Langdon Morrison

“It can be bad, but that can be good.” Interest: Finance, Economics, Technology, Books, Sports, and Popeyes

[Andy Jassy @ajassy]

People ask me all the time about compelling use cases of AI. Here’s a good one.

Millions of dogs go missing in the U.S. every year—and options for finding them are often painfully limited. Our Ring team saw an opportunity to use our community and technology to help, so they built Search Party.

When a pet owner posts about a lost dog in the Ring app, nearby participating outdoor Ring cameras in the neighborhood begin looking for potential matches. If yours spots what might be the missing dog, it lets you know. You see the photo alongside footage from your camera, then can choose to share the video with the pet’s owner.

The AI is trained on tens of thousands of dog videos so it can recognize different breeds, sizes, fur patterns, body features, unique marks, shape, and color. And privacy stays in your control—you decide each time whether to help.

The impact is energizing. Search Party has helped bring home 99 dogs in just 90 days—more than a dog a day since launching three months ago.

Ring customer Kylee was blown away by Search Party after her dog Nyx was found by a neighbor’s camera just 15 minutes after slipping through a tiny hole he’d dug under her backyard fence.

When a Ring customer and military veteran named Kurt realized his service dog was missing after jumping his fence, he worried he might have lost her for good. He quickly initiated a Search Party in the Ring app asking neighbors to help locate her. Later that day, he got the notification he was hoping for…Lainey was found.

Chris, a Ring camera owner, helped reunite another lost dog with its family after getting an app alert that said, “Your camera may have spotted a missing dog,” flagging footage he wouldn't have otherwise noticed.

And the list of stories like these keeps growing.

Now we’ve expanded this feature so that anyone in the U.S. can start a Search Party through the Ring app, even without a Ring camera (lost pets are one of the most common posts in the Ring Neighbors app—over 1M last year alone).

With roughly 90 million dogs in the U.S., think this is gonna matter for a lot of families. Good example of real-world impact, and proud of what the Ring team has built here. https://t.co/Pr3jzP4o4o

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The country is 100% behind the president on fixing a global system of tariffs that has disadvantaged the country. But, business is a confidence game and confidence depends on trust.

President @realDonaldTrump has elevated the tariff issue to the most important geopolitical issue in the world, and he has gotten everyone’s attention. So far, so good.

And yes, other nations have taken advantage of the U.S. by protecting their home industries at the expense of millions of our jobs and economic growth in our country.

But, by placing massive and disproportionate tariffs on our friends and our enemies alike and thereby launching a global economic war against the whole world at once, we are in the process of destroying confidence in our country as a trading partner, as a place to do business, and as a market to invest capital.

The president has an opportunity to call a 90-day time out, negotiate and resolve unfair asymmetric tariff deals, and induce trillions of dollars of new investment in our country.

If, on the other hand, on April 9th we launch economic nuclear war on every country in the world, business investment will grind to a halt, consumers will close their wallets and pocket books, and we will severely damage our reputation with the rest of the world that will take years and potentially decades to rehabilitate.

What CEO and what board of directors will be comfortable making large,
long-term, economic commitments in our country in the middle of an economic nuclear war?

I don’t know of one who will do so.

When markets crash, new investment stops, consumers stop spending money, and businesses have no choice but to curtail investment and fire workers.

And it is not just the big companies that will suffer. Small and medium size businesses and entrepreneurs will experience much greater pain. Almost no business can pass through an overnight massive increase in costs to their customers. And that’s true even if they have no debt, and, unfortunately, there is a massive amount of leverage in the system.

Business is a confidence game. The president is losing the confidence of business leaders around the globe. The consequences for our country and the millions of our citizens who have supported the president — in particular low-income consumers who are already under a huge amount of economic stress — are going to be severely negative. This is not what we voted for.

The President has an opportunity on Monday to call a time out and have the time to execute on fixing an unfair tariff system.

Alternatively, we are heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter, and we should start hunkering down.

May cooler heads prevail.

[Alok Jain ⚡ @WeekendInvestng]

*Nice speech by Singapore PM*

This is the kind of reassurance I was talking about from our leaders

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

A Jack Russell Terrier ran door to door looking for help after her owner collapsed from a life-threatening blood clot. "Without her I wouldn't be here." 15/10

[Mitch Rabalais @MitchRabalais]

At times like these, I’m reminded of a quote from Senator Russell Long, who at age 16 lost his father to an assassination.

“It is the ballot rather than the bullet that should determine America’s destiny.”

[Langdon Morrison @LangdonMorrison]

@realEstateTrent Breads Bakery?

[arpit @arpitingle]

entering 2024 with this energy

[Jaxson Dart @JaxsonDart]

Good Morning… 2024👀

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

66 Good News Stories You Didn't Hear About in 2023. Not feel-good fluff ("Puppy befriends Orangutan") but significant progress in global health, clean energy, poverty, suicide, education, women's rights, homicide, conservation. Thanks, @future_crunch, for counteracting journalism's negativity bias. https://t.co/fpNSucik0T

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

Apple went public on this day in 1980.

The IPO was considered too risky for investors in Massachusetts.

[David O'Brien @DOBrienATL]

“Presence, intellect, respect, work ethic, integrity. Off-the-charts ability to lead. I mean, that guy walks in a room, it’s over. He’s special. I’ve been in baseball since 2000. I’ve never been around someone like (Ron Washington).” — Alex Anthopoulos. https://t.co/7z0L5PPpo6

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Tony Hawk as Larry David is still the best Halloween costume

[Atlanta Braves @Braves]

BAH GAWD THAT’S AUSTIN RILEY’S MUSIC

#AsOneATL

[Atlanta Braves @Braves]

THAT JUST HAPPENED.

#AsOneATL

[Atlanta Braves @Braves]

SAWRY NOT SAWRY

#AsOneATL

[FOX Sports: MLB @MLBONFOX]

Happy October 3rd to all who observe ⚾️🎉

[FOX Sports: MLB @MLBONFOX]

The Atlanta Braves become the first team in MLB to clinch a playoff spot! 🎟️👏

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

In 1999, Dr. Dre was making his comeback album “2001” (his first solo studio album since 1992’s classic “The Chronic”).

There was one great piano beat that Dre couldn’t write the lyrics for.

He sent the beat to Jay-Z.

In less than an hour, Jay-Z wrote the song and rapped over the beat — pretending to be both Dre and Snoop (in their respective voices) — and sent it back.

The song was “Still D.R.E.”

Dre heard it and said “That’s it. That’s it right there. This is a single.”

Snoop said many years later “He wrote Dre’s shit and my shit. And it was flawless. Jay-Z is a great writer to begin with for himself, so imagine him striking it for someone he truly loves and appreciates. He loves Dr. Dre and that’s what his pen showed you.”

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This dog was spotted supporting their local library. Thinks access to free sticks is so important. 12/10