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@mattyglesias If your country is known for baked beans on toast, Mexican food might be too much for you.
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@TimSweeneyEpic Steve Jobs favored closed over open because he wanted to control his creative vision. Apple today favors closed over open because they want to maximize for extracting rents.
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"We did it, Joe" (@JTLonsdale)
The Peter Thiel Cinematic Universe 2025๐ฎ๐บ๐ธ. VP - @JDVance.AI Czar - @DavidSacks.@DOGE - @elonmusk.Deputy Secretary of @HHSGov - @regardthefrost.Tech Policy - @MichaelKratsios.Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, & Environment - @jacobhelberg.United States
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Some great DC office space coming on the market. Recently renovated. On the Red Line and walkable to the Senate.
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Why should we care about accelerating economic growth?. Because GDP per capita is correlated with basically everything we really want as humans:. - life expectancy.- happiness.- lower child mortality.- education.- human rights
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Note โBeijing officialsโ not โTikTok executivesโ.
Chinese officials are evaluating a potential option that involves Elon Musk acquiring TikTok's US operations if the company fails to fend off a controversial ban on the app
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@michaelsobolik @TikTokPolicy Huh what happened to โBytedance is a cayman islands corporation owned by US investorsโ?.
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Theyโre doing recess appointments.
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@airish1 @Thalamus1992 @kristoncapps @FeverPotomac @BrianneKNadeau Actually this looks amazing. But bust the shoplifter stalls.
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@alexisohanian Also check the median level of maturity / self sufficiency for a ~20 year old in the 18th vs 21st century.
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The California Pirate Party has a land acknowledgement as part of its platform. Doesn't really feel in the spirit of being a pirate. ๐ดโโ ๏ธ
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@terronk @BerkeleyLaw @chesaboudin @BerkeleyLawCLJC I suppose this means students will have to buy his hagiography of Hugo Chavez
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From the Heritage Foundation Mandate for Leadership, 1997 Edition
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This is such a strawman, @CatoInstitute (also you should disclose that your board vice chair has a $33B TikTok stake).
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Letโs agree taking away his router and cell phone is good for public health.
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Congress needs to enact the Open App Markets Act! @MarshaBlackburn @SenBlumenthal.
This is the post Apple cited when banning the Epic Games Store from competing with the iOS App Store under Europe's new DMA law. Criticism of Apple = untrustworthiness, in Apple leadership's bleak vision of their future relationship with app developers.
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Project 2025 is wild
Leopold Aschenbrennerโsย SITUATIONAL AWARENESS predicts we are on course forย Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)ย by 2027,ย followed by superintelligence shortly thereafter, posing transformative opportunities and risks. This is an excellent and important read :.
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Excited to announce the Bottlenecks Summit September 6 in San Francisco, in partnership with @ifp @JoinFAI @abundanceinst @gptbrooke @MarkLutter @PatrickJBlum @nayafia @calebwatney @elidourado @AlecStapp @timhwang
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Thrilled to welcome @jiwallner to the @JoinFAI team, where he'll focus on American governance. A top expert on legislative procedure and the Senate as an institution, he is the author of multiple books, and an alum of @BasedMikeLee and @SenToomey's RSC.
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Holy f'in s#!+ . 1. Trump needs ๐ฐfor lawsuits.2. Jeff Yass (Susquehanna) needs his 7% stake in TikTok ($30B!) to not be hit by law that will thwart China Communist Party from intentionally using TikTok to corrupt ๐บ๐ธ democracy.3. Yass ๐๐ฐ Trump SPAC.4. Trump ๐ on TikTok bill.
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@micsolana This seemsโฆ cheap. And effective. Why doesnโt a right-leaning or moderate donor counter?
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Critics are thinking too small. If we defund the whole legislative branch now (~$7B), we can pay off the national debt in 5000 years or so.
Raising the Congressional salary from $174,000 to $180,600 is obviously reasonable after 15 years of no raises, and people raging against this as corrupt are not thinking clearly. Do you think we get better results from *not* paying members adequately? Huh?.
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Maybe Amazon should disable one day shipping in DC and Northern Virginia and direct complaints to Lina Khan.
