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“Bring your own toilet paper?” I guess I will be postponing my next visit to LA Hall of Justice.

@CBSLosAngeles Sour grapes? Good try.

AI video featuring LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt sparks debate over the tech's role in politics cbsnews.com/losangeles/new…

@mikeroweworks If they were that important, someone would let you know.

"Mike - You said on your podcast that you have "tens of thousands of unanswered emails." It’s not that I don’t believe you, but…really? Tens of thousands? How can you function knowing your inbox is that flooded? Aren’t you tortured by what might be in there? A job offer? A note from an old girlfriend? A letter from the IRS? The anxiety would kill me...Candice Ramon" Hi Candace, I've told you a million times I never exaggerate. Ha! See attached. PS. Personally, I find it harder to ignore an email once I’ve read it. That’s when it needs to filed, or replied to, or deleted. Easier to just let them pile up. There was a time when a few dozen unread emails kept me up at night, for all the reasons you mention, but then, when it became a few hundred unread emails, I started to realize I could never catch up. My email address isn’t hard to find, and being a public figure invites a lot of unsolicited queries. Also, my time is now a zero-sum game, so every moment spent reading an unsolicited email is a moment spent not doing something more important. (Like answering your question.) Several years ago, when I tried to explain this to Mary, my business partner, her left eye began to twitch. Mary had glanced down at my phone and noticed 1,100 unread emails. “Eleven hundred unread emails!! Are you kidding me??” “Yeah, it’s a lot,” I said. “More than I can handle.” Mary is a legendary multitasker. I’ve seen her read an email and send a text at the same time - often while drafting a contract and running a Zoom call during a lunch meeting. This is a talent I admire, and benefit from a great deal, but do not envy. “How can you possibly have eleven hundred unread emails?” she said, eyes bulging. “On your business account! What’s your Follow Up File look like?” “My Follow Up File? What’s a Follow Up file?” “What do you mean? How do you not know what a Follow Up file is?? It’s the most important file there is!!!” “Well,” I said, “if I don’t read my emails, there’s really nothing to follow up on, is there?” It was at this point Mary’s right eye began to twitch, so I quickly changed the subject, and got one of those privacy screens for my phone. From a business perspective, I understand her exasperation with me. There were probably some legitimate opportunities buried in those eleven hundred unread emails, along with some other interesting...offers. Today, with 39,218 unread emails, I suspect there’s even more. And by the end of this year, when I expect to cross the 50,000-threshold, (hey, it’s important to have goals!) I guess they’ll be more still. But again – in a zero-sum game, every new opportunity means that Mary has to walk something else behind the barn a shoot it. So, what’s the point? As for old girlfriends and the IRS, I suspect either will find me, if it’s really important. The bigger question, obviously, is what will happen to the rest of Mary's face if she sees this?

@californiapost It’s a conspiracy by BIG SIGN. Follow the money.

Parking in LA should not be this hard! trib.al/TthHmMM

@unusual_whales Maybe a small, sovereign nation in disarray?

Marco Rubio: 'What to get someone who has everything? I thought a crystal football' Pope: 'Ok'

@Beno10_MFC @Bhaveshlivelife D The bowl bottom covers slightly larger area appearing lower.

@Bhaveshlivelife Wrong. The answer ain't C

Strong eye test. Which stand mixer is different? 99% people failed.

@BowTiedTrance It was the first thing I thought to do others of the shutdown in CA. I volunteered to take over Zoom hosting duties for the freaking LA County Sheriff because no one else knew how or wanted to!

Wow, I actually found it! Of all the Scott Adams clips ... this is the one that means the most to me, personally. This was the moment, during the initial COVID lockdown days, that I decided to cancel my low-grade depression and feeling like "I'm trapped," and replace it with "come out of this stronger, not weaker." (I started writing affirmations shortly after this, and by the time a year had passed, I'd changed career paths, gotten three promotions, and was living in a new house. It worked, Scott. It worked.)

@SCE @SCE_MarkC They are beautiful but I want shoot the little darlings sometimes when they make a loud racket and peck holes in my freshly painted siding.

Our crews work closely with environmental teams to protect acorn woodpeckers while upgrading equipment in high fire risk areas. Fiberglass poles help reduce wildlife impacts while improving safety and reliability. energized.edison.com/stories/woodpe…

@NEWSMAX What was he doing prior to getting his first Star Wars role?

‘SICK INDIVIDUAL’: ‘Star Wars’ actor Mark Hamill is facing backlash from the White House after posting an AI-generated image of President Trump in a grave.

