@Techmeme@techhub.socialShares of ISU Petasys, a South Korea-based multi-layer PCB supplier for AI servers used by Alphabet, Nvidia, Microsoft, and others, are up 215% so far this year (John Kang/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkang/2025
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI heard the tech Billionaire who invented Mastodon sold out and is now a tech Trillionaire and... just kidding! I'm happy that I've been a user (and supporter!) of Mastodon for three years now. The coolest fucking people on the Internet are on the Fediverse.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJeffrey Epstein's Angry Emails to Billionaire Leon Black (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/business/jeffrey-epstein-leon-black.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uU8.V6Yf.CCv3z8VW-TS0&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251018/p31#a251018p31
@cdarwin@c.imIt's Hakeem Jeffries. I’m about to let you in on what’s going on behind the scenes.
𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧: Republicans raised a record-breaking $36 million to keep control of the House.
𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗡: They used that massive war chest to launch attacks against 25 swing-seat Democrats.
𝗡𝗢𝗪: The latest polls show a neck-and-neck race for the House majority.
Republicans and their billionaire donors think they can buy this election. We’re here to prove them absolutely wrong.
I’m launchi…
@steve@s.yelvington.comCrooked president, crooked deals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-pardon-of-crypto-billionaire-sparks-concerns-over-use-of-pardon-power-60-minutes-transcript/
@hippyjo@c.imIt takes two to Tango, the saying goes.
Trump and Putin provide another demonstration of how stupid they believe the world to be.
US media has been bought and paid for, so not a lot of news covering this subject with sincerity or true effort.
Georgio is a reporter from Italy who is in Ukraaine, reporting from the trenches of democracy.
He hasn't been muzzled by a sycophant to some billionaire, so he can share the friend link to help the world see what is happenin…
@dkomaran@social.linux.pizza @memeorandum@universeodon.comTom Steyer is running for California governor as a populist billionaire (Bill Barrow/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-election-tom-steyer-1de30f4501b91c3bc9969c54aa13c19d
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p104#a251119p104
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, whose estimated 11% stake is now worth $1B following ICE's $2B investment, as its rivalry with Kalshi intensifies (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciap…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"The flood of money into #AI has made America’s #billionaire #oligarchs far richer.
By Forbes’ count, 20 of the most notable
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioimagine being a billionaire and getting off on tweeting stuff like this about other programmers to impress your incel basement dweller sycophants
I wonder if Shopify’s stock holders know that the CEO is lurking in alt-right X threads to occasionally insult people
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIn case you were wondering whether you should cancel your Paramount subscription…
“Ellison’s [spawn of the Oracle billionaire] goal is to turn Paramount into a MAGA-friendly environment, with content in the TV and movie divisions expected to be more ‘America-centric’ and geared toward ‘the middle of the country.’”
@marcel@waldvogel.family"the billionaire businessman Vincent Bolloré, one of #Sarkozy’s longtime patrons and the owner of Fayard, publisher of “Le Journal d’un Prisonnier,” has been doing his most to propel the far right to victory."
"Twenty days behind bars, and not long before France may very well have a far-right head of state for the first time in nearly a century. "
@cdarwin@c.imThe "People Over Billionaires" March Tours San Francisco's Ritziest Neighborhood
Activists assembled in Alta Plaza Park, San Francisco's billionaire epicenter, on November 15
for a rally and march to demand,
"housing, healthcare, and food for all," from the ultra-wealthy.
During the rally,
Socialists and Communists set up literature tables,
and people distributed kits containing a whistle and ICE reporting instructions.
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialBetaal jij meer of minder belasting dan Elon Musk?
https://maps.greenpeace.org/gpafrica/billionaire-taxometer/
@hex@kolektiva.socialOne of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
@rberger@hachyderm.ioAll the more reason to support and send money to Graham Platner. The “Dem Establishment" needs to learn that they are no longer the leaders of the Democratic Party as they have sold out the party and the country to their Billionaire donors . https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/post/3m365lfrsrs25
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comBillionaire Peter Thiel, founder of defence contractor Palantir, famed for exploring receiving blood transfusions from teenagers for longevity purposes, says that tax is a tool of the Antichrist.
"Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “"It's become quite difficult to hide one's money."”
