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All In Podcast Episode 150 Recap and Notes October 20 2023

October 20 2023

  • Sacks has crazy security camera apparatus
  • Israel Hamas war
    • Friedberg missed last week because it was hard for him - very emotional being a parent
    • Terrible what’s happening to children and families in Israel and Gaza
    • Both sides entrenched in their positions as well as partisans on both sides
    • Seems leaders on both sides know what the stakes are
    • Apparent hospital bombing story is also lost in fog of war - not sure who is responsible
    • Not sure what political maneuvering is happening in the background - how it affects Israel’s choice of actions to enter Gaza or not, to work for the release of the hostages or not, etc
    • Israel has had 5 elections in the last 4 years
    • Politics around Al-Aqsa mosque is very complicated/charged
      • Could be the end of Israel if something destructive happens here
    • Hard to pick a side - people are being asked to pick a side
    • Whether intentional or not - it seems the peace process between Israel and the Arab states is now disrupted
    • Obama and Kerry tried 2 state solution but it didn’t work
    • Vicious cycle - people keep getting more and more hurt
  • Harvard and UPenn donors breaking off ties from university
    • The elite universities are asset management businesses that have the “cover” of a school
    • FIRE survey which measures free speech shows Harvard, UPenn, Stanford, etc are really bad
    • Apparent video of elite university professor praising Hamas attacks
  • EU Digital Services Act
    • End of free open internet era
    • Completely destroys open internet
    • Internet is a decentralized technology
    • About as “1984” as you can get
    • Going to ruin our experience of the open internet
    • DSA commission will basically just send take down requests to social media companies
    • This will happen here in the US also - happened already with GDPR
    • Twitter Files already showed that 80 FBI agents were sending takedown requests to social media companies
    • EU is worse because they are saying what your moderation policy is supposed to be and what are your terms of service - Twitter Files was just on the down-low
    • Fines will be 6% of global revenues
  • GLP-1
    • New hype cycle
    • Novo Nordisk stock price has 5x in the last 5 years or so

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