After 41 years we did it congrats everyone

Tim Walz seems like a fantastic VP pick. He clearly balances compassionate and pro business policy. Minnesota is ranked #3 for happiness, #2 for Fortune 500s per capita, #6 for businesses, and #2 for life expectancy. And he was the 7th most bipartisan member in congress.

When you think your city is too far gone to be saved, remember that this was the East Village in the 1980s. It’s never too late.

Duolingo is not a business. It is an absurdist art project. An app for learning languages that no one actually learns a language from. Like a restaurant full of people waiting for their food that never comes

I can’t believe nobody fixed robocalls, so literally everyone just stopped answering their phones. Bless the gmail spam filtering team for saving email.

If you're looking for eclipse glasses right now you understand why same day voter registration is important

Roses are red, It’s important to share, The best day of school, Was the Scholastic Book Fair.

Award shows are tedious and crass, but the smile on Tracy Chapman’s face when the auditorium goes nuts for her before she takes everyone to school with no lip sync, no auto-tune and no in-ear monitors is a pretty sweet moment to capture live.

within months you will be able to buy genomics data from 14 million americans for +/- $200m? the inevitable fire sale of this mess to an overseas PE firm is going to be a national security matter on the scale of which we haven't seen in healthcare in years

Private equity really went into ski resorts, added a mobile app to the experience, and then felt it was ok to charge $250+ for a single day lift ticket

Craziness in Oakland… pulled up to Ramen Shop on College Ave this evening for dinner (Rockridge). As soon as we got out of the car, loud noises and horns were coming from across the street at the Traders Joe’s parking lot. A car was driving through the lot with numerous people

I just wanna remind everyone that Will Smith slapped the host at the Oscars over a joke but Taylor swift sipping her drink was “dramatic” and “she needs to learn to take a joke” and “she’s too emotional”

Your daily reminder that Boeing spent the last decade replace their engineers in the leadership heirarchy with non-technical management to focus on boosting shareholder returns instead of building safe products. Capitalism kills

Next by @AP : “Julia Child and Jeffrey Dahmer are two famous cooks with different approaches to ingredients.”

It is December 29, one of the shortest, darkest days of the year. The rain is balmy, the AC is on. It is EIGHT degrees farenheit warmer than the average daily high. Everything is fine.

Ten thousand dissertations all called “the American novel since 1945” reduced to a single sentence

It’s with deep pride that we share the news that on 1/2/24 @jaltma is stepping up to Executive Chairman of the Board, and @swbjoyce is joining Lattice as CEO https://t.co/SdICQVa6vq

for a long time i said that antisemitism, particularly on the american left, was not as bad as people claimed. i'd like to just state that i was totally wrong. i still don't understand it, really. or know what to do about it. but it is so fucked.

This is why I absolutely love Twitter.