🎓 A reminder of the fantastic news that many will be waking up to this morning...

🥳 A win for our young people, our universities, and our economy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4ng7ee9vwo

Universities, whatever their faults, are one of America's most successful products. A massive exporter, they generate innovation and middle class jobs in places where people like Marc Andreessen never visit.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I have come to hate the term "techno-optimism," because it has been used to brand extreme techno-utopianism, but it's too powerful a concept to cede to the bros. Technology has made life better across history, but it's done so largely due to the kind of thoughtful implementation they want eliminated

A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans.

We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.

“Everybody in math and physics uses it.”

Nearly 35 years ago, Paul Ginsparg created arXiv, a digital repository for sharing research. It changed science for good.

Three decades in, Ginsparg reflects on its legacy—and its future.

The self-abasing, servile conduct of congressional Republicans, whose own power is under attack, is the element of the current crisis that the founding generation didn’t anticipate.

the reality of our world today is that as long as people look to invest to protect their families and retirement , there are going to be billionaires. Ending income inequality isn’t about taxing more it’s about getting appreciable assets like stocks into the hands of EVERY employee.

I’ve been saying this for a while: the party doesn’t have a messaging problem as much as they have a listening problem.

I support Ben Wikler for DNC Chair. I’m not sure about Vice Chair yet, but David Hogg is on point with his remarks about messaging & political consultants.
@davidhogg.bsky.social