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Cole Patterson📊 retweeted
We're now reaching the stage of AI policy hysteria where lawmakers will start proposing things on an “emergency powers" basis.
We'll be told “there's no time for delay" and "we cannot wait any longer" as lawmakers look to ram through major power-expanding bills without much serious consideration. In some cases, we won't even get to see the bill language beforehand, as with Sen. Mark Warner's new effort.
Broad new powers and discretion will be delegated to the executive branch as part of these efforts, and powerful new administrative bureaucracies will be proposed as other existing ones are expanded. You'll hear the terms "crisis" and "urgent protections" used at every juncture.
We've seen the script before before during the Great Depression, Vietnam War, post-9/11, & COVID.
Government grows, liberties fade.
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Public First Action (doomer AI aligned group) texting me asking for $5.
Hope that off the shelf audience works out for you!
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Cole Patterson📊 retweeted
"why even have children if AI and robots will do all the work?"
brother, the point of having machines do the work is that humans get to enjoy being alive and do what's fulfilling.
more time with your family, more things to create.
children growing up with possibilities that their parents couldn't even imagine.
how can you look at that future and decide the children are the unnecessary part?
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Cole Patterson📊 retweeted
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon became a media superstar after going public with his AI fears. He insisted that he wasn’t working with any third party organizations. Familiar sources told us a different story: DEY., a PR firm representing many of the most prominent AI safetyists, was booking his interviews.
One source, who had direct knowledge, even said DEY. preemptively booked Nate Soares, a prominent AI safety figure, for interviews that directly overlapped with Jacob going public.
Jacob working with DEY. is notable for two reasons: first, as mentioned, he previously said he wasn’t working with third parties. Second, we are in the middle of a national conversation about the future of AI that is actively determining how we regulate the most powerful technology in the world, largely thanks to the panic stirred up by Jacob — and it’s in the public’s interest to know who, exactly, is behind it.
Scoop from @huntryerson 👇
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Ok it’s time for bed grandpa
California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax: Healthcare vs. Greed
On November 3rd, at a time of unprecedented income and wealth inequality, the people of California will decide whether to pass a 5% wealth tax on more than 200 billionaires in California who are worth $2.2 trillion.
This initiative, known as Proposition 40, would raise enough revenue to prevent 3 million working-class Californians from losing the healthcare they currently have as a result of Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill.
Last year, these billionaires became $500 billion richer. As a result of a rigged tax code, they pay a lower effective tax rate than a plumber or a nurse.
The greed of these billionaires is really extraordinary.
Instead of paying their fair share of taxes, billionaires are now spending $229 million — 0.01% of their wealth — to oppose a 5% tax on their wealth.
The effort against this initiative is being led by the 4th wealthiest man in the world, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, who is spending over $100 million to defeat it.
If the California billionaire wealth tax is passed, Mr. Brin would owe $13.5 billion more in taxes. But don't feel sorry for him. He would still have $256.5 billion left over to feed his family. (And don’t let him fool you into thinking he left the state. Mr. Brin owns at least four mansions in California worth some $103.5 million. Tax experts have made it clear that he would owe this tax.)
It is also being opposed by Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Larry Ellison, Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel. These 5 Big Tech billionaires are worth over $646 billion combined.
Dangerously, many oligarchs today believe that they have the divine right to rule and that they are masters of the universe. They live lives completely separate from ordinary people and are obsessed with becoming even richer and more powerful than they already are.
The result: They would rather let people in California suffer or die because they can’t afford to go to a doctor than pay their fair share of taxes.
Let's be clear: These billionaires have more money than they could spend in over 100 lifetimes.
How many mansions do they need? How many yachts do they need? How many private jets do they need?
So today I say to the billionaire class: Control your greed. Show a bit of compassion to working families and their kids in California.
Instead of spending $229 million on TV ads against this wealth tax, I have a better idea: Start paying your fair share of taxes.
In 1933, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said: “We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.”
What Justice Brandeis said was accurate 93 years ago. It is even more accurate today.
Our job now is to tell the Oligarchs in California that we will no longer tolerate their insatiable greed.
We will choose healthcare for working families and their children over obscene wealth for the richest people in the world.
Let us stand together in solidarity.
They have the money. We have the people. Let's win this struggle.
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Cole Patterson📊 retweeted
A new class of regulators is coming to AI — and they’re funded by the companies they’re supposed to regulate.
These “independent verification organizations” certify AI labs against certain risks (like hacking or helping users break the law). The government certifies the regulators; AI labs pay them.
Obviously, given how they make money, their ‘independence’ is questionable. Nonetheless, if Congress passes the FRONTIER Act, safety verification could become an industry-wide requirement.
