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• @bigblackjacobin Edward Ongweso Jr on x

  One of the more cowardly moves many public figures make is saying “there is a big difference between deporting violent criminals and what's happening now.” It's taking advantage of how little the the public knows about the nature of our deportation machine

• @m_delamerced Michael de la Merced on x

  Altman, who's become close to Trump as he advocates for OpenAI and the AI industry, made sure to praise the president: “President Trump is a very strong leader, and I hope he will rise to this moment and unite the country.” 2/x https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @markpinc Mark Pincus on x

  4/ Democracy requires a willingness to resist group think and an openness to nuance. While I dont believe in an open border, I do believe in allowing legitimate, legal immigration and protecting undocumented people who've built lives here and contribute to our communities. I

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  Dario Amodei was (among) the first of the CEO class to voice some public pushback against ICE yesterday, while later going on TV to say he appreciated trump changing course today you see OAI leaked memo with altman echoing same CEOs are herd animals. maybe more of this today [ima…

• @zerohedge @zerohedge on x

  “We didn't become super woke when that was popular” Bro

• @markpinc Mark Pincus on x

  5/ I invite more listening, less ‘othering’, and leading with empathy and love.

• @markpinc Mark Pincus on x

  2/ I'm not on the left or the right. I'm independent. I reject tribes and identity politics. Voting for a president does not mean endorsing every action of that administration.

• @markpinc Mark Pincus on x

  3/ As a Jew, I find the Nazi / Holocaust comparisons challenging. While both are terrible, they're not the same for me. The Holocaust was an attempted genocide of the Jews, who made up the majority of those murdered in the death camps.

• @markpinc Mark Pincus on x

  1/ I condemn the recent ICE raids and the killing of two American civilians. It demands a full, independent, non-partisan investigation—and immediate de-escalation by the administration.

• @jimsciutto Jim Sciutto on x

  The kind of statement many CEOs have deliberately avoided:

• @m_delamerced Michael de la Merced on x

  Sam Altman of OpenAI told employees in an internal Slack obtained by @andrewrsorkin and me that “what's happening with ICE is going too far,” as we reported in @dealbook today. We have the whole memo 1/x

• @laurenshirsch Lauren Hirsch on x

  Sam Altman's note to employees, per @dealbook https://www.nytimes.com/... v [image]

• @hypervisible.blacksky.app @hypervisible.blacksky.app on bluesky

  Nobody should look to these folks for moral clarity, but in this case, as you would imagine, “weigh in” equals weaksauce, anodyne statement designed mostly to not offend.

• @cassim.montilla.fr Cassim Montilla on bluesky

  He hopes that Donald Trump will « rise to this moment » ?  Excuse me ? [embedded post]

• @daniloc.xyz @daniloc.xyz on bluesky

  business leaders turning the dial toward “off-ramp” and looking anxiously back at Trump hoping he'll take it so they don't have to deal with workforce and consumer revolt  —  bsky.app/profile/tech...  [embedded post]

• @tnewmsblues Tim Newman on bluesky

  OpenAI's Sam Altman:  —  “President Trump is a very strong leader, and I hope he will rise to this moment and unite the country.”  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...

• r/singularity r on reddit

  OpenAI's Altman and More C.E.O.s Weigh In on Minnesota