San Francisco’s mayor-elect, Daniel Lurie, has tapped OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to help run his transition team, the campaign announced on Monday, as part of the administration’s effort to embrace the tech industry. Altman, alongside nine other San Francisco leaders, will provide guidance to Lurie’s team on ways the city can innovate. Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, has never held elected office.

Hmm, 🤔

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#Tech #AI #Billionaires #Politics

Sam Altman will co-chair San Francisco mayor-elect Daniel Lurie's transition team | TechCrunch

San Francisco's mayor-elect, Daniel Lurie, has tapped OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to help run his transition team, the campaign announced on Monday, as part of

^{Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)}

[thread] John Thune
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thu…

* politician serving as senior U.S. senator from South Dakota 2005+
* will become the Senate majority leader in Jan 2025
* 2024 elected Senate Republican leader, succeeding Mitch McConnell

Comment: McConnell known for filibuster (frustrating Obama), working with Leonard Leo to secure SCOTUS conservative supermajority

#JohnThune #MitchMcConnell #SenateRepublicans #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #SCOTUS
#Project2025 #billionaires #libertarianism #Christofascism

cnn.com/2024/11/07/investing/b…

Wednesday wasn’t just a good day for Trump. The wealth of the world’s 10 richest people also soared by a record amount. The world’s 10 richest people got a record $64 billion richer from Trump’s reelection.

- Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index

#wealth #richestpeople #investing #billionaires

This is what it was all about

Trump's victory increases Elon Musk’s fortune by $26bn in a day as Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin and Bill Gates also benefit

#USAElections2024 #Billionaires #Trump

theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Trump’s victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top 10

Share surge increases Elon Musk’s fortune by $26bn in a day as Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin and Bill Gates also benefit

^{Dan Milmo (The Guardian)}

This reads like the deepest Halloween horror, especially as more and more therapists in Europe are warning of the addictive effects of such constructs already on young people.

I could sit back and say: I left #Meta a long time ago. But I can see the high impact of the company's #energy and #drinkingWater #consumption and the owner's flirting with the ideologies of #TESCREAL. We need regulations for these #billionaires!

#Zuckerberg #MetaAI #climateCrisis

“Oxfam identified 23 superyachts owned by 18 billionaires and estimates the average annual carbon footprint of each of these yachts to be 5,672 tonnes, which is more than three times the emissions of the #billionaires’ private jets... This is equivalent to 860 years of emissions for the average person in the world, and 5,600 times the average of someone in the global poorest 50%.”

#ClimateEmergency

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Billionaires Are the One Case Where Personal Choices Can Affect Climate Change

A new study found that half of the world’s carbon emissions come from the richest 10% of people.

^{Matthew Gault (Gizmodo)}

Bezos did it. #WashingtonPost #billionaires

“Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports”

cnbc.com/2024/10/25/jeff-bezos…

Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports

The Washington Post planned to endorse Kamala Harris over Donald Trump before owner Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, decided again it, the newspaper reported.

^{Dan Mangan (CNBC)}