welp delete all that.. they're addressing this on their last podcast.. :)

BlueSky could have shared a screenshot of my tweet showing the Oct 10 timestamp and that I was using Johnny Cash lyrics to quote-tweet about an article on Johnny Cash. Instead, they made it look like I issued a random death threat and falsely claimed I posted it this week. They should apologize.

BlueSky is a bad site used by good people. That describes most social media sites. But BlueSky is egregiously unethical. Any of you can be disappeared for baseless reasons. I've been on social media for 17 years and never been suspended. BlueSky is the first place to do so – over Johnny Cash lyrics.

I'm profoundly grateful to BlueSky users who supported me and called for my reinstatement. When I got suspended, I was not told why the first two times I inquired, or that it was for 72 hours. You forced BlueSky to respond and to issue a correction for one of the lies they told about me. Thank you.

it's genuinely like trying to forge intimate emotional attachment with a chainsaw

there's a belief in the Matt Stollerverse that you can make common cause with fascists and it's just bullshit

Lina Khan showing up at portfolio day for YCombinator under the banner of "little tech" shows you where this is going.

I suspect they keep some of these Lina Khan era antitrust big tech cases going for the pseudo-populist veneer, then in the remedy phases reveal this is really just about further bullying Silicon Valley brunchlords into authoritarian obedience

These blocs have centralized management in the form of venture capital.

VC is the actual corporation, the startups are different R&D arms, departments, satellites, divisions, outposts, colonies.

What seems to be a thousand things is just one thousand arms of the same thing.

Venture capital again is a MACHINE for producing a giant attack formation made up of hundreds/thousands companies to go to war on existing markets.

The ability to spin out so many companies that are again tied together from day 1 by VC, they are a bloc, there is no internal competition

The goal is to move capital from the target market into venture capital, ideally achieving more efficiency, greater profit, etc., something that is often likely due to the technological edge.

This is the case of crypto, the buildout of weapons companies, biotech, the general AI octopus, education

🧵 on garry tan for what it's worth..and background context

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