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Futures:
NHL: Florida Panthers, playing in Florida, leads 5-1 early in the third period. The series is tied but the Panthers will make it 2 - 1 (series) tonight. [Later, final: 6 - 1.]
California: good, bad, indifferent.
By the end of the week, there may be 4,000 National Guardsmen and 700 US Marines in the city of Los Angeles. If those soldiers and US Marines are "forced" to depart that will leave a "power vacuum."
What's worse than 4,000 National Guardsmen and 700 US Marines in the city of Los Angeles? A "power vacuum."
Apple: WWDC keyote speech, uninspiring. I'm surprised AAPL didn't fall further.
Apple AI: there's a lot going on here. Tim Cook may come out of this looking better than one might think. We will come back to this later.
Apple: this is an incredible value -- MacBook Air 15-inch M4 with 256 GB.
Amazon: AI in Pennsylvania. $20 billion. Huge story. Link to Shay here. Global marketplace for AI. How will Amazon provide the necessary electricity. Coal. Link here. Extraordinary:
Compare this with Apple:
From Beth, link here:
HHS: RFK Jr fires all seventeen (17) members of CDC's vaccine advisory board. Those these folks (ACIP members) serve for set four-year terms, the law allows the Secretary of HHS to remove them at will. There's a way to handle this, but Congress needs to step up. Congress won't.
Ukraine: significant events overnight. Ukraine appears to be striking the interior of Russia, and well east of Russia, seemingly at will. Everything looks like a Russian collapse in slow motion.
Mark Fields: is still talking about "early adopters" when it comes to EVs. Oh, give me a break. "Early adopters"? We are way well beyond "early adopters." The first Tesla production model was released in 2008 -- more than 15 years ago.
Youtube video: Amanda Shires and Bobbie Nelson. OMG! Link here.
Almost stumped ChatGPT tonight: it took Chat six seconds to answer this question -- what is the biggest construction project in Texas today? Answer:
1. Tesla's Giga Texas Expansion, central Texas.
2. Samsug Semiconductor Fab, Taylor, Texas. A suburb, northeast of Austin, TX. Texas' Silicon Valley.
3. $1.2 billion Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge -- scheduled to be completed in June, 2025; at $1.2 billion, it's Texas' largest single bridge investment to date. Note: no state income tax.
4. $3.3 billion Dallas Convention Center expansion: targeting top-5 national status by 2029. Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.
5. Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay Coastal Risk Management: a multi-billion-dollar, multi-county levee and flood wall system led by the US Army Corps -- $863 million in Port Arthur and $2.39 billion in Orange County phases.
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The Book Page
Arrived today.
The Innovators: How A Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Walter Isaacson, c. 2015.
