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A Murder at Kildale, 1871

The view from the hills above Kildale, taken yesterday — when the weather was rather more agreeable than today’s thoroughly dreich conditions.

The North York Moors is not the sort of place one associates with violent crime. Yet on the evening of Wednesday 16 August 1871, a quiet farm in Kildale became the scene of a killing that shoo ...

https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/09/a-murder-at-kildale-1871/

#Kildale #Lonsdale #NorthYorkMoors #19thcentury #history

A Murder at Kildale, 1871

The view from the hills above Kildale, taken yesterday — when the weather was rather more agreeable than today’s thoroughly dreich conditions.

The North York Moors is not the sort of place one associates with violent crime. Yet on the evening of Wednesday 16 August 1871, a quiet farm in Kildale became the scene of a killing that shoo ...

https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/09/a-murder-at-kildale-1871/

#Kildale #Lonsdale #NorthYorkMoors #19thcentury #history

A Murder at Kildale, 1871

The view from the hills above Kildale, taken yesterday — when the weather was rather more agreeable than today’s thoroughly dreich conditions.

The North York Moors is not the sort of place one associates with violent crime. Yet on the evening of Wednesday 16 August 1871, a quiet farm in Kildale became the scene of a killing that shoo ...

https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/09/a-murder-at-kildale-1871/

#Kildale #Lonsdale #NorthYorkMoors #19thcentury #history

A Murder at Kildale, 1871

The view from the hills above Kildale, taken yesterday — when the weather was rather more agreeable than today’s thoroughly dreich conditions.

The North York Moors is not the sort of place one associates with violent crime. Yet on the evening of Wednesday 16 August 1871, a quiet farm in Kildale became the scene of a killing that shoo ...

https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/09/a-murder-at-kildale-1871/

#Kildale #Lonsdale #NorthYorkMoors #19thcentury #history

A Murder at Kildale, 1871

The view from the hills above Kildale, taken yesterday — when the weather was rather more agreeable than today’s thoroughly dreich conditions.

The North York Moors is not the sort of place one associates with violent crime. Yet on the evening of Wednesday 16 August 1871, a quiet farm in Kildale became the scene of a killing that shoo ...

https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/09/a-murder-at-kildale-1871/

#Kildale #Lonsdale #NorthYorkMoors #19thcentury #history

The Pale — Playground of the Percys

Viewed here from Percy Cross Rigg, Capt. Cook’s Monument is just about visible on the highest point of Easby Moor. This eastern end, in the parish of Kildale, is known as Coate Moor and those unforested fields on the spur are labelled “The Pale” on Ordnance Survey maps. It is a relic of one of the three medie ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/03/24/the-pale-playground-of-the-percys/

#CoateMoor #Kildale #Lonsdale #NorthYorkMoors #history #medieval

A new tech-friendly governor?

The California governor’s race has been a crowded field without notable frontrunners.
#Newsom had been a long-time friend of the tech industry, hosting Google’s #Page and #Brin as guests at his wedding
and referring to Salesforce chief executive Marc #Benioff as “family”.
His departure appears to have Silicon Valley fretting.

#Singleton, from the Chamber of Progress, said Newsom had long recognized “how pivotal the technology industry is in California”.

But then, late last month, Matt #Mahan, a moderate Democrat and the mayor of San Jose, announced his candidacy.

Before Mahan got involved in politics in 2020, he had a career in the tech sector.
He was an undergraduate at Harvard with Zuckerberg,
and in 2014 co-founded a startup with funding from #Conway, #Benioff and Napster co-founder Sean #Parker.

Mahan appears to be the savior the tech industry had been searching for.
Since his candidacy announcement just two weeks ago,
⚠️millions have poured into his campaign.

According to public records, he’s received donations from several venture capitalists,
along with Roblox CEO David #Baszucki, Y Combinator CEO Garry #Tan, GitHub co-founder Chris #Wanstrath, Cloudkitchen co-founder Diego #Berdakin, and Ring founder #Siminoff.

Mahan has even courted donors who helped launch companies known for working with the Trump administration,
including Palantir co-founder Joe #Lonsdale and Anduril co-founder Matt #Grimm and his wife Kimberly Grimm, according to public records.

Google’s #Brin has also backed Mahan, maxing out the limit for an individual campaign donation at $78,400.

Several of Mahan’s other tech backers also maxed out their donations.
🔥At this point, Mahan has now raised more than double the two most prominent democrats in the race, ⭐️Eric Swalwell
and ⭐️Katie Porter.

As political races and ballot measure campaigns continue to heat up across California in 2026, tech’s influence is only expected to grow.

“It’s going to be a fun session,” Singleton said. That’s for sure.”

#MattMahan #KatiePorter #EricSwallwell #CAGovernor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/california-billionaires-state-elections

A new tech-friendly governor?

The California governor’s race has been a crowded field without notable frontrunners.
#Newsom had been a long-time friend of the tech industry, hosting Google’s #Page and #Brin as guests at his wedding
and referring to Salesforce chief executive Marc #Benioff as “family”.
His departure appears to have Silicon Valley fretting.

