What an embarrassment (understatement) from my alma mater. I wish I could write it off as a one-off but I remain in the immediate geography of FIU, and I’m plugged into the culture. This manifestation is unsurprising.
Adeptly assembled take here from @cwarzel.bsky.social. Been thinking about these themes lot as well. The reflexive, meme-ified cynicism in culture these days is startling. Fills me with sadness. Can probably have chicken egg argument about origins, but it’s a cycle worth breaking. A return to hope.
once my son woke me up to ask what a three dimensional hexagon was called. yes, please. ask me about the gay instead.
“Ehstephani”
From his parents:
"I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting."
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Andor was cooking so unbelievably hard good grief
Grok is so much worse than you think.
Someone made a 2007 YouTube video and released it in 2026.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmG...
"Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow." -- Becca Good, wife of Renee.
Strong meme, kids
This whole situation is what we call “un arroz con mango” — roughly translated as “clusterfuck”
100pct correct. Empirically, we are as close to a consensus on this as we are likely to see on any topic. It's wild how pervasive the stigma and rhetoric remain.
This escalation of Risk-coded “hemispheric dominance” lines up with where elements of our culture - specifically business / venture capital culture - has been headed. It’s “blitzscaling” applied to geopolitics. (Which of course comes from the word “blitzkrieg”)
Adjacent Cuba / south Florida geopolitics : @danielrivero.bsky.social
Eh… we’ll just place the poly market bet instead…
can’t wait to see them here in miami in a few weeks. i’ve somehow missed seeing them play over the years.
This is correct. Regardless of how you feel about the attack/ taking Maduro, there is already a legitimately elected government that is not Maduro.
But because of today's actions, a future election could have a different outcome. So that's a no-go. Concretely, this is not about democracy.
And @cydharrell.bsky.social has an amazing starter pack of civic technologists as well… go.bsky.app/Dw5gEA1
Happy to see “local gov” as an explicit focus. When I first got here, I took a stab at pooling some friends with a starter pack… would love more convos from practitioners. Some dialog we used to have on Twitter has showed up on linked in. But would be great to have here. go.bsky.app/2F5V9bS
Great line in this article: “My phone is my toy and my toil, the first object I touch upon waking, the spackle to my spare minutes, the inanimate partner in our shared lie, which is that it works for me and not the other way around.”
“I work on government innovation”
“Oh… so you’re like DOGE?”
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As a society we must better explain why "eliminating information silos" is such a dangerous goal at the fed level.
Some data sharing is good! But only in a privacy-preserving way, with individual consent. A significant engineering challenge that SV billionaires don't want to see completed.
The way I try to de-AI-ify my classes is that I emphasize at the beginning and throughout the semester that all we're doing is reading some interesting shit other humans have produced, talking about that shit, and writing about it. Humans have been benefitting from that process for centuries w/o AI.
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
Agree. I enjoyed a Wired article from a few weeks back making a similar point recalling the dot com bubble burst days.
bsky.app/profile/sara...
Fantastic piece “digesting” a fantastic album.
Weaves reflections on our collective consumption of slop and our consumption of god.
Who said people don't want to work in government anymore.... This will be exciting to follow/study!
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