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Shanie MyrsTearReid <a href="https://mastodon.tails.ch/tags/Hoffman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hoffman</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.tails.ch/tags/CEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CEO</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.tails.ch/tags/LinkedIn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LinkedIn</a> said <a href="https://mastodon.tails.ch/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> is a "Cognitive Revolution", that the "Error Rate will one day be less than humans". He says a "bunch of customer service people will be [fired], how do we retrain them?" implying AI will lead that charge.Brother, news flash, you won't have to retrain them, those CS people will be the CEOs. In YOUR future, they just need a good idea & work along the AI actively helping their success. The "CEO" of old will be the past. YOUR job is under threat my guy.

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The Oasis BBSHoffman Talks Music, Amiga & the Demoscene in Exclusive Amigatronics Interview <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Hoffman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hoffman</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SampleMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SampleMind</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Amigatronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amigatronics</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Demoscene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Demoscene</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amiga</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Chiptune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chiptune</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroMusic</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CommodoreAmiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommodoreAmiga</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DigitalMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalMusic</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroGaming</a> <a href="https://theoasisbbs.com/hoffman-talks-music-amiga-the-demoscene-in-exclusive-amigatronics-interview/?feed_id=2375&_unique_id=67dd6daf6b5ac" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theoasisbbs.com/hoffman-talks-music-amiga-the-demoscene-in-exclusive-amigatronics-interview/?feed_id=2375&_unique_id=67dd6daf6b5ac</a>

AmigatronicsSampleMind Interviews HoffmanAt Amigatronics, we continue to bring you closer to the key figures in the world of Commodore Amiga and the Demoscene. This time, we are pleased to share an exclusive interview with Hoffman, a legend in the scene for both his incredible musical talent and his programming contributions.Conducted by SampleMind, this interview offers an in-depth look at Hoffman‘s career, his approach to chiptune composition, the impact of the Amiga on his journey, and his latest projects. From his early days to the creation of advanced tools for music production on Amiga, his story is an inspiration to the retro community.If you are passionate about the Demoscene, digital music, and the legacy of Amiga, you can’t miss this interview.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYav5Tzx3KA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYav5Tzx3KA</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://amigatronics.wordpress.com/tag/amiga/" target="_blank">#amiga</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://amigatronics.wordpress.com/tag/chiptune/" target="_blank">#chiptune</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://amigatronics.wordpress.com/tag/commodore-amiga/" target="_blank">#CommodoreAmiga</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://amigatronics.wordpress.com/tag/compositions/" target="_blank">#compositions</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://amigatronics.wordpress.com/tag/demoscene/" target="_blank">#demoscene</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://amigatronics.wordpress.com/tag/digital-music/" target="_blank">#digitalMusic</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://amigatronics.wordpress.com/tag/hoffman/" target="_blank">#hoffman</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://amigatronics.wordpress.com/tag/interview/" target="_blank">#interview</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://amigatronics.wordpress.com/tag/music-production/" target="_blank">#musicProduction</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://amigatronics.wordpress.com/tag/music-tools/" target="_blank">#musicTools</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://amigatronics.wordpress.com/tag/programming/" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://amigatronics.wordpress.com/tag/retro-gaming/" target="_blank">#RetroGaming</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://amigatronics.wordpress.com/tag/retro-scene/" target="_blank">#retroScene</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://amigatronics.wordpress.com/tag/simplemind/" target="_blank">#SimpleMind</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://amigatronics.wordpress.com/tag/youtube/" target="_blank">#youtube</a>

