If this is true (who knows) it will invalidate any claims X may have made about making “the algorithm” open source by replacing it entirely with an inscrutable black box that no one can possibly evaluate. So, more Musk lies. /cc @garymarcus

Last year, leaked recordings from Teneo revealed Leonard Leo building “networks of conservatives that can roll back” what he sees as liberal influence in society - including pro athletes.

ProPublica called it a “Federalist Society for everything,”

Butker works w/ Leo’s groups:

BREAKING: Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site, state media reports. apnews.com/article/iran-p…

BREAKING:'No sign of life' detected at crash site of helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi, others, Iran state TV says apnews.com/article/iran-p…

🛑 BREAKING: The first image of President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter

Too many people on this platform naively think that if Ukraine stops fighting the war will end. That is fantasy. If Ukraine stops fighting, Putin will expand his war, first to Kharkiv, then Odesa, and eventually Kyiv.

NEW: Raisi’s death would have serious implications for supreme leader succession. It would not, however, change the regime’s current trajectory toward more hardline and conservative domestic policies and more aggressive regional policies. (1/2)

Pictured below, the “Hindenburg Incident.”

Notice you never see Raisi in the same room with Michael Scheuer, former CIA Bin Laden chief analyst turned insane QAnon conspiracy theorist…

Anyone sufficiently sentient was saying this in early 2022.

Raisi is going to turn up, working at a Cinnabon in Omaha.

Putin has put Russia on a permanent war footing
My general take on what's happening now, for The Times and The Sunday Times : in many ways, backs to militarised and (ultimately) moribund 70s USSR, with nationalism, Orthodoxy and autocracy as a threadbare alternative ideology

thetimes.co.uk/article/putin-…

Reminder that Chris Dixon’s blockchain use cases were so compelling that he had to buy his way onto the New York Times best seller list:

protos.com/op-ed-how-a16z…

Bizarrely adulatory review of a bizarrely adulatory film about Russian neo-fascist Eduard Limonov. But it’s okay because - and I quote - “the Russian soul.” theguardian.com/film/article/2…

Chris Dixon pushing NFTs for your medical records is the stupidest shit I’ve heard this week

News flow out of Iran is more bizarre than Russia. Something is announced then retracted. In the latest RIA citing Irans foreign ministry said that someone in the helicopter made contact. Shortly after IRGC denies those reports. Bizarre

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Ach, it's only those Balts, as long as it doesn't reach Brandenburg Airport, who cares?

As with the cyber attacks in 2007, you can't be sure it's Russia and besides you're all russophobes anyway.

Funny how people remember, innit?