Adeptly assembled take here from @cwarzel.bsky.social. Been thinking about these themes lot as well. The reflexive, meme-ified cynicism in culture these days is startling. Fills me with sadness. Can probably have chicken egg argument about origins, but it’s a cycle worth breaking. A return to hope.

once my son woke me up to ask what a three dimensional hexagon was called. yes, please. ask me about the gay instead.

From his parents: "I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting."

Andor was cooking so unbelievably hard good grief

Grok is so much worse than you think.

Someone made a 2007 YouTube video and released it in 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmG...

"Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow." -- Becca Good, wife of Renee.

100pct correct. Empirically, we are as close to a consensus on this as we are likely to see on any topic. It's wild how pervasive the stigma and rhetoric remain.

This escalation of Risk-coded “hemispheric dominance” lines up with where elements of our culture - specifically business / venture capital culture - has been headed. It’s “blitzscaling” applied to geopolitics. (Which of course comes from the word “blitzkrieg”)

Eh… we’ll just place the poly market bet instead…

This is correct. Regardless of how you feel about the attack/ taking Maduro, there is already a legitimately elected government that is not Maduro. But because of today's actions, a future election could have a different outcome. So that's a no-go. Concretely, this is not about democracy.

Great line in this article: “My phone is my toy and my toil, the first object I touch upon waking, the spackle to my spare minutes, the inanimate partner in our shared lie, which is that it works for me and not the other way around.”

KD Lang tonight. youtu.be/IZ4ANwlDb58?...

“I work on government innovation” “Oh… so you’re like DOGE?” 🙄

As a society we must better explain why "eliminating information silos" is such a dangerous goal at the fed level. Some data sharing is good! But only in a privacy-preserving way, with individual consent. A significant engineering challenge that SV billionaires don't want to see completed.

The way I try to de-AI-ify my classes is that I emphasize at the beginning and throughout the semester that all we're doing is reading some interesting shit other humans have produced, talking about that shit, and writing about it. Humans have been benefitting from that process for centuries w/o AI.

New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.

Fantastic piece “digesting” a fantastic album. Weaves reflections on our collective consumption of slop and our consumption of god.

Who said people don't want to work in government anymore.... This will be exciting to follow/study!

Haute Hubris

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is. The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.

I forgot to mention this on here a couple of weeks ago, but I had an amazing time at iiiPoints Music festival - Paco y Ca7riel, Turnstile, Oklou, Bicep, MkGee… but best encore was laying my head down to sleep on Sat night… and I had super vivid dream @ekkoastral.bsky.social playing 🔥 closing set.

After all, look around: it's happening, it's happening, it's happening now

You can also catch @catherinebracy.com being interviewed by @mmasnick.bsky.social on latest episode of @techdirt.com podcast - www.techdirt.com/edition/podc...

So cool to see @catherinebracy.com on @thedailyshow.com. Very much enjoying her book “World Eaters” discussing how current state of venture capital shapes entrepreneurship / incentives very specific outcomes in society. Hard hitting, but nuanced takes. youtu.be/gD-4p1etrF0?...

Something peaceful in this @wired.com piece by @ftrain.bsky.social about what happens after AI bubble bursts. Nerds nerding out again in messiness of the aftermath. Reminder that the time after the dot com bust felt better in many ways than the fever dreams before it. www.wired.com/story/ai-nor...

Learned today that my friend @hectormujicafl.bsky.social launched his campaign for US Senate. A wonderful human - smart, kjnd, tech savvy and a long track record of service. Proud of him for stepping up. (And welcome to Bluesky)

If Garbage can't really afford to tour any more, and are warning that smaller bands REALLY can't... Where is the music industry gonna go?

"This is how plutocracy uses fascism: as a pressure valve that redirects working-class rage away from economic structures and toward cultural and ethnic scapegoats. As long as people are angry at immigrants rather than billionaires, the extraction can continue." Good, clear read at link below👇

Openly or closeted gay teens in the last three years have seen our governor make it clear that exposure to novels w/gay characters will infect straight readers w/the gay plague; now imagine a college-aged adult spots an Instagram reel in which state employees destroy crosswalks. wp.me/pzXeC-kvL

Political mailers are generally bottom-feeding business… but holy fuck, Faschy… Pay attention, peeps. We’re fully in the brazen era.

This album is doing weird shit to my brain. Impeccable production juxtaposed against some feral composition. Both retro and most definitely of the times.

Lilith Fair doc on Hulu was so good. Time capsule nostalgia but also relevant to the moment.

Loved the article. Adding the book to the queue. Relevant reflections as we think about current tech affecting musicians… “These examples illustrate not only how programmed beats can be complementary to traditional percussion, but how technology can grow rather than shrink the music industry.”

A year in, Coffee and Beats celebrated in Wynwood, redefining how people come together through music.

Exactly this

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

co-sign.

Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains Rest in power Shannon Hoon

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

I was introduced to @ekkoastral.bsky.social when they opened up for @idlesband.bsky.social in Ft Laud. 🤯 show all around. I bought this record and you should too. For my local gov / civic-minded peeps. Lead vocalist @jael.bsky.social is also an incredibly dedicated climate journalist. Hard follow.

Our 3yo had like a hundred fuckin questions about the rules & logistics & moral implications of how mogwais become gremlins, but ZERO questions about "sometimes people change from girl to boy" or "sometimes boys marry other boys" or whatever, kids dgaf, the problem has ALWAYS been bigot ass parents

Team of Al Jazeera journalists killed in targeted attack. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The promise of this site has always been algorithmic control — better ability to manage feeds. Curious if anyone’s working on way to make this prompt driven. Would be great to show up here & dynamically shift feed w/ plain language. @bsky.app even wired for that possibility? @mmasnick.bsky.social

If there's one absolutely plausible use for large AI models, it'd be finding options for equitable redistricting boundaries. But at least we can generate animated videos out our photos we took with our phones that also record video when we want.

I worked at a non-profit that delivers medically tailored food to people with chronic illness and there were two chefs working there on loan from Matt and Trey (and paid by them) because they wanted to keep paying their staff while they worked all that permit stuff out. Pretty generous.

The municipal government wonk in me can’t wait to watch the documentary about Matt and Trey buying the real casa Bonita and dealing with shit ton of permitting issues.