If a bipartisan coalition of legislators installed some Hue lights and a Nest in the Capitol building, would that be enough to make it a ‘Smart House’ … of Representatives? Ha. It’s funny because compromise is dead and we’re all so screwed.

This week: eight of nine Supreme Court justices make it through busy season, Carlos gets peer pressured into connecting his front door to the Internet, and Ryan says “I do” to Elon Musk. 🚗.

Links:

• Trump Gets Chance to Influence American Life for Generations Through Supreme Court Pick - The New York Times
• Newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Unseats Incumbent Democrat Joe Crowley in New York Primary - WSJ
• Online Retailers Can Be Forced to Collect Tax, High Court Rules - Bloomberg
• Silicon Valley's upside from Supreme Court decision on American Express - Axios
• Tesla opens Model 3 orders to more people and trims prices
• Bozoma Saint John is leaving Uber for Endeavor - Recode
• Lyft Nears Acquisition of Motivate, U.S. Bike-Share Leader — The Information
• Google Maps removes Uber integration | Ars Technica
• Uber wins right to keep operating in London
• Santa Barbara City impounds scooter share service on its first weekend - KEYT
• Scoop: How Lime is pitching its scooter biz to investors - Axios
• OmniFocus 3 for Mac to Ship in September - The Omni Group
• Auto-Unlock: How It Works on August Smart Lock | August Home Blog
• Amazon Fire TV Cube review: a smarter streaming box - The Verge
• Only 6% of smart speaker owners using them to control smart home devices | 9to5Mac
• Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro - Apple Support
• Apple admits its computers are broken | The Outline
• Why Apple’s AirPower Wireless Charger Is Taking So Long to Make - Bloomberg
• Apple to Unveil High-End AirPods, Over-Ear Headphones For 2019 - Bloomberg
• AMC Theatres Dolby Cinema
• The Unmade Podcast

Legend has it, the original WALL-E screenplay was actually about the development of the next generation Mac Pro but was scrapped when it didn’t test well with the pro workflows team. This week, we go to the movies and stack rank all the Pixar films.

Also: AMC pulls a MoviePass, ESPN’s AM radio aesthetic, and the donkey that couldn’t find its way out of the barn because it was too busy yelling at Maggie Haberman. 📽.

Links:

• 'Boston Globe' Runs Fake Front Page Detailing A Donald Trump World : The Two-Way : NPR
• Every Pixar Movie, Ranked - The Ringer
• Ryan's and Carlos's Pixar Movie Rankings
• Sonos and Ikea show us possible designs for their budget speaker range | 9to5Mac
• Highlights from the Vergecast interview with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence - The Verge
• AMC is launching MoviePass-like subscription service with some great perks - The Verge
• Disney Sweetens Fox Offer to $71 Billion, Outbidding Comcast - Bloomberg
• Exclusive: Microsoft takes aim at Amazon with push for checkout-free retail | Reuters
• Google Podcasts launches for Android with personalized recommendations - The Verge
• Marketers Add More Podcasts to the Mix - WSJ
• Klein Tools 25 ft. Steel Depthfinder Fish Tape-56005 - The Home Depot
• Amazon.com : Oral B Genius Pro 8000 Electronic Power Rechargeable Battery Electric Toothbrush with Bluetooth Connectivity Powered by Braun, Black : Beauty

Steal a pod on the road, steal a Doritos Locos Taco. This week: public/private pizza pothole partnerships, the return of Still or Sparkling, and a tale of two Amazon retail concepts.

Re: last week's absence. We were trying out App Limits and locked ourselves out of Skype. Whoops. 🤷‍♂️.

