Founder Regeneration Consulting, Founder & CEO, Boma, TEDx Founder, Dreamer.
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I’ve traveled the world, and #NJTransit is among the worst train systems I’ve ever experienced. Doors that don’t open. Dangerously overcrowded trains. Chaos masquerading as public transport.
This isn’t just incompetence. It’s a public safety liability.
New Jersey deserves better. Where is the accountability?
#NewJersey #mayor @NJTRANSIT #NJTransit #NJT #NewJersey #TransitSafety #TransitAccountability
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New York is one of the loneliest cities on earth because we never gave people permission to just… stop.
A piazza in every neighborhood fixes this. No agenda. No purchase necessary. Just a square where humans can be human.
Rome figured this out 2,000 years ago. We catching up? @Mamdani
#NYC #PublicSpace #ThirdPlaces #UrbanDesign #LonelinessEpidemic
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Spent almost 2 hours at breakfast today with India’s Nobel Peace winner Mr Kailash Satyarthi & his very smart wife. Motwani Foundation will kick off a three-year project in Gujarat with the Satyarthi Foundation - this will enable creation of several child friendly villages in 4 districts. Stay tuned. More on this later.
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Over the past few months I've been working on a very exciting project: a new $10m fund for research on multi-agent multi-principal AGI safety! Instead of focusing on single agent alignment and centralized control, we're looking to support research focusing on multi-agent settings, mechanism design, cooperative AI, and coordination problems.
This is a joint initiative between @GoogleDeepMind, @Googleorg, @schmidtsciences, @coop_ai, and @ARIA_research. Huge thanks to @James_D_Fox, @weballergy, @FranklinMatija, @lrhammond, and @ObadiaAlex for their invaluable work!
See: deepmind.google/blog/investi…
Apply: schmidtsciences.smapply.io/p…
The No-Bid Contract That Is Turning Washington’s Reflecting Pool Blue nytimes.com/2026/05/08/us/po… via @NYTimes How about a community swimming pool?
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Dario Amodei just gave his first interview since the Pentagon blacklisted his company. The toll is visible on his face.
He was asked one question. What would you say to the President right now?
He didn’t hesitate.
Amodei: “We are patriotic Americans. Everything we have done has been for the sake of this country.”
Anthropic built their models to defend America. They were the first AI lab cleared for classified military systems. They wanted to help the warfighter.
But the Pentagon demanded unrestricted access to fully autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens.
Amodei drew the line.
The government responded with emergency Cold War powers. A supply chain designation normally reserved for foreign adversaries. A six-month federal phaseout ordered from Truth Social.
Amodei: “When we were threatened with supply chain designation and Defense Production Act, which are unprecedented intrusions into the private economy, we exercised our classic First Amendment rights to speak up and disagree with the government.”
The administration framed Anthropic’s refusal as anti-American.
Amodei’s response dismantled that framing in one sentence.
Amodei: “Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world.”
Here is the deeper paradox nobody in Washington wants to say out loud.
We are in a geopolitical race against autocratic adversaries who use AI for mass surveillance of their own citizens and autonomous weapons with no human oversight.
The Pentagon demanded that Anthropic build those exact capabilities for America.
Amodei: “The red lines we have drawn, we drew because we believe that crossing those red lines is contrary to American values.”
You cannot defeat authoritarianism by adopting its methods.
You cannot defend the open society by forcing private companies to build its antithesis under threat of wartime emergency powers.
Anthropic held the line. Got blacklisted for it. And came out the other side saying the same thing they said going in.
That is what it actually looks like to mean it.
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Yes! Good usually happens slowly. Bad often happens quickly. This is a huge reason why 'the news', aka what just happened, distorts our view of the world.
Me:
I try to look at data and trends rather than headlines, because headlines can give you a misleading picture of the state of the world. Something goes wrong every day — that’s guaranteed — and if you just look at something goes wrong and say, oh, things are getting worse, you might be forgetting all the things that went wrong in the past.
Andrew Marr:
And what we call the news is a long litany of all the things that are getting worse or going wrong.
Me:
Well, yes, it’s much easier for something bad to happen suddenly than for something good to happen. Good things either creep up on you a few percentage points a year, and sometimes can compound.
So the fact that, for example, extreme poverty in the world has been declining and a billion people have escaped extreme poverty over the last 30 years — but not on Thursday — so it was never an event from the news. One of the biggest events in human history is something that most people have never even heard of.
@AndrewMarr9 @LBC
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Someone remade the AI Coca-Cola ad - but with a different type of coke 🫠
(from u/DowntownCat6160)
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Bridging. Is. Possible. #hope
What gives you hope for American democracy?
At #TEDNext this week, Democratic Governor @MattMeyerDE and Republican Governor @GovStitt shared their thoughts on rebuilding trust, overcoming polarization and more: t.ted.com/O8tSKgB
Dear @united @EWRairport, why is your AC set to Antarctica? ❄️
1.Killing the planet 🌍
2.Freezing passengers 🥶
3.Dumb, dumb, dumb 🙄
And as if that’s not enough, this is my 2nd canceled/delayed flight with you this week…
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This was a really terrific talk by @glukianoff. And I also love that he took time to detail his prep process... just in case you'd like to know what it feels like to prep a TED Talk! eternallyradicalidea.com/p/m…
"Free speech makes you safer. Free speech cures violence. Free speech protects the powerless. And even 'bad' people can have good ideas." My talk from April at @TEDTalks 2025 in Vancouver is live!
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MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING — AND I AGREE — THAT I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM (AMERICA’S FAVORITE GOVERNOR) DESERVE THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. WHY? BECAUSE OF THE “MOST INCREDIBLE MAPS IN THE HISTORY OF MAPPING” (EVEN COLUMBUS). THESE MAPS WILL END THE “VERY RIGGED” ELECTIONS, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN (MAGA!!!), RETAKE CONGRESS “FOR THE PEOPLE”, AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. NOBODY ELSE COULD HAVE DONE THIS — CERTAINLY NOT THE “SELF-PROCLAIMED” MASTER DEALMAKER DONALD “TACO” TRUMP (TINY HANDS) WHO MISSED “THE DEADLINE” AND LOST (SAD!). PEACE THROUGH MAPS — NO ONE HAS EVER THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE. I AM THE “PEACE TIME” GOVERNOR NOW, STOPPING “POLITICAL WARS” BEFORE THEY START. HARMONY, UNITY, EVEN LOVE. THE NOBEL COMMITTEE HAS GIVEN THIS AWARD TO LESSER PEOPLE FOR MUCH LESS. I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, ACTUALLY EARNED IT. THE WORLD WILL BE SAFER, KINDER, AND FRANKLY MORE “BEAUTIFUL” BECAUSE OF MY MAPS. GIVE GAVIN THE NOBEL, MANY ARE SAYING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! — GCN
Sad day for the U.S. A line has been crossed. The Trump administration’s attempt to block foreign students from Harvard is a direct attack on our values, our future, and global leadership. Time for all of us to stand up. #SadDayForAmerica #ActNow #DefendDemocracy #SpeakUp
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Sad day for the U.S. A line has been crossed. administration’s attempt to block foreign students from Harvard is a direct attack on our values, our future, and global leadership. Time for all of us to step up. #SadDayForAmerica #ActNow #DefendDemocracy #SpeakUp
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