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Why Did Vanity Fair Bring an Activist to the Party?

Vanity Fair published a story called The Slow Motion Car Crash at Data After Dark. The author writes that she brought an anti-data center activist to the pro data center party, and later describes the event as catnip to MAGA aligned and Dreesen Horowitz backed edgelords.

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The AI Boys Hug It Out, The Doomers Want It Banned | PW Pod w/ Mike Solana & Liv Boeree ·

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