#reid-hoffman — Public Fediverse posts
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https://winbuzzer.com/2026/06/06/reid-hoffman-sets-microsoft-board-exit-for-manas-focus-xcxwbn/
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman will leave Microsoft's board after the 2026 shareholder vote as he spends more time on Manas, his AI drug-discovery startup.
#AI #Microsoft #LinkedIn #ReidHoffman #ManasAI #DrugDiscovery #ManasAI
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https://winbuzzer.com/2026/06/06/reid-hoffman-sets-microsoft-board-exit-for-manas-focus-xcxwbn/
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman will leave Microsoft's board after the 2026 shareholder vote as he spends more time on Manas, his AI drug-discovery startup.
#AI #Microsoft #LinkedIn #ReidHoffman #ManasAI #DrugDiscovery #ManasAI
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The latest release of documents from the U.S. Justice Department related to Jeffrey Epstein shed light on how the financier ingratiated himself with top Microsoft executives. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/26/tech/jeffrey-epstein-microsoft-executives/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #microsoft #joiito #reidhoffman #jamesestaley #jpmorgan #lawrencesummers #jeffreyepstein #billgates #humantrafficking #sexcrimes
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The latest release of documents from the U.S. Justice Department related to Jeffrey Epstein shed light on how the financier ingratiated himself with top Microsoft executives. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/26/tech/jeffrey-epstein-microsoft-executives/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #microsoft #joiito #reidhoffman #jamesestaley #jpmorgan #lawrencesummers #jeffreyepstein #billgates #humantrafficking #sexcrimes
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Epstein Files: Elon Musk Calls Reid Hoffman ‘Liar’ And ‘Guilty Of Dark Deeds’ As The Duo Wash Dirty Laundry On X
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"It seems one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, who is actively reshaping both our politics and the way our brains work, has his thinking about the world shaped and informed no differently than your uncle killing time in a doctor’s office."
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/zuckerberg-epstein-big-tech-elite #Zuckerberg #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #Palantir #DesireeDudley #ReidHoffman #EdBoyden #BillGates #StevenSinofsky #SiliconValley #DOJ #CoverUp
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"It seems one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, who is actively reshaping both our politics and the way our brains work, has his thinking about the world shaped and informed no differently than your uncle killing time in a doctor’s office."
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/zuckerberg-epstein-big-tech-elite #Zuckerberg #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #Palantir #DesireeDudley #ReidHoffman #EdBoyden #BillGates #StevenSinofsky #SiliconValley #DOJ #CoverUp
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CNBC: Epstein’s Silicon Valley connections went beyond Gates and Musk. “Other tech leaders named include Google co-founder Sergey Brin, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, former Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.”
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CNBC: Epstein’s Silicon Valley connections went beyond Gates and Musk. “Other tech leaders named include Google co-founder Sergey Brin, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, former Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.”
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"In an August 2015 email, the late billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein wrote about a “wild” dinner he had with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel, and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman."
~ Caleb Ecarma
#Epstein #Trump #MarkZuckerberg #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #ReidHoffman #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup
/7https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/epsteins-wild-party-with-zuckerberg
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"In an August 2015 email, the late billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein wrote about a “wild” dinner he had with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel, and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman."
~ Caleb Ecarma
#Epstein #Trump #MarkZuckerberg #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #ReidHoffman #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup
/7https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/epsteins-wild-party-with-zuckerberg
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CW: The Tech Elites in the Epstein Files | Wired
“Below are the names in tech that show up most frequently in the Epstein files …”
Reid Hoffman (2,658 Files)
Bill Gates (2,592 Files)
Peter Thiel (2,281 Files)
Elon Musk (1,116 Files)
Larry Page (314 Files), Sergey Brin (294 Files)
Mark Zuckerberg (282 Files)
Jeff Bezos (196 Files)
Eric Schmidt (193 Files)#EpsteinFiles #ReidHoffman #BillGates #PeterThiel #ElonMusk #LarryPage #SergeyBrin #MarkZuckerberg #JeffBezos #EricSchmidt
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Lazy Caturday Reads: Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, and More News
Good Afternoon!!
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Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. He’s everywhere in the news. We still haven’t seen the DOJ Epstein files, but we’re already learning more about Epstein’s relationship to Trump from the recently released text messages. We don’t know yet how bad it will get when the files are released, but the extent to which Trump is publicly panicking suggests it will be very bad for him.
In Trump’s latest effort to control the Epstein story, he ordered Attorney General Bondi to investigate Democrats who had connections to the child sex trafficker.
Acceding to President Donald Trump’s demands, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday that she has ordered a top federal prosecutor to investigate sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Trump political foes, including former President Bill Clinton.
Bondi posted on X that she was assigning Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to lead the probe, capping an eventful week in which congressional Republicans released nearly 23,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate and House Democrats seized on emails mentioning Trump.
Trump, who was friends with Epstein for years, didn’t explain what supposed crimes he wanted the Justice Department to investigate. None of the men he mentioned in a social media post demanding the probe has been accused of sexual misconduct by any of Epstein’s victims.
