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Avail, a modular blockchain project building "rollup-centric infrastructure", raised a $43M Series A, after raising a $27M seed in February 2024 (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/298374/peter-thiel-founders-fund-series-a-…

I am beginning to think that the big 'T' on the front of Tesla cars stands for the former guy...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/03/billionaires-for-trump-presidential-election…

the Berniecrats of #NHPolitics are すごい, while Peter Thiel's Founders Fund are imbeciles

Vivek Ramaswamy suggests one potential path to wrest control of BuzzFeed, and Jonah Peretti offers broad thoughts on BuzzFeed's current focus on entertainment (Ben Smith/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/02/2024/why-politicians-want-to…

Why politicians want to buy the news | Semafor
Vivek Ramaswamy, who recently acquired a stake in BuzzFeed, at one point joined a call with tech titans Peter Thiel and Elon Musk to talk over a new media venture.

I am beginning to think that the big 'T' on the front of Tesla cars stands for the former guy...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/03/billionaires-for-trump-presidential-election…

Analysis: Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg lead a group of insiders selling their company stocks in Q1, a sign that the tech bull run may be peaking (Financial Times)
https://t.co/Ej0ZiQZel3

"As it stands today, the primary direction-setter for new advances in science and technology is “what do folks like Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel and Gary Tan and Sam Altman find exciting?”
The problem isn’t just that these guys are ideological fellow-travelers, hell bent on a shared political project that socializes all risk while privatizing all gain. (though, I mean… that would kinda be enough of a problem on its own.)
It’s also that their eye for science, technology, a…

On giant piles of cash, and their origins
The trouble with venture capital is that it has gotten too big.

Peter Thiel, who is “taking a break from democracy,”
will be keynote speaker at a
Culture, Religion, and Technology Fireside chat April 19. 
He will be joined by #Bambi #Francisco #Roizen,
who organized the even…

Christian Right Observer Weekly (Volume 12)
CROW's 7 stories on the Christian Right that you need read this week.

Proposal for PAC 52: Measurement of $\alpha_-$ for $\Lambda\rightarrow p\pi^-$
Peter Hurck, Derek I. Glazier, David G. Ireland, Ken Livingston, Farah Afzal, Annika Thiel, Yannick Wunderlich, Volker Crede, Mark M. Dalton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01288

Proposal for PAC 52: Measurement of $α_-$ for $Λ\rightarrow pπ^-$
We propose to measure the weak decay constant $α_-$ for the decay $Λ\rightarrow pπ^-$ using a both circularly and linearly polarized photon beam with the GlueX spectrometer in Hall D. The measurement will take advantage of the fact that a measurement with both linear and circular photon beam polarization results in an over-constrained set of amplitudes which can be fitted to data and used to extract $α_-$ which will be left as a free parameter in the fit. We expect to determine $α_-$ with …

Cognition AI, which offers a Copilot-like coding assistant that, the startup says, can finish whole projects, raised $21M from Founders Fund, Elad Gil, and more (Ashlee Vance/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Cognition AI Is a Peter Thiel-Backed Coding Assistant
A new startup called Cognition AI can turn a user’s prompt into a website or video game.

Cognition AI, which offers a Copilot-like coding assistant that, the startup says, can finish whole projects, raised $21M from Founders Fund, Elad Gil, and more (Ashlee Vance/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Cognition AI Is a Peter Thiel-Backed Coding Assistant
A new startup called Cognition AI can turn a user’s prompt into a website or video game.

Polymarket, a decentralized prediction and betting market with a focus on elections, has raised $70M across two rounds, the most recent led by Founders Fund (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

It would be turbulent for Peter Thiel's Founders Fund to (continue to) push for race essentialism

The size of Peter Thiel's hoard of wealth is deformed. Please seize it.