E Pluribus Unsure - the latest Due Data looks at recent polling around America's 250th, and it reads less like a birthday card and more like a mid-life inventory: pollvault.ai/newsletters/...

80 years! Incredible.

This morning @pollvault.bsky.social found a rare but well done survey that really raises the stakes on consumer confidence: The Meat Demand Monitor www.oklahomafarmreport.com/2026/07/08/d... (cc: @aedwardslevy.bsky.social )

Pride and Precision - this week's Due Data looks at a dozen-plus surveys on where America actually stands on LGBTQ rights. You may have seen some bad Gallup numbers on same-sex marriage, but there are a couple issues with how they do it... pollvault.ai/newsletters/...

This week's Due Data polling newsletter builds off the Trump China summit last week by looking at recent China polling: "Frenemy of the State " - 10 Polls that point to a Long March for Trump. pollvault.ai/newsletters/...

Just a bonkers stat from @dkthomp.bsky.social trends essay: Share of 12th graders who “ever go on dates” declined by 47% since the 1980s; the share who “visit friends weekly” has declined 22%; and the share who “go to monthly parties” is down 40% www.derekthompson.org/p/the-6-mega...

Best AI piece I've read recently: "The way we use [AI] matters more than whether we use [it]." Tool use: you know what the answer should look like, and the AI helps you get there faster. Cognitive outsourcing: you don't, and you ship whatever it gives you. ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

This NYT op-ed on our electricity use and the grid has some extremely compelling and well done visualizations. Worth your time (gift link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Check out how Andy's Pizza, a local DC shop, is using AI - there just isn't enough conversation around what AI can do for small businesses like Andy's, so this is really worth a read: www.axios.com/local/washin...

Yesterday's Due Data looked at 9 polls on motherhood, family, and the work of raising kids in 2026. The mothers doing the work are running on empty, and the policies they say would help are popular but not urgent enough to pass. pollvault.ai/newsletters/...

Poll Vault runs a team of AI agents every morning. Not one model with a prompt — a pipeline of specialized agents, each with a specific job. Here's what they do:

New Due Data: a love letter to polling B-sides. Nine specialized-population polls from one week — the surveys that score 5–6 on our relevance scale. Too niche for cable, too useful to skip. A tour 🧵

The Economist built an interactive model that estimates UK party-vote probabilities across 275,000 demographic combinations. A masterclass in making a cross-tab model legible: www.economist.com/interactive/...

This is an excellent and highly insightful data-driven look into how fatherhood has changed in the last two decades, aligning well with my own personal experience, and it's got brilliant charts as well: www.derekthompson.org/p/why-do-ric...

Poll Vault's AI agents ran this morning and found 23 new polls across 10 topics, including: - a TX poll w/Talarico ahead + 10pp jump in voters rating the economy as worse than a year ago (46% Feb > 56% now) - a Ragnar Research poll with Trump underwater in districts he won in 2024 pollvault.ai

Synthetic respondents are like teen sex: everyone's talking about it but nobody's doing it, and anyone that is actually doing it, is probably doing it (very) badly.

The feature I use most in my own product: the daily email digest. Every morning at 7am, new polls on my topics land in my inbox. Headline, key findings, source link. Takes 3 minutes to know what dropped overnight. I used to spend 45 minutes on that same scan and still miss things. pollvault.ai

Had it in my calendar to post about Due Data tday, but this incredibly kind post from Kevin serves as a much better alternative - thank you!

Sure there's polling on Iran, Medicare and Trump approval, but you really go to Poll Vault for the Arbor Day polls, right? 😂

Today's daily digest from Poll Vault, 9 new polls across 7 tracked topics, including a lot of new lows for Trump job approval:

The beauty of multimedia online polling is that you can do stuff like this:

Here’s some context for these new numbers generated from PollVault.AI

Pace of change in AI is insane - a panelist at the Miami Tech Summit: “what AI has gotten really good at in the last two weeks…”

In a few hours I'm on a panel at Miami Tech Summit called "Will democracy still be human as artificial intelligence rewires campaigns and our government?" Normally panel prep = an hour of Googling and half-remembered polls. This morning I tried something different. 🧵

