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I assume if you scroll past tweets without reading them that counts against your quota. I also assume he exaggerated a bit.

Not on Twitter either, but my daughter's fiance said he can go through 600 tweets in minutes.

I think he has been the obvious choice for a while. The rumor is that he gets paid like a head coach (though I assume not like Tom Brands). And perhaps he has no interest in the admin duties of a head coach. I also assume he has been contacted about many openings. The fact that Cael Sanderson has kept that staff together is another testiment to his coaching greatness.

From Matt Levine's Money Stuff newsletter today. Well, look, if I were the newly hired chief executive officer of a social media company, and if the directors and shareholders who brought me in as CEO had told me that my main mission was to turn around the company’s precarious financial situation by improving our position with advertisers, and if I spent my first few weeks reassuring advertisers and rebuilding relationships and talking up our site’s unique audience and powerful engagement, and then one day my head of software engineering came to me and said “hey boss, too many people were too engaged with too many posts, so I had to limit everyone’s ability to view posts on our site, just FYI,” I would … probably … fire ... him? I mean I suppose I might ask questions like “Is this because of some technological limitation on our system? Is it because you were monkeying with the code without understanding it? Is it because you tried to stop people from reading the site without logging in, [3] and messed up and stopped them from reading the site even when they logged in? Is it because you fired and demoralized too many engineers so no one was left to keep the systems running normally? Is it because you forgot to pay the cloud bills? Is it because deep down you don’t like it when people read posts on our site and you want to stop them, or you don’t like relying on ad revenue and want to sabotage my ability to sell ads?” Those are all interesting questions, and I suppose having the answers would help my new head of software engineering fix whatever this guy broke. But no matter what the answers are, this guy’s gotta go. If you are in charge of the software engineers at a social media site, and you make it so that people can’t read the site, that’s bad. Anyway something very funny happened at Twitter this weekend: Twitter began limiting how many posts users can read on its platform, an unusual move that came as owner Elon Musk says he is fighting companies trying to use its data for developing artificial intelligence programs. Musk on Saturday detailed the temporary changes, which involved limiting unverified accounts to reading just 600 posts a day while verified accounts—those paying a monthly subscription—can read 6,000 posts daily. He later announced multiple increases to the number of allowed posts. “To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits,” Musk tweeted. … “It’s unprecedented as far as I know since the time of” internet bulletin boards, Jason Goldman, a former Twitter executive who has been critical of Musk’s stewardship, said about the limits. “To set limits so low that it renders the site unusable to average users is just the latest in the purely extractive approach the new ownership is taking.” Oh man! Musk, the head of Twitter's software and servers teams, is gonna be in so much trouble when his boss, Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino, gets to the office today. Oh I kid, I kid, but what a weird job that must be. The CEO job I mean. The software-and-servers job isn’t that weird — he’s in charge of a website — but he manages to make it weird.

It came out in the Supreme Court case that Harvard's admission rate for legacies is 34% and for non-legacies it is 6%. So legacy status is a big leg up. I always knew it was my father's fault I didn't get into Harvard.

Its like college wrestling. If you bring in the best, you can be the best. If you bring in the best and have them taught by the best, you will be the best. Schools like Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, MIT, etc. bring in the best and have the best professors, so they produce the best grads. Virtuous cycle.

Twitter no longer releases earnings as a private company. Where did you see April earnings?

Amen. The facilities arms race was a substitute form of compensation for athletes since the schools could not, would not, pay athletes directly. What Mike Locksley conveniently ignores is that he too would get dressed in a garabage can for an extra $25k.

When I read the article it was not clear to me what point they were trying to make with these stats. How do you intrepret them?

Well that explains why I can't see tweets anymore, but I am less confident than you about the reason. It makes sense to cut guys like me off. I lurk, but earn them no revenue and don't count toward their monetizable users that help sell adds. Cut me off and see if I subscribe. I won't, but some like me will.

I laughed because I worked at a place called Fox River and the founder had a website picture with him in the power stance while people off camera threw chickens in the air so they could get a "fox in the hen house" pic. It was cringy.

But that is just you reading between the lines and offering an interpretation based on what you think they are saying. That is not what they actually are attributed with saying. And the Supreme Court does not allege anywhere that they were being disingenous. So I have to go with the arguments made rather than the shadow arguments assumed.

Believe me, I am in no way endorsing Trump's business practices or ethics.

Yo comprende fungible, but that is not what this is. There is nowhere it says the student loans had been paid off. If they are not paid off, then they were not paid off with PPP proceeds. And for that to happen the PPP proceeds would need to leave the business bank account, go to the personal account and then go to the loan servicer. Alternatively, if the money is paid to the servicer from the business account, then the loan would not have been forgiven. But it was. Meaning it was used appropriately. Fungibility does not apply here.

That just argues she is a hypocrite and a pawn, not that she used PPP money to pay off student loans or that her business was a sham.

Bankruptcy serves a vital role that makes financing possible. Without an orderly process for unwinding a business when there are not sufficient assets to satisfy all claims, it would be chaos, and whoever goes first could screw everyone else. This would make capital too expensive, as everyone would need excess returns to cover the risk. For me the big issue is that student loans are not forgivable in bankruptcy. Even though they are often what drives someone into bankruptcy. This is bad because it means the backer of those loans (the government) need have no discipline in making the loans. The idea that if you extend credit to someone who cannot pay it back means you will lose money, acts as a natural governor on making dumb loans. Remove that governor and we get loans made to people for garbage degrees at for profit universities that will never result in good jobs, or any job at all, and universities inflating tuitions to unsustainable degrees. Allow student loan forgiveness in bankruptcy and a lot of problems we currently have will correct themselves over time.

Thats not what that article says at all.

I was looking at the Supreme Court decision and I could not find anywhere that they say Harvard argued they wanted to be in proportion to society. SCOTUS described Harvards goal as: "Harvard likewise “guard[s] against inadvertent drop-offs in representation” of certain minority groups from year to year" And their reasons for these goals was not that minorities cannot keep up. Rather it was: "Harvard identifies the following educational benefits that it is pursuing: (1) “training future leaders in the public and private sectors”; (2) preparing graduates to “adapt to an increasingly pluralistic society”; (3) “better educating its students through diversity”; and (4) “producing new knowledge stemming from diverse outlooks.” "

PPP was only a loan in a technical sense. It was never designed to be paid back. As long as an employer used the money to keep employing, it was forgiven. It was only structured as a loan to make legal recourse simpler if an employer failed to live up to their promise.

It is the right decision.

Why do they have to be 30% white male? 36% of Standford students are from CA. CA is not 36% of the US or the world. What rule or criteria of theirs are you referring to?

Is 12% the right number or wrong number? Too high, too low? If 12% is accurate that means 26% of male students in the class of 2026 were white. That does not include any international students who do not get bucketed as white in the official Stanford stats. As for athletes they make up about 12% of the students with about 5% of students on athletic scholarship.

My college roommate got wait listed at Princeton. After he read an article damning Brooke Shields' admission because it denied a deserving student, he insisted he was that deserving student. Where is his justice?

Au contraire, because Spencer Lee agrees to my terms and we have the wrestling match in the deep end of the pool. Check and mate. Pin and fall.

I said good day, sir.