#andreessen — Public Fediverse posts
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Who'd have thunk it.
Arrogant SillyConValley freaks rolling in pump and dump dough are angering people.
#Blues #AI #PayPalMafia #Andreessen
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Who'd have thunk it.
Arrogant SillyConValley freaks rolling in pump and dump dough are angering people.
#Blues #AI #PayPalMafia #Andreessen
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Surveillance capitalists are consistent.
They lie. Consistently. 👀
Funded by #Andreessen #Theil, #Flock is no exception.
Warrantless surveillance. 👀
Does your local g'mint use ALPRs
How is data used? 👀
Ask them and get a copy of the agreements.
#Blues #DOOR
www.404media.co/flocks-ceo-s...
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Surveillance capitalists are consistent.
They lie. Consistently. 👀
Funded by #Andreessen #Theil, #Flock is no exception.
Warrantless surveillance. 👀
Does your local g'mint use ALPRs
How is data used? 👀
Ask them and get a copy of the agreements.
#Blues #DOOR
www.404media.co/flocks-ceo-s...
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The Plot Against America
They're not hiding it anymore.
A network of billionaires is openly calling for the end of democracy—in their own words, in public, on the record.
https://theplotagainstamerica.com/
#US #USA #USPol #USpolitics #America #Democracy #Oligarchy #Thiel #Yarvin #Prince #Bannon #Miller #Trump #Musk #Vance #Roberts #Vought #Ellison #Karp #Sacks #Andreessen #Luckey #Lonsdale #Altman #Srinivasan #Zuckerberg #Kratsios
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#FoundersFund, #Andreessen Poised for Record Returns From #SpaceX #IPO
Founders Fund, a venture firm led by Musk’s longtime associate #PeterThiel, owns a roughly 3% stake in SpaceX after investing $600 million in the company over several rounds dating back nearly 20 years. At the company’s $135-per-share IPO price, that stake is worth more than $50 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-11/founders-fund-andreessen-set-for-record-returns-from-spacex-ipo
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#FoundersFund, #Andreessen Poised for Record Returns From #SpaceX #IPO
Founders Fund, a venture firm led by Musk’s longtime associate #PeterThiel, owns a roughly 3% stake in SpaceX after investing $600 million in the company over several rounds dating back nearly 20 years. At the company’s $135-per-share IPO price, that stake is worth more than $50 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-11/founders-fund-andreessen-set-for-record-returns-from-spacex-ipo
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The prompt was bad, but what's worse are his critics.
One of the problems with the #luddites is they ravel in their ignorance of the technology as if not understanding it gives them some mystical insight.
If you hate Ai, you are the first cohort that needs to keep up, otherwise you just sound dumb.The "thou shall not hallucinate" prompt to be effective is "verify against credible sources"
👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆This works 100% of the time as modern #LLM do in fact pull live results of searches and know what is a credible source. I know this to be true because I have used it literally hundreds of times, doing manual desk checks in the early days to confirm it work.
What this does show is #andreessen arrogance, just like Luddites that he/they don't need to learn about #Ai because THEY ALREADY KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THE TECH.
A position that is silly, when the tech evolves monthly.
Using AI is a learned skill and Andreessen and his critics demonstrate that they think they don't need to.
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Marc Andreessen's Dangerously Unexamined Life
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/marc-andreessen-silicon-valley-military-tech/
#HackerNews #Marc #Andreessen #Dangerously #Unexamined #Life #Silicon #Valley #Military #Tech #TechCritique
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Marc Andreessen's Dangerously Unexamined Life
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/marc-andreessen-silicon-valley-military-tech/
#HackerNews #Marc #Andreessen #Dangerously #Unexamined #Life #Silicon #Valley #Military #Tech #TechCritique
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"Marc Andreessen, a philosophical zombie, can be easily replaced with #AI. I bet that’s great news for #a16z’s investors, since it means Andreessen no longer must be paid — and it frees him up to be the subject of some philosophy experiments."
Yeah, I've suspected this about the ultra-rich for some time now. Great article!
