the Nassim Taleb of authoritarianism, in the Temu Ramones jacket RE:
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Cooper Lund (@cooperlund.online)
The real problem with Moldbug is that this kind of guy is, like the first type of guy you fought with on the internet in Web 1.0 forums, so people ...
Figma was, IIRC, one of the last deals I brought in as a junior VC before leaving OATV. :) Dylan was one of the first people I met when I moved to SF in summer 2011...he was about to start as a freshman at Brown. Wonderful to see his team's success 10yr later. [www.fastcompany.com/91377885/fig...](https://www.fastcompany.com/91377885/figma-ipo-stock-price-today-fig-shares-debut-on-nyse ) [Figma's stock price will be cl...](https://www.fastcompany.com/91377885/figma-ipo-stock-price-today-fig-shares-debut-on-nyse )
"Meta, which after 2016 spent more than $100 million to fund 100 fact-checking organizations, ended a partnership with U.S. fact-checkers." Many thoughts but one is that Meta should be paying Community Notes contributors. It's absurd to contribute for free. [www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/31/fact-checker-falsehoods-glenn-kessler ) [Analysis | The Fact Checker ro...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/31/fact-checker-falsehoods-glenn-kessler/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUzOTM0NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU1MzE2Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTM5MzQ0MDAsImp0aSI6IjBhZGRhNDg2LTM1YjYtNDlkYi1iNGU0LWQzOTMyYjRkMzU0OSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI1LzA3LzMxL2ZhY3QtY2hlY2tlci1mYWxzZWhvb2RzLWdsZW5uLWtlc3NsZXIvIn0.vDQgrEHBLBN4_MBFZdTgJdnzCZnpdPMSTsuo8QGVQfg )
Gabe Kaminsky at The Free Press is shocked & dismayed that a SMEAR CAMPAIGN would take down Friend of TFP Vinay Prasad. So UNETHICAL. Meanwhile, here's Gabe darkly hinting Hunter Biden's Laptop had something to do w/our work. It didn't. We didn't "censor conservatives". But he wrote that we did. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreich57v3yvb2wpnl6cxwyhjjbhw5m23lwjkthawrx342ug2guvrebm https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreiecllhpkqdxqzvqf4cvqwnpp63hhgkxtf65cb66oaxyg54nkaoqum
Today's EO & sanctions against a Brazilian judge have nothing to do w/"threats". There's no 1A violation. Whatever you think of Brazil's speech laws, a sovereign country is prosecuting its former pres. Its fight w/X was a corp dispute. Trump is helping his buddy. [www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...](
The White House
Addressing Threats to The United States by the Government of Brazil
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency
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The White House
Addressing Threats to The United States by the Government of Brazil
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency
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LMAO okayyy. So yes, in the IC you toss papers that can't be put in trash in burn bags. But "secret rooms"? And they...what...forgot to BURN the bags for 9 YEARS? No digital copies? These ppl make up the stupidest fucking theories. They've seen too many bad movies. [www.foxnews.com/politics/pat...](
Fox News
Patel found thousands of sensitive Trump–Russia probe docs inside 'burn bags' in secret room at FBI
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel found a trove of sensitive documents related to the origins of the Trump–Russia probe buried in burn bags in a...
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Fox News
Patel found thousands of sensitive Trump–Russia probe docs inside 'burn bags' in secret room at FBI
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel found a trove of sensitive documents related to the origins of the Trump–Russia probe buried in burn bags in a...
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Ironically our 2018 era social media argument “freedom of speech not freedom of reach,” argued you could be an expansively tolerant free speech platform w/o *recommending* some content. Adding pushes and suggestions layers in the kind of discovery dynamics that require an editorial stance. RE:
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Taylor Lorenz (@taylorlorenz.bsky.social)
SCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog. The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opi...
There's no "vision" here. No specifics. Nothing but vague marketing babble. This is the kind of hand-wavy BS monologue you'd hear in a movie from a trope-y New Age CEO. It glosses over what will be significant upheaval with lame platitudes. And I LIKE AI. Why bother? [www.meta.com/superintelli...](
Personal Superintelligence
Explore Meta's vision of personal superintelligence, where AI empowers individuals to achieve their goals, create, connect, and lead fulfillin...
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Personal Superintelligence
Explore Meta's vision of personal superintelligence, where AI empowers individuals to achieve their goals, create, connect, and lead fulfillin...
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This is the end of a defamation lawsuit that Project Veritas filed against Stanford Internet Observatory, UW, and the NYT back in 2021. It lost its case against SIO in 2022, and was ordered to pay $150k in legal fees. They sue to tie organizations up for years. [www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/b...](
Project Veritas Withdraws Lawsuit Against The New York Times
The conservative group accused The Times of defamation over an article published in 2020.
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Project Veritas Withdraws Lawsuit Against The New York Times
The conservative group accused The Times of defamation over an article published in 2020.
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Let me also tell you about what parents gain when they do... RE:
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The Atlantic (@theatlantic.com)
Doing chores as a child can lead to confidence and better problem-solving, but many kids spend little of their time on housework. Christine Carrig ...