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Chuck DarwinMost Americans have no idea that the United States is quite literally the onlycountry in the developed world that doesn’t define healthcare as an absolute right for all of its citizens. That’s it. We’re the only one left.The United States spends more on “healthcare” than any other country in the world: about 17% of GDP. Switzerland, Germany, France, Sweden and Japan all average around 11%, and Canada, Denmark, Belgium, Austria, Norway, Netherlands, United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia all come in between 9.3% and 10.5%.Health insurance premiums right now make up about 22% of all taxable payroll, whereas Medicare For All would run an estimated 10%.We are literally the only developed country in the world with an entire multi-billion-dollar for-profit industry devoted to parasitically extracting money from us -- to then turn over to healthcare providers on our behalf. The for-profit health insurance industry has attached itself to us like a giant, bloodsucking tick.And it’s not like we haven’t tried. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all proposed and made an effort to bring a national healthcare system to the United States. They all failed, and when I did a deep dive into the topic two years ago for my book "The Hidden History of American Healthcare" I found two major barriers to our removing that tick from our backs.The early opposition, more than 100 years ago, to a national healthcare system came from southern white congressmen (they were all men) and senators who didn’t want even the possibility that Black people could benefit, health-wise, from white people’s tax dollars. (This thinking apparently still motivates many white Southern politicians.)The leader of that healthcare-opposition movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was a German immigrant named <a href="https://c.im/tags/Frederick" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Frederick</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hoffman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hoffman</a>, as I mentioned in a recent newsletter. Hoffman was a senior executive for the Prudential Insurance Company, and wrote several books about the racial inferiority of Black people, a topic he traveled the country lecturing about.His most well-known book was titled "Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro". It became a major best-seller across America when it was first published for the American Economic Association by the Macmillan Company in 1896, the same year the Supreme Court’s Plessy v. Ferguson decision legally turned the entire US into an apartheid state.<a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/america-needs-a-national-healthcare?publication_id=302288&post_id=151470553&isFreemail=true&r=4j4g3m&triedRedirect=true" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://hartmannreport.com/p/america-needs-a-national-healthcare?publication_id=302288&post_id=151470553&isFreemail=true&r=4j4g3m&triedRedirect=true</a>

Chuck DarwinMany technology companies would be more benign if they were owned and governed by their users. Users have the most to lose from tech-driven addiction and automation, and their data generate most of the companies’ value. ⭐️User-owners would share in this value and have an incentive to keep companies from causing harm.❓How might users come together to start and run more technology companies? Bringing together a disparate and dispersed group of people is difficult; -- economists call this the <a href="https://c.im/tags/collective" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#collective</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/action" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#action</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/problem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#problem</a>.👍Influential nonprofits such as the 🔸Center for Humane Technology and 🔸Project Liberty can play an organizing role, incubating a new generation of user-owned social media businesses. While it’s a competitive field with entrenched players, social media technology is not complex, and there is a real hunger for more benign versions.Existing firms can also be redesigned. ✅Instead of raising capital from profit-seeking corporations, OpenAI could seek funding from users and give them representation on its board. ✅And with users on the board, the company might take more care to launch products safely and dedicate resources to maintaining employment. 🔥Most important, more of the financial gains of the AI revolution would flow to the people creating the value.If <a href="https://c.im/tags/Keith" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Keith</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Gill</a>, also known as <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roaring" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Roaring</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kitty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Kitty</a>, could organize retail investors to drive up the market value of <a href="https://c.im/tags/GameStop" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GameStop</a> by $10 billion, could a similar approach have been employed to acquire Twitter for users in 2022? Given the millions of defections from the platform since Musk purchased it, it may not be too late.The government can also help if it’s not headed off by Big Tech political contributions. The 🔸Small Business Administration, the Department of Energy and the 🔸National Science Foundation should ✅ encourage user ownership of the companies they fund.The venture capitalists of Sand Hill Road will of course scream that this is <a href="https://c.im/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#socialism</a>, but they will be wrong. It’s just business. <a href="https://c.im/tags/MOIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MOIC</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Elon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Thiel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Marc</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Andreessen</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ben" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ben</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Horowitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Horowitz</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Reid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Reid</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hoffman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hoffman</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Harris</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cryptocurrency</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/artificial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#artificial</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#intelligence</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lina" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Lina</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Khan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Khan</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/addiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#addiction</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/eliminating" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#eliminating</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/humans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#humans</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Daron" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Daron</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Acemoglu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Acemoglu</a>

