Norm is a champ and we should emulate him.

I get it. Staying far away Thurs/Friday, but we'll be down Saturday to see what's happening.

It’s a big morning at the Senate Banking Committee, where Fed chair nominee KEVIN WARSH is testifying Expected to be sitting behind Warsh during the hearing: his wife Jane Lauder, friend & NFL player Larry Fitzgerald, Warsh’s sherpa Derek Theurer of Treasury Sen. McCormick will introduce Warsh, as @BrendanPedersen reported

Larry Fitz being MAGA was not on my bingo card.

could say the same thing about any big event really. Nothing beats experiencing something in person.

I'm a big Formula 1 fan. I can watch endless content and have every view of every race etc but nothing beats seeing in person and being with the crowd so that's why we go to a race a year.

It's basically a fan convention. Why do people go to comic con or conventions of any kind? To be around other people that like what you do and to talk about the latest developments.

I don't see this being any different. I totally get why ANYONE is looking for something positive to do these days

The guy who famously did everything he could to not go to Vietnam claiming he'd "win" Vietnam is a new one even for him.

iMessage for all.

"Hey Mark, pretty weird we're doing this stuff! Anyway, I left you a surprise in the safe in the break room. Combo 2154. Cheers. - Rick"

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

"Beef Prices came down"

Brave to let this one go to discovery

This idea you are too hard on CEOs I think is silly. There are multiple interviews where you got along very well with the CEOs because what they were saying was logical or sensible in the context of their company. It's when CEOs avoid answering your question, say something silly, or outright lie.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

SPOUSE: I have to work late Thursday
OUTER MONOLOGUE: I am going to miss you
INNER MONOLOGUE: I am going to eat something very stupid

If you paid taxes for 2025, you likely paid:

$124 — school lunch & nutrition programs
$49 — diplomacy to prevent wars
$19 — USPS
$19 — Federal Aviation Administration
$18 — national parks

and

$4,049 — weapons and war.

These priorities are hurting us all. We need change. #TaxDay

Thankfully our team is all engineers so a bit more educated than most but I hear you. Even us using it will be more complicated than most would understand.

Hate AI for general use.

Going to be super helpful for me professionally specifically because we can tell it what knowledge to look at and give it guard rails.

The CEO of Intuit, TurboTax's parent company, really tried to claim on @reckless.bsky.social 's Decoder podcast that TurboTax is only trying to make the tax code "simpler" despite the HUGE amount of evidence otherwise.

They've even bought up free competitors like Credit Karma.

Rasheem Biles on the biggest difference between Pitt and UT — “The parking tickets. I’ve gotten like 15 tickets already, at Pitt the most I got was like 3.”

I had to chase Jordan Tax Services for 18 months to get a refund from switching from the city to Monroeville. They fucking blow.

Jordan Tax Services should be fired into the sun.

Keystone Collections is phenomenal and I have zero complaints as somebody out of the city proper now.

I regret to inform you that Pitt may be decent next year.

Not make the tourney decent but steal a few games they shouldn't and not be totally embarrassing decent.

Welp I'm 15 again

Dozens of newspapers put the story on the front page, almost all of them using a photo from the doordash stunt instead. here's the one paper that put the picture on the front page, the only one I've found among looking at a few hundred. (it's still below the fold)

The chyron 😂

Opening the strait by closing the strait even more is a bold strategy. Let's see if it pays off.

The average cost of a new vehicle isn't hitting $50k, the average cost of what people buy is.

People can get a civic or Corolla for under $30k but people love big trucks and SUVs they can't afford.