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The Plot Against America
They're not hiding it anymore.
A network of billionaires is openly calling for the end of democracy—in their own words, in public, on the record.
https://theplotagainstamerica.com/
#US #USA #USPol #USpolitics #America #Democracy #Oligarchy #Thiel #Yarvin #Prince #Bannon #Miller #Trump #Musk #Vance #Roberts #Vought #Ellison #Karp #Sacks #Andreessen #Luckey #Lonsdale #Altman #Srinivasan #Zuckerberg #Kratsios
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The Plot Against America
They're not hiding it anymore.
A network of billionaires is openly calling for the end of democracy—in their own words, in public, on the record.
https://theplotagainstamerica.com/
#US #USA #USPol #USpolitics #America #Democracy #Oligarchy #Thiel #Yarvin #Prince #Bannon #Miller #Trump #Musk #Vance #Roberts #Vought #Ellison #Karp #Sacks #Andreessen #Luckey #Lonsdale #Altman #Srinivasan #Zuckerberg #Kratsios
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The Plot Against America
They're not hiding it anymore.
A network of billionaires is openly calling for the end of democracy—in their own words, in public, on the record.
https://theplotagainstamerica.com/
#US #USA #USPol #USpolitics #America #Democracy #Oligarchy #Thiel #Yarvin #Prince #Bannon #Miller #Trump #Musk #Vance #Roberts #Vought #Ellison #Karp #Sacks #Andreessen #Luckey #Lonsdale #Altman #Srinivasan #Zuckerberg #Kratsios
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https://www.europesays.com/news/28777/ Appeals Court Appears Skeptical of Trump Orders Targeting Law Firms #ClassifiedInformationAndStateSecrets #Clement #CorneliaTL #DemocraticParty #DonaldJ #ExecutiveOrdersAndMemorandums #GovernmentContractsAndProcurement #Headlines #Jenner&Block #JusticeDepartment #Kirkland&Ellis #LegalProfession #Neomi #News #PaulD #PaulWeissRifkindWharton&Garrison #Pillard #PresidentialPower(US) #Rao #Sri #Srinivasan #TopStories #trump #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment
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Aron D’Souza says his latest startup, #Objection, aims to use AI to adjudicate the truth of journalism.
And for the price of $2,000,
anyone can pay to challenge a story,
triggering a public investigation into its claims.(D’Souza is also the founder of the Enhanced Games, an Olympics-style competition that allows performance-enhancing drugs and is set to debut in Las Vegas next month.)
Objection launched on Wednesday with “multiple millions” in seed funding from Peter #Thiel and Balaji #Srinivasan, as well as VC firms Social Impact Capital and Off Piste Capital.
Thiel, who funded the Gawker lawsuitpartly in defense of the individual right to privacy,
has long been critical of the media.D’Souza says his goal is to restore trust in the Fourth Estate, which he argues has collapsed over decades.
Critics, including media lawyers, warn Objection could make it harder to publish the kind of reporting that holds powerful institutions to account,
-- particularly if that reporting relies on confidential sources.Anonymous sources have played a key role in major award-winning investigations into corruption and corporate wrongdoing.
These are often people who are at risk of losing their jobs or facing other retaliation for sharing important information.
It’s the journalist’s job
— alongside their publication’s editors, peers, and lawyers
— to ensure that those sources are reliable and not acting out of pure malice and to verify the information they provide.But that’s not enough for D’Souza, who said
“using a fully anonymized source who hasn’t been independently verified”
would lead to a lower evidence and trust score on Objection.Under the platform’s rubric, primary records like regulatory filings and official emails carry the most weight,
while anonymous whistleblower claims are ranked near the bottom.Those inputs are collected in part by a team of freelancers
— former law enforcement agents and investigative journalists
— and are ultimately fed into what Objection calls an
“Honor Index,”
a numerical score the company says reflects a reporter’s integrity, accuracy, and track record.“Protecting a source’s information is a vital way of telling an important story,
but there’s an important power asymmetry there,”
D’Souza told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview.“The subject gets reported upon, but then there’s no way to critique the source.”
⚠️His solution presents a lose-lose for journalists:
either divulge sensitive source information to Objection’s “cryptographic hash” that determines “if it’s high quality reporting,”
or face demerits for protecting sources who share important information at great personal risk.
💥If technology like Objection takes off,
it could chill whistleblowing,
experts argue.Jane Kirtley, a lawyer and professor of media law and ethics at the University of Minnesota, says Objection fits into a long pattern of attacks that erode public trust in the press.
“If the underlying theme is,
‘Here’s yet another example of how the news media are lying to you,’
that’s one more chink in the armor to help destroy public confidence in independent journalism,” she said,
adding that clearly journalists need to do their part to be as transparent as possible in their reporting.Kirtley pointed to existing journalistic standards,
like the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics,
which advises reporters to use anonymous sources only when there is no other way to obtain the information.She also cited longstanding industry practices like peer criticism and internal editorial review as built-in accountability methods.
⭐️More broadly, she questioned whether Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are not steeped in journalistic traditions are equipped to evaluate what serves the public interest.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/can-ai-judge-journalism-a-thiel-backed-startup-says-yes-even-if-it-risks-chilling-whistleblowers/ -
Aron D’Souza says his latest startup, #Objection, aims to use AI to adjudicate the truth of journalism.
And for the price of $2,000,
anyone can pay to challenge a story,
triggering a public investigation into its claims.(D’Souza is also the founder of the Enhanced Games, an Olympics-style competition that allows performance-enhancing drugs and is set to debut in Las Vegas next month.)
Objection launched on Wednesday with “multiple millions” in seed funding from Peter #Thiel and Balaji #Srinivasan, as well as VC firms Social Impact Capital and Off Piste Capital.
Thiel, who funded the Gawker lawsuitpartly in defense of the individual right to privacy,
has long been critical of the media.D’Souza says his goal is to restore trust in the Fourth Estate, which he argues has collapsed over decades.
Critics, including media lawyers, warn Objection could make it harder to publish the kind of reporting that holds powerful institutions to account,
-- particularly if that reporting relies on confidential sources.Anonymous sources have played a key role in major award-winning investigations into corruption and corporate wrongdoing.
These are often people who are at risk of losing their jobs or facing other retaliation for sharing important information.
It’s the journalist’s job
— alongside their publication’s editors, peers, and lawyers
— to ensure that those sources are reliable and not acting out of pure malice and to verify the information they provide.But that’s not enough for D’Souza, who said
“using a fully anonymized source who hasn’t been independently verified”
would lead to a lower evidence and trust score on Objection.Under the platform’s rubric, primary records like regulatory filings and official emails carry the most weight,
while anonymous whistleblower claims are ranked near the bottom.Those inputs are collected in part by a team of freelancers
— former law enforcement agents and investigative journalists
— and are ultimately fed into what Objection calls an
“Honor Index,”
a numerical score the company says reflects a reporter’s integrity, accuracy, and track record.“Protecting a source’s information is a vital way of telling an important story,
but there’s an important power asymmetry there,”
D’Souza told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview.“The subject gets reported upon, but then there’s no way to critique the source.”
