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This is a wild ride of a paragraph that I had to read half a dozen times to grasp all the weird inaccuracies.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last wk.

Why can't anyone do this in Australia? Why are modern "progressive" governments so impotent?

At our municipal grocery stores, New Yorkers will get a 30% discount on eggs, milk, chicken, produce and other everyday essentials. In the wealthiest city in the richest country in the world, no one should have to wonder how they’ll afford the food they need to feed themselves or their families.

Mayor Mamdani holds up bananas with a 30% off sticker on them.

I'm a fan of Subway Takes but this new YouTube series from Kareem Rahma is absolutely delightful. It's human stories, about the importance of connection and community. Kareem has a wonderful ability to listen to ppl and create unexpectedly emotional moments. A big recommend from me. Good stuff.

Keep The Meter Running - YouTube

New York City-based comedian and YouTube creator Kareem Rahma launches a new series where the journey truly is the destination. In each episode, Rahma hops i...

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As usual, the internet has reduced a wonderfully rich, 4000 word critique of something into 'Person trashes The Odyssey'. I highly recommend reading Wilson's essay. It's an incredible dive into the art of adaptation and it asks some really valuable questions about how to approach storytelling.

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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It's always funny when actors say, 'oh I'm actually genuinely proud of this one.' It makes you run through their filmography to try and guess what are the pieces of shit they refer to. With Tom Holland it could be almost anything. His last three, for example: Uncharted, Chaos Walking, Cherry.

Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

Just your annual reminder that dopamine IS NOT a reward chemical or pleasure mechanism that you get 'hits' of in response to external things. It's a motivation neurotransmitter that pushes one to action. You cannot 'dopamine detox' and it's got nothing to do with feelings of pleasure.

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke says “good system.” In response to the following proposal:

“Interesting... what about weighted voting proportional to the level of income tax you pay? (no income tax paid - O vote, $1-100k - 1 vote, $100-200k 2 votes and so on... cap it at 5 votes for $500k+. For those that constantly complain about the wealthy not paying tax/fair share they'd have nothing to worry about right? Why not reward representation of taxation and build a democracy around those that foot the bill?”

Dana Larsen @danalarsen.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is a really good take on why AI is not going to replace all our jobs. Also I'd add the utopia sold by ppl like Musk, where we all get a UBI and have infinite free recreational time, is a pernicious myth. The capitalist system that houses AI can never allow that future.

The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon

Artificial intelligence may not deliver on its promise of vast economic opportunity at a price that humanity is willing to pay

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We also didn't see any FIFA boost at our mushroom shops. Sales even slightly down. I thought tourists would want to sample local quasi-legal psychedelics. Music festivals however are good for us.

Vancouver Is Awesome@viawesome.bsky.social · 2w ago

Vancouver’s Chinatown businesses didn’t see bump in customers during FIFA World Cup

China has banned an unproven Alzheimer’s operation and detained its inventor, but international clinical trials of dcLVA are still going ahead—why? www.bmj.com/content/394/...

Great work from @frogsandstars.bsky.social. This was a difficult story to get out into the world but really valuable reporting.

The BMJ@bmj.com · 2w ago

Good for him? Took mushrooms recreationally with friends. Turned 5-meo DMT into a medicine. Sold it for billions. Cool story.

This Billionaire Made $360 Million Selling His Psychedelic Company To Eli Lilly

Twelve years ago, Christian Angermayer took a mushroom trip that inspired him to try to create FDA-approved medicines from psychedelic drugs. Now Big Pharma is making a $2.8 billion bet on his vision.

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I find these stories that frame international war as a travel inconvenience really unsettling. Literally one paragraph they talk about thousands of people being killed and the next we get an anecdote from a boomer talking about how tricky their holiday planning has become.

Hey UK friends! Waterstones has included Trip Reports in its summer pre-order sale so jump in and grab it now for 25% off. Out September 1st!

Only in IMAX will you discover Christopher Nolan's true vision for The Odyssey.

Latest dispatch out now. I offer some thoughts on a debate around the morality of recreational drug use, and offer a short excerpt from my book. Then we have some fun looking at a weird episode of TV where Bryan Cranston goes through a psychedelic therapy trip.

Report #3: Bryan Cranston does psychedelic therapy on Malcolm in the Middle

This dispatch I take a look at a wild episode of psychedelic TV. But first I do a bit of a deep dive into an idea that pops up quite often: the morality of recreational drug use

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I don't know what I want, or expect, or need, from a photo that accompanies a story about an alleged murderer. But I don't think this is it.

Doesn't take much to squint and see this as a 15 minute advertisement for AtaiBeckley and 5-meo-DMT. I'm still astonished this drug is being wheeled down the ketamine lane.

The Race to Commercialize the World’s Most Powerful Psychedelic | WSJ

YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal

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Holy moly. Adult tickets to Odyssey at imax Melbourne are $47 each! That's a hundred bucks for two tix plus booking fee. Sorry. Not paying that on general principle. This is not the future of cinema. This is not what the movies should be.

I know. Nothing matters anymore & this isn't the first time we've seen this over the last few months and years. But we shouldn't forget that for decades we drew a line against destroying civilian infrastructure like water supplies. We called it a war crime. And we should still call it that.

It's been fascinating watching the pro-psychedelic anti-pharma crowd trying to reconcile the Lilly buy in. For years I've seen this argument suggesting big pharma has been working in the shadows to suppress psychedelic medicine because it will destroy their SSRI business.

Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed kinda flattened out over its last few episodes unfortunately. Holds it back from a hard recommend. But it's still upper tier TV with a great lead turn from Maslany and a pumping score. Murray Bartlett is so much fun.

Count Binface on News Night. Yeah this tracks as pretty normal for 2026.

When Count Binface tore up Newsnight

YouTube video by Count Binface

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