Chris Biow
@chris-biow.bsky.social
RT8 CEO: providing go-to-market services for startups whose dual-use tech has potential in additional markets, which they can't yet cover organically.
Also advising BasisTech on investments and portfolio company strategy.
Also advising BasisTech on investments and portfolio company strategy.
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At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.
October 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.
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First Trump administration story in a while that genuinely shocked me:
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
First Trump administration story in a while that genuinely shocked me:
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Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.
This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
October 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
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Short-sighted and counter-productive. The pretext is going after gangs like MS-13, but the action is to stop investigations into MS-13 and help MS-13-related government corruption in El Salvador continue. Trump admin actions are regularly pretexts to do things that undermine the pretext.
First Trump administration story in a while that genuinely shocked me:
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Short-sighted and counter-productive. The pretext is going after gangs like MS-13, but the action is to stop investigations into MS-13 and help MS-13-related government corruption in El Salvador continue. Trump admin actions are regularly pretexts to do things that undermine the pretext.
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It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it… but that is literally Trump’s account of what happened.
August 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it… but that is literally Trump’s account of what happened.
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Tedious to point this out, but:
- When a tongue-tied Biden said "President of Mexico" instead of "Prez of Egypt," it was a several day story.
-Hours after Trump says whoever appointed J Powell made a big mistake (it was him), the episode appears not to merit a story on any national-media sites.
- When a tongue-tied Biden said "President of Mexico" instead of "Prez of Egypt," it was a several day story.
-Hours after Trump says whoever appointed J Powell made a big mistake (it was him), the episode appears not to merit a story on any national-media sites.
July 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Tedious to point this out, but:
- When a tongue-tied Biden said "President of Mexico" instead of "Prez of Egypt," it was a several day story.
-Hours after Trump says whoever appointed J Powell made a big mistake (it was him), the episode appears not to merit a story on any national-media sites.
- When a tongue-tied Biden said "President of Mexico" instead of "Prez of Egypt," it was a several day story.
-Hours after Trump says whoever appointed J Powell made a big mistake (it was him), the episode appears not to merit a story on any national-media sites.
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Like, I'm sorry. You can come up with any amount of plausible-sounding reasons for the timing and it does not change the fact that posting pattern does not match the behavior of actual Gazans but matches the exact playbook reported by every single repatriated survivor of the organized scam industry.
May 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Like, I'm sorry. You can come up with any amount of plausible-sounding reasons for the timing and it does not change the fact that posting pattern does not match the behavior of actual Gazans but matches the exact playbook reported by every single repatriated survivor of the organized scam industry.
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This is the most important story of the day.
A Tulsi aide ordered a senior analyst to redo an assessment of the relationship between Venezuela’s government and a gang after intelligence findings undercut the WH justification for deporting migrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
A Tulsi aide ordered a senior analyst to redo an assessment of the relationship between Venezuela’s government and a gang after intelligence findings undercut the WH justification for deporting migrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
Trump Appointee Pressed Analyst to Redo Intelligence on Venezuelan Gang
www.nytimes.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This is the most important story of the day.
A Tulsi aide ordered a senior analyst to redo an assessment of the relationship between Venezuela’s government and a gang after intelligence findings undercut the WH justification for deporting migrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
A Tulsi aide ordered a senior analyst to redo an assessment of the relationship between Venezuela’s government and a gang after intelligence findings undercut the WH justification for deporting migrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
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Stephen Lynch had more seniority on Oversight than Connolly or Raskin when they were elected, and the result when he ran looked like this—
May 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Stephen Lynch had more seniority on Oversight than Connolly or Raskin when they were elected, and the result when he ran looked like this—
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“Russia was in demographic decline long before the war in Ukraine. Now it's in free fall,” Anna Nemtsova reports. “This crisis has led to one of the world’s most extreme natalism campaigns—and one of the weirdest”:
Russia Is in Demographic Free Fall. Putin Isn’t Helping.
The Russian president is enacting one of the world’s most extreme natalism programs—and one of the weirdest.
bit.ly
May 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
“Russia was in demographic decline long before the war in Ukraine. Now it's in free fall,” Anna Nemtsova reports. “This crisis has led to one of the world’s most extreme natalism campaigns—and one of the weirdest”:
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Kirkland & Ellis, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, Simpson Thatcher, and Latham & Watkins should be viewed as administration shills now. It would be a mistake to engage them in any matter in which your interests and positions are not congruent with this administration’s.
April 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Kirkland & Ellis, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, Simpson Thatcher, and Latham & Watkins should be viewed as administration shills now. It would be a mistake to engage them in any matter in which your interests and positions are not congruent with this administration’s.
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Who did comment? Cyber Threat Alliance, with a very reasonable response that any of the above could have easily offered. Full thread: bsky.app/profile/raph...
THREAD: When @thekrebscycle.bsky.social and his workplace, @sentinelone.com, were singled out by Donald Trump on Wednesday, I thought it was an opportunity to weigh the cybersecurity industry's rhetoric against their real world actions.
April 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Who did comment? Cyber Threat Alliance, with a very reasonable response that any of the above could have easily offered. Full thread: bsky.app/profile/raph...
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Vaccines save lives.
And no, they do not cause autism.
And no, they do not cause autism.
April 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Vaccines save lives.
And no, they do not cause autism.
And no, they do not cause autism.
