Andy Medici

@NVIDIAGeForce Because after three kids and a decade I am finally getting back into gaming and I would rather not share a laptop with a ten year old. Otherwise I am back to Skyrim! (I will give the other to the saddest dad I know) #GeForceSummer

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Went to the @Verizon store for help with a product and both the "specialist" and store manager had no idea. So they used google's Gemini AI right in front of me. Did not make me feel great about all that expertise. Turns out the service matched that expectation.

Saw #SupermanMovie with my 10-year-old yesterday. A great, fun movie! Felt like watching a king-sized episode of the old Justice League animated show or My Adventures with Superman. Most comic accurate Superman movie ever and its not close. Give Mr. Terrific his own show now.

Saw a woman give electrical line workers a bag of cookies to thank them for their work. A nice moment for sure. #Pittsburgh

@SusanWiseBauer Hey @SusanWiseBauer I wanted to ask if you would be up for talking about your situation for an article on small businesses and tariffs for The Business Journals?

Many small business owners have been sharing how the current tariffs are affecting them, so I want to add my voice. Feel free to add yours. Well-Trained Mind Press is struggling with a trickle-down effect. We're a small press, as publishers go, but we still spend hundreds of thousands of dollars every year reprinting our multiple series of home schooling books. All of those printing jobs are done in the United States--we don't use offshore companies. We've been using three different printers that we've had long term relationships with, but we have to reserve our print runs pretty far in advance to make sure that our books get moved up the queue, and although we've been looking for backups, we haven't found any reliable ones because, during the pandemic, quite a few printers went out of business. Well. One of our long-term printers just dumped us because Penguin Random House, which has used Chinese printing firms for DECADES because yes, it's cheaper, now finds that it will cost them less money to print stateside. Hurrah for tariffs, except that Penguin Random House is bigger than us, so when they approached our printing house with an offer to relocate their jobs here in the U.S., our printer happily agreed and told us to go away because they could no longer fit us into the queue. Victory for the big company. Loss for us, as we scramble for a solution (and probably pay more for a new printing relationship). Loss for the printing company, in the end, because I guarantee you that if and when the tariffs change (again), Penguin Random House will go right back offshore again, and we won't be anxious to rebuild the relationship with a printer that was willing to ditch us with almost no notice. There is no particular moral to this post, for what it's worth. Just some information from down here in the small business trenches.

X in March: The world is going to end. Me: That's not good! X in April: We are all going to read and critique this teenager's college essay! Me: Uh, what?

SoftBank investing in OpenAI now at that valuation is the tech equivalent of being put on the cover of madden.

Went to the grand opening of the @AldiUSA on Penn avenue in Pittsburgh. But had to leave, too many people waiting with a line spilling into the parking lot and beyond. A tad precarious for me and the kids.

Christmas movies & where they’re streaming: • Elf - Max • Klaus - Netflix • Gremlins - Max • Die Hard - Hulu • Violent Night - Hulu • Batman Returns - Max • Scrooged - Prime Video • The Polar Express - Max • A Christmas Story - Max • The Holiday - Prime Video • Black Christmas - Peacock • Love Actually - Prime Video • Home Alone 1 & 2 - Disney+ • Jingle All The Way - Disney+ • The Holdovers - Prime Video • Miracle on 34th Street - Disney+ • It's a Wonderful Life - Prime Video • The Santa Clause Trilogy - Disney+ • Muppets Christmas Carol - Disney+ • Nightmare Before Christmas - Disney+ • A Charlie Brown Christmas - Apple TV+ • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Max • Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special - Disney+ • How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Peacock

Anyways, hoping its good!

The super whistle for Krypto and the type of dog he is is adorable. But the desperation in his voice is meaningful.

Excited by the new #supermantrailer ! A lot to unpack too, as James Gunn is clearly trying a different tone and tack from earlier versions of the character. Here are the little things I noticed in the trailer. Spoilers in the thread.

I saw this student reading-related provision in the #NDAA and wondered if it related to @ehanford and her work on reading and literacy problems. Seems very specific!

Return to the best-selling Lone Wolf choose your own adventure books with a new collection of short stories set in Magnamund! That includes "Forty days" by yours truly. Check it out here. #fantasybooks #BookTwitter #writerscommunity shop-magnamund.com/collections/an…

Two minutes after you apply for a mortgage or insurance online.

For those who have listened to the "Sold a Story" podcast by journalist @ehanford or read her work on reading curriculum, this is probably not a surprise. Class-action lawsuit filed against a publisher for false claims about its reading curriculum. apmreports.org/story/2024/12/…

@abegailmier Hey Abegail! It seems its a mixture of a few factors. The cost is one. As Congress mulls a raft of new and old tax cuts, forgiving EIDL loans drives up the cost. And the focus is far more on other tax cuts that have already expired and Congress wants to renew.

@AndyMedici Interesting perspective! What factors do you think are influencing Congress's stance on loan forgiveness?

Getting a lot of questions about whether an incoming Trump Administration #sba would forgive #eidl loans and while things can change, i just don't see any appetite for it from Congress.