Jacob Kravitz

I'm a professional. You have to trust me on that.

[Jacob Kravitz @PearlJam09]

@amiliov I wonder if the fact that he's ineligible makes him more effective. Like there's some upward mobility (senator), but he's basically at the top of where he can go politically, and he's making damn sure they remember his name by not playing it safe and moderate.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

You may not like it, but this is the best politician in the world right now.

Within 6 months of being sworn in he has:

• Balanced a massive budget deficit.

• Produced the lowest murder rate in NYC history.

• Introduced a pilot program for free childcare.

• Has collected $100 million in fines from landlords for abhorrent living conditions.

- Lost ZERO billionaires!

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Every fucking time.

[Yasir Ai @AiwithYasir]

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.

The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.

Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.

If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.

The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.

The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.

They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.

The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.

The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.

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[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Wow. The Pope was just asked his stance on migration. His answer is amazing:

“I would change the question: what is the global North doing to help the global South in its situation that forces them to migrate.”

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Mayor Mamdani is going directly to residents private homes to ensure the landlords properties are safe and up to code for the tenants.

Mamdani is running laps around every politician in the country at any and all levels of government.

THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE!

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Zohran Mamdani: "If you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the Golden Mushroom, that edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario."

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

There are no abortion videos of babies screaming in pain and pulling away from the forceps as their skull is crushed. That isn’t a thing because no one is getting an abortion at that late of a stage in pregnancy unless it is an emergency.

A fetus is not even considered a baby until around 37 weeks. 90% of abortions happen during the first trimester which is before the 13 week point. A simple google search would tell you this.

According to the CDC only 1% of abortions are late stage (after 21 weeks) and happen when the fetus has passed inside the mother due to medical complications and the mother is at risk of dying from sepsis.

Your claims are complete nonsense. All you are doing is spreading blatant lies and misinformation to support your own personal bias against women having bodily autonomy.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

It's literally -- literally -- a tax on empty luxury properties that nobody lives in. These people already live in Florida, you dumbass.

[Jacob Kravitz @PearlJam09]

@suhasvaze @Ike_Saul This is total gaslighting. Then when he does something completely unhinged, you'll say, "Look, he's a man of his word. He does what he says hes going to do. This is what I voted for."

[truant finds home @pj_history]

No Pearl Jam show in the 90's was more widely heard than @TheFoxTheatre in Atlanta. 32 yrs ago today, this FM broadcast captured PJ’s incredible live sound. Now we just need more of (the rest of🙏) the video footage! #tfh

​"Sonic Reducer," April 3, 1994: https://t.co/HTxPJkMbpY

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

Low-sloped car hoods typically strike pedestrians in the legs, allowing them to be "scooped" onto the hood (reducing secondary ground impact).

Bigger vehicles hit the vital areas directly—torso, pelvis, or head and then throw the person forward or under the vehicle, raising the chance of being run over.

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

Driving through a city SHOULD be inconvenient if you're driving at the same time as everyone else.

Space is limited, and motor vehicles take up a ton of space. Over time they keep getting bigger. Autobesity is a burden on everyone.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

So...

1. Trump said "worst case scenario" is someone as bad as Khamenei coming to power, and now his eldest son Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei has been chosen as his successor.

2. We are trying to evacuate Americans from the Middle East but struggling because the State Dept has been gutted.

3. FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran days before the strikes.

4. CIA is now arming Kurdish forces and sending them into Iran.

5. Pentagon is preparing to ask Congress for MORE money to help fund the war. After trillion dollar budget.

This is turning into a very bad situation very quickly.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

We sacrificed so much for the automobile.

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Norway consistently wins the most medals at the Winter Olympic Games, with a population of just 5.6 million people.

A big part of their success is how they treat youth sports—and it’s the opposite of what we do in the US. Here’s what we can learn from Norway:

1. Scorekeeping:

In the US: Youth sports tend to be hyper competitive even at early ages. Leagues almost always keep score.

In Norway: Scorekeeping isn’t even allowed until age 13.

Removing winners and losers keeps the focus on the process not outcomes. It keeps kids engaged longer because it minimizes pressure (and tears) and maximizes fun, learning, and growth. The goal isn’t to win a third grade championship. It’s to love sport and keep playing.

2. Trophies:

In the US: If you give everyone a trophy, you’re creating snowflakes who will never gain a competitive edge.

In Norway: Whenever trophies are awarded, they are handed out to everyone.

If getting a trophy makes young kids feel good, we should give them trophies. Maybe they’ll come back and play again next year!!

As for the creation of snowflakes with no competitive edge—Norway’s athletes are tough as nails and all they do is win.

3. Prioritizing Fun:

In the US: Far too often, the goal is to win.

In Norway: The national philosophy is “joy of sport.”

Youth sports in the US are driven by adults, ego, and money. Youth sports in Norway are driven by fun.

Only half of kids in the US participate in sports. The number one reason they drop out: because they aren’t having fun anymore. In Norway, 93% of kids participate in youth sports. Fun is the foremost goal.

4. Playing Multiple Sports:

In the US: There’s pressure to specialize early and play your best sport year round.

In Norway: Try as many sports as you can before specializing as late as college.

Norway encourages kids to try all types of sport. This reduces injury and burnout and increases all-around athleticism. It also helps promotes match quality, or finding the sport you are best suited for as your body develops, which is impossible if you commit to a single sport too early.

5. Affordability

In the US: There is increasingly a pay-to-play model with high fees for leagues, equipment, and travel. This excludes many kids from playing.

In Norway: It’s a national priority to keep youth sports affordable and therefore accessible for all.

Kids aren’t priced out, which creates opportunities for everyone to participate (and develop into athletes), regardless of their parents’ income level.

We could learn a lot from Norway:

In the US, 70% of kids drop out of youth sports by age 13. This not only diminishes an elite-athlete pipeline, but it also destroys an opportunity for healthy habits and all the character lessons kids can learn from sport.

In Norway, lifelong participation in sport is the norm. The goal isn’t to have the best 9U team. It’s to develop the best athletes. Those are two very different things. And Norway has the gold medals to prove it.

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

The number of 80-year-olds is going to double in the next 20 years.

Baby Boomers will continue driving because neighborhoods aren't designed to allow any other options. Their alternative is isolation.

Maybe that's scary enough to get local leaders to reform land use policy.

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom."

🤔

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Dense, walkable, mixed use neighborhoods fix this.

[Chris Meloni @Chris_Meloni]

1600 Pennsylvania ave
Washington DC