#Singleton, from the Chamber of Progress, said Newsom had long recognized “how pivotal the technology industry is in California”.

But then, late last month, Matt #Mahan, a moderate Democrat and the mayor of San Jose, announced his candidacy.

Before Mahan got involved in politics in 2020, he had a career in the tech sector.
He was an undergraduate at Harvard with Zuckerberg,
and in 2014 co-founded a startup with funding from #Conway, #Benioff and Napster co-founder Sean #Parker.

Mahan appears to be the savior the tech industry had been searching for.
Since his candidacy announcement just two weeks ago,
⚠️millions have poured into his campaign.

According to public records, he’s received donations from several venture capitalists,
along with Roblox CEO David #Baszucki, Y Combinator CEO Garry #Tan, GitHub co-founder Chris #Wanstrath, Cloudkitchen co-founder Diego #Berdakin, and Ring founder #Siminoff.

Mahan has even courted donors who helped launch companies known for working with the Trump administration,
including Palantir co-founder Joe #Lonsdale and Anduril co-founder Matt #Grimm and his wife Kimberly Grimm, according to public records.

Google’s #Brin has also backed Mahan, maxing out the limit for an individual campaign donation at $78,400.

Several of Mahan’s other tech backers also maxed out their donations.
🔥At this point, Mahan has now raised more than double the two most prominent democrats in the race, ⭐️Eric Swalwell
and ⭐️Katie Porter.

As political races and ballot measure campaigns continue to heat up across California in 2026, tech’s influence is only expected to grow.

“It’s going to be a fun session,” Singleton said. That’s for sure.”

#MattMahan #KatiePorter #EricSwallwell #CAGovernor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/california-billionaires-state-elections

A new tech-friendly governor?

The California governor’s race has been a crowded field without notable frontrunners.
#Newsom had been a long-time friend of the tech industry, hosting Google’s #Page and #Brin as guests at his wedding
and referring to Salesforce chief executive Marc #Benioff as “family”.
His departure appears to have Silicon Valley fretting.

#Singleton, from the Chamber of Progress, said Newsom had long recognized “how pivotal the technology industry is in California”.

But then, late last month, Matt #Mahan, a moderate Democrat and the mayor of San Jose, announced his candidacy.

Before Mahan got involved in politics in 2020, he had a career in the tech sector.
He was an undergraduate at Harvard with Zuckerberg,
and in 2014 co-founded a startup with funding from #Conway, #Benioff and Napster co-founder Sean #Parker.

Mahan appears to be the savior the tech industry had been searching for.
Since his candidacy announcement just two weeks ago,
⚠️millions have poured into his campaign.

According to public records, he’s received donations from several venture capitalists,
along with Roblox CEO David #Baszucki, Y Combinator CEO Garry #Tan, GitHub co-founder Chris #Wanstrath, Cloudkitchen co-founder Diego #Berdakin, and Ring founder #Siminoff.

Mahan has even courted donors who helped launch companies known for working with the Trump administration,
including Palantir co-founder Joe #Lonsdale and Anduril co-founder Matt #Grimm and his wife Kimberly Grimm, according to public records.

Google’s #Brin has also backed Mahan, maxing out the limit for an individual campaign donation at $78,400.

Several of Mahan’s other tech backers also maxed out their donations.
🔥At this point, Mahan has now raised more than double the two most prominent democrats in the race, ⭐️Eric Swalwell
and ⭐️Katie Porter.

As political races and ballot measure campaigns continue to heat up across California in 2026, tech’s influence is only expected to grow.

“It’s going to be a fun session,” Singleton said. That’s for sure.”

#MattMahan #KatiePorter #EricSwallwell #CAGovernor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/california-billionaires-state-elections

A new tech-friendly governor?

The California governor’s race has been a crowded field without notable frontrunners.
#Newsom had been a long-time friend of the tech industry, hosting Google’s #Page and #Brin as guests at his wedding
and referring to Salesforce chief executive Marc #Benioff as “family”.
His departure appears to have Silicon Valley fretting.

#Singleton, from the Chamber of Progress, said Newsom had long recognized “how pivotal the technology industry is in California”.

But then, late last month, Matt #Mahan, a moderate Democrat and the mayor of San Jose, announced his candidacy.

Before Mahan got involved in politics in 2020, he had a career in the tech sector.
He was an undergraduate at Harvard with Zuckerberg,
and in 2014 co-founded a startup with funding from #Conway, #Benioff and Napster co-founder Sean #Parker.

Mahan appears to be the savior the tech industry had been searching for.
Since his candidacy announcement just two weeks ago,
⚠️millions have poured into his campaign.

According to public records, he’s received donations from several venture capitalists,
along with Roblox CEO David #Baszucki, Y Combinator CEO Garry #Tan, GitHub co-founder Chris #Wanstrath, Cloudkitchen co-founder Diego #Berdakin, and Ring founder #Siminoff.

Mahan has even courted donors who helped launch companies known for working with the Trump administration,
including Palantir co-founder Joe #Lonsdale and Anduril co-founder Matt #Grimm and his wife Kimberly Grimm, according to public records.

