I gave a talk for the @CambridgeHPS Coffee with Scientists seminar series titled "Anomalies and Ambiguity in Scientific Discovery: Lessons from Cold Fusion" Consider giving it a watch! youtube.com/watch?v=o43x5DC2…

Alex Karp is bragging about Palantir's role in Israel and the US's precision military strikes in Iran. On the first day of the war, a US strike killed 120 schoolgirls.

This is why real democracies have that pesky thing known as due process.

This is coming from a famous economist, so it's probably worth clarifying that there's no economics in this report showing that their degrowth pathway is either an ideal or likely decarbonization path. It's an opinion they work backwards from.

This ain’t how quantum entanglement works 🤦‍♂️

Democrats have provided reflexive & unconditional support to Netanyahu & Israeli governments, even as they undermined the values we claimed to stand for.   It's time to end taxpayer-funded support & condition arms sales to end the occupation & salvage a 2-state solution. nytimes.com/2026/05/26/opini…

Applications are open until June 1st for the 2025 Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive! Launch a blog and improve your progress-focused writing with expert guidance and an amazing community progress builders, writers and intellectuals. You'll learn from a phenomenal advisor lineup including @tylercowen, @_brianpotter, @elidourado, @vpostrel, @_alice_evans, @kesvelt, @glukianoff, @akoustov, @Brendan_McCord, and Elle Griffin. RPI fellows are now leading conversations on AI policy, transportation, agriculture, biotech, housing abundance, and more—with work appearing in major outlets like the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the Atlantic. What you'll get: Launch/re-launch a blog/Substack, develop consistent writing habits, improve your craft, build your audience, and connect with progress studies leaders and build community with engaged, thoughtful fellow writers. During the 10-week program, you'll write and publish 4 essays with feedback from our developmental editor @MikeRiggs, the RPI team, and your fellow writers. This year features two tracks, in addition to our general progress track: human flourishing & potential and security & resilience. We welcome fellows writing on ANY progress topic, but a handful of spots will be reserved for these tracks. BONUS: Attend a 3-day in-person retreat in Pennsylvania and receive a free ticket to the invitation-only 2026 Progress Conference with ~400 authors, technologists, policy experts, academics, and nonprofit leaders. Meet your peers and your heroes! This is for you if: You're passionate about progress studies and love writing. Maybe you want to explore a writing career, join a think tank, write to build community around a cause area, and of course take your existing blog to the next level. Commitment: 10–15 hours weekly for 10 weeks (July 27–Oct 2). The weekend retreat is August 20–23. There is no cost to participate. Applications close June 1st!

I was thrilled to honor the legendary Ruth Messinger at our pre-Shavuot celebration at Gracie Mansion for Jewish American Heritage Month. Jewish Americans have long been trailblazers for justice, from labor leaders like Clara Lemlich and Rose Schneiderman to Civil Rights leaders like Henry Moskowitz, Rabbi Heschel, and Marjorie G. Wyler — Ruth Messinger’s mother — who marched from Selma alongside Dr. King. In order to ensure that Jewish communities can continue to thrive here, my administration is increasing hate crime prevention funding by 800% — because New York must be a place where everyone can live safely and freely. Whether you are about to finish counting the Omer or are looking forward to cheesecake, Chag Sameach and happy Jewish American Heritage Month!

While Jewish extremists attacked and harassed Palestinian Christians and Muslims in Jerusalem, other Jewish activists were distributing flowers to people. One group chose hate and violence. The other chose love and peace.

One question Ralph Baric has never answered satisfactorily is this: Why did he never inform pandemic leaders that his lab and Wuhan bat scientist Shi Zhengli had submitted a proposal to genetically engineer a coronavirus with a furin cleavage site two years before a pandemic caused by a coronavirus with a furin cleavage site erupted in Wuhan, China? Adding a furin cleavage site is a gain-of-function experiment and may be one of the reasons COVID-19 became able to infect humans! Baric’s withholding of this knowledge prevented scientists from realizing early on that COVID-19 was not a typical animal virus that often infects humans poorly, but was likely a coronavirus purposefully engineered to infect humans. Withholding knowledge of these proposed experiments allowed Fauci et al. to cover up his approval of NIH funding for gain-of-function experiments in Wuhan and to deceptively shift blame to the “wet market.” The cover-up would have been less successful had Ralph Baric revealed that scientists in Wuhan were seeking funding for these gain-of-function experiments. realclearinvestigations.com/…

If you say that something is fake, a false flag, a setup, a hoax, a psyop, or staged before you have gathered any evidence and had a chance to analyze it, you’re radicalized, and that radicalization is impacting your ability to assess reality.

"Women's fertility does not drop off rapidly after age 35. That's a myth caused by faulty data. The decline is earlier & more linear." It is really a scandal we don't tell women this. x.com/RuxandraTeslo/status/2…

Mayor Mamdani visited today the Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College to mark Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day🕯️ Mamdani met there with Holocaust survivor Manfred (Manny) Korman, who was rescued through the Kindertransport program.

A U.S. Army staff sergeant and his wife arrived at his base in Louisiana last week, expecting to begin their life together as newlyweds. ICE has arrested and caged her instead. She was brought to the USA as a toddler. These people should be citizens.

Happy Passover, Chag Pesach Sameach, and a Zissen un Koshern Pesach!

“Israeli Forces Bulldoze Saint George Statue in Christian Lebanese Village”

The Swiss outlasted their nationalist neighbors by embracing freedom and sane federalism, despite being an ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse country. Blood and dirt nationalism is a loser’s ideology. Freedom, federalism, and diversity are for winners.

A Jewish comedian is boycotting a Jewish benefit celebration of Passover and Seeds of Peace because the Mayor is attending. How small. How low. Our community is better than this!

While a unilateral TACO is “bearish” relative to a boots on the ground regional blow-up scenario, it’s not bearish in absolute terms—and very likely still justifies crude prices higher than their current sanguine levels. So, yes, I think the war can end and oil can still rise.

A very incisive and thoughtful essay from @jonnythakkar in @the_point_mag and h/t to @WCrowdsLive for putting me on to this piece with a great podcast episode: open.spotify.com/episode/19K… Essay: thepointmag.com/politics/bey…

WTF are we doing?