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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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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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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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Blavatnik’s ties to Russia go back decades. After the collapse of the USSR, he returned to Russia at the invitation of now-billionaire Viktor #Vekselberg. They cofounded Access-Renova, which was then expanded with the help of another billionaire close to Putin, Mikhail #Fridman.
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The European Union agreed on Friday to renew sanctions on Russian individuals and entities but kept Russian tycoon Mikhail Fridman on the list despite pressure from Hungary, EU diplomats said.
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Hungary has threatened to block the EU’s renewal of sanctions imposed on about 2,000 Russians unless oligarch Mikhail Fridman is removed from the list.
https://www.ft.com/content/8d9a8b40-79fe-4604-bacc-70311620780c
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F: It is my dream you negotiate with the murderer.
Z: To achieve what?
F: It would be nice if you didn't fight against the murderer.
Z: He won't stop murdering just because we stop fighting.
F: I will return to ask you again to negotiate with the murderer.
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i was forced to watch a part of what lex #fridman calls his interview with president #zelensky… i was disghusted, appalled and not a little frightened.
disghusted by the abyssmal level of stupidity of mr. fridman bordering with idiocy.
appalled at the complete misunderstanding of every aspect of the russian imperialist history mr. fridman demonstrated.
frightened by the thought that this could pass for journalism in usa or at least some sort of interesting blogging of international scale.
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That one question tells you everything about the risibley partisan stance of Fridman you could need to know.
No one should take him seriously.
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President Volodymyr #Zelensky previously offered U.S. President-elect Donald #Trump for Ukraine to buy American weapons at the expense of $300 billion in frozen Russian assets, Zelensky revealed in an interview with American podcaster Lex #Fridman.
https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-offers-to-buy-weapons-from-the-us-with-frozen-russian-assets/
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Meanwhile, popular podcasters such as #LexFridman and #AndrewHuberman still platforming that 🤬 Jordan Peterson.
But #Huberman also commented ”learned a lot“ when #Fridman let that insufferable fascist Balaji Srinivasan ramble about his totalitarian fascist ideology for 8(!) hours. (Look up ”The Network State“.)
https://ohai.social/@MeanwhileinCanada/113771492886217468 -
Meanwhile, popular podcasters such as #LexFridman and #AndrewHuberman still platforming that 🤬 Jordan Peterson.
But #Huberman also commented ”learned a lot“ when #Fridman let that insufferable fascist Balaji Srinivasan ramble about his totalitarian fascist ideology for 8(!) hours. (Look up ”The Network State“.)
https://ohai.social/@MeanwhileinCanada/113771492886217468 -
Meanwhile, popular podcasters such as #LexFridman and #AndrewHuberman still platforming that 🤬 Jordan Peterson.
But #Huberman also commented ”learned a lot“ when #Fridman let that insufferable fascist Balaji Srinivasan ramble about his totalitarian fascist ideology for 8(!) hours. (Look up ”The Network State“.)
https://ohai.social/@MeanwhileinCanada/113771492886217468 -
Meanwhile, popular podcasters such as #LexFridman and #AndrewHuberman still platforming that 🤬 Jordan Peterson.
But #Huberman also commented ”learned a lot“ when #Fridman let that insufferable fascist Balaji Srinivasan ramble about his totalitarian fascist ideology for 8(!) hours. (Look up ”The Network State“.)
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I saw this segment on YouTube, in which #Fridman interviewed #Kernighan about his #programming setup. For an instant, I was surprised to learn that Fridman hadn't heard of #UNIX \(\texttt{ed}\), but then I realised....
In my view, a luminary like Kernighan, from a certain era, should be interviewed by someone who wouldn't be stunned when hearing once-common names like \(\texttt{ed}\) or \(\texttt{ex}\) or \(\texttt{dc}\) or \(\texttt{adb}\), but would smoothly inject a brief historical description thereof, and glide on with the main point of the interview. But that 1970s/1980s #geek generation avoids the YouTube selfie camera like the plague.
