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fromThe Mercury News
4 hours ago

Billionaire tax proposal roils Bay Area havens, divides politicians

A proposed one-time emergency tax on California billionaires' net worth is provoking fierce backlash and political division across Silicon Valley and the state's elite.
California
fromABC7 San Francisco
2 months ago

Newsom suggests Silicon Valley billionaires influenced Trump to back off federal operation in SF

Gavin Newsom praised Mayor Daniel Lurie’s temperance and said Silicon Valley billionaires influenced President Trump to delay deploying federal troops to San Francisco.
fromwww.bbc.com
3 months ago

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we all be worried?

Mark Zuckerberg is said to have started work on Koolau Ranch, his sprawling 1,400-acre compound on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, as far back as 2014. It is set to include a shelter, complete with its own energy and food supplies, though the carpenters and electricians working on the site were banned from talking about it by non-disclosure agreements, according to a report by Wired magazine.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

To them, ageing is a technical problem that can, and will, be fixed': how the rich and powerful plan to live for ever

Imagine you're the leader of one of the most powerful nations in the world. You have everything you could want at your disposal: power, influence, money. But, the problem is, your time at the top is fleeting. I'm not talking about the prospect of a coup or a revolution, or even a democratic election: I'm talking about the thing even more certain in life than taxes. I'm talking about death.
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