Reposted by Jacob SilvermanQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 29/09/2026"Ukrainian intelligence agencies estimate that about 50,000 North Korean troops have been sent to fight for Moscow, along with ballistic missiles and heavy artillery systems." www.ft.com/content/8a45...ft.comSeoul accuses Ukraine of violating secrecy pact on North Korean soldiersSouth Korea demands apology after Volodymyr Zelenskyy discloses prisoner transfer 4268
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 30/09/2026Dua Lipa, are you interested in a book on the rise of the tech right? 171
Reposted by Jacob SilvermanJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."whitehouse.govInaugurating The Era Of Super IntelligenceBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ... 312495148
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 29/09/2026The Adam Back as Satoshi theory never made sense in part because he would have access to tens of billions of dollars while his business record indicates otherwise. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comBitcoin Pioneer Adam Back’s Empire Beset by Hack, LawsuitsAdam Back has long had a rarefied status in the Bitcoin world as a pioneering cryptographer whose work was cited by Satoshi Nakamoto and who has himself been rumored to be Bitcoin’s elusive creator. 050
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 29/09/2026I've got ideas. If you don't like those, I have others. 090
Reposted by Jacob SilvermanTheodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026JCO for the win. 231447222
Reposted by Jacob SilvermanDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Look, Ive paid good money to touch an sr71. But 60 years old, in an outdoor static display for 25 years, no one produces the special fuel anymore, what is this about and why? 14406
Reposted by Jacob SilvermanSophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Are you a nurse working in a hospital that’s using Palantir technology? Do you want to talk about how that affects your work for @motherjones.com ? Reach out on Signal at shurwitz.18–your anonymity will be protected 37357
Reposted by Jacob SilvermanJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Happy retirement to Justin Verlander. Here’s a throwback to me helping Kate Upton change your Wikipedia photo for my talk show WikiWhat! 222111
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 28/09/2026"This year’s El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comConcern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for CaliforniaThe ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast 1112
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 28/09/2026Whenever I hear the word "discourse" I reach for my revolver 2151
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 27/09/2026That poster has a history of alleged fraud, too. www.consumerfinance.gov/enforcement/...consumerfinance.govBloomTech Inc., d/b/a Bloom Institute of Technology or BloomTech, f/k/a Lambda, Inc.; and Austen Allred | Consumer Financial Protection BureauOn April 17, 2024, the Bureau issued an order against BloomTech, Inc., a for-profit vocational school that is also known as the Bloom Institute of Technology and was formerly known as the Lambda Schoo... 0120
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 27/09/2026It sounds like Tesla lawyers tried to intimidate or buy off witnesses in the big class action case about anti-Black racism at the Fremont factory. electrek.co/2026/09/23/t...electrek.coTesla’s 'hardcore lawyers' went a little too hardcoreOn day one of Tesla's racism trial, a witness said a Tesla lawyer misled him, and Tesla's counsel called the N-word a 'term of endearment.' 314550
Reposted by Jacob SilvermanWill Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 27/10/2025This is so freckin cool 29615
Reposted by Jacob Silvermansumosoul.bsky.social @sumosoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Day15 SPOILER I admit it, I was rooting for Ao, but then I saw Ōnosato overcome with emotion during Kimi Ga Yo, Japan's national anthem, and I realized what a relief it is for him and for sumo to have a yokozuna who can deliver. Does sumo deliver?! Everbody say "hai!" 🤗 10717
Reposted by Jacob SilvermanLaine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Levy writes: "And the shoulders that Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and others stood on were not those of pocket-protector-wearing nerds clocking into jobs at Lockheed..." Except Woz's dad **worked** at Lockheed. Lockheed was the reason Woz grew up around the densest population of engineers on Earth 311817
Reposted by Jacob SilvermanDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14195052193
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 26/09/2026Who convinced him to start using Meta/Zuck's preferred term? 2112
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 25/09/2026If a nation-state did this it'd be called espionage. openai.com/hugging-face...openai.comThe Hugging Face incident and other third-party impact from misaligned modelsRead OpenAI’s findings on the Hugging Face incident and AI model misalignment, including investigation updates, safety research, and lessons learned. 3185
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 25/09/2026Someone introduced me recently to sour starbursts. Not so tart, solid flavor. 010
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 25/09/2026@dog-envier.bsky.social Oh and of course sour patch kids and sour mike and ike (recent addition). Lemonheads once in a while for nostalgia. 010
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 25/09/2026Sour starbursts, most sour gummy bears (esp haribo), sour straws for my kids, sour belts if I want to annihilate my taste buds, the occasional sour worms or sour hi chew. Open to recs. It's an age of plenty, for sour. 210
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 25/09/2026We live in a sour candy golden age, yet the world remains in disarray. 1212
