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Apple HomeView’s purpose seems to be to increase household anxiety 2x
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Michael Arrington 🏴☠️ retweeted
This one has been a long time coming… Welcome @XRP!
Michael Arrington 🏴☠️ retweeted
I’ve been thinking about @davemorin’s observation a lot this weekend. Since we launched @itsdazzleai, I’ve been making the case that your camera roll is a better basis for personal assistant work than email is. While getting access to both email and photos would be great, if I get one, I want photos.
Part of it is that we can get a sense of your taste and part of it is that *you* decide what you take pictures of so you decide what’s in your camera roll. It’s *your* to-do list, not someone else’s for you.
Dazzle puts you in charge and lets us anticipate what you need and what you like. Try it at dazzle.ai/app
There's an insidious new type of slop happening at work. Email used to just be other people's todo list for your life. Now the people you work with are driven by their AI agents, which often lack the context to know what matters for them, let alone for you. So they ask you for things as if they were priorities. It feels off because it is: Email is now other people's agent's todo list for your life. This is going to take some work to fix.
Michael Arrington 🏴☠️ retweeted
BREAKING: The number of restaurants in New York dropped ~2,000 YoY in Q1 2026, posting its largest YoY decline in at least 36 years.
This surpasses even the worst contraction recorded in any quarter during the 2020 pandemic.
The number of eating and drinking places in New York State has now declined YoY for 4 consecutive quarters, its longest streak since 2021.
This comes as restaurants are facing surging operating expenses, including insurance premiums, wages, interest rates, utilities, and health coverage, with overall costs rising faster than national averages.
Last year, employee health insurance costs jumped +12.9% for New York-area service firms, business insurance rose +7.0%, while utility costs surged +8.5%, according to the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.
Skyrocketing costs are crushing New York restaurants.
Michael Arrington 🏴☠️ retweeted
I will comment on the French news only from a market perspective.
It is rare that markets respond to news of this kind, as it is generally viewed as temporary and not enough to ultimately move the economy
BUT:
- This could move politics, and impact voting into the crucial elections in 2017 (further away from the center).
- These riots are so severe that there may be an impact via a/ lower tourism, b/ lower business/consumer confidence
- OAT spreads widened to 140bp in Sep (on levered selling), but we have seen some consolidation in Oct (as real money is watching, but have not reduced yet). The images from this weekend, will not make real money more comfortable.
The amazing thing about this quote is that it was written in the 60s (Dune was first published in 1965).
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Keeping people excited about the future is one of the most important jobs in the world.
Apocalypse billionaire bunker politics: Make sure your security guy actually likes you, because that’s the guy who’s truly in control.
You own the bunker. But who is actually in charge when everything falls apart?
@arrington poses a question about billionaire survival plans: what happens when the head of security decides they run the place?
A bunker might solve one problem while creating another
From survival plans to the AI arms race, this is a conversation about what money can and cannot control
Michael Arrington 🏴☠️ retweeted
That was the craziest live demo I've ever seen… wtf… makes all of us look like losers, haha. How can you ever bet against this guy?