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@JoshuaSteinman @DavidSacks @rabois @RepGallagher See the bill text. Hostile foreign adversary is defined by statute, 10 USC ยง 4872, and would require an act of Congress to change. A company subject to the bill must be controlled/owned/domiciled in one of these countries AND designated by the President.
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Who are we? Libertarians!.What do we want? For Congress to defer to administrative agencies!.
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DEBATE: Should TikTok Divest or Face a Ban? 4/24 in DC. โPro-.โข @michaelsobolik-Senior Fellow, @afpc.โข @matthewstoller-Director of Research, @econliberties . โAnti-.โข @jrhuddles-Research Fellow, @CatoInstitute .โข @sfmnemonic-Principal Attorney, Godwinโs Law. Mod: @SayreEvan
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@FrankMedAlley @benchiarelli @Noahpinion No we should ban TikTok and also rein in US firms that are selling out to authoritarian regimes for market access.
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1) Foundation grants are public record. 2) Hewlett and Omidyar have funded a wide range of center-right groups in the past, like AEI and Heritage. 3) While @AmerCompass is certainly populist, and I donโt always agree with them, itโs incorrect to lump them in with the MAGA faction.
SCOOP: A conservative group behind the authoritarian project to set up a second Trump administration accidentally revealed its top donors. Two are famously liberal: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Omidyar Network. Me @thedailybeast .
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Super pumped for where our team is @JoinFAI.
๐จ Announcing some team updates: Excited for the elevation of @jiwallner to VP for Policy, Robert Bellafiore to Managing Director for Policy, @timhwang as Sr. Fellow and General Counsel.
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If only there were some difference in incentives of publicly traded US companies and a hostile authoritarian dictatorship planning a war of conquest against its democratic neighbor.
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We should pay elected officials a lot more actually
With the U.S. drowning in $36 TRILLION of debt, Congress just gave themselves a shiny raiseโbumping their salaries from $174,000 to $243,300. Meanwhile, the median income for everyday Americans sits at $80,000. Seriously, how does this math work? The people writing the budget.
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Where are we on .
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๐งต There have been a few big stories about congressional fellowships in the news, including the one below which Iโm quoted in. So hereโs a short thread with some additional thoughts. Among these fellowships, there are a few bad applesโprograms with ethics problems and misaligned.
Key Congress staffers in AI debate are funded by tech giants like Google and Microsoft
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@Noahpinion @benchiarelli Maybe their China dealings should be scrutinized in Congress more too.
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โA 2021-2022 review of Washington D.C.โs restorative justice program tracked 659 kids six months, nine months and a year after release. Eighteen percent were caught committing a new crime within six months, 26% reoffended within nine months, and 37% reoffended within a yearโ.
Kids in the Crosshairs: Juveniles are being arrested, shot at escalating rate in the DMV .
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I, for one, welcome new corporate overlords, and their diligent work to avoid embarrassing aฬถuฬถtฬถhฬถoฬถrฬถiฬถtฬถaฬถrฬถiฬถaฬถnฬถ ฬถrฬถeฬถgฬถiฬถmฬถeฬถsฬถ valued economic partners.
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@ESYudkowsky @ylecun What legislative text do you propose? What alliances and what are the terms and enforcement process?. Critically, what are policymakersโ incentives to do itโand shut down business that give them campaign contributions and employ their constituentsโbesides you tweeting?.
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I try to avoid political endorsements. But @JDVance1 has a great team in his Senate office, and I think he will be a strong VP.
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Net neutrality activism was a psyop by edge providers trying to externalize infrastructure costs. In this house, @AjitPai is a hero. End of story.
Question for @elonmusk: Why does #netneutrality have a loading emoji attached when it has been amply demonstrated by *years* of the Net Neutrality rule being overturned that it did not lead to a slower Internet?. This is some woke bullshit.
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Policy details often get obscured by misleading rhetoric. @BrendanCarrFCC has the goods on the TikTok bill, and why it isn't a "ban" or a 1A issue:.