@WallStreetApes @greggutfeld It was obvious before the fact when the event themes was. "Never waste a tragedy!"

California Rep Kevin Kiley says they have learned the $100 million dollar pacific palisades Fire Aid concert money was laundered to nonprofits “What we have learned is absolutely beyond belief — Tens of thousands of people donated raising a hundred million dollars for what they was were told was direct relief for the victims. But now we've learned that this money didn't go to the victims at all. Instead, it went to nonprofits” Here are some examples - CA Native Vote Project: $100,000 for voter participation for Native Americans - Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE): $250,000 for programs prioritizing undocumented immigrants - Altadena Talks Foundation: $100,000 went to supported podcasts, including Toni Raines podcast - NAACP Pasadena: $100,000 political advocacy - Los Angeles Black Worker Center $550,000 to political advocacy organizations - Center for Applied Ecological Remediation: $500,000 for fungus/microbe/plant soil remediation projects Over $500,000 went to bonuses for nonprofit leaders and consultants

@JamesRosenTV I like this image a lot!

Detail from the Cannon Rotunda. When you work on Capitol Hill, as I am privileged to do periodically, every square inch within a 360° radius contains some amazing architectural feature, a hidden sculpture or passageway, or yet another small but fascinating visual detail.

@adamcarolla Still, NICE made more sense than, DICE or LICE.

Thanks for the recognition. I traced it back to nov 2018. That was the first time I said it on stage

@JamesRosenTV @VH1 @ringostarrmusic @JoeWalsh So you are not some Johnny-come-lately Beatle-obsessed fan who just discovered the members last week? You are part of the culture and mystique, @JamesRosenTV !

Why, yes, mine *is* the only face on the back cover of the 1998 @VH1 “Storytellers” album by ⁦@ringostarrmusic⁩, peeking over legendary guitarist (and Ringo’s brother-in-law) @JoeWalsh, that doesn’t belong to a band member. Ringo gave me a nickname, too. Not divulging it.

@OwenGregorian It's a scarcity mindset.

And when you ask ‘em “How much should we give?” They only answer “More, more, more” - John Fogerty

@JustineBateman Given the homeless situation, any estimate as to how many thousand pink girl's bicycles have been stolen?

Your turn, Los Angeles.

@lordbuckly @EricLDaugh To her campaign, these are freebies. Hope the signs become, at best, memorabilia to Socialist Propaganda collectors.

@EricLDaugh This is what she spent our money on.

🚨 IT’S OFFICIAL: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass installed over 450 signs declaring public property “OFF LIMITS” for ICE But the U.S. Attorney has deemed them 100% NULL AND VOID Karen Bass is pathetic! Vote Spencer Pratt! ICE agents will go ANYWHERE they need to arrest illegals 🇺🇸 🎥 @MattSeedorff

@ZiaErica @thevivafrei I totally respect the family’s right to privacy. At what point do you believe they will be comfortable revealing the date she passed? Grief is so personal. I work exclusively with estates and trusts for 35 yrs. My family owned one of largest chains of mortuaries in CA.

@thevivafrei Honestly... I'm so shocked that you would speculate like that. You are wrong. And this is so beneath you to post something like this. You could have reached out to any of us. This family is PRIVATE... Scott was the public figure. Not them. Come on Viva... lord.

My first thought, and I have no insider information or confidential details, is suicide. In the absence of any other corroborating illness, when a caregiver loses the person they were caring for, life can become even more difficult. I hope I am wrong. One way or the other, this is an unfathomable tragedy. Prayers for everyone.

@OwenGregorian @MarcelaMarjean Do you have any idea how many times an hour you change your mind about tasks? THINK < BACKSPACE < TURN AROUND < DELETE