Links:

• Domino’s Offers to Fix Potholes in Your Neighborhood So Carry-Out Pizzas Get Home Safely – Adweek
• ಠ_ಠ on Twitter: "while the world begrudgingly comes to accept scooters as a part of city life — including my brutus of a colleague @kevinroose — i will remain the lone holdout and say they are an awful urban blight, birthed into existence by some unholy venture mammon https://t.co/dcMVjwZSvI"
• Scooter startup Bird is seeking a $2 billion valuation - Axios
• ಠ_ಠ on Twitter: "i give up https://t.co/93aunTdZVE"
• Uber to Spend Up to $500 Million on Ad Campaign — The Information
• Bryan Colangelo Resigns From 76ers After Twitter Scandal - WSJ
• AT&T Wins Approval for $85.4 Billion Time Warner Deal in Defeat for Justice Dept. - The New York Times
• The Beam is Sonos’ ambitious attempt to win the living room - The Verge
• Parks and Rec: I Know More Than You
• Shortcuts: A New Vision for Siri and iOS Automation – MacStories
• Pocket Casts gives details on watchOS 5 capabilities for podcasting apps | 9to5Mac
• August Smart Lock Pro + Connect | Control your door from anywhere.

Ryan has low expectations for WWDC, Carlos has low expectations of Disney, and Larry Bird has low expectations of scooter regulatory compliance. This week: Basketball Twitter®, grilled cheese, and assigning a special counsel to french fries. 🏀.

Links:

• 9 French Fry Styles, Ranked - The New York Times
• The Fourth Estate: Seasons, Episodes, Cast, Characters - Official Series Site | SHOWTIME
• The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account - The Ringer
• Bird Races to Become the First Scooter Unicorn - Bloomberg
• Scooter Companies Have Two Weeks to Get Off the Streets of San Francisco - Motherboard
• ‘Alex Inc’ Canceled by ABC After One Season – Variety
• ‘Solo’ Sputters at Box Office, Raising Worries of ‘Star Wars’ Fatigue - The New York Times
• Starbucks is beating Apple and Google in mobile payments — Quartz
• Fact Sheet: How to Pay at Starbucks | Starbucks Newsroom
• Tesla Model S in Autopilot collides with police SUV
• Tesla settles with vehicle owners over delayed Autopilot updates - The Verge
• 53 Percent of Online HBO Subscriptions Sold via Amazon: Report – Variety
• ÄPPLARÖ Table + 6 reclining chairs, outdoor - Äpplarö brown stained - IKEA
• andrew kaczynski🤔 on Twitter: "Ted Cruz’s attendance has personally caused two losses for Houston teams… "
• Samsung Portable SSD T5 | Samsung External Storage | Samsung Semiconductor Global Website

Elon Musk has voiced concerns about the way Tesla has been covered in the media recently, questioning the legitimacy of the media’s ethics and connection with the truth. Here’s some of that inconvenient reporting from the past year.

We’re living in a post-facts world where the rich try to define what’s true. Maybe blindly cheering on the bro who launched his sports car into space might not have been the best idea.

This week: novelty entrees from 1990s family restaurants, slacking off, and Ryan considers converting his spare bedroom into a WeWork style ad-hoc collaboration space. 🤝.

Links:

• Spacious
• I want my data back, data back, data back: Chili’s hit by data breach - The Washington Post
• Blooming onion - Wikipedia
• The East Cut : The East Cut
• Wells Fargo - Re-Established 2018
• Net neutrality still faces an uphill battle in Congress
• Who Charges Those Electric Bird Scooters? - The Atlantic
• Coming to Netflix: The Obamas Sign Deal to Produce Shows - The New York Times
• Netflix's re-edit of ‘Arrested Development’ season 4 arrives May 4th
• Netflix Content Chief: 85% of New Spending Is on Originals – Variety
• Elon Musk Tweet Storm Blames Big Oil for Negative Tesla Reports - Bloomberg
• 1Password for Mac gets its first paid upgrade in five years - The Verge
• How 2 Million People Loved MoviePass Nearly to Death - Bloomberg
• The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now. Enjoy It While You Can. - The New York Times
• Finally, a Whole Home WiFi System That Works | eero
• Lynda: Online Courses, Classes, Training, Tutorials

When the algae blooms, sometimes you just have to do the show standing up. This week: counting the rings on your suitcase, IKEA’s new butterfly switch meatballs, and recovering sunken treasure in the San Francisco Bay. 🛴.