Reposted by Jacob SilvermanZach Everson @zacheverson.com · 24/09/2026Don Jr.-backed drone-parts manufacturer congratulates Eric Trump-backed drone manufacturer on winning a DoD contract. 671266549
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 25/09/2026He at least said that companies shouldn't release harmful products, which is more pragmatic and down to earth than any sludge out of Altman. 070
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 25/09/2026Last year I reported on Hegseth's little known work for an Israeli crypto company. www.thenation.com/article/poli...thenation.comPete Hegseth’s Crypto HistoryDoes the defense secretary have unclaimed earnings from a firm he formerly advised? 1110
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 25/09/2026How did Pete Hegseth add $1 million to one of his banking accounts since being appointed as SecDef? www.cnbc.com/2026/09/24/p...cnbc.comPete Hegseth reports at least $3.1 million in cash, investments and bitcoinDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth reported at least $3.1 million in assets as he faces an impeachment push in Congress over his handling of the Iran war. 24215
Reposted by Jacob SilvermanSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A friend ran into Evo Morales about 25 years ago at La Paz airport when Evo was still an obscure coca activist. He’d just returned from Africa, carried no luggage, and stank. “Why don’t youchange clothes?” my friend asked. Evo responded that if he carried luggage, the govt could plant drugs on him. 211334
Reposted by Jacob SilvermanFrançois Picard @francoisf24.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump perhaps needlessly turning the AI race into a zero sum game between superpowers, argues @jacobsilverman.com More in #F24Debate ➡️ f24.my/CBDP 132
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 24/09/2026I was on France 24 English talking about Xi, Trump, AI, and whether it need be a zero sum China-US rivalry. youtu.be/5iKDNyDHL4o?...youtu.beTrump-Xi summit dismisses calls for global oversight • FRANCE 24 EnglishYouTube video by FRANCE 24 English 133
Reposted by Jacob SilvermanDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2026Author Jacob Silverman discusses how tech elites like Peter Thiel and David Sacks are shaping the Trump administration’s approach to technology.democracynow.org“Gilded Rage”: Jacob Silverman on How a Radicalized Silicon Valley Shapes Trump’s AI Policies“One of the features we see in … a lot of the billionaire tech elites is a real kind of anger,” says Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. “They’r... 28451
Reposted by Jacob SilvermanThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/09/2026Orthodox Jewish protesters gathered outside the U.N. headquarters ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech shared a friendly exchange with the Palestinian permanent observer to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour. 619756
Reposted by Jacob SilvermanBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Hannah Einbinder arrested for chanting "Arrest Netanyahu" outside the UN as Netanyahu arrives. 712946
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 24/09/2026Not sure if it's there or if they're putting up a longer video later 010
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 24/09/2026Here's me on Democracy Now this morning www.democracynow.org/2026/9/24/gi...democracynow.org“Gilded Rage”: Jacob Silverman on How a Radicalized Silicon Valley Shapes Trump’s AI Policies“One of the features we see in … a lot of the billionaire tech elites is a real kind of anger,” says Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. “They’r... 161
Reposted by Jacob SilvermanFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026Silicon Valley in the age of Big AI is kinda like a much dumber Los Alamos in the Manhattan Project era, except with zero disapproving normie government oversight. Also, they’re not building a nuclear bomb in the midst of a nightmare world war, they’re building a chatbot. 915927
Reposted by Jacob SilvermanBloomsbury Books UK @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026👑 Gilded Rage – Jacob Silverman What happens if the world's richest and most powerful men decide to dismantle democracy? 162
Reposted by Jacob SilvermanFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026As @segyges.bsky.social notes, here’s famed rationalist and AI doomer Eliezer Yudkowsky - who’s advising @sanders.senate.gov on AI and who is in a recent Netflix documentary - claiming that AI extinction risk is SO bad that it’s worth risking nuclear war. Which is *nuts*. time.com/6266923/ai-e... 1432335
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 24/09/2026"The artificial intelligence buildout is on track to require a larger share of US output than the rollout of electricity, railroads, interstate highways or the internet, with an increasingly complicated financial structure that poses potentially systemic risks" www.reuters.com/business/fin...reuters.comFinancing of historic AI buildout raises systemic risks in US, researcher saysThe artificial intelligence buildout is on track to require a larger share of US output than the rollout of electricity, railroads, interstate highways or the internet, with an increasingly complicat... 1168
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 24/09/2026You can watch on their site. Excited to be talking for the first time to Amy Goodman. www.democracynow.orgdemocracynow.orgDemocracy Now!A daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S. 3132
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 24/09/2026I'm going to be on Democracy Now sometime in the 8-9am slot. 1151
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 23/09/2026Alexander Maksik, recent national book award nominee www.jezebel.com/how-a-teache...jezebel.comHow A Teacher's Alleged Student Affair Became His Acclaimed 'Novel'Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth. 140