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@natemook @RudeFulk @Y_Stefanyuk @Ekaterina_Onish Amazing and dangerous work, as always. We appreciate all of you with the Hachiko team. And if I could, I’d bring those kitties to my home in the US. But since that is not feasible, donations to hachikofoundation.org are the best we can all do. 💙🐈💛

Thanks to everyone who has sponsored a Hachiko feeding station in the name of their pet 🙏 This is Hopscotch’s station in Izium in eastern Ukraine! $500 helps cover the cost of pet food refills for the year.

8:06 AM. The man whose name is on a book I wrote posted: "A whole civilization will die tonight." I am a ghostwriter. In 1987, I wrote the most famous business book in American history. Half the advance. Half the royalties. Eighteen months in his office, listening to his phone calls. He would flatter, threaten, hang up, and call the next person the greatest. I wrote it all down. I made it sound like strategy. Chapter 1 was about thinking big. I wrote that about condominiums. This morning, at 8:06 AM, the man whose name is on the cover posted seven sentences to a social media platform. The first: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." That is Chapter 1. I wrote that about condominiums. Chapter 3 was about leverage. "The best thing you can do is deal from strength." The example was a zoning board. The technique was implying you had options you didn't have. He is using Chapter 3 on a strait that carries 20% of the world's oil. The zoning board is a shipping lane. The leverage is a navy. I invented a phrase for him. "Truthful hyperbole." An innocent form of exaggeration, I wrote. A very effective form of promotion. I was describing how he inflated square footage. Thirteen thousand targets struck. Two thousand and fifty-six dead. Twenty-four thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven wounded. I wrote "truthful hyperbole" about square footage. Chapter 4 was about timing. When to make the call. When to let them wait. When to close. I was describing a contractor negotiation. He paused the bombing for Easter. Resumed it Monday. His Defense Secretary compared the rescue of a downed pilot to the resurrection of Christ. Shot down on Good Friday. Hidden in a cave on Saturday. Rescued as the sun rose on Easter Sunday. I wrote about timing. I was describing when to return a phone call. At the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn, while children hunted eggs, he told the cameras: "We are obliterating their country. And I hate to do it, but we are obliterating." Chapter 2 was about promotion. I wrote that about how to sell a building. A reporter asked if destroying every bridge in a nation of 88 million constituted war crimes. Three words: "Not worried about it." A journalist reported a downed pilot missing behind enemy lines. He threatened to jail the reporter. I looked through the manuscript. There is no chapter on press freedom. There is no chapter on international law. There is no chapter on what happens when the contractor you're threatening is a civilization. I didn't write those chapters. I was writing about real estate. He didn't notice they were missing. He doesn't read. Someone asked if God supported the war. "God is good." There is no chapter on theology either. Chapter 7 was about knowing when to walk away. I described a stalled deal. The lesson was patience. He walked away from every alliance his country had built in eighty years. Forty countries formed a coalition to guard the strait because nobody answered the phone. In my journal, in 1986, I wrote: "All he is is 'stomp, stomp, stomp' — recognition from outside, bigger, more, a whole series of things that go nowhere in particular." Forty years. Nothing has changed except the size of the things being stomped. I know he never read the book. Eighteen months together, I never saw one on his desk. Not mine. Not anyone's. The man whose name is on the most famous business book in American history has never read a book. He didn't need to. It was never a manual. It was a mirror. He looked at the cover — his name, in gold, larger than the title, as he'd requested — and saw everything he needed. "A whole civilization will die tonight." Seven sentences. 8:06 AM. A Tuesday. I called it truthful hyperbole. He is calling it foreign policy. I built the mythology. He added a military.

1. Trump's increasingly erratic behavior and deranged posts have led a lot of Democratic politicians and online activists to call for the invocation of the 25th Amendment. These calls are VERY understandable, but misguided. Here's why:

Nothing is much better than a cup of hot coffee or tea on a cold night, and an entertaining novel to read.

@toddvitolo @NYC_DOT repaired 7,601 potholes yesterday — a week’s worth in 14 hours.

