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UNWIRE.HK<p>Steve Jobs 經典演講 20 週年 高清影片公開再重溫 「Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish」至今仍有影響力<br>Steve Jobs 於史丹福大學發表經典畢業演講至今剛好 20 週年，其中說到的「Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish」更已經成為經典明言。Apple 現任 CEO 早前就再次提及這個演講，並分享了 Steve Jobs Archive 所上載的高清演講影片。<br>The post Steve Jobs 經典演講 20 週年 高清影片公開再重溫 「Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish」至今仍有影響力 appeared first on 香港 unwire.hk 玩生活．樂科技.<br> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/%E7%A7%91%E6%8A%80%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>科技新聞</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>steve</span></a> jobs<br><a href="https://unwire.hk/2025/06/13/jobs-stanford-speech-20th/fun-tech/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jobs-stanford-speech-20th" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unwire.hk/2025/06/13/jobs-stan</span><span class="invisible">ford-speech-20th/fun-tech/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jobs-stanford-speech-20th</span></a></p>
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Bytes Europe<p>US envoy Steve Witkoff meets Putin in Moscow <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/954176/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/954176/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/envoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>envoy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/in" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>in</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/latest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>latest</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/meets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meets</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Moscow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Moscow</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steve</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/War" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>War</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Witkoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Witkoff</span></a></p>
UNWIRE.HK<p>Steve Jobs：我們從不裁員 財網回顧他逆市投資 創造 iPad 神話<br>面對 2008 年金融風暴，Apple 並未如大多數企業一樣削減預算或裁員，時任行政總裁 Steve Jobs […]<br>The post Steve Jobs：我們從不裁員 財網回顧他逆市投資 創造 iPad 神話 appeared first on 香港 unwire.hk 玩生活．樂科技.<br> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/%E7%A7%91%E6%8A%80%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>科技新聞</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>steve</span></a> jobs<br><a href="https://unwire.hk/2025/04/15/jobsstrategy/fun-tech/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jobsstrategy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unwire.hk/2025/04/15/jobsstrat</span><span class="invisible">egy/fun-tech/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jobsstrategy</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Swept Out of Office by Covid, a Democratic Governor Eyes a Comeback <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/912031/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/912031/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticParty</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elections</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Governors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Governors</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JosephM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JosephM</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Lombardo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lombardo</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MidtermElections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MidtermElections</span></a>(2026) <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Sisolak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sisolak</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steve</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>On Donald Trump’s first day in office, the Department of Defense announced a spate of hires, including 26-year-old <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Kingsley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kingsley</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wilson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wilson</span></a>, who will serve as the Pentagon’s deputy press secretary. <br>Wilson is the daughter of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steve</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cortes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cortes</span></a>, a longtime Trump advisor and right-wing commentator who promotes Latinos moving to the political right. <br>Wilson is also a Trump 2020 campaign alum, and until taking the job at the DoD, ran digital media and communications for the Center for Renewing America, a pro-Trump think tank founded by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought. <br>She’s also an overt internet troll with a long history of bigoted, xenophobic, and deliberately provocative shitposting. </p><p>Wilson in many ways embodies the face of the new Trump administration: <br>she’s worked in the MAGA world for seemingly her entire, very short career; </p><p>besides her roles in the Trump campaign and at the Center for Renewing America, <br>she also served as the national committeewoman for the DC Young Republicans. </p><p>She also briefly worked at Gettr, the social media platform founded by former Trump aide <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jason</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Miller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Miller</span></a> and with deep links to fugitive Chinese mogul <a href="https://c.im/tags/Guo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Guo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wengui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wengui</span></a>.</p><p>When she wasn’t doing any of that, Wilson was busy reeling off an endless tweets excoriating immigrants and trans people, <br>advocating for what she called “zero immigration and mass deportations,” <br>and bemoaning the “death of the West,” <br>a term popularized by Pat Buchanan and often used by nativist, isolationist, and white nationalist groups to argue that immigration dilutes “Western” culture.