"JD Vance is a walking hypocrisy...So you had to invent a caricature of your grandfather from your past to make an argument about what America should be, in which you yourself in your own choices wouldn't be included."

"In the UK I’d meet third generation Pakistani kids and I’d be like "You’re British." They’re like "I’m not British. I’m Pakistani." I was like "Yes, but you’re British. You have a British citizenship." They’re like, "Yes, I’m a citizen of the United Kingdom, but I’m not British. I’m Pakistani."

Abdul: "I believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis. I believe that it is up to a free Palestinian people and free Jewish Israeli people to decide how to maneuver the inconsistencies of that."

“The debate over A.I. safety tends to focus on the precise probability that A.I.s will kill us all. I don’t find that helpful. What I think we should focus on is something more straightforward, something nearer at hand: loss of human control over A.I.”