Spring, spring
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Theo Francis
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Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.
Why do online services hate their existing customers? Go to any of them, and they have giant text and graphics inviting you to sign up and subscribe. You have to really look to find the tiny link that says, "Already a customer? Sign in here." What's so hard about two big buttons!?? "Sign up" and "Sign in"
This article is worth revisiting now and again: "mass layoffs are a failure of leadership" — discuss.
pafurijazTodd C. Miller has been maintaining the #sudo codebase for over 30 years. This is exactly one of those cases where an entire critical infrastructure is held together by the work of a single volunteer who apparently can’t find anyone willing to sponsor him for some financial support. #opensource #linux #foss #GNU
I've researched and written about closely held companies — it isn't easy. This is some remarkable and remarkably detailed reporting by my colleagues at The Wall Street Journal:
‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company / $500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips
Sorry about that! Try this one: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-contradict-u-s-account-of-minneapolis-shooting-by-federal-agents-fbe1e488?st=BuM21w
My coworkers at The Wall Street Journal have analyzed video of Alex Pretti's killing. The link should be a gift link — let me know if it doesn't work that way.
> Bystander footage appears to tell a different story. A frame-by-frame review by The Wall Street Journal shows a federal officer pulling a handgun away from Pretti. Less than a second later, an agent fires several rounds.
With CEO pay, it turns out that shooting for the moon doesn't guarantee you get off the ground... (it can sometimes still pay off, though!). My latest in The Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/business/ceo-pay-package-issues-f8fc7175?st=fQqwwF&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I just discovered one of the most personally satisfying uses of "AI" I've found yet, at least on an iPhone — decipher those inscrutable clothing-label icons:
1. Take a picture of a clothing label;
2. Open the photo in the Photos app on your phone;
3. Tap the circle-i "information" icon at the bottom;
4. One of the lines of information says "look up laundry care >" — tap it and get an interpretation of the symbols.