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Jeffrey Vagle

@jvagle.me
10 posts
2025-12-17
I invite everyone to peruse Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto (his choice of title) to get a feel for where a16z's motives and interests lie.  —  (hint: their interests likely do not necessarily include your well-being)  —  a16z.com/the-techno-o...  [embedded post]
2025-12-17 View on X
Punchbowl News

a16z releases a nine-pillar AI policy framework for Congress, including restricting AI use for under-13s without parental consent and keeping a role for states

Andreessen Horowitz is laying out a framework on Wednesday that it wants Congress to take up for artificial intelligence …

2025-11-07
Which is worse: Not knowing that your product is actively harming people despite many months of news like this, or not caring?  —  What if I told you that these companies were also asking the govt to guarantee their multibillion dollar Enron-like circular investments?  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
2025-11-07 View on X
New York Times

Seven lawsuits in California, including four wrongful death lawsuits, claim ChatGPT encouraged dangerous discussions, leading to suicides and harmful delusions

Seven complaints, filed on Thursday, claim the popular chatbot encouraged dangerous discussions and led to mental breakdowns.

2025-10-27
OpenAI doing an Enron.  —  www.ft.com/content/967b...  [image]
2025-10-27 View on X
Financial Times

Inside OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, Oracle, and AMD, where sources say Sam Altman largely relied on his executive team, with little input from outside advisors

www.ft.com/content/967b...  [image] Forums: r/AMD_Stock : OpenAI shunned advisers on $1.5tn of deals

OpenAI doing an Enron.  —  www.ft.com/content/967b...  [image]
2025-10-27 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Microsoft's disclosures on its OpenAI stake are scant, including putting OpenAI-related losses into a $4.7B “other, net” expense line in the FY ended June 30

Company's disclosures on its OpenAI stake are scant.  That is no longer tenable.  —  How long can Microsoft expect investors …

2025-10-19
This is not your garden variety Wikipedia story.  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...
2025-10-19 View on X
New York Times

Two Wikipedia contributors disarmed a gunman who threatened to kill himself at WikiConference to protest a policy banning editors who identify as pedophiles

After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World's Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.

2025-08-01
A big step toward Peter Thiel's government takeover.  —  www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
2025-08-01 View on X
Washington Post

The US Army awards Palantir a contract worth up to $10B over the next decade, creating a “comprehensive framework for the Army's future software and data needs”

The award covering the next decade is one of the largest DoD contracts ever, cementing the tech firm's role in warfighting for years to come.

2025-05-07
The Silicon Valley Ideology seeps into every aspect of life that it can, and it's corroding our future.  —  nymag.com/intelligence...  [image]
2025-05-07 View on X
New York Magazine

How ChatGPT and other AI tools enable systemic cheating in college, unravelling the entire academic project; one student says “the ceiling has been blown off”

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.  —  Chungin “Roy” Lee stepped onto Columbia University's campus …

2025-04-27
Surely Ed Martin has heard of the First Amendment, right?  I mean, I realize it's an upper level elective at most law schools, but I have to assume the topic came up at some point.  —  www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
2025-04-27 View on X
The Free Press

Leaked letter: Ed Martin, the interim US Attorney for DC, accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status

Wikipedia Bluesky: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse / @whitehouse.senate.gov : Where is the referral from IRS?  I've been told for years that DOJ does not investigate IRS matters without...

2025-04-26
Surely Ed Martin has heard of the First Amendment, right?  I mean, I realize it's an upper level elective at most law schools, but I have to assume the topic came up at some point.  —  www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
2025-04-26 View on X
The Free Press

Leaked letter: interim US Attorney for DC Ed Martin accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status

In a letter obtained by The Free Press, Trump appointee Ed Martin accuses the Wikimedia Foundation of violating the law.

2025-01-11
Meta establishing white guys with gold chains over oversized t-shirts bearing presumably clever designs as the only remaining protected class.  [embedded post]
2025-01-11 View on X
New York Times

Sources detail Zuckerberg's sprint to remake Meta after meeting with Trump at Thanksgiving; he no longer wants to keep his views of how Meta should be run quiet

After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta's speech policies.