Sean Blanda

Once again, the imperial presidency, created by both parties during the Cold War, by passing laws allowing the POTUS to act like a king simply by using the magic words “national security” or “national emergency” w/o evidence, was a grave mistake, & if we make it through this, it must be dismantled.

Parker has been one of our best mayors on trash, littering, and dumping. But this could undo all of that work and good will.

Cant wait to shove all of my 2 week old trash bags that have been sitting in the July heat into my car to take them to the dump

uggggghhh

Go birds

An example of Polymarket (as much as I love it) not exactly being the most prescient source

Inside the Democrats’ Struggle to Win Over Creators "What we need is for people to invest in independent media, and that doesn't necessarily mean investing in a consulting group that is going to become a middleman for independent media."

"What we need is for people to invest in independent media, and that doesn't necessarily mean investing in a consulting group that is going to become a middleman for independent media."

co-signed. Parker has been better than any mayor of my lifetime at making progress on litter and garbage.

Still much more to do, but it's made me optimistic!

Shoutout to the grannies

Small but mighty anti trump protest on South Broad

I want to try something. If you live in or around the city of Philadelphia, like this post.

THE WORST DEFENSE OF THE TRUMP TARIFFS:

I wrote in the newsletter today about how annoying it is to hear people talk about how we need these tariffs to reindustrialize and counter China in high tech manufacturing.

We were literally just doing that!

Sub here www.bloomberg.com/account/news...

how did that end? Just checking!

Links are good!

Old-school bookmarking with an AI helper A personal knowledge management platform that enables efficient digital content organization through AI-powered bookmarking technologies.

Ok damn.

Replit has blown my mind. Dumb ol' me just made a pretty useful Delicious clone in a few hours for less than $100.

Features include:
- Safari reader-like cache versions of all bookmarks
- AI agent that uses your bookmarks as source
- Easy ios sharing

savesies.com

I cant wait to question my mental health in the 15th row of 76 Place while our 2031 first round draft pick ruptures his Achilles

this is amazing

A lot of threads energy on Bluesky lately 😟

you love to see it

Of course, then I waited 25 mins for the subway - you can’t win them all.

Also, holy shit, Bluesky sends real traffic. Will update this tomorrow with firm numbers but journalism is going to move here for sure. Twitter is a drop in the bucket. It's over, but we are so back, and so on and so forth

That’s a clean subway station

This was great - thank you for sharing.

Co-signed. I always put that in any onboarding for a team I manage.

"We don't mind making mistakes. But we _really_ mind making the same mistake twice."

Elon admits that any post on X with a link is throttled

He advises you to upload content directly to X instead, where he can monetize it

Musk is the richest person in the world and his view is everyone should work for him for free

after 10 years of big social media telling us no one wants posts that link out to other websites, it turns out it was really just the big social media companies that didn't want that

The "free" growth techcos experienced from a rapidly upscaling Internet population has moved to a plateau.

From now on, time spent on sites/in apps is zero-sum, i.e. if someone wins, someone else is losing.

Millennials are now the main demo. We did it.

Blandas Law: a social platform has not arrived until it can reliably embue existential dread into the hearts and minds of Sixers fans

100% agreed! If I see one more thread that is summarizing a years old profile of an entrepreneur im going to lose my mind.