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Lydia Polgreen

@lpolgreen
21 posts
2026-02-02
This is true. A decent delivery of Chinese or Indian food in for two people in NYC is basically a couple of meals for two or three days for around $80. Even better value if you pick it up yourself.
2026-02-02 View on X
New York Times

How food delivery is reshaping US mealtimes, as some users spend thousands; NRA data shows nearly 75% of 2024 restaurant orders were not eaten in a restaurant

Almost three of every four restaurant orders in the U.S. weren't eaten in a restaurant, according to recent data.

2025-05-08
This kind of government advocacy for major American companies as a party of trade/diplomacy is very old - there's a reason US embassies have commercial officers, and this keeps K Street in Gucci loafers. But given Musk's individual role here takes it to another level.
2025-05-08 View on X
Washington Post

Internal messages show how during trade negotiations, the US State Department pushed nations facing tariffs to clear regulatory hurdles for SpaceX's Starlink

Two plus two equals four.  There are twenty-four hours in a day. Gustaf Kilander / The Independent : US is pushing Starlink on nations facing tariffs as Musk stands to benefit from...

2024-11-13
I think we will look back on the marriage of mobile phones and legal gambling as one of the most tragic mistakes of the 21st century. The ruin will be endless.
2024-11-13 View on X
Bloomberg

How gambling apps are ravaging Brazil in the wake of legalization; Nubank reassured investors in September 2024 that it had limited exposure to troubled bettors

The boom shocked policy makers who are now scrambling to control it  —  At the headquarters of the United Nations … X: @lucas_shaw , @lpolgreen , @_night_brain__ , @ezraklein , @ot...

2024-03-29
Call me crazy but I find it impossible to support the notion of anyone going to prison for 25 years, especially for a non violent crime.  I don't care who the perpetrator is.
2024-03-29 View on X
Reuters

A US judge sentences Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for stealing from users of his now-bankrupt FTX crypto exchange and orders him to forfeit $11B+

Past 6 pm on December 29 … Matthew Russell Lee / Matthew Russell Lee's Newsletter : Aftermath: SBF Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison After Coin Flip and Presidential Aspirations Cite...

2024-01-25
This is an intriguing and exciting choice!  Maher is an impressive and creative leader.
2024-01-25 View on X
TechCrunch

Web Summit CEO Katherine Maher, who was hastily appointed at the end of October 2023 to replace Paddy Cosgrave, plans to step down on March 1 to join NPR as CEO

2022-02-04
One tech stock is not like the others today... https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-04 View on X
CNBC

Amazon breaks out advertising services revenue for the first time: $9.7B for Q4, up 32% YoY, and $31.2B for FY 2021; subscription services grew 15% to $8.1B

arguably a coop fee/tax on 3rd party merchants who sell on Amazon — accounted for a third of all revenue. And by itself ads is a $30B/yr business $amzn https://twitter.com/... Matt...

One tech stock is not like the others today... https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-04 View on X
Amazon

Amazon reports Q4 revenue up 9% YoY to $137.4B, net income up 98% to $14.3B, AWS revenue up 40% to $17.8B, and FY 2021 revenue up 22% to $469.8B; stock up 10%+

SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE) February 3, 2022—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2021.

2022-02-02
Honestly, people. The choice isn't between Wordle as it exists today and NYT Wordle. It is between no Wordle and NYT Wordle, or even worse, a much crummier acquirer.
2022-02-02 View on X
The New York Times Company

The New York Times acquires Wordle, the simple word game that has amassed “millions of daily players”, for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures”

Thoughts for the day  —  I'm not a Wordle guy.  It's not that I don't like puzzles, I just missed it. Tweets: Josh Wardle / @powerlanguish : An update on Wordle https://twitter.com...