Marc #Andreessen is a philosophical zombie
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"Marc Andreessen, a philosophical zombie, can be easily replaced with #AI. I bet that’s great news for #a16z’s investors, since it means Andreessen no longer must be paid — and it frees him up to be the subject of some philosophy experiments."
Yeah, I've suspected this about the ultra-rich for some time now. Great article!
Marc #Andreessen is a philosophical zombie
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Marc Andreessen saying "I have absolutely no introspection" is simultaneously a "No shit dude, that was obvious when you opened your mouth the first time" moment, *and* a "Wow, that explains so much about him" moment.
Achievement unlocked.
#AchievementUnlocked #Andreessen #MarcAndreesen #introspective #introspection #NoShit #obvious #TheMoreYouKnow
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Marc Andreessen saying "I have absolutely no introspection" is simultaneously a "No shit dude, that was obvious when you opened your mouth the first time" moment, *and* a "Wow, that explains so much about him" moment.
Achievement unlocked.
#AchievementUnlocked #Andreessen #MarcAndreesen #introspective #introspection #NoShit #obvious #TheMoreYouKnow
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if you haven't listened to this audiofile unearthed by #RyanGrim you should:
https://bsky.app/profile/ryangrim.bsky.social/post/3mdv5jnhs2s2r
It reveals that in 2013 the ex #Israel' military spy chief and PM, #EhudBarak, heard of the names of the Lords of venture capital, #Thiel & #Andreessen, from #JeffreyEpstein!
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if you haven't listened to this audiofile unearthed by #RyanGrim you should:
https://bsky.app/profile/ryangrim.bsky.social/post/3mdv5jnhs2s2r
It reveals that in 2013 the ex #Israel' military spy chief and PM, #EhudBarak, heard of the names of the Lords of venture capital, #Thiel & #Andreessen, from #JeffreyEpstein!
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#Praxis #Thiel #Andreessen #Musk #Zuckerberg #Altman #Lonsdale #Palantir #Lutnick #Bezos
Geschenklink für die ersten 10:
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/groenland-es-sind-oligarchen-und-tech-bros-die-die-insel-wollen-a-f93cf1bd-d347-4a4b-8593-06cd958b9f7e?giftToken=1c51e9b3-6283-4677-bfeb-5e923ff24b9e -
#Praxis #Thiel #Andreessen #Musk #Zuckerberg #Altman #Lonsdale #Palantir #Lutnick #Bezos
Geschenklink für die ersten 10:
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/groenland-es-sind-oligarchen-und-tech-bros-die-die-insel-wollen-a-f93cf1bd-d347-4a4b-8593-06cd958b9f7e?giftToken=1c51e9b3-6283-4677-bfeb-5e923ff24b9e -
#Praxis #Thiel #Andreessen #Musk #Zuckerberg #Altman #Lonsdale #Palantir #Lutnick #Bezos Geschenklink für die ersten 10:
Meinung: US-Annexionspläne: Es... -
#Praxis #Thiel #Andreessen #Musk #Zuckerberg #Altman #Lonsdale #Palantir #Lutnick #Bezos Geschenklink für die ersten 10:
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@huibmodderkolk/115910858142924394
Interesting article about #Trump and #Greenland.
Featuring #Praxis (weird organisation), #KenHowery (US Botschafter in #Denmark), #Bezos, #Andreessen and #Thiel as investors and many many others.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@huibmodderkolk/115910858142924394
Interesting article about #Trump and #Greenland.
Featuring #Praxis (weird organisation), #KenHowery (US Botschafter in #Denmark), #Bezos, #Andreessen and #Thiel as investors and many many others.
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One of the more famous digital investors, Marc #Andreessen, half of the #a16z name, is not only on the board of #Meta, but also investor in #Doublespeed.
And Doublespeed's goal is to create #AI ads and spam them to social networks. Of course, neither declared as AI nor as paid advertisement. To promote products you might not buy otherwise.
