super interesting & important

I thought this moment during the Ezra Klein-Chris Hayes podcast was particularly profound www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

A recent @nytimes.com analysis found that over the last three presidential elections "Republicans are overwhelmingly making gains in working-class counties. Democrats are improving almost exclusively in wealthier areas." Our research shows similar patterns among donors. 🧵 cup.org/4cfm0Az

“Half of Americans are broke from healthcare… but maybe AI can make healthcare cheaper and more accessible to all, and therefore at least people won’t be saddled w/ as much healthcare debt” via @dens.nyc teendrama.substack.com/p/teendrama-...

Don’t let our youth go to waste

What a bio

"the teens that appear least impacted by the mental health crisis tend to be religious, conservative, and live in less individualistic cultures" www.afterbabel.com/p/community-...

The 2 guests on Colbert: Bernie Sanders & Pavement: Caring & not caring: Dug-in & ambivalence: 60s & 90s: Real & real: Not cool & too cool

"Beyond Bob..abundance of these imaginative possibilities..dont just need to 'join'..need to imagine diff ways of being when we show up..dont just need to 'start clubs'..need to imagine new approaches to organizing &gathering" via @petedavis.bsky.social connectivetissue.substack.com/p/beyond-bob...

"The good life had to happen in real life. And with that realization, small groups of Americans across the country have begun to sow the seeds of community renewal" www.afterbabel.com/p/new-americ... via @eli.bsky.social @petedavis.bsky.social

yesterday: chatgpt > google today: chatgpt > apple notes

Use AI only to be more human, beware AI eating your humanity

The New News - I’ve got news alerts/notifs off so this is how I got the breaking news - in my AirPod from @dens.nyc

REMINDER: They turn us against each other so that we won’t notice they are robbing us blind.

eww

i'm actually starting to offload more & more of my *thinking* - like actual thinking (ideas, decisions, thinking thru things, etc)

smart

Remember when breathless exciting tech demos were about something exciting you wanted that took your breath away? What the hell is this youtu.be/1x8tACHbyjg?...

machines thinking like humans humans thinking like machines

“Steve once told a group of students, ‘You appear, have a chance to blaze in the sky, then you disappear.’” Laurene Powell Jobs

is that nonprofit fundraising team costing more than they raise?

Talk to people more than ai

Love this @jasonfried.bsky.social - just go build

The Reagan Revolution is still promising to deliver... but for who? Ain’t that America. youtu.be/qOfkpu6749w?...

My current guess: I “talk” with ai 1-2 hrs/day. I talk with people 7-8 hrs/day. (Other 7-9 hrs/day: solo/media/solo-work/not-talking/etc) Will track over time. You?

“this particular moment in history”

Talk to people more than ai (note to self)

sam lessin

quirky climate crisis (odd font-picker on squarespace)

coachella via @reggiewatts.bsky.social "just vibes curated for influencer culture. You’ll catch glimpses of something real — an artist pouring their heart out on stage, a sudden moment of connection — but..fleeting..Easily lost in..the brand activations, the overpriced everything"

AI isn't "hard at work" - that's what humans do. AI is machine that does things for us. #defendIRL

I told someone they won't load/unload the dishwasher in 2032, a robot will do it. They said they're uncomfortable w/ a "slave". Better for robots not to be human-like & AIs not to be conversational. I want AIs/robots to do stuff for me, not be human-like. My GE dishwasher is a machine, not a slave

via forerunner

"host summit of best ethicists, technologists?" "more interested in what our 100Ms users want as a whole..historically..small elite summits..[vs] talk to everybody on Earth..learn collective value pref..rather than..bunch of people..blessed by society" ha FU to ted www.youtube.com/live/5MWT_do...

Note the variety of jobs. How/where else do people connect with people different than them? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/s...

Steve Jobs 1983 "Then an interesting thing happened. There were 20 people interested in volleyball...That’s exactly what’s going to happen as we start to tie these things [computers] together: they’re going to facilitate communication & facilitate bringing people together book.stevejobsarchive.com

Prepper < Builder www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

Remember the joy of the 2024 Democratic National Convention. The joy felt like a mass movement but was actually an insular bubble that was out of touch with the mainstream. The same bubble is now showing up to protest and not seeing the bubble.

unionize coworkers to fiercely embody the soul of the company, do what it takes to make the company more & more successful, and demand you get paid more & more

We don't fear machines thinking like humans; we fear humans thinking like machines.