…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzInside the Closed-Door Meetings of the N.F.L.’s Billionaire Owners https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/business/nfl-owners-trump.html
@servelan@newsie.socialDamning Poll Reveals Americans Struggling to Buy Holiday Gifts Under Billionaire Trump
https://archive.ph/qDrFS
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Binance has been exploring ways to reboot its Binance.US affiliate, including a recapitalization to cut CZ's stake, which is a hurdle to expansion (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/binan…
@emd@cosocial.caThey could solve world hunger, but instead do this
https://mastodon.social/@amalia22/115552322301509094
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: WBD chose Netflix partly fearing limited recourse if Paramount's bid failed, since Larry Ellison has not provided a personal guarantee (Lauren Hirsch/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/business/paramount-warner-bros-netflix-dea…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI have never voted for a capitalist or their party, and I never will, not on a burning planet ruled by billionaire nazis. So don’t bother asking; the answer will always be no.
@cdarwin@c.imXu Bo, a Chinese billionaire, was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children,
and the court’s additional research showed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight more
—all through surrogates.
When called in for a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023,
he never entered the courtroom, according to people who attended the hearing.
The maker of fantasy videogames lived in China and appeared via video, speaking …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPro-Trump billionaire Bill Ackman gives $1M to anti-Mamdani effort (Jeff Coltin/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/15/bill-ackman-donates-to-anti-mamdani-effort-00609490
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p139#a251015p139
@hippyjo@c.imContrary to what the Kremlin tells the world, Russian offensives are stalling out and failing, while Ukraine continues to advance.
You won't hear about this from US media, their billionaire owners are firmly entrenched up Trump's ass, who uses the suffering and genocide of Ukraine to enrich himself.
Thankfully there are still true journalists who dare to venture into warzones and report the truth.
Read his reports and witness the spirit of Ukraine as it fights back …
@cdarwin@c.imRight-wing billionaire Peter Thiel recently told an audience that he pushed Tesla CEO and fellow billionaire Elon Musk not to give money to charity and instead horde it so it could be used to battle a future “Antichrist.”
According to a Thursday Reuters report, Thiel told attendees of closed-door event in San Francisco last month that he pressed Musk to rescind his commitment to the Giving Pledge, the charitable campaign cofounded by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates that asks signatories…
@scott@carfree.cityThe Lurie administration wants to slash #PotreroYard affordable housing because they "just can't find the money."
Our mayor is a billionaire. We have the third most billionaires living here of any city in the world. We can't accept these excuses.
@andycarolan@social.lolThe easiest role to replace with AI is that of a Billionaire CEO.
#ProveMeWrong #AI
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.socialElon Musk Is Gaming the Internet for Fascism
The billionaire X owner is accelerating his AI-driven assaults on reality and Europe had better harden its defences, argues Heidi Siegmund Cuda
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinesupplement/p/elon-musk-is-ga…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Dario Amodei is in India as Anthropic plans a Bengaluru office and explores a partnership with Reliance, seeking to expand in its second-largest market (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/anthropic-…
@stefan@gardenstate.socialbanger shirt after banger shirt
#shirt
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI agree with the storyteller: the experience of having a slave is abhorrent, simulated or not, and this story is a window into something •deep• about the present moment. Even without having slaves, we are all in danger of having a •slaver mindset•. It’s a disease that’s running rampant now in billionaire-shaped techno-utopian circles.
I wrote this thread on the topic earlier:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113295613785073188
…and even having written that, it’s still shocking — not surprising, exactly, but shocking — to hear those thoughts expressed so baldly by the colleague in the story above.
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialOverall the media consolidation described below is beyond four alarm fire levels.
E. Musk is dangerous to society, but Musk acts like an addled kid who read too much bad Sci-fi. Ellison doesn't have those positive qualities - he is much like the killer car, Christine, in the Steven King novel.
My first experience with Ellison's Oracle was back around 1980 or '81 when Oracle people came to our company and more than asked, they ordered us, to make sure that their produ…
@fgraver@hcommons.socialAs usual, billionaires are willing to go to great lengths to avoid having to contribute even a fraction of their wealth to the common good. These people are the root of much that is wrong with the world, and we simply need to make it both unacceptable and impossible for anyone to be a billionaire at the expense of the vast majority of people worldwide.
