That raccoon could’ve ripped my face off.

Kara Swisher is the editor-at-large of Recode, host of the Recode Decode podcast, co-host of the Pivot podcast, and a contributor to the New York Times Opinion section, among other things. You can find her on Twitter @karaswisher.

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