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  • Why Are the British Race Riots Happening?

    When I was young I said to my father that I didn’t see a lot of racism. He, a child of the Great Depression, replied, “wait till times are bad.” The “other”, the immigrant, is always an easy target. The actual villains are the UK’s ruling class and if violence is the method then the…

  • The Broligarchs Are Trying to Have Their Way

    Eight years ago, the PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel was an outlier in liberal Silicon Valley for publicly supporting Donald Trump. But now a number of prominent male tech plutocrats who previously opposed the former president have done an about-face: These broligarchs are publicly endorsing and donating to the Republican candidate—and revealing a lot about…

  • Peter Thiel’s Blake Masters loses (again)

    Blake Masters loses again. Thiel really isn’t good at picking winners in this space. Masters last ran (and lost) against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) for his senate seat; this cycle he was angling for a House seat in Arizona. The other notable Peter-Thiel-protege-turned-politician is, of course, JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president. https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/31/24210926/thiel-protege-blake-masters-loses-his-primary-race

  • Roundup: Elon Musk is a terrible person

    I’ve been a critic of Musk since long before it was popular for people in media. It was obvious long before his acquisition of Twitter that Musk was a bad person who mistreated his partners, his workers, and was selling a false persona to the public. But far too few people would call it out…

  • JD Vance’s Politics Are INCREDIBLY Weird. Here’s Why.

    This is a great intro into why these dudes (always dudes) think the way they do. In a New Zealand context, David Seymour shows many of the same characteristics.

  • Yesterday was a good day: US billionaire Peter Thiel ‘abandons’ Lake Wānaka lodge build

    The reviled NZ citizen, Peter Thiel, has a bit of a set back… but I’m taking the wins where I can. US tech billionaire Peter Thiel appears to have abandoned his plans to build a 330m-long luxury lodge overlooking Lake Wānaka. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/523397/us-billionaire-peter-thiel-abandons-lake-wanaka-lodge-build Now our utterly tone deaf PM will berate NZ for being so backward…

  • Peter Thiel sucks at politics

    Watching JD Vance unravel has given me lots to think about. Reflecting on the weird men that Thiel seems to boost, I’ve come to a conclusion on why he’s so bad at politics. Money and Misanthropy Based on image by Androidmarsexpress – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93026655 Thiel uses money has a cudgel. He…

  • Edge Lord Musk Enters “Find Out” Phase

    Tesla posted its second-quarter earnings Thursday evening, revealing that its net income fell an astonishing 45 percent compared to a year ago, the second consecutive quarterly decline. That massive pay bump… sure looks liek a good investment. https://futurism.com/tesla-sales-tank-elon-musk-endorses-far-right

  • Here’s the thing I don’t get about Thiel…

    I’m on record as a critic of Thiel. The way the NZ govt and rich “technologists” brainlessly gifted him citizenship makes me want to vomit. Having said that, there is no denying his capabilities… … and yet, here’s the question: What has he surrounded himself with weird dipshits? It’s a weird blind spot. Does he…

  • Ya can kinda see why CNC is the kink of choice for the AI crowd

    Culture is set at the top… The situation is extraordinary because asking for consent, getting a firm “no,” and then going ahead and doing the thing anyway is an almost too-on-the-nose encapsulation of the hubris and contempt permeating the AI industry. https://futurism.com/sam-altman-openai-scarlett-johansson CNC: Consensual Non-consent