Douglas Hofstadter wrote an essay about this essay in the book “The Mind’s I” which I thoroughly enjoyed reading even if a lot of it is beyond me. There’s a somewhat janky OCR version here http://themindi.blogspot.com/2007/02/chapter-24-what-is-it-l...

Classic Hofstadter, he introduces a concept called a “Be-Able Thing” (BAT for short)

When I was taking ADHD stimulants I had my core dose (long release) and then a “top-up” dose (5mg instant release) every month. The guy who prescribed me initially may have been a bit of a quack (I had to leave him because my insurance dropped him) but when I switched to a super mainstream doctor she had no problem continuing it.

RAV4 base model starts at $29k USD

Yeah. I don't know where OP is from but I recently helped someone shop for a hybrid and it was a little under 40k for a 2025.

Zuck gets presentations with slides that say things like “XYZ feed ranking tweaks added 50 million net-new hours of time spent per day”

Numbers like that can warp a person’s perspective

Well in the US we watch NFL games live, so there's really no way to cut out the commericals

Anyone else remember when wikileaks directly collaborated with the trump campaign, gave them advice, etc.? https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/14/563996442...

Also interesting that they didn't Wikileak these messages, some mainstream journalist had to do it for them. Probably they just hadn't gotten around to it

This only happened a few weeks ago so no one really knows how it will shake out.

That being said— nothing seems to have changed with regard to pizza places offering direct delivery. The changes on “the apps” are very noticeable but direct ordering seems normal.

I should note this is based on almost completing the order flow, I’m not so dedicated to data gathering that I ordered a bunch of food to test this.

I don’t think solvency was an issue here but another way of getting to the same place is that he felt he could deploy the capital more effectively elsewhere. He made a bet on Netflix because he thought he had some alpha. After he lost a third of it he had less faith in his original thesis and thus his allocation priorities changed.

Or at least that’s the story he’d want to tell

Just for context Ackman’s 1.1B purchase would be worth about 2.25B today if he hadn’t sold it for 700M

Of course that doesn’t mean it was a dumb trade but his rationale in the letter doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. It has the vibe of something you would come up with if you needed to sound smart justifying a decision you had already made emotionally

Someone successfully did that! Tons of people that got demonetized on Youtube are doing great on Rumble. Including Russell Brand, as a matter of fact.

He also just got a strong statement of support from the owner of another large monetized video distribution platform (X fka Twitter). So he can always move his show there.