It’s probably both true that AI’s impact on growth and productivity is overhyped - and it’ll be about as impactful to growth as say the internet - AND it’ll have a profound impact on certain industries like pharmaceuticals, cybersecurity, and software engineering

it’s still summer steak salad season in this house

a few weeks ago i visited milwaukee, where the publicly-owned beer gardens operated by vendors in several local parks generated $3 million in revenue for the county last year. unfortunately austin isn’t a big city like milwaukee or we could probably try something like that

Video of Ethel Cain concert looked like it had the same energy as a funeral

Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.

Abundance works and Austin is ground zero. You can literally just build more housing.

ICE kept this nursing student in captivity for HALF A YEAR until she broke down from sheer despair and desperation and agreed to voluntarily move to a country she fled at gunpoint as an eight-year-old. History will not forgive.

So after RFK Jr. promised to reveal “cause” of autism next month, the CDC director was forced out and top CDC officials have resigned

Starting to think whoever is pushing the “AI is using all the water” (it’s not) stories is trying to distract against the very real impact data centers are having on electricity andymasley.substack.com/p/i-cant-find-…

This horrifying graph is another data point for the hypothesis that the pandemic unraveled American society in ways that we haven't even begun to grapple with

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director Susan Monarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. We have issued the following statement:

My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business.

What a disaster. RFK is sowing chaos and endangering the health of Americans. nytimes.com/2025/08/27/hea…

My favorite Austin housing chart: They've proven that you can add a bunch of people to your city without skyrocketing rents. Meanwhile, San Diego hasn't added anyone, and rents there are still up 60%.

When asked about what she’s doing to make LA more affordable, she brags that she *reduced the number of affordable units* but added parking! We have a housing crisis. We can’t keep electing people like this

it’s tough competition, but RFK is still the most dangerous, villainous cabinet member. He has to go

Medicine and public health have added three decades to the human lifespan. Vaccination alone produced 40% of the reduction in child deaths. And now a disturbed and unqualified man driven by crackpot theories is destroying the foundations of this work, including CDC.

at least Sabrina carpenter’s new album comes out tomorrow

Thanks to tariffs (esp re: Canada), US aluminium prices are now roughly 50% higher than in Europe & Japan, thus putting US manufacturers at a competitive disadvantage. Heckuva industrial strategy.

The sort of image which, if you predicted it would come to pass last October, people would have accused you of having Trump Derangement Syndrome.