Google’s #Brin has also backed Mahan, maxing out the limit for an individual campaign donation at $78,400.

Several of Mahan’s other tech backers also maxed out their donations.
🔥At this point, Mahan has now raised more than double the two most prominent democrats in the race, ⭐️Eric Swalwell
and ⭐️Katie Porter.

As political races and ballot measure campaigns continue to heat up across California in 2026, tech’s influence is only expected to grow.

“It’s going to be a fun session,” Singleton said. That’s for sure.”

#MattMahan #KatiePorter #EricSwallwell #CAGovernor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/california-billionaires-state-elections

A new tech-friendly governor?

The California governor’s race has been a crowded field without notable frontrunners.
#Newsom had been a long-time friend of the tech industry, hosting Google’s #Page and #Brin as guests at his wedding
and referring to Salesforce chief executive Marc #Benioff as “family”.
His departure appears to have Silicon Valley fretting.

#Singleton, from the Chamber of Progress, said Newsom had long recognized “how pivotal the technology industry is in California”.

But then, late last month, Matt #Mahan, a moderate Democrat and the mayor of San Jose, announced his candidacy.

Before Mahan got involved in politics in 2020, he had a career in the tech sector.
He was an undergraduate at Harvard with Zuckerberg,
and in 2014 co-founded a startup with funding from #Conway, #Benioff and Napster co-founder Sean #Parker.

Mahan appears to be the savior the tech industry had been searching for.
Since his candidacy announcement just two weeks ago,
⚠️millions have poured into his campaign.

According to public records, he’s received donations from several venture capitalists,
along with Roblox CEO David #Baszucki, Y Combinator CEO Garry #Tan, GitHub co-founder Chris #Wanstrath, Cloudkitchen co-founder Diego #Berdakin, and Ring founder #Siminoff.

Mahan has even courted donors who helped launch companies known for working with the Trump administration,
including Palantir co-founder Joe #Lonsdale and Anduril co-founder Matt #Grimm and his wife Kimberly Grimm, according to public records.

Google’s #Brin has also backed Mahan, maxing out the limit for an individual campaign donation at $78,400.

Several of Mahan’s other tech backers also maxed out their donations.
🔥At this point, Mahan has now raised more than double the two most prominent democrats in the race, ⭐️Eric Swalwell
and ⭐️Katie Porter.

As political races and ballot measure campaigns continue to heat up across California in 2026, tech’s influence is only expected to grow.

“It’s going to be a fun session,” Singleton said. That’s for sure.”

#MattMahan #KatiePorter #EricSwallwell #CAGovernor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/california-billionaires-state-elections

#Praxis #Thiel #Andreessen #Musk #Zuckerberg #Altman #Lonsdale #Palantir #Lutnick #Bezos
Geschenklink für die ersten 10:
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/groenland-es-sind-oligarchen-und-tech-bros-die-die-insel-wollen-a-f93cf1bd-d347-4a4b-8593-06cd958b9f7e?giftToken=1c51e9b3-6283-4677-bfeb-5e923ff24b9e

#Praxis #Thiel #Andreessen #Musk #Zuckerberg #Altman #Lonsdale #Palantir #Lutnick #Bezos Geschenklink für die ersten 10:

Meinung: US-Annexionspläne: Es...

Winter Colour beyond Gribdale Gate

A photograph dominated by bracken in its dry, reddish-brown winter state. From Gribdale Gate, the narrow road winds down beside the beck which marks the parish boundary between Great Ayton and Kildale. In the shadowed south side of the dale, the conifers of Coate Moor plantation rule.

This abundance of bracken across the northe ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/11/28/winter-colour-beyond-gribdale-gate/

#Lonsdale #NorthYorkMoors #history #medieval

Port Stanvac, the oil refinery near Lonsdale opened in 1963. Built by Standard Vacuum (a predecessor of ExxonMobil), it was backed by the Playford government with special legislation that gave sweeping powers and public subsidies to the US company. The Act overrode local councils, waived rates, and exempted it from many state controls. Environmental concerns, union disputes, and oil spills plagued its history—despite its job creation and production.
#southaustralia #lonsdale #oil

Reflections at Lonsdale Quarry

Lonsdale Quarry was fully operational during in 1874, run by a Mr Grievson. It was likely the source of stone for Christ Church in Great Ayton, opened in 1877. The quarry is now quiet, a place for solitude and reflection. But it also holds a bleak memory.

One Monday in May 1874, quarryman James Smith arrived for work with his dog ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/07/21/reflections-at-lonsdale-quarry/

#GreatAytonMoor #Lonsdale #NorthYorkMoors #history

A Costly Collop — The Ubiquitous Smoke of Burning Heather

A view south-east, straight into a hazy sun, down Lonsdale and across to Kildale Moor. The scene is, of course, marred by a hibernal plume of smoke from the burning of the heather, because no landscape is complete without an artificial smog. But enough about that.

