Galen Panger ☕️ @gpanger
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Just listened to a clip of Jason Calacanis talking about how most tech companies now "support Trump on various endeavors" with the exception of Anthropic and "this is america you're allowed to have an opinion BUT! This administration takes things personally, and they're full contact." The overall thesis of the clip as I understood it was "Anthropic is a bunch of Democrats, they hate Trump, Trump hates them back. Why isn't Dario doing the thing all the other tech leaders are doing? Of course Trump is fucking with them." OK. I think it's fair to say that the average person would say that Jason Calacanis is more of a capitalist than me. Certainly he's made much more money than me and his job title contains the word "capitalist." But what Jason is talking about being the new structural quality of the American economy here is not capitalism. If the President of the United States picks OpenAI to win the AI race even though Anthropic's tech is better, that's not "Oh, y'know, this administration takes things personally!" shrug. That's actually not capitalism anymore...it's a pretty well-understood different system called oligarchy. That becomes very obvious if you just replace any of the characters in the story with names you don't recognize. Just in case it needs saying, oligarchy sucks. It is bad for innovation and bad for economies and bad for consumers and ultimately also often (eventually) very bad for the oligarchs! This is why we're supposed to be apalled when our leaders start actively encouraging oligarch-like behavior. Because, look...funny thing about capitalism that I've noticed...most capitalists (there are some exceptions) have no real ideological allegiance to capitalism. They don't /want/ to compete. Competing is annoying, it's hard, you can very easily lose! If they can make more money by getting the state to protect them than they can by innovating and competing, they will absolutely pick state protection. Most capitalists will happily become oligarchs. Their allegiance isn't to any particular system, it's to margin. Now, people to my left will say that oligarchy is, in fact, the final form of capitalism...it's where capitalism will inevitably ends up. I don't believe this because of how we have lots of examples of capitalist countries that are not oligarchies. But watching it happen in my country (and watching influential capitalists shrug as it does) doesn't strengthen my position! It is honestly kinda astounding to see such a staunch pro-market guy just say, "the administration is full-contact, Dario needs to play ball." We all get that that's not a defense of markets, right? It's a defense of one guy distorting a market because he dislikes any power that is not his power. If you find yourself defending that, it is possibly because you, yourself, strive to be an oligarch. Be real careful with that. You can follow your incentives into an evolutionary dead-end. It happens all the time. I've just been thinking about it all morning. Just a real jaw dropper. You can watch the video here: youtube.com/watch?v=jkfwv9…
Pretty sure you can’t do that Amazon. “Amazon Retaliated Against Workers Who Supported Regulating Data Centers, Complaint Says” nytimes.com/2026/06/18/tec…
@NoamShazeer What kind of philanthropic work do you do?
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OpenAI's CSO Jason Kwon messaged staff that the company "strongly" told the US government that building AI "requires the best talent from around the world" (The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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short-form...horizontal video? in today's newsletter i wrote about why instagram is feeling less vertical these days and my theory that they might be putting their thumb on the scale as they prioritize television.
@MikeIsaac Someone should ask for some kind of specifics about how they plan to do this.
@thaiscbranco_ @CRV @AmplifyPartners Can you help us understand a bit more what you’re doing to give AI taste?
The academic freedom index across the world. The US is on a steep decline, ranking below 120th of countries in 2025. In 2015, we were ranked in the top 15. scientificamerican.com/article/see-ho…
Google making headway with Gemini
🚨 WTF?! NYT confirms JD Vance demanded the Insurrection Act be invoked to violently crush protests after ICE killed two American citizens. He coldly admitted it would be painful but wanted to send a terrifying message. The White House is eager to unleash troops on us!
🚨 BOMBSHELL! NYT exposes a terrifying plot. The Trump administration secretly planned to suspend habeas corpus and deploy the military on American streets to crush protests. They plotted to strip citizens of their right to see a judge before being jailed. Pure fascism!
> save $15M a year by cutting a screwworm monitoring program > screwworm outbreak almost immediately > $1B to combat it Government efficiency
The Trump administration has announced they'll need to spend an estimated $1 billion to combat the New World Screwworm.
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Trump is backing away from getting Iran's enriched material: "You could make the case, why even bother? It's not very valuable stuff."
Yesterday I warned Trump was getting fleeced by Iran with a $30B deal to temporarily open the Strait of Hormuz Today Vance confirmed it’s actually $300 BILLION if they comply with all terms It is far worse than we thought Catastrophic strategic defeat
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We've announced completion of enrollment in phase 3 LIBERTY trial evaluating VYD2311 antibody versus mRNA COVID-19 vaccine Read full release here: investors.invivyd.com/news-releases/…
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