Simulacra from #TaylorSwift’s postmodern #ErasTour in #Toronto. Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill, eat your heart out! 😳

When your brief healthy food campaign only reaches Whole Foods shoppers, while billions are binging on fries 🍟💀 https://twitter.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1854056450051432853

Best election analysis tonight courtesy @TheOnion - props to old friend and new owner @jeffiel :-) #GoBlue https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1853968686702321828

So excited for @KallMorris's launch today aboard the @SpaceX CRS-31 mission to the International @Space_Station - a long way from #Marquette, Michigan! #robotics #spacetech #angelinvestor

Fear, loathing, and embezzlement on the Trump campaign trail! 😵 “Only the best people…” ☕️💀 https://twitter.com/TimAlberta/status/1852690274767581245

#DOOMSDAY in Michigan #MFDOOMFOREVER

Halloween Hellbomb!!! 🎃 💣 Congrats Kanaan & Dalton Dern on going pro for Zero & Heroin!🤘#skatetwitter https://twitter.com/vidsthatgohard/status/1851647516254621766

Devil’s Night, in #Detroit 💀🔥 #MFDOOM https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/1851760745245241506

Let’s #GoBlue #AnnArbor!!! #Vote early: https://www.a2gov.org/departments/city-clerk/Elections/Pages/Early-Voting.aspx https://twitter.com/KamalaHQ/status/1851033256592113759

‘Ello Guv’nors! - MF DUG & the #BlueWall in #Ypsi #Michigan

My 2nd time watching #Eno, the 1st generative feature film that is different every time; also met legendary director @gary_hustwit (Helvetica, Rams) in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Palmer House! #AnnArbor

Train Spot. See Spot Run. Oh Spot, No!!! 🤖🐕😵 Congrats to @michigan_AI on another excellent symposium - and apologies to @newindustrials for the robot abuse ✌️

My dog won’t hunt but he gets big air https://twitter.com/PolarBarrett/status/1844430956645712102

#Detroit Lincoln Street FTW 🤣 https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/10/10/naked-donald-trump-sculpture-detroit-art/75605209007/ https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1844460494490419420

A bit of #AnnArbor / #Ypsi in #Bangalore - @ArborBrewIndia, #India’s first American-style craft brewery :-) cc: @ArborBrewingCo

What a #MITechWeek! Started out hosting #Baltimore foundation & startup ecosystem leaders to share their #equitech & #TechHubs journey with major foundations in #Detroit #CharmCity 🤝 #MotorCity

#Baltimore’s public / private / philanthropic partnerships are incredible. http://LivingClassrooms.org, http://ReBUILDMetro.com, Bisciotti family’s http://blackbirdlab.org, @GBCorg’s Precision Medicine Tech Hub w/@upsurgebmore, @JohnsHopkins, & 40+ others. Thank you @bmorehomecoming!

“Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another.” Last year in Dubai, I met #NetworkState digital nomads, crypto-solarpunks, crypto citizens, and these Galt’s Gulch tech secessionists under the aegis of the Honduran military (!) https://twitter.com/GarrisonLovely/status/1831104024612896795

Come to my talk on raising smart money (and managing it smartly) Weds at #MITechWeek! 👐💸 #Detroit #startups https://twitter.com/MITechWeek/status/1840801190453375240

Honored to keynote @mhacks 11 years after @davefontenot, @jumploops, et al. fomented a global movement of student hackers! A legacy of creativity, collaboration, and community… started in #Michigan! https://twitter.com/davefontenot/status/1840516425473237243

#Baltimore on the rise - congrats to @EcoMapTech & @JHTechVentures on their inaugural #SuperConnect & Innovation Summits! Excited to host @upsurgebmore @BMoreHomecoming in #Detroit next week!

Excited for Kevin Choksi and @WorkForceSW on becoming #Michigan’s 8th unicorn, pending their $1.2 billion acquisition by @ADP! https://seekingalpha.com/news/4153507-adp-set-to-buy-workforce-software-for-12b-report

In #Atlanta for @familygiving nat’l forum with @pauljudge, on Mayor Dickens’ committee - surprised to learn their city budget is the same as #Detroit’s ($2.7B) - yet their GDP is nearly double!! #ncfpforum

Proud to support @UMWallaceHouse with our $1 million gift to help strengthen local news ecosystems, and defend against misinformation & unaccountable leadership. Grateful for @lclemetson & team, and all the Knight-Wallace fellows! https://twitter.com/SarahRahal_/status/1833934232466698605

#Michigan: dead last in venture capital investment per capita, per @MalloryMcMorrow, chair of MI Senate’s Economic & Community Development committee

And @sama joining us next week :-) #GoBlue 〽️ https://twitter.com/nathanbenaich/status/1831923471355699462

