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he was unique, low key, humble, dripped out, and a popular loner… some of y’all should take notes

Within weeks of Trump taking office, his team starting meeting behind closed doors w/executives at Ramp, a Peter Thiel-backed fintech firm which is looking for a chunk of a $700 billion federal chargecard program. ICYMI, scoop from me & Chris Bing: propublica.org/article/trump-…

For the FT, I wrote an essay about why the daily experience of the Internet keeps getting worse, tipping us into madness and conflict. I gather ideas about slop, enshittification, and dead internet theory under what I call "the hostile Internet." ft.com/content/5d06bb…

This essay was an opportunity to consider the insane ads we've all been seeing on here. Also talked about the relationship between schizophrenia and mass media. ft.com/content/5d06bb…

VC’s attacking higher ed -> Trump squeezing higher ed funding -> universities sell PE holdings to fund their operations -> VC fundraising dries up

Long time no see, my friends. Sometimes I feel busy thinking that this is the wine my Taiwanese friend gave me a few years ago, and I just opened it recently to drink

Is Witkoff pitching the Iranian government on $TRUMP? That's his job, I believe.

archive.today/2025.04.19-191…

How can you write an obit for Richard Armitage and not mention the Phoenix Program? The level of euphemism (or ignorance) here... nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/…

In 2016/2017 Reid Hoffman started the Disobedience Award with Joi Ito and got an orb from Bill Ackman’s wife. It was supposed to be awarded for disobedience that helps society, announced at Media Lab’s Forbidden Research event in July of 2016. media.mit.edu/groups/disobed…

yep

Visited with Tom Seaver yesterday

The ads, folks

‘Turkish prince’: Medical researcher who ordered murder of business associate by fake U.S. Marshal is found guilty ift.tt/d9RIsKD