My preferred outcome is that the entire Belichick situation becomes funnier and funnier and so far so good
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My preferred outcome is that the entire Belichick situation becomes funnier and funnier and so far so good
"Looking into ways to standardize local building and zoning codes” but not “step into the business” of local governments. 😜 If they get LA to let me build a skyscraper on my lot, only then will I be impressed.
I moved to LA in 1990, and someone told me that “the best restaurants are in strip malls.” I thought it was a joke about architecture, but it turned out to be true.
A Haagen Dazs shop, when such things still existed. I got paid minimum wage, $3.35/hr at the time, and also as much ice cream as I could eat, which was a lot when I was 16-18. The loss of Haagen Dazs Elberta Peach is a tragedy.
Why, Hal, ’tis my vocation, Hal, ’tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.
They are voting shares like any common shares, but the Commerce Dept has pledged to vote with the Intel Board, which dilutes shareholders that want to vote against the board.
“also this"
No, California. The traffic on the freeway from LA to LV is way down on the weekends when it is usually an unbroken line of cars from the mountains to Vegas. My point is that is probably the main reason, but also that Canadians are avoiding US vacations
I think the big story is So Cal residents not coming, but there’s also this (Stats Canada and I-94 arrivals data):
What happened?
What we lack in America is choices for bread
I do this in a volunteer capacity in LA
National Bureau of Espresso Research has made the call
La Décapitation de saint Georges, Bernat Martorell, 1430
Hi Sickos. I don’t want a Paetron account or a membership, but I would like to donate to the cause of mid-major punting video clips. Is there a way to do that?
Seeing Sinatra open the MGM Grand in one of his final Vegas shows. Don Rickles was the opening act.
Who, hoo!
Delighted to be a finalist for a Loeb Award for commentary! It’s the first time in at least a decade Barron’s has had a finalist. 😬
Everything is terrible but Maine is beautiful
Greetings from Maine.
Whatever else you think about AI, gotta love Anthropic for their very honest release notes. This is for their new Chrome extension that can control the browser. I can think of a million ways this goes wrong, and Anthropic tested 29 of them. www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
Full political circularity. @barrons.com $INTC www.barrons.com/articles/int...
"Make it more Gen X" is my new motto www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
College football is the best because this is the same game.
Texas Instruments has spent $52 billion in capital expenditures IN THE LAST 45 YEARS. This would be a huge shift in how it does business.
My god, I missed this shit.
(•_•) <) )╯COLLEGE / \ ( •_•) \( (> FOOTBALL / \ (•_•) <) )╯SATURDAY / \
I am here for Vandy hype.
Even if it were a new $10 billion grant, not the old grant turned into social ownership of the means of production, money alone will not solve Intel’s problems. The Soviets kept throwing money at shoe factories and still made awful shoes.
Core PCE ex-portfolio management is coming.
Prediction: will be operational in 2035 and cost twice as much. go.theregister.com/feed/www.the...
Short bros we are SO back now
I can’t even
Also feeling brave. The Star Wars movies suck ass.
Over 2.5 million Israelis joined today’s anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)
I am doing something similar this week and of course Rockford.
One CoreWeave director sold 4 million shares for around $400 million www.sec.gov/Archives/edg... www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
what an image
The People’s State seizes Intel for the glory of the Motherland! No longer a tool of profit, but a fortress of labor. From the sweat of workers and the soil of our nation, silicon and steel will rise—powering the triumph of socialism and eternal strength of our homeland!
This is my favorite TV show www.ft.com/content/e128...
How I would make him fawn, and beg, and seek, And wait the season, and observe the times, And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes, And shape his service wholly to my device, And make him proud to make me proud that jests!
Woz is happy, so I am happy. Smiles minus frowns.
Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering theonion.com/trump-c...
