based on the pace hes spending, and what he's already spent it seems possible to me that musk winds up as the biggest gop midterm donor www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
@chafkin.bsky.socialMax Chafkin
@chafkin.bsky.social
Reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek and co-host of the new podcast "Everybody's Business." Also co-host of "Elon Inc." and author of “The Contarian: Peter Thiel and the Rise of the Silicon Valley Oligarchs.” Msg me on signal: @chafkin.83
@chafkin.bsky.social@chafkin.bsky.socialWrote about the quiet corporate oppo team that is making CEOs sweat and helping Dems reclaim the affordability mantle from Trump www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
@chafkin.bsky.socialthis week's ep of everybody's business is great. We cover the insurance industry's decision to stop covering a category of wonderdrug, the ethics of debt, and and and *that* iced coffee story podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
@chafkin.bsky.socialwent into @vauhinivara.bsky.social's businessweek article, and this conversation, very skeptical of Pangram, and came away feeling more optimistic about our ability to fight actual risks posed by ai www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@chafkin.bsky.socialThis weeks ep is great. We talk about AI and crime @evrat.bsky.social and explain why AI data centers are driving up interest rates for everybody www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@chafkin.bsky.socialno self driving system, not even the best ones, are good enough to operate with 0 oversight, no matter what the industry says
@chafkin.bsky.socialdrivers will keep doing this as long as tsla and others pretend that fsd is, by itself, *safer* than a human. it makes intuitive sense, i know, but its just not true -- not even with waymo, which operates with human oversight (in a much more responsible way). futurism.com/advanced-tra...
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@jasongale.bsky.socialReposted by @chafkin.bsky.socialWhat has Covid left behind for the scientists who study dangerous viruses?
@chafkin.bsky.social and I spent time with Bob Garry, whose shrinking Tulane lab offers a glimpse of what’s happening to virology just as the forces that drive outbreaks grow.
@chafkin.bsky.socialwrote about the experience of watching one's life's work get set on fire because..."lab leak." A profile of the virologist Robert Garry with the great @jasongale.bsky.social. gift link. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
@chafkin.bsky.socialThis enhanced games debacle reminds me of the last time a bunch of Thiel acolytes attempted (very clumsily) to star a sports company. From my book