This mind-reading beanie could make keyboards obsolete | Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas Dictation tech for typing on your computer and mobile devices has gotten way better and more accessible over the last few years, thanks to sophisticated AI models. But an upcoming device can remove even more friction from the process of getting words onto your screen, by simply reading your thoughts. Palo Alto, California-based startup Sabi is developing what its CEO calls the most wearable brain-computer interface (BCI) on the planet. It's a beanie that you can simply slip on and think about what you want to type, and it'll appear on a connected device at about 30 words per minute. The venture capital-backed company, which came out of stealth earlier this month, lines these beanies with up to 100,000 tiny sensors, each smaller than a lentil. These are electroencephalography (EEG) sensors designed to record electrical activity from the brain, and they can capture enough to translate your thoughts into text without you uttering a single word out loud. The big draw here is that, unlike other BCI's like Elon Musk's Neuralink, you don't need to first have your skull drilled into, and wear an implant on your brain where strong signals can be picked up easily. Instead, you can just don a hat and you're good to go. In addition, Sabi's tech is said to be able to pick up continuous speech as opposed to finite sets of commands like conventional EEG-based devices. The stack includes the aforementioned miniscule biosensors that are powered by chips designed in-house, as well as the company's Brain Foundation Model, which it describes as being trained on the world's largest neural decoding dataset. Wired notes this amounts to some 100,000 hours of data from 100 volunteers to learn what brain signals are supposed to universally correspond to specific activities. That should help ensure that when two Sabi users think of typing out a particular word, the exact same word appears on screen – despite the signals from their brains potentially differing somewhat. As someone who records a ton of voice memos and has dabbled in using dictation apps to type, I'd be up to try it. The challenge with those options, even with all the powerful transcription and summarization tools available, is that you've got to speak out loud, and that's not discreet enough for a shared workplace. As for privacy, Sabi says your data is encrypted before it's sent to the cloud, and as such, its model has been trained on encrypted signals rather than unprotected raw data. And as with other BCIs, this could make computing and communication significantly more accessible to people with impaired motor functions, whether from disabilities or injuries. Since it doesn't require surgical implants, people could try it before committing to the solution with a lot less hassle. Sabi's beanie is slated to arrive by the end of 2026; a baseball cap version will follow. We don't yet know what these will cost, and whether they'll be able to do more than type. But I sure am excited about the idea of putting a new type of thinking cap on. newatlas.com/wearables/sabi…

@hunleyeric Sad. Very sad. As Scott taught us, let’s wait (48) hours. I’m in conflict with my intuition here.

This is heartbreaking to hear.

@OwenGregorian Your alliteration is making me spit my coffee all over the floor.

Starbucks CEO roasted as ‘out of touch’ over defense of $9 coffee: ‘Affordable premium experience’ | Anna Young, New York Post Brew-tally expensive. Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol is getting roasted for being “out of touch” after defending the company’s $9 cup of coffee – insisting the steep price reflects a “premium experience” offered to customers. The coffee giant’s chief – who earlier this year was granted access to the company jet for personal travel – said that customers across all income levels are willing and happy to shell out big money for a chance to interact with baristas or score a “great seat” inside the chain. “What we’re seeing is people, you know, they want to have a special experience, and regardless of what your income level is, in some cases, a $9 experience does feel like you’re splurging,” Niccol told The Wall Street Journal’s “What’s News AM” podcast. “And then, what that means is we have to make it worthwhile, right? And then in other cases, people believe, ‘Well this is a really affordable premium experience.’ Because they’re saying like, ‘Well it’s less than $10 and I get a really premium experience,'” he continued. “So, regardless of where you’re stationed in those income cohorts, we want to make that experience worth your while. And what we know is what’s definitely something that drives that value is to be able to have a great seat, having a great moment of connection with a barista.” When podcast host Luke Vargas pressed on whether a “K-shaped” economy – where the wealthy recover while everyone else struggles post-pandemic – was hitting Starbucks‘ bottom line, Niccol said it wasn’t impacting the company’s business or revenue. He even bragged how the coffee chain is “doing really well” with younger generations. “We’re doing really well with Gen Z and millennials, and then really had strong performances across all income cohorts,” Niccol said, adding customers have described Starbucks visits as a form of escapism. “It can start with as little as $3 for a traditional cup of coffee. And then obviously you can build your way into all sorts of customized drinks that people love that move that ticket up…. The way we’re going to play the value game is you’re going to feel like it was worth it.” He insisted customers value the experience over discounts or flashy one-off promotions. Critics ripped into Niccol’s “corporate slop jargon” after a snippet of his interview was posted on the WSJ’s Instagram page Wednesday. “This is a guy who remote works from Orange county and then takes a private jet to work in Seattle. He’s out of touch,” one digital naysayer fumed. Another said: “‘A great moment of connection with your barista.’ Bro just poor the damn coffee.” “When was the last time Starbucks felt like a premium experience,” one person raged, as another queried, “Starbucks is a premium experience?” Others called on customers to “boycott” Starbucks and visit their “local coffee shops.” “So….. bad coffee. bad pricing. great experience justifies an over-specialty price? Shop local bro.” nypost.com/2026/05/01/us-…