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Saturday, June 07, 2025

7: Trump, Musk

He’s a Master of Outrage on X. He’s Also Broke. An online creator went from a “nobody” to a conspiratorial sensation on X. What he gets in return is less clear. ........... “Is there any possibility,” he asked, “for names such as Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, to ever, just possibly, get investigated?” ........ Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, called the question “refreshing.” .......... Mr. McGee is one of the most prominent right-wing influencers on X, with 1.5 million followers and billions of views. He was ranked the third-most-influential user on the platform in January last year by one analytics firm, behind Elon Musk, the site’s owner, and Andrew Tate, a notorious right-wing misogynist. ......... stoking outrage is effectively Mr. McGee’s job: he starts posting around 9 a.m. and continues until 8 p.m. nearly every day. ........ His trip to the White House offered a boost of attention online, but he ultimately lost money on the flights and rushed back home to his one-bedroom apartment in Miami. ......... “Maybe I got to break the law, maybe I got to sell drugs, I might have to join a gang,” he said while slouching over the kitchen island that doubles as his home office. “It was a lot of things in a narrow point of view that I had.” .......... He enlisted in the Army, where he stayed for three years before he was honorably discharged. He enrolled at Pennsylvania State University for business, through a program for veterans, but never graduated. He promoted rap music with an independent label and dabbled in fashion design. He even started a credit repair company after his credit score went almost as low as it can go........ Then social media changed his life........ it wasn’t until he promoted conspiracy theories about election fraud that his political beliefs became a career. His follower count exploded, and he created “Win the Win,” one of the largest Facebook groups devoted to election fraud conspiracy theories, which had more than 61,000 followers before Facebook banned it as part of a sweeping crackdown on election falsehoods. He became a registered Republican, donated to Mr. Trump’s campaign and voted for him in the last election. ........... He later wrote a post about Ms. Clinton, who had posted on X that Qatar expected something in return for donating a jet worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Mr. Trump. Mr. McGee called her post “a radical and unhinged conspiracy theory.” Commenters swarmed the post, calling her a “serial criminal” and “evil.”

Velocity Money: Crypto, Karma, and the End of Traditional Economics
The Next Decade of Biotech: Convergence, Innovation, and Transformation
Beyond Motion: How Robots Will Redefine The Art Of Movement
ChatGPT For Business: A Workbook
Becoming an AI-First Organization
Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

Remote Work Productivity Hacks
How to Make Money with AI Tools
AI for Beginners

Velocity Money: Crypto, Karma, and the End of Traditional Economics
The Next Decade of Biotech: Convergence, Innovation, and Transformation
Beyond Motion: How Robots Will Redefine The Art Of Movement
ChatGPT For Business: A Workbook
Becoming an AI-First Organization
Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

Remote Work Productivity Hacks
How to Make Money with AI Tools
AI for Beginners

Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
The 20% Growth Revolution: Nepal’s Path to Prosperity Through Kalkiism
Rethinking Trade: A Blueprint for a Just and Thriving Global Economy
The $500 Billion Pivot: How the India-US Alliance Can Reshape Global Trade
Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
Formula For Peace In Ukraine
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
AOC 2028: : The Future of American Progressivism

Mr. Abu Shabab’s group, the Popular Forces, is believed to comprise a relatively small number of members. It is unclear how many people are in its ranks, but it is much smaller than Hamas.

Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
The 20% Growth Revolution: Nepal’s Path to Prosperity Through Kalkiism
Rethinking Trade: A Blueprint for a Just and Thriving Global Economy
The $500 Billion Pivot: How the India-US Alliance Can Reshape Global Trade
Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
Formula For Peace In Ukraine
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
AOC 2028: : The Future of American Progressivism

Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
The 20% Growth Revolution: Nepal’s Path to Prosperity Through Kalkiism
Rethinking Trade: A Blueprint for a Just and Thriving Global Economy
The $500 Billion Pivot: How the India-US Alliance Can Reshape Global Trade
Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
Formula For Peace In Ukraine
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
AOC 2028: : The Future of American Progressivism

Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
The 20% Growth Revolution: Nepal’s Path to Prosperity Through Kalkiism
Rethinking Trade: A Blueprint for a Just and Thriving Global Economy
The $500 Billion Pivot: How the India-US Alliance Can Reshape Global Trade
Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
Formula For Peace In Ukraine
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
AOC 2028: : The Future of American Progressivism

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Musk Wisdom




Elon Musk: Internet Satellites




This is what $100 billion of the 2009 stimulus should have gone to. It is still not too late. If the US government were to buy a 33% stake in Musk's Internet Satellite Network company to speed this work up, once we have gigabit internet for every man, woman and child, that would make room for major shavings in the US defense budget. Democracy would spread on its own. The ISIS would look like clowns, because they will get drowned in the hundreds of millions of Muslims sharing cat videos, so much good would happen. And that $100 billion would grow enough that the US government will be able to actually pay off some of its debt. Who says governments can not angel invest? Break the rules.


Thursday, October 23, 2014

Thiel



Seven Takeaways from Marc Andreessen's Interview With Peter Thiel
The eBay acquisition of PayPal was famously drawn-out and, in fact, took five separate negotiations to finally complete. .... "In June 2002, there was this eBay convention in Anaheim. We managed to get a booth there even though they weren’t that friendly to us at the time, so we sent 30 people down to the convention. And we handed out all these PayPal T-shirts. They saw all their power sellers wearing PayPal T-shirts, and at that point, they decided to buy the company.” ......... how Musk crashed his uninsured million-dollar sportscar with Thiel in the passenger seat on the way to a venture capital meeting
http://a16z.com/2014/10/17/a16z-podcast-the-definite-optimism-of-peter-thiel/

Thiel is a big picture person. He has a stellar track record. And he paints in broad strokes.