LinkedIn co-founder turned Democrat mega-donor Reid Hoffman recently told CNN he hopes Kamala Harris replaces FTC Chair Lina Khan should the VP-turned-presumed-nominee prevail this November. While there’s an interesting political dynamic here, in which a top Democrat financier is calling for an antitrust-happy official to be ousted while Republican VP nominee JD Vance concurrently praises her, I’m more fascinated by Hoffman’s apparent belief he can have his coconut and eat it too. Virtue signaling how much of a good global citizen you are by publicly backing left-wing politicians… then expressing shock when they do traditionally left-wing things like try to gut your companies? Actions, meet consequences. And a suggestion: next time you want some good PR, try adopting a few puppies from the animal shelter instead. They’re friendlier than politicians, and as far as I know a dog has never filed an antitrust lawsuit.

Thursday, over 160,000 people logged on to “White Women for Kamala,” a white- and woman-only “organizing Zoom call” for the presumptive Democratic nominee featuring activists, fundraisers, podcasters, and (for some reason) the singer P!nk. The event came on the heels of similar black woman- and men-only calls, and was apparently followed by separate events for South Asians, “LGBTQ allies,” and white men. Now, if you’re normal, you might’ve thought this kind of thing went out of vogue around the time we collectively decided to ignore Robin DiAngelo (who, by the way, is still running “White Affinity group courses”). But clearly there are still at least 160,000 white women who think racial segregation is good. The best fix? Just call them racist. It’s probably the only insult that will scare them out of rederiving Jim Crow.

Last week, the NYT published a hit piece on Community Notes, setting up the necessary narrative scaffolding to blame Trump's inevitable election on social media companies that don't toe the party line — just like they blamed Facebook back in 2016. Naturally, the piece was riddled with problems: no reference to Twitter Files, Exhibit A in the case for how top-down moderation skews partisan by nature; no discussion of centralized systems' inherent vulnerability to state and special interests' influence; and nothing on the censorship-resistant nature of decentralization. But, ultimately, none of that matters. In our current moment, we have two options: chaotic information environments less subject to top-down control, or sanitized information environments more subject to top-down control. One feels distinctly more democratic, to choose a trendy metric. But then I’m not a Democrat, so I guess I wouldn't know.

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