Ryan Mac 🙃

Yessssss

my early take on part 4: not every album can be a banger, but i think folks will look back on it like the beatles' revolver. some decent hits but overlooked by other greater works

imagine bein izzy out here drawing nude portraits then gettin your phone blown up over this droppin

lmao

part 4 baybeeeeeeeeeeee

The moment an Israeli missile hit a tent in Gaza was caught on camera when a Palestinian girl filmed herself showing her hair clips.

brother, i've covered them for the better part of a decade

Five-byline alert: 🚨

David Sacks “has 708 tech investments .. that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies, according to a New York Times analysis

“The tech bros are out of control,” said Steve Bannon.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

yea that's exactly what our story did

the playbook used to be that the billionaire tech elite quietly hired law firms to send letters & make legal threats to prying reporters. now they boast about it publicly. they know exactly what they’re doing: trying to chill future scrutiny & intimidate journalists from digging into their dealings

deeeeeep cut

nah dont

tfw you aren't a billioinaire so you have to do a gofundme for your powertrip 🥺

report one story they don't like, and they try to cosplay elon

You know what would clarify this?

A complete disclosure of how this 99% divestment is calculated.

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends

Based on our analysis, Sacks kept 449 stakes in AI-related co's. Of those, 438 stakes were classified as SaaS or hardware, despite having AI connections. Those co's could benefit as Sacks continues to influence US AI policy.

Read more in the full story here: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

Sacks also kept his stake in Glue, "an AI-assisted chat platform," that he *cofounded*. His waiver designated Glue as a SaaS company.

Sacks has openly promoted Glue as a Slack-killer and he still sits on the company's board. Here is Glue's website: glue.ai

Sacks also has a direct investment in Tesla, which represents more than 1.6% of his total assets, and is designated as "hardware." He kept this stake.

Tesla undoubtedly makes cars and hardware. But, Elon Musk has openly described the company as an AI and robotics company since at least last year.

One investment designated as "SaaS" — and not AI — was Palantir. It represents one of Sacks' largest investments, representing more than 1.8% of his total assets. He held onto his Palantir stake.

On the right is the first message that greets someone visiting Palantir's website.

We looked at every one of these companies listed as SaaS (aka software as a service) or hardware. It's unclear why they were delineated separate of Sacks' AI stakes, but he kept all these investments.

Some of these "SaaS" companies literally had AI in their names: Freeplay AI, Advocate AI, etc.

To Sacks' credit, he acknowledged that he should divest some of these holdings because they were AI co's.

But we examined hundreds of other Sacks' investments that will likely benefit from his AI role. On his waiver, he classified these stakes as "SaaS" or "hardware," despite clear AI connections.

And if you actually read the footnotes on the waiver, its unclear when (or even if) Sacks sold some of these investments in AI companies. So he could have been holding onto shares of Amazon, Meta and xAI while influencing AI policy and decision-making.

Even when Sacks said he was going to divest something, those divestments were listed as "pending."

Remember, that he was disclosing this stuff in March, two months after taking on his White House role and as the administration was doing deals to potentially benefit the AI industry.

When we started looking at the AI waiver, we realized that they provided an incomplete picture of Sacks' financial interests. There were no values on the stakes he disclosed. And statements like he has "initiated or completed divestment of over 99% of your holdings" were not backed up in any way.

The waivers are an acknowledgement by the WH counsel that Sacks could be conflicted. But they give him permission to hold onto his investments because, the WH argues, the investments are insignificant in the grand scheme of his net worth, AND his value as an advisor outweighs any potential conflict

One of David Sacks’s Waivers Read the document

We combed through Sacks' White House ethics waivers. The WH granted him two waivers in March: one for AI and one for crypto.

Let's take a deeper look at his AI ethics waiver, which we've put online for everyone to see here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends

We just published a deep look into David Sacks, the White House's AI and Crypto czar. The story examines how he has been able keep hundreds of stakes in AI-related and crypto companies as he influences gov policy in those very industries.

Here's what we found:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

5 mins? Games gone

This half about to set a record with 45 mins of stoppage time

this thanksgiving im thankful i didn’t have an associate surreptitiously record the president and then have them paint me in the nude