@meowski You should put on some #LexFridman
#LexFridman
A sane-washing opportunity for Trump and Musk is most certainly *not* needed.
In case you (or your co-workers) still think of Lex Fridman as this inspiring ultra-intelligent disciplined stoic role model–
Despite what he claims—
Despite claiming being neither right nor left—
Lex is on the ultra-far-right end of the spectrum and constantly promoting fascist climate-destroying enemies of humanity who will have killed millions of people with their actions once temperatures reach 3°C above pre-industrial levels.
I cannot believe I have to count these assholes among the people who claim this place; #ElonMusk, #JoeRogan, #LexFridman, #JoeLonsdale, #AlexJones. Go fuck yourselves.
Using Grok for "general learning" … you might as well ask for a SS commander or Hitler himself as your history teacher. Grok is completely biased.
Currently, #ElonMusk configured Grok to insert ramblings about "white genocide" into each of its replies, and this is not the first time that #Musk tuned Grok to his hateful Nazi ideology.
If you're still watching or listening to the Lex Fridman podcast, you're supporting/enabling someone who supports ultra right-wing ideology and fascism. Yes, fascism. Lex had Balaji Srinivasan on his show, to name just one asshole Lex platformed. What need I say more?
Personally, I had multiple co-workers tell me, "I watched RFK Jr. on the Lex Fridman podcast. He made total sense to me, he's not the conspiracy theorist everyone says he is." I "lost" a couple of colleagues who I had thought decent to this propaganda.
It's like Aragorn warns in the LotR when they mistake Gandalf the White for Saruman: Don't let Saruman speak. His words would put a spell on you. And before you know it, you're hailing and praising fascists.
"a node in a linked list doesn’t know anything about the world it’s in. [...] Maybe that’s symbolic. It’s a metaphor for all of us humans. There’s billions of us on this planet and we only know about our local little network"
- only #LexFridman can turn an inefficient data structure into a philosophical journey ;-).
Along with the tech-centric WhatsApp groups Krishnan had organized out of a16z,
Andreessen joined a slew of others,
including ones that Torenberg set up for tech founders and for more political discussions.
The tech chats tended to be on WhatsApp and the political ones on Signal, which is more fully encrypted,
and they had different settings.
(“Every group chat ends up being about memes and humor and the goal of the group chat is to get as close to the line of being actually objectionable without tripping it,” Andreessen told Fridman.
“People will set to 5 minutes before they send something particularly inflammatory.“)
After a group of liberal intellectuals published a letter in Harper’s on July 7, 2020, some of its signers were invited to join a Signal group called “Everything Is Fine.”
There, writers including #Kmele #Foster, who co-hosts the podcast
"The Fifth Column", Persuasion founder #Yascha #Mounk, and the Harper’s letter contributor Williams joined Andreessen and a group that also included the anti-woke conservative activist #Chris #Rufo.
The new participants were charmed by Andreessen’s engagement:
“He was the most available, the most present, the most texting of anybody in the group
— which shocked me because it seemed like he was the most important person in the group,” one said.
But the center didn’t hold.
The liberal Harper’s types were surprised to find what one described an
“illiberal worldview” among tech figures more concerned with power than speech.
The conservatives found the liberal intellectuals tiresome, committed to what Rufo described to me as “infinite discourse” over action.
The breaking point came on July 5, 2021, when Foster and Williams,
along with the never-Trump conservative #David #French and the liberal academic #Jason #Stanley,
wrote a New York Times op-ed criticizing new laws against teaching “critical race theory.”
“Even if this censorship is legal in the narrow context of public primary and secondary education,
it is antithetical to educating students in the culture of American free expression,”
they wrote.
The conservatives had thought the Harper’s letter writers were their allies in an all-out ideological battle,
and considered their position a betrayal.
Andreessen “went really ballistic in a quite personal way at Thomas,”
a participant recalled.
The group ended after Andreessen “wrote something along the lines of
‘thank you everybody, I think it’s time to take a Signal break,’” another said.
The meltdown of this liberal-tech alliance was, to #Rufo, a healthy development.
“A lot of these technologists hoped that the centrist path was a viable one, because it would permit them in theory to change the culture without having to expose themselves to the risk of becoming partisans,”
he said.
“By 2021, the smartest people in tech understood that these people were a dead end
— so the group chats exploded and reformulated on more explicitly political lines.”
