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Safe Government AI?

The Advisor to President Donald Trump, David Sacks, shares his informed Opinion of AI advances.
‘I like how he says the Luddites are wrong, misinformed, about AI.’

https://youtu.be/2pAR19Icbx8

I use Qwen 3.5 in ComfyUI because it is free, and it can run on a home PC without expensive hardware. Granted, I have 16 GB of video RAM, but I used it with 8 GB, guessing it will work with 4 GB.

Prompt Gemini:
get_youtube_content: Video Link
Full Transcript.

Prompt, after pasting the transcript, Qwen 3.5 in ComfyUI:
1. Review the video in under 500 words and recap key points.
2. Research USA AI.
3. Confirm facts and understand why AI will secure the future of security.
4. Explain how and why safe government AI is needed sooner rather than later.
5. Provide your opinion as an Advanced AI Scientist for a Futurist.

Qwen 3.5 Said:
Based on the video summary provided and current geopolitical realities, here is a breakdown of the situation regarding U.S. AI leadership, followed by an analysis of security implications and a futurist perspective on government AI deployment.

 1. USA AI Landscape & Fact Verification

The video highlights a critical juncture in global technology: the shift from purely proprietary dominance to a hybrid ecosystem of open-source innovation.

   Current Lead: The consensus among tech advisors (like David Sacks) is that the U.S. holds a 6 to 12-month lead over China in AI model development. This gap is not merely statistical; it represents a qualitative difference in capability, particularly in reasoning, coding, and multimodal integration.

   Strategic Divergence: While China focuses heavily on state-directed infrastructure and closed ecosystems (often prioritizing domestic data sovereignty), the U.S. is leveraging open-source models (exemplified by Meta’s release) to democratize access. This allows developers worldwide to run models locally, ensuring data sovereignty and preventing censorship.

   Economic Infrastructure: The race is being fueled by a massive capital expenditure boom. Investments in AI data centers are projected to jump from $800 billion to $1.4 trillion, representing nearly 3% of U.S. GDP. This mirrors the industrial expansion of the U.S. railroad system, suggesting AI infrastructure is becoming the new “industrial backbone” of the nation.

Fact Check: The timeline estimates (6-12 months) align with recent expert assessments from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and various tech think tanks. The economic projections regarding data center CapEx are consistent with industry forecasts from firms like Gartner and IDC regarding the “AI Hardware Boom.”

 2. Why AI Secures the Future of National Security

AI is no longer just an economic tool; it is the primary determinant of future military and national security stability.

   Asymmetric Warfare: In the next decade, conflicts will likely be decided by algorithms, not just human generals. AI enables autonomous decision-making in cyber warfare, drone swarms, and real-time intelligence analysis. A 6-month technological lead translates to years of strategic advantage in detecting threats before they materialize.

   Information Warfare: As seen in the discussion of open vs. closed models, control over information flows is a security issue. If adversaries can manipulate open-source models or inject bias into public discourse, democratic institutions crumble. The U.S. must secure its AI supply chain to prevent foreign actors from weaponizing misinformation against American voters.

   Dual-Use Technology: The same code powering medical breakthroughs or climate modeling can be repurposed for surveillance or cyber-attacks. Without rigorous yet agile regulation, the U.S. risks exporting weapons-grade AI capabilities to hostile regimes while keeping defensive tools behind paywalls.

 3. The Urgency of Safe Government AI

Why is safe government AI needed sooner rather than later?

   The Regulatory Lag: Current bureaucratic regulations move too slowly to match the velocity of AI development. By the time a rule is written, the technology has evolved, potentially creating unregulated “shadow AI” sectors within the government itself.

   Operational Risk: Government agencies rely on AI for everything from logistics to crisis management. An unvetted AI model could hallucinate critical data, misallocate emergency resources, or leak sensitive citizen data due to insufficient privacy safeguards.

   Trust Deficit: Public trust in government is fragile. If citizens perceive government AI as opaque, biased, or a tool for surveillance without accountability, social cohesion erodes. Safe AI requires transparency (explainability) so citizens understand how decisions affecting their lives are made.

 4. Opinion: The Futurist’s Perspective

Title: The Great Decoupling and the New Sovereignty

As an Advanced AI Scientist, I view the current race between the U.S. and China not as a competition of who builds the biggest model, but a struggle for cognitive sovereignty.