⚠️His solution presents a lose-lose for journalists:
either divulge sensitive source information to Objection’s “cryptographic hash” that determines “if it’s high quality reporting,”
or face demerits for protecting sources who share important information at great personal risk.
💥If technology like Objection takes off,
it could chill whistleblowing,
experts argue.Jane Kirtley, a lawyer and professor of media law and ethics at the University of Minnesota, says Objection fits into a long pattern of attacks that erode public trust in the press.
“If the underlying theme is,
‘Here’s yet another example of how the news media are lying to you,’
that’s one more chink in the armor to help destroy public confidence in independent journalism,” she said,
adding that clearly journalists need to do their part to be as transparent as possible in their reporting.Kirtley pointed to existing journalistic standards,
like the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics,
which advises reporters to use anonymous sources only when there is no other way to obtain the information.She also cited longstanding industry practices like peer criticism and internal editorial review as built-in accountability methods.
⭐️More broadly, she questioned whether Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are not steeped in journalistic traditions are equipped to evaluate what serves the public interest.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/can-ai-judge-journalism-a-thiel-backed-startup-says-yes-even-if-it-risks-chilling-whistleblowers/ -
Aron D’Souza says his latest startup, #Objection, aims to use AI to adjudicate the truth of journalism.
And for the price of $2,000,
anyone can pay to challenge a story,
triggering a public investigation into its claims.(D’Souza is also the founder of the Enhanced Games, an Olympics-style competition that allows performance-enhancing drugs and is set to debut in Las Vegas next month.)
Objection launched on Wednesday with “multiple millions” in seed funding from Peter #Thiel and Balaji #Srinivasan, as well as VC firms Social Impact Capital and Off Piste Capital.
Thiel, who funded the Gawker lawsuitpartly in defense of the individual right to privacy,
has long been critical of the media.D’Souza says his goal is to restore trust in the Fourth Estate, which he argues has collapsed over decades.
Critics, including media lawyers, warn Objection could make it harder to publish the kind of reporting that holds powerful institutions to account,
-- particularly if that reporting relies on confidential sources.Anonymous sources have played a key role in major award-winning investigations into corruption and corporate wrongdoing.
These are often people who are at risk of losing their jobs or facing other retaliation for sharing important information.
It’s the journalist’s job
— alongside their publication’s editors, peers, and lawyers
— to ensure that those sources are reliable and not acting out of pure malice and to verify the information they provide.But that’s not enough for D’Souza, who said
“using a fully anonymized source who hasn’t been independently verified”
would lead to a lower evidence and trust score on Objection.Under the platform’s rubric, primary records like regulatory filings and official emails carry the most weight,
while anonymous whistleblower claims are ranked near the bottom.Those inputs are collected in part by a team of freelancers
— former law enforcement agents and investigative journalists
— and are ultimately fed into what Objection calls an
“Honor Index,”
a numerical score the company says reflects a reporter’s integrity, accuracy, and track record.“Protecting a source’s information is a vital way of telling an important story,
but there’s an important power asymmetry there,”
D’Souza told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview.“The subject gets reported upon, but then there’s no way to critique the source.”
⚠️His solution presents a lose-lose for journalists:
either divulge sensitive source information to Objection’s “cryptographic hash” that determines “if it’s high quality reporting,”
or face demerits for protecting sources who share important information at great personal risk.
💥If technology like Objection takes off,
it could chill whistleblowing,
experts argue.Jane Kirtley, a lawyer and professor of media law and ethics at the University of Minnesota, says Objection fits into a long pattern of attacks that erode public trust in the press.
“If the underlying theme is,
‘Here’s yet another example of how the news media are lying to you,’
that’s one more chink in the armor to help destroy public confidence in independent journalism,” she said,
adding that clearly journalists need to do their part to be as transparent as possible in their reporting.Kirtley pointed to existing journalistic standards,
like the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics,
which advises reporters to use anonymous sources only when there is no other way to obtain the information.She also cited longstanding industry practices like peer criticism and internal editorial review as built-in accountability methods.
⭐️More broadly, she questioned whether Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are not steeped in journalistic traditions are equipped to evaluate what serves the public interest.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/can-ai-judge-journalism-a-thiel-backed-startup-says-yes-even-if-it-risks-chilling-whistleblowers/ -
Aron D’Souza says his latest startup, #Objection, aims to use AI to adjudicate the truth of journalism.
And for the price of $2,000,
anyone can pay to challenge a story,
triggering a public investigation into its claims.(D’Souza is also the founder of the Enhanced Games, an Olympics-style competition that allows performance-enhancing drugs and is set to debut in Las Vegas next month.)
Objection launched on Wednesday with “multiple millions” in seed funding from Peter #Thiel and Balaji #Srinivasan, as well as VC firms Social Impact Capital and Off Piste Capital.
Thiel, who funded the Gawker lawsuitpartly in defense of the individual right to privacy,
has long been critical of the media.D’Souza says his goal is to restore trust in the Fourth Estate, which he argues has collapsed over decades.
Critics, including media lawyers, warn Objection could make it harder to publish the kind of reporting that holds powerful institutions to account,
-- particularly if that reporting relies on confidential sources.Anonymous sources have played a key role in major award-winning investigations into corruption and corporate wrongdoing.
These are often people who are at risk of losing their jobs or facing other retaliation for sharing important information.
It’s the journalist’s job
— alongside their publication’s editors, peers, and lawyers
— to ensure that those sources are reliable and not acting out of pure malice and to verify the information they provide.But that’s not enough for D’Souza, who said
“using a fully anonymized source who hasn’t been independently verified”
would lead to a lower evidence and trust score on Objection.Under the platform’s rubric, primary records like regulatory filings and official emails carry the most weight,
while anonymous whistleblower claims are ranked near the bottom.Those inputs are collected in part by a team of freelancers
— former law enforcement agents and investigative journalists
— and are ultimately fed into what Objection calls an
“Honor Index,”
a numerical score the company says reflects a reporter’s integrity, accuracy, and track record.“Protecting a source’s information is a vital way of telling an important story,
but there’s an important power asymmetry there,”
D’Souza told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview.“The subject gets reported upon, but then there’s no way to critique the source.”
⚠️His solution presents a lose-lose for journalists:
either divulge sensitive source information to Objection’s “cryptographic hash” that determines “if it’s high quality reporting,”
or face demerits for protecting sources who share important information at great personal risk.
💥If technology like Objection takes off,
it could chill whistleblowing,
experts argue.Jane Kirtley, a lawyer and professor of media law and ethics at the University of Minnesota, says Objection fits into a long pattern of attacks that erode public trust in the press.
“If the underlying theme is,
‘Here’s yet another example of how the news media are lying to you,’
that’s one more chink in the armor to help destroy public confidence in independent journalism,” she said,
adding that clearly journalists need to do their part to be as transparent as possible in their reporting.Kirtley pointed to existing journalistic standards,
like the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics,
which advises reporters to use anonymous sources only when there is no other way to obtain the information.She also cited longstanding industry practices like peer criticism and internal editorial review as built-in accountability methods.
