Garak Obama

I wish Trump had toppled the Iranian regime but the entire world was too weak to do it. Sorry but it’s true

The Left is going after Jaxon Dart with a vengeance for introducing Trump at a rally. Here is known leftist Stephen Curry and his head coach Steve Kerr lavishing praise on Biden for bringing Britney Griner home. Kerr also spoke at the DNC.

Jimmy Saville’s golden coffin was put on public display in the Queens Hotel next to Leeds train station so the public could pay their respects

New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history. How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today? I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it. This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it. (Link to full post in reply)