Ben 🌎lson

Sustainability + Public Affairs. Minnesota + Los Angeles.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

When I’m Governor, we’ll ban cell phones and other mobile devices in all K–12 classrooms and work with school districts to set screen-time limits. We’ll bring proven curricula to Minnesota — phonics-based reading and quality math instruction. Because Minnesota's kids deserve nothing but the best.

[Chuck Pfarrer | Indications & Warnings | @ChuckPfarrer]

JUST PASSING THROUGH: Breaching what was once considered the most heavily defended airspace on earth, a Ukrainian AN-196 ‘Lyutyy' strike drone sails undisturbed over downtown Moscow. And in broad daylight, too.

[Ben 🌎lson @benolsonIRL]

@natehoodstp @Starbucks Maybe by 2036?

[Ben 🌎lson @benolsonIRL]

Wow the Starbucks in Hollywood has chairs again. What a horrific time we have been through. The corporate assault on humans has been intense. @Starbucks

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

"You need to get out of the bedrooms of Hungarian people and stop obsessing about their sexuality !"

New🇭🇺PM Magyar lays into Fidesz for their anti LGBT laws on same day prosecutors drop all charges against the Mayor of Budapest for having allowed Pride events👏

My Eng s/t

[Ben 🌎lson @benolsonIRL]

No shade while waiting for the flyaway bus at union station. Just decorative palms. @metrolosangeles, what are you thinking? Do better—Prioritize the customer experience please. @kathrynbarger @KarenBassLA @KatyForLA @LindseyPHorvath

[Laura Friedman @LauraFriedmanCA]

Thank you to the voters of CA-30 for once again placing your trust in me! I’m grateful to have earned so much support as I move forward to the general election. I hope to earn your vote to continue serving as your representative in November.
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[s0phistry.bsky.social @s0phistry]

Candidate Filings have closed in Minnesota. For the first time in history, the MN DFL has filed candidates in every state house and senate seat. Meanwhile, the MN GOP has left 4 DFL-held Senate seats and 17 House seats uncontested (the most since the 1974 Watergate Wave)

[John Cassidy @JohnCassidy]

First it was MIT and McKinsey. Now Bain finds that returns to corporate AI investments are disappointing.

[Emily Elena Dugdale @eedugdale]

Monterey Park voters overwhelmingly vote to ban data centers

[Peyton Lewis @peytonlewis__]

🚨 NEW: Angie Craig super PAC uses AI deepfake TV ad to attack DFL-endorsed Senate candidate
@peggyflanagan

The MN legislature voted nearly unanimously to ban deepfakes in political ads. It’s appalling that Rep. Craig stands by this slimy, possibly illegal GOP tactic.

[Laura J. Nelson @laura_nelson]

Perfect quote for a Los Angeles subway story, no notes https://t.co/adBkResgRm

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Spencer Pratt’s LA mayor ads are incredible.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

This movement is not going to slow down anytime soon

[Ben 🌎lson @benolsonIRL]

@StarTribune Leave it alone

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Meanwhile Budapest is absolutely glowing tonight! 🇭🇺

Massive crowds turned out for Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party opposition rally — a sea of torches and lights lighting up the night against Orbán and Russia.

Elections are tomorrow…

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Hugh Grant’s classic British deadpan stole the show during Richard Curtis’ Honorary Oscar speech. Absolute legend.

[Sense Receptor @SenseReceptor]

🚨Ronan Farrow on people in Sam Altman's orbit describing him as a "pathological liar."

"We interviewed more than 100 people... a majority of those people really did say some variation on the theme of: he's a pathological liar."

"multiple people... used the term 'sociopath.'"

"[Altman] was fired by board members and executives who simply felt he was lying too much."

"Altman appears to have been doing it [lying] so much that it was all almost anyone could talk about after dealing with him."

"[The lies also] included... very minor things... at one early startup he was claiming to everyone he was a champion ping-pong player. And then they played ping-pong in the office, and he was one of the worst players in the office."

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman that I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @NewYorker, with @andrewmarantz: https://t.co/HEPHN4E54P

[The Minnesota Star Tribune @StarTribune]

HCMC administrator resigned over ‘micromanagement’ by Hennepin County commissioners https://t.co/4vGnkm75zW