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Any favorite Thanksgiving dishes?

Even the right-wing Telegraph reckons the US is helping Russia

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

If we talk about Kennedys or media this weekend, may it be this breathtaking piece by Ms. Schlossberg and RFK Jr.’s assault on American health.

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To encourage creative destruction, Aghion argues that governments should protect innovators' intellectual property but prevent them from impeding other competitors. But large tech bought up potential threats, which competition regulators failed to block, and growth suffered. "They expanded to such an extent that they ended up discouraging entry of new firms. That's very Schumpeterian," he says, a phrase he repeats throughout our lunch. Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and others who developed in this period now also have a firm grip on the nascent Al economy. "The danger is that a lack of competition would again stifle the growth potential of AI... In that sense, I'm not that optimistic."

What would Schumpeter make of today’s AI economy? He’d recognise the behaviour of the big tech companies as stifling the entry of new firms and in turn growth

Ecce! In pictura est puella, nomine Cornelia. Cornelia est puella Romana quae in Italia habitat. Etiam in pictura est villa rustica ubi Cornelia estate habitat. Cornelia est laeta quod iam in villa habitat. Cornelia iam sub arbore sedet. Etiam in pictura est altera puella, nomine Flavia. Flavia est puella Romana quae in villa vicina habitat. Dum Cornelia sedet, Flavia cantat.

Sometimes I think of what Flavia & Cornelia are up to these days. Is Cornelia still laeta?

This one goes out to all the Ecce Romani-heads.

I’m paying *you* for what now?

These are the people trying to shut down women’s centers at universities in the name of combating antisemitism?

To be fair, in the US it’s not on the digital front page of NYT, LA Times, CNN, WSJ, Inquirer, NBC News, or CBS News as of 12 ET.

WaPo managed to say he called Democrats “traitors.”

Thank heavens for the FT.

one man’s “acidic scold” is another’s bulwark for democracy, I suppose.

Fmr. VP Dick Cheney’s funeral at the National Cathedral is being carried by @cnn.com and @msnowreports.bsky.social , but not Fox.

I hope I’m always shocked at how far right the “right” has gone.

“…the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory to particularise their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them.”

- Coriolanus, I. I. 16-19

Yann LeCun, pionnier de l’IA, quitte Meta pour lancer sa propre start-up Alors que le groupe a décidé de réorienter le développement de l’intelligence artificielle notamment vers des grands modèles de langage (LLM). Le chercheur français, critique à l’égard de ces derniers, a annoncé son départ pour créer sa propre compagnie dont le but est « de mener à la prochaine grande révolution de l’IA ».

Yann LeCun, pionnier de l’IA, quitte Meta pour lancer sa propre start-up

Looks like we missed at least one workplace, gals.

Though I would sort of like to observe them explaining it to him.

How dumbed down do they make it? What analogies do they use? Do they just pay Fox for a video segment?

INTRODUCED IN THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MILITARY FAMILY DIAPER ASSISTANCE ACT U.S. Congressman Ryan Mackenzie 1@1 repmackenzie Proud to introduce the bipartisan Military Family Diaper Assistance Act today alongside @repvaleriefoushee. This legislation creates a pilot program connecting community diaper banks with military installations to help reduce diaper costs for families experiencing financial strain. Military families already have a tough job - balancing the demands of parenthood with the responsibility of protecting our nation. This bill helps ensure they can focus on their mission, not worry about whether they can afford diapers for their children.

We’ve got a $1 TRILLION military budget and this MAGA Congressman just introduced a bill to send our servicemembers to community diaper banks. I’m appalled.

Send money for our Military, not Elon Musk!

More pay for servicemembers, not Palantir!

@thebulwark.com @msnowreports.bsky.social

It’s funny how all of the free speech scolds, from the editorial staff of The Atlantic to the New York Times, Jonathan Haidt and FIRE to Robbie Soave, are utterly silent on a wave of mass firings over speech — the very thing they claimed to care about. Zero to say about discipline and censorship.

Neat. Been looking for a way to may all my personal data public.

It’ll be more expensive than a post to Reddit AND increase my chance of an audit!

He claimed this about a lady he had a relationship with when she was 23 and he was 47, and now it’s in her biography?

If I was him, I’d be stricken with agoraphobic levels of abashment.

always thought you needed tomato juice and Tabasco for that

not sure, but I think American celebrity culture might’ve gone too far?

I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.

It’s time to boycott McDonald’s.

They spend billions to build up brand equity and squander decades of work on this man? This lame duck?

Politics shouldn‘t be shoved down our throats like this.

Sell the stock. Stop the shop. $MCD

Been looking forward to it all day.

would love to hear more!

It’s gross that everything gets some guy’s name on it.

This isn’t yours, fella. This shite is ours.

to be clear: Ken Burns’ “The American Revolution” as one of this week’s great things.

I want to read all of everybody’s love for the doc, for liberty & for PBS, please.

May I propose Ken Burns’ “The American Revolution“ this week?

It’s no World Series, but it could be?

The United States’ strategy seems to be eradicating decades’ of good works, then insulting peoples, cultures and races, followed by threatening war?

Do I have that right?

Wonderful book.

Heartworm
Ringworm
Screwworm
Bookworm

Nuzzi had a sequel to “Ratatouille” right there. (It was never going to be a Roth or Pachett.)

“To have a standing army! Good God! What can be worse to a people who have tasted the sweets of liberty!”
- Rev. Andrew Eliot

Ken Burns has done it again. “American Revolution“ may be the most pertinent doc of my lifetime.