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  1. Realistic for Malachi Lawrence to set Cowboys rookie sack record?

    As I was looking at all the rookies, I thought to myself, who holds the rookie sack record? I knew i...

    #DallasCowboys #MalachiLawrence #Rookie #Sacks
    insidethestar.com/realistic-fo

  2. Realistic for Malachi Lawrence to set Cowboys rookie sack record?

    As I was looking at all the rookies, I thought to myself, who holds the rookie sack record? I knew i...

    #DallasCowboys #MalachiLawrence #Rookie #Sacks
    insidethestar.com/realistic-fo

  3. Realistic for Malachi Lawrence to set Cowboys rookie sack record?

    As I was looking at all the rookies, I thought to myself, who holds the rookie sack record? I knew i...

    #DallasCowboys #MalachiLawrence #Rookie #Sacks
    insidethestar.com/realistic-fo

  4. The “California Billionaire Tax Act”,
    often referred to simply as the #billionaire #tax,
    is a proposalthat would require any California resident worth more than $1bn to pay a
    one-off, 5% tax on their assets to help cover education, food assistance and healthcare programs in the state.

    It’s sponsored by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West,
    and if it receives enough signatures from California voters, it will go to the ballot in November.

    When the proposal was put forward at the end of last year,
    many among tech’s billionaire elite threw a #tantrum.

    Some opened offices or bought mansions in Florida or Texas,
    vowing to leave California for good.
    The fleeing rich included Palantir co-founder Peter #Thiel,
    whose current net worth is $25bn;
    Google co-founders Larry #Page and Sergey #Brin,
    worth around $255bn and $240bn respectively;
    and Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David #Sacks,
    whose net worth is not publicly known.

    Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Meta CEO
    Mark #Zuckerberg,
    worth $229bn, has also bought a property in south Florida valued between $150 and $200m.

    Thiel has additionally led the charge in donating to a lobbying group, the "California Business Roundtable",
    which has pledged to fight the wealth tax.

    The Palantir co-founder handed over $3m to the political action committee in late December.
    Other major donors include realtors, entrepreneurs and private equity firms.
    James #Siminoff, who founded the camera-embedded Ring doorbell company, also donated $100,000, according to public records.

    “The most powerful money in politics is to be on the no-side of a ballot measure,” said #McCuan.
    “You can even pre-empt something getting to the ballot, like a billionaire’s tax,
    by explaining to everyone out there that this is a bad idea for economic growth.”

    Tech investors and venture capitalists have been extremely vocal in their opposition to the tax,
    saying that the state will lose revenue as billionaires flee and it will hurt the state’s ability to be economically competitive.

    Just this week, Chamath #Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and current venture capital investor, wrote
    “the loss of this tax revenue was totally avoidable but is now forever”.
    #Balaji #Srinivasan, an investor and former chief technology officer of Coinbase, wrote,
    “the most successful tech founders of all time have now exited the failed state of California”.

    Adding on, Paul #Graham, the co-founder of seed capital firm Y Combinator, wrote:
    “It’s important that people like Zuck and Larry Page are willing to move in response to the proposed wealth tax.
    It shows politicians what will happen if they try things like this.”

    Joining the billionaires, #Newsom has pledged to fight the tax, saying it will “drive a race to the bottom” and stifle innovation as the ultra-wealthy leave.
    “This will be defeated – there’s no question in my mind,” Newsom told the New York Times in January.
    “I’ll do what I have to do to protect the state.”
    theguardian.com/technology/202

  5. The “California Billionaire Tax Act”,
    often referred to simply as the #billionaire #tax,
    is a proposalthat would require any California resident worth more than $1bn to pay a
    one-off, 5% tax on their assets to help cover education, food assistance and healthcare programs in the state.

    It’s sponsored by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West,
    and if it receives enough signatures from California voters, it will go to the ballot in November.

    When the proposal was put forward at the end of last year,
    many among tech’s billionaire elite threw a #tantrum.

    Some opened offices or bought mansions in Florida or Texas,
    vowing to leave California for good.
    The fleeing rich included Palantir co-founder Peter #Thiel,
    whose current net worth is $25bn;
    Google co-founders Larry #Page and Sergey #Brin,
    worth around $255bn and $240bn respectively;
    and Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David #Sacks,
    whose net worth is not publicly known.

    Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Meta CEO
    Mark #Zuckerberg,
    worth $229bn, has also bought a property in south Florida valued between $150 and $200m.

    Thiel has additionally led the charge in donating to a lobbying group, the "California Business Roundtable",
    which has pledged to fight the wealth tax.

    The Palantir co-founder handed over $3m to the political action committee in late December.
    Other major donors include realtors, entrepreneurs and private equity firms.
    James #Siminoff, who founded the camera-embedded Ring doorbell company, also donated $100,000, according to public records.

