Laszlo Bock

The DNC should release this as an ad immediately

Hmm.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Navarro has repeatedly (and falsely) claimed that "illegals" were taking the jobs of Americans, including in this very interview.
If that's the case, then why is he now warning that job growth will slow amidst mass deportations? Shouldn't this be boom times for native-born workers?

Jeffrey Epstein circle’s ‘big ideas’ were vacuous guff Emails show that despite hooking up the rich, the powerful and intellectuals, the philosophising was utterly banal

One lesson of the Epstein emails is the total intellectual vacuousness of the international business elite

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

Great to see an AI tool where the user is not the product

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Maps of Ice Out for Good Events all over the USA

Here's the map after 24 hours of launch. Find your event or get one up here: www.mobilize.us/map/?tag_ids...

Chart showing the graduation rate of division 1 Athletes, in 1991 and 2025, showing that the rate for Black men athletes has increased from 33% to 48%, And for black women has increased from 45% to 62%. The graduation rates for all groups of athletes have improved.

As you get mad seeing your favorite college teams lose to randos, know this:

1. I truly don't care. Hold that L.🤷🏿‍♂️

2. We did this to improve college athlete graduation rates, and to reduce college athlete poverty. This is a civil rights issue.

And yes, athlete graduation rates are up since NIL!
🙂🙃

Scooby I am as white as a hotel towel, and the closest thing to Mexican I am was a single all inclusive resort stay in Cancun. I put a Mexican flag sticker on my old Tacoma abd was promptly pulled over by ICE in San Antonio. I'm happy to waste their time 1d RookaTX This is the way Scooby • RookaTX Their big question was like, "why the sticker" I told them it was on the truck when I bought it-and they suggested I remove it. Obnoxious creatures. 1d

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

Love this idea! Thanks for reporting on it!

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

I'll never forget you, @rickklau.com

The billboards on the way through SF to SFO are like a parody of the city.

“Wooza can push to Splorg. Can your TSMP?”

"The former Wiggles CEO has claimed in federal court documents that the blue Wiggle “undermined him” in front of other staff and excluded him from a meeting with Kmart to discuss selling their toys."

covered a lot of topics in this one but i really cannot overstate how much this single sentence derailed my week

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Filing: Nvidia reveals its top two customers accounted for 39% of its Q2 revenue, up from 25% in Q2, 2024 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

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a graph of tariffs as a % of US GDP, which hovers at 0.5% during smoot-hawley and spikes to nearly 0.9% today

graph of intense pain & suffering

Next they'll be helping with the potato harvest

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

The Wage Gap Between CEOs And Workers Is Widening—And This Popular Company Is The Biggest Offender The CEOs of the country's lowest-paying large companies made $17.2 million on average last year. Their workers made $35,570.

The CEOs of the country's lowest-paying large companies made $17.2 million on average last year. Their workers made $35,570.

Does HR still need humans? AI can perform many of the duties of human resources staff, a symbol of how it is changing companies and the nature of work

Key question from @laszlobock.bsky.social: "whether AI’s productivity benefits [will be] claimed by capital — feeding through to bigger profits or higher executive pay — or shared with labour, in the form, say, of shorter working hours or higher salaries" on.ft.com/41cuDrw @andrewtghill.ft.com

How Trumpism is like Stalinism. A thread. 🧵🧵🧵
Many people make valid comparisons of Trumpism to Nazism. But I think MAGA authoritarianism bears more similarities to Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union – ruthless, paranoid, dishonest and determined to climb into every aspect of the lives of his people.

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor Robby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke."

This is why I don’t spend much time on Meta’s Threads.

So beyond repulsive.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Trump's Second Favorite Island (With Another List) Republican donors funnel millions through Guam, spotlighting the need for campaign finance reform

Hello Mr. Leopold, I’m Zach, a high school journalist. I just published an exclusive investigation into how 193 Trump donors funneled $2M through Guam, raising quid pro quo and campaign finance concerns. Would be grateful if you gave it a look or shared it:

open.substack.com/pub/zachkahn...

Trump today: "I'm surprised he [Jerome Powell] was appointed. I'm surprised frankly that Biden put him in."

Trump in November 2017: "It is my pleasure and my honour to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve."

I'm just so happy we found a place where two friends can have a private conversation (I have no followers)

Seriously VERY impressed by this. Bravo!