Newmark's Door

It irritates me when conservatives bitch and moan about the legacy media and its bias and hypocrisy. We're not in the media landscape of my youth when Walter Cronkite and the Washington Post and the New York Times had an influence on Americans. Cronkite has passed and the Post and the Times are preaching to an ever-shrinking group of true believers. So I'm in full agreement with this piece.

Related: "Good news: The public has stopped listening to mass media".

A fine example of Newmark's Third Law. (If something odd is going on in business you can't explain, check to see if government is involved.)

"You know you've made it when a bank calls you for a loan." (5-minute YouTube.)

James Pethokoukis:

I certainly think its plausible to say that GLP-1 drugs may, at this moment, be a more important innovation than generative AI. 

"It isn't often that a foreign minister gets sacked for aligning with the views of nearly every government on earth. Then again, it isn't often that a country has a president like [Javier] Milei, who is prepared to stand against the world if that is what freedom and morality demand."

Fine coinage: the "Bluegeoisie".

It helps that Ballmer had a really easy act to follow.

Made possible by a "village of volunteers".

Another of life's most important questions answered.

Jackson Browne.