Recently rewatched Mad men and this time around it struck me that Don is not the hero (girlfriend leaves room) if Don Draper was a fire truck he would be the biggest one in the world

SCOOP: The head of "60 Minutes," Bill Owens, says he will leave the legendary news show because he has lost his journalistic independence.

green industrial policy is keeping the company run by the biggest republican donor in history profitable

Absolutely brutal quotes from various CEOs via Apollo Global Management, Southwest CEO Robert Jordan says “I don’t care if you call it a recession or not, in this industry that’s a recession."

SCOOP: The Trump administration is “decommissioning” a Department of Justice office that been at the center of dismantling transnational organized crime networks, drug cartels and human trafficking rings bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

IAB CEO David Cohen kicked off the #NewFronts yesterday by drawing parallels between the current moment in advertising and the pandemic. Coincidentally, I was just wrapping up a feature (full of charts!) along similar lines, which you can check out here: marketingdive.com/news/5-years-o…

It’s genuinely insane that we’re hosting several World Cup games and the Olympics under these conditions.

Haberman says Trump doesn't know what he wants out of his trade war with Canada.

bleak nymag.com/intelligencer/…

CBS on the cardinals: "One thing we know they're not doing is checking Instagram because their devices have all been confiscated. I believe the kids call it rawdogging."

ai is regularly framed to writers as a threat in terms of competition, i.e. that ai will replace you by writing essays/fiction/etc itself. I have long thought that its primary threat to writers is actually that it will engender a majority population that functionally cannot read

For years, data centers have strained local water supplies. The AI boom has made this issue much worse. bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-… via @bbgvisualdata

A cursed age

DOGE said it saved $660 million from real estate cuts. Then it said $500 million. Then $400 million, then $291 million and so forth.  My look at how DOGE spent two months walking back lofty savings claims, and still takes credit for cuts it didn’t make. notus.org/policy/doge-cl…

HBO Max is back. The name of the Max streaming service is changing back to HBO Max. You can't make this stuff up.

among my increasing number of objections to sports betting is that hardcore sports bettors are often just the shittiest people you can possibly imagine

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This is such a good quote from Dr. Becker. Worth reading in full:

not yet peer reviewed and relatively small sample size but this is the exact sort of research we should be conducting as folks shout from the rooftops that the positives will outweigh the negatives with little actual empirical data and only a couple years in