Here's what Poll Vault has to say about today's redistricting vote in Virginia:

Poll Vault's AI agents ran this morning at 6am ET. Today they found: - 18 new polls across 10 topics - NBC News Poll on Trump & Iraq, Immigration - Not 1, but 3 (!) different polls on the CA Gov primary This happens every day, automatically. pollvault.ai

I built a SaaS product powered by AI agents that tracks public polling data. It's called Poll Vault and it's now in beta. Every morning a pipeline of agents search dozens of sources, reads the content, analyzes it, and delivers you new polls — organized by topic, scored by relevance. pollvault.ai

Who said AI can't do great things? fortune.com/2026/03/30/g...

Full survey is here! www.monmouth.edu/polling-inst...

My god - what a gem! Sharing this with my NJ group chat immediately.

This is an EXCELLENT piece that captures much of what I'm seeing and feeling in the AI space right now. Highly recommended that you read the whole thing: shumer.dev/something-bi...

Drake Maye shall never vanquish'd be until / Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill / Shall come against him

Solar panels & a boat in the driveway...is this a Harris or Trump neighborhood? 🗳️ Ballot Blocks #13 - 3/7 ❌🔶✅ Play at ballotblocks.com

Ballot Blocks 🗳️ Ballot Blocks #12 - 3/7 ❌🔶✅ Play at ballotblocks.com

Seems a little young to be teaching parameters, tokens, and quantization…

This chart, from Ben Fritz’s excellent WSJ article on Marvel today, tells a hell of a story…

More intermissions please! This is the (re)innovation that the movie theatre experience needs.

And we thought cell phones at the theater are bad…

Does it bug you as much as it bugs me that the shortest day of the year doesn't also have the latest sunrise and earliest sunset? I don't like that asymmetry...so I made a dataviz to help me better understand it and maybe see the underlying pattern better. 📊 #dataviz

Apparently every holiday season student volunteers at University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana run a 24-hour "Dial-A-Carol" hotline. A student volunteer will sing a carol of your choice! Try it - tonight is the last night! 217-332-1882

Dick Van Dyke is one of the all time greats, and it's absolutely beautiful to see him get his flowers in this video by Coldplay and Spike Jonze:

"The Earworm Eraser is a 40-second audio track designed specifically to squash earworms — a song on repeat circling around and around in your brain that can't easily be shaken off." All I want for Christmas is ... help getting this song out of my head: www.npr.org/2024/11/27/n...

“The Hike” by Drew Magary: This is what you would get if Guillermo Del Toro rewrote “The Wizard of Oz” with a middle aged male protagonist. An engaging breezy read that gave me some super weird dreams and got me wondering if I had successfully gotten myself off of my own “path”. 4/5⭐️

“The Kaiju Preservation Society” by John Scalzi. This book is pure bubble-gum sci-fi in the best possible way. So much fun. I’m sure the movie rights have already sold; what an incredible addition this would be to the Godzilla-verse! 4/5⭐️

This is SO good. Worked really beautifully on mobile too.

Finally tried the Spotify AI playlist generator. It did not do well. First ask? Songs that are like the Beatles that aren’t by the Beatles. It gave me a list entirely of Beatles songs. After revision I asked it to only give me songs recorded after 2000. It failed.

Also just finished “Nexus” by Yuval Harari. Not the tour de force of Sapiens or Homo Deus, but an important big picture look at AI. I have a ton of thoughts to put in longer form, but until then know this is a worthwhile “big think” book if you’re at all interested in our AI driven future. 4/5 ⭐️

Just finished The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce, a sweet reflection on life, death, and the potentially soft barrier between them wrapped up in a cozy haunted house story. 3/5 ⭐️

Two fantastic small music venues in DC - The Pocket and Rhizome - have been awarded a "Toolbox Grant" from the Live Music Society. Well deserved - congratulations! www.livemusicsociety.org/news/live-mu...

3 songs in and Father John Misty’s new album is EXCELLENT. Those strings on “Josh Tillman and the Accidental Dose”? <chefs kiss>