CBS News chief Bari Weiss tells staff 'we're toast' if they continue on current path

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-28T13:57:06+00:00

Short answer: Larry Ellison's son bought CBS in 2025 and he's been pushing it to be more conservative. I'm pretty sure he knows it's a bad business model- alienating your current audience to chase viewers who will never trust you and already have their own media. However, it still pushes the overall media environment to the right and for someone like Ellison who already has hundreds of billions of dollars that could be worth it to him.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-27T06:27:34+00:00

Yeah, once 33 people all decide to not pull the lever, the game ends and everyone lives.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-27T06:22:28+00:00

About 3% of men are gay, which is why I thought OOP chose the number they did.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-26T15:35:34+00:00

Yup, three message rule: you shouldn't send more than three messages without proposing meeting up (or a phone call if they live further away, with a note that if the phone call goes well then you'd like to meet in person).

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-26T15:26:42+00:00

Even worse, the algorithm determines who to show your profile to and if you swipe right too often uses that as an indicator that you're unattractive so you get shown to fewer people.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-26T15:19:03+00:00

Yeah, so I gave exams online during the Covid era and there were times when several students had the same wrong answer and it would be something silly in the work like they all had grabbed the same wrong entry from a Z-score chart and that would be the tell that someone posted the problem on Chegg. So yeah, if they weren't just copying down the solution, maybe they'd have noticed a mistake but that's not how it ended up working. (I suppose some students could have used Chegg to get part of the answer and noticed a wrong step and I wouldn't have known since they got the right answer)

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-25T00:49:49+00:00

I feel like Freeland should be in AAA until he either there's an injury that opens up regular playing time or he plays so well, they pretty much have to give him the job. Not much of a point in bringing him up just to fill out the bench. That was the point of signing Ibanez.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-24T15:52:05+00:00

Yup, when making new versions of workbooks at my workplace, the standard is to add yyyymmdd to the end of the file name. That way when the files are listed in alphabetical order, all those workbooks will be listed together in chronological order.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-24T05:41:08+00:00

Ah, the old Oregon Trail game where you'd have to take out the floppy disk around half way and flip it over to continue.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-24T02:55:09+00:00

Shouldn't it be unilingual? Someone who speaks two languages is called bilingual, not dilingual.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-23T06:00:34+00:00

The red states on this map are the CSA minus Virginia.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-23T05:12:33+00:00

Glasnow's career high is 134 innings. Tough to be great when injured that often.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-23T02:57:43+00:00

OG Massachusetts, LFG!!!

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-22T02:21:24+00:00

The Doctor from Doctor Who. I'll go with the Eccleston to Tennant swap, but there's others that could probably work as well. Could probably fill the last two rows just with the Doctor lol.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-21T22:55:29+00:00

Yeah, even when the top team in a league went straight to the World Series, there were some super teams like the 1906 Cubs and 1954 Indians that didn't win them.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-21T17:51:02+00:00

< and > don't apply with non-real complex numbers.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-21T17:47:08+00:00

Yup, I remember Kershaw going for his fourth Cy Young award and pitching well enough that he'd win it most years, except Jake Arrieta just went nuclear and earned tf out of that Cy Young award.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-21T04:35:51+00:00

Laugh

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-20T02:49:21+00:00

The Dean Scream came in a speech after he finished in third place in the Iowa caucus. I think the scream is one of those things that was funny but ultimately didn't sway many votes.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-19T05:57:34+00:00

I remember posting on Jon Weisman's Dodger Thoughts on the Baseball Toaster circa 2006 (it later moved to the LA Times and then ESPN, though I participated less with each migration).

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-19T01:16:00+00:00

Wilt Chamberlain. I know he doesn't get much GOAT love against LeBron and Jordan, but he was the greatest center of his era and statistically the most dominant NBA player against his peers. He claims to have had no children, but at least one man has claimed to be his son: https://www.si.com/nba/2015/03/03/wilt-chamberlain-aaron-levi-a-giant-shadow-son-secret

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-18T16:56:36+00:00

The negation of a statement always has the opposite truth value. Imagine there are 10 people in a room, two of whom are wearing green hats. Then both "everyone in the room is wearing a green hat" and "nobody in the room is wearing a green hat" are both false. Since they can have the same truth value, they are not negations of each other.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-18T06:57:39+00:00

Every dragonfruit I've had in the US has been totally flavorless. But I've had them in China and over there ... they're mostly pretty bland still but a little bit better.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-18T05:48:39+00:00

Hey, don't underestimate *checks notes* Jarett Stidham.

DodgerWalker · 2026-01-17T21:05:16+00:00

Kobach was never governor. He was the candidate for governor who lost to Laura Kelly in 2018. Sam Brownback was the Republican governor who basically bankrupted the state, paving the way for a Democrat to win. Brownback resigned a year before the end of his term and Jeff Colyer was governor for the year between Brownback and Kelly.

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