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#MarcAndreessen #billionaire co-founder of #SiliconValley investment firm #AndreessenHorowitz in private group #chat facilitated via #WhatsApp chat reportedly supported by #Trump admin. In it Andreessen launched into a tirade about colleges being “biased against Trump voters,” “My people are furious.” The chat, that included tech investors, entrepreneurs, political influencers, some R senior officials w Trump, was supposed to stay hidden. But someone leaked it" thedemlabs.org/2025/08/02/andr #substack

Marc Andreesen right wing bilionaire starts Substack takeover
The Democracy LabsMarc Andreesen, right wing billionaire starts Substack takeover | The Democracy LabsMarc Andreesen, right wing billionaire starts Substack takeover
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"It’s reminiscent of the age of business titans and “robber barons” who dominated railroads, steel and other enterprises. And as happened then, today’s massive companies, with their ability to spend (and borrow), are making their moats even deeper and wider. Even formidable competitors, such as OpenAI, are hard-pressed to keep up.

A look at one key line item in company earnings reports—capital expenditures—shows that the most valuable tech companies are buying and building stuff at a record pace. The Magnificent 7 tech firms have collectively spent a record $102.5 billion on capex in their most recent quarters, nearly all from Meta, Alphabet (Google), Microsoft and Amazon. (Apple, Nvidia and Tesla together contributed a mere $6.7 billion.)

Investor and tech pundit Paul Kedrosky says that, as a percentage of gross domestic product, spending on AI infrastructure has already exceeded spending on telecom and internet infrastructure from the dot-com boom—and it’s still growing. He also argues that one explanation for the U.S. economy’s ongoing strength, despite tariffs, is that spending on IT infrastructure is so big that it’s acting as a sort of private-sector stimulus program."

wsj.com/tech/ai/silicon-valley

#AI#GenerativeAI#BigTech
IrishMASMS

#Friday and #Saturday is the vintage computing festival West at the computer history museum in mountain view, ca
#vcfw #vcfw2025 #ca #mountainview #siliconvalley #sillyvalley
#computerHistorymuseum

I have three tables full of stuff in the consignment room, please come buy it all. It supports #vcfw and gets it out of my garage
#sf #sfbay #sfbayarea #sfnerd #sfgeek #retro #vintage #computing #computers #Dell #ibm #lenovo #thinkpad #sunmicrosystems #solaris #amiga
#scsi #usb #sony #vaio #apple #macintosh

#EFM #eflea #siliconValley #SillyValley
#vintagecomputing
#vintagecomputing #vintagecomputint #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputalk
#vintagehardware
#computerHistory
#retro
#retrocomputing #retroComputers
#WallOfRetro
#retroTech #retroTechnology
#nerdsOfVintage #happyNerding
#computer #tech
#apple #VintageApple #VintageMacintosh #macintosh #mac #mac_pro #mac_osx #MacintoshPr0n
#vintageDell #DellComputer #laptop #vintagelaptop #sparctember #suntember

#sunmicrosystem #vintageSun

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Nonilex

#Trump’s super #PAC is sitting on about $200 million that it can spend against his rivals, giving a term-limited president a never-before-seen amount of #power in his party’s finances and future.

In the first half of 2025, Trump’s group, #MAGA Inc., collected about $177 million from the likes of #ElonMusk, Trump’s erstwhile ally, the #TikTok investor #JeffreyYass & the #SiliconValley execs #BenHorowitz & #MarcAndreessen, according to a filing on Thursday with the #FEC.

nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/poli

The super PAC that supports President Trump will have a huge role in Republican spending for the midterms next year.
The New York Times · Trump, Term-Limited, Amasses $200 Million War Chest for Political AmbitionsBy Theodore Schleifer
Mediathekperlen

“Mad Men” (Serie, 2007-2015)

Zwischen dem Slogan und der Sehnsucht liegt die Lüge. Dieses Drama über die Werbebranche im New York der 1960er Jahre, spielt nicht in der Vergangenheit, sondern in der ideologischen Keimzelle der Gegenwart. Es ist eine Serie über Männer, die Produkte verkaufen – und dabei sich selbst verlieren. Über Frauen, die kämpfen, ohne jemals gewinnen zu können. Und über ein Amerika, das sich neu erfindet, indem es alles andere zerstört. (ARTE, Neu)

NexxtPress · "Mad Men" (Serie, 2007-2015)
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#alantaylor#amc#artetv
Mela News :verified:

Apple espande la sua presenza nella Bay Area con l'acquisizione del Mathilda Campus a Sunnyvale per 365 milioni di dollari. 🏢 L'azienda continua a consolidare la sua presenza immobiliare nella regione, aggiungendo questo nuovo sito da 663.000 piedi quadrati che già ospita parte delle sue operazioni. 🌳

