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SEC filing: Peter Thiel and Founders Fund have fully exited ETHZilla, down from a 7.5% stake in August 2025; ether is down 60% from its August 2025 peak (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Mandelson Became Britain's Ambassador to U.S. Despite Failing Security Vetting (Michael D. Shear/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/world/europe/peter-mandelson-epstein-starmer-security.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p6#a260417p6

Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel
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Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel
Following global pushes for age assurance by governments, Persona is increasingly being used by major online platforms to carry out biometric age checks.

Why do I have the feeling that the word "nihilism" was difficult to avoid in this quote:
“I think Silicon Valley is immersed in a titanic battle between the hippie value system of the Steve Jobs generation and the Ayn Randian libertarian values of the Peter Thiel generation.”
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The billionaires made a promise -- now some want out | TechCrunch
In 2010, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched a disarmingly simple campaign they called the Giving Pledge: a public commitment, open to the world's

Hungary's Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar says he plans to suspend state broadcaster MTVA and "create independent, objective, and impartial conditions" (Sandor Zsiros/Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/04…

Magyar vows to shut down Hungarian state TV akin to 'North Korea'
Magyar has threatened to suspend the state broadcaster following a heated on-air clash, accusing it of spreading “North Korean-style” propaganda and false claims about his family during the election campaign. #EuropeNews

RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116376219055579156
I know a lot of people, in software and otherwise, who are feeling things along these lines.
Hold on, whatever tools you’re using, just hold on to your sense of purpose and meaning. There are a lot of forces at work in this world that want to rob you of that. Your feeling of losing that is not recognition of some new fact of our reality; it is you experiencing a psychological weapon.

Cowboys NFL Draft ‘Dream’ Crushed by Insider Update https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/caleb-downs-nfl-draft-dream/

"The most powerful thing you can do in this situation doesn’t concern your attachments, or even your beliefs. It’s giving up on the idea that there is such a thing as safe territory. A kid’s book, a magic wand, even the idea of joy itself can be a tool used to club a kid back into the closet. Act accordingly."
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It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector
HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but quality isn’t the point. The show is a transparent attempt to induct a new generation—and market—into the lucrative fantasy world…

You load 16 server racks, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St Peter, don't @ me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

I spend a lot of time being worried or angry or annoyed at the way that generative ai fervor is undermining our ecosystems (environmental, cultural, epistemic, digital, etc).
But right now I'm just feeling mournful. Seeing project after project, institution after institution run enthusiastically into a future where we boil our oceans to better insulate ourselves from one another is ... tragic. We're losing a lot right now, and we're going to have to come to terms with that.…