Hours before Bondi’s announcement, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that he would ask her, the Justice Department and the FBI to investigate Epstein’s “involvement and relationship” with Clinton and others, including former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and LinkedIn founder and Democratic donor Reid Hoffman.
Trump, calling the matter “the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans,” said the investigation should also include financial giant JPMorgan Chase, which provided banking services to Epstein, and “many other people and institutions.”
There’s no evidence that any of the people Trump is targeting were involved in sexual abuse or sex trafficking.
A JPMorgan Chase spokesperson, Patricia Wexler, said the company regretted associating with Epstein “but did not help him commit his heinous acts.”
“The government had damning information about his crimes and failed to share it with us or other banks,” she said. The company agreed previously to pay millions of dollars to Epstein’s victims, who had sued arguing that the bank ignored red flags about criminal activity.
Clinton has acknowledged traveling on Epstein’s private jet but has said through a spokesperson that he had no knowledge of the late financier’s crimes. He also has never been accused of misconduct by Epstein’s known victims.
Clinton’s deputy chief of staff Angel Ureña posted on X Friday: “These emails prove Bill Clinton did nothing and knew nothing. The rest is noise meant to distract from election losses, backfiring shutdowns, and who knows what else.” [….]
Summers and Hoffman had nothing to do with either case, but both were friendly with Epstein and exchanged emails with him. Those messages were among the documents released this week, along with other correspondence Epstein had with friends and business associates in the years before his death.
Nothing in the messages suggested any wrongdoing on the men’s part, other than associating with someone who had been accused of sex crimes against children.
At Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson writes:
In a transparent attempt to distract from the many times his own name appears in the documents from the Epstein estate members of the House Oversight Committee released Wednesday, President Donald J. Trump asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Democrats whose names appeared in the documents. He singled out former president Bill Clinton, former treasury secretary Lawrence H. Summers, and Reid Hoffman, who founded LinkedIn and who is a Democratic donor.
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Although the attorney general is the nation’s chief law enforcement officer and is supposed to be nonpartisan in protecting the rule of law, Bondi responded that the Department of Justice “will pursue this with urgency and integrity.” Maegan Vazquez and Shayna Jacobs of the Washington Post note that reporters have already covered the relationship of Epstein with Clinton, Summers, and Hoffman for years, and that in July, Justice Department officials said an examination of the FBI files relating to Epstein—a different cache than Wednesday’s—“did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”
Meidas Touch noted: “In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal—and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.”
This scandal truly has Trump flailing. I hope this will be the one that really brings him down, but he somehow seems to wriggle out of every scandal. But he certainly is terrified of the Epstein files being released.
Politico: House plans to vote Tuesday on releasing Epstein files.
House Republican leaders are planning to hold a vote Tuesday on legislation to force the release of federal files related to Jeffrey Epstein, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss internal plans ahead of a public announcement.
The tentative scheduling decision follows a successful effort by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) to sidestep Speaker Mike Johnson and force a floor vote on their bipartisan bill to compel the Justice Department to release all of its records related to the late convicted sex offender.
President Donald Trump has made repeated attempts to kill the effort, which continued in a series of Truth Social posts Friday. But Johnson said Wednesday he intends to move quickly to hold the vote and put the matter to bed.
Under the current GOP plan, the House Rules Committee would approve a procedural measure Monday night to advance eight bills for floor consideration, including language to tee up the Epstein legislation. If that measure is approved on the floor, likely early Tuesday afternoon, debate and a final vote on the Epstein bill could immediately follow. GOP leaders are considering whether to postpone the Epstein vote until Tuesday evening….
The four Republicans who signed on to the discharge petition forcing the vote — Massie, plus Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Nancy Mace of South Carolina — are likely to examine Johnson’s moves very closely. They could together block any procedural measure that would undercut the Epstein legislation, postpone it or otherwise alter it.
One more story on the Epstein texts from Jason Wilson at The Guardian: Steve Bannon advised Jeffrey Epstein for years on how to rehab his reputation, texts show.
Hundreds of texts over almost a year show Maga influencer Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein workshopping legal and media strategies to protect Epstein from the legal and publicity quagmire that enveloped him in the last year of his life.
The texts, released by the House oversight committee on Wednesday, show that as early as June 2018, the pair were devising responses to the gathering storm of public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history, his favorable treatment by the justice system, and his friendships with powerful figures in business, politics and academia.
Bannon conspiratorially described the renewed scrutiny of Epstein as a “sophisticated op”, and over time he counseled Epstein in his adversarial responses to media outlets, the justice system and his victims.
All the while, both men were also strategizing how best to promote Bannon’s rightwing populist agenda, and the political fortunes of its standard bearer, Donald Trump.
In all of Epstein’s messages, the identity of his correspondent is redacted. But Bannon’s identity in the threads cited in this reporting is clear from contextual clues including his documented activities at the time, details of his business and media pursuits, and other disclosures. In one document, the sender’s phone number is not redacted – and it is the same number linked to Bannon in a legal case against Trump adviser Roger Stone.
Read the rest at The Guardian.
Trump is also beginning to panic about the economy and the negative effects of his insane tariffs.
David J. Lynch at The Washington Post: Trump goes on defense over tariffs as prices on everyday items keep rising.
