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A lil birdie sent me something in the mail and I’m soooo excited about it!!! Thanks to Amanda Nielsen at Thot Leader Labs for the shirt, it feels so ✨typically me ✨

Nightmare group chat 📵

An article from Semafor revealed earlier this week that billionaires & Silicon Valley elites are in an exclusive Signal group chat from hell (my opinion) organized by venture capitalist and human embodiment of “well, actually…,” Marc Andreessen. 

The point of this chat? 

Soooo basically it’s a small group of powerful people having conversations they don’t feel comfortable having in public spaces – you can only imagine what that means – and quietly but effectively using their influence to shape larger sociopolitical shifts (aka popularizing alt-right ideologies and technofascism.)

🫠🫠🫠

And idk if I can rightly blame these group chats for making neo-monarchist Curtis Yarvin a thing, but I will anyway because that guy straight up SUCKS.

I’m so glad these folks finally have a safe place to share their shitty ideas about politics and culture!

Speaking of Marc Andreessen…

Marc has revealed which role is safest from an AI takeover, and it’s – drumroll, please! –

His job!

Yep, Marc believes that being a VC is so specialized and nuanced that AI simply can’t replace his expertise.

AI takeover for thee but not for me~

Fresh from the tip line

An anon reader sent in a juicy tip this week, and it’s so well written I’m just going to share it with y’all unedited:

Ok girl, buckle up. Today/yesterday, this fellow Stephan Roussounis called out a guy called Alex Lawford on LinkedIn for posting a hate comment under his company. I think Stephan's company helps international students find opportunities in the UK to stay with local families short-term and learn the language and culture, etc. This Alex guy left a comment on his Facebook post, calling the program 💩 and said that he was helping destroy the country. 

So Stephan obviously called him out, explained that the program isn't what Alex thinks it is, and even if it was, racist much? (Turns out Alex has a history on X posting anti-migrant, Muslim, immigrant content which he might've deleted by now.)

Alex lost it and started DM-ing anyone commenting under Stephan's post, and he started answering every single comment defending what he said, bringing stats (no source) of the correlation between immigration and high housing prices. (again, correlation, not causation). 

Anyway, shit went south in the comments and ultimately Alex apologized for making the comment and asked Stephan to remove the post.... Bad move on Alex's part to post hate comments using his public profile, as the founder of a large marketing company, The Difference Group.

You’ve been a bad, bad boy Alex. Tomatoes for you 🍅🍅🍅

And major snaps to Stephan for standing his ground and calling this BS out. 

Are young male founders okay??

This week, I had the displeasure of seeing two absolutely bonkers posts from young founders recruiting (??) employees (???) to work (????) for them. 

1. Josh Jung shared that Corgi buys every new hire a full-size mattress so they can sleep at the office. Awww, you shouldn’t have! (No, really. You shouldn’t have.)

2. Chungin Lee of Cluely wants to hire 50 full-time growth interns for the summer and have them all live together, make TikToks, and spam your LinkedIn DMs. 

I just know that house will smell like Old Spice and Taco Bell onions.

Fellas, idk your situation, but can I recommend talk therapy and a really good lawyer who can handle those inevitable upcoming lawsuits?

As always,

ALLEGEDLY 💋

Hey, I’m Amber! I’m a freelance content marketer/consultant and aspiring humorist. You can find me on LinkedIn, Medium, Bluesky, and my website. If you really like what I’m doing, you can buy me a coffee.

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