2025-09-06 01:55:01
a16z announces an eight-week new media fellowship for people with a record of creating "impactful content" via newsletters, podcasts, communities, and more (a16z)
https://a16z.substack.com/p/introducing-the-a16z-new-media-fellowship
BJ Pryor is a professional Ben Franklin impersonator. Every day he distributes one of Franklin's writings. Today: Franklin reports on seeing "from the terrace of my house near Paris, the first flight through the air by human beings", and meets Montgolfier!
https://bjpryor.substack.com/p/flight
Pandemic Revisionism, Part One: COVID-19 Origins https://gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-revisionism-part-one-covid
a16z announces an eight-week new media fellowship for people with a record of creating "impactful content" via newsletters, podcasts, communities, and more (a16z)
https://a16z.substack.com/p/introducing-the-a16z-new-media-fellowship
Substack's extremist ecosystem is flourishing (The Handbasket)
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-extemist-nazi-problem-update
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p63#a250807p63
Speaking of attention, can there be aesthetics of attention beyond the obvious? Can there be a playful or mysterious side to our investigations?
https://open.substack.com/pub/salrandolph/p/manifesto-for-a-theater-of-pure-attention
Word of the day: AI-washing
"Where management wants to cut labor costs a la Amazon, shift to cheaper contract labor a la Klarna, or execute layoffs for ideological reasons, a la DOGE, “AI” is an extremely potent justification. Some business professors and analysts have taken to calling this practice “AI-washing.””
From Brian Merchants excellent Blood in the Machine newsletter/substack.
Yet another storm troubles #Vietnam, or as Mike puts it,
"the typhoon season is actually supposed to be over, but such is #climatechange"
#6: Dit is geen fictie meer - by @…
https://ramones.substack.com/p/6-dit-is-geen-fictie-meer?utm_medium=email
Wat te d…
They’re Coming for “Life of the Mother” Exceptions
https://jessica.substack.com/p/life-of-the-mother
Q&A with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Anthropic's growth to ~$5B in ARR, focusing on B2B, AI talent wars, open-source models, safety regulations, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/a-cheeky-pint-with-anthropic-ceo
The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg
https://open.substack.com/pub/donotpanic/p/the-liberal-abandonment-of-greta?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> The Swedish activis…
Glenn Kessler likens working at WaPo now to the Titanic, sinking and aimless under Will Lewis, who asked Kessler for advice on attracting Fox News viewers (Glenn Kessler/By Glenn Kessler)
https://substack.com/inbox/post/170093251
"He [potus] spoke of a necessary confrontation with an “enemy from within” and proposed using our own cities as “training grounds” for troops. This rhetoric dangerously blurs the line between soldier and police officer, a distinction that has been a cornerstone of American liberty for over two centuries and is enshrined in federal law. It is a radical departure that treats dissent as insurgency and American communities as battlefields."
Lately, my life has become an ocean of words—nothing but words, words, words to the vast horizon. This has me longing to just look, just see.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/just-seeing-vija-celmins
Dear Senator:
I am writing to urge you to take action on gun violence.
I have not always agreed with you over the years, but I have always respected your integrity.
I do not expect my elected officials to respond to polls, per se, but when 93% of the nation supports background checks,
I do believe that you should seriously consider the moral implications of betraying the will of the people.
Perhaps a story will help to clarify my views.
Just after gradu…
"Zohran Mamdani is not a symbol of socialism, or communism as Trump says, those boogeymen which fill the hearts of many Americans with terror. He’s something more powerful than that. His cry is: we don’t have to do things like we used to do. Everything can change. And it’s a message of hope that can resonate everywhere"
https://
Most probable prediction about OpenAI future I’ve read.
Spoiler: it will be successful and we will not like it.
https://open.substack.com/pub/defragzone/p/welcome-to-cognitive-capitalism
This Kansas Law Requires Doctors to Lie About Abortion
https://jessica.substack.com/p/this-kansas-law-requires-doctors
The Mad King's Television (Robert Reich)
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-trump-gets-and-processes-information
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p38#a251006p38
Oh, fun: Someone did some personal science to evaluate if _they personally_ benefit from "AI", and this is what they found:
«Yes, it’s a limited sample and could be chance, but also so far AI appears to slow me down by a median of 21%, exactly in line with the METR study. I can say definitively that I’m not seeing any massive increase in speed»
Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up
#quantifiedself
Who was Columbus, really? (Probably not all that Genoese.)
https://substack.com/inbox/post/174978
Annnd it's gone.
#trump
From: @…
https://www.
intressant från mindy issers nyhetsbrev https://mindyisser.substack.com/p/against-hating-men
The issue with "Apple takes over Substack payments to you can no longer port your subscriptions" as an argument to leave is that "it's a Nazi platform that funds Nazis" didn't work.