President Donald Trump’s bid Friday to sootheconsumers by dropping tariffs on a wide array of groceries, including coffee, beef, bananas and tomatoes — contradicting his repeated claims that the levies were not affecting retail prices — shows he is on the defensive over his signature policy initiative.
Public opposition, eroding support on Capitol Hill and a potentially lethal challenge before the Supreme Court have Trump scrambling to defend his economic strategy even as the administration notches diplomatic agreements that are cementing its high-tariff approach to rebalancing global trade.
Sophia Loren with her cat, 1959
Public opinion is the immediate worry, following recent Democratic electoral victories in Virginia and New Jersey that were fueled by Americans’ ire over the cost of living. By a nearly 2-to-1 margin, registered voters disapproved of the president’s tariffs in a recent Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll, a finding that has been consistent all year and could imperil Republican candidates in next year’s congressional elections.
The president on Friday issued an executive order rolling back import taxes on many foods, his most significant retreat on the emergency tariffs he imposed in April, which were billed at the time as loophole-free. In September, the White House had signaled that some products that are not generally produced in the United States could be spared tariffs once nations where they originate reached trade deals with the United States. But Friday’s exemptions apply to products from any nation, even those that have not agreed on trade terms.
“They know that they shouldn’t have imposed a lot of these tariffs and that they’re hurting affordability for consumers. Now they’re looking for a way to justify lowering them. And that’s fine. But did we really need to go through all this in the first place?” said Christopher Padilla, senior adviser to the Brunswick Group and a former trade official in the George W. Bush administration….
This week’s tariff cuts appear aimed at responding to public concern over high prices. Inflation overall is running at an annual rate of 3 percent, above the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target for price stability but well down from the mid-2022 peak of 9.1 percent.
Prices on many everyday items, however, continue to soar. Through September, the most recent data available, coffee prices were up 19 percent over the previous 12 months, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Bananas were up 7 percent.
Elizabeth Buchwald at CNN: Trump’s latest tariff TACO probably won’t make your life more affordable.
Americans could soon see some goods get cheaper after President Donald Trump exempted certain agricultural imports from a set of tariffs on Friday. But any price drops likely won’t be enough to make life feel more affordable any time soon.
The executive order exempted products like coffee, beef and some fruit from Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs, which began rolling out in April.
The new exemptions are part of what traders have dubbed TACO, or Trump Always Chickens Out, to describe times when the president backs off a policy after unintended consequences pop up. In the case of tariffs, Trump has already reversed a number of his measures, a sign that the administration is reshaping his signature economic tool.
The latest TACO comes after voters, worried about affordability, gave Republicans a drubbing in recent off-year elections.
Why this likely won’t help consumers much:
Nevertheless, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the new exemptions generally won’t help improve affordability.
“It depends on what the importers do with the tariff,” he said in a CNBC interview on Friday. “So when you look at the overall price trend, it hasn’t been because of tariffs. It’s been because of these other events going on and just supply and demand.”
Steve Martin and cat
But in cases where tariffs have been passed along to consumers, prices could drop, Greer said.
One potential example: bananas. American consumers are paying about 8% more for bananas than before Trump’s second term began.
The US largely imports bananas from South American countries. With bananas exempt from “reciprocal” tariffs that started at 10%, prices could go back to where they were earlier this year, said Sarah House, senior economist at Wells Fargo. But it’s unlikely to be something most consumers notice unless they’re buying bananas often, she added.
But not everyone is convinced it will even do that much.
“It is not clear that lowering tariffs will lower prices — it depends on what retailers think they can get away with. The import price of bananas has fallen since tariffs were imposed, but the US consumer price has risen,” Paul Donovan, chief economist at UBS global wealth management, said in a note last week. (The United States tracks import prices before accounting for tariffs. In some cases, import prices have fallen as exporters lower what they charge as a way to share in the tariff expense importers pay.)
More analysis at the CNN link.
Another flop: Trump’s soybean deal with China may have just been a mirage. AP: USDA data casts doubt on China’s soybean purchase promises touted by Trump.
New data the Agriculture Department released Friday created serious doubts about whether China will really buy millions of bushels of American soybeans like the Trump administration touted last month after a high-stakes meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
The USDA report released after the government reopened showed only two Chinese purchases of American soybeans since the summit in South Korea that totaled 332,000 metric tons. That’s well short of the 12 million metric tons that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said China agreed to purchase by January and nowhere near the 25 million metric tons she said they would buy in each of the next three years.
American farmers were hopeful that their biggest customer would resume buying their crops. But CoBank’s Tanner Ehmke, who is its lead economist for grains and oilseed, said there isn’t much incentive for China to buy from America right now because they have plenty of soybeans on hand that they have bought from Brazil and other South American countries this year, and the remaining tariffs ensure that U.S. soybeans remain more expensive than Brazilian beans.
“We are still not even close to what has been advertised from the U.S. in terms of what the agreement would have been,” Ehmke said.
Beijing has yet to confirm any detailed soybean purchase agreement but only that the two sides have reached “consensus” on expanding trade in farm products. Ehmke said that even if China did promise to buy American soybeans it may have only agreed to buy them if the price was attractive.
Will Trump try to distract from the Epstein files and his failures on the economy by taking use to war with Venezuela?
