Sunil Rajaraman

Founder of Hamlet. Entrepreneur, Writer, Investor.

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I repurposed our data pipeline at Hamlet, which is normally used to analyze public meetings, into a way to analyze all of Jensen Huang's long form interviews since 2021 (that I could find).

Really interesting stuff - there are definite trends over time across a wide variety of subjects ranging from AI Safety to how much he talks about the United States, and competition.

Enjoy!

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Full analysis can be found here: https://t.co/MWQ7Cw6aDd

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@ChetSucks I included them because I actually have a fun map showing who says Gosh instead of the actual swear words - Wisconsin leads the way.

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Holy S***! We looked at tens of thousands of public meetings to figure out which cities swear the most per 100 hours. It's LA by a longshot and it's not even close. If you're looking for polite deliberation I recommend Bellevue, WA!

The swear jar chart doesn't go that low, but let's just say that there's a lot of.... colorful language used in school board.

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My company studies this in detail - one thing we see a lot is that it's the first time a physical embodiment of a Silicon Valley company shows up in peoples' neighborhoods and it makes them quite upset. The messaging also sucks - we have people saying it's going to take your jobs and possibly end the world... but we want your land!

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Rough night for data center developers. 25 percent of capacity is effectively shut off.

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You can peruse the data at https://t.co/bMvDChzZMH or https://t.co/0Gz8yrBm3W

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Please vote for your City Council and School Board today! We decided to eliminate an excuse for you to make it happen by using Hamlet data....

First off, I think this is widely known but no elected official matters to your day-to-day life as much as a great City Councilmember, or School Board Member. City Managers play a crucial role too, but it's the job of a Council Member to effectively be a board member and hire great City Managers.

Council members also appoint your Planning Commissioners and other public commissions. You want to know who these people are and what they stand for. Voter turnout for these down ballot roles is abysmal - change that starting today please!

We decided to make our San Francisco, Oakland, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago data available for free to peruse. This will give you a sense of what your City Council or equivalent body is talking about, and how they deliberate. We also made some of our school board data available on site for you to browse.

Fun Facts:

San Francisco's supervisors spent more time on ceremonies than on any policy topic. Almost 28 hours of commendations, more than a fifth of their full-board meeting time.

Data centers came to city hall this summer. They came up in 7.9% of big-city meetings from July to September, up from under 2% last fall.

Robotaxis are a San Francisco story. Waymo, robotaxis or driverless cars came up in 7.6% of San Francisco's public meetings over the past year (58 of 762), against 1.9% in the other four cities. In July, the fire chief told the Fire Commission a Waymo "apparently drove over fireworks and caught fire."

ICE is all over city hall. It came up in 88 of Chicago's 290 meetings and 144 of LA's 497. In New York, six immigration hearings drew an average of almost 30 public speakers, against an average of 8 across all New York meetings.

Phones and AI at the school board. Phones came up in 222 districts and AI in 249, in at least 7.5% and 8% of the board meetings we transcribed.

ENJOY and please vote!

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@luanalopeslara We can help with local election data!

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Hey @Techmeme I read the @amir article about Data Center permitting. If you want a clear visual as to why permitting timelines are getting worse - it's because communities just rapidly turned on data centers to a degree unimaginable. Here is a timeline of the spread...

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The spread of Flock negativity came fast and furious.

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Fascinating visual detailing how Flock started showing up across local city council meetings.

It started March, 2025 in Flagstaff, Arizona.

By August, 2025, it had appeared 4 times, and national press outlets first reported on towns ending their Flock contracts.

It picked up momentum in early 2026, and has since showed up in 254 different places across the country.

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Can you name every one of your city council members?

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Who’s funding your city council?

Hamlet CEO Sunil Rajaraman (@subes01) on @MTSlive: council seats are often volunteer roles, but there’s more campaign money in local races than most people think.

💻 https://t.co/cyY3Qm8rM3

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Shout out to everyone in LA who had the patience to attend the 9 hours plus school board meeting on June 16. It shocks me how long some of these meetings can last!

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Not on my 2026 bingo card: a @TurnerNovak tweet landing me on CBS News.

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@itsnelliet I’m the founder of the company that did this analysis, and a former collegiate tennis player. Team tennis all the way.

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@Pdarche @myhamletinc We will get all of them eventually.

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@TheKitchenPB I’m the Founder of the company that built this analysis - lmk if you want more pickleball data!

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Thanks to @MorningBrew for mentioning us on their pod this morning! Who knew pickleball would be the hook that would get us a bunch of press?

We aren’t done though - we have something very big coming Friday that we think you’ll really enjoy.

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@TaylorLorenz I’m the Founder of Hamlet, which published the data. You wouldn’t believe what other issues come up - people are very pro-backyard kitchens too.