Tom Fishman

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@SavannahFeder Amazing. Can I request early access? I'm at a mid-sized B2B company that serves both SMBs and enterprise across two business units. Super lean team. Already strong business with a lot more headroom. We're the exact case study for this.

Today, we're releasing Claude Code for marketing. It does a marketer's work in minutes by browsing, clicking, and posting like a human would. The marketing hire is now optional:

Great conversation on DTH! Thanks @Tom_Fishman & @prohuman_org

Pleasure talking to @wilksopinion who's doing incredible work in the bridge building space.

How a book written in 1910 can teach you calculus in 30 seconds:

I have always hated the Indiana Pacers

I wasn't worried and am still not worried about a descent into fascism, because I don't think Trump or his admin is made up of fascists. I think it is true they have contempt for the system that restrains them, viewing all obstacles as opponents, and they take glee in the standoff. But that's more the ideological core of the people in the White House than fascism, which matters. Not everything has to be a historical analogue. I've got plenty of faith in courts, Congress, the media, voter sentiment, etc. containing this admin's worst instincts. And, for the most part, still do (see the tariff backdown, for instance). But as calls to defy SCOTUS and court orders grow louder, including from Republican members of Congress and influential members of the conservative media ecosystem, my confidence erodes. Yours should, too. I genuinely view my job as calling balls & strikes honestly as I see them -- with transparency and integrity. I expected plenty of bad outcomes from Trump 2.0 because it was clear to me he was on a revenge tour more than he was on a 2016-style-save-the-forgotten-man tour. I also had hope for a lot of good (including the return of more order on the border). But the last 2 weeks have been incredibly disappointing, depressing, and scary, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise for the sake of appearing "nonpartisan" or "doing centrism." That would just be subscribing to an ideology which is as bad as being tribalistically left or right. Nonpartisan, to me, is having no allegiance to either major political party, which I don't. I happen to also have moderate and centirst-looking politics on a lot of issues, which is convenient. And also ends up making it so my views are much more tempered than the legion of alarmist and fire breathers in our modern media. But, at some point, even the level-headed among us need to be able to call out frightening developments without fearing accusations of pearl-clutching, TDS, partisanship, or overreacting. So, the truth is I haven't really ever seen a moment like this. I'm alarmed, and worried, about a genuine crisis if Trump & co. ignore the Supreme Court, or lower courts, and what happens when those courts try to enforce orders that are being ignored. I'm concerned about the number of people genuinely willing to back Trump on this one issue even if it means ignoring SCOTUS, as if that won't set a new standard we all have to live with. I'm concerned about the Twitterization of government and the brain rot this website has seemed to cause in so many otherwise rational people. All of it scares me.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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@WillManidis …and also treating inane bullshit like life and death because it’s digitally mediated

this also feels like an underrated input into the “everyone is slowing becoming insane” saga. we are simply worse at assigning moral weight to things that happen on screens. people are treating life and death situations like video games because they are digitally mediated

the tragic part about more of the important moments of our lives taking place on screens is how much worse we are at forming these memories i can remember so many throw away moments that happened far away from a phone, but almost zero of even the life changing ones digitally

For every $100 you pay in taxes, this is the breakdown of where your money goes: $24 to health insurance programs $21 to social security $13 to defense $13 to paying off our debt $8 to veterans and federal employee benefits $7 to economic security programs $5 to education $2 to transportation $1 to resources and agriculture $1 to science and medical research $1 to law enforcement $1 to international programs $5 covering basically everything else (like education, infrastructure, etc) If you think we're gonna fix this mess we're in by obliterating international aid or cutting off funding for science and medical research (prob the best bang for our buck we get) I literally don't know what to tell you.

What are we being manipulated to argue about today? 🤔

With trust in mainstream media at an all-time low and so many media orgs struggling to keep their lights on, @TangleNews has had the best few months in our company's 5+ years in existence. Today: 340,000+ newsletter subs, $3 million+ in sub revenue, a flourishing ad biz. Why?

Elon Musk has canceled 16 full ride scholarships at the University of Nebraska for students who would have been teachers in impoverished areas. Did anyone vote for this?

Today I was sent the following cool demo: Two AI agents on a phone call realize they’re both AI and switch to a superior audio signal ggwave

Missed the white lotus premiere, did rich people turn out to have personal foibles exacerbated by their wealth, was travel revealed as less a chance to “get away” but as proof that you never can?

@RobMarkman 💯

Feels like this is just me, but when I’m eating wings, i don’t dip in any ranch or no sauce. If i ordered lemon pepper i wanna taste lemon pepper, if i ordered Smoked BBQ, I wanna taste smoked BBQ. I don’t need all those additional flavors

If a woman had 13 kids by four different men, used ketamine and spent all her time running a shadow presidency, I’m not sure our society would celebrate her.

the second you figure out someone gets their motivation from hatred you can safely write them off. nothing beautiful/great/lasting has ever been created from a place of hatred. in the short term you can squeak by, but the devil will tear you down in the end

One of the most dominant trends on this platform is that “truth seekers” who have “courage” and insist on “free speech” are completely intolerant of being told when they are full of shit. My block list is like a who’s who of people determined to mislead their followers daily.