Musk also managed to torpedo the agencies that were investigating his companies, ending those investigations. I don't understand why you don't mention that. It was the original impetus for him to get involved with Trump. The Biden administration had multiple investigations going of his projects and practices, and he reportedly said they could take him under, so he was going to do something about it. And once again, he is very likely to have walked away with data beyond price. His minions pulled data from Social Security and multiple other agencies. It is not confirmed that he has copies of that data, but it would be very unlike him not to have copies. Musk Watch seems to repeatedly underestimate the damage (and profit to himself) Musk is responsible for.
Kate, excellent points. All of the oligarchs are using those in our government who they can manipulate to create a government of the billionaires, for the billionaires, and by the billionaires, Consider the PayPal Mafia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia
Peter Thiel's companies, particularly Palantir, have secured significant government contracts. Palantir, which was founded by Thiel, has won government contracts totaling $357 million in the last decade, with more than half of those funds coming from the Department of Defense. Palantir's software applications are used in war zones for strategy, operations, tactics, and reachback facilities. Additionally, Palantir has also received a contract from the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, despite some criticism.
Elaboration:
Palantir Technologies:
.
This company, co-founded by Thiel, is a leader in big data analytics and has secured substantial government contracts. These contracts are primarily used for defense and intelligence purposes.
Department of Defense:
.
A major recipient of Palantir's software, particularly in war zones, where it provides tools for strategy, operations, and tactics.
National Health Service (NHS):
.
Palantir has also received a contract from the NHS in the UK, indicating a broader use of its technology beyond defense.
Ramp:
.
While Ramp, another Thiel-backed company, primarily focuses on corporate credit cards and expense management, it has been suggested that its AI software could also be used by government agencies.
While David Sacks himself does not directly hold government contracts, some of the companies he has invested in or is associated with have extensive government contracts.
Specifically:
Palantir Technologies: A data analytics software company co-founded by Peter Thiel, another prominent tech figure, and a "PayPal Mafia" member with Sacks. Palantir has contracts with the Pentagon and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
SpaceX: The aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, a close friend of Sacks and also a "PayPal Mafia" member. SpaceX also has substantial government contracts.
It's important to note that Sacks is also a co-founder and partner at Craft Ventures, a venture capital fund that has invested in various tech startups.
When David Sacks accepted a role as the Trump administration's "AI and Crypto Czar," he sold off over $200 million worth of digital asset-related investments, both personally and through Craft Ventures, before starting the job. This was done to address potential ethical concerns related to his new role. He currently serves as a "special government employee," a designation that allows him to continue managing Craft Ventures while advising the administration, but it has still raised some ethical concerns.
There's no direct evidence or mention of companies specifically owned or founded by Roelof Botha receiving direct government contracts in the provided search results.
Based on the provided information, here's an overview of Roelof Botha's involvement in the tech industry and possible indirect connections to government activities:
Venture Capital and Sequoia Capital: Roelof Botha is the managing partner and steward of Sequoia Capital, a prominent US venture capital firm. Sequoia Capital has invested in numerous successful technology companies.
Government Focus on Venture Capital: Government entities, such as the Select Committee on the CCP, are interested in understanding the flow of US venture capital, including firms like Sequoia, into companies related to national security technologies.
Potential Influence of Investments: Sequoia Capital aims to remain politically neutral. Botha has stated a focus on policies that support entrepreneurship and US technological advancement. Investments made by Sequoia in certain sectors could potentially impact areas of government interest and national security.
No Explicit Government Contracts: The search results do not explicitly mention companies directly controlled or owned by Roelof Botha securing government contracts.
In summary, while Roelof Botha plays a significant role in the venture capital landscape, including investments in companies that may be relevant to government interests, the information does not indicate that companies he specifically owns or controls are directly receiving government contracts.
Information about Steve Chen, the co-founder of YouTube:
He is an angel investor, connecting companies with funding, especially in Taiwan.
He is reportedly working on a project, possibly a start-up incubator in Taiwan, to support Taiwanese tech talent.
He participates in Taiwan's Gold Card program to attract foreign talent, and has initiated networking events for entrepreneurs in Taiwan.