Chuck DarwinThe root of the problem is that the United States and Silicon Valley in particular are dominated by what we call an 🆘 “investor monoculture.” Modern corporations are designed to serve investors and no one else. About 80% of public company stock in the United States is owned by institutional investors, most of which have one objective: to maximize profits, largely in the short term and without regard to the costs for society. In 1980, their share of stocks was just 29%.Venture capital firms, the biggest funders of Silicon Valley startups, have grown from under $400 billion in assets in 2010 to nearly $4 trillion today. Their performance is measured by “multiples on invested capital,” or “<a href="https://c.im/tags/MOIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MOIC</a>,” as insiders call it.Suicide rates among young people are up more than 60% since 2007, and U.S. democracy is in danger. -- But these are not investors’ concerns.Regulation and advocacy can certainly make a difference. But Big Tech is cash-rich, lawyered up and capable of running circles around regulators.It’s time for a different approach. When businesses are owned and governed by employees, customers, suppliers or communities, they become less predatory and more benign. ⭐️And as it turns out, corporations have been designed in such ways across time and cultures. Capitalism comes in many forms.❇️Farmers, employees or customers own and govern some of the world’s most respected companies, including Ocean Spray, Publix Super Markets, Organic Valley, New York Life Insurance Co. and Vanguard. ❇️Corporations such as Patagonia, Rolex, Novo Nordisk and Ikea are owned or controlled by nonprofits, trusts or foundations, which have no investors and thus face less pressure to boost profits.Silicon Valley has examples too. ❇️Mozilla, which operates the web browser Firefox, is owned by a nonprofit. It has no incentive to maximize profits, which explains why it does not sell user data to advertisers. ❇️Wikipedia, among the world’s most visited websites, is also run by a nonprofit, which shows that scale and impact don’t always depend on investor capital.❇️A nonprofit owns a majority of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, a design it chose to “ensure that artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.” But its minority investors, such as Microsoft, are profit-driven, which has led to concerns that it’s releasing products at an irresponsible pace. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Elon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Thiel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Marc</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Andreessen</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ben" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ben</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Horowitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Horowitz</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Reid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Reid</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hoffman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hoffman</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Harris</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cryptocurrency</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/artificial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#artificial</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#intelligence</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lina" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Lina</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Khan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Khan</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/addiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#addiction</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/eliminating" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#eliminating</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/humans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#humans</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Daron" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Daron</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Acemoglu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Acemoglu</a>

