Once again, the imperial presidency, created by both parties during the Cold War, by passing laws allowing the POTUS to act like a king simply by using the magic words “national security” or “national emergency” w/o evidence, was a grave mistake, & if we make it through this, it must be dismantled.
Parker has been one of our best mayors on trash, littering, and dumping. But this could undo all of that work and good will.
Cant wait to shove all of my 2 week old trash bags that have been sitting in the July heat into my car to take them to the dump
uggggghhh
Go birds
An example of Polymarket (as much as I love it) not exactly being the most prescient source
"What we need is for people to invest in independent media, and that doesn't necessarily mean investing in a consulting group that is going to become a middleman for independent media."
co-signed. Parker has been better than any mayor of my lifetime at making progress on litter and garbage.
Still much more to do, but it's made me optimistic!
Shoutout to the grannies
Small but mighty anti trump protest on South Broad
I want to try something. If you live in or around the city of Philadelphia, like this post.
THE WORST DEFENSE OF THE TRUMP TARIFFS:
I wrote in the newsletter today about how annoying it is to hear people talk about how we need these tariffs to reindustrialize and counter China in high tech manufacturing.
We were literally just doing that!
Sub here www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
how did that end? Just checking!
Links are good!
Ok damn.
Replit has blown my mind. Dumb ol' me just made a pretty useful Delicious clone in a few hours for less than $100.
Features include:
- Safari reader-like cache versions of all bookmarks
- AI agent that uses your bookmarks as source
- Easy ios sharing
savesies.com
I cant wait to question my mental health in the 15th row of 76 Place while our 2031 first round draft pick ruptures his Achilles
this is amazing
A lot of threads energy on Bluesky lately 😟
you love to see it
Of course, then I waited 25 mins for the subway - you can’t win them all.
Also, holy shit, Bluesky sends real traffic. Will update this tomorrow with firm numbers but journalism is going to move here for sure. Twitter is a drop in the bucket. It's over, but we are so back, and so on and so forth
That’s a clean subway station
This was great - thank you for sharing.
Co-signed. I always put that in any onboarding for a team I manage.
"We don't mind making mistakes. But we _really_ mind making the same mistake twice."
Elon admits that any post on X with a link is throttled
He advises you to upload content directly to X instead, where he can monetize it
Musk is the richest person in the world and his view is everyone should work for him for free
after 10 years of big social media telling us no one wants posts that link out to other websites, it turns out it was really just the big social media companies that didn't want that
The "free" growth techcos experienced from a rapidly upscaling Internet population has moved to a plateau.
From now on, time spent on sites/in apps is zero-sum, i.e. if someone wins, someone else is losing.
Millennials are now the main demo. We did it.
Blandas Law: a social platform has not arrived until it can reliably embue existential dread into the hearts and minds of Sixers fans
100% agreed! If I see one more thread that is summarizing a years old profile of an entrepreneur im going to lose my mind.