fell down a mamdani rabbit hole and found this old interview from when he was on kaya fm in south africa. omg his ugandan accent is so thick here, i’m obsessed 🥹
NEW: Marc Andreessen’s firm dumped $115 million in the midterms, outspending everyone.
The billionaire blasts regulation, yet government cash built his fortune and antitrust laws saved his company.
His fairy tale promises abundance for all, but the returns only flow upward.
ICE's "choice" for 350,000 Haitians: strap on an ankle monitor and ask permission to leave your zip code — or take $2,600 and a flight back to a country the US State Dept itself calls unsafe.
This is happening right now in Ohio.
WATCH: https://t.co/utp6Pxhhk7
Attention @CUNY Students – you get FREE transit cards!
The Council is proud to provide $700k in funding to provide FREE OMNY CARDS to CUNY students this year.
A new CNBC and SurveyMonkey Quarterly Money Survey found that 63% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, with 71% saying a single delayed paycheck would cause financial hardship and 90% reporting they have less than $500 left after monthly expenses.
The survey also found that 76% of Americans carry some form of debt, while 61% say debt has forced them to delay major milestones like buying a home, saving for retirement, or getting married.
🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."
My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."
I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.
Hedgie🤗
I’m quoted extensively in this stunning NYT visual essay linking us to NYC’s past going back over 250 years, and what it means for our national and civic identities today. I feel so blessed and grateful to be in a position where I can help shape our public conversations on such crucial, existential questions. Here is a gift link for you: https://t.co/Nv0RREQmzG
18 months. $5 trillion fucking dollars in 18 months. And we still don't have healthcare. And they gutted education. And food assistance. And food safety, and clean air, and clean water. And cut 300k federal jobs. Where the actual fuck is that new spending actually going?
Journalist Liz Oliva Fernández reports from inside Cuba's oil crisis. From a woman walking nine kilometers to work because there's no transport to people living next to piles of uncollected trash – this is what life is like in Havana.
Love my local Green market for this reason. Of course, depending on your lifestyle and how many people you accommodate, it's hard to eat seasonally/locally and or have time to go to the farmers market. It takes privilege to shop small, shop often, and buy local.
🚨The World Cup final referee, Slavko Vincic was arrested at a “sex party” in 2020, but was not charged
He was among 26 men and 9 women detained at a party with four packets of cocaine, 10 pistols, three protective vests, and more than $11,400 in cash