There's just the hope that "having a Substack" somehow pays better than running your blog somewhere else and that that trumps every argument. People will stay there.
(Which sucks cause some people whose work is important publish it on Substack making it impos…
Who does this remind you of?
"Within political parties, the same logic has often reappeared: rally the membership around the leader by creating an “internal other” to be purged — an “other” supposedly conspiring against the very essence of the organisation, which is, in turn, embodied by the leader or ruling clique."
https://
Tennessee Demands Records of Abortion 'Exception' Patients
https://jessica.substack.com/p/tennessee-demands-records-of-abortion
Sunday Pages: "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant" (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/sunday-pages-tell-all-the-truth-but
http://www.memeorandum.com/250907/p39#a250907p39
"That said, let’s say that I’m happy to accept that the new diet impacted the gut microbiome differently than the FODMAP diet. Well…who cares!? In the world of clinical trials of medicines, where there are standards, we would call this a surrogate outcome (at best)."
One simple trick that statisticians hate https://…
A good read (thanks to @…)
Deport Republicans: A Practical Guide
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/deport-republicans-a-practical-guide…
How the New York Times uses weasel words to normalize authoritarianism
https://criticalread.substack.com/p/how-the-new-york-times-uses-weasel
Science Under Siege: A Talk With Peter Hotez and Michael Mann (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/science-under-siege-a-talk-with-peter
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p21#a250906p21
A look at challenges facing Tether and Circle's stablecoin duopoly, such as intermediaries like exchanges and DeFi protocols exploring their own stablecoins (Nic Carter/Murmurations II)
https://murmurationstwo.substack.com/p/the-stablecoin-duopoly-is-ending…
Calling on all #LibraryDefenders -- the latest newsletter from For The People is out. Find out how to strength, expand, and defend public libraries! https://librariesforthepeople.substack
My favorite part of this is when ChatGPT tells the Lurie staffer about Mayor Lurie's budget instructions to city departments on December 13, 2023. Lurie entered office in January 2025.
https://sfanonymous.substack.com/p/read-how-top-mayor-daniel-lur…
BREAKING: Trump’s Secret Epstein Dinner Leaks — Panic Inside the Oval Office
https://levremembers.substack.com/p/breaking-trumps-secret-epstein-dinner
Elon Musk Is Gaming the Internet for Fascism
The billionaire X owner is accelerating his AI-driven assaults on reality and Europe had better harden its defences, argues Heidi Siegmund Cuda
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinesupplement/p/elon-musk-is-ga…
Will the Democrats Become the Party of Free Trade? (Daniel W. Drezner/Drezner's World)
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/will-the-democrats-become-the-party
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p31#a251006p31
"First, everything — everything — Trump has done on trade has, in addition to its illegality, been a violation of past U.S. agreements with other countries. So we emerge from the trade war as a nation that can no longer be trusted to honor its promises."
"We could have achieved victory by not hitting ourselves in the face in the first place."
Good explainer from Khelsilem of the Squamish about the recent Cowichan land decision, the background, and what it really might lead to: https://khelsilem.substack.com/p/setting-the-record-straight-on-the
Those findings vibe with me, but, like, what’s happening to the #Android ecosystem?
https://substack.com/inbox/post/172538377
Must-read, the next terrorist attack in the USA, and what comes after.
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-next-terrorist-attack-26b?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
"Trump & Vance can destroy what others have built. They can push…United States past…breaking point. But they lack…alternative…They want fascism, &…don’t mind death of others…To get what they want, on…fascist model, they will have to…fight a major foreign war in which they manage to send off young people who oppose them to die, or…have to use government forces to kill Americans. I don’t think…these will…work; Vietnam &…Kent State shootings had…opposite effect."
The Force Field
... meditation on how the 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑌𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 is years late to call out the movement that erases the experience of people with severe autism and their caregivers
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-force-field
The end of federal funding for NPR stations cuts deep in Trump country (Jeff Nesbit/The Contrarian)
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-end-of-federal-funding-for-npr
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p88#a251006p88
Hegseth’s speech was vile.
It was also stupid.
Bulging Biceps Don’t Win Modern Wars
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bulging-biceps-dont-win-modern-wars
been quite enjoying @…'s & @…'s respective show-by-show rundowns of #BobDylan &
Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient--on Her Abuser's Tip (Jessica Valenti/Abortion, Every Day)
https://jessica.substack.com/p/texas-abortion-surveillance-plate-reader
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p103#a251007p103
Are bacon, sunshine, wine and asbestos all the same? https://ggck2.substack.com/p/are-bacon-sunshine-wine-and-asbestos
Trump's Plan -- To invoke the Insurrection Act -- The direction we're going is either martial law or civil war. (Robert Reich)
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p161#a251006p161
Is this the most embarrassing error in the DOE Climate Working Group Report?
