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Benjy Sarlin

@benjysarlin
60 posts
2026-02-25
So do the short sellers just hire Ted Chiang to ghostwrite bullet pointed newsletter takes now or...?
2026-02-25 View on X
Financial Times

An Evercore ISI economist criticizes Citrini's AI report, calling its assumptions “extreme and improbable”, but says it's a thought-provoking exercise

2026-02-24
So do the short sellers just hire Ted Chiang to ghostwrite bullet pointed newsletter takes now or...?
2026-02-24 View on X
Financial Times

An Evercore ISI economist criticizes Citrini's AI report, calling its assumptions “extreme and improbable”, but says it's a thought-provoking exercise

Most of the sell-side has remained hilariously silent at a mere Substacker seemingly shaking markets, even though the anguish and frustration is almost palpable.

2026-02-02
There's got to be a tipping point eventually on this stuff.
2026-02-02 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration

$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips

2026-02-01
There's got to be a tipping point eventually on this stuff.
2026-02-01 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration

$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips

2025-06-06
The consistent theme of Musk's political turn so far is getting stuck alienating the left who both buys his products and subsidizes his industry, without getting the right to either buy his products or adopt those policies as their own
2025-06-06 View on X
CNBC

Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates

Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump.  What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud W...

God, one of those career “let's start a centrist party!” pollsters is going to make so much money showing 10-year-old slide decks to Musk.
2025-06-06 View on X
CNBC

Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates

Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump.  What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud W...

2025-03-25
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2025-03-25 View on X
The Atlantic

Trump officials accidentally added The Atlantic's EIC to a Signal group chat about the US' Houthi war plans; Signal is not approved for sharing classified info

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen.  I didn't think it could be real.

2025-02-08
Political quantum mechanics posits that a 25 year old is both a delicate child who must be protected from their own views and also an important adult who needs to manage the most powerful nation's critical payment system
2025-02-08 View on X
Krebs on Security

Chat logs reveal DOGE member Edward Coristine's ties to cybercrime community The Com, and a Telegram handle linked to him sought a DDoS-for-hire service in 2022

Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) …

Political quantum mechanics posits that a 25 year old is both a delicate child who must be protected from their own views and also an important adult who needs to manage the most powerful nation's critical payment system
2025-02-08 View on X
CNBC

Elon Musk says he will rehire a DOGE staffer who resigned following the exposure of his posts advocating for racism and eugenics, after Trump endorsed the idea

“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.”  —  “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.”  —  “Normalize Indian hate.”  —  www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...  [...

2024-11-13
Hmm deadline for a bunch of ambitious and potentially unpopular cuts right around the midterms
2024-11-13 View on X
New York Times

Sources detail Elon Musk's role in Trump's transition: Mar-a-Lago meetings, calls with world leaders, voicing support for Brendan Carr at the FCC, and more

He's on the patio.  He's on the golf course.  Everywhere Donald Trump looks, there is the world's richest man.

2024-10-09
Finally we can get lifesaving information to Redditors before some anonymous mod decides it violates the proper format requirements of /r/hurricanes
2024-10-09 View on X
Washington Post

ISD: top officials in NC and at FEMA responding to Hurricane Helene face antisemitic attacks largely on X, where 10 of the posts collectively drew 17.1M views

Report finds Elon Musk's X is fueling conspiracy theories that risk undermining rescue efforts and preparations for Hurricane Milton.

Finally we can get lifesaving information to Redditors before some anonymous mod decides it violates the proper format requirements of /r/hurricanes
2024-10-09 View on X
TechCrunch

The Biden-Harris administration launches a White House account on Reddit for news and info about federal government work; the first posts cover Hurricane Helene

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :

2024-07-16
Prepare for some very weird ads
2024-07-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Elon Musk plans to commit ~$45M per month to America PAC, a new pro-Trump super PAC; other backers include 8VC's Joe Lonsdale and the Winklevoss twins

Other backers of America PAC include Palantir Technologies co-founder Joe Lonsdale and the Winklevoss twins

2024-05-21
Well I'm sure the AI company accused of stealing a famous actress' voice and sticking it in a sexy robot after she refused a deal will be meticulous about making sure our articles, photos, music, and videos don't get mixed up without compensation
2024-05-21 View on X
NBC News

Scarlett Johansson says she declined OpenAI's ChatGPT voice offer and was “shocked, angered” that Sam Altman would pursue Sky, a voice “eerily similar” to hers

The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT, which many people said sounded like her.

2024-03-08
Looks like the phone blitz isn't working so far
2024-03-08 View on X
Axios

Angry constituents flood congressional offices with calls following TikTok's push notification asking users to call their representatives about a possible ban

Tiktok is owned by an adversary of the US.  But so is Microsoft, Meta, Google, Twitter, Amazon, and most of the other tech giants. … X: Cat Zakrzewski / @cat_zakrzewski : Some Cong...

Looks like the phone blitz isn't working so far
2024-03-08 View on X
Semafor

The US House Energy and Commerce Committee advances a bill that would force ByteDance to divest TikTok, after TikTok's campaign reportedly enraged legislators

Semafor Signals  —  Insights from The New York Times, Financial Times, and CNN  —  The News

2023-12-11
Personally this makes me want to buy a premium phone and/or watch a children's movie from a major studio
2023-12-11 View on X
Associated Press

X lifts the permanent ban on Infowars host Alex Jones, after Elon Musk conducted a 24-hour poll, resulting in 70.1% voting in favor of restoring Jones' account

the InfoWars host, and Sandy Hook families' menace.  Critics of Elon Musk's X, Tesla and auto industry bloggers including software developer Travis Brown, Plainsite founder Aaron G...

Personally this makes me want to buy a premium phone and/or watch a children's movie from a major studio
2023-12-11 View on X
Forbes

In a 2+ hour talk on X with Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, Jack Posobiec, and others, Elon Musk said X should avoid outright bans unless users “do something illegal”

Elon Musk and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, newly reinstated to X after a five-year ban, launched a live-streamed chat …

2023-11-16
Remember when instagram was the fun Twitter alternative where nobody was doing politics
2023-11-16 View on X
Nieman Lab

Pew: 30% of US adults regularly get their news from Facebook, 26% from YouTube, 16% from Instagram, 14% TikTok, 12% X, 8% Reddit, and 5% Nextdoor and LinkedIn

Facebook may be ready to divorce the news business, but it's still the No. 1 source of news on social media for Americans.

The place where people share fun stupid stuff —> the place where people organize screaming contests about the news cycle comes for every platform
2023-11-16 View on X
Nieman Lab

Pew: 30% of US adults regularly get their news from Facebook, 26% from YouTube, 16% from Instagram, 14% TikTok, 12% X, 8% Reddit, and 5% Nextdoor and LinkedIn

Facebook may be ready to divorce the news business, but it's still the No. 1 source of news on social media for Americans.