</p><p>At least twice, Wilson also repeated long-debunked lies online about the lynching death of Leo Frank, <br>a Jewish man who was kidnapped from a Georgia prison and murdered in 1915, <br>claiming he was guilty of the murder for which most modern historians agree he was wrongly convicted. </p><p>She also claimed the Black Lives Matter movement had an “affinity for race-based violence,” <br>and derided George Floyd, the Black man murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, <br>a “career criminal,” and scornfully called him “Saint George Floyd.”</p><p>“If you identify as transgender and/or are undergoing hormone therapy<br>—you should NOT be allowed to legally purchase a firearm,” <br>she posted, in one of her many tweets <br>claiming transgender people are abnormal or mentally ill. </p><p>“In a healthy country… transgender people aren’t visible,” she tweeted in 2024 (ellipses hers).</p><p>Wilson also explicitly lent her support to Great Replacement theory,<br> a racist and xenophobic conspiracy theory that holds that non-white immigrants are being lured to the United States to replace white Americans. </p><p>“The Great Replacement isn’t a right-wing conspiracy theory… it’s reality,” <br>she tweeted in 2024, over a screenshot of a Bloomberg article about the growth of the U.S. Hispanic population. </p><p>Wilson also called to “make Kosovo Serbia again,” <br>a particularly weird stance for an American now working in the Pentagon; </p><p>the United States has recognized Kosovo as an independent state since 2008 and maintains troops there as part of peacekeeping efforts.</p><p>Wilson also lent her support for the German far-right party AfD, <br>tweeting in 2024, “Globalist elites hate AfD because they put Germans before foreign migrants and radical Islam. Ausländer Raus!”</p><p>Wilson has tweeted the phrase <br>“Ausländer Raus” at least four times, <br>including the slogan, <br>“Deutschland den Deutschen. Ausländer raus.” </p><p>The phrase, which means, “Germany for Germans, foreigners out,” <br>is explicitly considered to be an extremist slogan in Germany with neo-Nazi roots; </p><p>in fact, a 1992 paper about its use among German skinheads is available on a Department of Justice website. </p><p>At least one German prosecutor has said that using the phrase is a criminal offense. </p><p>Nonetheless, the chant has been adopted by some young AfD supporters. </p><p>A video of the chant being sung at a trendy bar in the holiday island of Sylt sparked an enormous controversy last summer, <br>and again when it was sung a month later at a village festival in Germany. </p><p>(Non-Germans signaling their contempt for immigration, including accused human trafficker Tristan Tate, have also tweeted the phrase.)</p><p>Wilson’s career seems to have followed a dual track, <br>both making the rounds in DC politics and the Trump campaign and flirting with a career as an online provocateur<br>—though those roles that are increasingly blurred in the MAGAfied Republican party. </p><p>During her time at the Center for Renewing America, the Vought-founded think tank, she appeared as a talking head on conservative news sites like The Blaze, <br>and has appeared multiple times on the podcast of Tim Pool’s, the once “heterodox” streamer who’s become increasingly far-right.</p><p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/kingsley-cortes-wilson-defense-department/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">motherjones.com/politics/2025/</span><span class="invisible">03/kingsley-cortes-wilson-defense-department/</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Musk and his advisers — including <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steve</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Davis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Davis</span></a>, a cost cutter who worked with him at X and other companies <br>— did not want to create a commission, <br>as past budget hawks had done. </p><p>They wanted direct, insider access to government systems. </p><p>They realized they could use the digital office, <br>whose staff had been focused on helping agencies fix technology problems, <br>to quickly penetrate the federal government <br>— and then decipher how to break it apart.</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a></p>
UNWIRE.HK<p>Tim Cook 發文緬懷喬布斯 70 冥壽 「突破界限、創造未來」<br>Apple 創辦人 Steve Jobs 今日迎來 70 歲冥誕。現任 CEO Tim Cook 發文悼念，盛 […]<br>The post Tim Cook 發文緬懷喬布斯 70 冥壽 「突破界限、創造未來」 appeared first on 香港 unwire.hk 玩生活．樂科技.<br> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/%E7%A7%91%E6%8A%80%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>科技新聞</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>steve</span></a> jobs <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/tim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tim</span></a> cook<br><a href="https://unwire.hk/2025/02/24/steve-jobs-70/fun-tech/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=steve-jobs-70" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unwire.hk/2025/02/24/steve-job</span><span class="invisible">s-70/fun-tech/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=steve-jobs-70</span></a></p>
UNWIRE.HK<p>加州推薦 Steve Jobs 登紀念幣 1 美元創新紀念幣將於 2026 年面世<br>加州州長 Gavin Newsom 早前向美國鑄幣局推薦已故 Apple 創辦人 Steve Jobs 為加州 1 美元創新紀念幣的代表人物。創新紀念幣計劃在 2018 年開始，美國每個州都可以推薦當地具代表性的創新者或創新成果，製作專屬紀念幣。<br>The post 加州推薦 Steve Jobs 登紀念幣 1 美元創新紀念幣將於 2026 年面世 appeared first on 香港 unwire.hk 玩生活．樂科技.<br> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/%E7%A7%91%E6%8A%80%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>科技新聞</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>steve</span></a> jobs<br><a href="https://unwire.hk/2025/02/23/california-steve-jobs-innovation-coin/fun-tech/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=california-steve-jobs-innovation-coin" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unwire.hk/2025/02/23/californi</span><span class="invisible">a-steve-jobs-innovation-coin/fun-tech/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=california-steve-jobs-innovation-coin</span></a></p>
