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Anecdotally, most families down here do their big travel between Memorial Day and the Fourth of July. And I don’t think this is the reason for the timing of the school calendar but humidity is lower in June than August so you’d rather travel in June.

At this point I don’t think either the northeast or the South would want to change. Everyone’s too used to what they’ve got. Probably good from a vacation standpoint for them to be staggered somewhat too.

Found ‘em

“I’ll go run out to Walmart to grab those markers” the night before the first day of school he said, the complete dum dum

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.

It’s time to fight back.

I don’t say this as a financial opportunity for older Millennials — I genuinely dread the societal change that an economic/risk asset bust would entail, particularly with this administration in charge (see last week).

Millennials Are Richer Now. So Why Can’t They Stop Worrying? A generation who came of age during the 2007-09 recession—and then lived through the Covid-19 pandemic—remains anxious.

One possible scenario: whenever a downturn comes, older Millennials who have solid financial situations and haven’t chased crypto/meme stocks/whatever buy the assets that YOLO Gen Z’ers are liquidating for cheap, increasing the Millennial/Gen Z wealth gap: www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

Reality is the alt media can’t ask hard hitting questions as the guest is the traffic driver and the creative power dynamics are inverted vs legacy media.

This is why most interviews are tightly controlled to the point and essentially function as another avenue for brand promotion.

So basically Jelly Roll is Everlast for zoomers?

Yup exactly

Like forget the Ivies or even the elite publics. Even Florida State’s acceptance rate has plunged from the 60’s down into the low 20’s. It’s like universities don’t feel good about themselves unless families are miserable and anxious trying to get in:

At the top, universities changed from engines of upward mobility to zero-sum knife fights among the top 20% of Americans. It does feel like a metaphor for some other areas of American life.

These movies just can’t get above $600-700M anymore unless it’s Spider Man or maybe the Avengers.

It feels like every business story right now is either about AI or soft spots in the non-AI parts of the economy:

Whereas in the 1990’s-2010’s it felt like “Do as well as you can in school, particularly on math/computer stuff, go to the best college you can, and things will hopefully work out.”

Something unique about this moment is it’s not totally clear what the important skills of the future are going to be. You could tell me it’s more STEM, social skills, video presentation skills, even the ripple effects from playing sports and I’d say “Yeah I could see that.”

Yeah, actively shaping your prompts around the obvious LLM “personality” biases is so critical to get anything useful out of them.

Reports: C's minority owner buys Sun for $325M A group led by Celtics minority owner Steve Pagliuca has reached a deal to buy the WNBA's Connecticut Sun for a record $325 million and plans to move the team to Boston, according to multiple reports.

Looks like the Connecticut Sun are moving to Boston: www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

It’s good that they’re doing this, I’m just not sure that these sorts of sternly-worded letters from established organizations really move the needle anymore, particularly with non-Democrats. It takes a populist/viral video that stirs emotion, and our institutions aren’t set up to do that.

They’re calling tom Brady the most divorced athlete possible

Yep, they tend to be higher-end but that’s what the mega developments look like now. They’re doing a big one in Johns Creek called Medley.

Yes

It’s enjoyable.

I think this is basically the underlying dynamic.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signs police and fire pension bill expected to cost Chicago billions CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law on Friday a measure that will provide some Chicago police officers and firefighters with higher pensions, an adjustment that will eventually cost the city’s ...

For the pro-Pritzker crowd on here, what’s the argument for this? (Not trying to be combative, I obviously don’t follow municipal Chicago/Illinois issues, just saw the headline) www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Until the inflation of a few years ago the normal price was $3.79-3.99.

And then I suppose the fact that YouTubers create content about a trend then reinforces the trend — once you’ve seen KPop Demon Hunters you can watch your YouTubers do the Soda Pop dance or whatever, it’s the follow-on experience.

Something I’ve noticed in observing the YouTubers my daughter watches — in some ways it’s not all that different from grownup media where a topic like AI or tariffs becomes trending and we write about it. If Labubus or KPop Demon Hunters become big the YouTubers need to scramble to embrace it.

I guess I’ve been fortunate!

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