Yes, but they made these ultra-processed sugar-infused products smaller — and therefore healthier!

“If Trump returns to office, he will not shoot democracy on Fifth Avenue. He and the people around him will paralyze it, limb by limb. The American public needs to get better at imagining what that would look like.”
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Sources: Bill Gates remains intimately involved in Microsoft's operations, advising on strategy, nurturing Microsoft's relationship with Sam Altman, and more (Ashley Stewart / Business Insider)

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illegal usa southern border crossings down > 40% since december

The MLB (and frankly all sports leagues) need to embrace technology and replace the umps with robots.  #AI

The LightShed Podcast, Ep, 207. With Brandon Ross and Rich Greenfield, LightShed 🔦

Personally I think this sounds very bad. time.com/6972021/donald…

Between November 2020 and January 2021, Donald Trump attempted a coup d'etat. Fortunately, power is harder to seize in the United States than in other countries. Fortunately too the outcome of the 2020 election was too clear to be subverted. Fortunately also ...

Every dictator who ever seized power justified his coup as an official act for the good of the state.

yowza

First time YouTube revenue growth has exceeded 20% since Q4 2021, when pandemic was still helping

YouTube on Connected TV a MAJOR driver -- taking more and more share from linear TV $GOOGL

Last year, the U.S. fertility rate fell to the lowest level since records began wsj.com/us-news/americ…

Normal folks don’t want to wear goggles unless they have to…

Apple slashes Vision Pro production, might cancel 2025 model in response to plummeting demand techspot.com/news/102727-ap…

Unbelievably grim article about NYC restaurant reservation scalpers - people are paying a thousand bucks to buy a Carbone reservation on the secondary market. newyorker.com/news/our-local…

'Some 60% of retail employees leave their jobs each year. Staff turnover at Costco is just 8%.'
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“Llama 3, Write an office memo justifying the fact that management has been replaced by squirrels. We are all being paid in acorns, now.”

Nice job.

The Chinese government is trying very VERY hard to support this app that is totally NOT an arm of Chinese government propaganda

S&P 500’s price/sales ratio has rolled over a bit but still looks stretched relative to history

I was wrong with my number yesterday. Got the final number and the wire is complete. Wanted to be accurate.

Do I expect all of it to be used wisely. Of course not.

But I'm still proud to be able to give back to our country.

I've said it for years. After military…

Trump Media doing the smart thing to do when you have no assets but are gifted a multi-billion-dollar stock value anyway — sell the stock for an actual asset: Cash.

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