The future is coming. You will not like it. Unless you are Andreessen or some of his friends.
h/t @nohillside
💰🧱 https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/ -
One of the more famous digital investors, Marc #Andreessen, half of the #a16z name, is not only on the board of #Meta, but also investor in #Doublespeed.
And Doublespeed's goal is to create #AI ads and spam them to social networks. Of course, neither declared as AI nor as paid advertisement. To promote products you might not buy otherwise.
The future is coming. You will not like it. Unless you are Andreessen or some of his friends.
h/t @nohillside
💰🧱 https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/ -
#Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Andreessen
#Karp & Co4/4
... völlig verkommenen herrschenden Kaste der 0,01 %, die ihre Asozialität nicht mehr allein im Silicon Valley, sondern USA-weit zelebriert.An Ideologien nur interessiert, soweit sie instrumentalisiert werden können. Am praktischsten hat sich derzeit der #Faschismus erwiesen.
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#Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Andreessen
#Karp & Co4/4
... völlig verkommenen herrschenden Kaste der 0,01 %, die ihre Asozialität nicht mehr allein im Silicon Valley, sondern USA-weit zelebriert.An Ideologien nur interessiert, soweit sie instrumentalisiert werden können. Am praktischsten hat sich derzeit der #Faschismus erwiesen.
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#Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Andreessen
#Karp & Co
3/mehr... der reaktionäre Biotech-Mogul & Finanzinvestor und der liberale Intellektuelle keine gemeinsame Sprachebene fanden, so sehr sich auch beide beim Einstellungsgespräch bemüht hatten.
Diese bedrückend komische Szene allein ist es wert, aber auch sonst hat "The Gilded Rage" jede Menge absurdes Entertainment zu bieten.
Lakonisch mit Sarkasmen durchzogen heruntererzählt, zeichnet Silverman 1 Sittenbild einer völlig...
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/gilded-rage-talking-with-jacob-silverman
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#Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Andreessen
#Karp & Co
3/mehr... der reaktionäre Biotech-Mogul & Finanzinvestor und der liberale Intellektuelle keine gemeinsame Sprachebene fanden, so sehr sich auch beide beim Einstellungsgespräch bemüht hatten.
Diese bedrückend komische Szene allein ist es wert, aber auch sonst hat "The Gilded Rage" jede Menge absurdes Entertainment zu bieten.
Lakonisch mit Sarkasmen durchzogen heruntererzählt, zeichnet Silverman 1 Sittenbild einer völlig...
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/gilded-rage-talking-with-jacob-silverman
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#Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Andreessen
#Karp & Co2/mehr
Es beginnt ebenso kafkaesk wie komisch, als der NYT-Bestsellerautor Silverman vom Investor, #Entrepreneur und Trump-Unterstützer Vivek Ramaswamy angeheuert, bzw . wie ein Asset eingekauft wurde.
So a la "Hat gute Kritiken, verkauft haufenweis Bücher, also investieren wir mal ein paar Peanuts und heuern den probeweise an".
Geheuert wofür? Das wussten nämlich beide nicht und so blieb es, weil...
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#Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Andreessen
#Karp & Co2/mehr
Es beginnt ebenso kafkaesk wie komisch, als der NYT-Bestsellerautor Silverman vom Investor, #Entrepreneur und Trump-Unterstützer Vivek Ramaswamy angeheuert, bzw . wie ein Asset eingekauft wurde.
So a la "Hat gute Kritiken, verkauft haufenweis Bücher, also investieren wir mal ein paar Peanuts und heuern den probeweise an".
Geheuert wofür? Das wussten nämlich beide nicht und so blieb es, weil...
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#Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Andreessen
#Karp und Co1/mehr
Heut gibts ausnahmsweise mal eine Buchempfehlung , nämlich "The Gilded Rage" von Jacob Silverman.
Der Titel spielt auf das "gilded age", das vergoldete Zeitalter der US-Ölbarone vor 100 Jahren an.
