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Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, now chief executive of CloudKitchens and of Adams, an industrial AI company automating food, mining and transport.

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  Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter is the beginning of people being able to speak their minds again, and of disagreeing not being treated as illegal.

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  you know Elon buying Twitter is like the beginning of us being able to speak our minds and for disagreeing to not be illegal. That's a big deal. We should all thank Elon for that.

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Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.

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  Any AI-driven action is legally defensible if it followed a revocable moment of user consent.

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  As long as there's a moment of consent - and that consent is revocable - any AI action is defensible.

  AI Liability: The Landmines Under Your SaaSthebootstrappedfounder.com

Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

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  Prisma

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  Prisma - A fantastic ORM for Node.js (I use it with Postgres/SQLite hosted on Fly.io).

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German writer and historian; wrote Blitzed, on drug use in Nazi Germany, and Tripped.

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  LSD was made illegal because the head of MKUltra wanted to own it, not because anyone thought it was dangerous.

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  And this is basically the reason why LSD at one point became illegal, because it did not get the chance. Stoll still wanted to put it on the market, but Sidney Gottlieb, the head of MKULTRA, he really didn't want LSD to be on the market. He didn't want it because he thought it's not good or dangerous for anybody, he just wanted to control LSD.

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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  Stealing AI code and data is hard and stealing ideas is easy, because Silicon Valley already moves ideas legally, inside the heads of the people it hires.

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  Code and data is hard, but ideas is easy. Silicon Valley operates on the way that top employees get bought out by other companies for a pay raise, and a large reason why these companies do this is to bring ideas with them.

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President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.

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  Federal efforts to restrict free expression in recent years were illegal and unconstitutional.

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  After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression, I also will sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  What stands between us and cheap lightweight vehicles is that they are illegal, not that they are hard to build.

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  Cheap, lightweight people movers are currently illegal in many situations, so regulation is a barrier.

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Founder and editor of Techdirt; coined the Streisand effect, and writes on platform liability, speech law and copyright.

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  Complicity is a dangerous legal standard for platforms, because every platform hosts some illegal material and stopping it entirely is impossible.

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  The list of “complicity” in various bad things worries me because every platform has some element of that kind of content going on, in part because it’s impossible to stop entirely.

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Urban planner, co-author with Charles Marohn of Escaping the Housing Trap, and policy director at the Parking Reform Network. Wrote for Strong Towns from 2015, mostly about how housing markets actually set prices.

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  The single biggest barrier in the housing market is that most neighbourhoods are legally forbidden to add any housing at all.

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  The biggest barrier of all, of course, is that the majority of neighborhoods are not allowed to add any housing at all.

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First Amendment lawyer and former federal prosecutor; writes The Popehat Report and explains what the law actually says when people shout about free speech.

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  Refusing to advertise on a platform is protected expression, not an attack on the platform owner's free speech.

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  Elon Musk’s sullen yawp amounts to a claim that he has a right for companies to sponsor his speech, no matter what he says. That’s nonsense, both legally and philosophically.

  My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Uppopehat.substack.com

Political scientist at the University of Chicago and the leading exponent of offensive realism; wrote The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.

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  The Israel lobby is an ordinary American interest group rather than a cabal, and it happens to be extremely powerful.

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  So our argument is that the lobby is not doing anything that's illegal, or illicit, or immoral, or unethical. It's just a good old-fashioned American interest group. And it just happens to be extremely powerful.

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Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.

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  Zoning and building restrictions across most of the western world make housing in desirable towns extremely expensive.

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  Charming, beautiful and astronomically expensive because like in most of the western world it's illegal to build anything.

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