Broligarchy Watch
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Keeping tabs on the tech bros, broligarchy, technofeudalists, the fascists disguising themselves as libertarians, soverign individuals, Dark Enlightenment, NRx, Neo-Reactionaries, and identitarians.
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SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound
Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point:
www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point:
www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted
Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.
www.wired.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound
Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point:
www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point:
www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
This could get interesting as the Harvard-grad Theil realizes how much teens don't know but think they know. He may not want people who actually know better questioning his methods, but just ask the military how much high-school-graduates can be trusted.
And, wasn't the AI supposed to take over? 🤔
And, wasn't the AI supposed to take over? 🤔
Palantir showcasing how the word "grooming" does not just apply to sexual exploitation.
Offers a glorified hybrid voc. training fellowship for 22 achieving high school grads to forego college and instead have their intellectual development & careers stunted with job prospect not all will get.
Offers a glorified hybrid voc. training fellowship for 22 achieving high school grads to forego college and instead have their intellectual development & careers stunted with job prospect not all will get.
Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It’s Hiring High-School Grads.
Tech company offers 22 teens a chance to skip college for its fellowship, which includes a four-week seminar on Western civilization
www.wsj.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This could get interesting as the Harvard-grad Theil realizes how much teens don't know but think they know. He may not want people who actually know better questioning his methods, but just ask the military how much high-school-graduates can be trusted.
And, wasn't the AI supposed to take over? 🤔
And, wasn't the AI supposed to take over? 🤔
They were non-profit while they scraped data, because nobody would allow them free access to their data otherwise.
This is also assuming they will ever make a profit, because it all still costs more money than it brings in, and it is questionable if GPT "AI" will ever be profitable.
This is also assuming they will ever make a profit, because it all still costs more money than it brings in, and it is questionable if GPT "AI" will ever be profitable.
TL;DR: OpenAI has transitioned to a for-profit corporation, allowing it to raise capital and monetize its AI technology, following approval from Delaware's attorney general after a complex legal process.
OpenAI completes conversion to for-profit business after lengthy legal saga
Restructuring paves way for ChatGPT maker to more easily raise capital and profit off its AI technology
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
They were non-profit while they scraped data, because nobody would allow them free access to their data otherwise.
This is also assuming they will ever make a profit, because it all still costs more money than it brings in, and it is questionable if GPT "AI" will ever be profitable.
This is also assuming they will ever make a profit, because it all still costs more money than it brings in, and it is questionable if GPT "AI" will ever be profitable.
They really think they can outrun the problems they are creating.
Their islands without other people are not going to be places they actually want to live.
A smart prepper would invest in communities, not hide from them.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Their islands without other people are not going to be places they actually want to live.
A smart prepper would invest in communities, not hide from them.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?
The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans
www.bbc.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
They really think they can outrun the problems they are creating.
Their islands without other people are not going to be places they actually want to live.
A smart prepper would invest in communities, not hide from them.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Their islands without other people are not going to be places they actually want to live.
A smart prepper would invest in communities, not hide from them.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I remember going weeks without thinking about Obama. Every day with this one is some new horror.
Trump Posts Bizarre AI Video of Project 2025 Architect as the Grim Reaper
Trump Posts Bizarre AI Video of Project 2025 Architect as the Grim Reaper
It used to be considered unusual for a U.S. president to do things like this.
gizmodo.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I remember going weeks without thinking about Obama. Every day with this one is some new horror.
Who could ever have seen it coming.
Remember when he called it "Agenda 47" for a bit? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_47 Because we know he can't help but put his name on anything and everything.
Remember when he called it "Agenda 47" for a bit? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_47 Because we know he can't help but put his name on anything and everything.
October 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Who could ever have seen it coming.
Remember when he called it "Agenda 47" for a bit? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_47 Because we know he can't help but put his name on anything and everything.
Remember when he called it "Agenda 47" for a bit? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_47 Because we know he can't help but put his name on anything and everything.
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Larry Ellison once predicted ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ amid constant recording. Now his company will pay a key role in social media fortune.com/2025/09/28/l...
Larry Ellison once predicted 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid constant recording. Now his company will pay a key role in social media | Fortune
“Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on,” Ellison said last year.
fortune.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Larry Ellison once predicted ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ amid constant recording. Now his company will pay a key role in social media fortune.com/2025/09/28/l...
“80% of the world’s problems involve old men hanging on, who are afraid of death and insignificance and they won’t let go,” Barack Obama
youtube.com/shorts/QVr3u...
youtube.com/shorts/QVr3u...
In a recent discussion, Obama said “80% of the world’s problems involve old men…they won’t let go.”
YouTube video by Don Lemon
youtube.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“80% of the world’s problems involve old men hanging on, who are afraid of death and insignificance and they won’t let go,” Barack Obama
youtube.com/shorts/QVr3u...
youtube.com/shorts/QVr3u...
Thiel argues that fearing or regulating technological progress (including AI), rather than responsibly guiding it, risks accelerating a path toward a one-world, totalitarian solution (which he framed as an “Antichrist” outcome).
And who does he expect to "guide" while not being a totalitarian? 🤔
And who does he expect to "guide" while not being a totalitarian? 🤔
Tech billionaire claims in a lecture about religion that the devil promises peace and safety by strangling technological progress with regulation
Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel
Tech billionaire claims in a lecture about religion that the devil promises peace and safety by strangling technological progress with regulation
www.thetimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Thiel argues that fearing or regulating technological progress (including AI), rather than responsibly guiding it, risks accelerating a path toward a one-world, totalitarian solution (which he framed as an “Antichrist” outcome).
