110+ employees and alums of top-5 AI companies just published an open letter supporting SB 1047, aptly called the "world's most controversial AI bill." 3-dozen+ of these are current employees of companies opposing the bill.

Check out my coverage of it in the @sfstandard 🧵 The bill is with Newsom, who has until Sept 30 to decide its fate.

The letter, published early today, is the latest dramatic development in a long line of them in the historic fight over SB 1047...

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Seems like more people should be talking about how a libertarian charter city startup funded by Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, and Peter Thiel is trying to bankrupt Honduras.

Próspera is suing Honduras to the tune of $11B (GDP is $32B) and is expected to win, per the NYT 🧵 Basically, the libertarian charter city startup Próspera made a deal with a corrupt, oppressive post-coup govt in Honduras to get special economic status. This status was the result of court-packing and is wildly unpopular. A democratic govt is trying to undo the deal…

What does hundreds of thousands of dollars of corporate campaign contributions buy you? Members of Congress parroting industry talking points under Congressional letterhead, at least. There’s a serious problem with almost every single part of this letter 🧵 6 California Reps took the very unusual step of asking Gavin Newsom to veto a state-level AI safety bill, SB 1047. I just spent the last few weeks reporting on this bill and the tech lobby reaction to it for The Nation…[1]

Back in 2018, I anonymously wrote my first magazine story for @curaffairs about my former employer, McKinsey. I analyzed how McKinsey accelerates and exacerbates basically every negative trend of capitalism, weaving in some of my personal experience along the way. 🧵 I'm excited to finally attach my name to it. My story in the Nation is very personal and this essay complements it well. It paints the bigger picture of McKinsey's overall role in the world and how it ended up doing the work behind the headlines.

I finally got a chance to tell a story that I’ve been keeping to myself for 6+ years. My first fulltime job was as a consultant at McKinsey. At the time, it seemed like a dream job—a way to work with brilliant people, learn a lot, and maybe even improve things from the inside 🧵 My first ever cover story is out in @thenation and does something unprecedented: to my knowledge, no former McKinsey employee has ever publicly discussed project specifics with real client names. The firm is intensely secret, above and beyond competitor consultancies. McKinsey...

In my debut for @voxdotcom, I discuss why my year of pescetarianism was a moral mistake. The evidence for fish sentience is way stronger than I previously believed: some fish have passed the self-recognition test, team up w/ other species to hunt...
bit.ly/3mZrZnT flirt via art, have friends, and exhibit other complex social behavior.

Many of the fish we eat are carnivorous, so swapping out calories from land animals for fish will increase the # of animal deaths you're responsible for by orders of magnitude...