PrivacyDigest<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Civitai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Civitai</span></a> Ban of Real People Content Deals Major Blow to the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Nonconsensual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nonconsensual</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Porn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Porn</span></a> Ecosystem </p><p>Civitai, an AI model sharing site backed by <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Horowitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Horowitz</span></a> ( <a href="https://mas.to/tags/a16z" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>a16z</span></a> ) that 404 Media has repeatedly shown is being used to generate nonconsensual adult content, is banning AI models designed to generate the likeness of real people, the site announced Friday.<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/deepfake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deepfake</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/civitai-ban-of-real-people-content-deals-major-blow-to-the-nonconsensual-ai-porn-ecosystem/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/civitai-ban-of-rea</span><span class="invisible">l-people-content-deals-major-blow-to-the-nonconsensual-ai-porn-ecosystem/</span></a></p>
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Chuck Darwin<p>'Chatham House Rule'</p><p>Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024, <br>naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that <br>trusted conversations require a degree of privacy. </p><p>Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side, <br>but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”</p><p>Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist<br> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Larry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Larry</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Summers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Summers</span></a> and the historian <a href="https://c.im/tags/Niall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Niall</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ferguson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ferguson</span></a>, <br>and more partisan figures like <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shapiro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shapiro</span></a> and the Democratic analyst <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>David</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shor</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a> lurks. </p><p>But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cuban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cuban</span></a> most often in the center, <br>sparring with conservatives.</p><p>(“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)</p><p>The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces, <br>and on the formation of a new conservative consensus. </p><p>Both of those are now fading <br>(though Torenberg has invested in a company called <a href="https://c.im/tags/ChatBCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChatBCC</span></a> that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).</p><p>Since Elon Musk turned X to the right <br>and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack, <br>“a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman. </p><p>“It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”</p><p>And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape. </p><p>You can see it on X, <br>where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices, <br>and where <a href="https://c.im/tags/Srinivasan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Srinivasan</span></a> has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.</p><p>“Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,” <br>said <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rufo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rufo</span></a>. <br>“There’s a big split on the tech right.”</p><p>The polarity of social media has also reversed, <br>and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media, <br>“now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.</p><p>By mid-April, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sacks</span></a> had had enough with Chatham House: <br>“This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,” <br>he wrote, shorthanding <br>“Trump Derangement Syndrome.” </p><p>Then he addressed Torenberg: <br>“You should create a new one with just smart people.”</p><p>Signal soon showed that three men had left the group: <br>The Sequoia partner <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shaun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shaun</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Maguire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maguire</span></a>, <br>the bitcoin billionaire <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tyler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tyler</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Winklevoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Winklevoss</span></a>, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tucker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tucker</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carlson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Carlson</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">semafor.com/article/04/27/2025</span><span class="invisible">/the-group-chats-that-changed-america</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>In February, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marc</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a> described the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chatham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chatham</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>House</span></a> group chats to the podcaster <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lex</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fridman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fridman</span></a> as “the equivalent of [Soviet era] <a href="https://c.im/tags/samizdat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>samizdat</span></a>” <br>“The combination of encryption and disappearing messages really unleashed it,” he said. The chats, he wrote recently, helped produce our national “vibe shift.”