And who does he expect to "guide" while not being a totalitarian? 🤔
And who does he expect to "guide" while not being a totalitarian? 🤔
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"But Thiel’s Antichrist checklist—a paranoid obsession with apocalypse, control, and surveillance—describes Thiel himself." newrepublic.com/article/2004...
What’s Up With Peter Thiel’s Obsession With the Antichrist?
The tech mogul is amping up his apocalyptic rhetoric—and adding a dangerous dose of extremism into the already-fraught culture war.
newrepublic.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"But Thiel’s Antichrist checklist—a paranoid obsession with apocalypse, control, and surveillance—describes Thiel himself." newrepublic.com/article/2004...
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about the antichrist www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Peter Thiel Tries On the Antichrist for Size
A series of lectures will likely be less about theology and more about political grievance.
www.bloomberg.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
about the antichrist www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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After Mark Zuckerberg told President Trump that Meta would invest $600 billion by 2028, the CEO confessed to the president that he 'wasn't sure what number [Trump] wanted to go with.' The formula: promise some big number and make it up on the spot.
Zuckerberg Caught in Revealing Hot Mic Moment During White House Dinner
After Mark Zuckerberg told President Trump that Meta would invest $600 billion by 2028, the CEO confessed to the president that he 'wasn't sure what number [Trump] wanted to go with.'
www.pcmag.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
After Mark Zuckerberg told President Trump that Meta would invest $600 billion by 2028, the CEO confessed to the president that he 'wasn't sure what number [Trump] wanted to go with.' The formula: promise some big number and make it up on the spot.
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July 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Is that Theil or Musk? 🤔
July 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Is that Theil or Musk? 🤔
July 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Kennedy would rather make dangerous choices than acknowledge he doesn't know enough about human health conditions.
He would prefer believing medicine is so simple he could understand it, or it is so complicated only a machine could parce the data. (Don't bother explaining what the AI sources are.)
He would prefer believing medicine is so simple he could understand it, or it is so complicated only a machine could parce the data. (Don't bother explaining what the AI sources are.)
RFK Jr. Says AI Will Approve New Drugs at FDA 'Very, Very Quickly' https://gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-says-ai-will-approve-new-drugs-at-fda-very-very-quickly-2000622778
RFK Jr. Says AI Will Approve New Drugs at FDA 'Very, Very Quickly'
"We need to stop trusting the experts," Kennedy told Tucker Carlson.
gizmodo.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Kennedy would rather make dangerous choices than acknowledge he doesn't know enough about human health conditions.
He would prefer believing medicine is so simple he could understand it, or it is so complicated only a machine could parce the data. (Don't bother explaining what the AI sources are.)
He would prefer believing medicine is so simple he could understand it, or it is so complicated only a machine could parce the data. (Don't bother explaining what the AI sources are.)
The AI is as dumb as all of us.
Without any ways to validate output, and combined now with AI consuming AI, can it ever get any better?
Without any ways to validate output, and combined now with AI consuming AI, can it ever get any better?
AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of time, and many aren't AI at all https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/29/ai_agents_fail_a_lot/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44412349)
AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study
Feature: More fiction than science
www.theregister.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The AI is as dumb as all of us.
Without any ways to validate output, and combined now with AI consuming AI, can it ever get any better?
Without any ways to validate output, and combined now with AI consuming AI, can it ever get any better?
Palantir is likely creaming themselves over this ruling. The only way to ensure age verification on the internet is data tracking; who will track that data?
Porn age-gating is the future of the internet, thanks to the Supreme Court
Porn age-gating is the future of the internet, thanks to the Supreme Court
A Texas law doesn’t violate the First Amendment.
buff.ly
June 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Palantir is likely creaming themselves over this ruling. The only way to ensure age verification on the internet is data tracking; who will track that data?
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tired: 'Big Balls' out
WIRED: 'Big Balls' is back and now at the Social Security Administration, we have learned from a White House official.
SCOOP:
WIRED: 'Big Balls' is back and now at the Social Security Administration, we have learned from a White House official.
SCOOP:
‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration
Edward "Big Balls" Coristine's placement at the SSA comes after a White House official told WIRED on Tuesday that the 19-year-old had resigned from his position in government.
www.wired.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
tired: 'Big Balls' out
WIRED: 'Big Balls' is back and now at the Social Security Administration, we have learned from a White House official.
SCOOP:
WIRED: 'Big Balls' is back and now at the Social Security Administration, we have learned from a White House official.
SCOOP:
@authormichaellewis.bsky.social predicted this would happen in his The Coming Storm audio book.
www.local10.com/weather/hurr...
www.local10.com/weather/hurr...
Critical hurricane forecast tool abruptly terminated
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts.
www.local10.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
@authormichaellewis.bsky.social predicted this would happen in his The Coming Storm audio book.
www.local10.com/weather/hurr...
www.local10.com/weather/hurr...
Borrow against crypto, just like with stocks, and pay only interest.
Where does all this "value" originate?
Where does all this "value" originate?
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to allow crypto as an asset to back a mortgage. What could go wrong?
June 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Borrow against crypto, just like with stocks, and pay only interest.
Where does all this "value" originate?
Where does all this "value" originate?
Where will that data be stored and what will it be used for?
RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years https://gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-wants-every-american-to-be-sporting-a-wearable-within-four-years-2000619672
RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years
During a House committee meeting Tuesday, Kennedy announced a large-scale ad campaign from the federal government to hype wearable tech.
gizmodo.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Where will that data be stored and what will it be used for?
