This Fucking Guy
This Fucking Guy: Nathan Myhrvold
NASA's planetary defense chief on Nathan Myhrvold: "He's a very smart man, but that doesn't make him an expert in everything." That's the whole piece, honestly.
This Fucking Guy
Some people are just fuckers, and they need to be called out. This is where I drop the myriad of people who have earned the "This Fucking Guy" award, some multiple times.
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This Fucking Guy: John Roberts Has Never Once Been Talking About Trump
Forty-five years of paper trail, and exactly one time he found the discretion to swing the other way.
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This Fucking Guy: Scott Bessent
Scott Bessent built his career finding the gap between what governments promise and what they can actually deliver. Now he's manufacturing that gap himself, and throwing punches at anyone who says so.
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This Fucking Guy: Trent Lott Was Never Confused About Which Side He Was On
His fraternity house got raided for a weapons cache during the Ole Miss riot. His own memoir tells that story in detail and somehow forgets the part where he led the fight to keep the fraternity segregated two years later.
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This Fucking Guy: Leander Perez
Wilson hid behind appointees. Mississippi hid behind file cabinets. Leander Perez didn't hide behind anything, he ran two Louisiana parishes like a personal kingdom, built a snake-infested prison out of spite, and got excommunicated for being too much even for the Catholic Church.
The Billionaire Victims Club
The Billionaire Victims Club, Coda: The Man Who Needed to Be First
My favorite fucker, Elon Musk, needs another look as we close out the second season of the BVC
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The Barnacle Archetype
Donor-class preferences enter the All-In podcast as private consensus, exit as public analysis, and arrive at the policy table already formatted for legislative language. It's not a debate show. It's a credibility laundromat with a Spotify deal.
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The Whampoa Military Academy of Silicon Valley
In 2007 thirteen men posed in mafia cosplay for Fortune magazine and called themselves the PayPal Mafia. The photo looks different now. It's not thirteen men performing menace. It's a class photo — of the cohort that just finished taking over the government.
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This Fucking Guy: Larry Ellison
ORACLE stands for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison. He started with a CIA contract, named the company after it, and told investors citizens will be on their 'best behavior' once we're all constantly recorded. He didn't disrupt the system. He built it.
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This Fucking Guy: Mark Zuckerberg
Meta's employees named their internal AI status leaderboard 'Claudeonomics.' Not Llamanomics. Claudeonomics. Zuckerberg spent billions building a frontier AI model his own people won't use, while paying a competitor to power his flagship AI product. The acquirer can't sell to his own staff.
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TFG: Sergey Brin
Brin named his $450 million superyacht after Google's secret project to build a censored search engine for China. The man comparing a 5% healthcare tax to Soviet communism literally named his boat after helping communists suppress the internet.
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This Fucking Guy: Jeff Bezos
The Amazon logo smiles A to Z — delightful, frictionless, friendly. Then Bezos got unlimited money and no brand consultants, and built a rocket the entire internet immediately recognized as a penis with Peyronie's disease. The logo lies. The rocket does not.