I write about people & places through the lens of food, drink, travel. Tweets mostly on food, SF, media, dining, cooking. https://teapaw.org/t.co/neRBKRJO3K
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for a variety of structural, professional, and personal reasons, I’m fascinated by this.
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Here is an early look at the front page of a special section wrapping today's Wall Street Journal on.wsj.com/3vyw07m
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Ozempic can be produced for less than $5 a month, a new study found, but Danish company Novo Nordisk charges Americans $968.52. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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"If we can't admit mistakes, then there can be no culture of reflection in our politics. And without a culture of reflection, it means we won't learn from our mistakes. Nor can we trust one another (or our leaders) to do so," @JohnRWoodJr writes. usatoday.com/story/opinion/c…
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Anticompetitive behavior is rampant in health care. It’s hurting consumers trib.al/lAapsKG
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The career history of Pret A Manger's CEO, Pano Christou.
Nice to see things like this.
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The Uncrustables brand is somehow headed for $1B in annual sales and its timeline is wild:
▫️1995: Two dads in North Dakota invent frozen crustless PB&J sandwiches and sell them to the local school district
▫️1998: Acquired by Smuckers for $1m
▫️1999: A US patent is issued for a “sealed crustless sandwhich”
▫️2004: Sales hit ~$30m
▫️2008: US Patent Office rescinds the patent for a “sealed crustless sandwhich”
▫️2021: Smuckers invests $1.1B to build a plant in Alabama
▫️2022: Sales hit $500m+ and the brand launches meat, cheese and taco versions
▫️2023: Smuckers plans to put real marketing push behind brand to get to $1B (previously was word-of-mouth because it didn’t have factories to meet demand)
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Gulps. Gump’s. 160 plus year history locally posts in @sfchronicle Sunday edition @GavinNewsom @LondonBreed @sfbos #fentanylmassacre
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Others have pointed this out, but this renaming is stepping on the exact same rake that got him ousted by PayPal. Wrote about this in my book
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Universal and WB taking Greta and Chris out to a steak dinner on Sunday night going “so when are your next films done and how do we put them out on the same date again?”
What’s even more crazy is that this whole thing could never of happened if Nolan didn’t leave WB.
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Just weeks before Vice declared bankruptcy in May, the company paid performance bonuses to top-level executives.
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ALT One big thing in bankruptcy…Just weeks before Vice declared bankruptcy in May, the millennial media company paid performance bonuses to top-level executives. The bonuses were part of the annual payouts executives at the company received based on performance in the previous year, according to two people with direct knowledge of the stipends. But the checks were written as the company was gearing up for potential bankruptcy — which means many rank and file staffers and freelancers weren’t paid for work from April and May, and were furious to learn of the bosses’ bonuses. The company has continued to cut costs in other areas, including eliminating the messaging app Slack. On Thursday, an HR rep sent an email to staff saying that the company will not be able to pay severance this month. A spokesperson for Vice declined to comment, but the company has previously maintained that despite delays, it intends to pay staff and freelancers for work completed before the bankruptcy.
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.@Vice is headed for bankruptcy. You read it first on @nytimes thx to @LaurenSHirsch @BenMullin nytimes.com/2023/05/01/busin…
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NBCU CEO fired, Tucker Carlson fired, Don Lemon fired, cable news chaos, Vice News blown to bits, 538 upended, Jerry Springer dead, Disney v. DeSantis, and more... you know what this week feels like?
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As a healthy 65 year old, I've been on the fence about getting another boost before fall, particularly in setting of fairly low case rates. These results – a significant drop in efficacy vs. severe infection by 6 months – will push me to get another boost now if FDA approves it.
The bivalent (BA.5) booster protection from Covid hospitalizations and deaths exceeded expectations vs the BQ.1.1 and XBB.1.5 variants nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
But VE waning seen; minimal, short-lived protection vs infections, VE Moderna > Pfizer
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This was first reported by Mission Local, but goes uncredited here. We are a small, non-profit newsroom, and we work hard to break news.
This is bad form.
Breaking News: The police arrested a tech consultant in connection with the fatal stabbing of the Cash App creator Bob Lee in San Francisco earlier this month. nyti.ms/3o6fTtv
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Not an article I wanted to write.
The deadly H5N1 bird flu is spreading widely, including to mammals.
For the first time, it's now likely spreading mammal-to-mammal, among minks which are exceptionally well-suited conduits to humans.
We must act now.
nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opini…
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My book, a history of the National Organization for Women told through the lives and activism of three very different members, argues that women's organizing defined the 1970s and explains our own time. Coming in August! us.macmillan.com/books/97803…
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All lanes have now been reopened.
The pileup in the Yerba Buena Island Tunnel on the Bay Bridge today can be seen in this video a viewer shared with us. You can also hear them mention traffic being stopped just after they made it through the area.
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