Zohran Mamdani spoke at a Rikers Island graduation ceremony honoring 57 incarcerated people who earned their high school diplomas.
One graduate, Elijah Smith, said he didn’t expect the mayor to show up, but his presence meant something: “It helped. Someone cares about the incarcerated individuals in this jail.”
Sometimes dignity starts with simply showing up.
Mamdani: "Solidarity with a government that is committing genocide is a very different thing than a question of solidarity with people of a specific faith. I'm proud to be a mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in this country."
I want to fund infinite healthcare apps.
AI that delivers more care and less paperwork. Companies like @CounselHealth, @EvidenceOpen and @TennrOfficial are leading the way.
If you are building this future, I would love to chat.
Spencer Pratt has gained traction in his campaign for L.A. Mayor by showing what he says Karen Bass did to his family -- forcing them to live in a trailer after his home burned down.
Though, Pratt has really been staying at the Hotel Bel-Air for more than a month. Mind you, you can't get a room for less than $1,500 a night.
Idk why I tried to tell my therapist today this was my first time crying in a while only to realize mid sentence I bawled my eyes out two sessions ago with her
She just politely nodded ya..
the “i don’t really do politics” crowd is something i genuinely struggle to understand once you are past a certain age. politics is not a hobby you opt into. it is the system that determines how you live.
Infinite Healthcare will require a new way of thinking about how we consume medical services.
AI is driving down the marginal cost of healthcare delivery. If we enable people to consume all the healthcare they need, the economic and societal ROI will be enormous.
We lay out a framework for pricing AI healthcare services: Per Task, Per Workflow, Per Episode, and Per Patient, with Per Outcome as a possible overlay on each.
The companies that price for abundance rather than scarcity will capture the biggest prize: consumer behavior change, patient engagement, and true health outcomes improvement.
And the system that emerges will deliver more health per dollar than anything we've built before.
Healthcare is off to a wild start in 2026. On the @a16z pod, I riffed with America's favorite healthcare comedian, Nikhil Krishnan of Out-Of-Pocket, to explore what else will happen:
- AI doctors going mainstream
- People opting out of health insurance entirely
- Weight-loss drug usage doubling
- Peptide parties proliferating
- Healthcare labor crisis cascading
- and more...
Was fun to question some assumptions underlying our healthcare system and debate how to build a better one w/ @nikillinit.
00:00 Introduction
02:15 Healthcare Predictions for 2026
08:00 Taking Healthcare In Your Own Hands
26:59 Explosion of Self Monitoring
31:38 Our Desire for Agency in Healthcare
34:42 AI "Doctors" Everywhere
41:43 Clashing Regulations, IP Battles, and Populism
46:42 How will we know AI is working in Healthcare?
57:15 AI Impact on Healthcare Jobs
01:05:39 The Human vs. AI Debate in Healthcare
01:08:52 Weight Loss Drug Ubiquity
01:17:03 The Gray Market of Peptides
01:29:23 Should We Spend More on Healthcare?
01:34:29 Content Diets in the Age of AI Slop
This is absolutely terrifying. This is the chair of the Federal Reserve telling the American people they cannot trust the current administration and that fed rates will essentially just be made up numbers based on NOTHING by the regime.
They’re gonna tank the economy on purpose
Yall can never make me hate Josh Hutcherson. He’s vocal about his political opinions, has 0 scandals EVER, a huge ally to the LGBTQ community, trans community ally, and generally minds his business I couldn’t give a flying fuck If he isn’t a swiftie my GODDDD go outside!!!