David E. Sanger, Eric Schmit, tTyler Pager, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs at The New York Times (gift link): Trump Escalates Pressure on Venezuela, but Endgame Is Unclear.
The Trump administration is rapidly escalating its pressure campaign against Venezuela, with America’s largest aircraft carrier, the Ford, about to take up a position within striking distance of the country, even as President Trump’s aides provide conflicting accounts of what, exactly, they are seeking to achieve.
Mr. Trump held back-to-back days of meetings at the White House over the past two days, reviewing military options, including the use of Special Operations forces and direct action inside Venezuela.
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It is still not clear whether Mr. Trump has made a decision about what kind of action to authorize, if any. On Friday, he told reporters on Air Force One that “I sort of made up my mind.” “I can’t tell you what it is,” he said, “but we made a lot of progress with Venezuela in terms of stopping drugs from pouring in.”
It is possible Mr. Trump is relying on the arrival of so much firepower to intimidate the government of Nicolás Maduro, who the United States and many of its allies say is not Venezuela’s legitimate president. Mr. Maduro has put his forces on high alert, leaving the two countries with their weapons cocked and ready for war.
There were signs that the administration was moving into a new and more aggressive posture. Shortly after a meeting on Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on social media that the mission in the Caribbean now had a name — “Southern Spear.” He described its goal in expansive terms, saying the operation “removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere.”
“The Western Hemisphere is America’s neighborhood,” he wrote, “and we will protect it.” With the arrival of the Ford and three accompanying missile-firing Navy destroyers, there are now 15,000 troops in the region, more than there have been at any time in decades.
The only thing missing is a strategic explanation from the Trump administration that would clarify why the United States is amassing such a large force. Mr. Hegseth’s posting on X was only the latest in a series of statements from administration officials that, at best, are in tension with one another. Some are outright contradictory.
Mr. Trump has been the most consistent, saying it is all about drugs. But that would not explain why the Ford was rushed from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Caribbean region, adding to an American force that has now reached 15,000 soldiers and sailors, to attack small boats that until early September had been intercepted by the Coast Guard. Nor would it explain why Colombia or Mexico — Mexico being the main conduit for fentanyl — are not in the Navy’s sights.
Dan Lamothe, Tara Copp, Michael Birnbaum, and Noah Robertson: Trump weighs Venezuela strikes as U.S. forces prepare for attack order.
President Donald Trump said Friday night that he has “sort of made up my mind” about how he will proceed with the possibility of military action in Venezuela, following a second consecutive day of deliberations at the White House that included top national security advisers.
Trump’s vague remarks aboard Air Force One were delivered as he traveled for the weekend to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, and included no additional new details. The comments came as U.S. forces in the region awaited possible attack orders and after days of high-level discussions about whether — and how — to strike in Venezuela, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter is highly sensitive. Joining Trump in deliberations Friday were Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, these people said.
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Earlier in the day, an administration official said “a host of options” had been presented to the president. Trump is “very good at maintaining strategic ambiguity, and something he does very well is he does not dictate or broadcast to our adversaries what he wants to do next,” the official said.
Any strike on Venezuelan territory would upend the president’s frequent promises of avoiding new conflicts and betray promises made to Congress in recent weeks that no active preparations were underway for such an attack. It also would further complicate U.S. cooperation with other Latin American countries, and deepen suspicions — there and in Washington — over whether Trump’s endgame is the forced removal of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, whom Trump has accused of sending drugs and violent criminals to the United States.
Maduro, a socialist strongman, came to power in Caracas in 2013 and increasingly has become a fixation for Trump.
In August, U.S. officials increased the reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction from $25 million to $50 million, citing alleged ties to drug cartels and U.S. beliefs dating back to the Biden administration that he lost Venezuela’s 2024 presidential election and refused to step down.
“The United States is very plugged into what’s going on in Venezuela, the chatter among Maduro’s people and the highest levels of his regime,” the administration official said. “Maduro is very scared, and he should be scared. The president has options on the table that are very bad for Maduro and his illegitimate regime. … We view this regime as illegitimate, and it’s not serving the Western Hemisphere well.”
President Donald Trump has said he believes Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s days are numbered, and that land strikes inside Venezuela are possible.
Experts say that the US doesn’t currently have the military assets in place to launch a largescale operation to remove Maduro from power, though Trump has approved covert action within Venezuela, CNN has reported.
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But if Trump did order strikes inside Venezuela aimed at ousting Maduro, he could face serious challenges with fractured opposition elements and a military poised for insurgency, according to experts, as well as political backlash at home for a president who promised to avoid costly entanglements overseas.
CNN reported that Trump received a briefing earlier this week to review updated options for military action inside Venezuela, a concept the White House has been weighing. The administration had not made a decision on whether to launch strikes, CNN reported, though the US military has moved more than a dozen warships and 15,000 troops into the region as part of what the Pentagon branded Operation Southern Spear in an announcement Thursday.
The concentration of military assets and threats of further attacks beyond the ongoing drug boat campaign have served to increase pressure on Maduro, with administration officials saying he needs to leave office while arguing that he’s closely tied to the Tren de Aragua gang and leading drug trafficking efforts.
