Did you catch Founder/CEO of TechEquity and author of “World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy” @catherinebracy.com on @thedailyshow.com with @michaelkosta.bsky.social last night? No worries if you didn’t—here are our top takeaways:

In a wild turn of events, I’m gonna be on @thedailyshow.com tonight! I hope you’ll tune in and/or (if you’re old like me and can’t stay up late) watch on YouTube later.

Case in point: the Windsurf employees have been treated like garbage. If you work(ed) there and want to chat, lemme know. techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/t... Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door | TechCrunch

Our Founder and CEO @catherinebracy.com went on Paradigm Shock to talk about how venture capital’s dominance in funding tech imposes a narrow, and sometimes reckless, business culture.

Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.

OpenAI has abandoned its planned transformation to a for-profit, but it’s still making business deals that we have… questions about. @calmatters.org @catherinebracy.com calmatters.org/commentary/2...

Sean got in the makeup chair and said “give me the full Donald.”

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

The wicked AI regulation ban is dead - the only good news in these times of in times of terrible news is when something terrible doesn't happen apnews.com/article/cong...

The revisionist gaslighting here is insane. Breed was a tough-on-crime, pro-developer moderate Dem backed by the establishment (including centrist savior Daniel Lurie!). I guess being brown is good enough to lump them together though.

+1 it made me a lifelong Clive Owen stan

It’s like the domestic version of what he’s done for Left/Center politicians around the world. The Trump political dividend.

Looks like Elon figured out that only Democrats buy his cars.

Remember when this pic of Elián González was a national scandal instead of a daily occurrence?

Helpful to understand that what we’re up against is literally a death cult.

Wherein I reveal my Doomerist tendencies.

Good, so we’re all agreed that he’s not immune from prosecution.

We are going to graduate a generation of workers who can’t do any meaningful work without ChatGPT but then will be shocked when their jobs are completely replaced by AI.

The world is trolling us

This is a pretty big deal. It’s one thing for Starbucks to give up on AI. Hospitality work always seemed more resilient than other sectors. But when fintech companies start giving up on it… fortune.com/2025/05/09/k...

That about sums it up!!

Earlier this week, @catherinebracy.com sat down with @justinhendrix.bsky.social @techpolicypress.bsky.social to discuss how venture capital needs to be innovated for it to actually deliver on its promise of innovation that advances society, not just profits. www.techpolicy.press/how-venture-...

Are they trolling? “All these things contribute to broad distribution of the benefits of AI, discourage the concentration of power, and help advance our mission. Likewise, we believe partnering closely with the US government is the best way to advance democratic AI.” openai.com/global-affai...

This article frames this as a win for advocates. It is absolutely not a win. It is a heist. Sam Altman used public tax subsidies to create a multi hundred billion company and is now doing a rug pull on taxpayers. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

Love how the economy is becoming a Russian nesting doll of tech companies built to solve the problems created by other tech companies www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

:: sobbing while mouthing 'you're welcome' ::

Take Dave’s advice. (And read this whole thread!)

It’s giving youth group pedophile

Between this and the (desperate, tacky) pope thing, it seems we have reached the degenerate-into-lunacy stage of authoritarianism, and I guess I’m grateful he’s speed running towards the inevitable collapse stage?

Mike Waltz has left the chat.

This is a VERY interesting development. Note this quote from the CEO to investors: “Equipment doesn’t solve the customer experience that we need to provide, but rather staffing the stores and deploying with this technology behind it does.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The best possible thing that could happen to the tech industry is tech workers realizing their interests are not aligned with the preferred-share owners of their companies.

Can’t pay income taxes if you don’t have any income

No they cannot.

Can this woman run the Democratic Party please?

A proper Sunday roast is my favorite meal of all time. I could live off Yorkshire puddings.

What color is he? I cannot concentrate on the fact that he is admitting to being juiced because I am so distracted by the shade of his skin. Wtf is going on here?

As a special gov employee he was only supposed to be working a couple days a week, for a few months, in the first place.

GO BLUE!!

Body language alone tells you this guy isn’t fit to lead.

THURSDAY, ONLINE: If we are going to solve the challenges that the tech industry has created, we need to address its problems at its root—funding. This is why our Founder and CEO @cbracy.bsky.social wrote “World Eaters”: an examination of venture capital.

Remember the National Guard kid who shared classified docs in his Discord chat? He’s currently serving 15 years in prison.

Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

I was told that protecting due process couldn't be a winning political issue because a poll from before this gained wide publicity showed people weren't already upset about it.

Say it with me: venture-backed companies serve investors, not users. Not society. Always, every time.

Keep standing up. They are absolutely FLAILING. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

Another move straight from the Silicon Valley playbook: offload head count to third parties who can drive down labor standards and help evade accountability.

@techequity.bsky.social founder and CEO @cbracy.bsky.social spoke to @anandwrites.bsky.social of The.Ink on how tech went from a democracy to an oligarchy - and what can be done to restore its image: the.ink/p/how-ventur...