@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Edwin Chen, the CEO of Surge AI, a Scale AI rival that had $1.2B revenue in 2024, is profitable, and is reportedly raising $1B at a $30B valuation (Phoebe Liu/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2025/09/17/the-ai-billionaire-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at Justin Sun's lawsuit against Bloomberg for publishing his holdings, which he claims he provided confidentially to qualify for its Billionaires Index (Molly White/Citation Needed)
https://www.citationneeded.news/justin-sun-bloomberg-lawsuit/
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialAt least one billionaire is continuing to embrace science & contribute to societal gains in vaccines.
Even if it's outside of the US.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rddeinqb45gzem3n3zyma7im/post/3lwss4uxmtq2i
@lilmikesf@c.im @Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Justin Sun's lawsuit against Bloomberg for publishing his holdings, which he claims he provided confidentially to qualify for its Billionaires Index (Molly White/Citation Needed)
https://www.citationneeded.news/justin-sun-bloomberg-lawsuit/
@rberger@hachyderm.ioThe instant collaboration of corporate media with a fascist dictator shows that corporate media are the enemy of the people.
And now Trump’s billionaire oligarchs are ensuring that the media is fully consolidated into their hands. Murdoch, Ellison, Zuckerberg, Disney, and Musk own most of the traditional and social media. Total control is at hand if we don’t stop it.
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgA few thoughts on LLMs and the super-rich
https://tante.cc/2025/07/17/never-hearing-no/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenEvidence, whose free AI search tool has signed up 40% of doctors in the US, raised $210M led by GV at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1B in February (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2025/07/1…
@cdarwin@c.imSee how the game works?
Republicans have long instinctively understood, far better than their oft-bumbling opponents,
that capturing the language is crucially important.
When you do that, when you frame the terms of debate,
you have a darn good shot at winning hearts and minds. Particularly weak minds.
I’ll leave it to the shrinks to diagnose the passivity of the Democratic mindset,
to try to fathom why the blue party has long allowed "class warfare&qu…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itWhile this is completely anecdotal, I always imagined that this is what being a billionaire or CEO is like. Everyone kisses your ass, tells you that you're brilliant, are afraid to critique or correct you.. and you basically lose touch with reality. You start thinking you are some kind of superior person when in reality you're a dumbass just like the rest of us - you just happen to have more money/power.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket; Kalshi has ~$1B in current monthly volume and processed $6.9B in total, including $6.4B since October 2024 (Alicia Park/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/2025/09/15/why-b…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJump, a SaaS startup founded by Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore for managing sports ticketing and fan experiences, raised a $23M Series A at a $100M valuation (Justin Birnbaum/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinbirnbau
@NFL@darktundra.xyzUFL adds new billionaire co-owner Mike Repole, who promises big changes https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6529260/2025/07/31/ufl-new-owner-mike-repole-changes/
@cdarwin@c.imSANTA BARBARA — On Labor Day, Monday, September 1, at 11:00 a.m., community members will gather at De La Guerra Plaza in Santa Barbara as part of a nationwide day of protest to honor working people and stand strong against billionaire exploitation and corporate domination.
Across the country, workers, students, parents, and neighbors are rising up to demand dignity, justice, and investment in people
— not billionaire empires.
The Santa Barbara event will include protest song…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialWe need to reclaim the tradition of imposing taxes on the rich to cover the costs of war. It’s why we got the income tax in the first place.
War is a mechanism that concentrates wealth at the top. If that is not countered with policy, it suggests that part of the purpose of the war is that concentration.
(see the past 25 years as an example)
@rberger@hachyderm.ioIts clear that Trump is effectively if not literally a Russian agent hell bent on destroying the USA...
"As president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO Chrissy Lynch said in July after the Republicans passed the budget reconciliation bill cutting clean energy tax credits: “Working families shouldn’t have to purchase energy from billionaire oil tycoons and foreign governments or let them set the price of our energy bills.”
Her observation hit home earlier this week, when Joe Wallace, Costas Paris, Alex Leary, and Collin Eaton of the Wall Street Journal reported that the comments of Russian president Vladimir Putin and Trump at their meeting in Alaska on August 15 in which they talked about doing more business together were not vague goodwill. ExxonMobil and Russia’s biggest energy company, Rosneft, have been in secret talks to resume a partnership to extract Russian oil, including in the Arctic, that had been severed by Russia’s attack on Ukraine in 2022."
#USPolitics #RenewableEnergy
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-30-2025?r=103mi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
@cdarwin@c.imThe explosion in crypto treasury companies is making experts in and outside of crypto nervous.
A crypto CEO described the “huge” risk based on assets that have “almost nothing backing [them]”.
Crypto analysts at Galaxy have compared them to the 1920s investment trust collapse.
https://
@cdarwin@c.imWorking Americans are set to take to the streets this Labor Day
with over 1,000 “Workers Over Billionaires” rallies and protests planned nationwide.
The mobilizations, spearheaded by the "Mayday Strong Coalition" of national, state, and local labor and community organizations,
will protest what organizers call a “billionaire agenda”
that is suppressing the labor movement,
attacking workers' rights,
and burdening families across the country…
@cdarwin@c.imBREAKING: New Mike Lee Amendment to sell off public lands has been approved to be part of Trump's Big Beautiful Mess.
Senators like Steve Daines will be voting on this bill at any moment and we need to let them know loud and clear that we strongly oppose the sale of ANY of our public lands.
This land belongs to us, and greedy billionaire developers can't have it.
Add your name to make your voice heard:
