senior legal editor at Politico, big fan of walkable cities. there is nothing to be gained from tweeting, so this is mostly basketball
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Sam Baker retweeted
The NYT and WSJ — the two major destination news publishers with stable, profitable business models — are going to have even more insane moats as social/search traffic enters its final death spiral.
Reddit call was absolutely fascinating. Everyone should listen to it as a bellwether for where the internet is going
- AI Mode is increasingly default Google experience
- AI Mode provides rich info and data in line, less incentive to leave search
- AI Mose incentivizes dialog, Google wants to keep you engaged to serve more ads at each turn
- Google will milk search for as much revenue as possible as they transition from a search company to a cloud service and chip company
- As traffic from humans becomes more scarce this will put Google in an increasingly adversarial position to the rest of the internet
- This is a massive headwind to all media type companies who are not destinations
- This is a massive headwind to all content-driven go-to-market motions especially in the SMB. You have seen companies like HubSpot and Monday.com get crushed by this funnel collapse
We are entering the end game - a knife fight for the remaining and dwindling volume of human traffic on the internet
Wasn’t planning to a costume but my family bullied me into some face paint and this is the only black shirt I own, so behold, if you dare, the MoMA zombie
Sam Baker retweeted
im four beers deep and i need everyone to understand that wikipedia is the last good thing. millions of strangers agreed to write down everything for free and then argue about citations forever. no ads. no paywall. this should not exist and it does and i'm crying about it
To walk the road of peace, sometimes we need to be ready to climb the mountain of conflict. Thank you.
We asked Xavier Becerra if he identifies as a NIMBY or a YIMBY and I am still dying over his answer. Great interview by @SophiaBollag, who tried to get him to say literally anything substantive.
For the past 2 years, many people argued that Jokic deserved MVP over Shai because if you had taken Shai off the Thunder, they still would have been good, but if you took Jokic off the Nuggets, there’s nothing left.
I look forward to SGA winning his 3rd MVP on these grounds.
JDub is obviously one of the great players, also seems like one of the all-time great dudes, just awful to see that injury.
Sam Baker retweeted
Anthony Davis with an unreal quote about the Wizards crowd.
“I’d like it to be a little more packed in there, but the crowd was great, they were into it, got us over the hump…Even when I was here last year, very first home game. It was like ‘Dress Like a Seat Night’ in here.”
Sam Baker retweeted
Every cycle gets a signature Trump rally bit. 2016 had the snake, 2024 had the YMCA dance, and 2026 gets Jon Husted’s ass
Trump on Jon Husted: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"
GOD it feels good to have Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the best basketball player on earth, back in my life.
Such a microcosm of our times. These two perceive themselves as enemies yet if they could simply turn down the temperature they would realize they are bound by a shared belief that the west coast is soft. Which it is. 🇺🇸🤝🐄🌆
Sam Baker retweeted
DC has this, for DCA and IAD! New York doesn't, Boston doesn't, Los Angeles doesn't, Houston doesn't.
You’re telling I can have this country’s best city (New York), 2nd-best city (DC) and 4th-best city (Philly), + Baltimore & Chesapeake crabs, + the gently rolling hills of central Kentucky, + the drama of the Badlands, and you’re asking me if I’d choose another region? lol no
Sam Baker retweeted
I do not think that we should accept more crashes, pedestrian injuries, and passenger assaults in order to protect largely part-time gig work, while also sending a signal that DC isn't friendly to new tech.
Sam Baker retweeted
And yet the entirety of Talarico's fundraising over the course of his entire campaign is more than offset by Elon Musk's contributions to SLF this quarter.