<br>They have rarely been discussed in public, though you can catch the occasional mention in, for instance, a podcast debate between <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mark</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cuban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cuban</span></a> and the Republican entrepreneur <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vivek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vivek</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ramaswamy</span></a>, which started in a chat.</p><p>But they are made visible through a group consensus on social media. <br>Their effects have ranged from the mainstreaming of the monarchist pundit <a href="https://c.im/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Curtis</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yarvin</span></a> to a particularly focused and developed dislike of the former Washington Post writer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Taylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taylor</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lorenz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lorenz</span></a>.</p><p>They succeeded at avoiding leaks (until, to a modest extent, this article) in part because of Signal’s and WhatsApp’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/disappearing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disappearing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/message" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>message</span></a> features, <br>and in part because the groups had formed out of a mix of fear and disdain for journalists they believed were “out to get us,” as one member put it.<br>“People during 2020 felt that there was a monoculture on social media, and if they didn’t agree with something, group chats became a safe space to debate that, share that, build consensus, feel that you’re not alone,” <br>said <a href="https://c.im/tags/Erik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Erik</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Torenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Torenberg</span></a>, an entrepreneur who was the first employee of the tech community hub Product Hunt. <br>As <a href="https://c.im/tags/Krishnan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Krishnan</span></a> was setting up a set of tech group WhatsApp chats at a16z, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Torenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Torenberg</span></a> independently founded a group of tech chats on WhatsApp and some more political Signal chats.</p><p>“They’re having all the private conversations because they weren’t allowed to have the public conversations,” Andreessen told Torenberg on a recent podcast, <br>after claiming in the name of secrecy that he’d never heard of such groups. <br>“If it wasn’t for the censorship all of these conversations would have happened in public, which would have been much better.”<br>Their creations took off: <br>“It might not seem like it, because of all the sh*t that people still post on X, but the internet has fragmented,” <br>the Substack author <a href="https://c.im/tags/Noah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Noah</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Smith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smith</span></a> wrote after my inquiries for this story spilled into public Saturday. <br>“Group chats are now where everything important and interesting happens.”</p><p><a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">semafor.com/article/04/27/2025</span><span class="invisible">/the-group-chats-that-changed-america</span></a></p>
Ecologia Digital<p>On <a href="https://mato.social/tags/signalchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>signalchat</span></a> groups' power:<br>“If you weren’t in the business at all, you’d think everyone was arriving at conclusions independently—and [they’re] not. It’s a small group of people who talk to each other and overlap between politics & journalism and a few industries.”<br>But there is no equivalent to the <a href="https://mato.social/tags/intellectualcounterculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intellectualcounterculture</span></a> that grew up over the last 5 years on the <a href="https://mato.social/tags/techright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techright</span></a>, and no figure remotely like <a href="https://mato.social/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a>, the towering, enthusiastic 53-year old."<br><a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">semafor.com/article/04/27/2025</span><span class="invisible">/the-group-chats-that-changed-america</span></a></p>
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead<br>Good news for <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a> (<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/a16z" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>a16z</span></a>) and accelerationists is they backed Trump and he won. Andreessen is advising. Venture Capitalist David Sacks is <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WhiteHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteHouse</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crypto</span></a> “czar.” Musk and his posse are doing the slashing and burning themselves. Tegulation on AI and everything else they didn’t like is in process of being removed, administration is working on <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/taxcuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taxcuts</span></a> that will benefit them all. <br><a href="https://www.404media.co/big-tech-backed-trump-for-acceleration-they-got-a-decel-president-instead/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/big-tech-backed-tr</span><span class="invisible">ump-for-acceleration-they-got-a-decel-president-instead/</span></a></p>
Glyn Moody<p>Trump’s Buddies At <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a> Horowitz Want To Help Buy <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TikTok</span></a>, Turn It Into A Right Wing Safe Space - <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/02/trumps-buddies-at-andreesen-horowitz-want-to-help-buy-tiktok-turn-it-into-a-right-wing-safe-space/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">techdirt.com/2025/04/02/trumps</span><span class="invisible">-buddies-at-andreesen-horowitz-want-to-help-buy-tiktok-turn-it-into-a-right-wing-safe-space/</span></a> because we don't have many of those currently, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amirite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amirite</span></a>?</p>