Today is the ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/03/03/a-costly-collop-the-ubiquitous-smoke-of-burning-heather/

#GreatAytonMoor #Lonsdale #NorthYorkMoors #history

Beyond the Pale: The Lingering Echoes of Kildale’s Past

The sky was an unnervingly perfect shade of cerulean this morning, while overnight frost clung on stubbornly in the shadows. This is the view from Percy Rigg towards Coate Moor, the back of Captain Cook’s, the monument making a feeble attempt at visibility—you will need ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/02/28/beyond-the-pale-the-lingering-echoes-of-kildales-past/

#CoateMoor #Kildale #Lonsdale #NorthYorkMoors #history #medieval

The Defense Tech Newcomers,
Venture capital executives like
#Joe #Lonsdale are well positioned to profit in the second Trump administration

A founder of the A.I.-powered data analytics giant #Palantir Technologies, he has more recently delivered billions of dollars to defense sector start-ups such as #Anduril and #Epirus and #Saronic.

Executives at these defense technology firms have been frustrated at the slow pace of the Pentagon’s shift away from traditional contractors like Lockheed Martin
to venture-capital-backed start-ups selling cutting-edge tools like A.I.-powered drones.

“Current regulatory regime still favors the legacy defense corporations and crowds out upstarts,”
Mr. Lonsdale, who donated more than $1 million to Mr. Trump’s affiliated political groups,
said in an email to The New York Times.

#Trae #Stephens, another defense-tech venture capitalist and donor to Mr. Trump, said that the open question will be if the president-elect can limit turnover in leadership at the Pentagon, which was a problem during his first term.

“You need to have enough stability that someone can come in and take a leadership position and drive to a better outcome,”
Mr. Stephens, who works at #Founders #Fund and is a founder of #Anduril, said in an interview last week.

#Harold #Hamm, the billionaire founder of the Oklahoma-based oil and gas giant Continental Resources, donated more than $4 million to political groups that supported Mr. Trump.
Most of it came after Mr. Hamm and other oil-industry executives attended an April dinner at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s Florida residence and club,
where he pressed the executives to contribute to his campaign, suggesting they would save far more than that in avoided taxes and legal fees after he repealed environmental regulations.

More recently, Mr. Hamm has been part of Mr. Trump’s transition team, which is pushing to
eliminate a ban on new natural-gas export terminals
and to abolish the Biden-era tax credit on electric vehicles
— meaning more continued demand for oil and gas, as Reuters first reported last week.

“The mineral wealth of the U.S. government is tremendous, but you have to develop that,” Mr. Hamm said in an interview last week with an industry trade publication, Hart Energy. “Certainly, Trump will do that.” Mr. Hamm declined a request to comment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/trump-presidency-billionaires.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The Defense Tech Newcomers,
Venture capital executives like
#Joe #Lonsdale are well positioned to profit in the second Trump administration

A founder of the A.I.-powered data analytics giant #Palantir Technologies, he has more recently delivered billions of dollars to defense sector start-ups such as #Anduril and #Epirus and #Saronic.

Executives at these defense technology firms have been frustrated at the slow pace of the Pentagon’s shift away from traditional contractors like Lockheed Martin
to venture-capital-backed start-ups selling cutting-edge tools like A.I.-powered drones.

“Current regulatory regime still favors the legacy defense corporations and crowds out upstarts,”
Mr. Lonsdale, who donated more than $1 million to Mr. Trump’s affiliated political groups,
said in an email to The New York Times.

#Trae #Stephens, another defense-tech venture capitalist and donor to Mr. Trump, said that the open question will be if the president-elect can limit turnover in leadership at the Pentagon, which was a problem during his first term.

“You need to have enough stability that someone can come in and take a leadership position and drive to a better outcome,”
Mr. Stephens, who works at #Founders #Fund and is a founder of #Anduril, said in an interview last week.

#Harold #Hamm, the billionaire founder of the Oklahoma-based oil and gas giant Continental Resources, donated more than $4 million to political groups that supported Mr. Trump.
Most of it came after Mr. Hamm and other oil-industry executives attended an April dinner at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s Florida residence and club,
where he pressed the executives to contribute to his campaign, suggesting they would save far more than that in avoided taxes and legal fees after he repealed environmental regulations.

More recently, Mr. Hamm has been part of Mr. Trump’s transition team, which is pushing to
eliminate a ban on new natural-gas export terminals
and to abolish the Biden-era tax credit on electric vehicles
— meaning more continued demand for oil and gas, as Reuters first reported last week.

“The mineral wealth of the U.S. government is tremendous, but you have to develop that,” Mr. Hamm said in an interview last week with an industry trade publication, Hart Energy. “Certainly, Trump will do that.” Mr. Hamm declined a request to comment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/trump-presidency-billionaires.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The Defense Tech Newcomers,
Venture capital executives like
#Joe #Lonsdale are well positioned to profit in the second Trump administration

A founder of the A.I.-powered data analytics giant #Palantir Technologies, he has more recently delivered billions of dollars to defense sector start-ups such as #Anduril and #Epirus and #Saronic.

Executives at these defense technology firms have been frustrated at the slow pace of the Pentagon’s shift away from traditional contractors like Lockheed Martin
to venture-capital-backed start-ups selling cutting-edge tools like A.I.-powered drones.

