Ian Chaffee
@ianchaffee.bsky.social
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Ian Chaffee
@ianchaffee.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Musk may have overpaid for Twitter, but now he is rich in priceless — and dangerous — influence
When Elon Musk closed on what looked like a massive overpay for Twitter, I scoffed along with everyone else. What we all failed to see was the savviness of Musk’s purchase and, more importantly, hi…
thehill.com
As Musk buddy pmarca used to quote Lenin in his X bio, there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. Some of this has already aged like milk, but certainly not the First Buddy's influence and that influence on The Old Place. Me in The Hill before the election.
Could AI do it? I like the story of it coming together almost as much as I like the outcome. But we seem to be only in the outcomes business lately (and, yet, the focus on outcomes doesn't actually seem to be helping outcomes).
December 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Could AI do it? I like the story of it coming together almost as much as I like the outcome. But we seem to be only in the outcomes business lately (and, yet, the focus on outcomes doesn't actually seem to be helping outcomes).
Almost like...that was the point? finance.yahoo.com/news/chatgpt...
ChatGPT was unveiled 3 years ago, kicking off the AI revolution. For investors, it did even more.
OpenAI released ChatGPT on Nov. 30, 2022, not only kicking off the AI revolution but turning around one of the worst market environments of this century.
finance.yahoo.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Almost like...that was the point? finance.yahoo.com/news/chatgpt...
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Thank you Ron Conway for standing up for what's right and thank you Marc Benioff for listening.
www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Amid criticism, Benioff apologizes, reverses course on National Guard
After strong backlash to his embrace of Trump and a week of blistering criticism, the Salesforce CEO has changed course.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Thank you Ron Conway for standing up for what's right and thank you Marc Benioff for listening.
www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
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“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”
@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...
@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...
October 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”
@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...
@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...
The Summer of the Bad CEO is certain to bring more reflection and accountability to the C-suite. Certainly. Thanks to Fortune for publishing my latest! fortune.com/2025/09/05/c...
Summer lovin’, put on blast: Can CEOs stop behaving badly?
Is it that CEOs are behaving more poorly or just that we just have greater means to catch them in the act?
fortune.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The Summer of the Bad CEO is certain to bring more reflection and accountability to the C-suite. Certainly. Thanks to Fortune for publishing my latest! fortune.com/2025/09/05/c...
Are you ready for the slopper pandemic? www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...
We Need To Talk About Sloppers
The best ever death metal bot out of Denton
www.todayintabs.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Are you ready for the slopper pandemic? www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...
The zeitgeist has summoned them again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD-z... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4z...
July 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The zeitgeist has summoned them again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD-z... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4z...
I can't wait to read Percival Everett's The Rainmakers!
May 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I can't wait to read Percival Everett's The Rainmakers!
Have you found this in your experience? (Pls only respond in the form of a joke.)
Bluesky Can’t Take a Joke
Bluesky has been a safe haven for users fleeing X and Threads. But while there’s less hate, there’s also fewer lolz.
www.wired.com
April 8, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Have you found this in your experience? (Pls only respond in the form of a joke.)
"...the first time [Altman] had been 'really struck' by the written output of one of the startup’s products."
Oh, so all the previous iterations were SUPPOSED to stink?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Oh, so all the previous iterations were SUPPOSED to stink?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’
As tech firms battle creative industries over copyright, OpenAI chief Sam Altman says he was ‘really struck’ by product’s output
www.theguardian.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"...the first time [Altman] had been 'really struck' by the written output of one of the startup’s products."
Oh, so all the previous iterations were SUPPOSED to stink?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Oh, so all the previous iterations were SUPPOSED to stink?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Maureen Dowd leaning on Jaron Lanier as a source remains an incredibly weird thing to me. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
Opinion | Musk’s Lost Boys and Trump’s Mean Girls
Lost boys find ways to ransack the capital.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Maureen Dowd leaning on Jaron Lanier as a source remains an incredibly weird thing to me. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
They're just going to feed Apple's "1984" commercial through the old whatsit and there you have it?
Is the jinx? What a Sports Illustrated cover is to an athlete's future, a Super Bowl commercial is to tech startups....
February 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
They're just going to feed Apple's "1984" commercial through the old whatsit and there you have it?
huh, how about that
David Sacks says there's "substantial evidence" that DeepSeek "distilled knowledge out of OpenAI models and I don't think OpenAI is very happy about this" (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
January 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
huh, how about that
it gives me no pleasure to report that deepseek has compromised my query, "draw an llm version of reese witherspoon asking, 'what, like it's hard?'"
January 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
it gives me no pleasure to report that deepseek has compromised my query, "draw an llm version of reese witherspoon asking, 'what, like it's hard?'"
AI: "I love my low-information users."
The Less People Know About AI, the More They Like It
You might assume that tech-savvy people are the most open to using AI, but research suggests it's actually those who are least familiar with it.
www.wired.com
January 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
AI: "I love my low-information users."
What we're continuing to lose in the fire. theopinionpages.com/2025/01/in-t...
In two weeks that feels like a decade, everything and nothing changes | The Opinion Pages
There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen, as I think some dead Russian philosopher once said. We’ve gotten a lot of those decade-weeks in the first three decade...
theopinionpages.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
What we're continuing to lose in the fire. theopinionpages.com/2025/01/in-t...
Learn to, um, do something other than code?
MSN
www.msn.com
January 12, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Learn to, um, do something other than code?
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The countdown until we are told that LLMs are “too big to fail” starts now.
January 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The countdown until we are told that LLMs are “too big to fail” starts now.
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This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
It gives me no pleasure to report that we are now a half-decade (!) through the 2020s, depending on whether or not you use the Clarke calendar. I made a Spotify poppish music playlist to "celebrate." open.spotify.com/playlist/3HL...
Significant Sample Size Music, Vol. 1 (2020-24)
open.spotify.com
January 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
It gives me no pleasure to report that we are now a half-decade (!) through the 2020s, depending on whether or not you use the Clarke calendar. I made a Spotify poppish music playlist to "celebrate." open.spotify.com/playlist/3HL...
Speaker Musk? The XTwit purchase is beginning to look like the bargain of the century.
As Musk buddy pmarca used to quote Lenin in his X bio, there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. Some of this has already aged like milk, but certainly not the First Buddy's influence and that influence on The Old Place. Me in The Hill before the election.
Musk may have overpaid for Twitter, but now he is rich in priceless — and dangerous — influence
When Elon Musk closed on what looked like a massive overpay for Twitter, I scoffed along with everyone else. What we all failed to see was the savviness of Musk’s purchase and, more importantly, hi…
thehill.com
December 19, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Speaker Musk? The XTwit purchase is beginning to look like the bargain of the century.
Will the bias meter account for pro-oligarch and anti-oligarch?
Patrick Soon-Shiong's controversial shakeup at the L.A. Times: 'Bias meter,' opinion upheaval and a call for growth
Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong on his plans to shake up the newspaper and build for the future.
www.latimes.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:11 AM
Will the bias meter account for pro-oligarch and anti-oligarch?
Best of luck in your ur future "citizen journalism" endeavors, Elon!
Wonder if news editors are going to realize people knew about an actual coup an hour-plus earlier on bluesky than twitter. Hearing a lot of that rumbling from old friends still in the legacy content mines today.
December 3, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Best of luck in your ur future "citizen journalism" endeavors, Elon!