If you want to talk about real reform, the most powerful single thing we could do is to end Citizens United. 16 years. That’s how long this has been poisoning the system. The campaign money dumped into both parties has completely skewed the legislative agenda. Big business. Big food. Big pharma. Tax cuts for the rich. Corporate welfare on an industrial scale. And the little guy gets nothing. Because we have built a separate but equal democracy. It has been 16 years since that decision. Now Trump has decided, I’ve got the ball, I’ve got the immunity, let’s go crazy with it. This is what unchecked money in politics produces at its logical endpoint. Get Citizens United off the books. Everything else follows from that.

If there was one clip I would want every American to listen to today it would be this one. It’s a 10 minute essential message that is long overdue. This is not catastrophising, it’s a recognition of the societal threat it represents. This not about using ChatGPT to write a report or an email, this is about the intersection between AI and robotics and that’s the accelerant on the fire that is AI. I have worked with it and I have seen first hand what it can do in terms of accelerating workflow and application development. It is formidable technology and we are way past the point at which the genie can be put back in the bottle. I wrote about it at length last year and in the short intervening period since, it has advanced beyond comprehension. As Bernie points out here, the threat to jobs is existential, but what’s important to recognise is that is the jobs most at risk are not at the bottom of the economic food chain, they are middle and upper middle class jobs. From accountants to bankers to research scientists to lawyers to programmers, a whole raft of middle and upper management roles are about to quickly become extinct. I believe we face the threat of an economic extinction event. Just as in 1928 when the wealth gap was not dissimilar to what it is today, it took an economic depression and a World War to drive an economic reset that also reset the wealth gap. These are dangerous times and unless we regulate this technology, society itself is facing an extinction event of its own. AI renders human labour acceptable collateral damage in this revolution. Declining population will shift from being a liability to an asset. The oligarchs believe they have insulated themselves against the human catastrophe that will follow. They believe they are on the right side of a winner takes all strategy and they might be right, but I suspect they are more likely wrong, because the fly in the ointment they are ignoring is CHINA. Xi is just sitting back while the West sets itself on fire. They are approaching the AI revolution in a totally different way. They will win because they don’t have to worry about the shareholder class. They don’t plan in 2 year election cycles, they plan in 10 and 25 year cycles. While the US was obsessed with large language models, China has integrated AI into manufacturing automation which is central to their wealth engine. They don’t have to build infrastructure, they’ve already done it. They don’t need to invest in supply chain infrastructure because the Belt and Road initiative is already in place. They own deep port and road infrastructure across Europe Africa and Latin America and have a distribution pipeline ready to go. They are electrifying their economy to remove reliance on fossil fuel imports. They are adding capacity to their energy grid faster than any nation on earth. In 2025 alone they added 543 GW with solar accounting for almost 50%. They have now surpassed 1,000 GW in solar power and given they manufacture 92% of the world’s solar modules they have ZERO supply chain issues as they march on to cheap energy when the U.S. is running away from renewable energy. They also added a further 80 GW of wind power. If you’re looking for a broader energy comparison, The capacity added by China since the end of 2021 already exceeds the entire power system of the United States. The critical point here is that the top two global powers are approaching the AI revolution from two opposite angles. The Chinese are seeking to integrate it into society, at the same time the oligarchs are seeking to replace society. This is why China will win and become the number one global economy. The world is at an inflection point and I’m afraid greed will prove to be the downfall of American imperial ambition. Will the rich survive? Of course they will, they always do. As for everyone else, I’m afraid you’re on your own unless they are stopped. My advice is to learn Chinese. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNRQyWfdX/