“Current regulatory regime still favors the legacy defense corporations and crowds out upstarts,”
Mr. Lonsdale, who donated more than $1 million to Mr. Trump’s affiliated political groups,
said in an email to The New York Times.

#Trae #Stephens, another defense-tech venture capitalist and donor to Mr. Trump, said that the open question will be if the president-elect can limit turnover in leadership at the Pentagon, which was a problem during his first term.

“You need to have enough stability that someone can come in and take a leadership position and drive to a better outcome,”
Mr. Stephens, who works at #Founders #Fund and is a founder of #Anduril, said in an interview last week.

#Harold #Hamm, the billionaire founder of the Oklahoma-based oil and gas giant Continental Resources, donated more than $4 million to political groups that supported Mr. Trump.
Most of it came after Mr. Hamm and other oil-industry executives attended an April dinner at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s Florida residence and club,
where he pressed the executives to contribute to his campaign, suggesting they would save far more than that in avoided taxes and legal fees after he repealed environmental regulations.

More recently, Mr. Hamm has been part of Mr. Trump’s transition team, which is pushing to
eliminate a ban on new natural-gas export terminals
and to abolish the Biden-era tax credit on electric vehicles
— meaning more continued demand for oil and gas, as Reuters first reported last week.

“The mineral wealth of the U.S. government is tremendous, but you have to develop that,” Mr. Hamm said in an interview last week with an industry trade publication, Hart Energy. “Certainly, Trump will do that.” Mr. Hamm declined a request to comment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/trump-presidency-billionaires.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Trump Boosters Expect Big Returns on Their Investment:
‘The Shackles Are Off’

Wealthy donors to the president-elect’s campaign anticipate a more business-friendly atmosphere,
including the firing of Biden-era regulators.

🔸Limit the reach of federal regulations on artificial intelligence.
🔸Make room for cryptocurrencies to thrive.
🔸Ease the antitrust crackdown on big tech companies.
🔸Buy more military drones. And don’t raise taxes on billionaires.

The to-do list for President-elect Donald J. Trump from #Marc #Andreessen, the venture capital billionaire from California, is long, but quite specific.

Now, after donating big money to Mr. Trump, Mr. Andreessen is eager to see his candidate work through the list

“It felt like a boot off the throat,” Mr. Andreessen said about Mr. Trump’s victory during a podcast conversation this month with his business partner.
“Every morning I wake up happier than the day before.”

Mr. Andreessen’s excitement is a hint of just how broadly the victory by Mr. Trump has resonated with business executives who ⚠️ invested millions of dollars in his candidacy and now stand to profit from his policies.
Theirs is a circle of deep-pocketed industry winners that extends far beyond #Elon #Musk.
It is a more diverse group, at least in terms of business interests, than the one that surrounded Mr. Trump in his first administration, where executives from the oil, gas and coal industries were particularly dominant.
#Harold #Hamm, the billionaire founder of the Oklahoma-based 💥oil and gas giant Continental Resources, is still in a position to benefit, from regulatory rollbacks that he and an affiliated trade association are already pushing.

But the list also includes:
#Joe #Lonsdale, a defense technology executive who wants to help the Pentagon revamp the way it fights 💥wars;

#Cameron and #Tyler #Winklevoss, the twins who were known for their battle with Facebook, then became 💥cryptocurrency investors and now want to shape the industry’s rules;

#Brian #Evans, the chief executive of Geo Group, the 💥private prison giant that could benefit if Mr. Trump carries out his promise of large-scale deportations;

John Paulson, the hedge fund billionaire who could cash out of his investment in the federal government’s housing finance companies, Freddie and Fannie, if they are privatized under Mr. Trump.

“It will be a billionaires’ ball,” said Robert Reich, who served as secretary of labor during the Clinton administration and who has long been critical of the income disparity in the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/trump-presidency-billionaires.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@xynthia

J'en profite pour mentionner @emms qui témoigne dans l'article et est présente sur la #fediverse

Soutient à vous et vos collègues,

Grand besoin de vos lumières,
à l'heure où #Besançon rattrape #Lyon sur l'implantation de l'#ExtremeDroite ;

Et que la mode #Lonsdale fleurit dans les campagnes aux alentours (coucou la #HauteSaone :/ ) comme ce fût le cas dans les Monts du Lyonnais.

(Chez vos confrères & consoeurs de Rue89Lyon : https://www.rue89lyon.fr/2012/12/11/les-monts-du-lyonnais-aux-prises-avec-lextreme-droite-radicale/ )

@france

#ElonMusk’s reactionary #anger was fueled, too, by the decision of one of his children to #transition; he later said that he had been “tricked” into authorizing #gender-affirming #care for her.

#Musk had left the dinner at #Peltz’s house dissatisfied…. He had started talking privately to #Lonsdale, who was a member of his new friend group in Texas, & a few others about how he might take matters into his own hands.

#MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #Tech #Republicans #Kleptocracy #RulingClass

Elon Musk and Donald Trump have reportedly been speaking together frequently in recent months,
and their bitterly reactionary politics obviously align.

