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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 04/07/2025

super interesting & important

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I thought this moment during the Ezra Klein-Chris Hayes podcast was particularly profound www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...

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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

A recent @nytimes.com analysis found that over the last three presidential elections "Republicans are overwhelmingly making gains in working-class counties. Democrats are improving almost exclusively in wealthier areas." Our research shows similar patterns among donors. 🧵 cup.org/4cfm0Az

Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base

SEAN KATES, ERIC MANNING, TALI MENDELBERG and OMAR WASOW

Comparative scholarship suggests authoritarian candidates often rely on backing from the wealthy. The wealthy are also said to play an important role in American campaign finance. Studies of Donald Trump, however, found that he drew significant support from white Americans with less education and privilege. We evaluate wealthy and non-wealthy Americans’ financial support for Trump, compared to other candidates, by constructing a comprehensive dataset of property values matched to contributions and voter files. We find Trump underperformed among wealthy Republican donors while mobilizing new non-wealthy donors. Trump also diversified the donorate, especially by education. That is, Trump built an unusual coalition of wealthy and non-wealthy donors. Our results support an alternative, “plutopopulist” model of Trump’s financial base.

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 29/05/2025

“Half of Americans are broke from healthcare… but maybe AI can make healthcare cheaper and more accessible to all, and therefore at least people won’t be saddled w/ as much healthcare debt” via @dens.nyc teendrama.substack.com/p/teendrama-...

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Teendrama #13 – On the intersection of Wearable AI and the Gin Blossoms

Wearable AI, Meta Glasses, AI lifelogging, Google vs. ChatGPT, Crypto AI, etc... literally every buzzword you could ever ask for (& some you didn't! solar! stone chisels! breakfast clothes! Titanic!)

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 22/05/2025

Don’t let our youth go to waste

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 18/05/2025

"the teens that appear least impacted by the mental health crisis tend to be religious, conservative, and live in less individualistic cultures" www.afterbabel.com/p/community-...

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The Great Deterioration of Local Community And The Loss of The Play-Based Childhood

Kids growing up in close-knit communities where the social ties are thick are more protected from the harms of the phone-based childhood.

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 16/05/2025

The 2 guests on Colbert: Bernie Sanders & Pavement: Caring & not caring: Dug-in & ambivalence: 60s & 90s: Real & real: Not cool & too cool

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 14/05/2025

"Beyond Bob..abundance of these imaginative possibilities..dont just need to 'join'..need to imagine diff ways of being when we show up..dont just need to 'start clubs'..need to imagine new approaches to organizing &gathering" via @petedavis.bsky.social connectivetissue.substack.com/p/beyond-bob...

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Beyond Bob

By granting Robert Putnam intellectual hegemony on all things community in America, we limit our understanding of the past and constrain our visions of what’s possible for the future

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 14/05/2025

"The good life had to happen in real life. And with that realization, small groups of Americans across the country have begun to sow the seeds of community renewal" www.afterbabel.com/p/new-americ... via @eli.bsky.social @petedavis.bsky.social

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A New American Awakening

How the chaos of the phone-based life is giving rise to a quiet revolution in civic life—and what it will take to make it last.

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 14/05/2025

yesterday: chatgpt > google today: chatgpt > apple notes

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 12/05/2025

Use AI only to be more human, beware AI eating your humanity

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 08/05/2025

The New News - I’ve got news alerts/notifs off so this is how I got the breaking news - in my AirPod from @dens.nyc

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

REMINDER: They turn us against each other so that we won’t notice they are robbing us blind.

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 06/05/2025

i'm actually starting to offload more & more of my *thinking* - like actual thinking (ideas, decisions, thinking thru things, etc)

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 05/05/2025

but seriously - I wanted so bad to be excited about this. classic web3/crypto: why will >10% ppl care at all about this? most successful things in the past had a compelling answer to that question

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 05/05/2025

Remember when breathless exciting tech demos were about something exciting you wanted that took your breath away? What the hell is this youtu.be/1x8tACHbyjg?...

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At Last ft. Alex Blania and Sam Altman

YouTube video by World

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 02/05/2025

machines thinking like humans humans thinking like machines

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 02/05/2025

“Steve once told a group of students, ‘You appear, have a chance to blaze in the sky, then you disappear.’” Laurene Powell Jobs

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 29/04/2025

how much are they burning the base (annoying/wasting their time), how much time does the org spend talking about & managing fundraising team, maybe the reduction in donations would be less than the savings of de-bloating the fundraising team? maybe minimal modern reset results in more $ raised?

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 29/04/2025

is that nonprofit fundraising team costing more than they raise?

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 27/04/2025

Talk to people more than ai

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The Reagan Revolution is still promising to deliver... but for who? Ain’t that America. youtu.be/qOfkpu6749w?...

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John Mellencamp - Pink Houses (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by JohnMellencampVEVO

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 24/04/2025

My current guess: I “talk” with ai 1-2 hrs/day. I talk with people 7-8 hrs/day. (Other 7-9 hrs/day: solo/media/solo-work/not-talking/etc) Will track over time. You?

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 24/04/2025

“this particular moment in history”

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 24/04/2025

Talk to people more than ai (note to self)

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 23/04/2025

quirky climate crisis (odd font-picker on squarespace)

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 17/04/2025

coachella via @reggiewatts.bsky.social "just vibes curated for influencer culture. You’ll catch glimpses of something real — an artist pouring their heart out on stage, a sudden moment of connection — but..fleeting..Easily lost in..the brand activations, the overpriced everything"

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 16/04/2025

AI isn't "hard at work" - that's what humans do. AI is machine that does things for us. #defendIRL

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 15/04/2025

I told someone they won't load/unload the dishwasher in 2032, a robot will do it. They said they're uncomfortable w/ a "slave". Better for robots not to be human-like & AIs not to be conversational. I want AIs/robots to do stuff for me, not be human-like. My GE dishwasher is a machine, not a slave

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 14/04/2025

survey response (bigger circle = more people responded that way)

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Scott Heiferman @heif.com · 14/04/2025

"but it's not AOC and it's not Bernie..you don't need leaders we need a mass movement of millions of people now" www.youtube.com/live/dXZubGd...

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FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY WITH BERNIE AND AOC: SALT LAKE CITY

YouTube video by Bernie Sanders

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