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Peter Thiel, BlockFi, and the future of crypto

Peter Thiel, one of Bitcoin’s most powerful advocates, lost both financial and political capital amid November’s crypto wipe-out

Fortune

Hawkwind’s machine, Batman’s debut and Peter Cook’s jingles: take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Controversial £360m NHS England data platform ‘lined up’ for Trump backer’s firm

Patients will have no say over records going to Palantir, the software giant run by billionaire Republican backer

The Guardian - UK

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Is Elon Musk actually a futurist?

The term "futurism" refers to an Italian movement from the 20th century — with ideas quite different from Musk's

Salon

Democrat Mark Kelly holds seat in Arizona's U.S. Senate race

Control of the U.S. Senate still had not been determined as of Friday evening, three days after the Nov. 8 midterm elections. Heading into the election, Republicans needed to pick up only one seat to take the majority in the 100-seat chamber, which would allow them to block much of…

Reuters

‘No Republican blowout’: our panel reacts to the initial US midterm results

While much remains unclear about Tuesday’s elections, we know that Democrats did much better than expected

The Guardian - US

Morning Mail: ‘outrageous’ use of Covid tracking data, Peter Reith dies, Sri Lanka cricket inquiry

In today’s newsletter: Victoria passed contact tracing information to the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission; John Howard leads tributes to ‘great warrior’; and voting underway in US

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Five Senate races to watch: Mark Kelly vs Blake Masters in Arizona

Astronaut Mark Kelly is seeking to stave off a challenge from an election-denying right-wing candidate backed by Donald Trump and bankrolled by controversial billionaire Peter Thiel.

France 24

Five Senate races to watch: Tim Ryan vs JD Vance in Ohio

Democratic Congressman Tim Ryan of Ohio is in a tight race for the Senate seat vacated by a retiring GOP incumbent against JD Vance, the author of “Hillbilly Elegy” and a former “Never Trump” Republican who has since embraced the former president and received his endorsement.

France 24

Californians bankroll election deniers

Billionaire Trump backer Peter Thiel leads the pack

Salon

Billionaires have pumped nearly $900m into midterm elections, report says

George Soros, the Uihlien family and Peter Thiel are some of the most generous donors

The Independent UK

4 Senate races that could provide the key to control

Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona come into focus in final days. Plus: where things stand in seven other Senate contests.

WEKU

Trump pressed Arizona GOP Senate candidate to keep pushing ‘big lie’, Tucker Carlson documentary reveals

In a call, former president urges Blake Masters to be more like Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake

The Independent UK

These billionaire preppers are planning for the apocalypse. Here's why

This professor was invited to speak at a meeting of billionaire preppers. It got weird.

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The Guardian - US

Peter Thiel’s midterm bet: the billionaire seeking to disrupt America’s democracy

Re-energized this election cycle, the tech entrepreneur joins other mega-donors apparently out to undercut the political system

Axios

Billionaire Peter Thiel offers to double down on Arizona Senate race to boost Blake Masters

The assumption in GOP political circles was that Thiel and McConnell had abandoned Masters.

Salon

Theil funds disguised MAGA propaganda

Thiel-backed "opaque media organization" sends "realistic-looking, and unsolicited, newspapers" to voters

The Independent UK

Arizona Senate debate gives Masters a chance to reset race

Republican Blake Masters has a much-needed chance Thursday night to reset his Arizona Senate race against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly in the campaign’s only televised debate

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Salon

Peter Thiel backs right-wing dating app

"The Right Stuff" was developed by Ryann McEnany, sister of former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany

The Guardian - UK

Want to date a hot rightwinger? Sick of all that woke nonsense? I’ve just the app for you!

Founded by Trump advisers, backed by billionaire Trumpite Peter Thiel, The Right Stuff is a safe zone for anyone allergic to pronouns and liberals. Will it do better than all its predecessors?

Evening Standard

The Right Stuff: Conservative dating app founded by former Trump staff mocked online

The Republican dating app’s prompts include “view profiles without pronouns”, and is backed by Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel

The Conversation

Doomsday bunkers, Mars and 'The Mindset': the tech bros trying to outsmart the end of the world

Douglas Rushkoff’s newest book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, grew out of a brilliant 2018 Medium article of the same name, which went viral and had people (aka his US editor) clamouring for a full-length treatment.

The Guardian - US

Gawker makes a comeback six years after it was sued into closure

A new version of the website, quietly launched a year ago under new owners, is attracting interest and readers again

Tribune News Service

JD Vance is struggling to hold on to Republicans’ Senate seat in close Ohio race

JD Vance’s deadlocked race against Democrat Tim Ryan for a U.S. Senate seat in Republican-leaning Ohio exemplifies the struggles besetting the GOP seven weeks before the midterm elections, where the party’s once-strong chances of taking the chamber have ebbed.

The Guardian - US

‘Never sleeps, never even blinks’: the hi-tech Anduril towers spreading along the US border

Funded by Trump supporter Peter Thiel, the autonomous surveillance towers can detect a human from 2.8km away

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