Thursday, October 31, 2019

I ain't scared of reposts

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Halloween with Orson and the gang . The debut production of the Mercury Theatre of the Air, Dracula. And, of course, the Mercury pro...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Repost: This view from two years ago is a bit dated, but it still fits in with the great unwinding thread

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Tuesday, August 22, 2017 The Republicans' 3 x 3 existential threat I've argued previously that Donald Trump presents an exis...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Tuesday Tweets

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... On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husban...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Yes, the new WeWork guy actually said "we got to drink our own Kool-aid"

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It's remarkable how often the self-awareness meter can't even get a reading on C-level executives. [emphasis added] In an exclusi...
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Friday, October 25, 2019

The maybe-you-aren't-special heuristic

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I'm going to make this one quick and messy (I really need a better phone dictation app) because my schedule is getting tight and when t...
Thursday, October 24, 2019

Though we have to draw some inferences to get there, it appears that most, quite possibly all terrestrial superstations have a higher profit margin than Netflix

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Another data point in our long-running thread. On December 10th, 2018, Katz Broadcasting (owned by the E. W. Scripps Company) announced t...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Read the whole thing. Make notes. We'll be coming back to this.

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Jeffrey Funk has a new essay up ( "What’s Behind Technological Hype?" ), and if you've been following any of our hype economy ...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Tuesday Tweets

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Check out the thread [1/4] Ok this is really funny, check this out. I was in the process of booking a flight via @OneTravel . Trying...
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Monday, October 21, 2019

Twilight of the Unicorns -- Blue Apron and the importance of unasked questions

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Blue Apron IPO'd in June 2017 at a $2bn valuation Yesterday, it closed at a stock price of $9.01, representing a market cap of ...
Friday, October 18, 2019

More of Tex Avery's World of the Future

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The T.V. of Tomorrow The House of Tomorrow
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Disappointed by the omission of MoviePass, but...

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When we try to make sense of the unicorn delusion years from now, we'll want to revisit this passage by Derek Thompson. [emphasis added...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Companies with monopsony power abuse monopsony power

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More competent evil from Amazon reported by Jay Greene of the remarkably independent Washington Post. SEATTLE — When Jeff Peterson’s Ama...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Tuesday Tweets (mostly non-political edition)

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I once told someone from Uber that I was a transportation writer, and they said, "So why are you writing about us? We're a tec...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Trump as stressor -- Shep Smith edition

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This is another one of those threads that goes back three of four years. The conservative movement's media strategy proved to be remarka...
Friday, October 11, 2019

Cars of futures past/Class Foghorn Leghorn (Google it)

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You probably haven't seen this 1948 short on the cars of the future ... But you may be familiar with this Tex Avery parody of the...