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Minnesota governor-elect @amyklobuchar (D) on who she will appoint to fill her Senate seat: "I will do right by the state of Minnesota with that person."

AppLovin Q3 2026 earnings: 56% revenue growth, install volumes up "Industry checks are a particular pet peeve of mine, so I’ll be more pointed on this topic: industry checks in this space are often incredibly unhelpful and can be actively misleading, for three reasons. First, they represent a single data point and are free of broader context; unless a sell-side analyst is polling hundreds or even thousands of advertisers, they likely aren’t collecting a representative sample. Second, CPM is a synthetic metric, and it doesn’t directly communicate the value of traffic being purchased. What a user acquisition manager cares about, ultimately, is the ROAS; that CPM increased or decreased in a quarter is, on its own, not useful in determining that. And third, an advertiser’s performance might decline as a result of platform improvements because that advertiser is priced out of its relevant auctions." mdm.co/applovin-q3-2026-earn…

'Viewer fatigue' at Fox News has captured the notice of Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch, who says the outlet has a 'playbook' to get audiences to come back amid a decline in Republican enthusiasm for the midterms... variety.com/2026/tv/news/fox…

By my count, there are 9 Senate races within 4 points in polling averages. That means there’s a very small distance between an amazing night for Democrats and a crushing disappointment for them. Calibrate your expectations accordingly.

Thinking about things like "notary public," "body politic," phrases where English puts the modifier after the noun like a Romance language. There must be some other examples

Bill Belichick, Jordon Hudson Quietly Broke Up Almost a Year Ago tmz.com/2026/10/30/bill-beli…

Nerds Gummy Clusters are Ferrara's best selling candy. The first 3 ingredients are 3 kinds of sugar. The bag reads dextrose, sugar, corn syrup, gelatin, modified corn starch, then 2% or less of malic acid, citric acid, sodium citrate, apple juice concentrate, acacia, natural and artificial flavors, carnauba wax, color added and 9 color entries: Red 40, Yellow 5, Red 40 Lake, Yellow 5 Lake, Blue 2 Lake, Yellow 6, carmine, Blue 1 and Blue 1 Lake. Dextrose, sugar and corn syrup are 3 names for sugar. Listing them separately puts each one lower on the list than a single line reading sugar would be. Gelatin is 4th and gives the center its chew. Carnauba wax is leaf wax from a Brazilian palm and gives the shine. Carmine is red made from a scale insect. Ferrara says the Nerds brand grew more than 9% in 2025 and that the clusters made Nerds the fastest growing candy brand in the UK. An 8 oz bag is 8 servings. That's 168 g of sugar in the bag.

reddit basically one of the last places i search for human results and now google is shredding that. does the open web even exist in ten years?

I think I have crossed the rubicon. I can no longer see a world where I or anyone in my position can do their job without the help of AI. And I think I've arrived here a bit later than others. There's a real before/after here. Just like how people say work changed before/after fax machines, before/after computers, before/after the internet. The before/after for AI is just as if more significant than the before/after the internet (I started my career a few years into that shift, and I witnessed people not keep up). I think this will upset a lot of people but I really believe this now. It doesn't mean that craft or being able to do anything without AI doesn't count - those things count more than ever. I'm trying to find an analog and this might be niche, but I think it's like comparing fly-by-wire avionics on jet fighters vs the old hydraulic way of flying. Fly-by-wire allows you to push the envelope to the edge of human tolerances while taking advantage of naturally unstable flight surfaces. It turns chaos into dynamic, nimble control that allows you to pull more Gs and outmaneuver competition. That's sort of what I'm trying to say about AI. The pilots still matter at the end of the day. Only really great pilots are good enough to be fighter pilots, and only those who study and practice and understand the limits of their own bodies and of the machines they control are able to fully maximize their ability. So yeah. You're the pilot.

Jamie Dimon to a country that pulled its gold out of New York: you have three armies within 400 miles, while gold in America is protected by two oceans and the US military “If we have the strongest military in the world and the strongest economy in the world, we will be the preeminent reserve currency. It is those two things.” “I was in a country somewhere in the Middle East, and also in Europe, and the people said, we took our gold out of the vaults in New York City and moved it to our country. You know what I said to him? I said, you have three armies within 400 miles who can come take your gold.” “That’s the real world. You’re not thinking clearly about safety. That gold is protected by the Atlantic, the Pacific, the United States military, the rule of law.” “But if we are not the preeminent military and economy, you will see our reserve status come down.”

40 years ago today, the Mets beat the Red Sox in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.

Striking detail in the big NYT piece on Taiwanese families adjusting to working at the huge new TSMC chip plant in Arizona: their surprise at the lack of rigor in US schools.

How long it took the world’s biggest YouTubers to hit 10M subscribers:

Explaining to my wife how there's this one guy. And he alone is responsible for most of the world's distribution of PHP. And if anything happens to this guy, that's just it. Everyone is screwed.