officerripley<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/darkenlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>darkenlightenment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techbros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techbros</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techlords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techlords</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thiel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>andreessen</span></a> </p><p>Wondering why techbros silly enuff 2 think Dark Enlightenment means them ruling when it really means old-school dictators like Putin still will.</p>
InspiredByBlackElk<p>Just going to hypothesize something here... for posterity and accountability to weird strategic thoughts I have when I try to channel this Musk creep. The tech-bro's have already taken over. That is why they are now sending the DOGE teams with armed escorts and guns to smash small offices of the government. Trump is the vindictive figurehead. It's the tech lords running the show, and they're going to do a deal with China to get rid of Putin.</p><p>🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🔀 🇷🇺 </p><p>I'm open to the possibility of something beyond shocking happening. There have already been rumors of revaluing the gold at Fort Knox, restructuring the debt, a national cryptocurrency... </p><p>What about, a merger / joint venture with China and the US becomes a total one-party state, USA Inc. They'll leave the illusion of elections, and the Dems will continue to be the useful idiots as they have been for a decade. </p><p>The game is no longer Dem vs. Rep. There will be no normal midterms. The struggle at the top is between the Christian Nationalists, the technofascist (Nation State) crowd, and the MAGA base that Bannon leads. Think of Bannon's people as the brown shirts they'll eventually use to silence dissent.</p><p>Imagine a chip-access deal or some sort of organized takeover of Taiwan (stripping the island of its sovereignty in Trump fashion) over a set period of time for USA, Inc. to be able to scale semiconductor fabs.</p><p>The culture war is a distraction. The rich are stealing the future. :earth: :NoNazis: :ExtinctionRebellion: :NonCommercialUS: </p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/hypothetical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypothetical</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/TechNate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechNate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thiel</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Ellision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ellision</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/feudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feudalism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/technofeudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technofeudalism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a></p>
WineRoland 🍷<p>Quanto vale il commercio USA-UE, la nostra bilancia dei pagamenti. E un problema che l'Australia ha con lo Shiraz. Inoltre prosegue la serie delle introduzioni dedicate ai personaggi della Silicon Valley. Nell'episodio di oggi, Marc Andreessen. Buon Ascolto!<br><a href="https://epicure.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://epicure.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://epicure.social/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a> <a href="https://epicure.social/tags/shiraz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shiraz</span></a> <a href="https://epicure.social/tags/andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>andreessen</span></a><br><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5noTXWA54LeHjbdKU8rnP9?si=wIKbnWqzQL-vTpNtvVkOig" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/episode/5noTX</span><span class="invisible">WA54LeHjbdKU8rnP9?si=wIKbnWqzQL-vTpNtvVkOig</span></a></p>
Falling Knife<p>I have plenty of iasues with Marc <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a> as a human being. But to understand why he is a <a href="https://c.im/tags/billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaire</span></a> today, you need only go back and read his OpEd, "Why <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bitcoin</span></a> Matters. " In 2014, he told all of us what was going to happen. <br>Even if you hate Bitcoin, read this. You can't say you weren't warned.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Netscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Netscape</span></a> founder Marc Andreessen: Why Bitcoin Matters</p><p><a href="https://bambooinnovator.com/2014/01/22/netscape-founder-marc-andreessen-why-bitcoin-matters/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bambooinnovator.com/2014/01/22</span><span class="invisible">/netscape-founder-marc-andreessen-why-bitcoin-matters/</span></a></p>
ITsec Agentur<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>metacurity</span></a></span> Drug infused <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> at work. Are those the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elites</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a> keeps yapping about?</p>
h o ʍ l e t t<p>→ Au-delà de Musk : comment l’élite techno-césariste veut rebâtir l’Amérique<br><a href="https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/01/30/la-conjuration-des-batisseurs-musk-thiel-trump-et-lavenir-des-etats-unis/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/01</span><span class="invisible">/30/la-conjuration-des-batisseurs-musk-thiel-trump-et-lavenir-des-etats-unis/</span></a></p><p>« Bâtir. À tout prix. Un impératif est devenu le mantra des techno-césaristes qui entourent Trump. Alessandro Aresu raconte comment Musk, Thiel, Andreessen ou Palmer Luckey ont pris le futur de l’Amérique. »</p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thiel</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Luckey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Luckey</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Am" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Am</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Tech billionaire <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Marc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marc</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a> is reportedly getting involved with <a href="https://c.im/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a>. </p><p>He’s also invested in the “network state” movement led by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Balaji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Balaji</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Srinivasan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Srinivasan</span></a>, which aims 2 build crypto-based countries within existing states <br>via the creation of <br>“parallel institutions” like X. </p><p>Listen. 1/<br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social/post/3lc4wwzofo22v" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsk</span><span class="invisible">y.social/post/3lc4wwzofo22v</span></a></p>
Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥<p>I don’t agree with most of what <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a> says, but this interview is very interesting. Andreessen comes off to me as very intelligent but having been fooled by Trump telling him what he wants to hear.<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opinion/marc-andreessen-trump-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.p04.gYaI.Y2raY3ATaxM5&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/marc-andreessen-trump-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.p04.gYaI.Y2raY3ATaxM5&smid=url-share</span></a></p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@mick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mick</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@petergleick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>petergleick</span></a></span> </p><p>Huh. had no idea <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>andreessen</span></a> had put out an actual manifesto and immediately thought about <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/unabomber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unabomber</span></a>! </p><p>The latter was promptly mentioned in the "reception" section. </p><p>What is it with these <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/techbros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techbros</span></a> turned venture capitalists and their accelerationism. 😬</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-Optimist_Manifesto" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-O</span><span class="invisible">ptimist_Manifesto</span></a></p>
Rich Stein (he/him)<p>"... to be clear, DOGE is an independent advisory panel that Musk gets to personally control, with no limits on its purview, which is not directly authorized under the Constitution or even by Congress. In other words, it’s the exact thing that Andreessen decried — inaccurately — about the CFPB."</p><p>Would be a joke if it wasn't so serious. <br><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/doge-commission-musk-ramaswamy-andreessen-unelected-rcna183060" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio</span><span class="invisible">n/doge-commission-musk-ramaswamy-andreessen-unelected-rcna183060</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USelections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USelections</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elections</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hypocrisy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypocrisy</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Attendees, with white-and-red gift bags and lanyards, knew to be closelipped when approached by hotel interlopers <br>or by the Times reporter, who was not invited to the closed-press festivities. </p><p>But a copy of the agenda listed remarks by several tech billionaires, including the Anduril co-founder <a href="https://c.im/tags/Palmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palmer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Luckey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Luckey</span></a> and the venture capitalist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marc</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a>, who spoke about his support for deregulating technology <br>and the mixed reaction in Silicon Valley to his endorsement of Mr. Trump, according to attendees.</p><p>There were tech up-and-comers, too: <br>Donald Trump <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jr</span></a>. announced at the welcome dinner that he was entering venture capital. </p><p>And days before the president-elect chose Robert F. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kennedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kennedy</span></a> Jr. for health and human services secretary, <br>Mr. Kennedy spoke extensively about his public-health work to a standing ovation. </p><p> Ms. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wiles</span></a> also led a session on “2024 Election Analysis,” where she gave a preview of Mr. Trump’s first days as president.</p><p>“It’s the domestic ‘Davos in the desert,’” said the Rockbridge backer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Omeed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Omeed</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Malik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Malik</span></a>, referring to the annual business conference in Riyadh, and Donald Trump Jr.’s new business partner.</p><p>➡️Rockbridge began with more humility. </p><p>Back in 2019, Mr. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a>, then best known as the author of “Hilbilly Elegy,” and a conservative media figure named <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chris</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Buskirk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Buskirk</span></a> began informally hosting a series of small dinners <br>that would eventually become called Rockbridge. </p><p>The group drew early support from the venture capitalist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peter</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thiel</span></a> and eventually caught the attention of Donald J. Trump, who spoke at a few meetings.</p><p>Once in the fall and once in the spring, Rockbridge began to gather at places like the Four Seasons in Palm Beach, Fla., <br>or the Ritz-Carlton in Dallas for three days of political panels and business networking. </p><p>Speakers included people like <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tucker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tucker</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carlson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Carlson</span></a>; the Thiel protégé <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blake</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Masters</span></a>; the casino mogul <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Steve</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wynn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wynn</span></a>; the investor <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>David</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sacks</span></a>; and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Woody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Woody</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Johnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Johnson</span></a>, the billionaire owner of the New York Jets.