0xD34DF15h<p>Just Friday things.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/InOtterNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InOtterNews</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steve</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Office" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Office</span></a></p>
UNWIRE.HK<p>朱克伯格：Apple產品長期欠缺創新 「20 年後仍在吃喬布斯老本」<br>Meta 行政總裁 Mark Zuckerberg 近日接受 YouTuber Podcast 採訪時公開批評 […]<br>The post 朱克伯格：Apple產品長期欠缺創新 「20 年後仍在吃喬布斯老本」 appeared first on 香港 unwire.hk 玩生活．樂科技.<br> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/%E7%A7%91%E6%8A%80%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>科技新聞</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Mark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mark</span></a> Zuckerberg <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>steve</span></a> jobs<br><a href="https://unwire.hk/2025/01/14/mark-zuckerberg-slams-apple/fun-tech/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mark-zuckerberg-slams-apple" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unwire.hk/2025/01/14/mark-zuck</span><span class="invisible">erberg-slams-apple/fun-tech/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mark-zuckerberg-slams-apple</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Elon Musk’s deputy <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steve</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Davis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Davis</span></a> has spent more than 20 years helping the billionaire cut costs at businesses such as SpaceX, the Boring Company and Twitter <br>— making the engineer by training a natural choice for his new role at Musk’s "Department of Government Efficiency", or DOGE.</p><p>Davis is helping recruit staff at DOGE, in addition to his day job as president of Musk’s tunneling startup, the Boring Company. </p><p>Davis’ interactions with the government weren’t always positive. </p><p>Boring, which must navigate a morass of national, <br>state and local rules to build its tunnels, has run into major regulatory challenges <br>— particularly around environmental requirements that dictate when and if the first shovel can hit the ground. </p><p>Neighbors have also been a challenge. <br>At one point, Davis was on track for a proposed project in Los Angeles, <br>but nearby residents got wind of the project and sued <br>— successfully scuttling the endeavor. </p><p>Working in Las Vegas created its own set of regulatory run-ins for Boring. </p><p>Tunnels the company built to connect the convention center in Las Vegas to two nearby hotels, the Wynn Encore and the Westgate, still aren’t open to the public, more than a year after their completion. </p><p>The Nevada Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration fined Boring $112,504 after an investigation into conditions during construction. Complaints from workers included toxic muck falling from overhead conveyor belts and an overloaded bin collapsing and disgorging its contents across the work site. </p><p>Chafing at government rules has been a recurring theme for Musk, whose net worth recently surpassed a record $400 billion. </p><p>Aside from Boring’s challenges, SpaceX and Tesla have had their own issues with regulators, <br>ranging from launch approvals to mask mandates. </p><p>Critics of DOGE have speculated that the billionaire and his associates could use their influence to, say, <br>lower budgets for regulatory bodies that have put up road blocks for his companies. </p><p>Asked about Musk’s potential conflicts of interest, Donald Trump said that Musk will put the interests of the country first. <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-12-27/who-is-steve-davis-elon-musks-go-to-cost-cutter-is-working-for-doge" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">latimes.com/business/story/202</span><span class="invisible">4-12-27/who-is-steve-davis-elon-musks-go-to-cost-cutter-is-working-for-doge</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Donald Trump’s pick for the number two position in the Department of Defense, <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steve</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Feinberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Feinberg</span></a>, is a billionaire with business ties to the defense industry. </p><p>Feinberg is co-CEO of Cerberus Capital Management, which has invested in hypersonic missiles and once owned private military contractor DynCorp. </p><p>In Trump’s first term, Feinberg was the head of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, which gives advice to the president on intelligence estimates and assessments, <br>as well as counterintelligence. </p><p>The deputy secretary of defense post comes with much more responsibility, with day-to-day management of the massive department’s 3 million civilian employees and service members among its duties. </p><p>Like Trump’s choice for secretary of defense Pete Hegseth, Feinberg does not have experience running a large organization or working in the Pentagon. </p><p>Plus, Feinberg’s investments and business activities would create multiple conflicts of interest if his appointment to the DoD survives the Senate. </p><p>Unlike Hegseth, Feinberg doesn’t have a long list of sexual misconduct, as well as scandals running veterans organizations (that we know of). </p><p>His appointment could convince senators that there’s someone competent actually running things as the deputy to a Christian nationalist who envisions the military taking sides in a civil war scenario. </p><p>Feinberg is not the only Trump appointee with conflicts of interest: <br>the president-elect’s pick to run Medicare and Medicaid, <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Mehmet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mehmet</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Oz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oz</span></a>, has multiple ties to the pharmaceutical industry. </p><p>But Feinberg’s defense industry ties could affect his view of the role of the U.S. military, <br>as the Trump administration is already stocked with pro-war and pro-intervention advisers. </p><p>A man who stands to profit when the U.S. military is deployed doesn’t bode well for peace.