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“If your manufacturing and your critical minerals and your supply chains are controlled by Beijing, you are not secure,” U.S. Senator for Louisiana @SenBillCassidy said at the 2026 #AspenSecurity Forum.

Fully support this important proposal from @demishassabis. The time for us all to act is now. "...we must use this precious window before AGI arrives to shape this technology for the benefit of all humanity."

It’s a World-Class Investment. It’s a Junk Investment. What Is Going On With SpaceX? nytimes.com/2026/07/09/opi… via @NYTOpinion well done @bethanymac12

Thrilled to share that @TPRNews is now part of @JournalismProj's portfolio! Today, we announced $1.4M in support for TPR & its combination with @SAReport, in partnership w/ Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, More Perfect, and the Public Media Bridge Fund. theajp.org/american-journ…

A must-read: @rtraister on Graham Platner, women, power, and what comes next. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Also, FWIW: Moraff is not the only one using that madlibs style approach to candidate recruitment!! He's just the only one who bragged about it to the WSJ and then had it blow up in his face. Our way is harder -- but I'd argue worth the time.

Should homeowners in southeast and southwest Michigan who grow fruit and produce in home gardens have their irrigation water tested?

40 out of 86 Brown students scored a perfect 100 on their midterm. Then the professor moved the final in person, and 22 of those perfect scorers never showed up again. He'd suspected AI cheating from the start. The take-home midterm was deliberately harder than usual, yet the class averaged 96 when the historical range is 65 to 80. Some answers contained odd phrasing that matched what ChatGPT produced when he ran the questions through it himself. Roberto Serrano has taught economics at Brown for 34 years. He filed no accusations. He announced the final would be in person, count for half the grade, and that if the two distributions didn't match, the final alone would determine grades. Then the exodus. 27 students never showed up. 22 of them had perfect midterms. Of the 59 who did show, 19 failed. Several signed the exam and turned it in blank. The average fell from 96 to 48, the lowest in the course's history. He never needed a plagiarism detector. The cheaters identified themselves by walking away. A grade distribution became a confession. Here's the part nobody's sitting with. Serrano proved it. He sent the distributions to Brown's dean and provost. The provost never responded. The academic committee's reply amounted to calling it "a wake-up call." The students who bailed before the final walked away clean. Every university in America is now grading two populations, students and students plus ChatGPT, on one curve. The honest kids in Serrano's class watched a 96 average get set by machines, then sat a real final against it. The cheaters lost nothing. That's the incentive structure now, and it grades itself.

Rahm Emanuel spoke in Tel Aviv today. His family has roots in Israel — his father was born in Jerusalem, fought in the War of Independence, and his uncle is buried on the Mount of Olives. He flew to Israel to say hard things to Israelis who needed to hear them, from someone who has spent thirty years standing with Israel when it was politically costly. That's what a real friend looks like. Rahm didn't sugarcoat it. He said Israel has failed to convert military wins into strategic advantages. That Netanyahu has no day-after plan. That unconditional American support enabled the worst of Israeli domestic politics — settler violence, judicial destruction, diplomatic isolation. That Israel's favorability in America has dropped from 55% to 37% and is still falling. He said all of this standing in Tel Aviv, on the record. And then he said this: those chanting "from the river to the sea" will never have their way. A 23-state regional integration — Arab nations assuming responsibility for Palestinian governance, full diplomatic recognition of Israel across the Arab world, Israel as the technological spine of the most important trade corridor on earth — that's his vision. Not Israel's elimination. Israel's future. That's the difference between a critic and an enemy. The American far left doesn't fly to Tel Aviv. They don't acknowledge three consecutive Palestinian rejections of statehood. They don't talk about the "pay to slay" program or Hamas's founding charter. They don't offer a vision for Israel's security — because they don't believe Israel has a right to security. Rahm Emanuel does. I don't agree with every word of his speech. But I know the difference between someone wrestling honestly with how to save an alliance and someone who wants that alliance to end. Today, that difference matters more than ever. #Dem4Israel #IsraeliDemocracy

Rahm Emanuel's 🔥🧨speech at Tel Aviv University tomorrow. "The prime minister and his government have led Israel into a dead end....Unconditional American support has allowed you to deny food and medical relief to innocent Palestinians suffering in Gaza, leaving the world to conclude that Israelis are not only willing to kill the Palestinians but are completely indifferent to their death, destruction and suffering ....You cannot indefinitely fight the world that has stopped believing you have the right to fight....Your government is complicit in the horrors now being inflicted on innocent families in the West Bank...If I have anything to say about it, every Israeli attacking Palestinian civilians or their property will be sanctioned......The tragedy is that Netanyahu's government has helped Hamas achieve its objective [to kill the 2-state solution]."

A few months ago, I flew to Ohio to knock on the door of an American hosting laptops for North Korea. I didn’t expect much. But to my surprise, she told me everything: how DPRK operatives found her, what they asked her to do, how much they paid, and whether she ever questioned the work. She is one of an estimated 75–200 Americans serving as “laptop farmers”- people recruited to host corporate laptops in their homes so North Korean IT workers can appear to be logging in from the United States. Episode 3 of To Catch a Thief is live play.megaphone.fm/dxmk_dmwqckirt…

I reported last month that @johnofa, one of the first partners at Andreessen Horowitz, left his role at the firm due to political disagreements with Marc + Ben. Today, he's expanding on that in a column in NYT. "Some of the most powerful players in A.I. — led by some of my friends and former partners, to my great sadness — have raised hundreds of millions of dollars to forestall a more serious and meaningful debate about how A.I. should be governed." nytimes.com/2026/06/11/opi…

Diabetes researchers, including the editor of a flagship journal, ejected from conference after criticizing Trump's "dismantling" of biomedical research wapo.st/49EYInR

Fascinating work. The most compelling aspect may not be the 14-protein signature itself, but the concept that lung carcinogenesis can potentially be intercepted during an inflammatory “tumor-promoting” state years before radiographic diagnosis. At the same time, important to remember this is a risk-enrichment biomarker, not destiny; most patients with a high signature still never developed lung cancer. The key next step will be prospective validation: can targeting the IL-1β/inflammatory axis in biomarker-selected high-risk populations truly prevent cancer while maintaining an acceptable risk/benefit profile? @EricTopol @nytimes @ASCO

I had to see the #obamalisk! I love it. And I love how beautifully it fits with Jackson park, with the huge Cornell Drive replaced by a garden. I suspect Olmsted would approve.

When it hits you that one of your former San Francisco journalist peers left the industry to co-found a company and is now worth $4B. At least.

Great, but you can't get 40k oncologists in one room at asco. You can get a lot but not all of them.

Hugely enjoyed this one hour Q&A with Rana Foroohar. We somehow answered 60 questions.... ft.com/content/9c9386…

Countries get the cabinets they pay for. Singapore pays its Foreign Minister about S$1.1m, around US$800,000. The salary is benchmarked to 60% of the median income of the top 1,000 Singaporean earners. That is why you can get Vivian Balakrishnan, former eye surgeon and hospital chief executive, implementing @karpathy's external brain idea (link below). The speech shows deep understanding of AI and fills one with confidence about Singapore's future. The UK Foreign Secretary earns roughly £165,000: the MP salary plus a ministerial salary of about £67,000. The ministerial part is frozen since the crisis and is down by roughly a third in real terms since 2010. This is what a junior Magic Circle lawyer earns. Spain pays its ministers around €85,000. So you do not get a surgeon who has run hospitals. You get a party loyalist who has never run anything.

Rooting for you, and looking forward to g forward to reading.