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The New Yorker just dropped a massive investigation into Sam Altman, based on over 100 interviews, the previously undisclosed "Ilya Memos," and Dario Amodei's 200+ pages of private notes. It's the most detailed account yet of the pattern of behavior that led to Sam's firing and rapid reinstatement at OpenAI. Here's the breakdown: > Ilya compiled ~70 pages of Slack messages, HR documents, and photos taken on personal phones to avoid detection on company devices. He sent them to board members as disappearing messages. The first memo begins with a list headed "Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of . . ." The first item is "Lying." > Dario kept detailed private notes for years under the heading "My Experience with OpenAI" (subheading: "Private: Do Not Share"), totaling 200+ pages. His conclusion: "The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself." > Sam reportedly told Mira his allies were "going all out" and "finding bad things" to damage her reputation after the firing. Thrive put its planned $86B investment on hold and implied it would only close if Sam returned, giving employees financial incentive to back him. > Sam texted Satya Nadella directly to propose the new board composition: "bret, larry summers, adam as the board and me as ceo and then bret handles the investigation." The two new members selected to oversee an independent inquiry into Sam were chosen after close conversations with Sam himself. > Before OpenAI, senior employees at Loopt asked the board to fire Sam as CEO on two separate occasions over concerns about leadership and transparency. At Y Combinator, partners complained to Paul Graham about Sam's behavior, and Graham privately told colleagues "Sam had been lying to us all the time." > OpenAI's superalignment team was promised 20% of the company's compute. Four people who worked on or with the team said actual resources were 1-2%, mostly on the oldest cluster with the worst chips. The team was dissolved without completing its mission. > Sam told the board that safety features in GPT-4 had been approved by a safety panel. Helen Toner requested documentation and found the most controversial features had not been approved. Sam also never mentioned to the board that Microsoft released an early ChatGPT version in India without completing a required safety review. > Sam made a secret pact with Greg and Ilya where he agreed to resign if they both deemed it necessary, essentially appointing his own shadow board. The actual board was alarmed when they learned about it. > Sam struck a deal with Greg to become CEO while simultaneously telling researchers that Greg's authority would be diminished, and telling Greg something different. > A board member described Sam as having "two traits almost never seen in the same person: a strong desire to please people in any given interaction, and almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences of deceiving someone." Multiple sources independently used the word "sociopathic." > OpenAI is reportedly preparing for an IPO at a potential $1 trillion valuation while securing government contracts spanning immigration enforcement, domestic surveillance, and autonomous weaponry in war zones.

Europe seems to have buried values in Gaza, but what Israel is doing in Iran is hitting the global economy and supply chains, directly hitting European interests As much as we are sanctioning IRGC networks, we need to sanction Israel for its war crimes making European economies their collateral damage

The surprise attack on February 28 that leveled a girls’ volleyball practice was with a ground-based missile that could only have been launched from the Gulf.

This excuse for cutting off all power and bridges to 96 million Iranians (the population we're pretending to save) -- "they're animals" -- is verbatim the excuse given by Israel as to why they were cutting off all food, water and fuel from entering Gaza ("they're animals").

Whenever there's even the mere possibility of US/Iran negotiations, one thing tis certain: Israel will act immediately to destroy any such possibility, because Israel's goal is to lure the US to destroy the entire Iranian state and render it permanently shattered.

The US-Israeli terror coalition attacked pistachio warehouses in Iran - a deliberate economic strategy The largest producer of pistachios in the world is Wonderful, owned by Zionists Lynne and Stewart Resnick The Resnicks are top donors to Friends of the IDF

Israeli attacks on Lebanon are relentless… Tyre is a large city in the south with an estimated 20,000 still living there - including thousands displaced from surrounding villages

Tapper’s purpose, like the entire corporate media, is to promote this foolish war & attack anyone who points out how this war isn’t in our nation’s interest. Read independent media, Iranian media & US media - always question those cheering on wars & always pray for our troops.

This underscores the central dilemma in trying to get Iran to a deal: "Iranian officials made clear to the mediators they don't want to be caught in a Gaza or Lebanon situation where there is a ceasefire on paper, but the US and Israel can attack again whenever they want to." For now, Iran believes its control of Hormuz is the thing that will prevent such an outcome: that the ability to cause chaos in the global economy will serve as a deterrent in the future. Plus it wants to use the strait as a revenue stream. Yet for America (and Gulf states) there is no acceptable deal in which Iran retains such control. So for the American negotiators, Hormuz looks like a point of leverage that Iran should trade for security and economic benefits; for the Iranians, Hormuz itself is a security and economic benefit. axios.com/2026/04/06/ira…

Absolute bombshell on Al Jazeera. The US and Israel have deliberately bombed over 30 universities across Iran, assassinating professors in their homes and massacring over 60 students. Washington is systematically trying to destroy Iranian scientific progress.

Make no mistake: destroying world-class universities, like the US just did with Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, isn't just an attack on Iran but it's literally an attack on all of us, on all of humanity. It's not Iran that "won" when Maryam Mirzakhani made her discoveries that won her a Fields Medal: it's all of mathematics, and everything mathematics is used for. Human progress won, technology won, we all won. It's the same type of stuff the Mongols did during the sack of Baghdad and their destruction of the House of Wisdom: we ALL lost something irreplaceable back then, entire fields of human knowledge set back. That's what bombing a university does. It doesn't just destroy buildings. It destroys us, all of us.

This war can be summed up by a single sentence from Netanyahu's 1993 book, A Place Among the Nations. "The task of Israel’s leaders is to try to convince the American government that it is in the interest of the United States to follow policies that cohere with Israeli interests, not vice versa." It's almost like they say it right to our faces!

After bombing Iran's largest steel plants, Israel says it has taken out Iran's largest petrochemical facilities. Israel and the US have a division of labor with the shared aim of the deindustrialization of Iran. The ultimate purpose is to complicate reconstruction and foment unrest in the post-war setting by compelling a "failed state" scenario. The timing of Israel's latest strike, preceding Trump's deadline, also suggests that Netanyahu wants to kill any de-escalation. The method is to force Iran to make good on its threat to widen attacks on GCC states, which may drag in Arab countries.

@timurkuran Obama is still on twitter, with his 119 million followers. He just doesn't give a shit. And there are many like him.

In leaving Twitter/X for essentially all-blue platforms like Bluesky, progressive leftists abdicated their capacity to influence middle-of-the-road constituencies. For the luxury of self-segregation from non-progressive views, they sabotaged their own political causes.

The bombing of Sharif University of Technology in Tehran validates what a friend recently said: "Gaza has become a verb".

Alma mater of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the mathematics Fields Medal.

Erratic. Can’t finish sentences. Often confused. Illogical train of thought. Word finding difficulties. Developing and worsening gradually over time. The President is exhibiting all the signs of dementia.

Sharif University is Iran’s MIT. They’ve produced a huge number of engineers who’ve gone on to Silicon Valley and founded some of the most successful American tech companies. Why are we bombing a university in a city of 10 million people?

Like clockwork, Barak Ravid and Axios put out a story about fake negotiations, planted by the white house, to calm the markets for Monday and give Trump an excuse to back down from his latest threats against Iran. How many times are they going to pull this exact same stunt?

@NateSilver538 I am starting to think he is afraid of Elon Musk seeing this exchange and asking him to fix it or else. Please continue to push.

In what sense is it intellectually dishonest, Nikita? The context is clear. My thesis is: I think your algo surfaces too little quality. And I think your excuses in these back-and-forth exchanges have been validating of that. To your credit, it's clear enough you agree with me.