Ted Mann
@whereisted.bsky.social
reporter @business, co-author of a book about mistakes. here we are.
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Remarkable work here by @danahull.bsky.social
For years, people have lodged complaints about Tesla’s doors. With no official statistics, Bloomberg did its own analysis on the number of fatal crashes in the US in which door functionality played a role. Read more: bloom.bg/49tm0fF
📷️: Getty Images
📷️: Getty Images
December 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Remarkable work here by @danahull.bsky.social
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I wrote about how surprised I still am a candidate for NYC mayor won in large part by talking incessantly about buses, and also about how making them fast as promised will be an immense challenge. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
With Mamdani, the Humble Bus Gets Its Due
Enthusiasm for NYC’s mayor-elect may reflect a little-understood reality about the essential role of buses. Still, making them faster won’t be easy.
www.bloomberg.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I wrote about how surprised I still am a candidate for NYC mayor won in large part by talking incessantly about buses, and also about how making them fast as promised will be an immense challenge. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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this is the dumbest idea I've ever heard and an absolute disservice to the incredible journalists still at The Washington Post
The Washington Post is launching a personalized AI podcast, saying users will be able to "shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology."
December 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
this is the dumbest idea I've ever heard and an absolute disservice to the incredible journalists still at The Washington Post
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Really curious about what editorial decisions led to this piece about an interesting application of machine learning having an apologia for the slop industry wedged into it
Mind-blowingly cool use of AI
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Really curious about what editorial decisions led to this piece about an interesting application of machine learning having an apologia for the slop industry wedged into it
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Democracy dies in dampness
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Democracy dies in dampness
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No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
The richest guy in the world talks like the dumbest kid on the field trip.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The richest guy in the world talks like the dumbest kid on the field trip.
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Remember: the only way to save New York City from Donald Trump’s wrath is electing Andrew Cuomo.
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Remember: the only way to save New York City from Donald Trump’s wrath is electing Andrew Cuomo.
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honestly might need to bring back elon inc just to chew over this one
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
honestly might need to bring back elon inc just to chew over this one
"In a video posted to Reddit of a 2023 meme-stock event in Florida, Pulte is presented with a trophy inscribed, 'Bill Pulte f----.' The other side bears the phrase 'only the young,' a rallying cry among some investors in meme stocks."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Housing Chief Bill Pulte Becomes a Potential Liability for Donald Trump
The US’s top mortgage regulator has frustrated many of Trump’s top aides, but the president himself likes Pulte’s pit-bull approach.
www.bloomberg.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"In a video posted to Reddit of a 2023 meme-stock event in Florida, Pulte is presented with a trophy inscribed, 'Bill Pulte f----.' The other side bears the phrase 'only the young,' a rallying cry among some investors in meme stocks."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"use common sense" is an interesting standard of proof
Cotton on Trump's boat strikes: "Use common sense. If any of these had been boats full of fisherman or refugees, CNN would've already been on the ground & interviewed all their families & told their stories. We can be confident all of these strikes have been against cartel-based drug traffickers."
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"use common sense" is an interesting standard of proof
Someone is going to win the robotaxi war (not Tesla, obviously) and it's going to be a hell of a problem for cities and people who live there.
Almost half the Waymos on California streets are driving around empty. They're either waiting for the next customer or en route for a pickup.
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Someone is going to win the robotaxi war (not Tesla, obviously) and it's going to be a hell of a problem for cities and people who live there.
no notes.
“Scrivener - use AI.”
Scrivener: “I would prefer not to.”
Scrivener: “I would prefer not to.”
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
no notes.
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A student wrote me to say she will be late for class due to subway issues and my two suggested replies from google were ”so cute!” And “yum!” This is definitely a technology we want to rest our entire economy on.
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
A student wrote me to say she will be late for class due to subway issues and my two suggested replies from google were ”so cute!” And “yum!” This is definitely a technology we want to rest our entire economy on.
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hanging at the National Press Club, a reminder
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
hanging at the National Press Club, a reminder
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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
it's giving Rizzo '76
Kristi Noem on FIFA tourists: "Then they would go home. And go home in a timely manner."
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
it's giving Rizzo '76
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What happens when Trump’s trade wars hit a family-owned North Carolina sawmill.
I took a roadtrip recently for @davidgura.bsky.social’s @bloomberg.com Big Take podcast.
www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2...
I took a roadtrip recently for @davidgura.bsky.social’s @bloomberg.com Big Take podcast.
www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2...
Big Take: How Trump Tariffs Ended a Small-Town Sawmill - Bloomberg
Understand every aspect of the global economy – and know how to make your next move.
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
What happens when Trump’s trade wars hit a family-owned North Carolina sawmill.
I took a roadtrip recently for @davidgura.bsky.social’s @bloomberg.com Big Take podcast.
www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2...
I took a roadtrip recently for @davidgura.bsky.social’s @bloomberg.com Big Take podcast.
www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2...
It was a highway bill.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
Federal Infrastructure Spending on Transportation, Four Years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is up for reauthorization in 2026. New analysis shows that the act increased spending on transportation infrastructure, but…
www.urban.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It was a highway bill.
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‘accomplice’ works just fine
Obviously the least of what’s going on here, but I think we can stop ID’ing Wolff as “journalist” if he was advising people he was “covering” on a pedophilia blackmail strategy
Epstein: “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump..[VICITM] spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there.”
Maxwell: “I’ve been thinking about that.”
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www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Maxwell: “I’ve been thinking about that.”
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www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
‘accomplice’ works just fine
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I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
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I think normal people may not know how totally unmoored Bartiromo has been during the Trump era. A brief thread.
‘We Don’t Know They Were Wrong’: Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Defends Trump Pardons by Re-Upping Stolen Election Conspiracy
‘We Don’t Know They Were Wrong’: Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Defends Trump Pardons by Re-Upping Stolen Election Conspiracy
Bartiromo argued that because of 2020 election mail-in voting “we don’t know” if those pardoned were “wrong” and there was “more investigation” to be done.
The post ‘We Don’t Know They Were Wrong’: Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Defends Trump Pardons by Re-Upping Stolen Election Conspiracy first appeared on Mediaite.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I think normal people may not know how totally unmoored Bartiromo has been during the Trump era. A brief thread.
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The note is pretty good evidence that the sandwich guy jurors carefully evaluated the legal merits of the DOJ’s case and weren’t collectively engaged in a nullification exercise.
'Sandwich Guy' jury note and verdict form: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The note is pretty good evidence that the sandwich guy jurors carefully evaluated the legal merits of the DOJ’s case and weren’t collectively engaged in a nullification exercise.