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatebrink/p/is-this-the-most-embarrassing-error?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&…
"Wertheimer argues that the famous Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act--which protects companies from liability for content posted by users to their websites--needs to be reinterpreted to exclude “platforms that actively promote content using reinforcement learning-based recommendation algorithms.”"
(Original title: Platform Temperance)
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the mother, but she is always with us.
#fiction #story #flashfiction
Hegseth’s speech was vile.
It was also stupid.
Bulging Biceps Don’t Win Modern Wars
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bulging-biceps-dont-win-modern-wars
From Bill McKibben
"Any conversation about Bill Gates and climate should begin by acknowledging that he’s been wrong about it over and over again. He’s explained that up until 2006—i.e., 18 years after Jim Hansen’s testimony before Congress laying out the science, and well past the point where George W. Bush had acknowledged its reality—he like Trump thought the whole thing was a crock."
America, Go Back to Civics Class, Please
https://socialcontractwithjoewalsh.substack.com/p/america-go-back-to-civics-class-please
Q&A with Marc Andreessen and investor Charlie Songhurst on Silicon Valley's past, present, and future, AI, productivity, Stripe, crypto, Musk, media, and more (Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/marc-andreessen-and-charlie-songhurst
I feel this very deeply.
(Original title: (DT! comic) A.I. FOMO can FO)
https://designthinkingcomic.substack.com/p/dt-comic-ai-fomo-can-fo
💽 Motorola, Intel, IBM Make A Mainframe in a PC - The PC XT/370
#ibm
When the Government Chooses Death - Dr Stacey Patton
https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/when-the-government-chooses-death
NASCAR launches on Substack, becoming the first major sports league on the platform; the newsletter will be written by NASCAR's in-house editorial team (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/26/nascar-substack-newsletter
Which Party Is in Trouble, Again? (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/which-party-is-in-trouble-again
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p33#a251105p33
The Wisdom of SecDef Douchenozzle (Claire Berlinski/The Cosmopolitan Globalist)
https://claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-of-secdef-douchenozzle
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p73#a251004p73
Prosecutors Can Indict a Ham Sandwich, But Can They Convict? (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/prosecutors-can-indict-a-ham-sandwich
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p91#a251105p91
"He who is without D-cup manboobs cast the first fat joke.”"
‘Look How Proud Ted Cruz Is Of His Fat Joke’: Republican Roasted for Body-shaming Democrat
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/look-how-proud-ted-cruz-is-of-his
The current AI investment boom will spark a "wildfire" that wipes out some companies, yet bolsters and enables others by unlocking GPUs, energy, and talent (Dion Lim/CEO Dinner Insights)
https://ceodinner.substack.com/p/the-ai-wildfire-is-coming-its-going
The Vacancy of the MAGA Mind (The Rational League)
https://therationalleague.substack.com/p/the-vacancy-of-the-maga-mind
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p124#a251103p124
‘Don’t Stream Fascism’: #Boycott Targets Spotify Over ICE Ads
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/dont-stream-fascism-boycott-targets
It's Time to Release the Epstein Files (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/its-time-to-release-the-epstein-files
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p58#a250904p58
Trump just loves the revamped CBS. Here's the ugly backstory. (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/trump-just-loves-the-revamped-cbs
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p30#a251104p30
Who's Threatening Who? -- America is living through an extraordinary experiment. (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threatening-who
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p32#a251104p32
All-Male Committee Will Decide South Carolina Abortion Ban
https://jessica.substack.com/p/all-male-committee-will-decide-south
October 3, 2025 -- Although President Donald J. Trump has not appeared in public since Tuesday ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-3-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p16#a251004p16
September 3, 2025 -- [Please note that this post talks about sexual assault in the last four paragraphs.] (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-3-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p64#a250904p64
**The Fourth Reich Has Arrived** - Dr Stacey Patton
https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/the-fourth-reich-has-arrived
The Department of Justice is using the FACE Act—the federal law protecting reproductive healthcare clinics—to go after pro-Palestinian protesters.
Trump is Hijacking the FACE Act
https://jessica.substack.com/p/woman-denied-miscarriage-carein-california
A Note About the Comey Case (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-about-the-comey-case
http://www.memeorandum.com/251002/p145#a251002p145
November 2, 2025 -- Last Monday, October 27, right-wing personality Tucker Carlson interviewed ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p44#a251103p44
September 2, 2025 -- In the early hours of Sunday morning, in the middle of a three-day holiday weekend ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-2-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p42#a250903p42
The Bonfire of Trump's Vanities (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-bonfire-of-trumps-vanities
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p15#a250902p15
Exclusive: ICE reactivated its $2 million contract with Israeli spyware firm Paragon, following its acquisition by U.S. capital (Jack Poulson/All-Source Intelligence)
https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-ice-has-reactivated-its
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p79#a250901p79