In granite, for our fallen soldier. Big ups to beardedcheetah & #Ypsi’s Prospect DIY crew, RIP Dan ❤️‍🩹

Startup communities must be led by entrepreneurs. Proud to be speaking at the inaugural #SuperConnect summit in #Baltimore for startup ecosystem builders - and joining @JHTechVentures inaugural tech summit the next day! https://twitter.com/EcoMapTech/status/1824477141792096261

“Ancestral love moving us forward” - remembering #Cleveland / #Oakland’s Jen Angel, founder of @Allied_Media, at the grand opening of #Detroit’s http://thelovebuilding.org ❤️‍🩹 #CoreCity

Manager mode: Ship it🫡 Founder mode: Send it 🤙

.@Acrisure is our 7th #Michigan unicorn (#GrandRapids), 2nd PE rollup to achieve billions in revenue pre-IPO, and 2nd CEO named Greg(g) Williams to do so quietly under the radar ;-) https://twitter.com/Rick_Zullo/status/1813980616238760118

Michigan has really gone to the dogs! 🐕‍🦺👉✋ https://twitter.com/lizskalka/status/1826801955269922929

FREEDOM 🇺🇸🦅 https://twitter.com/KamalaHQ/status/1826772018219426138

#Portland’s 25th annual @PDXSoapboxDerby reminded me of #AnnArbor’s punk week shopping cart race, but all grown up! Thx @pheezy, and get well soon Karl! ❤️‍🩹 cc: @monkeyorg #WrathOfTheMath

#Olympics cultural studies pop quiz: #Raygun 🇦🇺 is to breakdancing as

̵̠́A̶̛̭n̷̡̉ä̷͍́r̴̫͂c̷̖͊h̸̬͝ỳ̶͙ ̸̳̚ Accelerationism in the UK, with US support for Alt-tech + Alt-right → Alt-Reich https://x.com/dugsong/status/1813773690699469188?s=46&t=dlTC_FwuQ2wqfPmBJN8VGA https://twitter.com/NafeezAhmed/status/1821567456130777593

Huge congrats to Olympian @andymacdonald!!! 🛹🇺🇸 Andy grew up skating #AnnArbor’s Veterans Park ramp with the http://localchaos.org crew, and helped us open @a2skatepark there a decade ago 🤙 https://twitter.com/NBCOlympics/status/1821183320589324384

☔️ https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1820857814996111473

What the best teachers, coaches, and command sergeant majors have in common… #HereToServe

“Do a kickflip!” Broken decks and cashing checks in #NYC 🤙 Qualifying for the #SkateDad fossil #Olympics

Big week for #Michigan’s @OneStream_Soft & @OneLineage, with blockbuster IPOs in NYC! Big week for my daughter & family, seeing @BTTFBway, The Outsiders, @AndJulietBway, @SixBroadway, & @IllinoiseStage on Broadway! And a gentle memory for myself, of the road not taken 🙏💚

And congratulations to @Greg_Lehmkuhl and team at #Michigan’s @OneLineage on their IPO today - the biggest of 2024, now valued at $19B! Greg previously led Con-way Freight (now @XPOLogistics) based in #AnnArbor https://twitter.com/greg_lehmkuhl/status/1816554234478739705

Congrats to Tom Shea & team on #Michigan’s @OneStream_Soft IPO yesterday - now worth $6B+ in their first day trading! https://twitter.com/OneStream_Soft/status/1816534701902893401

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories. #봉봉 #NYC #LawAndOrder

Madam #GenX President 🥥🌴🇺🇸 https://twitter.com/BrianHartPR/status/1815220017941622801

“General George Washington Resigning His Commission”, in the rotunda of the US Capitol. A selfless, defining moment of moral leadership for our country 🥺🇺🇸🙏

Hrr, #GoBlue… Screen of Death 〽️ ☠️ #AnnArbor #Michigan

Timewarp to 2010, when George was CTO of McAfee, not CEO of Crowdstrike. Old security architectures, old problems https://www.zdnet.com/article/defective-mcafee-update-causes-worldwide-meltdown-of-xp-pcs/ https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1814204584606220624

Accelerationism now unites crypto-libertarians/billionaires with far-right extremists trying to foment civil war (or racial holy war, like weev) - Groypers, NRx fascists, Red Caesarists, etc. Bad news for America: https://t.co/AOP5nBlmzm Background: https://t.co/Y3BCkrWUZE https://t.co/kCi5OrxyHH

25% of #Michigan residents aren’t sold on democracy; 5% believe violence is acceptable if their presidential candidate loses - even in a fair election. From May 2024 @DetroitChamber poll https://www.crainsdetroit.com/politics-policy/25-michigan-voters-arent-sold-democracy-poll-shows #MPC24