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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is many things. He’s a man of taste, known for throwing extravagant weddings from rooftops in Dubai. He’s a humanitarian, who stands to enrich New Yorkers lives’ by unleashing thousands of violent felons into their neighborhoods. He’s an aspiring rapper, who enjoys dropping bars under the alias “Mr. Cardamom” whilst wearing only a bib and staring dead-eyed into the camera from the interior of a halal cart as school-aged boys dance alongside him.

Good morning, pirates. Very quick note before we take you to today’s harrowing story from the seething pit of hell that is Bluesky: we’re back on Substack, and doing a bunch of fun stuff over there. Download the app and follow me if you want to hang. I’ll be discussing my Big Balls piece live in the app today at 3pm ET. I swear to g, we’re gonna get that boy the Presidential Medal of Freedom if it’s the last thing I do. —SOLANA“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too.

we need to make manufacturing better, cheaper, and faster through technology. it should be as easy to make physical things as it is to make software. the end.