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Friday Cat Blogging โ€“ 5 January 2024

10 months ago
Charlie is still restricted to the house, but Hilbert gets let out occasionally just to confirm that he's the senior cat around here. He looks like a cat on a mission in this picture, and his mission was: find Marian and tell her to stop gardening and instead pay attention to Hilbert.
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DOJ getting ready to sue Apple over antitrust

10 months ago
The Justice Department is nearing the end of its long pondering about whether to sue Apple over antitrust issues: Specifically, investigators have examined how the Apple Watch works better with the iPhone than with other brands, as well as how Apple locks competitors out of its iMessage service. They have also scrutinized Apple’s payments system ...continue reading "DOJ getting ready to sue Apple over antitrust"
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Charts of the day: The housing market at the start of 2024

10 months ago
How's the housing market doing? There are two good measures: (a) total home sales and (b) mortgage applications. Here they are: The top chart is home sales adjusted for population. It shows total home sales at the lowest level since the depths of the 1981-82 recession. The bottom chart is unadjusted raw numbers for mortgage ...continue reading "Charts of the day: The housing market at the start of 2024"
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Flooding the zone with Claudine Gay

10 months ago
I'm not generally a New York Times hater, but they sure do know how to overdo things. I mean, is the resignation of Harvard's president really worth five front-page pieces in a single day? I get that their target audience is upper middle class northeasterners, but come on.
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