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In 2016, Trump rose to power due to economic despair in the heartland. This week, Mamdani rose to power due to economic despair in Brooklyn. Is the future of politics just class warfare?
“Numerous leaders of the alt-right [sic] movement read the book I published in 2012, which outlined exactly how this media strategy works,” wrote Holiday. “Several have told me Trust Me, I’m Lying is their bible.”
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
After 25 years of solitude, the most influential tech billionaire you've never heard of broke his silence to talk to @JeremySternLA about what he calls “the single best product I’ve ever built, in four decades, by far.”
Colossus can report for the first time that Trilogy founder Joe Liemandt is the product guy behind... See more
There are no better examples than Harvard University and the New York Times , whose choices so often set the tone for other elite universities and publications. Both institutions may have declined in their overall control over American life, but they have remained culturally influential and economically viable by pandering to the tastes of a small... See more
The Illiberalism in Our Institutions
Wild. This leaked email from Peter Thiel really doesn’t jive with my understanding of his politics that was mostly incepted into my brain by the media. https://t.co/aZAVLhFspc
Rich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public hospitals. Business executives should have to stand in the same airport security lines as everyone else. The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why... See more
Jason Kottke • Our Unpleasant Privatized Reality
Technology
Vibe Check: AI and Behavioral Science in Silicon Valley
By Evan Nesterak
February 16, 2025
Every day, another feature of society is poised for an AI revolution. How will AI change (big inhale) our jobs, relationships, parenting, schools, art, music, sex, war, public safety, public policy, public transport, scientific research, health... See more
Vibe Check: AI and Behavioral Science in Silicon Valley
By Evan Nesterak
February 16, 2025
Every day, another feature of society is poised for an AI revolution. How will AI change (big inhale) our jobs, relationships, parenting, schools, art, music, sex, war, public safety, public policy, public transport, scientific research, health... See more
Vibe Check: AI and Behavioral Science in Silicon Valley - by Evan Nesterak - Behavioral Scientist
In much of San Francisco, you can’t walk twenty feet without seeing a multicolored sign declaring that Black Lives Matter, Kindness Is Everything, and No Human Being Is Illegal. Those signs sit in yards zoned for single families, in communities that organize against efforts to add the new homes that would bring those values closer to reality. San
... See moreEzra Klein • Abundance
David Brooks, “The Moral Bucket List.” Nir Eyal, Hooked. Anything by Kevin Kelly, most recently The Inevitable