I would like to see a deep dive into all the billionaires who have visited Mar-a-lago and made deals the Trump and have now benefited from these robber baron deals,
A perceptive piece, thanks. What about all the data that DOGE harvested and apparently continues to collect? Can it be tracked, and what is it being used for?
Well... if you had a vision to save humanity that kept breaking down because people were a problem, who would you take with you to Mars?
The whole vision of Hitler was to create a "superior race", That's what the Nazi salute is about. People who were giving it were saluting society's march into the future with an "advanced" human being. Consider all of Musk's past activity through this lens...
So, how do you find the "best of us" to save, and "purge" the genetic mistakes from the species?
Hitler did it by identifying qualities of people he admired within the context of what was known about genetics back then. He was attracted to female blue eyed blondes. So that's two selection criteria. Another was intelligence. Then there was Hitler's obsession with the Olympics...
What would access to a database give you that had a very detailed profile of each person? BUT, more importantly, who would you NOT want to save? See, where this is going? Hitler killed those off because they were taking up physical space. Musk doesn't want to be associated with deliberate genocide, so he's just letting natural attrition do it.
Hitler went beyond trying to find needles in a hay stack. He also tried to 'manufacture' those needles. Musk's 12 kids? It's a spooky parallel.
But, consider what neuralink can potentially become. It's a device initially created to bypass brain damage and allow disabled people to participate in society that otherwise would have been...*ahem*... 'not worth saving.'
The original device was self contained. It shuttled signals from one part of the brain to another, past broken connections. Had nothing to do with connecting humans to external computers. Musk did not invent it. He was looking for patents and proprietary expertise to develop a brain/computer interface - in effect, to create cyborgs by augmenting people's brains. The device wasn't designed for that by the original company that invented it. Musk bought the technology and has said several times the ultimate goal was to achieve singularity with machines.
Sound familiar? Hitler didn't have access to tech like that He used ugenics and bizzare breeding programs.
But, here's the other thing. Life on Earth evolved to function only in its particular gravity well. That's why most complex biological systems develop problems off planet.
What happens when it doesn't become worth it to go to mars anymore, simply because our biology depends on PHYSICS identical to earth (gravity, magnetic field, relativistic speed affecting time, sun spectrum, etc)
Absolutely, & right on! Your observations& insights are 100% accurate. I confess however you must acknowledge the reality of tl:dr, which I regret is a danger in the flood of valuable information such as that which you offer, no offense meant.
I have always thought the whole Mars ambition was a complete waste of resources - ok a few scientist might like to get their hands on some samples from there - that will likely happen in the next few years, but to stay there, where you can't leave your living quarters without a special suit & any leaks could kill you - that's for the explorers who will eventually return to earth, not to spend their lives there ! Nobody else has the slightest interest in leaving this beautiful planet which is our natural home ! Getting the poverty situation under control should be the main function of earth's scientists, and secondly to protect every natural aspect of this place we cannot live without !
Yes, NASA figured that out several decades ago, after we sent men to the moon.
An incredible achievement, to be sure, but look at what machines are doing on Mars already?
The cost to send humans to Mars now would be astronomical and for what benefit? It takes a ship 7 months (correct me if I'm wrong) to get to Mars, that's an awful lot of food and water for just 2 or 3 people. And to set up a colony would take several trips before the humans ever board a rocket.
Musk argues the sun will eventually burn it's fuel and expand into a red giant, to a size beyond Earth's orbit.
This definitely will occur in about 5 billion years from now.
To put some perspective on it, the calendar year would be somewhere around:
4999992327 AD
that is, if we are still tracking the Gregorian calendar.
Could it happen any sooner?
Maybe. But, not in the way you would think.
The sun is getting brighter as it burns heavier elements. The amount of light increases by 10% every one billion years. More light means more energy is being thrown out.
The amount of energy to boil off earth's oceans will be reached in half that time, at 3 billion years. The amount of energy which will cook everything like eggs on a hot Texas sidewalk at noon, will be in one billion years (unless life can evolve adaptations like better air conditioning and hats).