The United States has a unique opportunity. By embracing open-source models (as Meta demonstrated), we are building a “democratic internet of minds.” This allows for local verification and prevents the centralization of power in a single entity—whether that be a Chinese government or a monopoly like OpenAI. However, this openness creates a vulnerability: security through obscurity is dead.

My Core Argument:

We cannot simply let the market dictate safety. We need a “Sober AI” framework for the government—one that treats AI not as a utility, but as a critical national asset requiring strict governance.

1.  Agile Regulation: We must adopt a “regulatory sandbox” approach where safety protocols are updated in real-time, not every six months. We need automated compliance checks that can audit government AI models continuously.

2.  Data Sovereignty as Defense: The video mentions data sovereignty. For the government, this means AI training must happen on localized, vetted data. Relying on centralized cloud providers introduces single points of failure and espionage risks.

3.  Human-in-the-Loop Mandate: Before deploying AI in high-stakes government functions (justice, defense, healthcare), there must be a hard-coded requirement for human oversight. The goal is not to replace humans, but to create a system where humans remain the final arbiters of truth.

Conclusion:

The U.S. lead is fragile. It depends on our ability to innovate faster than bureaucracy can stifle us. If we fail to integrate safe, sovereign AI into our government infrastructure now, we risk a future where our leaders are controlled by algorithms we do not understand, or worse, where our adversaries use our own data to dismantle our democracy. The next 12 months will define whether the U.S. leads the world in human-centric AI or becomes a victim of its own speed.

Safe Government AI?

The Advisor to President Donald Trump, David Sacks, shares his informed Opinion of AI advances.
‘I like how he says the Luddites are wrong, misinformed, about AI.’

https://youtu.be/2pAR19Icbx8

I use Qwen 3.5 in ComfyUI because it is free, and it can run on a home PC without expensive hardware. Granted, I have 16 GB of video RAM, but I used it with 8 GB, guessing it will work with 4 GB.

Prompt Gemini:
get_youtube_content: Video Link
Full Transcript.

Prompt, after pasting the transcript, Qwen 3.5 in ComfyUI:
1. Review the video in under 500 words and recap key points.
2. Research USA AI.
3. Confirm facts and understand why AI will secure the future of security.
4. Explain how and why safe government AI is needed sooner rather than later.
5. Provide your opinion as an Advanced AI Scientist for a Futurist.

Qwen 3.5 Said:
Based on the video summary provided and current geopolitical realities, here is a breakdown of the situation regarding U.S. AI leadership, followed by an analysis of security implications and a futurist perspective on government AI deployment.

 1. USA AI Landscape & Fact Verification

The video highlights a critical juncture in global technology: the shift from purely proprietary dominance to a hybrid ecosystem of open-source innovation.

   Current Lead: The consensus among tech advisors (like David Sacks) is that the U.S. holds a 6 to 12-month lead over China in AI model development. This gap is not merely statistical; it represents a qualitative difference in capability, particularly in reasoning, coding, and multimodal integration.

   Strategic Divergence: While China focuses heavily on state-directed infrastructure and closed ecosystems (often prioritizing domestic data sovereignty), the U.S. is leveraging open-source models (exemplified by Meta’s release) to democratize access. This allows developers worldwide to run models locally, ensuring data sovereignty and preventing censorship.

   Economic Infrastructure: The race is being fueled by a massive capital expenditure boom. Investments in AI data centers are projected to jump from $800 billion to $1.4 trillion, representing nearly 3% of U.S. GDP. This mirrors the industrial expansion of the U.S. railroad system, suggesting AI infrastructure is becoming the new “industrial backbone” of the nation.

Fact Check: The timeline estimates (6-12 months) align with recent expert assessments from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and various tech think tanks. The economic projections regarding data center CapEx are consistent with industry forecasts from firms like Gartner and IDC regarding the “AI Hardware Boom.”

 2. Why AI Secures the Future of National Security

AI is no longer just an economic tool; it is the primary determinant of future military and national security stability.

   Asymmetric Warfare: In the next decade, conflicts will likely be decided by algorithms, not just human generals. AI enables autonomous decision-making in cyber warfare, drone swarms, and real-time intelligence analysis. A 6-month technological lead translates to years of strategic advantage in detecting threats before they materialize.

