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#DoubleSpeed #a16z #MarcAndreessen #BenHorowitz #AI #artificialIntelligence #noAI #DeadInternetTheory

"a16z-backed DoubleSpeed lets you control 1000s of social media accounts with Al, ensuring they look as human as possible - 'never pay a human again'!
– @nearcyan on X
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The Double Speed TERMINAL allows you to orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.
never pay a human again.
It's never been easier to create and deploy content without human cost. Stay up to date with changes and strategies in our community."

Email summary meme, now captioned:

Office on the left side: "See? With DoubleSpeed™, we can create 1000 new accounts to market our product to 1000 new potential customers each"
Office on the right side: "Wow! 1000 new followers? Let's greet them with our 1000 DoubleSpeed™ accounts to squeeze some money out of them."

new startup idea from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz's a16z¹: a tool to let you control thousands of #socialmedia accounts that look "as human as possible"

¹ Owners of large stakes in #Substack, The Privatized Public Square (AKA “X” AKA “The Everything App”), and (soon) #TikTok

#DoubleSpeed #AI #grok #psyop #a16z #MarcAndreessen #SlugsOfA16z #uspol #disinformation #BenHorowitz #nerdreich #broligarchy #broligarchs #X #NetworkState

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An affiliate of the exchange Crypto.com gave $10 million, while the #crypto services company Blockchain.com donated $5 million. The venture capitalists #MarcAndreessen & #BenHorowitz, who are heavily invested in crypto, gave $3 million each.

#OndoFinance, which has a partnership with the #Trump family’s crypto company, donated $2.1 million to #MAGA Inc., on top of $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.

#law #corruption #bribery #DarkMoney #plutocracy #oligarchy

The #money raised by #MAGA Inc. during the first 6 months of the year is almost 2X the amount collected by the #RNC, which is subject to contribution limits. #JeffreyYass donated $16 million to the super #PAC & #BenHorowitz & #MarcAndreessen combined to donate an additional $11 million. His group also collected several seven-figure contributions from #crypto companies, an industry that #Trump has embraced, & $5 million from a crypto entity co-founded by the #OpenAI chief #SamAltman.

#Trump’s super #PAC is sitting on about $200 million that it can spend against his rivals, giving a term-limited president a never-before-seen amount of #power in his party’s finances and future.

In the first half of 2025, Trump’s group, #MAGA Inc., collected about $177 million from the likes of #ElonMusk, Trump’s erstwhile ally, the #TikTok investor #JeffreyYass & the #SiliconValley execs #BenHorowitz & #MarcAndreessen, according to a filing on Thursday with the #FEC.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/politics/maga-inc-trump-fundraising.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Optimism is good. Delusion isn't.
In public procurement, hiding problems helps no one.
As Ben Horowitz said: “A brain can’t solve a problem it doesn’t know about.”
Lead with transparency.
#Leadership #PublicProcurement #StrategicSourcing #BenHorowitz #GovTech https://bigthink.com/business/ceo-masterclass-3-ways-to-burst-the-positivity-delusion/

El Salvador's Nayib Bukele shown here with Nerd Reich broligarchs Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz from crypto focused venture capital firm #a16z.

More on Bukele's connections to crypto: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114207719623689935

#ElSalvador #uspol #broligarchy #nerdreich #MarcAndreessen #BenHorowitz #KilmarAbregoGarcia #AbregoGarcia #VentureCapital #NetworkState

bukele, horowitz, andreessen, and some dude

another day, another AI scam backed by #MarcAndreessen's #a16z.

> "TechCrunch learned that multiple companies with logos on #11x's website were not actual customers and that at least one is threatening legal action over it.”

When a company lies about something so public and so easily verifiable it begs the question: what else are they lying about?

Andreessen is running #DOGE with #ElonMusk. These are the kind of people who run the US government now.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/24/a16z-and-benchmark-backed-11x-has-been-claiming-customers-it-doesnt-have/

#corruption #uspol #elevenX #BenHorowitz #AndreessenHorowitz #AI

Former chair of the US House Financial Services Committee #PatrickMcHenry just got hired by #MarcAndreessen’s #a16z.

#Broligarchy revolving door so bright you gotta wear shades.

