Gal Weitz

[Hamid @hamids]

$NVDA: Let's say Jensen Huang slept with 10 different women...let's say 20. Does it change anything?

I thought the big deal was that he slept with a spy. Now consensual sex is an issue too? The coordinated effort to smear and attack an icon is an obvious ploy to take him out as head of $NVDA ... But by whom? I want an investigation into THAT!

[Adam Neumann @AdamNeumann]

@elonmusk @KatieMiller

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

People have no idea how sophisticated nation state activities are

If you are a target of opportunity for China it’s not unheard of for them to dedicate O(1000) humans dedicated to compromising you

This is what happened w their NYT hack in 2013, which was designed to send a message

They will compromise your friend’s friend’s friend to compromise you

And work down that chain until your friend invites you on a fun trip on a private plane to Mexico/Thailand/wherever (example)

Where some night you have a very boozy dinner and then you show back up at the house and some girls are there

You’re drunk and make a mistake and then you’re owned until you’re disposable

Nation state kompromat for “target’s of choice” is a system designed to find any individual’s weakness (you’re bisexual; a gambler, an alcoholic, drug addict, have a debt, adulterous, etc) and then force them into a situation of maximum amplification of this weakness

99% of people can be compromised using nation state capabilities and tactics

https://t.co/EO5JEArsZa

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

Dr. Faten Ghattas, No. 3 on the Joint List, to the BBC:

Hamas? Throughout history, wherever there has been occupation, there has been resistance, and this must be clearly understood.

International law actually allows a people under occupation to resist those who occupy them.

We reject the claim that if we join the government, it will be a terrorist government. What the current government is doing today constitutes severe terrorism against us as citizens, as well as terrorism in the occupied territories. That is the reality on the ground.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

This is going to be like the Nuremberg Trials but for AI researchers.

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

Jewish Democrats are hopeful today that with U.S. funding to Israel ending and AIPAC politically diminished and no longer funding candidates, the hatred will stop.

Here in Canada we have no AIPAC equivalent, and our funding to Israel is insignificant.

The hatred is worse.

[Gal Weitz @galweitz]

@dansenor What do you know, most Israelis turn out to be normies. Unfortunately, Bibi Derangement Syndrome has blinded too many of the normies on the left side, preventing a functional, centrist government from forming.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Ken Griffin on France and socialism…

"Paris should be a real wake up call to every single American. Government spending is 60% of their GDP. It’s the socialist dream the left talks about. That dream comes down to how much you can take from others. It doesn’t belong in America."

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Absolutely incredible…

"Wedgewood Polls" just admitted they are a fake polling firm and made up their polls.

Their fake polls have been posted in both the NYT and Nate Silver’s averages.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The degree to which people in the West fall prey to suicidal empathy continues to astonish me.

Read @GadSaad’s book about it!

[Gal Weitz @galweitz]

@Tesla Sir, this looks like a lambo

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

This thread is remarkable for me

First because the OpenAI spy foreshadowed what he was going to do

Second because his entire friend group seems to have blocked me

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

I'm an American Jew

I believe that uncontrolled immigration to the West is one of the biggest issues that we face

I simultaneously believe that skilled, controlled immigration is one of the most positive things for the West (Jensen Huang, Sergey Brin and Elon Musk etc)

We've lost nuance on this point

Moreover, I believe that Jews have been seen as being only on one side of this issue -- people like George Soros dominate the conversation

Thus, I think it's healthy that Jews are starting to speak up here

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

Today as we learn that Abdul El-Sayed lied about having dual Egyptian citizenship

I’d like to remind you that my attacks against Zohran started when we learned he lied on his application to Columbia University

Clicking the box for “Black/African-American”

Many defended him claiming he was born in Africa so he simply just didn’t understand the question

But his father is a Professor at Columbia… and the Director of the Institute of African Studies

The purpose of that box is an attempt to help tilt the scales for Black Americans who are the descendants of slavery and structural racism

Zohran’s father literally focuses on anti colonial studies

Zohran knew what that box meant

Zohran went on to campaign targeting support from the Black community (remember wanting to raise taxes in “richer and whiter neighborhoods”?)

But at the single highest accountability moment of his teenage years, he checked the easy box in an attempt to take a slot from someone who needed it

That’s the moment I knew he was a pathological liar, so I started looking into his background

And you see that from ~2012-2016 he had a subtle but well defined history of supporting terrorists

This included things like:

- defending one of the Boston Marathon bomber’s Miranda rights (which he was legally wrong about)

- likely asking for Justice for Rasmea Odeh, a Palestinian terrorist who bombed a supermarket in 1969 killing two children

Along with a few more examples of showing sympathy for terrorists

There was something unique about Zohran’s timing that led to him getting a free pass from deep investigatory work during his race

And now he’s on autopilot: smiling, nodding, and for the most part avoiding controversy (this post is basically the limit of how controversial he’ll go now that he has something to lose and is in eyesight of higher office)

But the warning signs have always been there

[Yossi Farro @FarroYossi]

I feel like Alex Karp doesn’t get nearly enough credit for how boldly he stood with Israel after October 7.

The next day, October 8, Palantir took out a full-page ad in The New York Times:

“Palantir stands with Israel.”

At a moment when most CEOs were saying as little as possible, Karp chose to make his position unmistakable.

And he didn’t stop at words.

Palantir sent engineers to Israel, brought its board to Tel Aviv, and continued supporting Israel’s defense.

That took conviction.

And it paid off! stock is up 1100% in 3 years.

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

Breaking:

The Omani pilot said during his interrogation that he had planned to crash the plane into Ben Gurion Airport.

That is why he attacked the other pilot only while over Jordan, near Israel.

He planned to make a normal landing approach and, in the final seconds, when interception would no longer be possible, crash the plane into the terminal.

The plot was thwarted only thanks to the fateful decision of the injured Indian pilot to open the door at all costs.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

A French woman tells one of the second and third-generation migrant rioter no to vandalize her city

He responds by trying to set her face on fire

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Shocking scenes as October 7 survivor Sabine Taasa is thrown out from the premiere of anti-IDF propaganda “documentary” NAZA in the Netherlands.

Her husband, Gil Taasa (46), was killed as he jumped on a grenade to protect his two young sons Koren (12) and Shay (8)

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

For the first time in over 20 years, someone has tried to hijack a plane bound for Israel. Miraculously, the attacker, an Omani pilot, was overpowered before he could complete his mission.

How a dramatic hijacking was foiled by the bravery of everyday Israelis.

All in today's special edition of It's Noon in Israel.

https://t.co/fzUtLv5Nwf

[Gal Weitz @galweitz]

A “struggle in the cockpit” 🤡🤡🤡

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Breaking: An Israel-bound flight made an emergency landing after an apparent struggle in the cockpit that left both pilots injured https://t.co/4rtYeVMmXm