But if Maduro does flee Venezuela or is killed out in a targeted strike, experts worry about a military takeover of the country or the boosting of another dictator similar to Maduro.
Read the rest at CNN.
Those are my recommended reads. I’ll add a few more links in the comment thread. What stories are you interested in today?
#BillClinton #catArt #caturday #ChinaSoybeanPurchases #DonaldTrump #EpsteinFiles #JeffreyEpstein #LarrySummers #NicolasMaduro #PamBondi #ReidHoffman #SteveBannon #TACOTrump #TrumpTariffs #Venezuela
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Trump’s post today is the second time he has put one of the #DemocraticParty’s biggest #donors in his Justice Dept’s cross hairs. A few weeks ago, #Trump was targeting the foundation of #GeorgeSoros, the Democratic billionaire. Now he’s after #ReidHoffman, one of the few liberal givers who rivals Soros in the amount he donates.
Hoffman, a co-founder of #LinkedIn, is one of #SiliconValley’s most prominent executives, & the leader of the tech sector’s progressive donor community.
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Trump’s post today is the second time he has put one of the #DemocraticParty’s biggest #donors in his Justice Dept’s cross hairs. A few weeks ago, #Trump was targeting the foundation of #GeorgeSoros, the Democratic billionaire. Now he’s after #ReidHoffman, one of the few liberal givers who rivals Soros in the amount he donates.
Hoffman, a co-founder of #LinkedIn, is one of #SiliconValley’s most prominent executives, & the leader of the tech sector’s progressive donor community.
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#Trump named fmr President #BillClinton, fmr Treasury Secretary #LarrySummers & the VC #ReidHoffman — whom he alleged had ties to the disgraced financier & sex offender #Epstein.
In a social media post, Trump blasted #Democrats for “using the Epstein Hoax” to distract from the shutdown, & indicated that because they had seized on the recent reports of his ties to Epstein, he would investigate “many other people & institutions, to determine what was going on with them.”
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#Trump named fmr President #BillClinton, fmr Treasury Secretary #LarrySummers & the VC #ReidHoffman — whom he alleged had ties to the disgraced financier & sex offender #Epstein.
In a social media post, Trump blasted #Democrats for “using the Epstein Hoax” to distract from the shutdown, & indicated that because they had seized on the recent reports of his ties to Epstein, he would investigate “many other people & institutions, to determine what was going on with them.”
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When pressed by a Reuters reporter in the Oval Office on Sept 25 about potential targets of a domestic terrorism probe, #Trump mentioned #GeorgeSoros - a #Democratic donor whose #charitable network supports #CivilRights, #education, #democracy & other causes - & #ReidHoffman, co-founder of the online professional networking platform #LinkedIn & another Democratic #donor.
#law #FirstAmendment #WeaponizationOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower #propaganda #tyranny #fascism
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When pressed by a Reuters reporter in the Oval Office on Sept 25 about potential targets of a domestic terrorism probe, #Trump mentioned #GeorgeSoros - a #Democratic donor whose #charitable network supports #CivilRights, #education, #democracy & other causes - & #ReidHoffman, co-founder of the online professional networking platform #LinkedIn & another Democratic #donor.
#law #FirstAmendment #WeaponizationOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower #propaganda #tyranny #fascism
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The pursuit of what #Trump said were the funders of “agitators & anarchists” is the latest instance of Trump abusing the power of his office to pursue his political rivals.
When pressed by a reporter to name any possible targets, he suggested 2 of the #Democratic Party’s top #donors — billionaires #GeorgeSoros & #ReidHoffman.
#law #RevengePolitics #fascism #authoritarianism #dictatorship #autocracy #tyranny #dissent #ThoughtPolice #democracy #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreedomOfAssociation
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The pursuit of what #Trump said were the funders of “agitators & anarchists” is the latest instance of Trump abusing the power of his office to pursue his political rivals.
When pressed by a reporter to name any possible targets, he suggested 2 of the #Democratic Party’s top #donors — billionaires #GeorgeSoros & #ReidHoffman.
#law #RevengePolitics #fascism #authoritarianism #dictatorship #autocracy #tyranny #dissent #ThoughtPolice #democracy #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreedomOfAssociation
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Building an AI-first company: What these two business leaders learned from top experts - Adam Brotman, left, and Andy Sack, authors of the book, “AI First.” (Photo Courte... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/building-an-ai-first-company-what-these-two-business-leaders-learned-from-top-experts-in-the-field/ #artificialintelligence #digitaltransformation #businessleadership #customerengagement #geekwirepodcast #aiinbusiness #ethanmollick #adambrotman #reidhoffman #aiadoption
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Building an AI-first company: What these two business leaders learned from top experts - Adam Brotman, left, and Andy Sack, authors of the book, “AI First.” (Photo Courte... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/building-an-ai-first-company-what-these-two-business-leaders-learned-from-top-experts-in-the-field/ #artificialintelligence #digitaltransformation #businessleadership #customerengagement #geekwirepodcast #aiinbusiness #ethanmollick #adambrotman #reidhoffman #aiadoption
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1/ when i wrote my post on Epstein's #crypto connections I forgot #IsabelMaxwell (#Ghislaine's sister) was connected to #BrockPierce even before she invited Pierce to speak at epstein's #Mindshift conference.