Chuck DarwinSilicon Valley is maximizing profit at everyone’s expense. It doesn’t have to be this way A public battle has broken out among the titans of Silicon Valley. 🔸One side, led by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Elon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Musk</a>, PayPal co-founder <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Thiel</a> and venture capitalists <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Marc</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Andreessen</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ben" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ben</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Horowitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Horowitz</a>, is backing Donald <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Trump</a> for president. 🔸The other, led by LinkedIn co-founder <a href="https://c.im/tags/Reid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Reid</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hoffman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hoffman</a>, is behind Kamala <a href="https://c.im/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Harris</a>.⚠️We should not make the mistake of thinking this is a battle over ideology or policy. It’s a battle to ♦️maximize Silicon Valley’s profits regardless of the consequences for society.♦️On this objective, both sides agree. Andreessen Horowitz is one of the largest investors in <a href="https://c.im/tags/cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cryptocurrency</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/artificial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#artificial</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#intelligence</a>, and Trump has signaled that he would keep the government out of its business. Meanwhile, soon after donating $7 million to a Harris super PAC, Hoffman called for her to oust Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lina" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Lina</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Khan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Khan</a>, who has brought antitrust cases against Big Tech and introduced rules to protect workers.Silicon Valley, a longtime engine of human achievement, has become a significant source of human harm. Aware of the gathering backlash, its leaders have dived into the political fray 💥to protect their wealth.💥Two Silicon Valley obsessions threaten the most damage: creating human <a href="https://c.im/tags/addiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#addiction</a> to increase profits and <a href="https://c.im/tags/eliminating" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#eliminating</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/humans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#humans</a> altogether to decrease costs.Social media platforms, which started out by bringing old friends together and giving voice to the otherwise powerless, have become “social slot machines” compelling excessive use. Gaming companies have a similar objective. Teenagers today spend more than eight hours a day on screens, fueling digital advertising revenues that reached $225 billion last year.Meanwhile, the artificial intelligence revolution promises to cut labor costs. A recent study by MIT economist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Daron" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Daron</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Acemoglu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Acemoglu</a> found that 50% to 70% of the growth in inequality between more and less educated workers can be attributed to automation. Poverty rates in Silicon Valley’s home state are rising even as AI makes Big Tech richer.The broader prospects are equally concerning. AI is enabling killer robots, autonomous weapons and massively destructive misinformation.<a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-08-30/silicon-valley-big-tech-profit-ai-elon-musk-reid-hoffman-peter-thiel-andreessen-horowitz-kamala-harris-donald-trump-election-2024" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-08-30/silicon-valley-big-tech-profit-ai-elon-musk-reid-hoffman-peter-thiel-andreessen-horowitz-kamala-harris-donald-trump-election-2024</a>

Chuck DarwinTech executives and investors said they were invigorated by Harris“It’s democracy time, people,” Roy <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bahat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Bahat</a>, an investor at Bloomberg Beta, posted on LinkedIn. Aaron <a href="https://c.im/tags/Levie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Levie</a>, the chief executive of Box, a cloud storage company, wrote on X that Mr. Biden had shown “amazing leadership,” adding, “Now let’s go!”The energy was a far cry from the dismay felt in tech circles recently as some of the industry’s most influential voices declared they were for Mr. Trump. The rejuvenation could blunt the momentum of pro-Trump conservatives in Silicon Valley and entice more wealthy tech executives to throw their support — and money — behind the Democratic ticket.Just last week, the political winds in Silicon Valley appeared to be blowing to the right. On Tuesday, Mr. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Andreessen</a> 😨and Mr. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Horowitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Horowitz</a>😨, founders of the influential investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, argued in a 90-minute podcast that Mr. Trump was the best candidate for start-ups, with plans to donate millions to his campaign. Days earlier, Mr. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Musk</a> 😨had also endorsed Mr. Trump. They had been preceded by David <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Sacks</a> 😨and Chamath <a href="https://c.im/tags/Palihapitiya" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Palihapitiya</a>, 😨two tech investors who had hosteda $12 million fund-raiser for Mr. Trump in June. Doug <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leone" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Leone</a> 😨and Shaun <a href="https://c.im/tags/Maguire" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Maguire</a> 😨of Sequoia Capital, a top investment firm, had also said that they would vote for Mr. Trump.Yet despite the growing sense of a MAGA takeover, not everyone in tech moved toward Mr. Trump. “You have people with the loudest voices claiming to speak for the broader community, and the views don’t match,” said Katie Jacobs <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stanton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Stanton</a>, founder of Moxxie Ventures, a venture capital firm. “By no means do they line up with the thousands of founders and employees and investors who live and work in Silicon Valley.” John <a href="https://c.im/tags/Coogan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Coogan</a>, a start-up founder, wrote in a blog post in June that media coverage of Silicon Valley’s support for Mr. Trump was “at odds with reality.” Top venture capitalists had given four times more money to Democrats than Republicans in the first part of the year, he argued.“Trump is very unpopular in Silicon Valley in general,” Mr. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Khosla" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Khosla</a> said, adding that those who were pro-Trump were “only a small constituency.” Now liberals in tech are rejuvenated. Mr. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mehta" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Mehta</a> said that some of his WhatsApp chats, particularly those that included Indian people in tech, exploded with excitement for Kamala Harris, whose mother is from India. To show support for the vice president, some implored people to make small donations, while others discussed potential fund-raisers, he said. Mr. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hoffman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hoffman</a>, a founder of LinkedIn and a prominent Democratic donor, emphasized in essays, videos and social media posts that Mr. Trump was a danger to the rule of law and democracy. “You can’t use business justification as your cloak, as your rationalization, for being supportive of Trump,” he said.Mr. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Levie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Levie</a> of Box said he had spoken to a dozen other tech and business people on Sunday who were now optimistic about the election in November. He said he was hopeful that Democrats could deliver a positive message on issues that the tech industry cared about, including A.I., entrepreneurship and immigration reform for high-skilled workers. “We have a chance to get excited and rally around someone,” he said.On Sunday, Mr. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hoffman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hoffman</a> endorsed Ms. Harris, while Mr. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Khosla" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Khosla</a> called for an open process at the Democratic convention. Mr. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Suster" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Suster</a> said his phone blew up with a collective message of “thank god.” He estimated that three-quarters of the people he interacted with in tech were happy about Mr. Biden’s withdrawal and would not support Mr. Trump.

