Retired speechwriter. Big fan of Peppermint Patty and wooden jigsaw puzzles.
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Header photo is a fanned out deck of playing cards with all the KINGS missing
Kim Scheinberg
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Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan played clarinet and saxophone with jazz great Stan Getz. When he realized he'd never achieve Getz's level of greatness, he switched to economics
The really telling part about Jilani & Stoller using "HR Lady" to describe the situation with Platner is: that didn't involve work / HR at all.
By "HR Lady," they mean, "any woman who objects to something I think I should be able to do." Every woman who says "no" is the "HR Lady."
Should be part of his next test.
Yeah this has been on my list for a while
What a quote: "Unfortunately, human influencers killed the market for themselves. Brands are moving to AI to cut out issues like bad press, personal opinions, hourly rates and photographers.” Tragedy of the commons but it's labor.
President Trump has annouced that he has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Supreme Leader of the Reflecting Pool Algae. They will be allowed to continue to occupy the pool in exchange for their uranium stockpile.
Obama doing a history podcast on US Reconstruction with a British-Canadian non-historian airport book guy really does capture his whole post-presidential vibe huh
Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.
Mark Singer's obit reminded me how in 1990 Spy magazine sent 58 prominent people $1.11 checks for an unexplained "overcharge... for services rendered." 26 signed it. Then Spy sent 64¢. Half signed that.
Then they sent 13¢.
Two cashed it: arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, & you can guess the other.
It’s a Beatles fight right now on my house. The 11 yo is listening to Sgt Pepper (vinyl) in her room and the 8yo is listening to the White Album (streaming) in his room.
Kim Scheinberg
Max Kennerly
Marcy Gall
Kieran Healy
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Matt Blaze
Nick Brumfield
Willow
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Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