Within days, The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk was committing a remarkable
$45 million per month to "America PAC",
a new pro-Trump super PAC that would
also be supported by Palantir cofounder Joe #Lonsdale, Mark #Zuckerberg castoffs Tyler and Cameron #Winklevoss,
and several members of what’s sometimes called the Paypal mafia,
a right-wing network of tech industry leaders with Peter #Thiel as its presiding majordomo.

If, two years ago The New York Times could make the dubious claim that tech giants like Musk were hard to pin down politically, there is no room now for even that level of credulousness.

It’s official:
Silicon Valley has been fully MAGA-pilled, and the tech authoritarians are bringing their money with them.

Trump unveiled as his VP pick Ohio Senator J.D. #Vance, a former Thiel employee and venture capitalist who owes his election to the Senate to a $15 million campaign cash infusion from Thiel.

For the tech industry, whose rightward swerve has been hard to ignore this campaign cycle, the Vance selection was sensational.

“We have a former tech VC in the White House,” crowed Delian #Asparouhov, a partner at Thiel’s Founders Fund who once drew notice for sharing a comic by the neo-Nazi cartoonist known as StoneToss. “Greatest country on Earth baby.”

Musk, who had reportedly been agitating privately for Trump to choose Vance, celebrated the pick on X.

“Resounds with victory,” he wrote.
Vivek #Ramaswamy posted wistful, supportive remarks about being drinking buddies with Vance at Yale Law School.

Using the term of endearment favored by his fellow mega-rich “All-In” podcast hosts,
Chamath #Palihapitiya celebrated the news: “A Bestie adjacent as the VP?!?!?!”

Thiel, who is infamous for his stated aversion to democracy, has claimed that he is sitting out this election,
but his baton has been passed to a gaggle of ornery venture capitalists and tech CEOs whom you may recognize from their grievance-laden X posts: #Lonsdale, David #Sacks, Shaun #Maguire, Marc #Andreessen, et al.

They are all very rich and control a lot of capital beyond their own.

They are also wielding increasing influence over the Trump campaign: Sacks spoke at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/silicon-valley-trump-support-donations/

The Golden Gown of Gribdale Gate

Ah, another splendid day graced with the magic of Autumn! In this view from Gribdale Gate looking down Lonsdale, the summer's lush bracken has begun to don its golden-brown gown, though the purple heather still manages to tinge the valley side.

Beneath the vast, cerulean sky, the air sparkles with the seed fluff of Rosebay willowherb, wafting like cotton wool in the breeze. This c ...

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#Lonsdale #NorthYorkMoors

Elon Musk’s X is apparently getting money from some pretty shady people.

A federal judge ordered Tuesday that a list of investors who helped fund Musk’s $44 billion takeover of X, formerly Twitter, in October 2022 be #unsealed.

Buried among the lengthy list of nearly 100 investors are several particularly troubling figures.

One entity listed is Sean Combs Capital, LLC—better known as #Sean “#Diddy” #Combs, the rapper who has been accused of rape, assault, forcible drugging, and even implicated in a sex trafficking operation.

“I don’t know if you know this, but #Puff is an investor in Twitter,” Musk said, using Combs’s nickname. “You know, he’s a good friend of mine, we text a lot.”

The list also includes several 🔸Silicon Valley entities run by billionaires like Musk himself and backing Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

One of the first names included is 🔸Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm run by #Marc #Andreessen and #Ben #Horowitz, who recently announcedthat they were backing Trump in 2024.

“It doesn’t have anything to do with the big issues that people care about,” Andreessen claimed, making clear that he was ignoring Trump’s platform on immigration and abortion, for a more favorable view on issues like crypto
—in which Andreessen and Horowitz claim to be some of the world’s largest investors.

Also on the list is 🔸Sequoia Capital, run by #Douglas #Leone and #Shaun #Maguire, who donated a whopping $1 million and $500,000 respectively to Musk’s pro-Trump super PAC, the #AmericaPAC, which is currently under investigation for the shady way it was collecting voter information.

Another investor is 🔸8VC, a venture capitalist firm run by #Joe #Lonsdale, who also donated $1 million to Musk’s PAC in June.

Lonsdale is a co-founder of intelligence contractor and data analysis platform 🔸Palantir, which was also headed by Peter Thiel.

While it’s hardly surprising that Musk’s billionaire buddies are invested in his social media company, it’s clear that X is being heavily underwritten by the same individuals funding Trump’s campaign.

Also included on the list of investors is #Saudi #Prince #Al #Waleed #bin #Talal #Al #Saud, who has long had a stake in the social media company.

In 2015, bin Talal owned 5.2 percent of Twitter, more than the company’s co-founder Jack Dorsey

https://newrepublic.com/post/185174/elon-musk-x-investors-shadiest-people-diddy

Elon Musk’s new super PAC is ⭐️collecting scores of voters’ personal information
⭐️under the guise of inviting them to register to vote,
⭐️as part of his effort to boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Earlier this month, #Musk denied reports that he would be donating $45 million a month to Trump’s campaign during an interview with right-wing commentator Jordan Peterson.
Instead, the technocrat clarified that he had created a new super PAC, called the #AmericaPAC.