Rufo had been there all along:
“I looked at these chats as a good investment of my time to radicalize tech elites who I thought were the most likely and high-impact new coalition partners for the right.”
#MarcAndreessen #LexFridman
#ChrisRufo
#VivekRamaswamy #ErikTorenberg #Krishnan
#NoahSmith
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
The one person I will blame most for when our kids are fighting the combined Russian and American troops is not Elon Musk. It’s not Donald Trump. It’s not JD Vance, Marc Andreesen, Angela Merkel or Paavo Lipponen or even Joe Rogan.
It’s not. Those people were obviously in the wrong.
The one I’m saving my highest middle finger for is FUCKING LEX FRIDMAN.
Fuck you Lex. Fuck your good vibes fascist broisms. Fuck your nerd credentials. Fuck your ignorance and gullibility.
Fuck You.
#lexfridman
Oh nice, this will be very interesting :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNZnLkRBYA8 #lexfridman #primeagen
In case you still don't want to believe who Lex Fridman is.
For context, watch the videos of Zelenskyy being bullied by Putin's lackeys, Trump and Vance, and read this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/lex-fridman-podcast-anti-woke-elon-musk-ai
Lex Fridman has the charisma of a customer service chatbot and his take on the Zelensky/Trump/Vance incident is just another script he got fed.
#lexfridman #zelensky #trump #vance
I guess lex friedman bambozlezed me into thinking he was a reasonable person with that slow handsome voice of his
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I sure as hell won't ask the AI developed by the sycophants of the world's most powerful nazi, questions about "history" and "geopolitics".
Encouraging your millions of followers to do just that borders on the enablement of brainwashing and indoctrination.
I don't like #LexFridman 's recent #politics, but sometimes he has a good interview (that isn't softball crap), and this is one of them.
#JimmyWales talks about #Censorship, #Government Pressure, #AI, #LLMs, & the #future of #Wikipedia & #Wikimedia.
RFK Jr. has already spewed his anti-vaxx propaganda on the #LexFridman podcast.
Tucker Carlson has already spewed his pro-Putin pro-Trump "The election was stolen" propaganda on Lex's podcast.
Balaji Srinivasan has already spewed his fascist "Network state" police state propaganda on Lex's podcast.
And of course Trump himself, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Vivek Ramaswamy, Javier Milei, and many many more.
Expect much more propaganda from Lex.
This #LexFridman podcast with #MarkAndreesen is soo hard to listen to. Andreesen is talking 3x faster than he usually does, which means youre gonna get 12 hours of #andreesen in 4 long fucking hours. If this is representative of the mental state of #techbro culture, then they are about to burst a vessel, and we just need to outlast them.
#WTF has happened to #LexFridman?
Cognitive erosion? They guy has always been a tech sychophant, but now he rambles like.... is the dude always high when he does his podcasts now? I've notices this for awhile, but #Lex has become a rambling lunatic.
Marc Andreessen is just an egg full of magical thinking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHWnPOKh_S0
#tech #politics #finance #economics #LexFridman #MarcAndreessen
just for the cognitive dissonance, it’s worth noting it’s not just billionaires and greedy capitalist businesses. if you listened to his #LexFridman interview, Zelensky also was going out of his way to flatter Trump. understandable, but it always is. arguably more forgivable under the circumstances.
You have to truly be a piece of work if you—in 2025—still cheer on a person who literally is both a Nazi and the wealthiest person on the planet. In addition to
- being an asshole to even his own children,
- fucking up the environment, climate and future for everyone by dumping his toxic waste into nature,
- exploiting his workers and purposefully taking advantage of immigrant employees completely dependent on him,
- using his undeserved fortune to destroy democracies around the world instead of helping actual people, here on Earth, now, as opposed to illusions of space colonies he's surely fantasizing to exploit even more.
https://bird.makeup/users/lexfridman/statuses/1880026895972204719
Quoting from:
https://www.kesslerrebellion.com/take-action-faa-2024-12-10
> SpaceX has already caused severe environmental damage at their launch site in Boca Chica, Texas by not following US environmental laws and common rocket launch safety practices, just with their test launches since 2019. Extensive ecological damage and severe impacts to endangered wetlands, as well as impacts to local residents, have been documented, such as bowling-ball sized concrete slabs hitting parked cars and igniting a 3.5 acre fire.
Lex Fridman wants you to believe Russian is banned in Ukraine. Do you know where language is banned? In Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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