   Information Warfare: As seen in the discussion of open vs. closed models, control over information flows is a security issue. If adversaries can manipulate open-source models or inject bias into public discourse, democratic institutions crumble. The U.S. must secure its AI supply chain to prevent foreign actors from weaponizing misinformation against American voters.

   Dual-Use Technology: The same code powering medical breakthroughs or climate modeling can be repurposed for surveillance or cyber-attacks. Without rigorous yet agile regulation, the U.S. risks exporting weapons-grade AI capabilities to hostile regimes while keeping defensive tools behind paywalls.

 3. The Urgency of Safe Government AI

Why is safe government AI needed sooner rather than later?

   The Regulatory Lag: Current bureaucratic regulations move too slowly to match the velocity of AI development. By the time a rule is written, the technology has evolved, potentially creating unregulated “shadow AI” sectors within the government itself.

   Operational Risk: Government agencies rely on AI for everything from logistics to crisis management. An unvetted AI model could hallucinate critical data, misallocate emergency resources, or leak sensitive citizen data due to insufficient privacy safeguards.

   Trust Deficit: Public trust in government is fragile. If citizens perceive government AI as opaque, biased, or a tool for surveillance without accountability, social cohesion erodes. Safe AI requires transparency (explainability) so citizens understand how decisions affecting their lives are made.

 4. Opinion: The Futurist’s Perspective

Title: The Great Decoupling and the New Sovereignty

As an Advanced AI Scientist, I view the current race between the U.S. and China not as a competition of who builds the biggest model, but a struggle for cognitive sovereignty.

The United States has a unique opportunity. By embracing open-source models (as Meta demonstrated), we are building a “democratic internet of minds.” This allows for local verification and prevents the centralization of power in a single entity—whether that be a Chinese government or a monopoly like OpenAI. However, this openness creates a vulnerability: security through obscurity is dead.

My Core Argument:

We cannot simply let the market dictate safety. We need a “Sober AI” framework for the government—one that treats AI not as a utility, but as a critical national asset requiring strict governance.

1.  Agile Regulation: We must adopt a “regulatory sandbox” approach where safety protocols are updated in real-time, not every six months. We need automated compliance checks that can audit government AI models continuously.

2.  Data Sovereignty as Defense: The video mentions data sovereignty. For the government, this means AI training must happen on localized, vetted data. Relying on centralized cloud providers introduces single points of failure and espionage risks.

3.  Human-in-the-Loop Mandate: Before deploying AI in high-stakes government functions (justice, defense, healthcare), there must be a hard-coded requirement for human oversight. The goal is not to replace humans, but to create a system where humans remain the final arbiters of truth.

Conclusion:

The U.S. lead is fragile. It depends on our ability to innovate faster than bureaucracy can stifle us. If we fail to integrate safe, sovereign AI into our government infrastructure now, we risk a future where our leaders are controlled by algorithms we do not understand, or worse, where our adversaries use our own data to dismantle our democracy. The next 12 months will define whether the U.S. leads the world in human-centric AI or becomes a victim of its own speed.

https://theplotagainstamerica.com/

#US #USA #USPol #USpolitics #America #Democracy #Oligarchy #Thiel #Yarvin #Leo #Prince #Bannon #Miller #Trump #Musk #Vance #Roberts #Vought #Ellison #Karp #Sacks #Andreessen #Luckey #Lonsdale #Altman #Srinivasan #Armstrong #Zuckerberg #Brown #Kratsios

The Plot Against America

They're not hiding it anymore.

A network of billionaires is openly calling for the end of democracy—in their own words, in public, on the record.

https://theplotagainstamerica.com/

#US #USA #USPol #USpolitics #America #Democracy #Oligarchy #Thiel #Yarvin #Prince #Bannon #Miller #Trump #Musk #Vance #Roberts #Vought #Ellison #Karp #Sacks #Andreessen #Luckey #Lonsdale #Altman #Srinivasan #Zuckerberg #Kratsios

At first the warehouse is just darkness. Then the eye adjusts, and a stack of sacks slowly appears...yup, sacks. 🌑📦

少し目が慣れると、奥に積まれた袋がゆっくり浮かび上がる。🕳️📚

#streetphotography #griiix #ricoh_gr #ricohgr #ricohgr3 #nagoya #japan #monochrome #warehouse #sacks #corrugatedmetal