⭐️More broadly, she questioned whether Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are not steeped in journalistic traditions are equipped to evaluate what serves the public interest.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/can-ai-judge-journalism-a-thiel-backed-startup-says-yes-even-if-it-risks-chilling-whistleblowers/ -
Aron D’Souza says his latest startup, #Objection, aims to use AI to adjudicate the truth of journalism.
And for the price of $2,000,
anyone can pay to challenge a story,
triggering a public investigation into its claims.(D’Souza is also the founder of the Enhanced Games, an Olympics-style competition that allows performance-enhancing drugs and is set to debut in Las Vegas next month.)
Objection launched on Wednesday with “multiple millions” in seed funding from Peter #Thiel and Balaji #Srinivasan, as well as VC firms Social Impact Capital and Off Piste Capital.
Thiel, who funded the Gawker lawsuitpartly in defense of the individual right to privacy,
has long been critical of the media.D’Souza says his goal is to restore trust in the Fourth Estate, which he argues has collapsed over decades.
Critics, including media lawyers, warn Objection could make it harder to publish the kind of reporting that holds powerful institutions to account,
-- particularly if that reporting relies on confidential sources.Anonymous sources have played a key role in major award-winning investigations into corruption and corporate wrongdoing.
These are often people who are at risk of losing their jobs or facing other retaliation for sharing important information.
It’s the journalist’s job
— alongside their publication’s editors, peers, and lawyers
— to ensure that those sources are reliable and not acting out of pure malice and to verify the information they provide.But that’s not enough for D’Souza, who said
“using a fully anonymized source who hasn’t been independently verified”
would lead to a lower evidence and trust score on Objection.Under the platform’s rubric, primary records like regulatory filings and official emails carry the most weight,
while anonymous whistleblower claims are ranked near the bottom.Those inputs are collected in part by a team of freelancers
— former law enforcement agents and investigative journalists
— and are ultimately fed into what Objection calls an
“Honor Index,”
a numerical score the company says reflects a reporter’s integrity, accuracy, and track record.“Protecting a source’s information is a vital way of telling an important story,
but there’s an important power asymmetry there,”
D’Souza told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview.“The subject gets reported upon, but then there’s no way to critique the source.”
⚠️His solution presents a lose-lose for journalists:
either divulge sensitive source information to Objection’s “cryptographic hash” that determines “if it’s high quality reporting,”
or face demerits for protecting sources who share important information at great personal risk.
💥If technology like Objection takes off,
it could chill whistleblowing,
experts argue.Jane Kirtley, a lawyer and professor of media law and ethics at the University of Minnesota, says Objection fits into a long pattern of attacks that erode public trust in the press.
“If the underlying theme is,
‘Here’s yet another example of how the news media are lying to you,’
that’s one more chink in the armor to help destroy public confidence in independent journalism,” she said,
adding that clearly journalists need to do their part to be as transparent as possible in their reporting.Kirtley pointed to existing journalistic standards,
like the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics,
which advises reporters to use anonymous sources only when there is no other way to obtain the information.She also cited longstanding industry practices like peer criticism and internal editorial review as built-in accountability methods.
⭐️More broadly, she questioned whether Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are not steeped in journalistic traditions are equipped to evaluate what serves the public interest.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/can-ai-judge-journalism-a-thiel-backed-startup-says-yes-even-if-it-risks-chilling-whistleblowers/ -
The “California Billionaire Tax Act”,
often referred to simply as the #billionaire #tax,
is a proposalthat would require any California resident worth more than $1bn to pay a
one-off, 5% tax on their assets to help cover education, food assistance and healthcare programs in the state.It’s sponsored by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West,
and if it receives enough signatures from California voters, it will go to the ballot in November.When the proposal was put forward at the end of last year,
many among tech’s billionaire elite threw a #tantrum.Some opened offices or bought mansions in Florida or Texas,
vowing to leave California for good.
The fleeing rich included Palantir co-founder Peter #Thiel,
whose current net worth is $25bn;
Google co-founders Larry #Page and Sergey #Brin,
worth around $255bn and $240bn respectively;
and Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David #Sacks,
whose net worth is not publicly known.Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Meta CEO
Mark #Zuckerberg,
worth $229bn, has also bought a property in south Florida valued between $150 and $200m.Thiel has additionally led the charge in donating to a lobbying group, the "California Business Roundtable",
which has pledged to fight the wealth tax.The Palantir co-founder handed over $3m to the political action committee in late December.
Other major donors include realtors, entrepreneurs and private equity firms.
James #Siminoff, who founded the camera-embedded Ring doorbell company, also donated $100,000, according to public records.“The most powerful money in politics is to be on the no-side of a ballot measure,” said #McCuan.
“You can even pre-empt something getting to the ballot, like a billionaire’s tax,
by explaining to everyone out there that this is a bad idea for economic growth.”Tech investors and venture capitalists have been extremely vocal in their opposition to the tax,
saying that the state will lose revenue as billionaires flee and it will hurt the state’s ability to be economically competitive.Just this week, Chamath #Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and current venture capital investor, wrote
“the loss of this tax revenue was totally avoidable but is now forever”.
#Balaji #Srinivasan, an investor and former chief technology officer of Coinbase, wrote,
“the most successful tech founders of all time have now exited the failed state of California”.Adding on, Paul #Graham, the co-founder of seed capital firm Y Combinator, wrote:
“It’s important that people like Zuck and Larry Page are willing to move in response to the proposed wealth tax.
It shows politicians what will happen if they try things like this.”Joining the billionaires, #Newsom has pledged to fight the tax, saying it will “drive a race to the bottom” and stifle innovation as the ultra-wealthy leave.
“This will be defeated – there’s no question in my mind,” Newsom told the New York Times in January.
“I’ll do what I have to do to protect the state.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/california-billionaires-state-elections -
The “California Billionaire Tax Act”,
often referred to simply as the #billionaire #tax,
is a proposalthat would require any California resident worth more than $1bn to pay a
one-off, 5% tax on their assets to help cover education, food assistance and healthcare programs in the state.It’s sponsored by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West,
and if it receives enough signatures from California voters, it will go to the ballot in November.When the proposal was put forward at the end of last year,
many among tech’s billionaire elite threw a #tantrum.Some opened offices or bought mansions in Florida or Texas,
vowing to leave California for good.
The fleeing rich included Palantir co-founder Peter #Thiel,
whose current net worth is $25bn;
Google co-founders Larry #Page and Sergey #Brin,
worth around $255bn and $240bn respectively;
and Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David #Sacks,
whose net worth is not publicly known.Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Meta CEO
Mark #Zuckerberg,
worth $229bn, has also bought a property in south Florida valued between $150 and $200m.Thiel has additionally led the charge in donating to a lobbying group, the "California Business Roundtable",
which has pledged to fight the wealth tax.The Palantir co-founder handed over $3m to the political action committee in late December.
