Is social media a major cause of the teen mental illness epidemic? Journalists often say "the evidence is just correlational." They are wrong. I lay out the longitudinal, experimental, and quasi-experimental evidence here. There's a lot of it now: jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media…

Bing, write the first chapter of Genesis as a corporate memo.

Silicon Valley Bank’s shareholders and executives lose it all, as they should. Depositors in good faith, however, should recover and have access to their deposits in order to meet their payrolls, pay their suppliers, and to prevent contagion.

It's surprisingly helpful merely to remind founders that they're playing a positive-sum game. Many haven't realized it explicitly. Knowing this both increases their morale and shows them where to channel their energy: into making customers' lives better.

Transcript from one of the festival survivors about what happened: "I was there at the festival, there were rockets so people got nervous and everyone started to leave, We drove towards the main road, where we saw many cars standing in what looked like a traffic jam, at the

On my way to the funeral of a young Brazilian woman murdered at the music festival. A message went out urging strangers to attend, because she has barely any family here. There’s a 2km line snaking out of the entrance of the cemetery and I doubt we’ll make it.

Again, unequivocal. And follows the theme of much of the public discussion about these attacks across all quarters, especially on social media: witness. And don't pretend *not* to understand what you're seeing.

This is a really horrific thing to endure. The journalists who did it in order to tell the story to their readers, and to combat propagandists who are already denying Hamas's atrocities, performed a service for the rest of us.

When I engaged with one post on TikTok supporting opposing views, my entire feed became aggressively anti-Israel. It was as if I was placed in an AB test variant and was told to see this war with Israel being the evil side.

Fantastic piece by Josh Barro about atrocious Democratic governance in NYC particularly and big cities generally. joshbarro.com/p/trump-didnt-…

Touring a new modular apartment building in Denver. 77 units, 6 stories. The building went up in 7 days flat.

There's a weird complacency among Republicans and fatalism among Democrats about Trump's ability to hold his "base." Trump spent his first term implementing conventional economic policies that led to continued growth and prosperity, and he still managed to be not that popular.

New essay: Something strange—and possibly worrying—is happening to the job market for college grads: unemployment for recent grads is rising, while law school applications are surging. Maybe it's a sign of Trumpy chaos. Maybe it's a sign of something more structural. So,

It's not being appreciated just how radical Zohran's expressed views were just a short time ago, and how little he's addressed them. He had a full-on commitment to ending capitalism, defunding police, ending exam schools, "decarceration," and embracing racial conflict. 🧵

Sorry, I’m just gonna openly despair on Twitter for a minute. I’m so tremendously black pilled after seeing that clip of Tim Walz suggesting China and not America has the moral authority to negotiate with Iran. He also went on to disparage Israel defending itself from Hamas.

Schiff: I think it's valuable that the American people get a sense of what you have refused to answer today. So these are just some of the questions you refuse to answer, but or have answered with personal attacks on members of this committee. You were asked whether you consulted

Hard to say what's more striking, the amateurishness or the brutality.

Terrific from tylercowen: "If by any chance you are wondering how to make yourself smarter, learn how to appreciate almost everybody, and keep on cultivating that skill."

Matt Mahan is the future of California

Even if you take the conservative defense of each ICE killing, you’re left with “We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we