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Sheriffs can push back but how often they do? Many sheriffs in the US are strongly aligned with Trump making it very difficult to see how they will push back against him. It’s more likely that they wi…

If that’s what you believe, you must read this book to gain an alternative perspective

On a related note, if you want to know more about the power of sheriffs in the US, I strongly recommend this book- The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy …

That's not correct. According to Coca Cola Inc's latest 10-K, the advertising expense for 2025 fiscal year was $5.4 billion. In contrast, Hershey's ad expense was $612 million [1]. That…

Advertising is a subset of marketing so $2 billion is not all advertising. They probably do a lot of downstream supply chain promotions.

I recently read “What’s the matter with Kansas” by Thomas Frank. It was eye-opening. One things he mentioned is that as both Democratic and Republican parties aligned on economic issues (I.e., Democra…

Obama promised change, remember? We were in the worst financial crisis of the modern times and what changed exactly after Obama took over? How many bankers went to the prison? In his 2012 book, Neil B…

In other words, AI companies have positive earnings before expenses

https://archive.is/73tVY

100%. Obama squandered people's mandate...twice. I wish more mainstream (i.e., non socialist) Democratic politicians had strong convictions like Mamdani.

Come on, he is very productive on twitter /s

AI bros love hyping about their insanely inefficient token usage. It's become some sort of a dick-measuring contest. And if you work for OpenAI, of course you can claim insane measurements. Just …

Apple detractors also live in a bubble. Apple was always after profit share not market share. They have 20% market share for mobile devices globally, which is still the highest among all the brands. B…

I'm not at all surprised to learn that Republican politicians royally screwed their constituents. I was going to say maybe these people will vote better next time just to read that Colorado gover…

Pretty much this is the reason.

I guess they will be great at retractions at this rate

I've my doubts. Chinese researchers are publishing a lot but their papers are getting retracted at even higher rate. Currently, they account for 50% of all retractions across the publishers. htt…

Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropics-mythos-helped-find-bu... …

In that case they should stay private

Oh yeah, that's the reason. Because as we all know China, Iran, and others are so much friendly to the US.

I would like to see a ranking for countries where you can ship RAM without it getting stolen on the way. I just got mine stolen by someone at Amazon last week so I’m a bit bitter right now!

I'm just curious. Also not sure what's the rule regarding submitting dupes.

I posted this same Twitter article about 5-6 hours before this post was made and got only a couple of likes and zero comments. What gives? Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML ht…

Isn’t this well known at this point? This 2020 article reports on solar installations on canals in Gujarat, India. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200803-the-solar-canal…

I would support allowing any Chinese automaker in the US if they form a 51:49 joint venture with an American company.