Jeremy Manson

Post to Coast: New York Post plans a California newspaper The New York Post is launching a California tabloid newspaper and news site next year. The company announced the plan Monday.

First thought: Ugh.
Second thought: This will probably be a huge success in LA.
Third thought: Ugh.

Craig R. Brittain (@brittainforsenate) on Threads Karoline Leavitt: The White House cannot host foreign leaders without using a large unsightly tent so we're building a $200 million ballroom at taxpayer expense.

Just to be clear, the last four administrations averaged between about 1 and 3 state dinners per year. He's spending $200M on a hosting venue for something that happens maybe once every six months. That's like me building a separate house to host my kids' birthdays.

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday morning the U.S. is dropping plans to revoke Chinese student visas in exchange for China resuming the flow of rare earth minerals to the U.S.

Just a reminder that Trump's big deals all end with the situation the same as it was before he took office. He escalates, then they escalate, and then they agree to whatever it looked like before he escalated.

Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment

And then, every once in a while, something like this pops up to remind us that our society is redeemable.

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When people say they want OpenAI to be the new Google, I don't think they mean that they want OpenAI to adopt Google's branding strategy. #buzzchatduohangoutsmeetmessengertalkvoicemessagesallo #lamdabardduetgeminiadvancednanoproultraaipremium

Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island that has been closed for more than 60 years.

Dumbest thing I've seen today, or everyone's seen today?

Even if we needed it, it would cost an enormous amount of money to turn it back into a working prison, and it would rob the SF area of a major source of tourism revenue.

If we actually need new prisons, pick a place where land is cheap.

Lots of movies ending ": Bloodlines"

Time for a Bloodlines hall of fame?

IMO, the independently viable businesses that you can break off of Google are Search + AI; Ads; YouTube; Cloud; Workspace; Android; Nest; Maps. We may see a spin of parts of Ads because of the ads trial, but I'm not sure breaking off any of the other businesses would help the monopoly situation.

I think that was a very long time ago, and it was mostly because their patent revenue was pure profit. A bunch of big companies committed to a big patent non-aggression pact 5 or 6 years ago, and Goog has gotten better at monetizing Android, so I suspect that's no longer true.

Android is viable, just not as a pure open source play. The Play Store brings in $50B a year. Agreed that Chrome is non-viable, though.

I've long believed that programming languages need HCI methodologies just as much as any other software, but that PL designers don't do it because they're all convinced they know everything about the domain.

Why is the NYT raising subscription prices by a third? That's absurdly enormous. I haven't seen any press coverage of it. @nytimes.com

I was really wondering if there was anything that affected them, personally - per Crista's point. My general feeling is that it's a bit odd to want revenge for something that is not specific and didn't affect you, but we're living in odd times.

If it's not too personal a question - revenge for what?

More likely, he needs more right-wing chum to generate better right-wing AI slop.

I'm a big fan of let-else, myself.

Honestly, though, I'm not sure how many people need to learn this lesson. Like 8, tops.

Chart showing Tesla's stock price going down at the same time BYD's stock price goes up.

Tesla's stock price in blue, BYD's in red.

Turns out that, even if your products are ten years ahead of everyone else's, it's a bad idea to let your CEO spend all of his time on politics and social media, both alienating half your potential market, and letting your product offerings get stale.

Haven't you heard? Bezos ordered them only to publish op-ed supporting “free markets and personal liberties”. That includes the liberty to make an ass out of yourself, right?

At least that explains how they stay in business after 20+ years without a profit...

I also thought that it said something that the guy who wrote about sitting in a railway station as a jobbing 24 year old in 1964 was upgraded to an airport lounge as a world-famous millionaire 83-year-old.

Remember how Bush Jr promised Iraq would be easy, and then we got ISIS? Occupying Gaza would make that look like a day in the park.

Occupying Gaza would be a great way to militarize a generation against the United States and destroy any chance of anyone seeing us as an honest broker in the region. WhyTF would we want yet another semi-permanent military involvement in the Middle East, when we just got out of the last one?

Spoiler: it isn't.

Well, you're a grownup, so I think it is allowable. My kids love Miyazaki. They did love Wallace and Gromit, but they haven't watched it in a few years. The Avatar I'm talking about is owned by Paramount / Nickelodeon, not Disney.

That said, our Disney+ subscription definitely gets a workout!

Well, yeah - I learned about Avatar from her when J&A were about 5, put my kids on to it, and they love it!

You may be right, but I bet she is more aware of all of the most popular stuff geared at 20-somethings from the same era.

She's in the wrong generation - she was too old for it when it came out, and her kids weren't born yet.

There's something very funny about having Thanksgiving turkey in February.

Elon Musk's enemy, USAID, was investigating Starlink's contracts in Ukraine

So it *was* self-interest all along! We're *very* disappointed in you, Elon!