Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

Not sure who needs to hear this, but if you have to TASER your constituents in order to hold a town hall, you might be a fascist.

Former Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers assailed President Trump over his deepening attacks on the school. “This is part of a broad and sweeping effort to suppress institutions that challenge the presidential administration," he told David Westin bloom.bg/4cwKcP6

Today, we are launching the first publicly available AI Scientist, via the FutureHouse Platform. Our AI Scientist agents can perform a wide variety of scientific tasks better than humans. By chaining them together, we've already started to discover new biology really fast. With

Interested in startups? Trellis Air is seeking a reliability engineer to develop a breakthrough in high-efficiency HVAC equipment. You must have commercial experience analyzing lifetime and failure mechanisms. On-site in Somerville, MA. docs.google.com/document/d/1Aj…

Great essay by Scott Kirsner masslive.com/news/2025/04/b…

Stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease has entered a new era. Two nature studies demonstrate that pluripotent stem cell–derived dopamine neurons can survive, restore function, and potentially change the treatment paradigm for this neurodegenerative disease.

Perfect intersection of AI, digital dollar rails and world-class team. Excited for this journey.

If we want the USA to prosper we must lead at innovation. To lead innovation we need top geniuses in our labs. Because the USA is only 4% of world population the vast majority of geniuses are born outside the USA. Outside! We need to attract them here not scare them off.

As announced by Peter Kyle at London Tech Week, the UK Government is planning to expand the Encode: AI for Science Fellowship from our Activation Partner Pillar VC, embedding elite AI researchers in UK labs to solve major scientific challenges. 🚀 Read the full announcement:

Flying LED “screens”.

Govt can help a lot without money, by making its permit processes faster.

Silicon Valley discovers the leopard is eating their face. By Michael Moritz at Sequoia. Musk vs Trump is a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley - on.ft.com/3ZuauMO via Financial Times

This only happens to you once

Seed investment by jamiegoldstein at Pillar VC

Have worked with Eric on several companies and he is the best. Sterling integritry, supersmart, funny, high energy, ambitious, never gives up. He will bring a strong vision for how we can develop our economy. Governor Maura Healey you made a great choice.

It's good to see Balaji turning up the volume on democracy, repudiating the pure autocrats.

Ross Douthat's interview of Peter Thiel... asks interesting questions but keeps interrupting Thiel before he can fully answer. Douthat talks more than 50% of the time.

This is nuts.