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Ryan Radia
@ryanradia.com
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FRED & IPUMS enjoyer. Lawyer (DC). Economics, charts, tech policy, urbanism, regulation, housing, transport. Growth is very good. Reposts are demand letters.
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 16h
Technology has evolved to the point where we can now watch random decade-old movies in 90 second clips on TikTok (invariably with a line running through the middle of the screen to evade automated copyright detection)
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 21h
I wonder if he’ll take up ConnorEatsPants (who played Fortnite with Gavin Newsom a week ago)
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 21h
I go there fairly regularly (the frozen section is great) but it’s missing way too many SKUs to eliminate the need to frequently visit Giant/Safeway/Harris Teeter
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 1d
To clarify, they watch it because it airs immediately before Jeopardy on their local station
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 1d
I know someone born in the early 1990s who watches ABC World News Tonight with David Muir on an antenna almost every night (no professional connection to media or politics)
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 1d
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 1d
Everything bagel with egg, cream cheese, red onion, and capers is a wild combination
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 1d
A pigeon couple lives on my balcony and has raised at least three generations of baby pigeons on it. My cat is fascinated by them. There is so much pigeon poop.
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 3d
Pretty unusual arc for somebody who grew up on a farm near Winterset
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 3d
Or a perfect substitute for those glasses, such as this
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 4d
I encounter elevator pee maybe once a month. Kind of annoying. (Meanwhile, my cat has yet to miss his litter box even once.)
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 4d
Part of the reason these videos are popular, I think, is that Sora allows the creation of videos of historical public figures—but not living ones. So all the demand for watching AI clips of celebrities in absurd situations ends up fueling the creation of videos of deceased public figures.
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 5d
That makes sense, thanks. (The incident having been meaningfully exaggerated by the former staffer seems much more plausible than the idea that the whole thing was completely made up.)
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 5d
On a 486DX with a 33 MHz turbo button. (Good times.)
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 5d
Only in very exceptional cases, I believe. Keith Lee, presumably, and maybe a handful of others who have over a million followers and do a lot of sponsored content as well
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 5d
(If the guy made up the sandwich comment, I would have assumed at least one person who attended or was familiar with the HR session would have eventually told one of the several reporters who covered the incident that it never happened.)
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 5d
Didn’t Erik Wemple investigate the alleged incident and find no one at the newspaper who doubted the veracity of the sandwich anecdote when the NYT opinion staffer originally mentioned it to several colleagues shortly after it happened?
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 5d
Never heard of them until just now, but based on clips of TikTok users eating them in their cars, at 4 for $3.99 they look potentially decent by cheap pizza restaurant standards. (I think the last time I had food from Little Caesars was in the 1990s.)
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 5d
Thanks (that does seem plausible)
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 5d
Looks like they have an LED light that comes on when they are recording (and are designed to stop recording if the user tampers with or covers up the LED)
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 5d
Are you saying people will buy them mainly with the specific purpose of recording others secretly, or just that a very large share of recordings will incidentally capture people nearby without their knowing, even if that’s generally not the Ray-Ban owner’s goal?
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 5d
People love making silly dumb AI videos about Pokémon? You’re telling me now for the first time
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 6d
Yeah, by age 10 you should know the ideal country looks like this
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 7d
A lot of the commenters on those posts seem unaware that Roald Dahl is an author of silly children’s books (as opposed to, say, a gerontology researcher)
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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 8d
It also seems possible in theory to keep the computerized exams, albeit with no or limited Internet access
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