Silverman zeichnet ein garstiges Sittenbild, wie eine parasitäre Oberschicht aus sogenannten "Entrepreneurs", Investoren, Zockern, Opportunisten und Betrügern in den #Faschismus abgedriftet ist.
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#Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Andreessen
#Karp und Co1/mehr
Heut gibts ausnahmsweise mal eine Buchempfehlung , nämlich "The Gilded Rage" von Jacob Silverman.
Der Titel spielt auf das "gilded age", das vergoldete Zeitalter der US-Ölbarone vor 100 Jahren an.
Silverman zeichnet ein garstiges Sittenbild, wie eine parasitäre Oberschicht aus sogenannten "Entrepreneurs", Investoren, Zockern, Opportunisten und Betrügern in den #Faschismus abgedriftet ist.
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A new group of Coinbase stockholders has filed a derivative lawsuit in Delaware. This is a follow on suit to an original suit filed in April 2023, alleging the company's leadership including CEO Armstrong, and top investors, including Marc Andreessen over an alleged years long scheme involving insider trading of billions of dollars worth of company stock.
The allegations amount to a type of insider trading claim that Armstrong, Andreessen, and others avoided roughly $1B in losses by selling $2.9B worth of stock following Coinbase’s 2021 direct listing.
Further, information was allegedly withheld from investors, Coinbase insiders (Armstrong, Andreessen), sold $4.2B worth of stock in the company. The plaintiffs allege these proceeds constitute “lucrative insider trading” that took advantage of the “artificially inflated price” of Coinbase stock. https://decrypt.co/350490/coinbase-c-suite-andreessen-sued-billions-alleged-insider-trading #CoinBase #Lawsuit #InsiderTrading #Armstrong #Investors #Andreessen #Crypto #CryptoExchange #CryptoCurrencies #Stock #StockPrice
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A new group of Coinbase stockholders has filed a derivative lawsuit in Delaware. This is a follow on suit to an original suit filed in April 2023, alleging the company's leadership including CEO Armstrong, and top investors, including Marc Andreessen over an alleged years long scheme involving insider trading of billions of dollars worth of company stock.
The allegations amount to a type of insider trading claim that Armstrong, Andreessen, and others avoided roughly $1B in losses by selling $2.9B worth of stock following Coinbase’s 2021 direct listing.
Further, information was allegedly withheld from investors, Coinbase insiders (Armstrong, Andreessen), sold $4.2B worth of stock in the company. The plaintiffs allege these proceeds constitute “lucrative insider trading” that took advantage of the “artificially inflated price” of Coinbase stock. https://decrypt.co/350490/coinbase-c-suite-andreessen-sued-billions-alleged-insider-trading #CoinBase #Lawsuit #InsiderTrading #Armstrong #Investors #Andreessen #Crypto #CryptoExchange #CryptoCurrencies #Stock #StockPrice
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"Now, I don’t want to say that #MarcAndreessen is single-handedly causing the collapse of society. That would be a slight exaggeration. But I do believe this one incident shows that #Andreessen is at the nexus of all the ways society is decaying.
He’s not responsible. He’s just representative.
He’s the mascot of decay, the guy who’s always there when the negative trends accelerate, cheering them on and pushing things downhill faster."
Spot on!