@stillgray The bill actually takes a very smart, narrow, and targeted approach. โก๏ธIt does not provide any authority to go after any individual user. โก๏ธIt does not give the Administration authority to ban or censor any app or foreign investor it wants. It applies only to TikTok (which
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Beware the Sacramento-Brussels Axis of Evil.
it doesn't matter that europeans don't build much, market forces mean their tech policy is often mainstreamed globally, which is of course their intention. now, EU regulators are coordinating with california bureaucrats to kill AI in its cradle. important story from @LEHogg.
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The real national security threat is algorithmic manipulation/propaganda, particularly during a crisis. People need to stop treating this like a consumer privacy issue. Nation authoritarian state actors have entirely different motivations, incentives, and capabilities to do harm.
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Chinese version: Test yourself with this fun math problem / Watch an upstanding young man walk an old lady across the street. US version: 3 signs you have an anxiety disorder / How many tide pods can you can eat in 15 seconds.
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@michaelsobolik @TikTokPolicy I wonder how many things in here contradict their testimonies to Congress.
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Are you in the Bay Area? Are you interested in serving in a technical or policy role in a future presidential administration? We're hosting a private reception next Tuesday with @MichaelKratsios, fmr. CTO of the United States. DM if you'd like an invite!
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Check out this 37 pages of light reading I prepared with @danielschuman:
You better believe I'm already thinking about the House Rules package for the 119th Congress. Dove into recommendations from @ZacharyGraves & @danielschuman . Also: GOP's reax to Walz & @nicholaswu12 analysis of Pelosi's book . some hot dish jokes .
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What does the end of Chevron mean for Congress? @AdLawCenter and @JoinFAI are collaborating on a symposium/call for papers focused on how Congress will have to adapt. Abstracts due by July 2:
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@jsidman Instead of adding confusing fees restaurants could always, you know, adjust menu prices.
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Congress doesn't have a great reputation for its science and tech literacy. But behind the scenes, things are trending in the right direction. @RMPWolfe.
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We need a โCalifornia railroad tycoonโ board game, where players compete or team up-as environmentalists, unions, and local bureaucrats-to stop it from being built.
The Fresno River Viaduct in Madera County is one of the first completed high-speed rail structures. At nearly 1,600 feet long, high-speed trains will travel over the riverbed and will run parallel with the BNSF Railroad. #BuildHSR
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Apropos of nothing, @JoinFAI has a bylaw restricting us from taking donations tied to authoritarian foreign adversaries of the United States
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Now is the time for us to come together as a country, put our party differences aside, and purge all the wacky progressives from American politics.
Honestly, when can I call this for good? Because 2 years ago I told @DeanPreston on Twitter that we wouldn't rest until he was gone, and now it's about to happen. We could all use a good pick-me-up today, and Dean Preston becoming a private citizen again is the prescription.
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Space-based internet for all vs. ambient light NIMBYism.
Affirming an FCC decision to approve a SpaceX satellite constellation, the D.C. Circuit has rejected claims by the International Dark-Sky Association that sought to overturn the FCC decision on light pollution grounds. Good news for satellite services. ๐ช
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โInstead what we need is a zoning law on large equestrian statues in public spaces, that applies equally to Trojans and Greeksโ
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K-12/College essays.
so, uh. it's late 2024. what exactly has generative AI disrupted?.
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Pure cynicism is one read. But if you know the history of Zuck and the company, a more accurate interpretation is that he held instinctive pro-free speech views that were overwritten by policy implementers/lawyers/comms people and sacrificed in pursuit of growth. And this is a
There is no reason to trust him. He could have done this anytimeโbut didnโt. Heโs doing it now bc he has no choice. His companies still refuse to hire โoutedโ conservatives. (Thatโs why I said this is a bending of the knee and not reason to like him.).
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Its official: Excited to announce our work with the Commonwealth of Virginia and @GovernorVA to help lead their AI task force w/@jamil_n_jaffer @John_Bailey @timhwang @hamandcheese et al
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.@WillRinehart You're buying into TikTok's talking points here. Equity in Chinese companies is messy and complicated. Shareholder rights are weak and not a guarantee of control. ๐งต
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@psychosort The problem with the humanities is just that it stopped being rigorous. Make people learn Greek and Latin if they want to get accepted into undergrad and this will solve itself.
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Libertarian think tanks should close their offices on Prime Day to support capitalism.
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