Did Somali Tribal Warfare Pick The Mayor of Minneapolis?Nov 24
breaking down the rumors, history, and politicking behind a contentious mayoral election
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I Used AI to Email 3,800 Ivy League Bureaucrats, Now My School Is Investigating Me
it costs $93,064 to attend brown university. the annual budget deficit is $46 million. i wanted to know where the hell all the money was going.
Alex Shieh
Apr 1, 2025
Earlier this month, Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh lit the internet on fire after asking the school’s small army of non-instructional staff to justify their jobs, receiving coverage from Newsweek and Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. Today in Pirate Wires, he writes about the inspiration behind his project — and its aftermath.
Did Somali Tribal Warfare Pick The Mayor of Minneapolis?
San Francisco's (Partial) ComebackNov 17
after years of chaos under radical leadership, a new moderate coalition and builders like the sf 10x project are engineering a (fragile, partial) recovery, mostly fueled by the ai boom
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I Crashed the DSA Starbucks Siege in BrooklynNov 14
a dispatch from the red cup rebellion, where baristas and dsa members in keffiyehs marched outside a fully open starbucks, booing patrons picking up lattes and scones
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