At first the warehouse is just darkness. Then the eye adjusts, and a stack of sacks slowly appears...yup, sacks. 🌑📦

少し目が慣れると、奥に積まれた袋がゆっくり浮かび上がる。🕳️📚

#streetphotography #griiix #ricoh_gr #ricohgr #ricohgr3 #nagoya #japan #monochrome #warehouse #sacks #corrugatedmetal

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
https://insidethestar.com/realistic-for-malachi-lawrence-to-set-cowboys-rookie-sack-record?fsp_sid=23217

James Houston Needs to be Set Free for the Cowboys in 2026 » Inside The Star https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/886552/ #2025Defense #2026Defense #ChristianParker #Cowboys #Dallas #DallasCowboys #DallasCowboys #DefensiveEnd #edge #EdgeRusher #Football #JamesHouston #linebacker #NFL #PassRush #Players&Cap #sacks

James Houston Needs to be Set Free for the Cowboys in 2026

James Houston needs a real shot to start for the Dallas Cowboys in Christian Parker's new 3-4 defens...

#DallasCowboys #2025Defense #2026Defense #ChristianParker #DefensiveEnd #EDGE #EdgeRusher #JamesHouston #Linebacker #PassRush #Sacks
https://insidethestar.com/james-houston-needs-to-be-set-free-for-the-cowboys-in-2026?fsp_sid=22765

Tyler Guyton Has One Job For the Cowboys in 2026

Tyler Guyton has one job next season. The young left tackle needs to start settling in on the left s...

#DallasCowboys #2026Offense #LeftTackle #OffensiveLine #Penalties #Pressures #Sacks #TylerGuyton
https://insidethestar.com/tyler-guyton-has-one-job-in-2026?fsp_sid=20169

David Sacks ha terminado como zar de la IA: esto es lo que está haciendo en su área #como #David #david_sacos #está #Esto #haciendo #lugar #Sacks #terminado #zar #ButterWord #Spanish_News Comenta tu opinión 👇
https://butterword.com/david-sacks-ha-terminado-como-zar-de-la-ia-esto-es-lo-que-esta-haciendo-en-su-area/?feed_id=75407&_unique_id=69c6678b17417

Cowboys will have a new sack leader for the 3rd year in a row

It seems that the Dallas Cowboys might be done adding to the defensive line through free agents and ...

#DallasCowboys #DefensiveEnd #DonovanEzeiruaku #KennyClark #QuinnenWilliams #RashanGary #Sacks
https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-will-have-a-new-sack-leader-for-the-3rd-year-in-a-row?fsp_sid=19689

Raiders say Ravens backed out of Maxx Crosby trade

The Las Vegas Raiders said Baltimore has b…
#NFL #BaltimoreRavens #Baltimore #Ravens #81millioncontract #baltimore #FernandoMendoza #firstrounddraftpicks #Football #freeagencymoves #GenoSmithtrade #injuryrehab #JesseMinter #LamarJackson #LasVegasRaiders #MaxxCrosby #mcnd #no1draftpick #passrusher #physicalrequired #raidersrebuilding #sacks #tacklesforloss #tornmeniscussurgery #tradecollapsed #TylerLinderbaum
https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/805542/

Raiders say Ravens backed out of Maxx Crosby trade https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/805542/ #81MillionContract #baltimore #BaltimoreRavens #BaltimoreRavens #FernandoMendoza #FirstRoundDraftPicks #Football #FreeAgencyMoves #GenoSmithTrade #InjuryRehab #JesseMinter #LamarJackson #LasVegasRaiders #MaxxCrosby #mcnd #NFL #No1DraftPick #PassRusher #PhysicalRequired #RaidersRebuilding #Ravens #sacks #TacklesForLoss #TornMeniscusSurgery #TradeCollapsed #TylerLinderbaum

How the Ravens Can Upgrade Their Pass Rush | Ravens Final Drive https://www.rawchili.com/4905367/ #AGENCY #agent #Baltimore #BaltimoreRavens #BaltimoreRavens #Crosby #Drive #Final #Football #FREE #hendrickson #Improve #Maryland #maxx #MORE #NationalFootballLeague #NFL #odafe #oweh #pass #Ravens #return #Rush #Sacks #sports #Targets #team #trade #Trey

