Podbit · All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
California quadrupled per-capita homelessness spending with worsening outcomes — because the money flows to NGOs run by allies, not to solving problems. This is the Curley Effect: pursuing policies designed to fail while driving out opponents and enriching a political class.
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Three DSA candidates backed by Mamdani unseat major incumbents in a 26% probability upset. The DSA co-chair openly admits using the Democratic Party as a ballot access vehicle [1] — David Sacks "We're using the Democratic Party as a ballot access vehicle. Not because we share its goals. We build our own organization, get elected und…" 10:30 .
Mamdani-endorsed DSA candidates won all three NYC congressional primaries on Tuesday, defeating two multi-term incumbents in a major upset.
Mamdani-endorsed DSA candidates went 3 for 3 in NYC congressional primaries, unseating major incumbents in a 26% probability upset. The DSA has openly declared it's using the Democratic Party as a ballot access vehicle while pursuing an agenda to abolish the Senate, ICE, prisons, and seize corporate assets.
According to Polymarket, the chances of a Mamdani sweep across all three congressional primaries was just 26% before Election Day.
AI gives every person on Earth access to a genius co-founder with no gatekeeping — but Silicon Valley has done a catastrophically poor job of communicating this. The messaging vacuum has allowed DSA to fill it with socialist rhetoric, and the pro-AI groups barely held contested congressional races.
When truth and justice erode, society's immune system fails and radicalism fills the void. Travis Kalanick's framework explains why COVID misinformation, unchecked crime, and social media rot lead inevitably to political extremism.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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