David Wertheimer

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America Is Falling Out of Love With Pizza Restaurant chains are exploring strategy changes as sales slow for the food-delivery mainstay.

I had a long-running gag on Twitter where I'd offer to come to the rescue of some delicious food that wasn't selling well (avocados, Girl Scout cookies, boatloads of European cheese, Belgian fries) and I stay true to my mission—PIZZA SHOPS I AM HERE FOR YOU www.wsj.com/business/hos...

I wrote a little bit about my experience with the forecasting contest (hi Prof. Pugel!) netwert.com/ideapad/2025...

Our contest has gone to the dogs A few hours ago, while most of you were sleeping, we reached the checkered flag in the 10th annual Narcissist Forecasting Contest.

Halfway through business school, and approaching age 30, I fell in love with macroeconomics and asked my professor about changing careers. He told me I was probably too far along my career path to start fresh as an economist. Obviously I should have gone for it. braff.co/advice/f/our...

Each engine also went to some length to explain why the other two were ignorant, short-sighted or just plain wrong.
Maybe think twice before you get real-world advice from an AI chatbot.

I then plugged the flop (it was a good fold) into the engines to follow up:
—ChatGPT: my call was still correct at the time, you can't look back
—Perplexity: see, I was right, it was a good fold
—Gemini: this just supports the reraise strategy, you needed to bluff 'em out

I play in a fun online poker tournament www.wrgpt.org where today I folded a hand that took a lot of thought. Afterward, I plugged the scenario into the big AI engines to see how they'd play it. I got great advice:
—ChatGPT: definitely call!
—Perplexity: definitely fold!
—Gemini: definitely reraise!

Another Bus That Services the UWS to Get Automated Camera Ticketing System The M57 bus in Manhattan. Photo Credit: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0. By Gus Saltonstall Over the past year and

This is low-key one of my favorite stats of the year, regarding ticketing drivers in NYC bus lanes: "The MTA states that ... just 9 percent of drivers commit a second bus-lane violation after being fined once."

www.westsiderag.com/2025/12/03/a...

YouTube video by Todd Snider - Topic Talkin' Seattle Blues

RIP Todd Snider

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Microsoft Teams says a person is “in a call” which is abrasive phrasing to this New Yorker who knows a person goes ON a call

That said, the men's finish was amazing! Congrats to everyone who competes today

I wrote this 25 years ago and I feel exactly the same way now netwert.com/ideapad/mara...

The New York City Marathon is spectacular for its amateur scale. But the ABC TV coverage hasn't shown any of that, just the pros, over and over. All I want on marathon morning is that great aerial of the masses running over the Verrazzano

The Oscar Should Go to Bob Ferguson's 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R 'One Battle After Another' as a car movie

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I did have a '93 SE-R, and while it may be a punchline here, back then it was a pretty perfect driver's car. (Pretty specific to use the SE-R, which Car & Driver said "finds gears as if by divine guidance".) maxread.substack.com/p/the-oscar-...

Five Guys email subject line: "We are more than just burgers!" Message shows a patty melt (burger on rye), BLT (baconburger without a burger), grilled cheese (cheeseburger without a burger) and hot dog (🤷...)

It is flat-out ridiculous that I am leading a macroeconomic forecasting contest against 150 other folks including some serious professionals. But hey, check me out (at bottom) braff.co/advice/f/not...

The Most Underrated 1980s Song Using data to weigh in on an important topic

I don't know how I feel about the methodology, but saying "'How Soon Is Now?' is the most underrated song of the decade" is a pretty inarguable statement www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/the-most-u...

Slightly diminish a band: LL Tepid J

Slightly diminish a band: Stone Temple Copilots

Slightly diminish a band: Queens of the Paleolithic Era

Slightly diminish a band: Jane’s Craving

Slightly diminish a band: Grand Funk Model Railroad

Slightly diminish a band: G. Love and Ketchup

Slightly diminish a band: Frankie Goes to East L.A.

Slightly diminish a band: KC and the Partly Cloudy Band

Slightly diminish a band: Jog-DMC

Slightly diminish a band: Clap Your Hands Say I Guess So

Slightly diminish a band: Cigarettes After Foreplay

Told you I could do this all day

Slightly diminish a band: Spin Physician’s Assistants

Slightly diminish a band: the Gamma Band