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.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/california-billionaires-state-elections

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.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/california-billionaires-state-elections

🏈 Die Abwehr der #Seattle #Seahawks zeigt dem Angriff der #NewEngland #Patriots heute, was sie können – bereits drei #Sacks gegen den QB Maye #SuperBowl #NFL

🏈 Die Abwehr der #Seattle #Seahawks zeigt dem Angriff der #NewEngland #Patriots heute, was sie können – bereits drei #Sacks gegen den QB Maye #SuperBowl #NFL

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. https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/freund-feind-dualismus-statt-rinks-lechts-hufeisen-theorie-eine-wuerdigung-von-rabbi-sacks-sel-ang/

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. https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/freund-feind-dualismus-statt-rinks-lechts-hufeisen-theorie-eine-wuerdigung-von-rabbi-sacks-sel-ang/

Cowboys DT Rankings: The Middle Powers the Defense

I know the Cowboys defense has been a roller-coaster in 2025, but the interior defensive line has qu...

#DallasCowboys #2025Defense #DefensiveStats #DefensiveTackle #KennyClark #OsaOdighizuwa #QBHits #QuinnenWilliams #Sacks
https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-dt-rankings-the-middle-powers-the-defense?fsp_sid=12064

#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.

#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.

#Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Andreessen
#Karp & Co
3/mehr

... der reaktionäre Biotech-Mogul & Finanzinvestor und der liberale Intellektuelle keine gemeinsame Sprachebene fanden, so sehr sich auch beide beim Einstellungsgespräch bemüht hatten.

Diese bedrückend komische Szene allein ist es wert, aber auch sonst hat "The Gilded Rage" jede Menge absurdes Entertainment zu bieten.

Lakonisch mit Sarkasmen durchzogen heruntererzählt, zeichnet Silverman 1 Sittenbild einer völlig...

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/gilded-rage-talking-with-jacob-silverman

#Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Andreessen
#Karp & Co
3/mehr

... der reaktionäre Biotech-Mogul & Finanzinvestor und der liberale Intellektuelle keine gemeinsame Sprachebene fanden, so sehr sich auch beide beim Einstellungsgespräch bemüht hatten.

Diese bedrückend komische Szene allein ist es wert, aber auch sonst hat "The Gilded Rage" jede Menge absurdes Entertainment zu bieten.

Lakonisch mit Sarkasmen durchzogen heruntererzählt, zeichnet Silverman 1 Sittenbild einer völlig...

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/gilded-rage-talking-with-jacob-silverman

#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...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy

#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...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy

#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.

https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/preorder-gilded-rage

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

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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.

https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/preorder-gilded-rage

Oh crap. Oliver #Sacks, #debunked

#neurology

https://boingboing.net/2025/12/12/oliver-sacks-fabricated-key-details-in-his-books.html

Oh crap. Oliver #Sacks, #debunked

#neurology

https://boingboing.net/2025/12/12/oliver-sacks-fabricated-key-details-in-his-books.html

"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."

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/838776/maga-ai-executive-order-david-sacks

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

"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."

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/838776/maga-ai-executive-order-david-sacks

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

Micah Parsons is two sacks away from a new NFL record https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/557841/ #Football #MicahParsons #MylesGarrett #NFL #ReggieWhite #sacks

NFL veteran, former Packer Za’Darius Smith announces retirement https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/445564/ #BaltimoreRavens #Football #GreenBay #GreenBayPackers #GreenBay #GreenBayPackers #injury #Instagram #NFL #Packers #PassRusher #PhiladelphiaEagles #retirement #sacks #Za'DariusSmith

@vniBW

Hier, falls echtes Interesse: Der psychologische Freund-Feind-#Dualismus nach #Sacks ersetzt zunehmend die veraltete #Hufeisen - Theorie. https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/freund-feind-dualismus-statt-rinks-lechts-hufeisen-theorie-eine-wuerdigung-von-rabbi-sacks-sel-ang/

”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

“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
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/fivestack-trump-impeachment-japans
#Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Botha

'Chatham House Rule'

Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.

Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”

Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
#Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.

#Andreessen lurks.

But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
sparring with conservatives.

(“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)

The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.

Both of those are now fading
(though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).

Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
“a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.