Other major donors include realtors, entrepreneurs and private equity firms.
James #Siminoff, who founded the camera-embedded Ring doorbell company, also donated $100,000, according to public records.“The most powerful money in politics is to be on the no-side of a ballot measure,” said #McCuan.
“You can even pre-empt something getting to the ballot, like a billionaire’s tax,
by explaining to everyone out there that this is a bad idea for economic growth.”Tech investors and venture capitalists have been extremely vocal in their opposition to the tax,
saying that the state will lose revenue as billionaires flee and it will hurt the state’s ability to be economically competitive.Just this week, Chamath #Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and current venture capital investor, wrote
“the loss of this tax revenue was totally avoidable but is now forever”.
#Balaji #Srinivasan, an investor and former chief technology officer of Coinbase, wrote,
“the most successful tech founders of all time have now exited the failed state of California”.Adding on, Paul #Graham, the co-founder of seed capital firm Y Combinator, wrote:
“It’s important that people like Zuck and Larry Page are willing to move in response to the proposed wealth tax.
It shows politicians what will happen if they try things like this.”Joining the billionaires, #Newsom has pledged to fight the tax, saying it will “drive a race to the bottom” and stifle innovation as the ultra-wealthy leave.
“This will be defeated – there’s no question in my mind,” Newsom told the New York Times in January.
“I’ll do what I have to do to protect the state.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/california-billionaires-state-elections -
The “California Billionaire Tax Act”,
often referred to simply as the #billionaire #tax,
is a proposalthat would require any California resident worth more than $1bn to pay a
one-off, 5% tax on their assets to help cover education, food assistance and healthcare programs in the state.It’s sponsored by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West,
and if it receives enough signatures from California voters, it will go to the ballot in November.When the proposal was put forward at the end of last year,
many among tech’s billionaire elite threw a #tantrum.Some opened offices or bought mansions in Florida or Texas,
vowing to leave California for good.
The fleeing rich included Palantir co-founder Peter #Thiel,
whose current net worth is $25bn;
Google co-founders Larry #Page and Sergey #Brin,
worth around $255bn and $240bn respectively;
and Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David #Sacks,
whose net worth is not publicly known.Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Meta CEO
Mark #Zuckerberg,
worth $229bn, has also bought a property in south Florida valued between $150 and $200m.Thiel has additionally led the charge in donating to a lobbying group, the "California Business Roundtable",
which has pledged to fight the wealth tax.The Palantir co-founder handed over $3m to the political action committee in late December.
Other major donors include realtors, entrepreneurs and private equity firms.
James #Siminoff, who founded the camera-embedded Ring doorbell company, also donated $100,000, according to public records.“The most powerful money in politics is to be on the no-side of a ballot measure,” said #McCuan.
“You can even pre-empt something getting to the ballot, like a billionaire’s tax,
by explaining to everyone out there that this is a bad idea for economic growth.”Tech investors and venture capitalists have been extremely vocal in their opposition to the tax,
saying that the state will lose revenue as billionaires flee and it will hurt the state’s ability to be economically competitive.Just this week, Chamath #Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and current venture capital investor, wrote
“the loss of this tax revenue was totally avoidable but is now forever”.
#Balaji #Srinivasan, an investor and former chief technology officer of Coinbase, wrote,
“the most successful tech founders of all time have now exited the failed state of California”.Adding on, Paul #Graham, the co-founder of seed capital firm Y Combinator, wrote:
“It’s important that people like Zuck and Larry Page are willing to move in response to the proposed wealth tax.
It shows politicians what will happen if they try things like this.”Joining the billionaires, #Newsom has pledged to fight the tax, saying it will “drive a race to the bottom” and stifle innovation as the ultra-wealthy leave.
“This will be defeated – there’s no question in my mind,” Newsom told the New York Times in January.
“I’ll do what I have to do to protect the state.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/california-billionaires-state-elections -
The “California Billionaire Tax Act”,
often referred to simply as the #billionaire #tax,
is a proposalthat would require any California resident worth more than $1bn to pay a
one-off, 5% tax on their assets to help cover education, food assistance and healthcare programs in the state.It’s sponsored by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West,
and if it receives enough signatures from California voters, it will go to the ballot in November.When the proposal was put forward at the end of last year,
many among tech’s billionaire elite threw a #tantrum.Some opened offices or bought mansions in Florida or Texas,
vowing to leave California for good.
The fleeing rich included Palantir co-founder Peter #Thiel,
whose current net worth is $25bn;
Google co-founders Larry #Page and Sergey #Brin,
worth around $255bn and $240bn respectively;
and Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David #Sacks,
whose net worth is not publicly known.Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Meta CEO
Mark #Zuckerberg,
worth $229bn, has also bought a property in south Florida valued between $150 and $200m.Thiel has additionally led the charge in donating to a lobbying group, the "California Business Roundtable",
which has pledged to fight the wealth tax.The Palantir co-founder handed over $3m to the political action committee in late December.
Other major donors include realtors, entrepreneurs and private equity firms.
James #Siminoff, who founded the camera-embedded Ring doorbell company, also donated $100,000, according to public records.“The most powerful money in politics is to be on the no-side of a ballot measure,” said #McCuan.
“You can even pre-empt something getting to the ballot, like a billionaire’s tax,
by explaining to everyone out there that this is a bad idea for economic growth.”Tech investors and venture capitalists have been extremely vocal in their opposition to the tax,
saying that the state will lose revenue as billionaires flee and it will hurt the state’s ability to be economically competitive.Just this week, Chamath #Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and current venture capital investor, wrote
“the loss of this tax revenue was totally avoidable but is now forever”.
#Balaji #Srinivasan, an investor and former chief technology officer of Coinbase, wrote,
“the most successful tech founders of all time have now exited the failed state of California”.Adding on, Paul #Graham, the co-founder of seed capital firm Y Combinator, wrote:
“It’s important that people like Zuck and Larry Page are willing to move in response to the proposed wealth tax.
It shows politicians what will happen if they try things like this.”Joining the billionaires, #Newsom has pledged to fight the tax, saying it will “drive a race to the bottom” and stifle innovation as the ultra-wealthy leave.
“This will be defeated – there’s no question in my mind,” Newsom told the New York Times in January.
“I’ll do what I have to do to protect the state.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/california-billionaires-state-elections -
The “California Billionaire Tax Act”,
often referred to simply as the #billionaire #tax,
is a proposalthat would require any California resident worth more than $1bn to pay a
one-off, 5% tax on their assets to help cover education, food assistance and healthcare programs in the state.It’s sponsored by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West,
and if it receives enough signatures from California voters, it will go to the ballot in November.When the proposal was put forward at the end of last year,
many among tech’s billionaire elite threw a #tantrum.Some opened offices or bought mansions in Florida or Texas,
vowing to leave California for good.