Brock Pierce is a big nexus of connection from #Epstein to things like crypto and confirmed pedophile rings (other than his own).
both Maxwell & Pierce were socially close to a crypto broette named #AutumnRadke who died under extremely mysterious circumstances back in 2014. most people think she "fell out of a window", putin style.
* Epstein/Crypto: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114903591655332953
* NY Post on Radke's death: https://nypost.com/2014/03/06/bitcoin-firm-ceo-jumped-to-her-death-neighbor/#jeffreyepstein #epsteinFiles #EpsteinList #HowardLutnick #trump #MAGAcivilwar #MAGA #BrockPierce #SteveBannon #ReidHoffman #PeterThiel #NerdReich #NetworkState #TheNerdReich #PamBondi #EhudBarak #Israel #Mossad #KGB #GhislaineMaxwell #RobertMaxwell #ukpol #uspol #uspolitics #eupol #CIA #intelligence #MI6 #Tether #ValarVentures #EpsteinCoverup #Singapore
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1/ when i wrote my post on Epstein's #crypto connections I forgot #IsabelMaxwell (#Ghislaine's sister) was connected to #BrockPierce even before she invited Pierce to speak at epstein's #Mindshift conference.
Brock Pierce is a big nexus of connection from #Epstein to things like crypto and confirmed pedophile rings (other than his own).
both Maxwell & Pierce were socially close to a crypto broette named #AutumnRadke who died under extremely mysterious circumstances back in 2014. most people think she "fell out of a window", putin style.
* Epstein/Crypto: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114903591655332953
* NY Post on Radke's death: https://nypost.com/2014/03/06/bitcoin-firm-ceo-jumped-to-her-death-neighbor/#jeffreyepstein #epsteinFiles #EpsteinList #HowardLutnick #trump #MAGAcivilwar #MAGA #BrockPierce #SteveBannon #ReidHoffman #PeterThiel #NerdReich #NetworkState #TheNerdReich #PamBondi #EhudBarak #Israel #Mossad #KGB #GhislaineMaxwell #RobertMaxwell #ukpol #uspol #uspolitics #eupol #CIA #intelligence #MI6 #Tether #ValarVentures #EpsteinCoverup #Singapore
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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Epstein's Cryptic TouchJeffrey Epstein touched the cryptoverse in a lot of inappropriate places. While no one has yet found any kind of smoking gun tying #Epstein directly to the creation of any major #crypto firms or technologies the timing, nature, and frequency of Epstein’s touchpoints to an industry that more or less exists solely to facilitate #moneylaundering on the scale of a medium sized nation state coupled with his vast and unexplained wealth and many connections to international intelligence agencies is what the kids today commonly describe as “sus”.
Retoots appreciated.
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/crypto-epstein
#jeffreyepstein #epsteinFiles #EpsteinList #HowardLutnick #trump #MAGAcivilwar #MAGA #BrockPierce #SteveBannon #ReidHoffman #PeterThiel #NerdReich #NetworkState #TheNerdReich #PamBondi #EhudBarak #Israel #Mossad #KGB #GhislaineMaxwell #RobertMaxwell #ukpol #uspol #uspolitics #eupol #CIA #intelligence #MI6 #Tether #ValarVentures #EpsteinCoverup
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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Epstein's Cryptic TouchJeffrey Epstein touched the cryptoverse in a lot of inappropriate places. While no one has yet found any kind of smoking gun tying #Epstein directly to the creation of any major #crypto firms or technologies the timing, nature, and frequency of Epstein’s touchpoints to an industry that more or less exists solely to facilitate #moneylaundering on the scale of a medium sized nation state coupled with his vast and unexplained wealth and many connections to international intelligence agencies is what the kids today commonly describe as “sus”.
Retoots appreciated.
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/crypto-epstein
#jeffreyepstein #epsteinFiles #EpsteinList #HowardLutnick #trump #MAGAcivilwar #MAGA #BrockPierce #SteveBannon #ReidHoffman #PeterThiel #NerdReich #NetworkState #TheNerdReich #PamBondi #EhudBarak #Israel #Mossad #KGB #GhislaineMaxwell #RobertMaxwell #ukpol #uspol #uspolitics #eupol #CIA #intelligence #MI6 #Tether #ValarVentures #EpsteinCoverup
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3 Systems-Related Business Skills That AI Can’t Replace
The systems skills that can’t be replaced by AI getty Almost 10,000 U.S. tech sector employees lost their…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #AndrewMcAfee #AndyJassey #ArtificialIntelligence #AU #Australia #businessskills #ErikBrynjolfsson #ReedHastings #ReidHoffman #Technology
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A speculative genealogy of accelerationist perspectives
Increasingly I think it makes sense to distinguish between different accelerationist positions. I rarely use the term to describe my own politics any more, both because I don’t want to risk association with far-right positions and because the potential vehicle for a left-accelerationist politics has been smashed into pieces. But my instincts remain left-accelerationist, in the sense of being inclined to ask how emerging technologies could be steered towards solidaristic and socially beneficial goals rather than being driven by the market. It means insisting we consider the technology analytically in ways which distinguish between emergent capacities and how those capacities are being organised at present by commercial imperatives. It means insisting we dive into the problems created by emerging technologies, going through them rather than seeking to go around them, rather than imagining we could hold them back by force of our critique.