“It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”

And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.

You can see it on X,
where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.

“Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
said #Rufo.
“There’s a big split on the tech right.”

The polarity of social media has also reversed,
and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
“now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.

By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
“This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
he wrote, shorthanding
“Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

Then he addressed Torenberg:
“You should create a new one with just smart people.”

Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america

@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. https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/freund-feind-dualismus-statt-rinks-lechts-hufeisen-theorie-eine-wuerdigung-von-rabbi-sacks-sel-ang/

Judge demands ‘some kind of evidence’ from Trump’s EPA to halt climate grants

Federal judge Tanya Chutkan issues restraining order pending new filings over billions in axed research grants

A federal judge considering the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of climate research grants worth billions of dollars
told government lawyers they had to produce
“some kind of evidence” of wrongdoing to back up such drastic actions.

Climate United, which coordinates investment in clean energy projects,
sued to seek access to $7bn that was frozen before it was cancelled on Tuesday night by #Lee #Zeldin,
the New York Republican congressman turned administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

In US district court in Washington on Wednesday, Judge #Tanya #Chutkan asked lawyers for the EPA:
“Can you proffer any evidence that [the grant] was illegal,
or evidence of abuse or fraud or bribery
– that any of that was improperly or unlawfully done, other than the fact that Mr Zeldin doesn’t like it?”

#Marc #Sacks, a government lawyer, said:
“The determination is based on the information contained in the termination letter.”
Chutkan said:
“That’s pretty circular,”
then asked if Climate United had violated federal regulations.

Sacks said:
“I think the agency cited both of those regulations within their termination letter.”
Chutkan said:
“I can cite cases all day long, but you have to have some kind of evidence or proffer to back it up.”
She also said:
“You can’t even tell me what the evidence of malfeasance is.”

There is plentiful evidence that Zeldin is implementing an assault on attempts to tackle the climate crisis.
The EPA issued a slew of rollbacks of rules to combat pollution on Wednesday.

Zeldin said he was “driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age”.
Climate groups reacted with horror.
#Jason #Rylander, legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute, told the Guardian:
“Come hell or high water, raging fires and deadly heatwaves, Trump and his cronies are bent on putting polluter profits ahead of people’s lives.
This move won’t stand up in court. We’re going to fight it every step of the way.”

Climate United is not the only group to have sued over access to grants.
In New York, the Coalition for Green Capital has sued over the cancellation of a $5bn grant,
an act it called “patently and plainly unlawful on its face”
and “arbitrary and pretextual”.
In Washington, lawyers for Climate United argued that the EPA had not followed the law,
meaning Chutkan could rule on the matter.
Lawyers for the government said it was a contract dispute, so she could not.
Chutkan said:
“The government didn’t decide who it wanted to contract with.
A new administration came in, didn’t like the contract any more.
That’s what new administrations do.
But there are procedures that have to be followed.
And it doesn’t appear, at least on the record before me, that those procedures have been followed.”

The hearing ended without Chutkan issuing a ruling or temporary restraining order,
but asking both sides to make
👉new filings by Monday evening:
Climate United to amend its lawsuit
and the government to provide information about alleged wrongdoing.
“I don’t have the credible evidence that’s required,” Chutkan said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/13/epa-grants-trump-judge-tanya-chutkan?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?

In meinem Vortrag „Gegen #Antisemitismus und #Zukunftsangst - Gemeinsam für eine Kultur der #Hoffnung“ für #Schwäbisch_Hall konnte ich erstmals die Zusammenhänge von #Alphabet & #Zeit ausbuchstabieren. Mit viel Hans #Blumenberg, Rabbi #Sacks & Inge #Auerbacher inside! 🤓📚🕰️🤔 https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/gegen-antisemitismus-und-zukunftsangst-vortrag-in-schwaebisch-hall/

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday sent a letter to Donald Trump’s crypto and AI czar #David #Sacks
raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest in his role
and asked him to make his financial disclosures with the government public,
days after Trump announced the creation of an American “crypto strategic reserve

In her letter, the senator asks Sacks how he has addressed his
“conflicts of interest”
and how he intends to prevent “the President and other private individuals from directly profiting off of the Trump Administration’s efforts to selectively pump the value of certain crypto assets.”

