitMine wants to support and back innovative projects that create value for the Ethereum network. As an ERC-20 native token, World is aligned with Ethereum,” said Tom Lee, BitMines chairman, in a statement. The value of Worldcoin itself likewise saw a pump today, jumping from roughly $1 as of 9 p.m. ET Sunday night to more than $1.50 as of midday Monday. This story is developing. . .
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