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How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa

Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler

The Guardian - US

The cast of tech characters who will be key in Trump’s White House

Trump’s White House will be filled with VCs and tech magnates. Here’s who they are.

Fortune

The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that

The convergence of money and politics isn’t new. What’s different is the Silicon Valley right’s hostility to the nation state, says author Quinn Slobodian

The Guardian - UK

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Howery to lead Trump's Greenland plan

Howery is Trump's pick for ambassador to Denmark, which has said Greenland is not for sale

Salon

Move fast, break things – sprint to kiss Trump’s ring. It’s the tech bros inauguration derby

Zuckerberg, Musk and Bezos are falling over themselves to suck up to the incoming president. And he’s just as keen to let them, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

Elon Musk: How the world's richest man made his billions – and became a political powerhouse

The world's richest man is getting involved in everyone's politics. How did he get here?

Evening Standard

OPINION - Dark fantasy, brutal violence and chilling politics: what Squid Game season 2 says about us

Imagine a world in which a cabal of extreme libertarian oligarchs operated with complete impunity. In which they did what they liked on a private island outside the reach of the law, operated a uniformed militia, and saw ordinary people as subhuman “trash” whose struggles for survival only have value…

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Can you solve it? Interview questions for aspiring billionaires

Mind-mangers from the Musk mafia

The Guardian - UK

Tech’s 2024 winners and losers—from Elon Musk to GM’s Cruise

Elon Musk came out on top of the tech heap in 2024.

Fortune

Bilderberg Group changes itself for the modern world – and return of Trump

Once the apex of conspiracy theories, the influential group signals a shift by naming ex-Nato chief as new co-chair

The Guardian - US

Internet Mocks Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel's 'Sweaty' and 'Stuttering' Interview Response to UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing: 'Is He Having a Stroke?'

Thiel stumbled his way through his response to a question about what he would say to Americans who are idolizing Luigi Mangione, the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin.

Latin Times

Alleged CEO killer praised Elon Musk and backed Peter Thiel in social media posts

The Ivy League-educated 26-year-old appears to have supported sentiments shared by some of the world’s richest men

The Independent UK

Suspect's social media history revealed

Not so fast, what kind of "anti-capitalist" is praising Elon Musk and retweeting Peter Thiel?

Salon

How Peter Thiel’s network of right-wing techies is infiltrating Donald Trump’s White House

With David Sacks as “AI and crypto czar” and Elon Musk as co-head of the DOGE, Peter Thiel’s network has become closely tied to the new Trump administration.

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The Independent UK

Trump adds more billionaires to his administration after promising to help ‘everyday Americans’

The incoming administration will be the wealthiest in history, with more than a dozen ultra-rich nominees for critical agencies and major diplomatic roles

The National (Scotland)

Scottish firm invests in AI weapons firm founded by US billionaire

A SCOTTISH firm has given financial backing to an AI weapons start-up founded by a US tech billionaire who has links to Donald Trump.

The Independent UK

The total wealth of Trump’s top team is $340 billion — more than the GDP of 169 countries

Several billionaires and wealthy mega donors and executives are nominated for key economic posts

The Guardian - US

Trump announces more picks including US trade chief and health deputy

Attorney Jamieson Greer to play key role in trade team and John O’Neill picked to be RFK Jr’s health department deputy

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The Independent UK

Trump’s family won’t be in the White House, but they’ll be just as influential on the outside

There may be fewer Trumps in the White House this time around but ethical questions and party influence will continue to swirl around the famous family, writes Josh Marcus

The Guardian - UK

Tech firm Palantir spoke with MoJ about calculating prisoners’ ‘reoffending risks’

Exclusive: Rights group expresses concerns as it emerges US spy tech company has been lobbying UK ministers

International Business Times UK

Elon Musk Says He's 'The Largest Individual Taxpayer In History' After $10B Payment: 'I Thought The IRS Would Send A Trophy'

The average true tax rate for the ultra-rich, including Elon Musk, is much lower than those less affluent as they leverage a host of tax-savings strategies to reduce their reported annual income despite skyrocketing net-worth growth

The Guardian - US

Silicon Valley’s right wing notches victories nationwide and at home

Tech elites scored local and national wins after backing Donald Trump and conservative California ballot measures

Salon

Super-rich making the Hitler mistake?

Germany's business elite thought they could control the demagogue. Steve Schwarzman and Peter Thiel think that now

Salon

My strange year tracking JD Vance

What spending countless hours with the candidate poised to take over the MAGA empire taught me

The Guardian - US

Mass production of genetically selected humans: inside a Pennsylvania pronatalist candidate’s fantasy city-state

Simone Collins espouses a philosophy in which voting rights would be linked to people’s contributions to society

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