The cowardice of the elites is a defining feature of America in 2025

Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Reign of Terror Everything you love or hate about Donald Trump’s America, you cherish or intensely loathe about Stephen Miller’s republic of fear. Read about Miller’s eight months of remaking the nation and world: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

spot on analysis of Silicon Valley by Nick Clegg. Though it's his self-pity line that most resonates and helps explain the Valley's sprint to the right: "If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”

Google in 2015: Our goal is to power 100% of our operations with clean energy Google's President in 2025: I agree that Silicon Valley has been overtaken by a 'climate extremist agenda' and that powering data centers with coal plants is a "fantastic" idea

How it started… how it’s ending…

MSNBC → MS NOW. Carrying forward the proud legacy of HBO/Max rebranding brilliance.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Md: “What Donald Trump is doing is, in some ways, a dress rehearsal for going after others around the country. And I think we need to stop this."

nothing can be non-partisan, everything is politicized

Of all of Trump's treachery, surrendering the future of renewable electricity to China while exploding the demand for nonsense AI slop and crypto crap may be the worst. It will be the hardest to reverse, most expensive & the most excruciating for our kids' kids. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...

It’s a hopeful sign that the finger-in-the-wind New York Democrats are sounding more like Pritzker every day.

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Not snow nor rain nor gloom of AI hype: I used to edit him, now he delivers mail and mini-book reviews. Love how he sums up what I was aiming for: not hype, not alarm, but a clear-eyed account of how AI became the Next Big Thing. I was hoping for an A- but I'll take the B+

89. I mainly wanted to read this because I used to work with Gary and enjoy his writing. And it is what it says on the tin. Neither boosterish nor cautionary, it’s less about the ethics of AI than an account of how it became the Next Big Thing through following the players involved. #booksky

Grok seems chastened, but I assume it will be back to being incredibly offensive before we know it.

'“If you’re asking me how it got in there, no, I don’t know,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said ... “I don’t know anything about it. I’m not sure what it does,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) added. Both GOP senators serve on the Senate Finance Committee, which crafted the tax provisions of the bill.'

wild to think we're only just beginning to enter the "find out" phase of "what happens when you introduce almost unheard-of levels of chaos into the economy in the form of tariffs + defunding the federal government & universities + rounding up and/or terrorizing millions of workers"

“Could AI destroy us?” the NY Post asks in this article quoting me several times. My fear? Not the end of humanity but the people calling the shots. As I’m quoted saying, “I don’t trust Big Tech—but Big Tech controls AI. And that should scare the hell out of us.” bit.ly/4kmjsTN

"100% this. But I've also been thinking about how fast the establishment—editorial boards, the political center, business leaders—unites to demonize him. The establishment panic machine. The money will be just one piece of the onslaught

They told me if I voted for Kamala we'd have Middle East war, inflation, an economic slump, weaponization of DOJ, no peace in Gaza or Ukraine and incompetents all over govt. Well, sure looks that way now.

I like this Gavin more than podcast Gavin.

AI isn’t just a tool—it’s a wrecking ball aimed at the job market. Meanwhile, the people in power pretend it’s not happening. My latest in Time.

“Putin is tired of this whole thing,” Trump said on Fox News. “He’s not looking good. And he wants to look good.” In reality, it is Trump who is tired of “this whole thing,” Trump who’s not looking good, and Trump who wants to look good. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

> @nypost.com

AI could make the rich richer and the rest of us... redundant. While people in power pretend it’s not happening. My warning in @TIME: bit.ly/4kKC6VT

Loved WHAT KIND OF PARADISE, the latest from @janellebrown.bsky.social. A very different kind of coming of age novel set both in the remote mountains of Montana and dot-com Silicon Valley of the '90s. Highly recommend; the best book I've read this year

McSweeney's: New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for "The President Violated the Constitution" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...

Orthodox Jewish leaders are not forgiving Andrew Cuomo easily, or at all, for his COVID response, which included special extra-tough "red zone" lockdown rules for their neighborhoods, outlined on maps like they were tracing disease-ridden ghettoes.

"A judge had justified [Walczak's] incarceration by declaring that there 'is not a get-out-of-jail-free card' for the rich. "The pardon, however, indicated otherwise."

all in all, pretty apt that the topic that got everyone noticing that XAI's folks could simply screw with Grok was white genocide

Pete Rose will no longer be banned from the Baseball Hall of Fame, writes Dave Zirin. The decision is likely rooted the sport’s surrender to the gambling-addiction economy.

That much-ballyhooed DOGE Congressional caucus? Yeah, as one could have predicted

Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

Like Trump, I was around at the only other time that the same person was Sec State and Nat Security Advisor. (Kissinger, for a while under Nixon.) Anyone who was around at the time knows that the arrangement was a disaster.

Give a listen to me talking AI VALLEY with Newt Gingrich. I’ll confess I liked him way more as a podcast host than I did as Speaker of the House in the '90s. A surprisingly fun conversation: ihr.fm/4izk2fZ

Hear me talking about my hopes and fears for AI on my old home station, KQED (local NPR affiliate in SF) with host @scottshafer.bsky.social.

Thrilled to be invited to talk about the promise & perils of AI on @kqedforum.bsky.social and share tales of the founders, VCs, and tech giants vying to cash in. Bay Area friends, please give a listen at the 10am hour

on train to Albany to speak about AI at the @nyswi.bsky.social later this afternoon. Honored for this chance to talk about the race to cash in on AI, and why I'm mostly excited but a little bit petrified of artificial intelligence.

Love this...

"Careless people"-a perfect phrase capturing not just Zuckerberg but Silicon Valley at its worst. Move fast and break things, except their wealth insulates them from the fallout. That might be my greatest fear of AI: in the hands of careless people

the modern day book tour--mostly home bound (though will be in SF all next week!)

Great fun talking AI on the Intelligent Machines podcast. We dig into my fear that Big Tech will become our AI overlords--prioritizing profits and market dominance over the boring stuff like trust and safety. Give it a listen!

appreciate the shoutout, @comiclaw.bsky.social, comic book lawyer extraordinaire

AI has immense potential—if we understand its limits and pitfalls. One of the scariest? Autonomous AI. The idea of handing over control without a human in the loop. Why I’m a little bit scared shitless about artificial intelligence on @cbsmornings.bsky.social: cbsn.ws/4l1XtTM .

tomorrow is pub day for my new book AI VALLEY. If you're in NYC, please join me and the @theatlantic.com's Nick Thompson at 7pm on the Upper West to find out why I'm mostly excited but a little terrified about the future

You are going to want to read every word of this brilliant obituary by Robert McFadden. I got to meet Frankel at a “Polish tea room“ lunch, and it was like talking with living history. His family fled the Nazis; his exit now feels almost literary in its timing. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...

World’s worst parent and it’s a high bar.

That out-of-touch plutocrat (Trump's Commerce Secretary) blithely suggesting you're likely a thief if complaining too loudly about a missed social security check? On All-in, which I've been listening to since '23, 'world's best moderator" @jason issued a challenge: understand the clip in context

I lean optimistic about AI's potential but the full-speed-ahead accelerationists need to read the room. Only ~1/3 of people are excited about AI while most remain fearful. Basic standards/guardrails are not in opposition to progress—they'll help with public support (think early fears of railroad)..