The fleeing rich included Palantir co-founder Peter #Thiel,
whose current net worth is $25bn;
Google co-founders Larry #Page and Sergey #Brin,
worth around $255bn and $240bn respectively;
and Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David #Sacks,
whose net worth is not publicly known.Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Meta CEO
Mark #Zuckerberg,
worth $229bn, has also bought a property in south Florida valued between $150 and $200m.Thiel has additionally led the charge in donating to a lobbying group, the "California Business Roundtable",
which has pledged to fight the wealth tax.The Palantir co-founder handed over $3m to the political action committee in late December.
Other major donors include realtors, entrepreneurs and private equity firms.
James #Siminoff, who founded the camera-embedded Ring doorbell company, also donated $100,000, according to public records.“The most powerful money in politics is to be on the no-side of a ballot measure,” said #McCuan.
“You can even pre-empt something getting to the ballot, like a billionaire’s tax,
by explaining to everyone out there that this is a bad idea for economic growth.”Tech investors and venture capitalists have been extremely vocal in their opposition to the tax,
saying that the state will lose revenue as billionaires flee and it will hurt the state’s ability to be economically competitive.Just this week, Chamath #Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and current venture capital investor, wrote
“the loss of this tax revenue was totally avoidable but is now forever”.
#Balaji #Srinivasan, an investor and former chief technology officer of Coinbase, wrote,
“the most successful tech founders of all time have now exited the failed state of California”.Adding on, Paul #Graham, the co-founder of seed capital firm Y Combinator, wrote:
“It’s important that people like Zuck and Larry Page are willing to move in response to the proposed wealth tax.
It shows politicians what will happen if they try things like this.”Joining the billionaires, #Newsom has pledged to fight the tax, saying it will “drive a race to the bottom” and stifle innovation as the ultra-wealthy leave.
“This will be defeated – there’s no question in my mind,” Newsom told the New York Times in January.
“I’ll do what I have to do to protect the state.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/california-billionaires-state-elections -
Beloved husband of Olympian PT Usha, Sreenivasan, passes away at 63. A former CISF inspector and co-founder of the Usha School of Athletics, he had always supported Usha’s journey in sports. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/sreenivasan-who-memorised-every-second-of-pt-ushas-races-now-lives-in-cherished-memories-omcvbo08?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #PTUsha #Srinivasan #UshaSchoolOfAthletics #IndianAthletics
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Beloved husband of Olympian PT Usha, Sreenivasan, passes away at 63. A former CISF inspector and co-founder of the Usha School of Athletics, he had always supported Usha’s journey in sports. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/sreenivasan-who-memorised-every-second-of-pt-ushas-races-now-lives-in-cherished-memories-omcvbo08?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #PTUsha #Srinivasan #UshaSchoolOfAthletics #IndianAthletics
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Beloved husband of Olympian PT Usha, Sreenivasan, passes away at 63. A former CISF inspector and co-founder of the Usha School of Athletics, he had always supported Usha’s journey in sports. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/sreenivasan-who-memorised-every-second-of-pt-ushas-races-now-lives-in-cherished-memories-omcvbo08?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #PTUsha #Srinivasan #UshaSchoolOfAthletics #IndianAthletics
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/242313/ Two unforgettable Malayalam films brought to life by Sreenivasan #actor #ActorSreenivasan #ChinthavishtayayaShyamala #director #Éire #Entertainment #FilmLegacy #IE #Ireland #legend #malayalam #MalayalamCinema #Movies #SocialCommentary #sreenivasan #SreenivasanActor #SreenivasanDeath #SreenivasanNews #srinivasan #SrinivasanActor #SrinivasanMalayalamActor #Vadakkunokkiyanthram #writer #ശ്രീനിവാസന്
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'Chatham House Rule'
Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
#Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.#Andreessen lurks.
But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
sparring with conservatives.(“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)
The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.Both of those are now fading
(though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
“a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.“It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”
And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.
You can see it on X,
where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.“Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
said #Rufo.
“There’s a big split on the tech right.”The polarity of social media has also reversed,
and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
“now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
“This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
he wrote, shorthanding
“Trump Derangement Syndrome.”Then he addressed Torenberg:
“You should create a new one with just smart people.”Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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'Chatham House Rule'
Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
#Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.#Andreessen lurks.
But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
sparring with conservatives.(“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)
The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.Both of those are now fading
(though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
“a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.“It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”
And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.
You can see it on X,
where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.“Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
said #Rufo.
“There’s a big split on the tech right.”The polarity of social media has also reversed,
and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
“now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
“This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
he wrote, shorthanding
“Trump Derangement Syndrome.”Then he addressed Torenberg:
“You should create a new one with just smart people.”Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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'Chatham House Rule'
Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
#Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.#Andreessen lurks.
But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
sparring with conservatives.(“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)
The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.Both of those are now fading
(though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
“a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.“It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”
And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.
You can see it on X,
where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.“Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
said #Rufo.
“There’s a big split on the tech right.”The polarity of social media has also reversed,
and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
“now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
“This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
he wrote, shorthanding
“Trump Derangement Syndrome.”Then he addressed Torenberg:
“You should create a new one with just smart people.”Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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'Chatham House Rule'
Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
#Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.#Andreessen lurks.
But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
sparring with conservatives.(“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)
The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.Both of those are now fading
(though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
“a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.“It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”
And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.
You can see it on X,
where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.“Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
said #Rufo.
“There’s a big split on the tech right.”The polarity of social media has also reversed,
and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
“now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
“This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
he wrote, shorthanding
“Trump Derangement Syndrome.”Then he addressed Torenberg:
“You should create a new one with just smart people.”Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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'Chatham House Rule'
Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
#Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.#Andreessen lurks.
But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
sparring with conservatives.(“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)
The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.Both of those are now fading
(though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
“a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.“It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”
And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.
You can see it on X,
where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.“Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
said #Rufo.
“There’s a big split on the tech right.”The polarity of social media has also reversed,
and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
“now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
“This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
he wrote, shorthanding
“Trump Derangement Syndrome.”Then he addressed Torenberg:
“You should create a new one with just smart people.”Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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Two more Columbia University pro-Palestinian protesters were being forced to leave the country,
the Department of Homeland Security said Friday.
The first student left the country on her own after her visa was revoked for what the DHS said was “advocating for violence and terrorism,”.#Ranjani #Srinivasan, a citizen of India, was involved in activities supporting Hamas, it said.
Her visa was revoked on March 5 and she left the country on Tuesday.
The second student, #Leqaa #Kordia, a Palestinian from West Bank, had a student visa that expired in January 2022, the agency said.It said that in April of last year she was arrested for involvement in
“pro-Hamas protests” at Columbia.
She was arrested by immigration officials out of the Newark, office for remaining in the country after her visa expired. -
Two more Columbia University pro-Palestinian protesters were being forced to leave the country,
the Department of Homeland Security said Friday.
The first student left the country on her own after her visa was revoked for what the DHS said was “advocating for violence and terrorism,”.#Ranjani #Srinivasan, a citizen of India, was involved in activities supporting Hamas, it said.
Her visa was revoked on March 5 and she left the country on Tuesday.
