Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸

There are, however, some less familiar incentives and motivations that may exacerbate the risk of a financial crisis. Venture capitalists have benefited significantly from the easy money available during periods of accommodative monetary policy: financial crises typically beget accommodative monetary policy, and so venture capitalists may relish the prospect of another one. Even more disturbingly, the chaos following a financial crisis may be seen as an opportunity for adherents of the anti-democratic Network States movement to exploit. Finally, some of the Silicon Valley elite genuinely ascribe to TESCREALIST ideologies focused on ensuring that our artificially intelligent descendants can prosper in outer galaxies. A global financial crisis would seem like a non-event to someone fixated on a sci-fi style long-term enumerated in the thousands of years. That perspective should be deeply concerning to those of us familiar with the human costs of financial crises.

I read it the same way - I wrote something in a similar vein before the files were released: www.briefingbook.info/p/brave-new-.... I think the correspondence between Thiel and Epstein is more evidence of this mindset.

Great analysis Mark

Yea pretty much

And yeah I definitely see all that connected to Brock and crypto. The crypto is BCCI shorthand is certified a winner

Nice, will check the ep. I’m nominating @bft.wtf to lead the DSA FinReg caucus

@profhilaryallen.bsky.social @edwardongwesojr.com @cascoinfoundation.org @timwhite100.bsky.social @mrshoward.bsky.social @quinnslobodian.com @shanley.com ?

When Epstein tells Thiel "0% interest rates are too high" my read is that this is tech & VC financial engineering insanity. Their power to capture everything comes from this manic yield seeking behaviour. Thoughts?

great day to remember that Andrew is presumably a limited partner at Andreessen Horowitz

I love this excerpt from Tony Michels’ “Jewish Radicals”. Poor goy trade unionist is like, ‘these lil guys like arguing theory more than labour, bless ‘em’. That’s my tradition

I love this excerpt from Tony Michels’ “Jewish Radicals”. Poor goy trade unionist is like, ‘these lil guys like arguing theory more than labour, bless ‘em’. That’s my tradition

They all sound like Jensen Huang "you need to be nice to our trillion dollar bonfire". Also I feel like there was a coordinated attack on Hanna and Bender last week. If they are trying to cut down a few academics things cannot be going well

Instead of "the left isn't paying enough attention to these machine gods" they're claiming to build, perhaps we should write an article about how effective altruists brand themselves "left", ask who is writing these articles, and trace their cults and sources of funding.

There is no engagement with the opportunity costs and social costs of the AI, VC Bubble. This sounds like Jensen Huang saying "don't insult our beautiful machines lest you explode this trillion $ bubble". It's not my job as a left critic to tell you how wonderful LLMs are.

I know we are all hungry for something but the way she has been easily cajoled on Israel votes, I am not confident that she has the chops for this. Even the soft pedalling of America and Europe's culpability for Gaza, 'looking away' is a signal of how she'll be pushed.

What are you all seeing in AOC's performance in Europe? She is not confident with the material, and the material is a contradictory mess. Its sounds like Obama talking about multilateralism after Bush. Obv domestic politics is her strength. But its not a clear moral vision

A nice lil moment of Kiwi pride

🎶Doing it at the park, oh yeah🎶

🎶Doing it at the park, oh yeah🎶

All this AI and Microsoft Outlook inbox search is still absolute garbage

Nice one Tim! Looking forward to this. The worst never die apparently

New in @finandsoc.bsky.social: ‘The non-death of Adam Neumann’, unpacking the return of WeWork’s disgraced founder. It’s about Silicon Valley’s ambivalence to failure & fraud, and how venture capital rewards already-powerful, ruthless and deceptive serial founders. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Has there been a good long read on Oracle and its empire of media, cloud and TikTok?

Extremely strange, when I try to repost it X logged me out of my account?

Twitter/X is throttling all engagement with this post from Randa Abdel-Fattah. Shocking Israelification of Australia.
@RandaAFattah:
"NSW police brutally attack Muslims praying at the massive protest against Israeli war criminals Herzog, Almagog in Sydney. This is IOF behaviour."

VC sycophancy is a form of brain damage

VC sycophancy is a form of brain damage

So Steve Sinofsky who offers himself up as Epstein's man in the inside at a16z appears to have gotten Prince Andrew hosted at a16z. They refer to Andrew as PA in their emails.

Crypto, private islands, cracking open social protections. It’s all about maximum exploitation, possessive individualism and a ‘do as thou whilt’ satanic morality. So yeah the connections are both real and ideological

So Steve Sinofsky who offers himself up as Epstein's man in the inside at a16z appears to have gotten Prince Andrew hosted at a16z. They refer to Andrew as PA in their emails.

The want immaculate conception for their stillborn God or Epstein/Musk-like fetish of their multitude