</p><p>Not all attendees have politics at the top of their mind. </p><p>Some are primarily interested in business, seeing Rockbridge as a conservative-tinged version of the elite Sun Valley conference.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/RockbridgeNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RockbridgeNetwork</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RebekahMercer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RebekahMercer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/KenHowery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KenHowery</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LukeNosek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LukeNosek</span></a></p>
Absinthe<p>I made a <a href="https://mammut.sch.moe/tags/Post" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Post</span></a> account about when it started (2022). Since then I used Counter Social, then Mastodon and didn't pay attention to Post.</p><p>One of the ppl who backed Post was <a href="https://mammut.sch.moe/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techbro</span></a>, mark <a href="https://mammut.sch.moe/tags/andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>andreessen</span></a>.</p><p>Last night I went back to the Post app, noticed it wasn't working, so I did a little digging. I guess Post died in April of this year.</p><p>/1</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Trump Boosters Expect Big Returns on Their Investment:<br> ‘The Shackles Are Off’</p><p>Wealthy donors to the president-elect’s campaign anticipate a more business-friendly atmosphere, <br>including the firing of Biden-era regulators.</p><p>🔸Limit the reach of federal regulations on artificial intelligence.<br>🔸Make room for cryptocurrencies to thrive.<br>🔸Ease the antitrust crackdown on big tech companies.<br>🔸Buy more military drones. And don’t raise taxes on billionaires.</p><p>The to-do list for President-elect Donald J. Trump from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marc</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a>, the venture capital billionaire from California, is long, but quite specific.</p><p>Now, after donating big money to Mr. Trump, Mr. Andreessen is eager to see his candidate work through the list </p><p>“It felt like a boot off the throat,” Mr. Andreessen said about Mr. Trump’s victory during a podcast conversation this month with his business partner. <br>“Every morning I wake up happier than the day before.”</p><p>Mr. Andreessen’s excitement is a hint of just how broadly the victory by Mr. Trump has resonated with business executives who ⚠️ invested millions of dollars in his candidacy and now stand to profit from his policies.<br>Theirs is a circle of deep-pocketed industry winners that extends far beyond <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>. <br>It is a more diverse group, at least in terms of business interests, than the one that surrounded Mr. Trump in his first administration, where executives from the oil, gas and coal industries were particularly dominant.<br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Harold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Harold</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hamm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hamm</span></a>, the billionaire founder of the Oklahoma-based 💥oil and gas giant Continental Resources, is still in a position to benefit, from regulatory rollbacks that he and an affiliated trade association are already pushing.</p><p>But the list also includes:<br> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Joe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Joe</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lonsdale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lonsdale</span></a>, a defense technology executive who wants to help the Pentagon revamp the way it fights 💥wars;
<br> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cameron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cameron</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tyler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tyler</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Winklevoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Winklevoss</span></a>, the twins who were known for their battle with Facebook, then became 💥cryptocurrency investors and now want to shape the industry’s rules;
<br> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Evans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Evans</span></a>, the chief executive of Geo Group, the 💥private prison giant that could benefit if Mr. Trump carries out his promise of large-scale deportations;
<br> John Paulson, the hedge fund billionaire who could cash out of his investment in the federal government’s housing finance companies, Freddie and Fannie, if they are privatized under Mr. Trump.
<br>“It will be a billionaires’ ball,” said Robert Reich, who served as secretary of labor during the Clinton administration and who has long been critical of the income disparity in the United States.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/trump-presidency-billionaires.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/trump-presidency-billionaires.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
Christoph Derndorfer-Medosch<p>On the latest <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/TechWontSaveUs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechWontSaveUs</span></a> about the Silicon Valley influence on US <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> guest Jacob Silverman raised a good point about the likes of Marc <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a> and Elon <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> </p><p>"Why are these guys so angry and so disatisfied with a world that they've profited from enormously and still have helped shaped quite a bit?<br>But, this maybe, actually speaks to the initial trolling question which is that they are upset. They are angry that the world has not fully bent their way."</p><p><a href="https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/248_silicon_valley_is_reshaping_us_democracy_w_jacob_silverman" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">techwontsave.us/episode/248_si</span><span class="invisible">licon_valley_is_reshaping_us_democracy_w_jacob_silverman</span></a></p>
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