This continues until the element of iron is created. A star the size of our sun is not big enough to fuse elements heavier than iron together. So, iron starts to build up, accelerating the expansion of the sun by cooling it off. This shifts the light towards the infrared, and is the primary reason for a red giant's color.
At the same time, the sun gets wider by an inch every year because more plasma is pushing out against the surface from the inside. When its mass spreads out, it's gravity well becomes shallower.
Just like the moon is slowly drifting away from the earth, the earth is slowly drifting from the sun because of this drop in gravity. This drift is slightly faster than the sun's expansion.
When a blacksmith heats up iron, like in a horseshoe, it glows red. Iron has a unique spectral signature with a lot of red and yellow bars.
Now, here's something really interesting about this.
The best place to look for space fareing civilizations is in the neighborhoods of red giants that have strong spectral signatures of iron.
The oldest civilizations will have come from single star planetary systems. Most star systems are binary, and produce orbits and conditions too extreme for life to stabilize without it being destroyed in its formative moments.
If life evolved out there, and it existed for a long time, it would eventually evacuate to nearby planets in the way Musk warns.
Or, because of drift, the home planet may move out with the expansion, and still stay at a safe distance. Nobody knows, because it depends on speed, size, and mass of each planet.
And, if neither of these happen, the civilization may have a means to move to another planetary system. But, it would have to be close by, because the logistics of transfering old world resources to the new one would be horrendous. You don't want to do that treking across the galaxy.
The closest red giant to us is Gacrux, part of the southern cross, which is featured on Brazil's flag:
Could also have something to do with walking out with Steven Miller's WIFE on his arm (figuratively) and a mysterious black eye, apparently handed him by a left-handed puncher? (Miller is left handed according to several sources...) Or maybe she's just the "booby prize" for taking leave of the current regime? 🤷🏼♀️
She's taking to opportunity to go with a drug addled, stumpy-pecker'd (see the reporting) bazillionaire over a ghoulish, billiard-headed, tiresome, stumpy-pecker'd ideologues. May her unhappiness continue!
That’s a surprisingly anodyne description!. It’s like characterizing the application of napalm to jungle terrain as landscaping.
I agree that it makes sense to keep watching Musk, but I wonder if it might be just as productive to use some of these resources on (Russell) Vought Watch and (Stephen) Miller Watch? Those evil viziers are in positions to do severe damage.
YES. We need a close eye on Miller and Vought. Please. These are Nazis running things. Please expose them and let the MSM pick up what you find. I imagine there are reporters from legacy media looking at the admin but not like Muskwatch.
Musk personifies ALL THAT STINKS about this government of, for and about trump! The DRY DRUNK in the WH is just as drugged up as elon, even though he claims NOT to drink or take drugs! He's just a crazed mental anomaly, and ALL his reptilian clones are just as deluded and stupid as their boss! Musk is the personification of the EVIL corruption that we must get rid of!
Thank you for countering the frustratingly popular narrative that protesters "won" the battle by forcing Musk's exit. He left because he reached the point of diminishing returns. He achieved everything he wanted: elimination of investigations into his companies, elimination of any regulatory bodies to bother him in the future, enrichment through lucrative government contracts, and MOST important, a treasure trove of rich data from government systems that no other private entity could have dreamed of obtaining -- which hardly anyone talks about because they don't seem to grasp that in our era, nothing is more valuable than data, whether you're using it to better train your AI to control people or gain leverage against your competitors. He will undoubtedly continue to get the data that DOGE will continue hoovering up as it moves from agency to agency without needing to be the public face of DOGE.
Musk also managed to torpedo the agencies that were investigating his companies, ending those investigations. I don't understand why you don't mention that. It was the original impetus for him to get involved with Trump. The Biden administration had multiple investigations going of his projects and practices, and he reportedly said they could take him under, so he was going to do something about it. And once again, he is very likely to have walked away with data beyond price. His minions pulled data from Social Security and multiple other agencies. It is not confirmed that he has copies of that data, but it would be very unlike him not to have copies. Musk Watch seems to repeatedly underestimate the damage (and profit to himself) Musk is responsible for.
