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Daniel Penny landed a cushy job at a powerhouse Silicon Valley venture capital firm less than two months after he was acquitted in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely. The Marine veteran was hired by Andreesen Horowitz to work in Manhattan as a deal partner on the firm’s American Dynamism team, which invests in government and defense tech, according to the company’s website. Penny was lauded for his “courage” in an internal memo sent to all employees Tuesday afternoon. “I believe, as I know many of you do, that Daniel acted with courage in a tough situation,” David Ulevitch,...

We were able to meet with senior staff. So we met with very senior people in the White House, in the inner core. We will directly regulate and control those companies. There will be no start-ups. This whole thing where you guys think you can just start companies and write code and release code on the internet — those days are over. That’s not happening.” This is why I took you through the long preamble earlier, because at this point, we are no longer dealing with rational people. We’re no longer dealing with people we can deal with. And that’s...

……. The outreach appears to include venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, and former Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick. Antonio Gracias, a former Tesla director, and Steve Davis, president of the Boring Company, were named too. The latter two are affiliated with Musk’s many companies. And it seems that cohort is involved in the planning but, more specifically, is expected to work on technical challenges to collecting data on federal employees and programs. Andreessen is recruiting talent, according to the Washington Post. The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, is supposedly charged with...