    “The most powerful money in politics is to be on the no-side of a ballot measure,” said #McCuan.
    “You can even pre-empt something getting to the ballot, like a billionaire’s tax,
    by explaining to everyone out there that this is a bad idea for economic growth.”

    Tech investors and venture capitalists have been extremely vocal in their opposition to the tax,
    saying that the state will lose revenue as billionaires flee and it will hurt the state’s ability to be economically competitive.

    Just this week, Chamath #Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and current venture capital investor, wrote
    “the loss of this tax revenue was totally avoidable but is now forever”.
    #Balaji #Srinivasan, an investor and former chief technology officer of Coinbase, wrote,
    “the most successful tech founders of all time have now exited the failed state of California”.

    Adding on, Paul #Graham, the co-founder of seed capital firm Y Combinator, wrote:
    “It’s important that people like Zuck and Larry Page are willing to move in response to the proposed wealth tax.
    It shows politicians what will happen if they try things like this.”

    Joining the billionaires, #Newsom has pledged to fight the tax, saying it will “drive a race to the bottom” and stifle innovation as the ultra-wealthy leave.
    “This will be defeated – there’s no question in my mind,” Newsom told the New York Times in January.
    “I’ll do what I have to do to protect the state.”
    theguardian.com/technology/202

  6. The “California Billionaire Tax Act”,
    often referred to simply as the #billionaire #tax,
    is a proposalthat would require any California resident worth more than $1bn to pay a
    one-off, 5% tax on their assets to help cover education, food assistance and healthcare programs in the state.

    It’s sponsored by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West,
    and if it receives enough signatures from California voters, it will go to the ballot in November.

    When the proposal was put forward at the end of last year,
    many among tech’s billionaire elite threw a #tantrum.

    Some opened offices or bought mansions in Florida or Texas,
    vowing to leave California for good.
    The fleeing rich included Palantir co-founder Peter #Thiel,
    whose current net worth is $25bn;
    Google co-founders Larry #Page and Sergey #Brin,
    worth around $255bn and $240bn respectively;
    and Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David #Sacks,
    whose net worth is not publicly known.

    Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Meta CEO
    Mark #Zuckerberg,
    worth $229bn, has also bought a property in south Florida valued between $150 and $200m.

    Thiel has additionally led the charge in donating to a lobbying group, the "California Business Roundtable",
    which has pledged to fight the wealth tax.

    The Palantir co-founder handed over $3m to the political action committee in late December.
    Other major donors include realtors, entrepreneurs and private equity firms.
    James #Siminoff, who founded the camera-embedded Ring doorbell company, also donated $100,000, according to public records.

    “The most powerful money in politics is to be on the no-side of a ballot measure,” said #McCuan.
    “You can even pre-empt something getting to the ballot, like a billionaire’s tax,
    by explaining to everyone out there that this is a bad idea for economic growth.”

    Tech investors and venture capitalists have been extremely vocal in their opposition to the tax,
    saying that the state will lose revenue as billionaires flee and it will hurt the state’s ability to be economically competitive.

    Just this week, Chamath #Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and current venture capital investor, wrote
    “the loss of this tax revenue was totally avoidable but is now forever”.
    #Balaji #Srinivasan, an investor and former chief technology officer of Coinbase, wrote,
    “the most successful tech founders of all time have now exited the failed state of California”.

    Adding on, Paul #Graham, the co-founder of seed capital firm Y Combinator, wrote:
    “It’s important that people like Zuck and Larry Page are willing to move in response to the proposed wealth tax.
    It shows politicians what will happen if they try things like this.”

    Joining the billionaires, #Newsom has pledged to fight the tax, saying it will “drive a race to the bottom” and stifle innovation as the ultra-wealthy leave.
    “This will be defeated – there’s no question in my mind,” Newsom told the New York Times in January.
    “I’ll do what I have to do to protect the state.”
    theguardian.com/technology/202

  7. The “California Billionaire Tax Act”,
    often referred to simply as the #billionaire #tax,
    is a proposalthat would require any California resident worth more than $1bn to pay a
    one-off, 5% tax on their assets to help cover education, food assistance and healthcare programs in the state.

    It’s sponsored by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West,
    and if it receives enough signatures from California voters, it will go to the ballot in November.

    When the proposal was put forward at the end of last year,
    many among tech’s billionaire elite threw a #tantrum.

    Some opened offices or bought mansions in Florida or Texas,
    vowing to leave California for good.
    The fleeing rich included Palantir co-founder Peter #Thiel,
    whose current net worth is $25bn;
    Google co-founders Larry #Page and Sergey #Brin,
    worth around $255bn and $240bn respectively;
    and Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David #Sacks,
    whose net worth is not publicly known.

    Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Meta CEO
    Mark #Zuckerberg,
    worth $229bn, has also bought a property in south Florida valued between $150 and $200m.

    Thiel has additionally led the charge in donating to a lobbying group, the "California Business Roundtable",
    which has pledged to fight the wealth tax.

    The Palantir co-founder handed over $3m to the political action committee in late December.
    Other major donors include realtors, entrepreneurs and private equity firms.
    James #Siminoff, who founded the camera-embedded Ring doorbell company, also donated $100,000, according to public records.

    “The most powerful money in politics is to be on the no-side of a ballot measure,” said #McCuan.
    “You can even pre-empt something getting to the ballot, like a billionaire’s tax,
    by explaining to everyone out there that this is a bad idea for economic growth.”

    Tech investors and venture capitalists have been extremely vocal in their opposition to the tax,
    saying that the state will lose revenue as billionaires flee and it will hurt the state’s ability to be economically competitive.

    Just this week, Chamath #Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and current venture capital investor, wrote
    “the loss of this tax revenue was totally avoidable but is now forever”.
    #Balaji #Srinivasan, an investor and former chief technology officer of Coinbase, wrote,
    “the most successful tech founders of all time have now exited the failed state of California”.

    Adding on, Paul #Graham, the co-founder of seed capital firm Y Combinator, wrote:
    “It’s important that people like Zuck and Larry Page are willing to move in response to the proposed wealth tax.
    It shows politicians what will happen if they try things like this.”

    Joining the billionaires, #Newsom has pledged to fight the tax, saying it will “drive a race to the bottom” and stifle innovation as the ultra-wealthy leave.
    “This will be defeated – there’s no question in my mind,” Newsom told the New York Times in January.
    “I’ll do what I have to do to protect the state.”
    theguardian.com/technology/202

  8. The “California Billionaire Tax Act”,
    often referred to simply as the #billionaire #tax,
    is a proposalthat would require any California resident worth more than $1bn to pay a
    one-off, 5% tax on their assets to help cover education, food assistance and healthcare programs in the state.

    It’s sponsored by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West,
    and if it receives enough signatures from California voters, it will go to the ballot in November.

    When the proposal was put forward at the end of last year,
    many among tech’s billionaire elite threw a #tantrum.

    Some opened offices or bought mansions in Florida or Texas,
    vowing to leave California for good.
    The fleeing rich included Palantir co-founder Peter #Thiel,
    whose current net worth is $25bn;
    Google co-founders Larry #Page and Sergey #Brin,
    worth around $255bn and $240bn respectively;
    and Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David #Sacks,
    whose net worth is not publicly known.

    Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Meta CEO
    Mark #Zuckerberg,
    worth $229bn, has also bought a property in south Florida valued between $150 and $200m.

    Thiel has additionally led the charge in donating to a lobbying group, the "California Business Roundtable",
    which has pledged to fight the wealth tax.

    The Palantir co-founder handed over $3m to the political action committee in late December.
    Other major donors include realtors, entrepreneurs and private equity firms.
    James #Siminoff, who founded the camera-embedded Ring doorbell company, also donated $100,000, according to public records.

    “The most powerful money in politics is to be on the no-side of a ballot measure,” said #McCuan.
    “You can even pre-empt something getting to the ballot, like a billionaire’s tax,
    by explaining to everyone out there that this is a bad idea for economic growth.”

    Tech investors and venture capitalists have been extremely vocal in their opposition to the tax,
    saying that the state will lose revenue as billionaires flee and it will hurt the state’s ability to be economically competitive.

    Just this week, Chamath #Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and current venture capital investor, wrote
    “the loss of this tax revenue was totally avoidable but is now forever”.
    #Balaji #Srinivasan, an investor and former chief technology officer of Coinbase, wrote,
    “the most successful tech founders of all time have now exited the failed state of California”.

    Adding on, Paul #Graham, the co-founder of seed capital firm Y Combinator, wrote:
    “It’s important that people like Zuck and Larry Page are willing to move in response to the proposed wealth tax.
    It shows politicians what will happen if they try things like this.”