@benb@osintua.euFact Check: Stolen Louvre Jewels Were NOT Seized From Zelenskyy Associate, Ukrainian Billionaire Timur Mindich: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/01/fact-check-stolen-louvre-jewels.html
@cdarwin@c.imBillionaire tech advisers overcame a MAGA rebellion over AI in the Trump Whitehouse
A power struggle over the future of technology is playing out inside the administration,
as officials confront high-stakes decisions that touch everything
from national security and jobs
to online safety for children.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSome Australian leaders debate whether the country should use a Chinese-owned version of TikTok or one run by a Trump-allied consortium that includes News Corp (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/techno…
@lilmikesf@c.imScion of #Oracle Data Mining Billionaire installs controversial conservative ideologue #BariWeiss atop #CBSNews, dropping any pretense of independence at the
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nl"if we were listening to people on the grounds of whether they had a good track record, the world would not spend a lot of time on #BillGates and climate. "
#ClimateChange
#ClimatePolicy
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.comIf I were a billionaire, my hobby project would be to produce and sell a TV that's actually just a 75" HDMI monitor, that does literally nothing other than switch between the HDMI inputs.
No ads, no internet connectivity, no "smart" features, just the best big screen to hook your stuff into.
@servelan@newsie.social“In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It’s someone like Greta or Eliezer,” he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry’s approach to AI"
What billionaire Peter Thiel said in his private ‘Antichrist lectures’ - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/dHfRl
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io"In a talk in November 2024, Starbase General Manager Kathy Lueders announced that SpaceX hoped to be able to catch a Starship upper stage sometime in the next 6 months and have as many as 25 launches in 2025.
This did not occur. Starship was launched just five times by mid-October, with no planned launches during the remaining months of 2025."
—Wikipedia Starship article
I've been pretty vocal about all of Starship being what's essentially a scam—yes, including the engineering behind it.
But there's always white knight tech people riding to the rescue of the Nazi billionaire even when it's obvious it's not working right.
I'm sure they'll reply to this post as well.
@johl@mastodon.xyzThe annual fundraiser support for Wikimedia from the richest man in the world is a dystopian right-wing infused parody site of #Wikipedia.
So if you‘d rather support free access to the sum of all human knowledge instead of billionaire tech bros, you get a chance to donate out of spite.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @rberger@hachyderm.ioLock up all the fascists, especially the billionaire fascists https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/115679107107139559
@kctipton@mas.to @cdarwin@c.im[Excerpt:] Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist
Greta Thunberg & critics of tech or AI are
“legionnaires of the Antichrist”
in private lectures on Christianity that linked government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.
https://bsky.app/prof…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialAt least one billionaire-backed far right President is in trouble.
Argentina: the fight against the far right continues | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/argentina-fight-against-far-right-continues
@hex@kolektiva.socialIt is interesting how Billionaire incompetence and Trump's flailing have done more to erode trust in capitalism than most of what the left has done for the last several decades.
#USPol
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom Bill McKibben
"Any conversation about Bill Gates and climate should begin by acknowledging that he’s been wrong about it over and over again. He’s explained that up until 2006—i.e., 18 years after Jim Hansen’s testimony before Congress laying out the science, and well past the point where George W. Bush had acknowledged its reality—he like Trump thought the whole thing was a crock."
@detondev@social.linux.pizzalmao tom steyer hired some of mamdani's campaign people for his new campaign its so funny to see that aesthetic applied to a billionaire
@pre@boing.worldSee, I got this robot army see, and if you don't give me a trillion dollars then someone who isn't me might be in charge of it see, and I dunno what damage they might do. Only way to make sure my robot army is safe, see, is to give me a trillion dollars.
God knows a robot army would be a terrible thing if someone other than me was in control of it, so best give me a trillion dollars so I can make sure the robot army only does what I want.
I won't even spend it! Who would spend a trillion dollars? I'll just use it to keep control of my robot army and so long as I get my trillion dollars everyone will be safe.
#elonMusk #robotArmy
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Billionaire Behind Trump's Deal for Universities (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/billionaire-marc-rowan-trump-deal-universities.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p17#a251004p17
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSome Australian leaders and experts debate whether the country should use a Chinese-owned version of TikTok or one run by Trump allies (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchangeIs irony dead? USDA pages are displaying a banner saying Trump "wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people" while Trump lets a billionaire buy the US military.
While the administration is preventing the SNAP program from tapping into contingency funds to feed people while the government is shut down.
This donation and the decision to prevent SNAP from operating are an end-run around the Congress' power of the pur…
@cdarwin@c.imFarage insists Thai-based crypto billionaire wants nothing in return for £9m donation to Reform UK
The Reform UK leader promoted the cryptocurrency company which Christopher Harborne holds shares in
– one month after receiving a record donation for the party
https://www…
@marcel@waldvogel.familyPlenty of billionaire deals going on, but:
"A person familiar with Witkoff’s thinking said the envoy is confident that any settlement with Russia would benefit America broadly, not just a handful of investors."
