Robert Moses's unfinished business should be Mamdani's priority The mayor-elect has 25,000 job applicants in 24 hours and a civil service system designed to keep him from hiring any of them

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Why is this not on the front page of the New York Times? From Politico:

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Cory Doctorow offers evidence that the New Deal lives in the Digital Era and offers a model for Coop/Municipal ownership of digital infrastructure: pluralistic.net/2025/10/03/w...

Ian Harnett in today’s FT; “The AI capex endgame is approaching” : “My perspective on technology bubbles has been shaped by five themes that emerged from William Janeway’s book Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy.

Andrew Odlyzko, mathematician/historian, explains how crypto exemplifies the “post-truth” world:

www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc...

Trump fires a senior official over jobs numbers | CNN Business President Donald Trump has fired Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, whom he accused of manipulating the monthly jobs reports for “political purposes.”

Where is Jamie Dimon? Where is Larry Fink: www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/b...

I guess I did mean Rump for Trump.

Has conceding to Rump’s bullying ever got anybody anything socially beneficial?

Someone should tell Trump about what happened to Oscar Wilde when he sued the Marquis of Queensbury for defamation.

Mamdani and the Moguls of Madness Will he be a good mayor? Nobody knows. But the hysteria is revealing.

Important post today by @pkrugman.bsky.social on the NYC mayoralty primary:

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@pkrugman.bsky.social is so right: “The point is that both men start from the presumption that the U.S. government is an entirely corrupt….Musk’s only mistake was in underestimating the depths of Trump’s lack of principles, imagining that he was the kind of corrupt politician who stays bought”

RFK Jr. May Have Just Ruined Our Best Weapon Against Bird Flu He just made two bad decisions on vaccines, and he made them in the worst way possible.

Strong post from The Bulwark on more destruction from RFK Jr:

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And the damage exceeds these quantities:
www.billjaneway.com/crippling-am...

Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy “I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020

2/ The Trump/Musk Administration is working effectively to do the same for China in so 31 weeks

www.billjaneway.com/crippling-am...

The latest blow is to the NSF:
www.science.org/content/arti...

1/ In 1914, Germany was the global leader in science and at the technological frontier in such key domains as chemical and electrical engineering. It took 31 years - assisted by losing 2 world wars, hyperinflation, Hitler’s expulsion of Jewish scientists - to pass leadership to the US.

This is what you need to know about the US research ecosystem…and the Trump/Musk effort to destroy it:

www.billjaneway.com/crippling-am...

NB that this letter ups the costs to Columbia if it does fold.

www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/trum...

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

Crippling America’s Innovation Economy | by William H. Janeway - Project Syndicate William H. Janeway warns that the pillars of US dynamism and competitiveness are being systematically toppled.

www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/trum...

Cory Booker made history. Now it's our turn. A call to action.

Cory Booker made history. Now it's our turn.
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No longer surprising. Get her daily letter directly

RFKJr.’s strategy for saving Social Security: reduce the life expectancy of Americans.

Listen: maybe I'm wrong and this is just the worst software deployment of my career, not actually a conspiracy against democracy.

Maybe these guys just don't see they are frittering away all product and service design knowledge in the agency. And don't even know that they lack this knowledge.

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the

In fairness, there are a bunch of highly prominent libertarian Fedsoc people putting their names to this, expressing a general left-right consensus on free speech and universities. It would be nice to see Columbia university leadership pushing back instead of rolling over

Should AGI-preppers embrace DOGE? There's magical thinking about the magical thinking

Despite the somewhat confusing title, the body of this post is anything but confusing. It should be called "Understanding DOGE through the lense of AI Preppers." It makes so much sense of the enormous gamble Musk is taking with DOGE and the risks that come with it.

POLITICO Pro: Top broadband official exits Commerce Department with sharp Musk warning “Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” Evan Feinman warned.

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Hinton vs Musk Standing with my long-term nemesis, standing with science

Standing with Hinton, standing with science.

Please @standupforscience.bsky.social March 7, links enclosed.

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Great news, Diane: well earned!

ChatGPT is great at Stakhanovite propaganda Comrades, we must seize the opportunity of LLMs if we are to be socialists

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