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Hey, where are all the angry Congressional hearings about X being politically biased?
Our friends Casey Newton and Kevin Roose at Hard Fork make the obvious point.
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Trump / Measles 2024.
You know, when I wrote “A vote for Trump is a vote for measles,” I was not expecting the campaign to follow up by putting Trump transition co-chair Howard Lutnick on CNN to falsely claim vaccines cause autism, a thing he says he learned by spending a couple hours with RFK Jr. Vaccines do not cause autism, but childhood diseases cause death. Don’t get it twisted.
Don’t worry — Elon Musk is somehow also involved.
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Honestly, this is a work of art.
Apple has long loved unlabeled chip performance charts, but this chart from the M4 iMac intro video claiming a faster chip can make you 1.7x more productive in Excel is incredible.
The Airbnb cofounder discusses being ‘in the details’ and why traditional management is doing it wrong.
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“Everything is a conspiracy theory when you don’t know how anything works.”
Mike Masnick riffs on this excellent Hank Green video about ballot design and lands the best shot at “first principles thinking” I’ve read in a while:
Elon Musk, somewhat incredibly, seems to lack the basic intellectual curiosity to ever try to seek out why something is the way it is. He always assumes he can somehow “reason from first principles” as to why things are the way they are. This makes him ever more susceptible to the dumbest fucking conspiracy theories around. He’s constructed for himself a media environment mostly designed to reinforce those biases, rather than challenge them.
Worth a read!
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Wonder is the weirdest kind of fast food delivery.
Our friends at New York peek into Wonder, the rapidly-expanding fancy food hall / delivery app that partners with fancy chefs and restaurants to bring their signature dishes to more locations. The back-end is, well, food kits?
Once items make it to the larger menu, they’re prepped in a centralized commercial kitchen in New Jersey and sent daily, mostly as kits, to Wonder’s stores, where everything is finished to order. (Not for nothing, Wonder acquired the meal-kit service Blue Apron last year.) It’s not heat-and-eat, as Blue Apron is, or even reheated, Wonder’s CMO, Daniel Shlossman, assured me, but it is true that all of the finishing can be done in the restaurants’ all-electric kitchens by non-chef staffs, which are outfitted with quick-cooking ovens, hot-water baths, and electric fryers. There are no flames in Wonder kitchens.
One the one hand: brilliant. On the other: weird!
Wonder Is Everywhere, But What Is It?
[Grub Street]