@davidsacks - Twitter Profile Analysis

This seems insanely risky. https://t.co/PejtRKkLTY

Twitter 1.0 created powerful censorship tools but the company itself was not powerful. It was losing money and had weak leaders. As a result, its tools fell into the hands of powerful behind-the-scenes actors. This is one of the major dangers of censorship once it starts.

I’ve long followed and appreciated @zerohedge for of its irreverent market analysis. I never understood why it was censored — until now. It was at the behest of Big Pharma. https://t.co/AkYfzLGXL2

Base case for ‘23-24: — 1-2 more rate hikes but only 25 bps. Rates peak at 5%. — Recession starts mid-year. — Fed cuts by Q1 ‘24. — Recovery begins Q2 ‘24. — Biggest risk factor: sovereign debt bomb. I don’t have a lot of confidence in this, just my best guess.

If you want to get your organizational badge… https://t.co/yEWNMIUMLo

Who knew that the most powerful position in the US government was the national archivist.

Interesting take on why the rate hike cycle may be over. https://t.co/uTTtAHXr3V

When they say that the garage was locked, do they mean that you need a garage door opener to “unlock” it?

When does the FBI raid Biden’s Delaware home?

Extraordinary video by @ShellenbergerMD explaining the FBI’s role in the social media censorship of the @nypost’s Hunter Biden story, as revealed by the Twitter Files. Well worth the 8 minutes. https://t.co/36yjQuzFem

In hindsight, once Covid made its way onto a plane, it was going to become endemic. Everything we said or did to stop it was cope.

Remember “social distancing”? The media’s ability to get us to buy into bizarre concepts—and then make us forget they did that—is astounding. https://t.co/4343tKAMKs

Just got offered office space in San Francisco (SOMA) for the same price as 2009. Yikes.

Advice for 2023: Prioritize survival.

Kissinger proposes to end the Ukraine War by trading NATO admission for Ukraine in exchange for Crimea and Donbas staying with Russia. https://t.co/fYJujQu3aL

Have a Bestie new year! https://t.co/NFTpn83ljL

“Washington politicians learned that Twitter could be trained quickly to cooperate and cede control over its moderation process through a combination of threatened legislation and bad press.” —@mtaibbi https://t.co/yvmSHC9GL4

Prediction markets for 2023…🧵

This is 💯true. What’s remarkable about Fauci’s 2012 paper is that he describes the lab leak risk in an almost prescient way but STILL advocates for gain of function research. https://t.co/VPbHz09obo https://t.co/kMRGwCgqYp

Unusual candor from WashPo to recognize that Russia didn’t sabotage its own pipeline—even though the mainstream media jumped to that conclusion, fed to them by their government handlers. Meanwhile, US officials say they won’t stop looking for the real killer. https://t.co/HdCDWRPROt

When the government tried to create a Ministry of Truth in DHS this year, enough people were outraged to stop it. Yet that is the situation we effectively have as a result of government using its power to lean on Big Tech.

An ounce of product intuition is worth a pound of A/B testing.

Wow awesome new feature! Twitter generates serious reach.

A country whose #1 priority is defending another nation’s borders must not have any serious problems of its own.

When I open my Stocks app, it just says “you don’t want to know.”

Which poses the greater ongoing threat to democracy?

We need a new Church Commission to investigate why the FBI and Intelligence Community are engaged in social media censorship, including the suppression of the Hunter Biden story. https://t.co/eUjK8RpY4S

Even (especially) corporate journalists are going to like this. I’m excited to already be using it to display my affiliation with @craft_ventures. https://t.co/vTugzggFlH

TIL there is a deep state. https://t.co/HyCclZ6YCu

Board calls today with four companies to iterate & finalize 2023 budgets. Never in 23 years have I seen founders & finance leaders struggle so much to set appropriate growth expectations and spending levels given highly uncertain/dynamic market conditions that exist

happy friday! E112 ‼️‼️ -- is davos a grift? -- globalist mishaps -- evaluating US free trade policy -- immigration reform -- tiktok's endgame -- pharma meets ai -- & more! 🔊: https://t.co/YcYL1sytAw 📺: https://t.co/KRXZ7yMFGo

Superlatively well thought out @bennyjohnson & @alx podcast w/ @DavidSacks discussing big tech & recent exposes, populism, govt (over)growth, over-classification of documents by feds, and numerous other subjects. A must listen if ever there was one. https://t.co/O2yQnil1Mp

BREAKING: @DavidSacks on the #TwitterFiles revelations that the FBI communicated with Twitter via ‘Teleporter’: “Why isn’t that a matter of public record?” “If the government is instructing social media to engage in censorship… that’s a violation of the First Amendment”

E111 ‼️ BIG BREAKDOWN on $MSFT investing $10B into @openai -- unique deal terms -- $META & $GOOG asleep at the wheel -- what startups can be built -- how to make the business model work + much more 🔊: https://t.co/vXVbFxRFug 📺: https://t.co/UVHzQJhBCY

70% of Twitter staff; 18,000 at Amazon; 10% of Salesforce. @DavidSacks tells me the @elonmusk effect is cascading across Silicon Valley. Suddenly, your job is "no longer based on what your politics are. It’s based on what your contribution is." 👇👇👇 https://t.co/Ffa6lIZV86

Thanks for the shout out from @DavidSacks on the @theallinpod as one of his picks for best media of 2022 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 https://t.co/OFHa8wcNSM… https://t.co/NtVpIFpwRF

“The media is the prism through which reality is refracted.” -@DavidSacks on @theallinpod https://t.co/3U9bd8Xzvr

Elon Musk "To be totally frank, almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true."

E109... 🏆 The 2022 Bestie Awards 🥳 (w/@DavidSacks LIVE from @Twitter HQ) 2+ hours of 🔥 dive in 👇 🔊: https://t.co/FpIKWZPMXq 📺: https://t.co/8utnC0tBFK

This is truly worse than Nixon's Watergate. Absolutely beyond comprehension--this level of government/media collusion. The FBI colluded with Twitter to suppress truthful coverage of the President's son's business dealings by the NY Post and other news media orgs fell into line. https://t.co/bz11p2lqJ7

It’s stalking for profit. The same as corporate journalism, really, but with less artifice. They both make their money from invading your privacy. https://t.co/ZYtAlLXtUB

Instead of chasing child sex predators or terrorists, the FBI has agents — lots of them — analyzing and mass-flagging social media posts. Not as part of any criminal investigation, but as a permanent, end-in-itself surveillance operation. People should not be okay with this.

This is absolutely staggering to read. The @fbi had 80 agents monitoring @Twitter and was regularly demanding accounts, which were often sharing satire and jokes they didn’t like, be shut down. Twitter was effectively an agent of the FBI. https://t.co/NrQPp06h0l

E108 👀 -- doxing debate -- nuclear fusion breakthrough -- state of the markets -- startup valuation collapse -- what LPs are thinking -- besties go 0-2 in worst person in tech bracket ☹️ 🔊: https://t.co/mnycnlMtzf 📺: https://t.co/2ZoldsDbhf

E107 ‼️ -- #TwitterFiles parts 1-2 breakdown -- China relaxes on Zero-Covid -- @kevinolearytv continues defending @SBF_FTX 🔊: https://t.co/1GegbIT0NX 📺: https://t.co/8DT23JFTei

X is not happening, you conspiracy theorist! (Incontrovertible proof of X emerges) We always knew this was happening and it’s good actually! Is the hack around the inability of narrative-shapers to delete things from the Internet mind (as censors once did).

Interesting discussion around 25 min in. Thanks to David Sacks for a clear understanding. https://t.co/RYl7KTLP9X

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