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My priors first, because they matter for what comes after. I think immigration built the Spain that tourists queue up to photograph, and I think the loudest voices on this subject are usually arguing about something else entirely. When Ted Cruz said the …
The best time to visit a European city isn’t when it’s quiet. It’s when the streets are alive with something specific—a ritual so embedded …
A Las Vegas jury convicted Duane “Keffe D” Davis of first-degree murder Monday in the shooting death of rapper Tupac Shakur, closing a case …
Every few weeks another AI licensing deal gets announced, and every few weeks a certain number of independent publishers read the headline …
For two years the argument about AI summaries in search was a forecasting argument. Publishers said the clicks would go away, Google said …
Last autumn NBCUniversal was warning its viewers that its channels might go dark on YouTube TV. This July it agreed to put Peacock inside …
There is a $6.2 billion television company sitting inside America’s largest station group that its owner is forbidden to touch. Five months …
On 14 August, Paramount Skydance announced that its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery had satisfied every regulatory clearance the deal …
Two semiconductor companies have gone from Marvell’s current size to $1 trillion, and they did it by completely different mechanisms. …
Modern supply chains run on a small number of very large ships. Raw materials, components and finished goods move across the same ocean …