Links:

• Away Luggage's Latest 'Star Wars' Collaboration Is Perfect for Kids - Condé Nast Traveler
• Lime is raising up to $500 million as e-scooter wars heat up - Axios
• Amazon will open checkout-free stores in Chicago and San Francisco
• How to Buy Patio Furniture (And Sets We Like for Under $800): Reviews by Wirecutter | A New York Times Company
• Target’s Restock next-day delivery service goes nationwide
• Amazon Prime members to get new discounts at Whole Foods | Ars Technica
• TiVo adds Alexa voice control to its DVRs | TechCrunch
• Apple hit with class action suit over MacBook, MacBook Pro butterfly switch keyboard failures
• How to clean the keyboard of your MacBook or MacBook Pro - Apple Support
• THE TOP 50 FAST FOOD ITEMS - THE RINGER
• The Home Depot on the App Store
• Inside Trader Joe's - a Podcast | Trader Joe's

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a brand marketing and IP licensing deal was forged between a direct-to-consumer luggage startup and mouse themed mega-corporation. The UPS driver was their only hope. This week: speculation on when LeBron will get tired of all the winning, grabbing a mimosa at the multiplex, and we pour one out for the late Ford Fiesta. 🚗.

Links:

• NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Has a Game Plan
• Star Wars x Away
• Maker of smart luggage goes out of business after airlines ban bags with built-in batteries
• PSA: You can now watch Disney & Marvel films in 4K HDR on the Apple TV with Vudu | 9to5Mac
• Addressing Your Concerns | Shifty Jelly's blog of mystery
• First TiVo Hydra Feature Update Rolling Out | Zatz Not Funny!
• With ‘The Weekly,’ The New York Times Gets Serious About TV - The New York Times
• Subscription hell | TechCrunch
• Ford will stop selling most of its cars in North America
• Sonos Prepares for IPO as Soon as June - WSJ
• Amazon Passes 100M Subscribers
• Amazon Prime fee is increasing from $99 to $119 - Recode
• Amazon Launches Own Pet Product Brand, Wag; Starts With Food - Bloomberg
• Amazon will now deliver packages to the trunk of your car - The Verge
• Amazon’s new ‘Alexa Blueprints’ let anyone create custom Alexa skills and responses | TechCrunch
• HDX Homeowners Tool Set (76-Pieces)-H76HOS - The Home Depot
• Robot or Not? - a podcast from The Incomparable

More cardboard boxes, more weekends spent in a crawl space — that's the power of Home Depot. This week: Pocket Casts gets acquired for an undisclosed number of tote bags, some well placed little birdies, and the ketchup Rorschach test for food. 🏡.

Links:

• Shake Shack stakes out its 1st San Francisco location, in Cow Hollow - SFGate
• Nokia to sell its health division to Eric Carreel, co-founder of Withings, after talks with Nest and more | TechCrunch
• Apple officially discontinues AirPort router line, no plans for future hardware | 9to5Mac
• Daring Fireball: Scuttlebutt Regarding Apple’s Cross-Platform UI Project
• Senate Democrats plan to force vote on net neutrality May 9th
• Samsung Sees Slow Demand for OLEDs Used for Apple's iPhone X - Bloomberg
• Tim Cook downplays reports of slowing iPhone X demand, calls it a ‘beloved’ product | 9to5Mac
• Apple posts record Q2 profit: charts, live tweets - Six Colors
• Valve acquires Firewatch developer, Campo Santo - Polygon
• Oculus Go review: Finally, cheap and easy VR for everyone
• Shortcut from This American Life
• Popular podcast player Pocket Casts purchased by group including NPR and ‘This American Life’ | 9to5Mac
• Standard Box - Moving Boxes - Moving Supplies - The Home Depot
• Away: First class luggage at a coach price
• Amazon.com: Eagle Creek Pack It Specter Compression Cube Set , White/Strobe, 2pc Set: Clothing
• Amazon.com | Eagle Creek Pack-It Specter Sac Set, Ebony | Packing Organizers

We wanted you to hear this straight from us before someone goes and leaks it to Bloomberg News. Okay. Ready? Opening up this wall would really brighten up your ranch style home!