Kate, excellent points. All of the oligarchs are using those in our government who they can manipulate to create a government of the billionaires, for the billionaires, and by the billionaires, Consider the PayPal Mafia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia
Peter Thiel's companies, particularly Palantir, have secured significant government contracts. Palantir, which was founded by Thiel, has won government contracts totaling $357 million in the last decade, with more than half of those funds coming from the Department of Defense. Palantir's software applications are used in war zones for strategy, operations, tactics, and reachback facilities. Additionally, Palantir has also received a contract from the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, despite some criticism.
Elaboration:
Palantir Technologies:
.
This company, co-founded by Thiel, is a leader in big data analytics and has secured substantial government contracts. These contracts are primarily used for defense and intelligence purposes.
Department of Defense:
.
A major recipient of Palantir's software, particularly in war zones, where it provides tools for strategy, operations, and tactics.
National Health Service (NHS):
.
Palantir has also received a contract from the NHS in the UK, indicating a broader use of its technology beyond defense.
Ramp:
.
While Ramp, another Thiel-backed company, primarily focuses on corporate credit cards and expense management, it has been suggested that its AI software could also be used by government agencies.
While David Sacks himself does not directly hold government contracts, some of the companies he has invested in or is associated with have extensive government contracts.
Specifically:
Palantir Technologies: A data analytics software company co-founded by Peter Thiel, another prominent tech figure, and a "PayPal Mafia" member with Sacks. Palantir has contracts with the Pentagon and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
SpaceX: The aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, a close friend of Sacks and also a "PayPal Mafia" member. SpaceX also has substantial government contracts.
It's important to note that Sacks is also a co-founder and partner at Craft Ventures, a venture capital fund that has invested in various tech startups.
When David Sacks accepted a role as the Trump administration's "AI and Crypto Czar," he sold off over $200 million worth of digital asset-related investments, both personally and through Craft Ventures, before starting the job. This was done to address potential ethical concerns related to his new role. He currently serves as a "special government employee," a designation that allows him to continue managing Craft Ventures while advising the administration, but it has still raised some ethical concerns.
https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?cycle=2014&order=desc&sort=A&zip=94019
There's no direct evidence or mention of companies specifically owned or founded by Roelof Botha receiving direct government contracts in the provided search results.
Based on the provided information, here's an overview of Roelof Botha's involvement in the tech industry and possible indirect connections to government activities:
Venture Capital and Sequoia Capital: Roelof Botha is the managing partner and steward of Sequoia Capital, a prominent US venture capital firm. Sequoia Capital has invested in numerous successful technology companies.
Government Focus on Venture Capital: Government entities, such as the Select Committee on the CCP, are interested in understanding the flow of US venture capital, including firms like Sequoia, into companies related to national security technologies.
Potential Influence of Investments: Sequoia Capital aims to remain politically neutral. Botha has stated a focus on policies that support entrepreneurship and US technological advancement. Investments made by Sequoia in certain sectors could potentially impact areas of government interest and national security.
No Explicit Government Contracts: The search results do not explicitly mention companies directly controlled or owned by Roelof Botha securing government contracts.
In summary, while Roelof Botha plays a significant role in the venture capital landscape, including investments in companies that may be relevant to government interests, the information does not indicate that companies he specifically owns or controls are directly receiving government contracts.
Information about Steve Chen, the co-founder of YouTube:
He is an angel investor, connecting companies with funding, especially in Taiwan.
He is reportedly working on a project, possibly a start-up incubator in Taiwan, to support Taiwanese tech talent.
He participates in Taiwan's Gold Card program to attract foreign talent, and has initiated networking events for entrepreneurs in Taiwan.
I would like to see a deep dive into all the billionaires who have visited Mar-a-lago and made deals the Trump and have now benefited from these robber baron deals,
we need more that a musk watch,
Excellent as always... thank you... just reading this urges me to take a shower have no idea what it is like writing this
A perceptive piece, thanks. What about all the data that DOGE harvested and apparently continues to collect? Can it be tracked, and what is it being used for?
Well... if you had a vision to save humanity that kept breaking down because people were a problem, who would you take with you to Mars?
