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Tired: no phone policy. Wired: no watch policy.

Among the worst ideas floating around is that "the free market" will naturally achieve desirable results for society. No, it won't, not even in theory, much less in practice. Markets don't optimize "good for society" unless you make them.

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.

An anticipated wealth transfer from baby boomers to their descendants is failing to materialize as elder care spending eats into seniors’ finances. www.semafor.com/article/07/2...

so apocalyptic I caught myself double checking that the NYT hadn’t accidentally fallen for AI

I'll add: with parties increasingly pushing themselves in the middle extracting $ from these public goods; with AI companies making openness costly; and with AI companies' practices convincing many maybe "fully open" was a mistake, it's more important than ever to articulate these values clearly.

Joke <- gioco (Italian) / cf jogo (Port) jeu (fr)

you're on a roll sir.

don't know if I've posted this before but BigBuns in the DC/VA area has a great happy hour — their sliders are better than most burgers.

like i think you can say that brandolini's law is a historical invariant, the only variable from one era to the next is the precise exponent

Been on a Bana kick lately. salcaboverde.com/bana-the-gre... #caboverde #morna #capeverde

Relatedly, this is happening, too 🎉 We have an info session at noon ET on Monday! More info at the 🔗 (I esp want to encourage local grad students to consider applying; my years of academic program admin have made me wily with credit workarounds 😈)

DC residents boycotting DoorDash. Good.

customer service is plummeting everywhere. Not just the move from human agents to chatbots- but SLAs are ignored, tickets grow stale, no inventory, the infamous “I’ll transfer you to that department “ then disconnect. I’m seeing it across industries personally and professionally.

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

FIFA announce the official fan-voted 2026 World Cup dream team https://www.europesays.com/football/39480/ Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha and Norway striker ⁠Erling Haaland have been named in the fan-voted FIFA World Cup…

Al pastor is basically pork shawarma.

I’ve been thinking about this scenario for years and it is exactly how SkyNet becomes self-aware. We know there will be an actor (corporate or state irrelevant) who sets the prompt at “how would you eliminate all humans at this location” or War Games the movie with model vs model.

This is, and I am not even joking, going to fuck up so many hyperlexic kids. I got accused of plagiarism because I used the word “porous” in a sixth grade paper and that shit sticks with you, if not on the permanent record, then in the childhood.