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This April — while deportations flourished and DOGE took its chainsaw to Federal agencies — Musk’s Neuralink misrepresented itself as a 'small disadvantaged business' in a federal filing — to receive preferential treatment. Soon after, the company closed a $650 million funding round — placing a $9 billion valuation on it. Among the investors: fellow billionaire Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund.
cnbc.com/2025/07/17/elon-musks
h/t @dangillmor @ZhiZhu
mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11
#grift #musk #thiel

CNBCElon Musk's Neuralink filed as 'disadvantaged business' before being valued at $9 billionNeuralink labeled itself in April as a "small disadvantaged business" in a federal filing with the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Trump allegedly wrote a bawdy letter to Epstein for the latter’s 50th birthday, featuring a hand-drawn picture of a naked woman...

The letter, for Epstein's birthday, includes a message depicting a fake exchange b/w Trump & Epstein: "Enigmas never age" "wonderful secret."

“The president wouldn't recommend a special prosecutor in the #Epstein case. That’s how he feels,” WH press sec Leavitt said Thurs.

Is Putin driving the narrative?
#Trump #Vance #Thiel #Musk #USPol
wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey

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Big Tech goes #MAGA - Transformation zum autokratisch-faschistoiden ‚Fortschrittsprojekt‘

"Das Zusammenwirken von rechtsextremen Autokratie-Anhängern und Faschisten mit reaktionären Tech-Feudalisten erreicht in den #USA ein neues Bewegungsniveau. Die sogenannte Tech-Oligarchie stellt dabei nicht nur Technologien zur Verfügung, die insbesondere rechtsextremen Bestrebungen nützlich sind, sondern befeuert aktiv einen breit angelegten rechten Kulturkampf. Ihr radikal anti-demokratisches Technologieversprechen dient dabei als visionäre Fortschrittserzählung, die angesichts einer allgemeinen Utopiearmut in der Mehrfachkrise mehr und mehr verfängt….‘

emrawi.org/?Big-Tech-goes-MAGA

EMRAWI · Big Tech goes MAGA – Transformation zum autokratisch-faschistoiden ‚Fortschrittsprojekt‘By EMRAWI
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It appears that Putin is finished with Trump. Did Prosoebiec & other Russian assets get instructions to help take down Trump, so Vance can assume power for his benefactor, Thiel?

“This is the man who gave JD Vance his career.

Thiel🚨made calls to get Trump to pick Vance.

More than a dozen Thiel allies including current and former employees, have been folded into the Trump administration.

is it starting to make sense?”
-AdamMedia
#JDVance #Trump #Thiel #Putin #Republicans #Betrayal #USPol

"Exclusive: #OpenAI to release #webBrowser in challenge to #Google #Chrome"

Great news everybody

Instead of Google suctioning up all of your personal info, now people can eagerly rush to have all of their personal info suctioned up by an #enshittification manipulation hallucination #AI interface

Personally, I'm waiting for #Thiel's #Palantir #web #browser! Woo hoo! (/s)

reuters.com/business/media-tel