This is really worth reading--including rendition vs deportation

The world’s 500 richest people added a record $2.2 trillion to their collective fortunes this year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The gains brought their combined net worth to $11.9 trillion. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In 1993, I was in a parked bus at JFK when James Brown and his crew strolled past.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken https://theonion.com/heroic-dog-saves-family-of-5-from-herb-roasted-chicken/

Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan https://theonion.com/cat-clinging-to-side-of-christmas-tree-admits-that-was-1849899567/

Grown children: It👏is👏not👏your👏money.

McMillan's Bakery in South Jersey will not reopen, family says Read more in the comments ⬇️

For years, people have lodged complaints about Tesla’s doors. With no official statistics, Bloomberg did its own analysis on the number of fatal crashes in the US in which door functionality played a role. Read more: bloom.bg/49tm0fF 📷️: Getty Images

null ≠ zero

“Same drug, different prices.” A dose of chemotherapy can cost $13,000 at a hospital, and only $134 at a clinic down the street.

Goddam why does 1918 go so hard

Fed policymakers signal little appetite for further rate cuts

Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg, months into building one of the priciest teams in technology history, is getting personally involved in day-to-day work and pivoting Meta’s focus to an artificial intelligence model it can make money off of

In some regions, rainfall has plunged as much as eight inches below average for the past year, straining reservoirs, streams, and aquifers enough that the state Department of Environmental Protection has issued a drought warning — a notch shy of an emergency.

SCOOP: The FDA is slow walking the abortion pill's safety study, as Commissioner Marty Makary wants it put off until after the midterms. By Charles Gorrivan, @rileyraygriffin.bsky.social and @rachelcohrs.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Interrupting the #XPNCountdown with the sad news that Raul Malo of The Mavericks has died. He was 60 years old. An incredible front person with a soulful tenor, their music has long been a part of XPN's musical universe. From their appearance at Non-Comm in 2017... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEw-...

Terry Gross Conducts ‘Fresh Air’ Interview On Bluetooth During Uber Shift https://theonion.com/terry-gross-conducts-fresh-air-interview-on-bluetooth-during-uber-shift/

Last night, I used "addlepated" in a sentence for perhaps the first time. Next up: "milquetoast."

Seasons greetings

Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last

No texting. No visitors. No escape. She was caught in India’s new digital nightmare.

It will take more than refuting accusations of 3-D printed chicken to get Campbell’s back in customers’ good graces

He's procrastinating writing that last movie more than I do with my annual self-eval.

Suuuuuuper interesting. And somewhat economically/financially terrifying. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

William Way LGBT Community Center will continue programming around the city following the closure of its building.

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I'm there.

AP finds a secretive Border Patrol intelligence program detains Americans for “suspicious” travel. Critics call it mass surveillance.

Investors increasingly think that only an exterminator can get private-credit dangers under control

Big news for the Mütter Museum. The College of Physicians of Philadelphia is expanding into the 19th-century church next door at 2129 Chestnut St., which will add more gallery space. Construction starts in early 2026. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4o2woQA

A small detail recognized in film and prepared for in practice made a big difference for Jordan Davis and the Eagles in their win over Detroit. Read more: bit.ly/4o3NQE9

Analysis: The Post found that documents recounting President Ronald Reagan’s relations with the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, one of the most dangerous periods of the Cold War, have been removed. The State Department had deleted history.

🚨Deadloch heads: S2 of the Aussie crime satire/drama (it's good!) arrives on Amazon Prime March 20. Many chaotic Aussie weirdos return/debut. But HEADS UP they have added a Hemsworth (Luke)! This is not a drill! Kudos to the hair & costume team for this whole deal. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

"What do you most enjoy seeing along a race course?" "The finish line."

The Philadelphia Visitor Center revealed the schedule for the light show and Dickens Village, while also adding that the annual festivities will be going on a hiatus after this year. Read more: bit.ly/47UNqv0

Don’t drive tonight if possible. If you have to, drive slow and please keep your eyes open.

Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Binance Coin, a cryptocurrency also known as BNB that is the main transactional token on its namesake digital asset platform,  jumped as much as 8% after exchange co-founder Changpeng Zhao received a pardon from President Donald Trump

It’s one thing to be pardoned by President Trump. It’s another to be cleared by your bank.

@anthropic.com co-founder Jack Clark on pushing back on White House: "It’s very bizarre to me that others are not doing the same thing. That says something larger about where we are in the country’s history more than anything else.” My column today: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Saving this to show my wife tonight

I feel like "it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission" was tossed around a little too much around the OpenAI offices recently.

Electricity now costs 267% more (!!) for 1 month vs. what it cost 5 years ago near data center hotspots. Awesome reporting from Josh Saul @dinabass.bsky.social Leonardo Nicoletti @naurtorious.bsky.social Demetrios Pogkas (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

"Slavery was in America's first White House," Michael Coard told me for this @usatoday.com story. "If you want to call (Washington) a great general, do that. If you want to call him a great President, do that. No one would object to that. "But this is history." www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Wow www.bbc.com/news/article...