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I saw this segment on YouTube, in which #Fridman interviewed #Kernighan about his #programming setup. For an instant, I was surprised to learn that Fridman hadn't heard of #UNIX \(\texttt{ed}\), but then I realised....
In my view, a luminary like Kernighan, from a certain era, should be interviewed by someone who wouldn't be stunned when hearing once-common names like \(\texttt{ed}\) or \(\texttt{ex}\) or \(\texttt{dc}\) or \(\texttt{adb}\), but would smoothly inject a brief historical description thereof, and glide on with the main point of the interview. But that 1970s/1980s #geek generation avoids the YouTube selfie camera like the plague.
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I saw this segment on YouTube, in which #Fridman interviewed #Kernighan about his #programming setup. For an instant, I was surprised to learn that Fridman hadn't heard of #UNIX \(\texttt{ed}\), but then I realised....
In my view, a luminary like Kernighan, from a certain era, should be interviewed by someone who wouldn't be stunned when hearing once-common names like \(\texttt{ed}\) or \(\texttt{ex}\) or \(\texttt{dc}\) or \(\texttt{adb}\), but would smoothly inject a brief historical description thereof, and glide on with the main point of the interview. But that 1970s/1980s #geek generation avoids the YouTube selfie camera like the plague.
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I saw this segment on YouTube, in which #Fridman interviewed #Kernighan about his #programming setup. For an instant, I was surprised to learn that Fridman hadn't heard of #UNIX \(\texttt{ed}\), but then I realised....
In my view, a luminary like Kernighan, from a certain era, should be interviewed by someone who wouldn't be stunned when hearing once-common names like \(\texttt{ed}\) or \(\texttt{ex}\) or \(\texttt{dc}\) or \(\texttt{adb}\), but would smoothly inject a brief historical description thereof, and glide on with the main point of the interview. But that 1970s/1980s #geek generation avoids the YouTube selfie camera like the plague.
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I saw this segment on YouTube, in which #Fridman interviewed #Kernighan about his #programming setup. For an instant, I was surprised to learn that Fridman hadn't heard of #UNIX \(\texttt{ed}\), but then I realised....
In my view, a luminary like Kernighan, from a certain era, should be interviewed by someone who wouldn't be stunned when hearing once-common names like \(\texttt{ed}\) or \(\texttt{ex}\) or \(\texttt{dc}\) or \(\texttt{adb}\), but would smoothly inject a brief historical description thereof, and glide on with the main point of the interview. But that 1970s/1980s #geek generation avoids the YouTube selfie camera like the plague.
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Fury as Russian oligarchs allowed to buy 15% of UK's largest oil producer: 'Security risk'
http://opr.news/401697cf240904en_gb?link=1&client=opera#Russia
#Oligarchs
#Oil
#OilProducers
#EnergySecurity
#Fridman
#Aven
#LetterOne
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Two sanctioned #Russian oligarchs have become part-owners of the UK's largest oil producer after it completed a deal to buy a German firm - Mikhail #Fridman and Petr #Aven now owns nearly 15% of Harbour Energy
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Russian-Israeli oligarch Mikhail #Fridman has filed a $16 billion claim against #Luxembourg over its decision to freeze his assets after he was placed on the #EU's sanctions list.
In documents outlining the claim, his legal team says that the sanctions were applied without due process and that his assets are still frozen, blocking him from managing or benefiting from them and calling for “compensation based on the fair market value of his investments,”
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#Russia’s largest private lender, sanctioned by both the #US and the #EU, is planning to open new offices in #China after it expanded client support services for Chinese businesses.
Alfa Bank PJSC, controlled by sanctioned billionaire Mikhail #Fridman and his partners, is applying to Chinese authorities to open branches in #Beijing and #Shanghai.
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Tribunale #Ue annulla #sanzioni per #Aven e #Fridman
Il Tribunale dell'Ue ha annullato le sanzioni a Petr Aven, con cittadinanza russa e lettone, e Mikhail Fridman, con cittadinanza russa e israeliana, due importanti soci dell'Alfa Group, un conglomerato comprendente la Alfa Bank, una delle principali banche russe.