Chuck DarwinIt’s Silicon Valley vs. Silicon Valley as Political Fights EscalateElon Musk, Reid Hoffman and other tech billionaires, -- many of whom are part of the “PayPal Mafia,” -- are openly brawling with one another over politics as tensions rise.Less than an hour after a gunman in Butler, Pa., tried to assassinate Donald Trump this month, David <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Sacks</a>, a venture capitalist based in San Francisco, directed his anger about the incident toward a former colleague.“The Left normalized this,” Mr. Sacks wrote on X, linking to a post about Reid <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hoffman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hoffman</a>, a technology investor and major Democratic donor. Mr. Sacks implied that Mr. Hoffman, a critic of Mr. Trump who had funded a lawsuit accusing the former president of rape and defamation, had helped cause the shooting.Elon <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Musk</a>, who leads SpaceX and Tesla and previously worked with Mr. Sacks and Mr. Hoffman, then weighed in on X, name-checking Mr. Hoffman and saying people like him “got their dearest wish.”In Silicon Valley, the spectacle of tech billionaire attacking tech billionaire has suddenly exploded, as pro-Trump executives and their Democratic counterparts have openly turned on each other. The brawling has spilled into public view online, at conferences and on podcasts, as debates about the country’s future have turned into personal broadsides.The animus has pit those who once worked side by side and attended each other’s weddings against one another, fraying friendships and alliances that could shift Silicon Valley’s power centers. The fighting has been particularly acute among the 🔸“PayPal Mafia,” 🔸 a wealthy group of tech executives — including Mr. Hoffman, Mr. Musk, Mr. Sacks and the investor Peter <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Thiel</a> — who worked together at the online payments company in the 1990s and later founded their own companies or turned into high-profile investors.Other tech leaders have also been pulled into the political spats, including Vinod <a href="https://c.im/tags/Khosla" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Khosla</a>, a prominent investor, and Marc <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Andreessen</a> and Ben <a href="https://c.im/tags/Horowitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Horowitz</a> of the Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz.Their unabashed vitriol is stark. While tech leaders often criticize one another in private, they rarely do so publicly for fear of upsetting a potential deal partner or future job prospect.“Until a year or two ago, there was something like an <a href="https://c.im/tags/omert%C3%A0" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#omertà</a> in Silicon Valley,” said Roger McNamee, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, using a word popularized by the Italian mafia for a code of silence. “People had fights all the time and leaders would disagree, but you wouldn’t disagree in public.” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/29/technology/silicon-valley-politics-elon-musk-reid-hoffman.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-00.mbMn.lcxJeRZWmP_6&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/29/technology/silicon-valley-politics-elon-musk-reid-hoffman.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-00.mbMn.lcxJeRZWmP_6&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</a>

