Elon and Department of Government Efficiency may not appreciate the talents and service of our federal workers. But we do — and we’re hiring. We want federal workers, and everybody else, to see what Baltimore’s all about.

hell yea

There were 5 homicides in April in Baltimore. This is a new record for fewest homicides in a month in the city's modern history (since 1970). The previous low was 7, which happened in June of 1983, and April of 2014...

Brandon Scott deserves national attention as one of the most successful Mayors in the country.

CEOs have the incentive to grow enterprise value even at the expense of the company (e.g. through bad M&A) because pay & prestige scale w/ size. Foundation CEOs have a worse version of that mismatch — the less they give, the bigger the foundation becomes. Kudos to Gates!

Went on a pod for Holly! youtube.com/watch?v=LG27Wy…

Is the Pope going to go home for Thanksgiving? Will he have a 4th of July hot dog? Or do national holidays kind of cease when you get elected Pope?

This is the greatest government artifact I’ve ever seen. I am a WEIGHT. I weigh down our bin. Please leave me on the table.

Fundamentally we’re going to need to accept that an efficient and modern democracy is worth paying $110k

Mayor Mamdani!

This is what I love about local gov. The people who give me potable water? Yeah, they also seized 20,000 illegal cars. Yeah, they also own a ferry and run it for free. Yeah, they also host a music festival. Yeah, they also drove me to work and own my office building…

I suppose the Apollo 13 Mission was just one big Transportation

Aid groups: Infants are dying in Gaza because Israel impedes the import of baby formula نير حسون Nir Hasson ניר חסון haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

“You didn’t build that [due to permitting]”

Good policy and good governance matter -- hundreds of people are alive today because of Mayor Scott's violence prevention plan and the group violence reduction strategy

AI, ORALITY, AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF GRIFT In today's newsletter, I go back to Ong-posting to try to answer the question of why grift is so out in the open these days. Why don't people feel shame and the impulse to obfuscate? Why don't other people react more judgmentally?

This study concludes — “A rigorous analysis of trends in gun violence provide evidence that Safe Streets yielded important reductions in homicides & shootings” “Given the extraordinary high cost of gun violence, we estimate $7.2-$19.2 in economic benefits from every $1 invested.”

Very, very few things can go wrong when there are sunsets and startups involved...that’s why we’re RSVPing to this LA Tech Week mixer. Private club. Founders & operators. Speed networking (yes, Tinder-style). partiful.com/e/8dH8YB1BYwak… Tinder Wonder Ventures

As a founder you should never spend more than 30 mins looking for your AirPods because that’s how long it take to get a free pair by demoing a YC payroll startup

An exciting milestone for AI in science: Our C2S-Scale 27B foundation model, built with Yale University and based on Gemma, generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior, which scientists experimentally validated in living cells.  With more preclinical and clinical tests,