The whole vision of Hitler was to create a "superior race", That's what the Nazi salute is about. People who were giving it were saluting society's march into the future with an "advanced" human being. Consider all of Musk's past activity through this lens...
So, how do you find the "best of us" to save, and "purge" the genetic mistakes from the species?
Hitler did it by identifying qualities of people he admired within the context of what was known about genetics back then. He was attracted to female blue eyed blondes. So that's two selection criteria. Another was intelligence. Then there was Hitler's obsession with the Olympics...
What would access to a database give you that had a very detailed profile of each person? BUT, more importantly, who would you NOT want to save? See, where this is going? Hitler killed those off because they were taking up physical space. Musk doesn't want to be associated with deliberate genocide, so he's just letting natural attrition do it.
Hitler went beyond trying to find needles in a hay stack. He also tried to 'manufacture' those needles. Musk's 12 kids? It's a spooky parallel.
But, consider what neuralink can potentially become. It's a device initially created to bypass brain damage and allow disabled people to participate in society that otherwise would have been...*ahem*... 'not worth saving.'
The original device was self contained. It shuttled signals from one part of the brain to another, past broken connections. Had nothing to do with connecting humans to external computers. Musk did not invent it. He was looking for patents and proprietary expertise to develop a brain/computer interface - in effect, to create cyborgs by augmenting people's brains. The device wasn't designed for that by the original company that invented it. Musk bought the technology and has said several times the ultimate goal was to achieve singularity with machines.
Sound familiar? Hitler didn't have access to tech like that He used ugenics and bizzare breeding programs.
But, here's the other thing. Life on Earth evolved to function only in its particular gravity well. That's why most complex biological systems develop problems off planet.
What happens when it doesn't become worth it to go to mars anymore, simply because our biology depends on PHYSICS identical to earth (gravity, magnetic field, relativistic speed affecting time, sun spectrum, etc)
A lengthy note to simply restate that musk is a eugenicist at his core.
The note is more than that. It's to shed light on the connections in his vision and how it affects us should someone attempt to realize it
Absolutely, & right on! Your observations& insights are 100% accurate. I confess however you must acknowledge the reality of tl:dr, which I regret is a danger in the flood of valuable information such as that which you offer, no offense meant.
I have always thought the whole Mars ambition was a complete waste of resources - ok a few scientist might like to get their hands on some samples from there - that will likely happen in the next few years, but to stay there, where you can't leave your living quarters without a special suit & any leaks could kill you - that's for the explorers who will eventually return to earth, not to spend their lives there ! Nobody else has the slightest interest in leaving this beautiful planet which is our natural home ! Getting the poverty situation under control should be the main function of earth's scientists, and secondly to protect every natural aspect of this place we cannot live without !
Yes, NASA figured that out several decades ago, after we sent men to the moon.
An incredible achievement, to be sure, but look at what machines are doing on Mars already?
The cost to send humans to Mars now would be astronomical and for what benefit? It takes a ship 7 months (correct me if I'm wrong) to get to Mars, that's an awful lot of food and water for just 2 or 3 people. And to set up a colony would take several trips before the humans ever board a rocket.
Musk argues the sun will eventually burn it's fuel and expand into a red giant, to a size beyond Earth's orbit.
This definitely will occur in about 5 billion years from now.
To put some perspective on it, the calendar year would be somewhere around:
4999992327 AD
that is, if we are still tracking the Gregorian calendar.
Could it happen any sooner?
Maybe. But, not in the way you would think.
The sun is getting brighter as it burns heavier elements. The amount of light increases by 10% every one billion years. More light means more energy is being thrown out.
The amount of energy to boil off earth's oceans will be reached in half that time, at 3 billion years. The amount of energy which will cook everything like eggs on a hot Texas sidewalk at noon, will be in one billion years (unless life can evolve adaptations like better air conditioning and hats).
This continues until the element of iron is created. A star the size of our sun is not big enough to fuse elements heavier than iron together. So, iron starts to build up, accelerating the expansion of the sun by cooling it off. This shifts the light towards the infrared, and is the primary reason for a red giant's color.
