Ian Brown :verified:<p>On this week's <a href="https://mastodon.hccp.org/tags/IanAndJaySpaceOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IanAndJaySpaceOut</span></a> we pinky promise not to fact check as <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://macaw.social/@jay" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jay</span></a></span> and I zoom into the JOY of Dark <a href="https://mastodon.hccp.org/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a>, take a look at @'murica, laugh at a16z's attempt to walk back a really bad bet, note the convergence of Dan Scavino & David Sacks (Sackvino?), and explain why VCs like Floodgate's Mike Maples Jr. are just lucky and rich and are not to be taken seriously.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/ian-and-jay-space-out-2024-10-06" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/ian-and-ja</span><span class="invisible">y-space-out-2024-10-06</span></a></p>