David Lapchuk

[David Lapchuk @DaveLapchuk]

@quantian1 That's basically what Nielsen does with market share data to get retailer sales data.

[David Lapchuk @DaveLapchuk]

@awonderland Very nice, that's light years better than my art skills.

[David Lapchuk @DaveLapchuk]

@bennpeifert I've had success with giving it a draft/unoptimized starting point and context on the type of job and what skill areas to focus on, followed by 20 or so detailed revision requests then manual edits. You definitely need to be careful what it puts in there, a useful tool.

[David Lapchuk @DaveLapchuk]

@BitcoinUndisc Oh dear, maybe the Cylons were right.

[David Lapchuk @DaveLapchuk]

@douglasritz @TheStalwart Exactly

[David Lapchuk @DaveLapchuk]

@mussettb @TorontoStar It was a weird - a Facebook profile would post a link to a "Dr" profile on Instagram, which would have some ambiguous photos of mushrooms and plants and you'd need to DM them to get prices. The indirection must have messed with whatever algorithms Facebook has or something.

[David Lapchuk @DaveLapchuk]

@mussettb @TorontoStar I'm in a couple Facebook groups which are support groups for parents with neurodivergent kids. The number of postings from fake/stolen profiles selling things like $100 tins of CDB gummies was astonishing. Reporting the posts to Facebook had no effect 90% of the time.

[David Lapchuk @DaveLapchuk]

@therobotjames @elonmusk Yes please, oh do go on.

[David Lapchuk @DaveLapchuk]

@Bonecondor Can I do that with my $6 bottle of rose?

[David Lapchuk @DaveLapchuk]

@EvanLSolomon Congrats!

[David Lapchuk @DaveLapchuk]

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[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

THE WORST DEFENSE OF THE TRUMP TARIFFS

In today's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about how there are so many different arguments being put forth to explain or defend the tariffs. But the stuff about countering China's strategic tech dominance has to be the most egregiously bad.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

The 2ND WORST CHART FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP

In today's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about the extreme market selloff, and how it's delivering very little rate relief for refinancing the debt.

Meanwhile, recession risk could blow out the actual deficit...

[David Lapchuk @DaveLapchuk]

@tolstoybb It's ok. You can like him.

[Evan Solomon @EvanLSolomon]

Is America abandoning its democratic allies? What could happen if America suddenly finds itself alone among western nations? My latest column for @gzeromedia
https://t.co/fKjeaH7sls

[Kyla Scanlon @kylascan]

There is definitely a sense that we are seeing a systematic devaluation of institutional knowledge in favor of some form of misguided intuition. No one disagrees that there was waste and inefficiency before, but there's just been broad confusion and unnecessary firings, which is even more wasteful and inefficient when you have to hire those people back. When Singapore says America has transformed from "liberator to great disruptor to a rent-seeking landlord" they're describing shift in how power views its responsibility. The model has moved from "trust but verify" to "dismiss and replace" (and trust is expensive, we have lost so much of it, for many reasons). This is where hubris is a necessity. Implementing 'not knowing' as policy is an unbearable expense. We're entering a period of huge global destabilization - the housing market, AI, geopolitical realignment - and the cost of getting things wrong isn't just financial, it's existential in the form of decades of built-up expertise, trust, and global stability.

[David Lapchuk @DaveLapchuk]

@Cognus666 @fordnation @CNN @CBSNews No thank you.

[David Lapchuk @DaveLapchuk]

@Cognus666 @fordnation @CNN @CBSNews Holy wtf

[David Lapchuk @DaveLapchuk]

@nope_its_lily Lol, if American products were cheaper people would be buying them already.

[David Lapchuk @DaveLapchuk]

@nope_its_lily Spite is probably one of the best reasons to vote for Freeland soon 😂

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

Christmas is a good time for us all to remember that behind most social media accounts (the non-bots) are… people.

A lot of people still treat social media like a video game; totally separate from reality where their words don’t matter.

But they do. Kindness matters.