https://www.infinitescroll.us/p/marc-andreessen-as-avatar-for-societal
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@jwz @nullagent
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@jwz @nullagent
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美中有望達成TikTok協議，傳美國業務將轉交財團，甲骨文等入股持逾8成
中央通訊社 2025-09-18 09:59:00 CST
美中擬定TikTok協議架構，將美國業務轉移至甲骨文等美資財團控股的新公司，中資持股降至兩成以下。美國議員擔憂中共仍有影響力。新公司將在美國重建TikTok app，並由甲骨文管理用戶數據。此協議仍在協商，細節可能調整。
https://www.thenewslens.com/article/258793
#商業 #演算法 #中國 #Andreessen Horowitz #習近平 #穆勒納爾 #貝森特 #Silver Lake #國安風險 #字節跳動 #TikTok #架構協議 #美國 #甲骨文 #John Moolenaar #川普 -
‘Buffalo Joe’ Andreessen gets huge roster update with Bills https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/320430/ #andreessen #Bills #Buffalo #BuffaloBills #BuffaloBills #DorianWilliams #FanFavorite #Football #JoeAndreessen #MattMilano #NFL #QuinshonJudkins #ShaqThompson #TaylorSwift #TerrelBernard #TheBills #TravisKelce
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Marc Andreessen wades into the UK’s Online Safety Act furor – Source: go.theregister.com https://ciso2ciso.com/marc-andreessen-wades-into-the-uks-online-safety-act-furor-source-go-theregister-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #TheRegisterSecurity #CyberSecurityNews #TheRegister #Andreessen
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Marc Andreessen wades into the UK’s Online Safety Act furor – Source: go.theregister.com https://ciso2ciso.com/marc-andreessen-wades-into-the-uks-online-safety-act-furor-source-go-theregister-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #TheRegisterSecurity #CyberSecurityNews #TheRegister #Andreessen
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“After reaping the benefits of that public infrastructure and investment, #Andreessen went to the private sector, where he developed Netscape Navigator, eventually selling his company to AOL for billions of dollars.
And now he has betrayed the very system that made his success possible; the system in which he and a handful of others like him have profited disproportionately relative to their contribution.”https://www.liberalcurrents.com/marc-andreessen-is-a-traitor/
Via @kottke
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“After reaping the benefits of that public infrastructure and investment, #Andreessen went to the private sector, where he developed Netscape Navigator, eventually selling his company to AOL for billions of dollars.
And now he has betrayed the very system that made his success possible; the system in which he and a handful of others like him have profited disproportionately relative to their contribution.”https://www.liberalcurrents.com/marc-andreessen-is-a-traitor/
Via @kottke
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#Civitai Ban of Real People Content Deals Major Blow to the #Nonconsensual #AI #Porn Ecosystem
Civitai, an AI model sharing site backed by #Andreessen #Horowitz ( #a16z ) 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.
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#Civitai Ban of Real People Content Deals Major Blow to the #Nonconsensual #AI #Porn Ecosystem
Civitai, an AI model sharing site backed by #Andreessen #Horowitz ( #a16z ) 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.
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'Chatham House Rule'
Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
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.”Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
#Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.#Andreessen lurks.
But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
sparring with conservatives.(“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)
The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.Both of those are now fading
(though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
“a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.“It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”
And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.
You can see it on X,
where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.“Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
said #Rufo.
“There’s a big split on the tech right.”The polarity of social media has also reversed,
and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
“now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
“This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
he wrote, shorthanding
“Trump Derangement Syndrome.”Then he addressed Torenberg:
“You should create a new one with just smart people.”Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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'Chatham House Rule'
Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
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.”Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
#Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.#Andreessen lurks.
But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
sparring with conservatives.(“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)
The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.Both of those are now fading
(though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
“a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.“It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”
And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.
You can see it on X,
where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.“Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
said #Rufo.
“There’s a big split on the tech right.”The polarity of social media has also reversed,
and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
“now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
“This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
he wrote, shorthanding
“Trump Derangement Syndrome.”Then he addressed Torenberg:
“You should create a new one with just smart people.”Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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In February, #Marc #Andreessen described the #Chatham #House group chats to the podcaster #Lex #Fridman as “the equivalent of [Soviet era] #samizdat”
“The combination of encryption and disappearing messages really unleashed it,” he said. The chats, he wrote recently, helped produce our national “vibe shift.”
They have rarely been discussed in public, though you can catch the occasional mention in, for instance, a podcast debate between #Mark #Cuban and the Republican entrepreneur #Vivek #Ramaswamy, which started in a chat.But they are made visible through a group consensus on social media.
Their effects have ranged from the mainstreaming of the monarchist pundit #Curtis #Yarvin to a particularly focused and developed dislike of the former Washington Post writer #Taylor #Lorenz.They succeeded at avoiding leaks (until, to a modest extent, this article) in part because of Signal’s and WhatsApp’s #disappearing #message features,
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.