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-
@steve@s.yelvington.comMy first paycheck was from CBS -- the owned-and-operated station in St. Louis, where I worked as a copyboy in the KMOX-TV newsroom. CBS was the "Tiffany network," the gold standard of broadcast journalism. It is sad to see that come to an end. Billionaire Larry Ellison is buying the company and putting a right-wing kook, Bari Weiss, in charge of CBS News.
@cdarwin@c.imTech billionaire Marc Benioff’s new show of support for Donald Trump, 💥and call for National Guard troops to patrol San Francisco’s streets,💥
has shaken local Democrats who long regarded the Salesforce CEO and owner of Time magazine as an ally.
Benioff, speaking to The New York Times in an interview published Friday, said he was
“all for” deploying Guard troops with the goal of fighting crime in the city.
In the same interview, Benioff said Trump is “doing a great jo…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThey have more money than there is investment growth to be found. Give a hungry person money and they’ll buy food; give a billionaire some money, and they’ll look for a high-risk investment that has a 1% chance of paying off 1000x.
Want to get rich? Convince them you’re one of those investments! 99% chance you’ll fail; 1% chance your BS is actually some kind of genius moonshot! Give them FOMO about it, get free money!
3/
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThis is really the best answer to “why are they doing this” I’ve seen
(Selfies with war criminals for the billionaire circle-jerk group chat)
https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov/post/3m22hqkpjj22k
@rberger@hachyderm.ioRenewables: the only source of energy that actually is too cheap to meter. And that is why Trump, the Republicans and their Billionaire bosses want to make sure renewables are at least slowed down if not stopped.… See more https://polyglot.city/@carbsrule_en/115487780310346171
@memeorandum@universeodon.comInside billionaire Peter Thiel's private lectures: Warnings of 'the Antichrist' and U.S. destruction (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/10/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-leaked/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYwMDY4ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzYxNDUxMTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjAwNjg4MDAsImp0aSI6ImQxNzk4ZjkzLWIzODQtNDUyMS05NzA4LWFlYTRiNjMxMDdkMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjUvMTAvMTAvcGV0ZXItdGhpZWwtYW50aWNocmlzdC1sZWN0dXJlcy1sZWFrZWQvIn0.brxQFr7mdukp74gW6Q947iM4hxsExxwLCU-dYfUj8js&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p21#a251010p21
@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-…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaSome billionaire is probably feeling empty right now, proof that no amount of wealth can fill the void created by a system built on inequality.
#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism
@cdarwin@c.imTech Billionaire investor Marc Andreessen has long criticized the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
— calling it an impediment to fintech and crypto companies. 
Andreessen’s investment firm (Andreessen Horowitz aka A16Z) backed many fintech/crypto players that were under CFPB scrutiny,
Under the Trump administration, the CFPB’s enforcement efforts were sharply scaled back:
investigations suspended,
consumer-protection rule-makings shelved,
and …
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialWTF, the musk-boyz are certainly fearful of not being "manly men" (when, in truth many of them are probably incels.)
"“Some Weird Elon Musk Shit”: Inside LA’s Young, Testosterone-Fueled Sperm Race"
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/sperm-racing-eric-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Pure Storage co-founder John Colgrove, as AI-driven demand for data storage pushes the company's stock to record highs, reaching a $30B market cap (Alicia Park/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump pardons crypto billionaire Changpeng Zhao (Declan Harty/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/23/trump-pardons-crypto-billionaire-changpeng-zhao-00620175
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p103#a251023p103
@hippyjo@c.imJust in case you forgot...
Americans are being criminally exploited, and they are too busy getting used and abused to even notice what their government is doing.
Quit fighting left vs right, recognize the true enemy is the billionaire class who steals away your life blood for extra profits they can't even spend in their lifetime.
#greed
@hex@kolektiva.socialTwo things are worth noticing right now:
1. The military brass *did not* respond well to Trump and Hegseth.
2. The deployment to #Portland keeps getting delayed.
The military will never say "no" to the president (unless he's literally ordering them to open fire on unarmed civilians or something equally obviously illegal). But there are ways to not comply that don't necessarily involve refusal. Brass showing that they aren't aligned with Trump may weaken his billionaire backers, who might be realizing now that weak dictators who can't lead their militaries tend to get toppled... and their oligarch-backers tend to end up against walls.