#crypto #broligarchs #nerdReich #BenHorowitz #uspol #uspolitics #corruption #finreg

$Crypto-Friendly Former Congressman Patrick McHenry Joins A16z as a Senior Advisor McHenry announced his new role in a Wednesday X post, writing that he was “eager to help innovators navigate the policy landscape so they can build.” BY CHEYENNE LIGON | EDITED BY NIKHILESH DE Feb 26, 2025, 3:44 p.m. UTC Q" o B, oy N\ 8 e$

now that the $1.4 billion worth of crypto stolen from #Bybit is being laundered through #MarcAndreessen / #a16z’s Uniswap (so North Korea can continue to fund its nuclear weapons program), I figured it would be a good time to repost this explanation of how the last massive pile of stolen crypto was also laundered through Marc Andreessen’s Uniswap.

tl;dr there are no incentives in a16z's business model to dissuade north korea (or whoever) from laundering stolen crypto. in fact quite the opposite - a16z and Marc Andreessen massively profits from the popularity of its money laundering service.

"investing" in crypto is literally investing in crime.

https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-tech-bros-and-trumpers

#uspol #nerdreich #uspolitics #broligarchy #Trump #BenHorowitz

a bro from the largest american crypto VC firm #a16z is going to be running the #CFTC which in turn will be the agency "regulating" crypto now that the #SEC (also now run by crypto bros) has decided cryptocurrency is not a "security" (like a share of stock or a bond) but instead a "commodity" (like corn or pork bellies). which makes sense, as long as you don't think about it.

fun fact: the CFTC was the agency that regulated (and still regulates) financial derivatives and is more or less directly responsible for 2008's Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/02/11/trump-taps-former-cftc-commissioner-a16z-policy-head-brian-quintenz-for-cftc-head

#MarcAndreessen #BenHorowitz #MAGA #VCs #NerdReich #uspol #GreatFinancialCrisis #GreatRecession #DOGE #Trump #BrianQuintenz #corruption #fraud #finreg #stockmarket #economics #finance

another great (and very detailed) resource on the #debanking and "Operation Chokepoint 2.0" conspiracy theories being wielded against the #CFPB and #FDIC from #PatrickMcKenzie (Patio11).

#NathanMcCauley, the broligarch who runs "crypto bank" #AnchorageDigital, asked Patrick to retract the post. He refused.

* original post: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debanking-and-debunking/
* thread about the retraction request: https://x.com/patio11/status/1888973701342785942
* full story about retraction request rejection: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2025/02/10/retraction-request-denied/

#NerdReich #broligarchs #MarcAndreessen #a16z #VCs #banking #finance #economics #DOGE #elonmusk #BenHorowitz #OperationChokepoint2 #OperationChokepoint

Marc Andreessen's #a16z has released a wish list for american financial regulations. my comments in parentheses:

1. no more surveillance and #debanking (of fraudsters and terrorists)

2. tokenize stocks (to make the #SEC and all financial regulations obsolete, as well as legalizing #memecoins like #TrumpCoin)

3. create decentralized #stablecoin dollar equivalents (to strip the US govt of its hegemonic currency power)

4. #StrategicBitcoinReserve (to transfer hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars into the hands of a16z)

5. no taxes on crypto bros

I suspect all of these will be made official policy.

https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/us-crypto-capital-policy/

#MarcAndreessen #uspol #uspolitics #finreg #economics #finance #BenHorowitz #trump

@jaykuo p.s. every single one of these tech broligarchs who backed trump was either already indicted by the DOJ or SEC or was about to be (or their companies were). this is especially true of #MarcAndreessen and #BenHorowitz (#a16z) and #BrianArmstrong (#Coinbase) but it's really true of all of them.

https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-tech-bros-and-trumpers

@stefan relevant:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/08/ben-horowitzs-cozy-relationship-with-the-las-vegas-police-department-aided-a16z-portfolio-company-skydio/

#a16z #thenerdreich #NerdReich #MarcAndreessen #BenHorowitz #LasVegas #LVPD

#MarcAndreessen's over on #TheFreePress talking about criminally prosecuting people who worked for the Biden administration again. Currently listening to him rant ca. 1:37:00 but it comes up more than once.

He makes a lot of other outlandish claims about things like #censorship and #AI that I'm not personally 100% certain are outright lies like the many things he said on #JoeRogan... but I certainly suspect a lot of them are lies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgTeZXw-ytQ

#a16z #BenHorowitz #BariWeiss #IDW #AI

@pluralistic i wrote a deep dive into one particular case (#a16z / #MarcAndreessen / #BenHorowitz) but I think it's broadly descriptive.

tl;dr they want to continue profiting from breaking the law.

https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-tech-bros-and-trumpers

the #CiceroInstitute, which is lobbying states to #criminalize #homelessness, & the University of Austin, which he has described as an antidote to universities that have been overtaken by “radical, far-left ideologues.”

Others, like the venture capitalists #MarcAndreessen & #BenHorowitz, were Democrats troubled by the changing climate for #tech investors.

#WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #SiliconValley #Republicans #Kleptocracy #RulingClass #Bourgeoisie #Aristocracy #Totalitarianism