In the mid 2010s this felt like quite an optimistic way to see the world but now it feels like a weirdly gloomy way to see the world, because the sense of collective agency underwriting such a future-orientation now seems largely, if not entirely, absent. It’s interesting therefore to see someone like Reid Hoffman, rare liberal member of the billionaire paypal mafia, offer a perspective which has some commonalities with this but could rather be described as a liberal humanist accelerationism. From pg 1-3 of the book Superagency, he’s written with Greg Beato:
We form groups of all kinds, at all levels, to amplify our efforts, often deploying our collective power against other teams, other companies, other countries. Even within our own groups of like-minded allies, competition emerges, because of variations in values and goals. And each group and subgroup is generally adept at rationalizing self-interest in the name of the greater good. Coordinating at a group level to ban, constrain, or even just contain a new technology is hard. Doing so at a state or national level is even harder. Coordinating globally is like herding cats—if cats were armed, tribal, and had different languages, different gods, and dreams for the future that went beyond their next meal. Meanwhile, the more powerful the technology, the harder the coordination problem, and that means you’ll never get the future you want simply by prohibiting the future you don’t want. Refusing to actively shape the future never works, and that’s especially true now that the other side of the world is only just a few clicks away. Other actors have other futures in mind. What should we do? Fundamentally, the surest way to prevent a bad future is to steer toward a better one that, by its existence, makes significantly worse outcomes harder to achieve.
The difference here is that he’s envisioning society as made up with more or less self-realised individuals, in a world in which power and vested interests is (primarily, at least) a matter of how those individuals interact rather than an enduring structural context to their interaction. But with this huge caveat, a lot of the assumptions and instincts here are similar to my own. This could in turn be contrasted to Tony Blair’s post-liberal accelerationism concerned with the role of the state under these conditions:
There’s a similar line of thought in this review by Nathan Pinkoski of Blair’s book on leadership. He describes Blair’s program as a “kind of post-liberal progressive rightism that promises to co-opt the progressive left while crushing the populist right”. Underlying this project is “a commitment to unlimited, unrestrained technological progress, and a belief that this will bring about a better world”.
And we might in turn distinguish this from the libertarian accelerationism of Marc Andreessen who seems to see little to no legitimate role ofr the state.
There’s a risk in distinguishing between these positions that we take them as doctrines, whereas I think they can better be understand as articulations of underlying instincts and orientations. How technology feels to people and how they feel about technology. Their inclination when presented with sociotechnical change etc.
#accelerationism #capitalism #ideology #instinct #MarcAndreessen #ReidHoffman #socialChange #sociotechnicalChange #technology #tonyBlair
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A speculative genealogy of accelerationist perspectives
Increasingly I think it makes sense to distinguish between different accelerationist positions. I rarely use the term to describe my own politics any more, both because I don’t want to risk association with far-right positions and because the potential vehicle for a left-accelerationist politics has been smashed into pieces. But my instincts remain left-accelerationist, in the sense of being inclined to ask how emerging technologies could be steered towards solidaristic and socially beneficial goals rather than being driven by the market. It means insisting we consider the technology analytically in ways which distinguish between emergent capacities and how those capacities are being organised at present by commercial imperatives. It means insisting we dive into the problems created by emerging technologies, going through them rather than seeking to go around them, rather than imagining we could hold them back by force of our critique.
In the mid 2010s this felt like quite an optimistic way to see the world but now it feels like a weirdly gloomy way to see the world, because the sense of collective agency underwriting such a future-orientation now seems largely, if not entirely, absent. It’s interesting therefore to see someone like Reid Hoffman, rare liberal member of the billionaire paypal mafia, offer a perspective which has some commonalities with this but could rather be described as a liberal humanist accelerationism. From pg 1-3 of the book Superagency, he’s written with Greg Beato:
We form groups of all kinds, at all levels, to amplify our efforts, often deploying our collective power against other teams, other companies, other countries. Even within our own groups of like-minded allies, competition emerges, because of variations in values and goals. And each group and subgroup is generally adept at rationalizing self-interest in the name of the greater good. Coordinating at a group level to ban, constrain, or even just contain a new technology is hard. Doing so at a state or national level is even harder. Coordinating globally is like herding cats—if cats were armed, tribal, and had different languages, different gods, and dreams for the future that went beyond their next meal. Meanwhile, the more powerful the technology, the harder the coordination problem, and that means you’ll never get the future you want simply by prohibiting the future you don’t want. Refusing to actively shape the future never works, and that’s especially true now that the other side of the world is only just a few clicks away. Other actors have other futures in mind. What should we do? Fundamentally, the surest way to prevent a bad future is to steer toward a better one that, by its existence, makes significantly worse outcomes harder to achieve.