“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,”
said #Erik #Torenberg, an entrepreneur who was the first employee of the tech community hub Product Hunt.
As #Krishnan was setting up a set of tech group WhatsApp chats at a16z, #Torenberg independently founded a group of tech chats on WhatsApp and some more political Signal chats.“They’re having all the private conversations because they weren’t allowed to have the public conversations,” Andreessen told Torenberg on a recent podcast,
after claiming in the name of secrecy that he’d never heard of such groups.
“If it wasn’t for the censorship all of these conversations would have happened in public, which would have been much better.”
Their creations took off:
“It might not seem like it, because of all the sh*t that people still post on X, but the internet has fragmented,”
the Substack author #Noah #Smith wrote after my inquiries for this story spilled into public Saturday.
“Group chats are now where everything important and interesting happens.”https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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In February, #Marc #Andreessen described the #Chatham #House group chats to the podcaster #Lex #Fridman as “the equivalent of [Soviet era] #samizdat”
“The combination of encryption and disappearing messages really unleashed it,” he said. The chats, he wrote recently, helped produce our national “vibe shift.”
They have rarely been discussed in public, though you can catch the occasional mention in, for instance, a podcast debate between #Mark #Cuban and the Republican entrepreneur #Vivek #Ramaswamy, which started in a chat.But they are made visible through a group consensus on social media.
Their effects have ranged from the mainstreaming of the monarchist pundit #Curtis #Yarvin to a particularly focused and developed dislike of the former Washington Post writer #Taylor #Lorenz.They succeeded at avoiding leaks (until, to a modest extent, this article) in part because of Signal’s and WhatsApp’s #disappearing #message features,
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.
“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,”
said #Erik #Torenberg, an entrepreneur who was the first employee of the tech community hub Product Hunt.
As #Krishnan was setting up a set of tech group WhatsApp chats at a16z, #Torenberg independently founded a group of tech chats on WhatsApp and some more political Signal chats.“They’re having all the private conversations because they weren’t allowed to have the public conversations,” Andreessen told Torenberg on a recent podcast,
after claiming in the name of secrecy that he’d never heard of such groups.
“If it wasn’t for the censorship all of these conversations would have happened in public, which would have been much better.”
Their creations took off:
“It might not seem like it, because of all the sh*t that people still post on X, but the internet has fragmented,”
the Substack author #Noah #Smith wrote after my inquiries for this story spilled into public Saturday.
“Group chats are now where everything important and interesting happens.”https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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On #signalchat groups' power:
“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.”
But there is no equivalent to the #intellectualcounterculture that grew up over the last 5 years on the #techright, and no figure remotely like #Andreessen, the towering, enthusiastic 53-year old."
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On #signalchat groups' power:
“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.”
But there is no equivalent to the #intellectualcounterculture that grew up over the last 5 years on the #techright, and no figure remotely like #Andreessen, the towering, enthusiastic 53-year old."
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#BigTech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead
Good news for #Andreessen (#a16z) and accelerationists is they backed Trump and he won. Andreessen is advising. Venture Capitalist David Sacks is #WhiteHouse #AI and #crypto “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 #taxcuts that will benefit them all.
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#BigTech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead
Good news for #Andreessen (#a16z) and accelerationists is they backed Trump and he won. Andreessen is advising. Venture Capitalist David Sacks is #WhiteHouse #AI and #crypto “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 #taxcuts that will benefit them all.
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Trump’s Buddies At #Andreessen Horowitz Want To Help Buy #TikTok, Turn It Into A Right Wing Safe Space - 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/ because we don't have many of those currently, #amirite?
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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.
🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🔀 🇷🇺
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...
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.
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.
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.
The culture war is a distraction. The rich are stealing the future. :earth: :NoNazis: :ExtinctionRebellion: :NonCommercialUS:
#hypothetical #Technology #TechNate #Musk #thiel #Andreessen #Ellision #uspol #feudalism #technofeudalism #ai #solarpunk