Chuck DarwinMeadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe An Arizona grand jury on Wednesday indicted seven attorneys or aides affiliated with Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign as well as 11 Arizona Republicans on 👉felony charges related to their alleged efforts to subvert Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state  Those indicted include former Trump White House chief of staff Mark <a href="https://c.im/tags/Meadows" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Meadows</a>, attorneys Rudy <a href="https://c.im/tags/Giuliani" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Giuliani</a>, Jenna <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ellis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ellis</a>, John <a href="https://c.im/tags/Eastman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Eastman</a> and Christina <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bobb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Bobb</a>, top campaign adviser Boris <a href="https://c.im/tags/Epshteyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Epshteyn</a> and former campaign aide Mike <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Roman</a>. They are accused of allegedly aiding an unsuccessful strategy to award the state’s electoral votes to Trump instead of Biden after the 2020 election. Also charged are the Republicans who signed paperwork on Dec. 14, 2020, that falsely purported Trump was the rightful winner, including former state party chair Kelli <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ward" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ward</a>, state Sens. Jake <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hoffman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hoffman</a> and Anthony <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kern" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Kern</a>, and Tyler <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bowyer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Bowyer</a>, a GOP national committeeman and chief operating officer of Turning Point Action, the campaign arm of the pro-Trump conservative group Turning Point USA.<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/24/arizona-2020-election-charges-meadows-giuliani-ellis/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/24/arizona-2020-election-charges-meadows-giuliani-ellis/</a>

Chuck DarwinAn anti-Trump group backed by billionaires Reid Hoffman, Seth Klarman and John Pritzker is launching a $50 million ad campaign featuring disaffected Trump voters—while some conservative billionaires coalesce behind the former president as it’s become clear he’ll secure the GOP nomination.🔸Republican Voters Against Trump🔸, which is funded by the 🔹Republican Accountability PAC, 🔹aims to raise $30 million, in addition to the $20 million it’s already raised, for an advertising campaign featuring 👉videos of former Trump voters explaining why they won’t cast their ballots for him again this year, its founder <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sarah" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Sarah</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Longwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Longwell</a> told the New York Times.<a href="https://c.im/tags/Reid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Reid</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hoffman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hoffman</a>, co-founder of LinkedIn and a prolific Democratic donor, is one of the Republican Accountability PAC’s biggest backers, donating $2 million in both January and June last year, according to Federal Election Commission filings that show his $4 million accounts for half of what the group raised last year.<a href="https://c.im/tags/Seth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Seth</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Klarman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Klarman</a>, who runs the Boston-based Baupost hedge fund and is a vocal Trump critic who has donated to both parties, gave $1 million to the group in May last year.<a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#John</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pritzker" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Pritzker</a>, of the billionaire family that founded Hyatt hotels, gave a total of $1 million to the group through two $500,000 donations in June and November last year.Founded during the 2020 campaign, Republican Voters Against Trump is ramping up its anti-Trump efforts as the former president is now the de facto Republican nominee.♦️Meanwhile, conservative billionaires are lining up behind Trump ♦️, including shipping and packing company founders <a href="https://c.im/tags/Liz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Liz</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dick" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Dick</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Uihlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Uihlein</a>, the Financial Times reported this weekend, and aerospace billionaire <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robert" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Robert</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bigelow" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Bigelow</a>, according to Politico—all previous donors to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ failed presidential campaign.<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/03/12/here-are-the-billionaires-backing-this-anti-trump-republican-campaign/?sh=5122dc3e2c59" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/03/12/here-are-the-billionaires-backing-this-anti-trump-republican-campaign/?sh=5122dc3e2c59</a>

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