#Apple#SiliconValley#RealEstate
apfeltalk :verified:

Apple plant weiteren Campus-Kauf im Silicon Valley
Jüngste Berichte deuten darauf hin, dass Apple seine Flächenstruktur konsequent ausbaut. Die geplanten Transaktionen erreichen dabei eine beachtliche Größenordnung, die Aufmerksamkeit auf strategische Standortentscheidungen lenkt.
Strategischer Immobilienerwerb und Investitionsvolu
apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/appl
#News #Tellerrand #AppleCampus #ApplePark #Expansion #SiliconValley

Apfeltalk Magazin · Apple plant weiteren Campus-Kauf im Silicon ValleyDie Apple Campus Expansion nimmt Formen an: Details zu den geplanten Käufen und strategischen Standortentscheidungen.
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Before he was called a patriot and a traitor for following Elon Musk to Washington to join DOGE; before he was hired by the US government despite a résumé that would have been previously rejected; before he was granted extensive access to sensitive data and invited to brief the country’s vice president; before he met his Twitter heroes in Silicon Valley; before he became a Thiel Fellow, which required him to become a college dropout; before he was celebrated internationally for using AI to help detect passages in a scroll charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius; before all of that, Luke Farritor, now 23, was a homeschooled kid in Lincoln, Nebraska, who called himself lukethecoder64.

Back then, he responded to the prompt “You Know You’re a Nerd When…” with “you listen to ‘White ’n nerdy’ by Weird Al and think it’s a biography of you.” The Martian was one of his favorite books. He was a bell ringer at church. He played piano and golf, chess and Kerbal Space Program. During his high school summers, he helped build an app that could link those in need to local charities. It’s still in use."

bloomberg.com/features/2025-lu

#USA#Trump#Musk
William Lindsey :toad:

"Running roughshod over the law. Massive corruption and open conflicts of interest. A war on science, education, and truth. A compliant Congress. An enabling Supreme Court. A morally bankrupt leader. The stoking of hate. It’s a list of outrages that we must keep firmly in the category of unacceptable—if we have any hope of preserving our democracy."

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Trump #democracy #fascism #oligarchy #EconomicElites #broligarchy #SiliconValley #SupremeCourt

elliotkirschner.substack.com/p

Through the Fog, by Elliot Kirschner · It's (Un)BelievableBy Elliot Kirschner
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"If they succeed in their current efforts, companies like Google will have done so mainly because they already control the most crucial nodes of digital exchange. When it comes to news, research, and plenty of other important things, their “innovation” will essentially consist of having devised a means of aggregating arguments and information that have already been gathered, organized, and accumulated by others without having to offer any compensation in return.

The effects of that might be profound, but nothing about the underlying process would be creative in any meaningful sense of the word, and big monopolies have been pursuing some version of it since the inception of capitalism itself: seeking ownership and control over vital infrastructure, co-opting or subordinating smaller actors in the marketplace, reducing business costs to increase their profits, and—most crucially of all—reducing the cost of labour to do the very same.

Here, we find not the constructive pattern envisioned by Schumpeter but the visceral instincts of capitalist predation taken yet again to their inevitable and logical conclusion. If the rapacious vanguardists of the AI revolution succeed in their designs, the impact will doubtless be significant and far reaching. The revolution itself, however, will have been anything but creative."

thewalrus.ca/the-ai-revolution

The Walrus · The AI Revolution Is a Heist | The WalrusBehind the promises of progress lies a simple play: take what others built, offer nothing back, and call it innovation
#AI#GenerativeAI#Google
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Given all this, it’s natural to ask: should we really try to build a technology that may kill us all if it goes wrong?

Perhaps the most common reply says: AGI is inevitable. It’s just too useful not to build. After all, AGI would be the ultimate technology – what a colleague of Alan Turing called “the last invention that man need ever make”. Besides, the reasoning goes within AI labs, if we don’t, someone else will do it – less responsibly, of course.

A new ideology out of Silicon Valley, effective accelerationism (e/acc), claims that AGI’s inevitability is a consequence of the second law of thermodynamics and that its engine is “technocapital”. The e/acc manifesto asserts: “This engine cannot be stopped. The ratchet of progress only ever turns in one direction. Going back is not an option.”

For Altman and e/accs, technology takes on a mystical quality – the march of invention is treated as a fact of nature. But it’s not. Technology is the product of deliberate human choices, motivated by myriad powerful forces. We have the agency to shape those forces, and history shows that we’ve done it before.

No technology is inevitable, not even something as tempting as AGI."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Human-level AI is not inevitable. We have the power to change courseBy Guardian staff reporter
#AI#AGI#BigTech
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