2022-02-01
Creator of Wordle: I can't keep running this thing; I love the NYT puzzle peeps, they inspired me to make this thing you love, so I sold it to them! Twitter: How dare you give this thing we love a sustaining home!
2022-02-01 View on X
The New York Times Company

The New York Times acquires Wordle, the simple word game that has amassed “millions of daily players”, for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures”

Wordle, Josh Wardle's stimulating and wildly popular daily word game, is joining The New York Times's portfolio of original …

Honestly, people. The choice isn't between Wordle as it exists today and NYT Wordle. It is between no Wordle and NYT Wordle, or even worse, a much crummier acquirer.
2022-02-01 View on X
The New York Times Company

The New York Times acquires Wordle, the simple word game that has amassed “millions of daily players”, for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures”

Wordle, Josh Wardle's stimulating and wildly popular daily word game, is joining The New York Times's portfolio of original …

2022-01-31
I'm old enough to remember what happened the last time we did this. Kozmo anyone? https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-31 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A look at the fight between six rapid grocery delivery startups in NYC, which have raised $5.5B+ since 2020; sources say some are losing $20/order on average

2021-10-20
My money is on a made up word like Accenture https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-20 View on X
The Verge

Source: Facebook is planning to change its company name to reflect its focus on the metaverse as soon as next week at Connect, its annual AR/VR conference

Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse  —  Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect …

2021-10-04
There are two big media stories playing out right now: the Facebook whistleblower and the Ozy saga. The latter is way less important than the former, but both speak to a broken information ecosystem cut adrift by advertisers who have abandoned news. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2021-10-04 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Ex-Facebook PM Frances Haugen comes forward as the key source behind WSJ's Facebook Files, saying she became alarmed by how profits came before public safety

The former Facebook employee says her goal is to help prompt change at the social-media giant  —  The former Facebook Inc. employee …

There are two big media stories playing out right now: the Facebook whistleblower and the Ozy saga. The latter is way less important than the former, but both speak to a broken information ecosystem cut adrift by advertisers who have abandoned news. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2021-10-04 View on X
CBS News

In a 60 Minutes interview, WSJ's Facebook Files whistleblower says Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, misinformation, and more

Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, “conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook.”

2021-09-14
The @wsj got its hands on the biggest trove of documents ever leaked from Facebook. What they show will shock you. Our teams have been hard at work to tell you what they found. Here's the first episode of the Facebook Files. https://open.spotify.com/...
2021-09-14 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Internal docs: Facebook's own research shows Instagram is harmful to a sizeable percentage of users, especially teen girls, but it has taken few remedial steps

Its own in-depth research shows a significant teen mental-health issue that Facebook plays down in public

The @wsj got its hands on the biggest trove of documents ever leaked from Facebook. What they show will shock you. Our teams have been hard at work to tell you what they found. Here's the first episode of the Facebook Files. https://open.spotify.com/...
2021-09-14 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Internal Facebook documents detail XCheck, a program that shields VIP users from normal content enforcement policies, which included over 5.8M users in 2020

2020-10-18
This is an outrage. https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-18 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources describe how Mark Zuckerberg, who was once uninterested in politics, transformed himself into an active political operator during the Trump era

Facebook's chief, once uninterested, has transformed himself into an active political operator in the Trump era

2020-10-17
This is an outrage. https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources describe how Mark Zuckerberg, who was once uninterested in politics, transformed himself into an active political operator during the Trump era

with sign-off from Zuckerberg himself—retooled their algorithm to throttle traffic to high-value progressive news orgs, @MotherJones IN PARTICULAR https://www.wsj.com/... https://t...

2020-09-01
What's striking here is how convenient a boogeyman Rupert Murdoch is for the platforms in this fight. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
2020-09-01 View on X
New York Times

Facebook warns it will block Australian users and news organizations from sharing news stories on Facebook and Instagram if the ACCC's proposal passes

The move, a response to pressure to pay publishers when their stories are posted on the social network, could add to internet silos springing up around the world.

2020-07-15
Fascinating piece that definitely mirrors my experience leading a news organization. https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-15 View on X
Digiday

Slack, introduced to newsrooms to boost efficiency, is now serving another purpose: letting journalists organize and criticize, forcing management to respond

On the evening of June 6, New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet entered the chat.  —  Times employees were in open revolt following … Tweets: @jkeefe , @loudmouthjulia , @dcb...