San Francisco car break-ins were *lowest" when the city had a DA that promoted anti-racism. 🙂🙃 He took a pair of binoculars, sat in his car where he knew car break-ins would happen, and then followed the car to see where it went to fence the stolen goods. Then he arrested the fence.

I officially filed to run for City Council in District 3! 🎉 See the link in bio to get involved.

What we loved about Dan McQuade:

Why is SpaceX only now appearing to cut off most Russian military access to Starlink?

bro are you ok finance.yahoo.com/news/microst...

Tragic waste of capital and time www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.

By the way, Gelerntner has been a longtime critic of women in the workforce and also a longtime favorite of the tech-right; in 2016, Peter Thiel nominated him for the role of Science Advisor to the President, although his influence in Silicon Valley long predates that.

Jeffrey Epstein’s brother Mark sent a tip to the FBI accusing Trump of authorizing his murder: “I have reason to believe he was killed because he was about to name names. I believe Present Trump authorized is murder.“

NEW: Day One Ventures founder Masha Bucher managed to amass a formidable portfolio despite widely known past ties to the Russian government. She introduced founders to Epstein in 2017 & 18. Just last week week she announced an investment in Sam Altman's Merge Labs www.inc.com/sam-blum/mas...

I wanna keep doing this work, in any form (podcast! newsletter! movie? AI literacy class!). Pls msg me on Signal at nitasha.10 if you need someone who’s well-sourced in AI & SV, worked hard to understand the technology + ideas + players, cares about getting it right and informing the public

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

NEW: 70 organizations—Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Unitarian, civil rights, academic, legal, peace, and human rights groups —submitted a formal request to DOJ’s National Security Division seeking a FARA investigation into Canary Mission, citing our Drop Site story.

#Musk keeps his “whirligig moving” by “tapping the same close circle of venture capitalists, Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, and political patrons.” His latest corporate contortions will likely postpone his eventual “day of reckoning.” @jacobsilverman.com www.thenation.com/article/econ...

I wrote about Elon Musk's latest act of self dealing, the merger of SpaceX and xAI www.thenation.com/article/econ...

LSE Review of Books: The shifting politics of Big Tech – why Elon Musk pivoted to the right and embraced Donald Trump blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb... review of "Gilded Rage" by @jacobsilverman.com

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Murray’s whole career is about justifying his priors. Lupita as Helen of Troy is offensive to him, not because he cares about Homer, but because he sees Homer as one of the ornaments of his whiteness.

The GILDED RAGE audiobook, which I narrated, is on Spotify, along with Audible, Libby, and other platforms. open.spotify.com/show/6brLAHE...

SpaceX mentioned the Kardashev scale in an SEC filing about launching a million satellites into space. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Elon Musk is in advanced talks with himself. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It seems so completely, plainly obvious that absurd amounts of wealth and the corresponding power that comes with it are corrupting, morally on an individual level and more broadly on a social level. People will look back on the early 21st century and wonder how it was allowed to happen.

I went to New York's Metropolitan Republican Club to learn how to survive a mass shooting. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“Agents can identify people on the street through facial recognition, trace their movements through license-plate readers and, in some cases, use commercially available phone-location data to reconstruct daily routines and associations.” All surveillance tools people have pushed back on for ages…

I went to New York's Metropolitan Republican Club to learn how to survive a mass shooting. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Worth your 30 minutes!!! @davidsirota.com The tsunami of inhumanity rolling over us from our own government is meant to cover for several things. We have to get good about looking at what they’re trying to hide with the illegal, odious behavior. @molly.wiki and @jacobsilverman.com are excellent.

New video up on @inc.com about my investigation into fraudulent LLCs and how one woman behind so many of them reveals much about the state of business scams in the U.S. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrYa...

I'd like to talk to people on the financing side of the data center buildout, esp people at sov wealth and PE funds and anyone dealing with new esoteric instruments or forms of financing. I want to learn what all this looks like from your end. Glad to talk on background. Signal: jacobsilverman.99

RIP Michael Parenti. One of the greats. Watch his lectures on YouTube. Captivating, funny, moving, full of righteous fury.

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association

lmao, everyone in the building trying to balance not ruining the moment of silence with the desire to be the first to yell “Fuck Ice!”

Instead of using Gmail, you should be a snow leopard on the Himalayan plateau

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

"the irresistible opiate of hereditary misery" open.substack.com/pub/thegamei...

Trump, Musk, AI, Tech-fascism and the Gilded Rage with @jacobsilverman.com Listen: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

We spoke with @jacobsilverman.com about his article @thenation.com, “How Elon Musk Turned Grok Into a Pedo Chatbot" and we discuss the damage about to be done with the return of the world’s richest man-child to the MAGA fold. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

Trump, Musk, Thiel and the Tech Oligarchs in the Gilded Rage with @jacobsilverman.com is out now wherever you get your podcasts No paywall. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

Last year a whistleblower said DOGE had illegally accessed a Social Security database. SSA now acknowledges it's true—& that DOGE employees had secret agreement w/ unidentified political advocacy group to use SocSec data to help overturn election results. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.

I'd like to talk to people on the financing side of the data center buildout, esp people at sov wealth and PE funds and anyone dealing with new esoteric instruments or forms of financing. I want to learn what all this looks like from your end. Glad to talk on background. Signal: jacobsilverman.99

My profile of the ubiquitous and indefatigable Adam Tooze is up at The Guardian Long Read today: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

“It’s a drop box for.. some very bad dudes. It’s kleptocracy on a scale that the US has never seen.” You were, as the kids say, 🔥🔥🔥

One of the reasons Trump has gotten away with so much is because the Democrats are frankly useless. Full #GildedRage podcast with the excellent @jacobsilverman.com out now: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...

NEW: In January 2024, a man purchased Meta's newly AI-infused smart glasses. He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs. futurism.com/artificial-i...