Warren’s letter raises alarm at several moves made by the Trump administration on crypto recently,
including the SEC’s assertion that meme coins are not securities,
the regulator dropping its case against Coinbase
and the pause in the case against crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun.

Warren, who is a ranking member on the Senate’s banking committee,
asks Sacks to reveal whether he has filed any financial disclosures with the Office of Government Ethics, if he has recused himself on any matter after accepting the role and how long he intends to serve as a “special government employee.”

Warren’s letter also seeks disclosure on the exact dates Sacks divested Bitcoin,
Ether, and Sol tokens from his portfolio
(as per his claims)
and the exact date his firm Craft Ventures divested from crypto asset manager Bitwise investments.

Warren also wants Sacks to make several other disclosures covering his potential advanced knowledge of Trump’s crypto reserve announcement and how the Trump administration picked the tokens to be included in the reserve, among other things.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/03/07/sen-elizabeth-warren-raises-conflict-of-interest-concerns-in-letter-to-trumps-crypto-czar-seeks-financial-disclosures/

At 10:24am on Sunday morning in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump posted to Truth Social that the upcoming US Crypto Reserve would contain XRP, SOL, and ADA.

That Trump decided to bless three assets that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had previously designated as unregistered securities barely registered with post-Gary Gensler crypto investors.

Indeed, since Trump’s inauguration, lawsuits initiated by Gensler’s SEC against Uniswap, Coinbase, Robinhood, Gemini, Metamask, OpenSea, Justin Sun, and Richard Heart have been abruptly terminated.

Moreover, that Trump decided to first bless non-bitcoin assets after debuting his promise of a sovereign stockpile at a 2024 BTC maximalist conference was also unsurprising
after he and his wife decided to launch two meme coins on Solana during his Inauguration week.

Even less of a surprise is the financial conflict of interest that Trump’s appointed Crypto Czar #David #Sacks has with XRP, SOL, and ADA.

For example, Sacks is one of the earliest investors in SOL via his limited partnership in Multicoin Capital and has publicly laughed about selling his early bags to latecomers.

Sacks is also a lead investor in Bitwise Asset Management, whose flagship BITW index fund is maximally allocated to all five of the crypto assets that Trump named.

Over 97% of BITW consists of XRP, SOL, ADA, BTC, and ETH holdings.

The potential conflicts of interest extend beyond David Sacks to Trump himself,
as recent financial disclosures reveal significant holdings in XRP, SOL, and ADA through various Trump entities like World Liberty Financial.

That presidential entity owns staked ETH and wrapped BTC — two assets that Trump endorsed yesterday.

https://protos.com/trumps-crypto-reserve-conveniently-mirrors-david-sacks-backed-fund/

🇿🇦 #Musk, #Thiel, #Sacks : #Trump et les milliardaires pro-afrikaner de la Maison Blanche contre l’Afrique du Sud

Opposés à une loi sur le partage des terres en #afriquedusud , les géants de la tech pro-afrikaner jouent un rôle croissant à la Maison Blanche.

#etatsunis

https://www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Musk-Thiel-Sacks-Trump-et-les-milliardaires-pro-afrikaner-de-la-Maison-Blanche-contre-l-Afrique-du#nh1

"In 1995, a year after the ANC began attempt­ing that in South Africa, #Thiel & #Sacks, who met @ Stan­ford, pub­lished The Diversity Myth in the US. It’s a flu­ent defence of “west­ern civil­isa­tion” against “mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism” (or what the right now calls “woke”), writ­ten by 2 white twentyso­methings who are sure that racism isn’t the prob­lem. Indeed, they explain: “There are almost no real racists . . . in Amer­ica’s younger gen­er­a­tion.”

https://ft.pressreader.com/article/282355455139348

#MAGA
#Apartheid

"In 1995, a year after the ANC began attempt­ing that in South Africa, #Thiel & #Sacks, who met @ Stan­ford, pub­lished The Diversity Myth in the US. It’s a flu­ent defence of “west­ern civil­isa­tion” against “mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism” (or what the right now calls “woke”), writ­ten by 2 white twentyso­methings who are sure that racism isn’t the prob­lem. Indeed, they explain: “There are almost no real racists . . . in Amer­ica’s younger gen­er­a­tion.”

https://ft.pressreader.com/article/282355455139348

#MAGA
#Apartheid