April 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hope to see you at the "Hands Off!" rally in DC this Saturday.
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April 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Hope to see you at the "Hands Off!" rally in DC this Saturday.
Sign up now to join in DC or, better yet, your local rally
www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
Sign up now to join in DC or, better yet, your local rally
www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
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When historians look back on this period the thing that will puzzle them most might be how little American law firms, universities, media, etc, really cared about defending free expression when presented with the most obvious opportunities to do so.
April 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
When historians look back on this period the thing that will puzzle them most might be how little American law firms, universities, media, etc, really cared about defending free expression when presented with the most obvious opportunities to do so.
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Trump believes everything Putin tells him without reservation.
March 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Trump believes everything Putin tells him without reservation.
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I cannot overstate how much I love the fact that Williams & Connolly put *14* individual lawyers’ names in the signature block of their complaint.
W&C is sending a clear message: We are not afraid.
BRAVO.
W&C is sending a clear message: We are not afraid.
BRAVO.
Perkins Coie, which helped defeat Trump's attempts to subvert the 2020 election, fights Trump's order targeting the firm as a violation of the 1st, 5th and 6th Amendments and the separation of powers.
"Perkins Coie cannot allow its clients to be bullied." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"Perkins Coie cannot allow its clients to be bullied." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I cannot overstate how much I love the fact that Williams & Connolly put *14* individual lawyers’ names in the signature block of their complaint.
W&C is sending a clear message: We are not afraid.
BRAVO.
W&C is sending a clear message: We are not afraid.
BRAVO.
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Aaron's tweets often remind me TV shows when characters get sent to a different dimension and they're horrified at all the vampires and zombies, only to encounter a mild guy who's been there for years, sipping tea, "Oh, all the monsters. Yeah, that's why they call it Nightmare World."
There's a lot of confusion swirling so it may help to explain that the below is actually fairly normal following an ICE arrest. ICE often transfers people to the deep South where some of the largest detention centers are located, and the ICE Detainee Locator system can take up to 24 hours to update.
Until last night, the ICE detainee locator stated Khalil was at Elizabeth, NJ—even though his wife had been unable to find him there yesterday. This morning, his location has been updated to Jena — a very remote, GEO group-run facility in the middle of rural Louisiana.
March 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Aaron's tweets often remind me TV shows when characters get sent to a different dimension and they're horrified at all the vampires and zombies, only to encounter a mild guy who's been there for years, sipping tea, "Oh, all the monsters. Yeah, that's why they call it Nightmare World."
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Feels a good day for a thread. So I would like to introduce you to a mostly forgotten, but actually rather pivotal figure in PC history.
Meet Dr Portia Isaacson Bass.
If it wasn't for something she did in 1981, we'd all still be forced to use IBM (or IBM-licensed) PCs right now. /1
Meet Dr Portia Isaacson Bass.
If it wasn't for something she did in 1981, we'd all still be forced to use IBM (or IBM-licensed) PCs right now. /1
March 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Feels a good day for a thread. So I would like to introduce you to a mostly forgotten, but actually rather pivotal figure in PC history.
Meet Dr Portia Isaacson Bass.
If it wasn't for something she did in 1981, we'd all still be forced to use IBM (or IBM-licensed) PCs right now. /1
Meet Dr Portia Isaacson Bass.
If it wasn't for something she did in 1981, we'd all still be forced to use IBM (or IBM-licensed) PCs right now. /1
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Remember last month when everyone realized that Trump's legal "settlements" with Meta and X showed a clear roadmap how a President can "legally" accept bribes by suing companies for frivolous reasons and then "settling" for millions? Anyway.
Unrelated: www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/b...
Unrelated: www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/b...
Trump Organization sues Capital One for closing its bank accounts four years ago | CNN Business
President Donald Trump’s business trust sued Capital One for closing its bank accounts in 2021, claiming the North Carolina lender “debanked” them over their political views causing “considerable fina...
www.cnn.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Remember last month when everyone realized that Trump's legal "settlements" with Meta and X showed a clear roadmap how a President can "legally" accept bribes by suing companies for frivolous reasons and then "settling" for millions? Anyway.
Unrelated: www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/b...
Unrelated: www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/b...
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Dear People of Ukraine:
I am sorry.
Signed,
Hundreds of millions of Americans
I am sorry.
Signed,
Hundreds of millions of Americans
March 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Dear People of Ukraine:
I am sorry.
Signed,
Hundreds of millions of Americans
I am sorry.
Signed,
Hundreds of millions of Americans
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this is going to be a sort of insane recession because usually what causes these things is all complicated and difficult to sort out and even harder to fix, but in this case it's very clearly one guy pushing the "fuck everything" button. gonna find out if there's a "unfuck everything" button ig
March 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
this is going to be a sort of insane recession because usually what causes these things is all complicated and difficult to sort out and even harder to fix, but in this case it's very clearly one guy pushing the "fuck everything" button. gonna find out if there's a "unfuck everything" button ig
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The Trump Admin and the right in general have a bizarre but effective permission structure where they just lie about opposition doing something evil to to justify also doing that exact evil thing.
We are going to abandon standard economic numbers because the richest man in the world doesn't want to hear that he is tanking the economy
March 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The Trump Admin and the right in general have a bizarre but effective permission structure where they just lie about opposition doing something evil to to justify also doing that exact evil thing.