I due imprenditori erano stati inseriti nella blacklist Ue dal Consiglio ed erano accusati assieme allo stesso Vladimir Putin.
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The #EU Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday to annul the inclusion of Russian billionaires Mikhail #Fridman and Petr #Aven from a EU sanction list.
"The General Court considers that none of the reasons set out in the initial acts is sufficiently substantiated and that the inclusion of Mr Aven and Mr Fridman on the lists at issue was therefore not justified," the Luxembourg-based court said in a statement.
They are founders of #Alfa Group / Alfa Bank.
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Here's the Telegram post
And a post on Facebook
The SBU has reported the suspicion of the Russian oligarch Michael Fridman, who is financing the Russian aggression in Ukraine
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The Security Service of Ukraine pressed criminal charges against Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman for financing Russian aggression toward Ukraine.
SBU said he used Alfa Bank assets to finance 2 billion rubles (approx $20Mil USD) at military factories - including Tula Ammunition Plant (produces cartridges) and Yalamov Ural Optical-Mechanical Plant (manufactures high-tech equipment for Russian warplanes and helicopters)
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Treasury imposes sanctions on Alfa Group supervisory board members/founders:
Petr Aven
Mikhail Fridman
German Khan
Alexey KuzmichevAnd the Russian Association of Employers the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP)
#Russia #RussianOligarch #RussianSanctions #AlfaBank #Fridman #Khan #Aven #Kuzmichev
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Life Under UK #Sanctions: Chauffeurs, Chefs and $1 Million #Allowances https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/world/europe/uk-russia-sanctions.html?unlocked_article_code=uavUa5ndyvclB8X1yMELRHOPdvn4fFAZoorFXrvnAekfThQfgfFsdGYdk5CFHjvXDXSZvs38N7N3E6R08yX8ENIK33lL7Ayh7Q3mqzYdIFhrqFMaoHbmIF0x9Thaio3Rq8hp9kkYvr2YykePMyOtaKIUQ9QTm2WWXl_5sQQTuGg9g8qduEFZOAHpCXE2DxHUBs6_YXkgICQyR41YEy2WVdR7nDAg7bftyrL7jSDtSQ-Uvk6V5LimKg72GHbbkSsg9vsVh2XP6AsNPcSI9xNjbqOQYc7AQ85T8_rReX6sbNe2O8HToxw2vf9DLefPtShdd_tOl6YRe0NhErNHKNV5JCuF&smid=nytcore-android-share
'Despite tough talk, Britain’s new sanctions program against #Russia ’s invasion of #Ukraine has proved shaky. Some #oligarchs have received generous exemptions. Officials have at times overreached.'
"Mr. #Fridman also received a roughly £7,000 monthly allowance to cover his family’s basic needs."
'Officials permitted Petr #Aven a monthly allowance of £60,000' -
Putin’s Oligarchs: A year in the sanctioned lives of Russia’s richest men
Oleg Deripaska
Mikhail Fridman
Leonid Mikhelson
Arkady Volozh
Alisher Usmanov
Oleg TinkovAn amazing interactive report by Coda Story and Lighthouse Reports
#Putin #Oligarchs #Russia #Deripaska #Fridman #Mikhelson #Volozh #Usmanov #Tinkov
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@CrackedWindscreen #Fridman, along with #Musk and a few others in that orbit, have done extraordinary harm to public science education and discourse.
And Twitter and YouTube were their instruments to do so.
I almost wish that these platforms never existed at times.
Musk and Fridman like to make all these nods to "civilization collapse", but what kind of modern civilization can survive where the public's notion and belief in actual, competent science is irreparably damaged?
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Lex Fridman kiedyś: fajne wywiady o AI.
Lex #Fridman obecnie: rozmowa z autorem kultowego blogaska o tematach najważniejszych: woke, cancel culture, social justice
