"The pattern is clear: bigger minimum wage boosts meant bigger pay gains for restaurant workers. In neither case does the group with the largest raises show any indication of a more negative employment effect — in fact those groups’ employment estimates are slightly positive..."
THIS DEBATE IS OVER
Data Center Democrat in Chief Gavin Newsom
You do love to see folks like Gavin and Josh Shapiro setting their chances on fire nice and early. No amount of dirty tech money will buy a Dem nomination for someone who's selling out to AI creeps.
Great read
Looks like me like Newsom plans to run as a Silicon Valley Democrat—a Joe Rogan/Charlie Kirk fan who takes zillions in tech money and doesn't challenge tech oligarch interests.
He'll speak in vague platitudes about abundance, framing tech as an inherent positive.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
If you commemorate the Space X IPO by reading one article on Elon Musk today, make it this one from @edwardluce.bsky.social. It is a timely and hard-hitting reminder that the world's first trillionaire is also one of its very worst people. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
This is wild: essentially every LLM—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—keeps using the same character when asked to make up a story, a guy called 'Elias Thorne'. He appears so much it's impacting Google Trends data and the self-published book market. Now we might know why www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
I've been calling people like this Data Center Dems, which I think sums it up in a way normal voters will easily grasp
I wrote about Garry Tan in 2024:
The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right Wing San Francisco.
newrepublic.com/article/1786...
David Rothkopf
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
When 30 States Raised Minimum Wages, What Happened to Pay and Jobs?
arindube.substack.com
Silicon Valley: Everyone must use AI for everything all the time! It's a miracle!
Also Silicon Valley: Please do not use AI, it is too expensive (and we are watching you)
Elon Musk is Colonizing Earth
“In this town, almost every communal space is private property. A company controlled by the world’s richest man owns nearly all of it. He shapes its future.”
Sound familiar? (gift link):
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
Fresh from cozying up to crypto creeps, Gavin Newsom is now sucking up to Y Combinator president Garry Tan.
Tan is a Thiel disciple who designed the Palantir logo. He is an enthusiastic Network State cult member. In 2024, he tweeted "die slow" at four progressive San Francisco officials.
And now