If folks being ordered to send troops to #PDX don't want to comply, delaying until the there's an initial response from the lawsuit would be basically impossible to detect. The deployment to LA went far too fast, running into logistical challenges like troops sleeping on the floor. The delays we've already seen could indicate either a more careful approach or quiet resistance.
Trump will continue to escalate at every chance he gets. I would be surprised if PDX didn't give him a fight. I doubt the troops will become more interested in serving a guy who's stabbed them in the back and wasted their time at every opportunity.
It is still possible troops just won't deploy. Trump will make something up about how just the threat of an intervention was enough to make things safe or something like that. If we see that, it's 100% the military telling him to kick rocks because he's not competent enough to know when to back down.
Honestly, I think Trump wants revenge for the resistance PDX put up at the end of his last term. Any backing down from that is absolutely a big loss for him.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioDid you know?
You can help struggling billionaire owners of big tech companies that can’t build AI data centers fast enough by closing accounts and canceling subscriptions
@cdarwin@c.imBillionaires are spending massive sums on politics. A backlash brews.
Christina Persson,
a 55-year-old English teacher in a small town of just over 2,600 people,
is fed up with billionaires.
In May, during the debate over Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,”
she spearheaded a move to erect a billboard reading,
“Tax breaks for billionaires. CUTS for everyone else.”
Two months later, she set up shop at the county fair and sold
“Eat the Rich” ice c…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: Musk and X agree to settle a lawsuit by Twitter's ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, and others over $128M in unpaid severance (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/796239/elon-musk-x-128-milli…
@cdarwin@c.imA gathering with reporters took place in the Oval Office last month
as Trump ordered a crackdown on “leftwing terrorism”
and threatened to investigate and prosecute those who financially support it.
“If you look at Soros, he’s at the top of everything,” the US president said.
There is no evidence linking George Soros,
a 95-year-old billionaire who has supported democratic causes around the world,
or Reid Hoffman,
who helped start PayPal and the netwo…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLarry Ellison is turning into a media magnate, potentially controlling CBS, CNN, TikTok, and more, amid a regulatory environment favorable to Trump allies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/technology/larry-ellison-oracle-tiktok.html…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources and docs: after Marc Andreessen donated $5M to Trump's 2024 campaign, most CFPB probes have stalled, including three into Andreessen-backed companies (Jake Pearson/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-vall…
@cdarwin@c.imThe new owners of CBS,
billionaire Larry Ellison and his son David Ellison,
believe CBS News is broken.
And like their friend Donald Trump,
they’re convinced the cure for a fracture is a sledgehammer.
Let’s call it restoration by disruption.
Enter Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News.
Weiss has been called a provocateur
and is one of the most polarizing figures in today’s American media landscape.
She has been praised for he…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comInside the billionaire network shaping MAGA's post-Trump future (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/04/chris-buskirk-maga-vance-post-trump/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYyMjMyNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzYzNjE0Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjIyMzI0MDAsImp0aSI6Ijk5YWZhMmE5LTZhYWEtNGE3NC1iMWMxLTUxNjUzMmZmOWJkMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjUvMTEvMDQvY2hyaXMtYnVza2lyay1tYWdhLXZhbmNlLXBvc3QtdHJ1bXAvIn0.Nk3INROYmwwt16HaHUNQ_iWxt9l3u1o1G7ZftWlMiH4&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p37#a251104p37
@cdarwin@c.imPeter Thiel's Armageddon
speaking tour has—like the world—not ended yet.
For a full two years now, the billionaire has been on the circuit,
spreading his biblically inflected ideas about doomsday
through a set of variably and sometimes visibly perplexed interviewers.
He has chatted onstage with the economist podcaster Tyler Cowen about the katechon
(the scriptural term for “that which withholds” the end times);
traded some very awkward on-camera…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn interview with Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz, who expects a 2025 profit of $170M to $200M, about the company's $300M round that pushed its valuation above Rippling's (Matt Durot/Forbes)
http://www.
@cdarwin@c.imEurope’s populist worries will intensify today
when right-wing billionaire Andrej Babiš becomes Czech prime minister.
Combined with Hungary’s Viktor Orbšn and Slovakia’s Robert Fico,
Babiš has the potential to jam up the legislative machinery in Brussels as it works on key files.
Czech President Petr Pavel is set to appoint Babiš to the position
after resolvinglongstanding conflict-of-interest issues related to the PM-elect’s conglomerate, Agrofert.