Musk’s America PAC is a door-to-door canvassing operation,
which allows it to work in direct coordination with the Trump campaign, according to an FEC advisory from earlier this year.
This allows Musk, and his fellow Silicon Valley donors, to stick their hands
—and their cash
—right into the presidential race on Trump’s behalf.

How exactly they plan to do this is even more disturbing.

The America PAC has launched a series of 🔸digital ads using the image of Trump’s assassination,
to invite people browsing Google to 🔹“register to vote,” CNBC reported Friday.
🔹In states where the outcome is certain, such as California, the ads actually do direct them to a voter registration site.

♦️But in key battleground states, users are directed to a very different page,
which prompts them to enter their phone number, address, and age.
Once complete, users are then greeted by a “Thank You” page,
🔥with no actual link to voter registration in sight.

👉Musk’s America PAC has poured $800,000 into digital advertisements
to target voters in the key battleground states of
Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin,
according to AdImpact.

👉The information collected from user responses to this ad campaign will inform the PAC’s canvassing efforts in those states.

Musk’s America PAC has already attracted the financial support of a few Silicon Valley billionaires.
Douglas #Leone and Shaun #Maguire, general partners at Sequoia Capital, donated a whopping🔸 $1 million and $500,000 respectively, according to The American Prospect.
(Their V.C. firm is also an investor in Musk’s SpaceX.)
Joe #Lonsdale, one of the co-founders of the military contractor Palantir, donated $1 million in June.
Palantir was founded by Peter #Thiel, who helped to fund J.D. Vance’s start in politics.

Apparently, Musk’s plan for the America PAC is already off to a rough start.
After spending at least $15 million with In Field Strategies, a field vendor that organizes canvassers,
the PAC ended its relationship with the company, two people familiar told The New York Times.

It’s unclear what happened to that money, and now, more than 100 canvassers who had been hired by In Field on America PAC’s behalf in mid-June have been left scattered across the country, looking for work.

The PAC will now have to scramble to mount its canvassing campaign before early voting can begin, according to the Times.
Trump campaign manager Chris #LaCivita called the Times report “more fake news …
the New Program 100% better than the old gang. Solidly support this effort,” in a post on X.

https://newrepublic.com/post/184517/terrifying-way-elon-musk-stealing-peoples-data-help-trump

The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

Two of Silicon Valley’s famous venture capitalists make the case for backing Trump:
-- 💥that their ability to make money is the only value that matters.💥

Last week, the founders of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz declared their allegiance to Donald Trump in their customary fashion:
talking about money on a podcast.
🔹“Sorry, Mom,” Ben Horowitz says in an episode of The Ben & Marc Show. “I know you’re going to be mad at me for this. But, like, we have to do it.”

Marc #Andreessen and #Horowitz insist they voted for Democrats until now. They are friends with liberals. They claim to be nervous about the social blowback they will receive for this, especially because of the historically progressive nature of the tech industry and the Bay Area.

But given the general movement among their class toward Trump, I think those claims about being nervous are overblown, if not performative.

There is, for instance, Elon #Musk’s pro-Trump super PAC, which has support from Sequoia Capital’s Shaun #Maguire and 8VC’s Joe #Lonsdale, among other notables.
(The Wall Street Journal reported Musk is planning to donate $45 million a month -- which Musk has denied.)

There’s the $160 million the #crypto movement has put forward in support of crypto-friendly candidates.

We can’t forget their VC pal David #Sacks speaking at the Republican National Convention.

And last but not least, there’s Trump’s running mate choice of JD #Vance, a former venture capitalist whose firm’s investors included Peter #Thiel, Eric #Schmidt, and Andreessen himself.

This isn’t a movement. It’s a clique.

The podcast itself is an extraordinary performance.
At one point, Andreessen concedes that their major problems with President Joe Biden
— the ones that led them to support Trump
— are what most voters would consider “subsidiary” issues.

“It doesn’t have anything to do with the big issues that people care about,” he says.

If we take this podcast at face value, we are to believe that these subsidiary issues are the only reason they’ve chosen to endorse and donate to Trump.

⭐️These subsidiary issues take precedence for Andreessen and Horowitz over, say,
🔸mass deportations and
🔸Project 2025’s attempt to end no-fault divorce.

⭐️We are looking at a simple trade against personal liberty
— abortion, the rights of gay and trans people, and possibly democracy itself
— in favor of crypto, AI, and a tax policy they like better

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations

How JD Vance’s path to being Trump’s VP pick wound through Silicon Valley

Following a brief period of work in corporate law after he graduated Yale, Vance moved to San Francisco and got a job at #Peter #Thiel’s Mithril Capital venture firm in 2015.

After Hillbilly Elegy became a bestseller in 2016 and brought him to national prominence, Vance joined the venture capital firm Revolution, founded by the former AOL CEO #Steve #Case.

Vance remained a part of the tech VC world after returning to Ohio and leaving Revolution in early 2020.