The second student, #Leqaa #Kordia, a Palestinian from West Bank, had a student visa that expired in January 2022, the agency said.It said that in April of last year she was arrested for involvement in
“pro-Hamas protests” at Columbia.
She was arrested by immigration officials out of the Newark, office for remaining in the country after her visa expired. -
Two more Columbia University pro-Palestinian protesters were being forced to leave the country,
the Department of Homeland Security said Friday.
The first student left the country on her own after her visa was revoked for what the DHS said was “advocating for violence and terrorism,”.#Ranjani #Srinivasan, a citizen of India, was involved in activities supporting Hamas, it said.
Her visa was revoked on March 5 and she left the country on Tuesday.
The second student, #Leqaa #Kordia, a Palestinian from West Bank, had a student visa that expired in January 2022, the agency said.It said that in April of last year she was arrested for involvement in
“pro-Hamas protests” at Columbia.
She was arrested by immigration officials out of the Newark, office for remaining in the country after her visa expired. -
Two more Columbia University pro-Palestinian protesters were being forced to leave the country,
the Department of Homeland Security said Friday.
The first student left the country on her own after her visa was revoked for what the DHS said was “advocating for violence and terrorism,”.#Ranjani #Srinivasan, a citizen of India, was involved in activities supporting Hamas, it said.
Her visa was revoked on March 5 and she left the country on Tuesday.
The second student, #Leqaa #Kordia, a Palestinian from West Bank, had a student visa that expired in January 2022, the agency said.It said that in April of last year she was arrested for involvement in
“pro-Hamas protests” at Columbia.
She was arrested by immigration officials out of the Newark, office for remaining in the country after her visa expired. -
Two more Columbia University pro-Palestinian protesters were being forced to leave the country,
the Department of Homeland Security said Friday.
The first student left the country on her own after her visa was revoked for what the DHS said was “advocating for violence and terrorism,”.#Ranjani #Srinivasan, a citizen of India, was involved in activities supporting Hamas, it said.
Her visa was revoked on March 5 and she left the country on Tuesday.
The second student, #Leqaa #Kordia, a Palestinian from West Bank, had a student visa that expired in January 2022, the agency said.It said that in April of last year she was arrested for involvement in
“pro-Hamas protests” at Columbia.
She was arrested by immigration officials out of the Newark, office for remaining in the country after her visa expired. -
Tech billionaire
#Marc #Andreessen is reportedly getting involved with #DOGE.He’s also invested in the “network state” movement led by #Balaji #Srinivasan, which aims 2 build crypto-based countries within existing states
via the creation of
“parallel institutions” like X.Listen. 1/
https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social/post/3lc4wwzofo22v -
Tech billionaire
#Marc #Andreessen is reportedly getting involved with #DOGE.He’s also invested in the “network state” movement led by #Balaji #Srinivasan, which aims 2 build crypto-based countries within existing states
via the creation of
“parallel institutions” like X.Listen. 1/
https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social/post/3lc4wwzofo22v -
Tech billionaire
#Marc #Andreessen is reportedly getting involved with #DOGE.He’s also invested in the “network state” movement led by #Balaji #Srinivasan, which aims 2 build crypto-based countries within existing states
via the creation of
“parallel institutions” like X.Listen. 1/
https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social/post/3lc4wwzofo22v -
Tech billionaire
#Marc #Andreessen is reportedly getting involved with #DOGE.He’s also invested in the “network state” movement led by #Balaji #Srinivasan, which aims 2 build crypto-based countries within existing states
via the creation of
“parallel institutions” like X.Listen. 1/
https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social/post/3lc4wwzofo22v -
Tech billionaire
#Marc #Andreessen is reportedly getting involved with #DOGE.He’s also invested in the “network state” movement led by #Balaji #Srinivasan, which aims 2 build crypto-based countries within existing states
via the creation of
“parallel institutions” like X.Listen. 1/
https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social/post/3lc4wwzofo22v -
Imagine you could choose your citizenship the same way you choose your gym membership.
That’s a vision of the not-too-distant future put forward by #Balaji #Srinivasan.
Balaji – who is mostly just known by his first name – is a rockstar to the #cryptobros.
A serial tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist who believes that pretty much everything governments currently do,
tech can do better.I watched Balaji outline his idea last autumn, at a vast conference hall on the outskirts of Amsterdam.
“We start new companies like Google;
we start new communities like Facebook;
we start new currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum;
❓can we start new countries?” ❓
he asked,
as he ambled on stage,
dressed in a slightly baggy grey suit and loose tie.He looked like a middle manager in a corporate accounts department.
But Balaji is a former partner at the giant Silicon Valley venture capital firm #Andreessen #Horowitz.
He has backers with deep pockets.
“Imagine a thousand different startups, each of them replacing a different legacy institution,” Balaji told the audience.
“They exist alongside the establishment in parallel,
they’re pulling away users,
they’re gaining strength,
until they become the new thing.”If startups could replace all these different institutions, Balaji reasoned,
they could replace countries too.He calls his idea the “#network #state”: startup nations.
Here’s how it would work:
communities form
– on the internet initially
– around a set of shared interests or values.Then they acquire land,
becoming physical “countries” with their own laws.These would exist alongside existing nation states, and eventually, replace them altogether.
You would choose your nationality like you choose your broadband provider.
The network state movement doesn’t just want pliant existing governments so that companies can run their own affairs.
It wants to replace governments with companies.
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Imagine you could choose your citizenship the same way you choose your gym membership.
That’s a vision of the not-too-distant future put forward by #Balaji #Srinivasan.
Balaji – who is mostly just known by his first name – is a rockstar to the #cryptobros.
A serial tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist who believes that pretty much everything governments currently do,
tech can do better.I watched Balaji outline his idea last autumn, at a vast conference hall on the outskirts of Amsterdam.
“We start new companies like Google;
we start new communities like Facebook;
we start new currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum;
❓can we start new countries?” ❓
he asked,
as he ambled on stage,
dressed in a slightly baggy grey suit and loose tie.He looked like a middle manager in a corporate accounts department.
But Balaji is a former partner at the giant Silicon Valley venture capital firm #Andreessen #Horowitz.
He has backers with deep pockets.
“Imagine a thousand different startups, each of them replacing a different legacy institution,” Balaji told the audience.
“They exist alongside the establishment in parallel,
they’re pulling away users,
they’re gaining strength,
until they become the new thing.”If startups could replace all these different institutions, Balaji reasoned,
they could replace countries too.He calls his idea the “#network #state”: startup nations.
Here’s how it would work:
communities form
– on the internet initially
– around a set of shared interests or values.Then they acquire land,
becoming physical “countries” with their own laws.These would exist alongside existing nation states, and eventually, replace them altogether.
You would choose your nationality like you choose your broadband provider.
The network state movement doesn’t just want pliant existing governments so that companies can run their own affairs.
It wants to replace governments with companies.
-
Imagine you could choose your citizenship the same way you choose your gym membership.