Babiš…
@hippyjo@c.imIn Ukraine, the void left by the USA is bigger than Europe can fill. Russia continues to rape and destroy while the rest of the world looks away.
As an American, each day is a new descent into shame and disgust as I witness the cruelty and greed of my fellow citizens and Trump's band of billionaire bastards.
All I can do is try to share information that might raise awareness sufficient to instill some true empathy and concern amongst the comfortably uninformed.
Giorgio …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA South Korean court dismisses a K-pop-related stock manipulation case against Kakao founder Brian Kim; prosecutors had sought a 15-year prison sentence (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/billionaire-kakao…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTop Trump negotiator retains partnership with Ukraine-sanctioned billionaire (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/top-trump-negotiator-retains-partnership
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p8#a251201p8
@cdarwin@c.imThink of this as a good place to start
— for you and your loved ones
— to expand your knowledge of indie news outlets
who are more deserving of your time and money than corporate, billionaire-owned media.
And feel free to add your suggestions in the comments.
https://www.thehandbaske…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMichael and Susan Dell say they will deposit $250 in individual investment accounts for 25M kids, totaling $6.25B, comparing the gift to Dell's direct model (Nicholas Kulish/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/business/dell-children-trump-acco…
@cdarwin@c.imMarc Andreessen is one of America’s most well-known investors and an outsize figure in the so-called fintech industry.
His firm seeded eight companies since 2016 that landed in the crosshairs of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
-- the small watchdog agency that Congress created after the 2008 financial crisis to protect vulnerable consumers from exploitation.
Some of those inquiries have resulted in consent orders, fines and, for one company, a lifetime industry ba…
@cdarwin@c.imThink of this as a good place to start
— for you and your loved ones
— to expand your knowledge of indie news outlets
who are more deserving of your time and money than corporate, billionaire-owned media.
And feel free to add your suggestions in the comments.
https://www.thehandbask…
@cdarwin@c.imThe ‘ultimate man cave’ or ‘a mirage’ by a billionaire’s son?
https://www.latimes.com/00000199-81ed-d11c-a1fd-f3fd1f530000-123
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Justin Sun, who was facing an SEC fraud lawsuit before investing $90M in Trump family cryptocurrencies and becoming a business associate of Trump (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-26/cr…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comA sheriff, a billionaire, a tinge of scandal. California governor's race packs drama, uncertainty (Michael R. Blood/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-newsom-porter-scandal-tom-steyer-39abafa3e201d767b13f3db71c2fd0ed
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p20#a251123p20
@cdarwin@c.imMoney has always distorted U.S. politics,
but the current Trump regime has entered new territory with
🔥an unabashed pay-to-play setup that’s stuffing the president’s political coffers
while enriching him and his family.
💥Donald Trump’s coldly transactional dealings have been on full display
as he’s tapped billionaire allies and major corporations
to shower his administration with donations to pay for his latest vanity project:
a 90,000-square-foot, $…
@cdarwin@c.imDemolition of the East Wing,
which once housed the first lady’s office,
began in October.
Trump has said the new ballroom will be 90,000 square feet and hold 1,000 people,
a complex that will be much larger than the main White House building,
which is about 55,000 square feet.
Cost estimates for the ballroom project have ballooned from $200 million to as much as $350 million.
Wealthy individuals and corporate donors — including billionaire Steve Sc…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLarry Ellison is turning into a media magnate, potentially controlling CBS, CNN, TikTok, and more, amid a regulatory environment favorable to Trump allies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/technology/larry-ellison-oracle-tiktok.html…
@cdarwin@c.imBillionaire Larry Ellison,
the largest shareholder of Paramount,
often speaks to connections at the White House but, in at least one of the calls,
engaged in a dialogue about possibly firing CNN hosts whom Donald Trump is said to loathe, including Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar.
Senior White House officials have discussed internally their preference for Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros Discovery in recent weeks,
and one official has discussed potentia…
@cdarwin@c.imMy name is Heather, and I was one of the very first hires for Barack Obama’s campaign.
I know how to win the tough fights — because I’ve lived them.
Now I’m leading North Star PAC to stop billionaire Jeffrey Yass and the MAGA machine from buying Pennsylvania’s courts.
If they succeed in the state’s Supreme Court retention election, they’ll rig the maps and lock us out of power for decades — just like they did in Texas.
But I can’t do this without you. While Yass and…