    Joining the billionaires, #Newsom has pledged to fight the tax, saying it will “drive a race to the bottom” and stifle innovation as the ultra-wealthy leave.
    “This will be defeated – there’s no question in my mind,” Newsom told the New York Times in January.
    “I’ll do what I have to do to protect the state.”
    theguardian.com/technology/202

  9. Myles Garrett rompe el récord de sacks en una temporada 🏈🔥

    El defensivo de los Browns de Cleveland alcanzó los 23 sacks tras capturar a Joe Burrow en el último juego de la temporada, superando la marca previa de 22.5, compartida por Michael Strahan (2001) y T.J. Watt (2021), y quedando solo en la cima histórica de la NFL. 💥📊

    #NFL #Browns #MylesGarrett #Sacks #HistoriaNFL #Defensiva

  10. Myles Garrett rompe el récord de sacks en una temporada 🏈🔥

    El defensivo de los Browns de Cleveland alcanzó los 23 sacks tras capturar a Joe Burrow en el último juego de la temporada, superando la marca previa de 22.5, compartida por Michael Strahan (2001) y T.J. Watt (2021), y quedando solo en la cima histórica de la NFL. 💥📊

    #NFL #Browns #MylesGarrett #Sacks #HistoriaNFL #Defensiva

  11. Herzlichen Dank für die Nachfrage, @mina 🙏🙌

    Und, ja: Inhaltlich lässt sich der Begriff "Pathological #Dualism" klar als "feindseliger #Dualismus" übersetzen.

    Allerdings habe ich ihn nicht er- bzw. gefunden, sondern entdeckte ihn 2015 bei dem großen Religionsgelehrten Lord Rabbi #Sacks (1948 - 2020), der mich in seinem #Buch auch zitierte!

    Deswegen achte ich darauf, ihm diese m.E. wichtige Entdeckung zuzuschreiben & sprach auch in der jüdischen Gemeinde #Pforzheim dazu. scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-

  12. #Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Andreessen
    #Karp & Co

    4/4
    ... 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.

  13. #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...

    paulkrugman.substack.com/p/gil

  14. #Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Andreessen
    #Karp & Co

    2/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...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ra

  15. #Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Andreessen
    #Karp und Co

    1/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.

    jacobsilverman.com/p/preorder-

  16. "Behind the scenes, AI policy experts, lawyers, and politcal operatives — regardless of whether they were pro-preemption or not — were working their connections in the White House, hoping that someone could persuade Trump that a moratorium — at least, one that was so swift and aggressive — would be political suicide. Two people familiar with the dynamics of the White House said that the person most likely to succeed at stopping Trump at signing the EO was Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff who’d successfully imposed a sense of discipline on Trump’s political operations, is deeply trusted by Trump, and is famously averse to internal drama.

    “She’s smart,” said a Republican operative working on AI policy. “I think she understands how this could be bad for the president, politically.”

    Recent polling indicates that a vast, bipartisan majority of Americans oppose the idea of a state AI law moratorium. And few demographics are more hostile to the idea than the Republican MAGA base, who have long distrusted Big Tech and view AI as a threat to job security, traditional family values, and the mental health of their children. Backing a moratorium would be disastrous for potential Republican presidential candidates aligned with the MAGA base, such as Vice President J.D. Vance."

    theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

    #USA #Trump #Sacks #AI #GenerativeAI #MAGA #AIMoratorium #AIPolicy

  17. ”There’s a lesser-known commonality linking them together [Peter Thiel, David Sacks and Elon Musk]. They have roots in apartheid-era South Africa.”
    —Morgan Sung
    #peterthiel #thiel #davidsacks #sacks #elonmusk #musk

  18. “The "PayPal Mafia" that now dominates global technology…share a disturbing common history in apartheid South Africa… These men aren't just building companies; they're implementing governance structures that could redefine democracy into a new digital feudalism. … If allowed to continue, Americans will become serfs in a digital plantation economy designed to extract maximum wealth while providing minimum freedom.”
    —Dean Blundell
    deanblundell.substack.com/p/fi
    #Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Botha

  19. '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.

    semafor.com/article/04/27/2025

  20. '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.

    semafor.com/article/04/27/2025

  21. '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.

    semafor.com/article/04/27/2025

  22. '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.

    semafor.com/article/04/27/2025

  23. '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.

    semafor.com/article/04/27/2025

  24. @newstik

    Pathologischer bzw. feindseliger #Dualimus nach Lord Rabbi Jonathan #Sacks (1948 - 2020). "Der" Religionsgelehrte am Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts, gewinnt weit über das #Judentum hinaus immer mehr Lesende. Habe dazu ausführlich auch im neuen "Verschwörungsmythen" (2025) geschrieben. Ersetzt u.a. das überholte #Hufeisen. scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-

  25. @newstik

    Pathologischer bzw. feindseliger #Dualimus nach Lord Rabbi Jonathan #Sacks (1948 - 2020). "Der" Religionsgelehrte am Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts, gewinnt weit über das #Judentum hinaus immer mehr Lesende. Habe dazu ausführlich auch im neuen "Verschwörungsmythen" (2025) geschrieben. Ersetzt u.a. das überholte #Hufeisen. scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-