The big blue wave is coming. But this does not mean Democrats have permanently solved their working-class problem or have a grander vision for 2028 and beyond. rosselliotbarkan.com/p/the-d…

🦔Sam Altman says it’s “quite terrible” for regular people to keep so much memory in their own computers. He told the Cheeky Pint podcast that home PCs only use their RAM about 5% of the time. In his view, the world’s limited supply of memory does more good in the cloud. My Take He said this the same day Intel blamed expensive memory for a drop in PC sales. My car stays parked for most of the day too, and I’m not selling it to rent one by the hour. OpenAI earns its money when you rent its computers instead of using your own, so of course Altman wants the memory in his data centers. I think he worries about local AI more than he lets on, because people who run good models at home have less reason to pay for ChatGPT. Hedgie🤗

For fifty eight years, my boss in Tokyo believed that beef should be sliced as thin as paper. In Japan, we cook thin meat for four seconds in boiling broth. That is our way. Then last month, the YouTube algorithm showed Director Sato a video of a man in Texas smoking a brisket. It changed his life. On Monday morning, he called me to his desk. His eyes were bloodshot. "Have you seen this?" he whispered, turning his monitor toward me. "The American pitmaster does not sleep for sixteen hours. He sits by the fire in the dark. He guards the meat like a castle." I said, "Sir, it is just a barbecue." He slammed his hand on the desk. "This is not cooking," he said. "This is a vigil." Last Saturday was our annual company picnic by the river in Kanagawa. Normally, we grill thin meat and yakisoba for two hours and go home at 2:00 PM. I arrived at 9:30 AM to help set up. Director Sato was already there. I want to be accurate here: he had been sitting in a folding chair since 10:00 PM on Friday night. He was wearing a towel around his head and staring at a massive black barrel smoker he had imported from Oklahoma. Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS ABANDONED CORPORATE LIFE FOR THE SMOKE. When we tried to help him, he held up a pair of metal tongs and clicked them twice. "Step back," he said calmly. "The stall has begun. Nobody opens the lid." Twelve Japanese accountants stood in complete silence around a barrel for four more hours. Nobody dared to eat a single noodle until he gave the signal. At 1:45 PM, he sliced the meat. It fell apart on the cutting board. My boss looked at the pink smoke ring, nodded once, and wiped a single tear from his cheek. He has already submitted an official budget request for a trailer smoker for next fiscal year.

“The best thing that could happen for the Democrats is for Schumer and Jeffries to be voted out in January" As the Trump admin rips the guts out of the pro-consumer laws that are his life's work, @RalphNader has some advice for a @DNC that still wants nothing to do with him...

Q: "Did the midterms factor into the Fed's decision to stay on hold?" Warsh: "Politics played no role in the decision."

NEW: In a pre-emptive move, House Democrats have introduced a resolution that Congress should not bail out AI firms in the event of a financial crisis and should be subjected to the ordinary bankruptcy process. prospect.org/2026/10/28/hous…

Were you in the room when he decided to abandon his long-held support for the Hyde Amendment and support taxpayer-funded abortion on demand up till the moment of birth? His presidency was a scandal to the Catholic Church and you perpetuate that scandal by holding him up as an example for Catholics in public life.

This is the most important part of Anthropic's S-1 filing. It tells you that if Anthropic fails to IPO and convert the huge amount of promissory notes it issued into shares that can be dumped right away in the market for cash, its $ 100B+ cash will go poof in the blink of an eye

AI giant Anthropic files to go public. Its stock market debut would come as the company's CEO has warned about the tech's potential damage to humanity. cnn.it/4z6ecvF