About

100 Gecs is an experimental electronic music duo from St. Louis, Missouri featuring Dylan Brady and Laura Les. The group has proven divisive, simultaneously drawing buzz for its abrasive blend of pop and experimental electronica while drawing mockery for the same reason.

History

Brady and Les met at a party in St. Louis in 2012. On July 15th, 2016, they released their first EP, 100 Gecs (shown below).

The duo didn’t release music again until 2019, when they released their full-length debut 1000 Gecs. On June 13th, 2019, they released a music video for their song “money machine,” gaining over 2 million views on YouTube (shown below). They found continued success after the album’s release, touring in support of Brockhampton. The group is signed to Dog Show Records.

Reception

1000 Gecs received positive reviews from critics, netting a 7.4 from Pitchfork. Critics praised the group’s experimental style and wide variety of influences, which range from experimental artists like John Zorn to groups like 3OH!3 and PC Music artists. They have been covered by Rolling Stone, The New York Times, the L.A. Times, and others.

Online Presence

While critics have been largely positive about the group, 100 Gecs has proven more divisive online. The group has a subreddit with over 5,800 subscribers. The group has also attracted mockery online from people who don’t understand their appeal.

quiet02k Thread

Notably, on April 25th, 2020, Twitter user @quiet02k shared a clip from “money machine,” gaining over 5,200 retweets and 33,000 likes. The clip has been viewed over 2.8 million times (shown below).

The clip was many users first exposure to the group, and led to a wave of jokes about the group. User @AdamFriedland joked, “Why not something nice like Sinatra?”, gaining over 540 retweets and 9,000 likes (shown below, left). User @ajbabyboi wrote, “THIS is what people have been telling me to listen to for months?“, gaining over 720 retweets and 13,000 likes (shown below, right).

Others defended the group as Twitter users degraded them. Left At London wrote that the group was not doing anything “ironically,” saying their tastes were sincere (shown below, left). User @urvillageidiot joked “not liking all the 100 gecs hate i’m seeing on the timeline.. how many gecs do you have? probably 0 gecs. seems to me like someone is jealous,” gaining over 240 retweets and 1,600 likes (shown below, right).

Search Interest

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External References

If you’ve been watching Vanderpump Rules since Season 1 in 2013, then you’ve been on a roller coaster ride when it comes to Stassi Schroeder’s bad dating history. Though her co-stars were telling her ad nauseum to break up with her cheating beau, Jax Taylor, in Season 1, it still took Stassi time to realize his ways.

Then there was, of course, her Season 1 rebound, Frank Herlihy and the infamous Patrick Meagher. While Stassi was convinced that she and Patrick would be together forever, he belittled her in public and he got a little too comfortable with Lisa Vanderpump. 

Finally, Stassi met her match with Beau Clark, and fans were thrilled to finally see the Next Level Basic author with someone who treated her with respect. 

The two opened up about their relationship beginning on Season 7 of the show, and Beau became a full-time cast member in Season 8. On the April 28 episode, Beau’s summer of 2019 proposal will be shown, which threatens to derail Stassi’s plans of having a baby as soon as possible.

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Stassi Schroeder’s new house will be perfect for her future family with Beau.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are set to propose a bill that would stop mergers and acquisitions by large companies during the coronavirus pandemic.

NBC News first reported the bill, which is expected to be introduced today and be called the “Pandemic Anti-Monopoly Act.”

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

The bill would apply to businesses with more than $100 million in revenue or firms that have a market capitalization of more than $100 million. It would also apply to hedge funds, private equity companies, and companies that have patents on products used during the pandemic.

It would cover those businesses until the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) “determines that small businesses, workers, and consumers are no longer under severe financial distress,” NBC News reports, according a summary of the bill it obtained.

“As we fight to save livelihoods and lives during the coronavirus pandemic, giant corporations and private equity vultures are just waiting for a chance to gobble up struggling small businesses and increase their power through predatory mergers,” Warren said in a statement. “We’re introducing legislation to protect workers, entrepreneurs, small businesses, and families from being squeezed even more by harmful mergers during this crisis and any future national emergency.”

Similarly, Ocasio-Cortez called the bill “desperately needed,” and pointed to reports that Rite Aid and private equity are looking to “scoop up smaller businesses and consolidate industry for their gains.”

“These companies should be using their cash reserves to help their employees not to acquire more power,” the New York representative said in a statement. “If we don’t stop predatory M&As now, the actions of big corporations will have decades-long economic consequences—for all of us. With less competition, the whole country will see job loss and higher costs for consumers.”

You can read all of the NBC News report here.

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The three unclassified videos contain what the Pentagon is calling “unidentified aerial phenomena.” Which, like, OK Pentagon, but let’s just be real for a sec: They’re UFOs. (Fun fact: Did you know that Edward J. Ruppelt — the man who first popularized the term “UFO” — suggested the word be pronounced “yoo-fo”? It’s true!)

Interestingly enough, this isn’t the first time these videos — which were taken by Navy pilots — have been made available to the public. They were first published by the New York Times in 2017. In 2019, the Pentagon confirmed the veracity of the footage, essentially saying that the flying objects, which were detected in restricted military training airspace in 2004 and 2015, were not supposed to be there and were not identified as any known type of aircraft. 

The “unidentified aerial phenomena” appear to move at hypersonic speeds, flying thousands of feet above the Earth. They do not have any discernible wings, engines, or other signs of propulsion. In the video from November of 2004, we see a 40-foot-long object hovering about 50 feet above the water. The other two videos are from January of 2015 and show the “unidentified aerial phenomena” moving incredibly quickly, one racing above water and the other rotating in mid-air.

What your doctor is reading on Medscape.com:

APRIL 26, 2020 — The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has issued guidance on the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Patients with cardiovascular risk factors and established cardiovascular disease represent a vulnerable population when suffering from COVID-19, and patients with cardiac injury in the context of COVID-19 have an increased risk of morbidity and mortality,” Stephan Windecker, MD, PhD, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Bern, Switzerland, told Medscape Medical News.

Therefore, the ESC assembled a group of experts and clinicians with experience in the care of patients with COVID-19 to provide guidance on all aspects of CV care during the COVID-19 pandemic, Windecker explained.

The guidance document, which is posted on the society’s website, is organized into chapters summarizing “essential” information in figures, tables, and treatment pathways and provides key bullet points up front.

It provides information on epidemiology, pathophysiology, strategies to diagnose SARS-CoV-2, protective measures for healthcare personnel and patients, triage systems, and diagnosis of cardiovascular conditions in COVID-19 patients.

A “Living” Document Subject to Change

The management section discusses treatment pathways in patients with acute and chronic coronary syndromes, heartfailure, valvular heart disease, hypertension, pulmonary embolism, and arrhythmias.