That’s a vision of the not-too-distant future put forward by #Balaji #Srinivasan.
Balaji – who is mostly just known by his first name – is a rockstar to the #cryptobros.
A serial tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist who believes that pretty much everything governments currently do,
tech can do better.I watched Balaji outline his idea last autumn, at a vast conference hall on the outskirts of Amsterdam.
“We start new companies like Google;
we start new communities like Facebook;
we start new currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum;
❓can we start new countries?” ❓
he asked,
as he ambled on stage,
dressed in a slightly baggy grey suit and loose tie.He looked like a middle manager in a corporate accounts department.
But Balaji is a former partner at the giant Silicon Valley venture capital firm #Andreessen #Horowitz.
He has backers with deep pockets.
“Imagine a thousand different startups, each of them replacing a different legacy institution,” Balaji told the audience.
“They exist alongside the establishment in parallel,
they’re pulling away users,
they’re gaining strength,
until they become the new thing.”If startups could replace all these different institutions, Balaji reasoned,
they could replace countries too.He calls his idea the “#network #state”: startup nations.
Here’s how it would work:
communities form
– on the internet initially
– around a set of shared interests or values.Then they acquire land,
becoming physical “countries” with their own laws.These would exist alongside existing nation states, and eventually, replace them altogether.
You would choose your nationality like you choose your broadband provider.
The network state movement doesn’t just want pliant existing governments so that companies can run their own affairs.
It wants to replace governments with companies.
-
Imagine you could choose your citizenship the same way you choose your gym membership.
That’s a vision of the not-too-distant future put forward by #Balaji #Srinivasan.
Balaji – who is mostly just known by his first name – is a rockstar to the #cryptobros.
A serial tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist who believes that pretty much everything governments currently do,
tech can do better.I watched Balaji outline his idea last autumn, at a vast conference hall on the outskirts of Amsterdam.
“We start new companies like Google;
we start new communities like Facebook;
we start new currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum;
❓can we start new countries?” ❓
he asked,
as he ambled on stage,
dressed in a slightly baggy grey suit and loose tie.He looked like a middle manager in a corporate accounts department.
But Balaji is a former partner at the giant Silicon Valley venture capital firm #Andreessen #Horowitz.
He has backers with deep pockets.
“Imagine a thousand different startups, each of them replacing a different legacy institution,” Balaji told the audience.
“They exist alongside the establishment in parallel,
they’re pulling away users,
they’re gaining strength,
until they become the new thing.”If startups could replace all these different institutions, Balaji reasoned,
they could replace countries too.He calls his idea the “#network #state”: startup nations.
Here’s how it would work:
communities form
– on the internet initially
– around a set of shared interests or values.Then they acquire land,
becoming physical “countries” with their own laws.These would exist alongside existing nation states, and eventually, replace them altogether.
You would choose your nationality like you choose your broadband provider.
The network state movement doesn’t just want pliant existing governments so that companies can run their own affairs.
It wants to replace governments with companies.
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Imagine you could choose your citizenship the same way you choose your gym membership.
That’s a vision of the not-too-distant future put forward by #Balaji #Srinivasan.
Balaji – who is mostly just known by his first name – is a rockstar to the #cryptobros.
A serial tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist who believes that pretty much everything governments currently do,
tech can do better.I watched Balaji outline his idea last autumn, at a vast conference hall on the outskirts of Amsterdam.
“We start new companies like Google;
we start new communities like Facebook;
we start new currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum;
❓can we start new countries?” ❓
he asked,
as he ambled on stage,
dressed in a slightly baggy grey suit and loose tie.He looked like a middle manager in a corporate accounts department.
But Balaji is a former partner at the giant Silicon Valley venture capital firm #Andreessen #Horowitz.
He has backers with deep pockets.
“Imagine a thousand different startups, each of them replacing a different legacy institution,” Balaji told the audience.
“They exist alongside the establishment in parallel,
they’re pulling away users,
they’re gaining strength,
until they become the new thing.”If startups could replace all these different institutions, Balaji reasoned,
they could replace countries too.He calls his idea the “#network #state”: startup nations.
Here’s how it would work:
communities form
– on the internet initially
– around a set of shared interests or values.Then they acquire land,
becoming physical “countries” with their own laws.These would exist alongside existing nation states, and eventually, replace them altogether.
You would choose your nationality like you choose your broadband provider.
The network state movement doesn’t just want pliant existing governments so that companies can run their own affairs.
It wants to replace governments with companies.
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#Catering #legend of #Chennai
#MountbattenManiIyer has passed away.My heartfelt condolences.
May his soul rest in peace.
May God give strength and peace to his son #Srinivasan and his family at this time. -
#Catering #legend of #Chennai
#MountbattenManiIyer has passed away.My heartfelt condolences.
May his soul rest in peace.
May God give strength and peace to his son #Srinivasan and his family at this time. -
#Catering #legend of #Chennai
#MountbattenManiIyer has passed away.My heartfelt condolences.
May his soul rest in peace.
May God give strength and peace to his son #Srinivasan and his family at this time. -
California Forever CEO, Jan #Sramek's longtime fascination with Peter #Thiel is interesting
because Thiel is a major figure in the #NetworkState movement.Thiel
– along with #CaliforniaForever investor Marc #Andreessen
– is an investor in Pronomos Capital,
a company funding the construction of new tech-themed cities worldwide.Balaji #Srinivasan, a man with very bizarre ideas who is the main evangelist of the Network State,
advises #PronomosCapital.Thiel also funded the #SeasteadingInstitute,
which was an early version of the Network State idea.It sought to create sovereign territories that would float out in the ocean.
The Seasteading Institute has a direct connection to Solano County.
In 2009, it funded the beginning of #Ephemerisle, a weeklong floating art party/group living/Burning Man-style experiment in the Sacramento Delta.
California Forever denies any connection to the Network State.
So I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Sramek sees Thiel as his main hero and, like Thiel,
Sramek is also trying to create new tech-governed cities.And it's another coincidence that Andreessen and Thiel are funding a company to invest in these cities around the world.
And it's yet another coincidence that Srinivasan
– the main Network State guy
– is advising Andreessen and Thiel.https://www.thenerdreich.com/california-forever-has-a-major-pr-problem-hes-the-ceo/
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California Forever CEO, Jan #Sramek's longtime fascination with Peter #Thiel is interesting
because Thiel is a major figure in the #NetworkState movement.Thiel
– along with #CaliforniaForever investor Marc #Andreessen
– is an investor in Pronomos Capital,
a company funding the construction of new tech-themed cities worldwide.Balaji #Srinivasan, a man with very bizarre ideas who is the main evangelist of the Network State,
advises #PronomosCapital.Thiel also funded the #SeasteadingInstitute,
which was an early version of the Network State idea.It sought to create sovereign territories that would float out in the ocean.
The Seasteading Institute has a direct connection to Solano County.
In 2009, it funded the beginning of #Ephemerisle, a weeklong floating art party/group living/Burning Man-style experiment in the Sacramento Delta.