PCE comp PPI
1/ TLDR - You deposit money in your bank and get stablecoin. It's faster than money transfers used to be and theoretically lower fees, and all you have to give up in return is earning any interest and FDIC protection.
www.barrons.com/articles/kod... Eastman Kodak … is on the verge of bankruptcy for the second time. Once a giant of consumer products, Kodak was disrupted by digital photography in a way that has sparked conversations in business schools ever since, and it... @notthatadamlevine.bsky.social
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
I will stop reading the Laura Loomer deposition… NOW! Maybe later, as a treat.
Slightly diminish a band: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Tiny Tim
No, but great wiki entry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel...
RIP the open web.
There is a huge difference between the editorial page and the rest of WSJ, which I consider one of the great news-gathering organizations in the world. (full disclosure: I am an employee of WSJ’s parent, Dow Jones)
“Free markets" www.ft.com/content/cd1a...
You’re off to a hot start on Bluesky, Laura. Good luck.
What about dropping a bowling ball into a bathtub of pudding? www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNWC...
The bot is studied Realism at U of Chicago political science in the 90s. bsky.app/profile/esdu...
Thanks for all the videos
My recession-era meal.
How did JJ do?
Kicking = Winning
@pablo.show do more of these debates. Another fantastic one. youtu.be/he2tthJoFVU
Three more Saturdays
So happy he’s out of the Big Ten
Since inauguration day, Federal spending is up 9% versus the same period last year.
ICE has only 77 job postings, and they are mostly medical-related. www.usajobs.gov/Search/Resul...
This is gonna be the best Christmas/NFL season ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb2Q...
Derek. The SL.
People are too dumb to figure out how things work, as opposed to me, who Knows Stuff.
I am good at cooking, but I am a poor baker. I shouldn’t try baking because I will never get better at it.
You can’t play ultimate frisbee with your laptop so why would you want a laptop?
A text editor can’t do math so why would you want a text editor?
I was sure Meta would be the first to eat at this table but it makes sense www.ft.com/content/3bc3...
I add to it every time I see some ignorant shit about blueberries or what have you.
Indeed.
Hip-hop uses samples of other artists’ recordings so it is an abomination.
A sink can’t sing like Janis Joplin so why would I want a sink?
In GPT-5 there’s a big reduction of hallucinations from o3 and 4o, which were awful in that regard.
1/3 of BLS leadership positions are currently vacant. Field offices around the country are closing due to staff shortages. They fired the advisory council that was assessing how to increase survey response rates. These are not actions you take if you actually want to improve the data.
Art can’t fix a leaky faucet so why would you want art?
If they keep going, it will destroy the open web and then where will Google be?
A lot of bullshit there. This is the only fact they present about search traffic: "total organic click volume from Google Search to websites has been relatively stable year-over-year.” They fail to mention that it used to go up until AI Overviews. Free link: www.barrons.com/articles/ai-...
Hedge trimmers can't vacuum your living room so why would you want hedge trimmers?
Refrigerators can’t read you bedtime stories so why would you want a refrigerator?
Jordon Hudson called us and it didn’t end well. New episode of @sportsgossipshow.bsky.social out now. youtu.be/TGNRfWgXu98
Cars can’t fly so why would you want to use a car?
California is not gerrymandered en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Ca...
#1 or #18
This is the international picture for the whole US, but as a So Cal resident my anecdotal evidence is that fewer people are going to Vegas from here and that is the biggest part of the problem, because we account for so much of the tourism there. bsky.app/profile/nott...
Didn’t take you long to figure it out. Have a great day!
They are large language models, not large math models, and are notoriously bad at math.
The NFL will own 10% of the Walt Disney Sports Book. Walt would be so proud.
These taste like a Cuban sandwich. @mikegolicjr.bsky.social
Never a good sign when Yarvin is in my scroll.
an important note: it’s hatch chile season, make it count
Now with complete trade data for June, the average tariff rate was 10.3%. There were $3.3 trillion in U.S. imports last year, and a 10.3% tariff on that is a $336 billion tax on U.S. importers.
