super interesting & important

I thought this moment during the Ezra Klein-Chris Hayes podcast was particularly profound
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

ChatGPT - Note Tracking Ideas Shared via ChatGPT

chatgpt.com/share/684174...

Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base SEAN KATES, ERIC MANNING, TALI MENDELBERG and OMAR WASOW Comparative scholarship suggests authoritarian candidates often rely on backing from the wealthy. The wealthy are also said to play an important role in American campaign finance. Studies of Donald Trump, however, found that he drew significant support from white Americans with less education and privilege. We evaluate wealthy and non-wealthy Americans’ financial support for Trump, compared to other candidates, by constructing a comprehensive dataset of property values matched to contributions and voter files. We find Trump underperformed among wealthy Republican donors while mobilizing new non-wealthy donors. Trump also diversified the donorate, especially by education. That is, Trump built an unusual coalition of wealthy and non-wealthy donors. Our results support an alternative, “plutopopulist” model of Trump’s financial base.

A recent @nytimes.com analysis found that over the last three presidential elections "Republicans are overwhelmingly making gains in working-class counties. Democrats are improving almost exclusively in wealthier areas." Our research shows similar patterns among donors. 🧵 cup.org/4cfm0Az

Teendrama #13 – On the intersection of Wearable AI and the Gin Blossoms Wearable AI, Meta Glasses, AI lifelogging, Google vs. ChatGPT, Crypto AI, etc... literally every buzzword you could ever ask for (& some you didn't! solar! stone chisels! breakfast clothes! Titanic!)

“Half of Americans are broke from healthcare… but maybe AI can make healthcare cheaper and more accessible to all, and therefore at least people won’t be saddled w/ as much healthcare debt” via @dens.nyc teendrama.substack.com/p/teendrama-...

Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste - Live At Harvard University, Boston, MA / 1971 - 1972 The Modern Lovers · Precise Modern Lovers Order (Live In Berkeley And Boston) · Song · 1994

open.spotify.com/track/0sWp3M...

Don’t let our youth go to waste

What a bio

The Great Deterioration of Local Community And The Loss of The Play-Based Childhood Kids growing up in close-knit communities where the social ties are thick are more protected from the harms of the phone-based childhood.

"the teens that appear least impacted by the mental health crisis tend to be religious, conservative, and live in less individualistic cultures" www.afterbabel.com/p/community-...

The 2 guests on Colbert: Bernie Sanders & Pavement: Caring & not caring: Dug-in & ambivalence: 60s & 90s: Real & real: Not cool & too cool

“Harness Your Hopes” - Pavement (LIVE on The Late Show) YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

youtu.be/lEArKI76lhE?...

"Beyond Bob..abundance of these imaginative possibilities..dont just need to 'join'..need to imagine diff ways of being when we show up..dont just need to 'start clubs'..need to imagine new approaches to organizing &gathering" via @petedavis.bsky.social connectivetissue.substack.com/p/beyond-bob...

A New American Awakening How the chaos of the phone-based life is giving rise to a quiet revolution in civic life—and what it will take to make it last.

"The good life had to happen in real life. And with that realization, small groups of Americans across the country have begun to sow the seeds of community renewal" www.afterbabel.com/p/new-americ... via @eli.bsky.social @petedavis.bsky.social

yesterday: chatgpt > google
today: chatgpt > apple notes

Use AI only to be more human, beware AI eating your humanity

The New News - I’ve got news alerts/notifs off so this is how I got the breaking news - in my AirPod from @dens.nyc

REMINDER:

They turn us against each other so that we won’t notice they are robbing us blind.

eww

i'm actually starting to offload more & more of my *thinking* - like actual thinking (ideas, decisions, thinking thru things, etc)

but seriously - I wanted so bad to be excited about this. classic web3/crypto: why will >10% ppl care at all about this? most successful things in the past had a compelling answer to that question

smart

At Last ft. Alex Blania and Sam Altman YouTube video by World

Remember when breathless exciting tech demos were about something exciting you wanted that took your breath away? What the hell is this youtu.be/1x8tACHbyjg?...

machines thinking like humans
humans thinking like machines

The Philosophy of Modern Song Bob Dylan · Audiobook

open.spotify.com/show/4QnEMdV...

“Steve once told a group of students, ‘You appear, have a chance to blaze in the sky, then you disappear.’” Laurene Powell Jobs

Brooklyn bubble