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teledyn 𓂀 Jun 6, 2025

@j12t

Key takeaway: JD Vance. #TechnocracyInc

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🇪🇺 Paul Schoonhoven 🍋🍉Mar 16, 2025

@CStamp @ktdoggett @pascaline

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In January 2025 the Guardian fills in the blanks in another article:

How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa | Elon Musk | The #Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa

#Musk #TechnocracyInc #Apartheid

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

🇪🇺 Paul Schoonhoven 🍋🍉Mar 16, 2025

@CStamp @ktdoggett @pascaline CBCnews had a long article about Technocracy Inc some years ago:

In science we trust | #CBCnews
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorporated-elon-musk

(From the early days until 2021, the year of the article)

#Musk #TechnocracyInc

These techno-utopians wanted to put scientists in charge of government

In the first half of the 20th century, a group called Technocracy Incorporated wanted to reorganize society by putting scientists in charge. The movement flamed out, but its underlying message still a

doctorambient Feb 25, 2025

Given my interests it should come as no surprise that I've been digging into "Technocracy, inc." and its attendant weirdness. (Yeah, I'm late to the party.)

1) WTF? 2) why gray? 3) fucking monads! 4) "Operation Columbia" 5) no, srsly, WTF?

It is going to take me a while to make sense of all this but it is weird. Really weird. Like e-prime or general semantics weird.

#cults ? #technocracyinc #technocracy #wtf #politics #uspol #canpol #canpoli #musk #elonmusk