The difference here is that he’s envisioning society as made up with more or less self-realised individuals, in a world in which power and vested interests is (primarily, at least) a matter of how those individuals interact rather than an enduring structural context to their interaction. But with this huge caveat, a lot of the assumptions and instincts here are similar to my own. This could in turn be contrasted to Tony Blair’s post-liberal accelerationism concerned with the role of the state under these conditions:
There’s a similar line of thought in this review by Nathan Pinkoski of Blair’s book on leadership. He describes Blair’s program as a “kind of post-liberal progressive rightism that promises to co-opt the progressive left while crushing the populist right”. Underlying this project is “a commitment to unlimited, unrestrained technological progress, and a belief that this will bring about a better world”.
And we might in turn distinguish this from the libertarian accelerationism of Marc Andreessen who seems to see little to no legitimate role ofr the state.
There’s a risk in distinguishing between these positions that we take them as doctrines, whereas I think they can better be understand as articulations of underlying instincts and orientations. How technology feels to people and how they feel about technology. Their inclination when presented with sociotechnical change etc.
#accelerationism #capitalism #ideology #instinct #MarcAndreessen #ReidHoffman #socialChange #sociotechnicalChange #technology #tonyBlair
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i'm suffering through the new #JoeRogan / #ElonMusk interview and as usual it's a horrorshow of conspiracy theories... BUT
i am somewhat heartened that rogan is like "WTF is going on with this clown car of an #EpsteinFiles release? why did they tell us they were releasing all this stuff and stage this weird photo op with influencers then release a binder with 10 year old information?"
Elon offers some weak sauce defences but Joe is clearly not entirely satisfied (says stuff like "they should definitely not have made a big announcement if they had nothing").
(then it gets creepy because Elon accuses #BillGates, #ReidHoffman, and #BillClinton of being the "known" #Epstein "clients". needless to say, #Trump's status as Epstein's "best friend" for decades is never mentioned.)
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i'm suffering through the new #JoeRogan / #ElonMusk interview and as usual it's a horrorshow of conspiracy theories... BUT
i am somewhat heartened that rogan is like "WTF is going on with this clown car of an #EpsteinFiles release? why did they tell us they were releasing all this stuff and stage this weird photo op with influencers then release a binder with 10 year old information?"
Elon offers some weak sauce defences but Joe is clearly not entirely satisfied (says stuff like "they should definitely not have made a big announcement if they had nothing").
(then it gets creepy because Elon accuses #BillGates, #ReidHoffman, and #BillClinton of being the "known" #Epstein "clients". needless to say, #Trump's status as Epstein's "best friend" for decades is never mentioned.)
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"Primarily because I think it will make a big difference to business outcomes." But at least he supports Harris. #reidhoffman
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"Primarily because I think it will make a big difference to business outcomes." But at least he supports Harris. #reidhoffman
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American #Plutocracy or #Kleptocracy 🤔
Your choiceSilicon Valley is maximizing profit at everyone's expense.
A public battle has broken out among the titans of #SiliconValley. One side, led by Elon #Musk, #PayPal co-founder Peter #Thiel and venture capitalists Marc #Andreessen and #BenHorowitz, is backing Donald #Trump for president. The other, led by #LinkedIn co-founder #ReidHoffman, is behind #KamalaHarris.
We should not make the mistake of thinking this is a battle over ideology or policy. It’s a battle to maximize Silicon Valley’s profits regardless of the consequences for society.
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American #Plutocracy or #Kleptocracy 🤔
Your choiceSilicon Valley is maximizing profit at everyone's expense.
A public battle has broken out among the titans of #SiliconValley. One side, led by Elon #Musk, #PayPal co-founder Peter #Thiel and venture capitalists Marc #Andreessen and #BenHorowitz, is backing Donald #Trump for president. The other, led by #LinkedIn co-founder #ReidHoffman, is behind #KamalaHarris.
We should not make the mistake of thinking this is a battle over ideology or policy. It’s a battle to maximize Silicon Valley’s profits regardless of the consequences for society.
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@Zitron smokes them out 👏
> #SatyaNadella, #SundarPichai, #MarkZuckerberg, #AndyJassy, #SamAltman, #MiraMurati, #ReidHoffman, all responsible for the echoing #nihilism that created the #genAI boom.
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> These men have burned hundreds of billions of dollars on a machine that boils lakes to make the most mediocre version of the past.
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@Zitron smokes them out 👏
> #SatyaNadella, #SundarPichai, #MarkZuckerberg, #AndyJassy, #SamAltman, #MiraMurati, #ReidHoffman, all responsible for the echoing #nihilism that created the #genAI boom.
> …
> These men have burned hundreds of billions of dollars on a machine that boils lakes to make the most mediocre version of the past.
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CW: Instagram Reel
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-Giuv6Ox4k/
#LinaKhan #FTC #ConsumerProtection #Consumers #Government #America #USA #ReidHoffman #ReidHoffmanJeffreyEpsteinConnection #Law #Justice #AntiTrust #Enforcement #ACLU #BigPharma #JunkFees #Subscriptions #noncompeteagreements #BigTech #Monopolies #Biden #Harris #KamalaHarris #BigBusiness #CEO #Democrats #Corporatocracy #ToxicCapitalism #Capitalism #EatTheRich #BigAg #BigOil #Economy #Labor #Unions
