Just listened to this one start to finish last night!

I was gonna start today and forces were saying don’t. Step away. You’re better than this. I know you’re going to anyway. But no. Don’t.

Another aspect of this is that organizations who want to be data-driven are doing this with whatever sliver of data they have… it’s often a little corner of the picture that happens to be easy to store neatly in a DB… and this often isn’t the data you need for the matter at hand.

This is the way

The Pasteur Institute collaborated with Cuba to mass produce the Cuban COVID-19 vaccine Soberana-2.

Millions got their shots just a few years ago thanks to this institute that the US or Israel just bombed.

Makeup, by Rockstar & Elise track by Rockstar & Elise

For TDOV I’m sharing hopeful music from a trans friend.

Sending love to the community. The high court’s brutal decision made it a tough day.

May we find understanding, empathy, and hope in your stories.

@rockstarelise.com

rockstarelise.bandcamp.com/track/makeup

Big change for California small businesses: No more SBA loans for non-citizens Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and har...

Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.

apnews.com/article/cali...

There is absolutely no coherence on Cuba policy. It's all on a whim and a wish.

Here is the president on tape backing away from the Executive Order he himself issued on January 29th.

Feeling what Mike is laying out here. The internet was lot cooler before build complexity increased & social media centralization came into the picture. I was hands on keyboard building until mid 2000’s… Now I’m back building. Unlocked creativity & new hope we can break from corporate algo hell.

nine inch nails pretty freight machine

Best railcar graffiti I've ever seen

How AI Content Detection is Being Weaponized in the Iran War When trust in evidence collapses, the greatest casualty is accountability for real-world harm, write shirin anlen and Mahsa Alimardani from WITNESS.

A wave of AI-generated images and video has emerged from the Iran war. But a new phenomenon is also observable, write shirin anlen and Mahsa Alimardani from WITNESS: the spread of technical-looking analyses used to discredit authentic evidence.

Enough of this "x might be the real plan" stuff. There is no plan mapping out the third and fourth tier possibilities. Don't let your imagination fabricate a cunning genius when there is no proof of genius.

But any development that can be used to further the agenda will obviously be used.

What an embarrassment (understatement) from my alma mater. I wish I could write it off as a one-off but I remain in the immediate geography of FIU, and I’m plugged into the culture. This manifestation is unsurprising.

Adeptly assembled take here from @cwarzel.bsky.social. Been thinking about these themes lot as well. The reflexive, meme-ified cynicism in culture these days is startling. Fills me with sadness. Can probably have chicken egg argument about origins, but it’s a cycle worth breaking. A return to hope.

once my son woke me up to ask what a three dimensional hexagon was called. yes, please. ask me about the gay instead.

“Ehstephani”

From his parents:
"I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting."

🫡

Andor was cooking so unbelievably hard good grief

Grok is so much worse than you think.

i said a word a day for an entire year. YouTube video by Henry Brown

Someone made a 2007 YouTube video and released it in 2026.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmG...

"Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow." -- Becca Good, wife of Renee.

Strong meme, kids

This whole situation is what we call “un arroz con mango” — roughly translated as “clusterfuck”

100pct correct. Empirically, we are as close to a consensus on this as we are likely to see on any topic. It's wild how pervasive the stigma and rhetoric remain.

This escalation of Risk-coded “hemispheric dominance” lines up with where elements of our culture - specifically business / venture capital culture - has been headed. It’s “blitzscaling” applied to geopolitics. (Which of course comes from the word “blitzkrieg”)

Adjacent Cuba / south Florida geopolitics : @danielrivero.bsky.social

Eh… we’ll just place the poly market bet instead…

can’t wait to see them here in miami in a few weeks. i’ve somehow missed seeing them play over the years.

This is correct. Regardless of how you feel about the attack/ taking Maduro, there is already a legitimately elected government that is not Maduro.

But because of today's actions, a future election could have a different outcome. So that's a no-go. Concretely, this is not about democracy.