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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 18/10/2025

John Brown’s fort in Harpers Ferry 🫡

Dug Song @dugsong.com · 09/05/2025

AGAINST FORGETTING - portraits of Holocaust survivors in #Mannheim, birthplace of the automobile. Germany’s culture of remembrance 🙏🕊️ #VictoryDay

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 06/05/2025

CEO Markus (met him 16 yrs ago!) grew up in social housing and founded $DHER.DE, Philipp built $ZAL.DE, Bernd built timber/manufactured wood products. Other execs led auto / digital manufacturing in Germany & Detroit. Dream team! #Gropyus

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 06/05/2025

Incredible visit to portco Gropyus.com - attractive, affordable, sustainable housing designed by humans, engineered by software, built by robots, and worker-assembled to German-level quality, safety, energy efficiency (~LEED Gold) 🏡🌱 #FactoryForHousing #AffordableByDesign #MassTimber

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 06/05/2025

China may outspend the U.S. on R&D by >30% by 2030 📈 www.rdworldonline.com/china-could-... Meanwhile Trump’s budget slashes NSF by 56%, NIST 40%, EPA 55%, CDC by 33%, NASA 24.3%, NOAA 25%, USGS 38.6% 😵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 07/04/2025

The future of American opera is in #Detroit! Yuval Sharon’s wild reimagining of Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte” as BigTech AI dystopia just premiered - thx to Barb Walkowski for securing him for Detroit Opera! www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/m...

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 07/04/2025

Another keynote at #Michigan Ross, this time for the student-run Midwest Ventures Conference. The kids are alright, and so is the entrepreneurial future of b-school!

Dug as Coach Harbaugh, with the help of AI

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 03/04/2025

An incredible conversation with @jeffiel.bsky.social & @karaswisher.bsky.social today, and dinner with founders from #AnnArbor to #Detroit tonight! Great to have Jeff back in Mich-again!!! ❤️

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 29/03/2025

Ford securing access to Tesla’s supercharger network was the best free upgrade ever 💙🚙 #MachE

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 29/03/2025

Unverified estimates via ChatGPT

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 28/03/2025

In 1967, “The Innovation Millionaires” called out Ann Arbor, Boulder, LA, Phoenix, and Ft. Lauderdale as likely tech hubs after Boston-Cambridge & Santa Clara County (only one mention of “Silicon Valley”) - but A2 has been by far the laggard

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 28/03/2025

Congrats to our first #MichiganFoundersFund pre-accelerator cohort!! Founders for founders, founders for community 💫 #givefirst

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 26/03/2025

Area Man Returns To Show Those Who Leave Can Also Be Champions 〽️ Stoked to have old friend, Twilio founder, & @theonion.com owner @jeffiel.bsky.social in #AnnArbor next week! democracy.umich.edu/events/democ...

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 26/03/2025

Ann Arbor is already in the Studio Ghibli universe, though

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 21/03/2025

From Tribeca to #AnnArbor — we’re proud to present a free screening of New Wave at UMMA on April 19! www.eventbrite.com/e/new-wave-t... #vietkieu #newwave #documentary

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 20/03/2025

Congrats to Ronnie & Malek on TidewayLogistics.com new office in #Dearborn - the youngest & fastest-growing city in Michigan, thx to Mayor Hammoud & friends!

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 20/03/2025

Welcoming Bo’s Bagels to #AnnArbor, imported from NYC by old friend & classmate, Joe’s Pizza partner, Professor Thom’s founder, & Saturday Night Live crewmember Pete L.!

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 19/03/2025

#Solarpunk dreams of planetary abundance - but can we govern our way to it? 🤔🌎🌳 @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social @ezraklein.bsky.social

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 17/03/2025

So much love at tonight’s #a2skatepark art show! Stoked to snag the Margaret Kilgallen tribute deck, but snaked by @ccassell.bsky.social on the printmaker’s woodcut!!

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 16/03/2025

Last year, a 73 year old man slashed the throat of a 7 year old girl in #Dearborn: www.freep.com/story/news/l... Year before, a 71 year old man stabbed a 6 year old boy 26 times in #Chicago: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... #Islamophobia is a threat to us all.

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 16/03/2025

Annual #a2skatepark art show tonight at the Circ Bar! Support your local skatepark 🤙

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 16/03/2025

Deeply moved by Tarek Albaba’s film on the #hatecrime killing of 3 Muslim students in #ChapelHill. Watching it in #Dearborn (home to the largest Arab American community) on the Int’l Day to Combat #Islamophobia (6 years after #Christchurch) is a powerful reminder: We must stand together against hate

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 14/03/2025

Keynoting today’s Detroit Impact Conference - connecting students with the innovation ecosystem in #Detroit www.eventbrite.com/e/the-15th-a...

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 13/03/2025

Distribution of US household wealth since 1989 - that thin black line at bottom is *50% of the US population, holding 2.5% of US wealth* www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 11/03/2025

MidwestHouse.org ready for Michigan Day at #SXSW 👉✋

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 10/03/2025

Speaking at Frontiers of Innovation Day at #SXSW at 1pm - free registration here ✌️ lu.ma/v4a9d6ix?tk=...

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 29/01/2025

새해 복 많이 받으세요! Chúc mừng năm mới! #Riverside #Dosan #vietpunk

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 26/01/2025

Grateful to Martin Luther King III & Arndrea Waters King - your family's living legacy of justice & service continues to light the way for ours 🙏 #MLKDay

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 23/12/2024

Gassing up #Detroit with AI at Wide Tom’s 🫘😳 maps.app.goo.gl/7Yhf5TiprD6m...

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 19/12/2024

Subnational diplomacy in Qatar (#DohaForum), Oman (15-year FTA), UAE (#ADFW) with our Michigan delegation & US State Dept 🇶🇦🇴🇲🇦🇪🇺🇸🦅

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 08/12/2024

What a time to be in the Middle East! With Ambassdor Davis, Under Secretary of State Fernandez, @umwallacehouse.bsky.social Livingston Award winner @lilahassan.bsky.social, past & present Al Jazeera directors, and our #Michigan delegation! #DohaForum

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 03/12/2024

I guess I’m an (Elizabeth) Anderson accelerationist, then 🤔 #AnnArbor #philosophy FTW! cc: roybahat.bsky.social www.epi.org/unequalpower...

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 30/11/2024

Our dog throne, with blanket from paw.com 🐾

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 29/11/2024

Legit. That isn’t also the haunted house in Burns Park is it?

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 29/11/2024

Our Lebanese, Palestinian, Laotian, Afghan, Ukrainian, Kyrgyz, Filipino, Ashkenazi, Korean, Vietnamese, or uniquely American Thanksgiving 🦃 at @umwallacehouse.bsky.social - thx @sarahrahal.bsky.social!

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 24/11/2024

@trueventures.com is here, and also investors in @bsky.app. They did an event with me last week in #Detroit too :-)

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