We are called "the elderly." But that quiet label hides something most people rarely stop to consider. We are the last living witnesses of a world that no longer exists. Look at us and you might see gray hair, slower steps, and the patience that time teaches. But listen to our story — really listen — and you'll realize something extraordinary. We are the only generation in human history to have lived a fully analog childhood and a fully digital adulthood. That's not a small thing. That's one of the most breathtaking journeys a human being has ever been asked to make. We were born in the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s, into a world still rebuilding from the rubble of World War II. Our toys were marbles and hopscotch and card games at kitchen tables. When the streetlights flickered on, that was it — childhood adventures were over, and it was time to go home. No smartphones. No streaming. No endless scroll. We built our memories in the real world. With scraped knees and laughter echoing down streets and friendships formed face to face. In 1969, we sat in living rooms staring at black-and-white televisions as Neil Armstrong took humanity's first steps on the Moon. Hundreds of thousands of us stood in muddy fields at Woodstock believing — really believing — that music and community could reshape the future. We fell in love to vinyl records spinning on turntables. We waited days, sometimes weeks, for handwritten letters to arrive. We learned patience because information didn't come instantly. Mistakes were fixed with erasers — not a delete button. Then the world transformed. Machines that once filled entire rooms shrank to devices lighter than a paperback. We went from rotary phones and party lines to seeing the face of someone we love on the other side of the ocean — instantly, on something that fits in a pocket. We watched the birth of the personal computer. The arrival of the internet. The smartphone. Artificial intelligence. And through every single shift — we adapted. Not because it was easy. Because that's what our generation does. We also carry the weight of history in our bodies. We grew up afraid of polio and tuberculosis. We watched science defeat them. We witnessed the discovery of the structure of DNA, the decoding of the human genome, the transformation of medicine itself. We survived pandemics across decades — and kept going. Few generations have been asked to absorb so much change in a single lifetime. And through all of it, certain things never changed. We still know the joy of a cold glass of lemonade on a hot afternoon. The taste of vegetables picked straight from a garden. The value of a long conversation that unfolds slowly, without a screen interrupting it. We have celebrated births and mourned losses. Carried the stories of friends who are gone. Watched the world become something our younger selves couldn't have imagined — and found ways to belong in it anyway. We are not relics. We are living bridges between two entirely different worlds. Our memory carries something the modern world needs — proof that progress doesn't have to erase wisdom. That speed doesn't have to replace patience, kindness, or reflection. So when someone calls us elderly, we can smile. Because behind that word is something remarkable. We crossed two centuries. Witnessed eight decades of transformation. Walked from handwritten letters to artificial intelligence — and never lost our sense of what actually matters.

This!! Nailed it! 🎯 🎯 🎯 Couldn’t say it better myself.

New Yorkers, join us in the first ever Mayor’s Municipal Madness: a competition of city fixes where everyone wins. City workers fix thousands of tiny annoyances every year, from broken basketball rims to bike path bumps. This year, we’re highlighting 16 of those fixes. From the exacerbating eight to the frustrating four, every item in each round will be repaired…but you’ll be voting on which fix will be done by me on day 100 of our admin. Round one of voting starts right now: nyc.gov/madness

(1/10) @realDonaldTrump cited me as supporting his attack on Iran and expressing regret we didn’t do it during the Biden Administration. Except I didn’t.

The stagnation of our economy - the powerlessness people feel bc wages are shitty and mobility is nonexistent - is downstream of the corruption of our politics. And voters get this. Our democracy is rigged to favor corporations and billionaires and that's why the economy sucks.

Rita Moreno is one of just three people to win an Emmy for The Muppets, the other two: Bernadette Peters and Peter Sellers. The comedy timing during her performance of "Fever" while Animal attempts to railroad her is incredible. It was also done in one take "Dat my kinda woman!"

There's many reasons why us dogs are happier than humans. Having zero doubts about jumping on the bed is one of them. In fact, if humans would spend more time bouncing, rolling, and wiggling, they would be significantly less stressed. Follow us for more lifestyle tips! #WoofsOfWisdom

Very well said!👏👏👏

#BREAKING: Senior White House staff are saying Trump is regretting the decision to strike Iran, having assumed being a wartime president would result in the same 80%+ approval ratings GWB received. Sending our troops to die for poll numbers. Unbelievable.

Only about six weeks until Thrillerfest, in New York City May 5-9! Really looking forward to this panel on Saturday morning with superstars @robertdugoni, @MarkGreaneyBook, @ToscaLee, Mark Sullivan and @JamesLEtoile. Still time to register at thrillerfest.com.