Billionaire politics and a French warning to US voters lead Silicon Valley talk

I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you. I come from your future. In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream. Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them. The promise was protection. The result is stagnation. The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe. I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has. Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France? Trust me. You don’t want to be France.

Silicon Valley is spending billions and billions of dollars to prevent what you saw @grok was capable of today.

Used to live in Silicon Valley, now I live in Silicone Valley

BREAKING: The fundraising dinner being organized in Silicon Valley by Billionaires David Sacks & Chamath Palihapitiya in support of Donald Trump has been SOLD OUT Tickets for the dinner were $300,000 per person and $500,000 per couple. They expect to raise many more millions at the dinner Never in a million years did I think big tech billionaires in San Francisco would be lining up to raise money for Trump's campaign but here we are

Overheard in Silicon Valley: "The transition from the Jobs Way to the Musk Way in US startup culture is fascinating to watch. The founders are switching from artistic UI hippies to weightlifter hard executors."

BIGGEST SCOOP EVER: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation The David and Lucile Packard Foundation The McKnight Foundation Oak Foundation Bloomberg Philanthropies Bezos Earth Fund Ford Foundation Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Open Philanthropy IKEA Foundation Children’s Investment Fund Foundation Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Good Energies Foundation High Tide Foundation KR Foundation Margaret A. Cargill Foundation Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) Pisces Foundation The Robertson Foundation Sarah and Daniel Rueven Foundation ARE the organizations at SOURCE funding ALL riots: Women, Climate, Palestine, Trump, Harris, Antifa etc. Time to round them up @HouseIntel I have the RECEIPTS.

literal hardest role to hire for rn and every ai startup wants someone > chronically online (knows trends) > has taste & can create (new media) > understands ai & technical > can execute with quality (operator) such a small niche of folks who can do this

How much funding did you receive from the USA Parth? Do you remember the amount or should I help you?

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An OpenAI employee snuck a listening device in the office. He’s been caught, fired and is facing charges. A storyline from “Silicon Valley” strikes again. https://t.co/sgsEgh1hdr

Alexandr Wang on what matters in an age of abundant intelligence: “The scarce resource isn’t going to be intelligence or agency. I really think it’s going to be vision and ambition.” “Do you have a clear view of what you want the world to look like in the future? What is the one way in which you wanna put your finger on the scale for how the future of the world will develop?” “AI will make that easier... But the flip side of that is then all of a sudden you can dream bigger.”

Goldigging gals are flocking to Silicon Valley to land rich husbands in AI https://t.co/Zt2wQX6grm https://t.co/jMYWSOtXg6

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Opponents of the proposed billionaire tax in California have raised over $300 million to stop it from passing, which is about 10 times more than what supporters of the measure have raised. The opposition funding came mostly from tech barons and venture capitalists, with a third of it coming from Google co-founder Sergey Brin. By having a whopping 10 times the resources that supporters have, the opposition can saturate television, radio, digital platforms, mailers, etc. This is a clear example of the asymmetric influence of billionaires. There are no campaign finance limits on state ballot measures. 90% of the proceeds from this proposal for a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires would be designated for the state's healthcare, while 10% would go to food assistance and school. Gavin Newsom opposes the proposal.