He received financial backing from Thiel to co-found the venture firm Narya Capital
– which, like Thiel’s enterprises, was named after an object from The Lord of The Rings, this time a ring of power made for elves.

Other prominent investors in Narya included #Eric #Schmidt, the former Google CEO,and #Marc #Andreessen, a venture capitalist, who announced his own support for #Trump this past week.

The stated goal of Vance’s firm was to invest in early-stage startups in cities that Silicon Valley tended to overlook.

Narya Capital in 2021 led a group of conservative investors,
including Thiel,
to put money into #Rumble, the video streaming platform that positions itself as
a less-moderated and more rightwing friendly version of YouTube.

Vance’s co-founder at Narya, #Colin #Greenspon, touted the investment as a challenge to big tech’s hold on online services
– a frequent conservative talking point during the backlash to content moderation around the pandemic and 2020 presidential election.

It was also around this time that Thiel, who heavily backed Trump financially during the 2016 campaign, brought Vance to first talk with Trump during a secretive meeting at Mar-a-Lago in February of 2021, according to the New York Times.

Vance’s long association with Thiel also proved lucrative during his run for senator in 2022.
Thiel put a staggering $15m into Vance’s campaign and, according to the Washington Post, helped court Trump’s endorsement, leading to Vance winning a tightly contested Republican primary race and then the senate election.

Although Thiel has pledged in recent years to stay out of donations to the 2024 election,
Vance has since flexed his other Silicon Valley connections to ingratiate himself to Trump.

The Ohio senator introduced #David #Sacks, a prominent venture capitalist, to Donald Trump Jr in March, the New York Times reported,
and attended Sacks’ pro-Trump fundraiser in June, co-sponsored by #Chamath #Palihapitiya, Sacks’ co-host on the popular podcast All In.

The event, which cost as much as $300,000 to attend, was held at Sacks’s San Francisco mansion and featured the investor thanking Vance for his help making the fundraiser happen.

During an informal conversation at the dinner, Sacks and Palihapitiya told Trump to nominate Vance as his VP choice.

Sacks spoke at the Republican national convention Monday.
In the days prior, he had also called Trump to advocate for Vance as the VP pick,
as had #Elon #Musk and #Tucker #Carlson, the ex-Fox News host, according to Axios.

Thiel also expressed his support for Vance in private calls with Trump, the New York Times reported.

When Trump confirmed Vance would be his running mate, Sacks and Musk posted fawning celebrations on Twitter
– with Musk saying the ticket “resounds with victory”.

Many of Vance’s wealthy tech elite and venture capitalist supporters now appear to be preparing to offer even more tangible support.
Investors including Musk, Andreessen and Thiel’s co-founder in #Palantir, #Joe #Lonsdale, are all reportedly planning to donate huge sums of money to back the Trump and Vance campaign
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/19/jd-vance-trump-vp-pick-silicon-valley?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

In Silicon Valley, some members of an influential cohort of right-leaning tech investors and leaders who were alienated by Trump’s election-fraud crusade and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack appear to be coming around to him.

Many have been put off by Biden’s campaigns against the wealthy, as well as his administration’s criticisms of the tech industry in particular, along with its efforts to regulate the artificial intelligence boom.

#David #Sacks, a prominent tech investor, former chief operating officer of PayPal and host of the popular “All-In” podcast, spent the bulk of last year giving support to candidates running against Trump.
Privately, he told associates that he was not a believer in Trump’s election fraud crusade and was searching for a more disciplined candidate.

But recently, Sacks has begun to noticeably praise Trump to his more than 800,000 followers on X.
In one recent post, he referred to Trump as an “indispensable figure,” praising him for the “massive crowds he draws” and for going “over the heads of the media.”
In another, Sacks wrote, “Keep ridiculing [Trump] if you want, I’m going to cut him some slack.”

#Joe #Lonsdale, co-founder of data-mining firm Palantir and an associate of Sacks, Thiel and other billionaires on the right, was never a vocal Trump supporter. He backed DeSantis and threw a fundraiser for Ramaswamy.

This week, Lonsdale told The Washington Post that he planned to vote for Trump because he preferred Trump’s policies to Biden’s. But he said he would not be a heavy donor to any candidate this cycle and that he would stay focused on advocating for policy changes at the state level

Smelly Farm and the 18th Century Enclosures

A rather drab photograph capturing a drab-looking collection of barns, reflecting an exceptionally drab overcast day. The presence of a strong wind and rain in the air adds to the overall drabness.

Lounsdale — sometimes spelt Lonsdale — stands before me in all its aromatic glory. The barns, once known to my friendship group with the less than ...

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#Kildale #Lonsdale #Lonsdale #NorthYorkMoors #18thcentury

Clear felling on Little Ayton Moor has opened up super views across Great Ayton Moor all the way to Highcliff Nab

A light overnight snowfall hides the debris from the forestry work.

I guess the remainder of the forestry will go in due course.

Great Ayton Moor has a wealth of archaeological features which I've posted about many ...

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#AytonBank #ClevelandWay #GreatAytonMoor #Gribdale #LittleAytonMoor #Lonsdale #NorthYorkMoors #archaeological #snow