California Forever denies any connection to the Network State.
So I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Sramek sees Thiel as his main hero and, like Thiel,
Sramek is also trying to create new tech-governed cities.And it's another coincidence that Andreessen and Thiel are funding a company to invest in these cities around the world.
And it's yet another coincidence that Srinivasan
– the main Network State guy
– is advising Andreessen and Thiel.https://www.thenerdreich.com/california-forever-has-a-major-pr-problem-hes-the-ceo/
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California Forever CEO, Jan #Sramek's longtime fascination with Peter #Thiel is interesting
because Thiel is a major figure in the #NetworkState movement.Thiel
– along with #CaliforniaForever investor Marc #Andreessen
– is an investor in Pronomos Capital,
a company funding the construction of new tech-themed cities worldwide.Balaji #Srinivasan, a man with very bizarre ideas who is the main evangelist of the Network State,
advises #PronomosCapital.Thiel also funded the #SeasteadingInstitute,
which was an early version of the Network State idea.It sought to create sovereign territories that would float out in the ocean.
The Seasteading Institute has a direct connection to Solano County.
In 2009, it funded the beginning of #Ephemerisle, a weeklong floating art party/group living/Burning Man-style experiment in the Sacramento Delta.
California Forever denies any connection to the Network State.
So I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Sramek sees Thiel as his main hero and, like Thiel,
Sramek is also trying to create new tech-governed cities.And it's another coincidence that Andreessen and Thiel are funding a company to invest in these cities around the world.
And it's yet another coincidence that Srinivasan
– the main Network State guy
– is advising Andreessen and Thiel.https://www.thenerdreich.com/california-forever-has-a-major-pr-problem-hes-the-ceo/
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California Forever CEO, Jan #Sramek's longtime fascination with Peter #Thiel is interesting
because Thiel is a major figure in the #NetworkState movement.Thiel
– along with #CaliforniaForever investor Marc #Andreessen
– is an investor in Pronomos Capital,
a company funding the construction of new tech-themed cities worldwide.Balaji #Srinivasan, a man with very bizarre ideas who is the main evangelist of the Network State,
advises #PronomosCapital.Thiel also funded the #SeasteadingInstitute,
which was an early version of the Network State idea.It sought to create sovereign territories that would float out in the ocean.
The Seasteading Institute has a direct connection to Solano County.
In 2009, it funded the beginning of #Ephemerisle, a weeklong floating art party/group living/Burning Man-style experiment in the Sacramento Delta.
California Forever denies any connection to the Network State.
So I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Sramek sees Thiel as his main hero and, like Thiel,
Sramek is also trying to create new tech-governed cities.And it's another coincidence that Andreessen and Thiel are funding a company to invest in these cities around the world.
And it's yet another coincidence that Srinivasan
– the main Network State guy
– is advising Andreessen and Thiel.https://www.thenerdreich.com/california-forever-has-a-major-pr-problem-hes-the-ceo/
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California Forever CEO, Jan #Sramek's longtime fascination with Peter #Thiel is interesting
because Thiel is a major figure in the #NetworkState movement.Thiel
– along with #CaliforniaForever investor Marc #Andreessen
– is an investor in Pronomos Capital,
a company funding the construction of new tech-themed cities worldwide.Balaji #Srinivasan, a man with very bizarre ideas who is the main evangelist of the Network State,
advises #PronomosCapital.Thiel also funded the #SeasteadingInstitute,
which was an early version of the Network State idea.It sought to create sovereign territories that would float out in the ocean.
The Seasteading Institute has a direct connection to Solano County.
In 2009, it funded the beginning of #Ephemerisle, a weeklong floating art party/group living/Burning Man-style experiment in the Sacramento Delta.
California Forever denies any connection to the Network State.
So I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Sramek sees Thiel as his main hero and, like Thiel,
Sramek is also trying to create new tech-governed cities.And it's another coincidence that Andreessen and Thiel are funding a company to invest in these cities around the world.
And it's yet another coincidence that Srinivasan
– the main Network State guy
– is advising Andreessen and Thiel.https://www.thenerdreich.com/california-forever-has-a-major-pr-problem-hes-the-ceo/
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The next morning,
wrecked,
I put on sweatpants and a hoodie
and tried to smuggle myself out of the hotel without having to talk to anyone.I gave my chit to the valet and looked around to find Vance and Yarvin standing there waiting for cars.
“How do you guys feel?” Yarvin asked.
Vance was wearing a hoodie too and looked like I felt.
“I feel horrible,” he said.
“Not good.”Yarvin asked what I’d thought of everything.
I said it would take a long time for me to figure that out.
We all shook hands,
and they waved as I got into my car and we all resumed our usual battle stations in the American info-wars.#Kyle #Rittenhouse #Unabomber #Kaczynski #Dasha #Nekrasova #Thiel #Balaji #Srinivasan #Coinbase #Koch #Milo #Yiannopoulis #Steve #Bannon #NRx #RAGE #authoritarianism #monarchy #Yarvin #crypto #decentralized #internet #Lydia #Laurenson #BDSM #Mencius #Moldbug #Anton #Yarvin #Yarvin #Thielverse #Cruz #Josh #Hawley #Masters #Vance #Rod #Dreher #Walter #Kirn #worldview #dystopian #hell #Peter #Thiel #NatCon #Thielbucks #Vance #Blake #Masters #Thiel #Foundation #New #Right #Curtis #Yarvin #incels #Josh #Hammer #Michael #Anton #Chris #Arnade #Sohrab #Ahmari #Compact #libertine #left #libertarian #right #kook
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The next morning,
wrecked,
I put on sweatpants and a hoodie
and tried to smuggle myself out of the hotel without having to talk to anyone.I gave my chit to the valet and looked around to find Vance and Yarvin standing there waiting for cars.
“How do you guys feel?” Yarvin asked.
Vance was wearing a hoodie too and looked like I felt.
“I feel horrible,” he said.
“Not good.”Yarvin asked what I’d thought of everything.
I said it would take a long time for me to figure that out.
We all shook hands,
and they waved as I got into my car and we all resumed our usual battle stations in the American info-wars.#Kyle #Rittenhouse #Unabomber #Kaczynski #Dasha #Nekrasova #Thiel #Balaji #Srinivasan #Coinbase #Koch #Milo #Yiannopoulis #Steve #Bannon #NRx #RAGE #authoritarianism #monarchy #Yarvin #crypto #decentralized #internet #Lydia #Laurenson #BDSM #Mencius #Moldbug #Anton #Yarvin #Yarvin #Thielverse #Cruz #Josh #Hawley #Masters #Vance #Rod #Dreher #Walter #Kirn #worldview #dystopian #hell #Peter #Thiel #NatCon #Thielbucks #Vance #Blake #Masters #Thiel #Foundation #New #Right #Curtis #Yarvin #incels #Josh #Hammer #Michael #Anton #Chris #Arnade #Sohrab #Ahmari #Compact #libertine #left #libertarian #right #kook
