@MikeIsaac Now that the right realizes this is bad, they will surely leap to action to make good public policy
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Marc Bodnick
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Marc Bodnick
@MarcBodnick
founder @ telepath/wavelength, elevation partners. og quora community leader.
Menlo Park, CA Katılım Mart 2009
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am guessing prediction markets become a bipartisan popular takedown issue based on how quickly both sides have realized that young people are obsessed with this stuff
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
This is absolutely not enough. Just on the policy piece alone, there are SO many individuals - staff, advisors, consultants, cabinet secretaries, spouses, and more - that can trade on insider information. This is just a fig leaf to deflect from criticism. We need to do more.
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fascinating that Kalshi, a prediction market, is ahead of congress on blocking trading on insider info
(an issue that has zero bi-partisan congressional support to tackle despite multiple bills proposed over the past few years)
*Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone
KALSHI TO BLOCK ATHLETES, POLITICIANS FROM TRADING: AXIOS
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Scoop: unreleased Nielsen data will turn the “streaming defeats old school TV” narrative on its head.
Feb numbers will show the biggest swing away from streaming in the history of the firm’s monthly report.
It’s a dramatic change with a big asterisk.
wsj.com/cmo-today/dela…
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Marc Bodnick retweetledi
Turning into a big night for overturning Citizens United
Kevin Robillard 🇺🇸@Robillard
This is turning into a very mixed night for the super PACs --> Ford win is an L for both Crypto + AIPAC Stratton win would be an L for crypto Donna Miller win is a W for AIPAC, L for AI Biss or Abughazaleh win is a L for AIPAC Bean is a win for crypto, AI and AIPAC
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@MarcBodnick in primaries? or just contributions from Democrats in general?
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Most commentary treats Democratic primary voters as one blob.
They’re not. There are four distinct groups of Dem primary voters, and one is now the swing bloc.
We built a simple typology to explain:
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@liamkerr I would think that a lot of the bigger checks are Mod or Die
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@MarcBodnick Major individual donors would prob split Mods for Majority and Strategic Left
Overall by dollars:
40% Mods for Majority
5% Mod or Die
15% Purity Left
40% Strategic Left
Overall by number of donors:
20% Mods for Majority
5% Mod or Die
20% Purity Left
55% Strategic Left
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"In the age of AI slop, short attention spans, and fragmented media diets, it is nearly impossible to manufacture authentic marketing that actually grabs attention in a way that matters. All you can do is spot it, encourage it, and empower it."
amandalitman.substack.com/p/what-the-sta…
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@EricNewcomer @eriktorenberg How are Trump and Truman different?
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hard to imagine you writing this while biden was in power. this is like an ode to big government.
i found it somewhat sad in the actual movie oppenheimer that the thoughtful genius lost control of his technology... even if yeah obviously the government needed to decide what to do with the bomb.
Trump is not Truman.
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this was the most important Oscar speech of the night tbh
"Mr. Nobody Against Putin is about how you lose your country. What we saw when working with this footage is that you lose it through countless small, little acts of complicity: when we act complicit when a government murders people on the streets of our major cities, when we don't say anything when oligarchs take over the media and control how we can produce it and consume it, we all face a moral choice. But luckily even a nobody is more powerful than you think."
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@bumbadum14 > Republican run state
> City puts water supply in the hands of ExxonMobil and the Saudis (among the most GOP-friendly institutions on Earth lol)
“Why would leftists do this”
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Texas is literally the most insane depressing multicultural disaster.
Corpus Christi sold it's municipal water supply to an Exxon-Saudi petrochemical partnership because they believed they could build desalination plants they saw in israel.
Then some mexican communist organized a NIMBY movement to prevent the desalination plants, which was successful.
Now the entire region is about to enter a catastrophic drought.
William@WillisR36
@bumbadum14 Corpus Christie Tx has 60 days of water left. Check it out.
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@zachcoelius Tim's take here is really not good - software eating the world is one of the best tech generalizations ever
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@EricLevitz DM me if you want - I have a relevant idea on this specific point
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@MarcBodnick The tech will surely eliminate a large number of roles. Question is whether it will follow the pattern of previous general purpose technologies and facilitate a similar number of new uses for human labor
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Fears that AI will cause mass unemployment are reasonable.
But there are also good reasons to think the laptop class will be fine. I wrote about 4 of them.
The first: 3+ years after ChatGPT, there's still scant evidence of mass labor displacement
vox.com/the-highlight/…
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@EricLevitz I don't know what the near-term means re: # of years, and there's plenty of structural/incentives friction that may slow things down (eg attorneys get paid by billable hours), but the power of AI to eliminate repetitive work is mindblowing.
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@MarcBodnick yeah -- I'm agnostic on what's going to happen, in part for that reason. Just laying out the case for thinking disemployment effects will not be severe in the near term
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Maybe the real treasure was all the libertarians that were exposed as authoritarians along the way.
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@jtc_ai @MikeIsaac Oh super interesting. So maybe Mike is right about this.
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As a developer dealing with very sensitive data, I’m very concerned about a company that is not opposed to mass surveillance as it raises questions around the data I provide them.
Given what we’ve seen in the past few years it’s harder to trust what many say while I have no ability to audit their systems.
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lot going on in the world right now but it is increasingly clear to me how bad of an optics play it was for openai to immediately swoop in after the anthropic deal fell apart
so inclined to dominate a competitor that they ended up losing the PR war
TechCrunch@TechCrunch
ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/cha…
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@obrien @MikeIsaac Maybe if OpenAI goes down the Tesla path with persistent actions that the public hates, this will become an issue. But this one thing won't matter IMHO.
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@MarcBodnick @MikeIsaac They've mainly been focused on consumer, so...it certainly can't be good. They were already losing the enterprise and developers to Anthropic. Even if this is marginal, it's certainly not the right direction when you're crapping out $900 trillion of Capex.
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