Was just listening to a conversation between a VC and an author who writes about innovation, and they were discussing "why Elon couldn't successfully reform the government" and it was the dumbest conversation I've heard in a while. And I realized they were starting with the wrong premise...
It's America First to declare taxes on a bunch of agricultural products, diving up their prices (while denying it would do that), then removing those tariffs a few months later claiming that "we're making trade fair again" (implying you first made them unfair) & then say you're "delivering"?
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)'s wonderful op-ed in the NY Times regarding how the biggest tech companies actually did, in the past, push back against gov't overreach, but almost all of which have decided to capitulate and see what they can get for themselves now...
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)'s Question Everything podcast, which I had been a big fan of, for making some fairly fundamental & embarrassing factual errors while admitting he was getting into advocacy journalism before bothering to understand facts. [www.techdirt.com/2025/10/20/b...](