This week: Bird gets its wings clipped by the city, GOAT iPhone Power Rankings presented by FanDuel, and we try our hand at being eccentric billionaires — minus the billions. 💸.

Links:

• Shohei Ohtani Stats, News, Pictures, Bio, Videos - Los Angeles Angels - ESPN
• 2018 MLB Regular Season Standings Major League Baseball
• Nate Silver on Twitter: "Some personal news… FiveThirtyEight is leaving ESPN… but not going very far. Our new home is ABC News! We're super excited to work with @ABC and combine our strengths with theirs as we tackle the 2018 and 2020 elections and other news stories."
• Electric scooter permits will be required in San Francisco | TechCrunch
• ಠ_ಠ on Twitter: "uber playbook! smart… "
• Plus | Ford GoBike
• Tesla booted from investigation into fatal Autopilot crash - The Verge
• How Domino's Pizza Drove a 90x Increase in Stock Value by Acting Like a Tech Startup
• Daring Fireball: When the Scoops Run Dry
• In a Leaked Memo, Apple Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information - Bloomberg
• Daring Fireball: Company-Wide Apple Memo on ‘The Impact of Leaks’ Leaks
• Eric Newcomer on Twitter: "Daring Fireball can't get its story straight. One second Grubster is complaining that Gurman doesn't get enough scoops. The next he's accusing him of covering up the fact that he's breaking all the news. Only thru-line in Gruber's writing is: what would Apple want me to think?"
• Amazon store coming to Berkeley's Fourth Street shopping district — Berkeleyside
• Police across the US are buying an affordable iPhone cracker
• Matthew Green on Twitter: "Guide to iOS estimated passcode cracking times (assumes random decimal passcode + an exploit that breaks SEP throttling): 4 digits: ~13min worst (~6.5avg) 6 digits: ~22.2hrs worst (~11.1avg) 8 digits: ~92.5days worst (~46avg) 10 digits: ~9259days worst (~4629avg)"
• Mapping Apple’s vast universe of space gray shades | 9to5Mac
• Google reportedly interested in acquiring Nokia’s Health (formerly Withings) division | 9to5Google
• Wirecutter | A New York Times Company
• charge stream pad+ 10W of wireless power for fast-charging speeds to Qi-enabled smartphones on contact

The American dream is alive and well — turns out it was just hiding in Waco, Texas.

This week: Congress asks if Facebook is the worst house on the best block, Uber bets on e-bikes adding some curb appeal, and Apple's professional product line as the ultimate metaphorical fixer upper. 👷🏻‍♀️.

Links:

• The Magnolia Story: Chip Gaines, Joanna Gaines, Mark Dagostino: 9780718079185: Amazon.com: Books
• BMW's new subscription service launches as pilot in Nashville - Autoblog
• Uber acquires bike-share startup JUMP | TechCrunch
• Moving Forward Together with Cities | Uber Newsroom
• Pandora's CEO is doubling down on podcasts
• Spotify’s first hardware device might be this music player for your car - The Verge
• Instagram launches rumored Focus feature, like Portrait Mode for iPhone 6s and later | 9to5Mac
• Mark Zuckerberg testimony: Congress doesn’t know how Facebook works - Recode
• Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro will be shaped by workflows | TechCrunch
• Postmates, DoorDash discussed a merger to fend off Uber, GrubHub, Amazon - Recode
• Amazon now sells more than 70 of its own private-label brands - Recode
• Nice! Roasted Whole Cashews with Sea Salt | Walgreens
• Amazon spent nearly $23 billion on R&D last year - Recode
• The NBA playoff bracket and schedule - Business Insider
• Sistema® Food Storage Bento Box - 59.5oz : Target