At the same time, the sun gets wider by an inch every year because more plasma is pushing out against the surface from the inside. When its mass spreads out, it's gravity well becomes shallower.
Just like the moon is slowly drifting away from the earth, the earth is slowly drifting from the sun because of this drop in gravity. This drift is slightly faster than the sun's expansion.
When a blacksmith heats up iron, like in a horseshoe, it glows red. Iron has a unique spectral signature with a lot of red and yellow bars.
Now, here's something really interesting about this.
The best place to look for space fareing civilizations is in the neighborhoods of red giants that have strong spectral signatures of iron.
The oldest civilizations will have come from single star planetary systems. Most star systems are binary, and produce orbits and conditions too extreme for life to stabilize without it being destroyed in its formative moments.
If life evolved out there, and it existed for a long time, it would eventually evacuate to nearby planets in the way Musk warns.
Or, because of drift, the home planet may move out with the expansion, and still stay at a safe distance. Nobody knows, because it depends on speed, size, and mass of each planet.
And, if neither of these happen, the civilization may have a means to move to another planetary system. But, it would have to be close by, because the logistics of transfering old world resources to the new one would be horrendous. You don't want to do that treking across the galaxy.
The closest red giant to us is Gacrux, part of the southern cross, which is featured on Brazil's flag:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacrux
And, another is Arcturus:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus
The closest red giants will also be the brightest in our skies. Just, don't mistake Mars or Jupiter as one, because they are reddish too.
Could also have something to do with walking out with Steven Miller's WIFE on his arm (figuratively) and a mysterious black eye, apparently handed him by a left-handed puncher? (Miller is left handed according to several sources...) Or maybe she's just the "booby prize" for taking leave of the current regime? 🤷🏼♀️
She's taking to opportunity to go with a drug addled, stumpy-pecker'd (see the reporting) bazillionaire over a ghoulish, billiard-headed, tiresome, stumpy-pecker'd ideologues. May her unhappiness continue!
Supposedly it was Snotpicker who decked him. We know from photos that Snotpicker is right handed.
I wish you would also start a Peter Thiel / Palantir watch.
What a creep Musk is. I appreciate the black eye no matter who hit him but isn't it typical of a coward to blame a child?
“sweeping austerity prescriptions”
That’s a surprisingly anodyne description!. It’s like characterizing the application of napalm to jungle terrain as landscaping.
I agree that it makes sense to keep watching Musk, but I wonder if it might be just as productive to use some of these resources on (Russell) Vought Watch and (Stephen) Miller Watch? Those evil viziers are in positions to do severe damage.
YES. We need a close eye on Miller and Vought. Please. These are Nazis running things. Please expose them and let the MSM pick up what you find. I imagine there are reporters from legacy media looking at the admin but not like Muskwatch.
Musk personifies ALL THAT STINKS about this government of, for and about trump! The DRY DRUNK in the WH is just as drugged up as elon, even though he claims NOT to drink or take drugs! He's just a crazed mental anomaly, and ALL his reptilian clones are just as deluded and stupid as their boss! Musk is the personification of the EVIL corruption that we must get rid of!
Denial is a hefty component of addiction
Sorry, Elin. You broke it, you bought it.
Rapid Unintended Disassembly …
Thank you for countering the frustratingly popular narrative that protesters "won" the battle by forcing Musk's exit. He left because he reached the point of diminishing returns. He achieved everything he wanted: elimination of investigations into his companies, elimination of any regulatory bodies to bother him in the future, enrichment through lucrative government contracts, and MOST important, a treasure trove of rich data from government systems that no other private entity could have dreamed of obtaining -- which hardly anyone talks about because they don't seem to grasp that in our era, nothing is more valuable than data, whether you're using it to better train your AI to control people or gain leverage against your competitors. He will undoubtedly continue to get the data that DOGE will continue hoovering up as it moves from agency to agency without needing to be the public face of DOGE.
Got the data and left!
Data collected. Our data. We are being monetized as we are dehumanized.
"anomalous rule-following"
You know, I don't think Trump hired Musk to be his "whipping boy", but Trump sure didn't do anything to stop it, either.
"You knew I was a snake when you took me in."