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Ben Walsh

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Tony Xu, DoorDash CEO, on orders from third-party AI agents: "right now, AI agents are generating several hundred orders across the time that they have been up and running." For context, DoorDash does ~330M orders/month meaning agentic share is barely 0.0001%
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french ultra leftists living off grid in yurts protesting smart electric meters (because of electromagnetic waves??) and in favor of fixed benefit pensions, a dad who is maybe a former ETA member. maximmally @AlexCKaufman @MattZeitlin coded WSJ piece wsj.com/world/europe/frances…
France’s Riots Were Fueled by ‘Ultra Left’ Faction That Lives Off-the-Grid

France’s Riots Were Fueled by ‘Ultra Left’ Faction That Lives Off-the-Grid

The suspect in a fire that nearly destroyed Limoges’s city hall offers a window into the radical activists fueling the protests.

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french ultra leftists living off grid in yurts protesting smart electric meters (because of electromagnetic waves??) and in favor of fixed benefit pensions, a dad who is maybe a former ETA member. maximmally @AlexCKaufman @MattZeitlin coded WSJ piece wsj.com/world/europe/frances…
France’s Riots Were Fueled by ‘Ultra Left’ Faction That Lives Off-the-Grid

France’s Riots Were Fueled by ‘Ultra Left’ Faction That Lives Off-the-Grid

The suspect in a fire that nearly destroyed Limoges’s city hall offers a window into the radical activists fueling the protests.

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"The president was tired of worrying about domestic political issues that he didn’t think mattered as much as foreign policy and his legacy, the official said." ahh so Trump is in *that* phase of being President wsj.com/politics/policy/how-…
How Trump Lost the Midterms

How Trump Lost the Midterms

The Iran war, gas prices and Trump’s miscalculations led to one of the most decisive repudiations of an American president.

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truly the moment Trump became a normal President
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You’ve obviously never seen a Jackson Hole barbershop quartet before.
Plunderbund (@plunderbund) profile picturePlunderbund@plunderbund16h
ok but seriously what was the deal with the vests
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April 2025 lands exactly on this chart where you'd expect it to
Cardiff Garcia (@CardiffGarcia) profile pictureCardiff Garcia@CardiffGarciaOct 19
Obviously there was a ton that people were frustrated with during the Biden years but it's just an uncontroversial fact that real wages were climbing into the Trump presidency and then in March and April of 2025 they stopped climbing. agglomerations.eig.org/p/the…
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key question for lina khan who chairs NYC's biggest sidewalk building agency: why can't NYC build sidewalks?
Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) profile pictureJoe Weisenthal
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There's more names to come, but among our speakers will be well-known open source AI advocate @linamkhan and life insurance industry analyst @PabloTorre
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Capital already sprinting to adjust to the political swing among young men
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this just shows the huge opportunity for growth
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LinkedIn: North Korea just showed how to get a face-to-face interview in the age of AI. Here's what you can learn ...
Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) profile pictureWatcher.Guru
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JUST IN: Binance says hackers used a fake job interview to hack an employee and gain access to its internal crypto wallets.
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Madrid top with "O'CEARUILL" on the back would be a great bit
David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) profile pictureDavid Ornstein
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🚨 JJ Gabriel expected to sign for Real Madrid from Manchester United in Jan. Interest from likes of PSG, Barcelona, Bayern Munich + #MUFC tried to retain but 16yo attacker chose #RMFC & set to join on long-term contract subject to FIFA regs @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/7596852…
Manchester United’s JJ Gabriel expected to join Real Madrid in January

Manchester United’s JJ Gabriel expected to join Real Madrid in January

Gabriel, 16, informed United of his desire to leave in September.

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after speaking to several sources, one of Woke 2.0's key policy demands is pharmacies not locking up the toothpaste
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imagine, if you could walk into a store and pick something off the shelf without an employee acting like you're asking to push the nuclear button.
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Immortal expression
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It’s really funny when election analysts on TV are like “this is the Republicans’ worst fear coming true” like losing elections is an obscure phobia of political parties.
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key advantage of prediction markets is they allow you to post about things sooner than traditionally media models
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it's low latency posting, hi-speed takes vs paper order tickets and fractional share prices
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this is the Situation Room that Wolf Blitzer was conceived in
Renee Faust (@renofaust) profile pictureRenee Faust@renofaustJun 22
Monitoring the Situation from the RCA Circle Bed, the ultimate in personal environment.
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There are numerous recent polls showing that Americans believe tech giants have too much power. Google: nitter.cf/DanaGoldstein/status/2…
Dana Goldstein (@DanaGoldstein) profile pictureDana Goldstein@DanaGoldsteinNov 3
Breaking: Google will turn off web search for schools that opt out of A.I. for kids. nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/go…
Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I. (Gift Article)

Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I. (Gift Article)

Google is making it easier to restrict its A.I. tools for students. But schools that block A.I. entirely will lose student access to Google’s search engine.

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