One possible endgame here, according to critics: regulators lobby for more authority as they make more money, offering additional services at the state’s request, and turning what was meant to be a threat mitigation program into a permanent sinecure for the doomer class… one that could undermine US competitiveness before it lowers p(doom).
A source told us: “There… isn’t an incentive for these [regulators] sunsetting themselves. They don’t go away.”
Full story on AI’s regulators-for-hire, by @bradydale 👇
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Cole Patterson📊 retweeted
Has there ever been a more beautiful advertisement for forgiveness?
Fireside Alpha
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Cole Patterson📊 retweeted
All seven Databricks co-founders began our journey together at UC Berkeley. We started the company in a room in Soda Hall, moved to a small office on Addison Street, and spent our first few years in Berkeley before eventually heading to SF. Two of our co-founders are still on the faculty.
Today we announced Databricks Field at California Memorial Stadium, our first collegiate athletics sponsorship.
Berkeley shaped everything about how this company thinks, and this is our way of investing in the next generation of students and builders who'll do their best work on that campus.
Go Bears!
databricks.com/company/newsr…
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Cole Patterson📊 retweeted
going from a startup job to a normal job makes you realize that most people just spend their days on painful zoom meetings, use useless corporate jargon/filler small talk, and get stuff done 5x slower.
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Can confirm
.@PalmerLuckey’s advice for young people:
“If you want to work on technology, work for somebody else.”
“If you want to work on nonstop bullshit—start a company.”
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Announcing The Horowitz Andreessen Academy.
The internet made it possible to know anything. AI makes it possible to do anything.
The best assignments now are problems so hard they cannot be solved without AI. The Academy courses follow the same logic and will be taught by world-class leaders.
The most talented young people today rarely have their sharpest peers within walking distance. Their network is online. Those networks are real, but they're thin.
The next generation will not be taught the way the last one was. The Academy is built for that world, and it begins in San Francisco.
If you're young, hungry and love building things, apply for the Founding Class Fellowship.
Today, we’re launching an ambitious new school called The Horowitz Andreessen Academy.
Based in San Francisco, The Academy serves the most promising young high school graduates.
We think this can be an elite institution that attracts top tier talent. One that prepares students for the future rather than remaining stuck in the past.
The #1 goal is to help students learn to build, which is the most important skill in the AI era. They'll learn primarily by pursuing their own projects, either individually or in groups. There are classes and guest lectures, too, from some truly amazing people who have built modern-day Silicon Valley.
The Academy is designed as a network, since that’s the reason students go to school in the first place. Core to that network are our 10 Founding Partners: Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe. The network includes over 50 hiring partners and over 200 speakers and mentors. To join as a hiring partner or faculty member, you can apply on our website.
We raised $42M in funding led by @a16z. I'll be CEO and @pmarca and @eriktorenberg will join me on the board.
Applications are open for our Founding Class Fellowship, which will be one year and tuition-free. Eventually, pending regulatory approval, we plan to offer a two-year program that charges tuition, similar in cost to an elite private university.
We're looking for the most unusually ambitious young builders on the planet. Come join us in San Francisco:
theacademysf.com/
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Less than 24 hours after Grok 4.7 was released, it’s now available in the AI Workspace in Civiq.
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After a nice soft launch with some of our premier partners last month, rolling out the full suite of AI ontology tools to the broader campaign ecosystem is going to be a fun way to close out the 2026 election cycle and the first year of the product.
Miqa, the AI Workspace inside of Civiq, is starting to roll out to more organizations this week. Just in time for GOTV efforts.
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Cole Patterson📊 retweeted
Miqa, the AI Workspace inside of Civiq, is starting to roll out to more organizations this week. Just in time for GOTV efforts.
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Grok 4.7 coming to the @CiviqData AI Workspace soon!
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“Concerned residents”
LA County issues temporary ban on data centers in unincorporated areas abc7ne.ws/rZkfwI
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Cole Patterson📊 retweeted
BREAKING
Paramount has reached a settlement with California and other states, paving the way for the media conglomerate, run by David Ellison, to close its acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery before it has to start paying ticking fees to shareholders.
Full Story: bloom.bg/3SXEu3H
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While not ideal, high speed rail passengers on the Madera to Poplar Ave. segment could still reach Bakersfield with a short 2 hour bike ride or a brisk 8-hour walk.
NEW: CA High-Speed Rail's cash crisis could mean the first, planned segment through the Central Valley ends up being shorter than expected, according to Inspector General Ben Belnap.
Instead of Bakersfield to Merced, it would be Madera to... an orchard in rural Kern County:
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