<br><a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/188973/surprise-trumps-latest-appointment-conflicts-interest" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/post/188973/su</span><span class="invisible">rprise-trumps-latest-appointment-conflicts-interest</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>“Elon and I disagree on some things, but Elon deserves his place at the table,” <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steve</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bannon</span></a> recently told Puck. <br>“He stroked a $150 million check for the ground game, which is not sexy, at the exact moment we needed it. He came in with the money and the professionals. <br>To be brutally frank, it’s the reason we won.”</p><p>The tech billionaire’s support means more than just money though, according to Bannon.</p><p>“This is what I like about Elon Musk. <br>He and Vivek are talking about what we’ve been preaching on the War Room for years,” <br>Bannon added, referencing his radio show.</p><p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/steve-bannon-elon-musk-trump-b2654867.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/news/world/a</span><span class="invisible">mericas/us-politics/steve-bannon-elon-musk-trump-b2654867.html</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Since Mitt Romney’s loss in the 2012 election, <br>the Mercers have drifted ever further out of the orbit of Planet Koch, <br>building up their own entities, including <a href="https://c.im/tags/Breitbart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Breitbart</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a>, <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Cambridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambridge</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Analytica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Analytica</span></a> (the data startup), <br>and the ironically named <a href="https://c.im/tags/Government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Government</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Accountability</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Institute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Institute</span></a>, <br>all of them featuring <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steve</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bannon</span></a>, the self-described economic nationalist, in top slots<br>—until he joined the White House. <br>Cambridge Analytica, on whose board Bannon served, and Breitbart, where he was the chief executive, are private companies. <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/GAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GAI</span></a>, which produced the campaign-season book <br>"Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich", by Peter Schweizer, <br>is a nonprofit organization.<br>Schweizer’s book, together with an accompanying movie executive-produced by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rebekah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rebekah</span></a> Mercer, was designed to sully the reputation of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. <br>It was part of a Bannon-crafted strategy to steer the sort of smears that usually bubble up from the right-wing fever swamps directly into the mainstream media. <br>It worked; in 2015 the New York Times and the Washington Post both made exclusive agreements with the GAI to report on advance excerpts of Clinton Cash.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Bannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bannon</span></a> was wealthy before he met up with the Mercers, <br>first through his work as a banker for Goldman Sachs back when it was a privately held company, <br>and then through his own privately held ventures in movie-making and consulting. <br>Though Bannon’s wealth, when compared to that of Betsy DeVos, makes him a pipsqueak in the Trump money universe <br>(assets worth between $12 million and $54 million, according to the New York Times), <br>it nonetheless derives primarily from privately held entities.</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Attendees, with white-and-red gift bags and lanyards, knew to be closelipped when approached by hotel interlopers <br>or by the Times reporter, who was not invited to the closed-press festivities. </p><p>But a copy of the agenda listed remarks by several tech billionaires, including the Anduril co-founder <a href="https://c.im/tags/Palmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palmer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Luckey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Luckey</span></a> and the venture capitalist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marc</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a>, who spoke about his support for deregulating technology <br>and the mixed reaction in Silicon Valley to his endorsement of Mr. Trump, according to attendees.</p><p>There were tech up-and-comers, too: <br>Donald Trump <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jr</span></a>. announced at the welcome dinner that he was entering venture capital. </p><p>And days before the president-elect chose Robert F. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kennedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kennedy</span></a> Jr. for health and human services secretary, <br>Mr. Kennedy spoke extensively about his public-health work to a standing ovation. </p><p> Ms. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wiles</span></a> also led a session on “2024 Election Analysis,” where she gave a preview of Mr. Trump’s first days as president.</p><p>“It’s the domestic ‘Davos in the desert,’” said the Rockbridge backer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Omeed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Omeed</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Malik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Malik</span></a>, referring to the annual business conference in Riyadh, and Donald Trump Jr.’s new business partner.</p><p>➡️Rockbridge began with more humility. </p><p>Back in 2019, Mr. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a>, then best known as the author of “Hilbilly Elegy,” and a conservative media figure named <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chris</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Buskirk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Buskirk</span></a> began informally hosting a series of small dinners <br>that would eventually become called Rockbridge. </p><p>The group drew early support from the venture capitalist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Peter</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Thiel</span></a> and eventually caught the attention of Donald J. Trump, who spoke at a few meetings.</p><p>Once in the fall and once in the spring, Rockbridge began to gather at places like the Four Seasons in Palm Beach, Fla., <br>or the Ritz-Carlton in Dallas for three days of political panels and business networking. </p><p>Speakers included people like <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tucker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tucker</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carlson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Carlson</span></a>; the Thiel protégé <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blake</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Masters</span></a>; the casino mogul <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steve</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wynn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wynn</span></a>; the investor <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>David</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sacks</span></a>; and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Woody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Woody</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Johnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Johnson</span></a>, the billionaire owner of the New York Jets.</p><p>Not all attendees have politics at the top of their mind. </p><p>Some are primarily interested in business, seeing Rockbridge as a conservative-tinged version of the elite Sun Valley conference.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/RockbridgeNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RockbridgeNetwork</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RebekahMercer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RebekahMercer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/KenHowery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KenHowery</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LukeNosek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LukeNosek</span></a></p>
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Khurram Wadee ✅<p><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/STEVE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STEVE</span></a>: A Glowing River over <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Picture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Picture</span></a> of the Day</p><p><a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241028.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241028.ht</span><span class="invisible">ml</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/APOD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APOD</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>After the Bitcoin event in Nashville,<br>Trump brought Lutnick on board his plane, Trump Force One,<br>to a campaign stop in Minnesota, where Lutnick introduced Vance. </p><p>Lutnick later told an interviewer that travelling to a rally with the former President was <br>like “going to a rock concert with Mick Jagger.” </p><p>During the trip, Lutnick said, Trump offered him a formal role as co-chair of his Presidential transition team. </p><p>The decision was announced a few weeks later, <br>after the fund-raiser at Lutnick’s Bridgehampton home. </p><p>Another co-chair is <a href="https://c.im/tags/Linda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linda</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/McMahon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>McMahon</span></a>, <br>the former head of the Small Business Administration in the Trump Administration. </p><p>She, too, is a wealthy donor who, according to federal records, has given more than $10 million to support Trump in 2024.</p><p>That same month, Trump announced that he and his sons <br>Don, Jr., and Eric <br>were getting into the crypto business themselves. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steve</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Witkoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Witkoff</span></a>, a New York real-estate mogul and a major Trump donor, <br>who testified on Trump’s behalf during his civil fraud trial this year, <br>helped set up the venture, <br>called "World Liberty Financial". </p><p>One of the entrepreneurs brought in as a partner, <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Chase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chase</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Herro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Herro</span></a>, was later revealed to have referred to himself as <br>“the dirtbag of the Internet.” </p><p>Trump, during a rambling two-hour live-stream rollout on X, <br>struggled to describe how exactly the new business would work, <br>or even when it would launch. </p><p>“Crypto is one of those things we have to do,” he said. </p><p>“Whether we like it or not.”</p><p>By then, Lutnick’s sphere of influence had moved well beyond bitcoin. </p><p>In October, he told the Financial Times that appointees in a second Trump Administration would be subject to a strict <br>❌“loyalty” test<br> to avoid the kinds of senior aides who sought to constrain Trump during his first term. </p><p>“Those people were not pure to his vision,” Lutnick said. </p><p>“We’re going to give people the role based on their capacity<br>—and their fidelity and loyalty to the policy, as well as to the man.”</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Trump has long made a practice of telling potential supporters what they want to hear. </p><p>This year, he has also changed previous policy positions in ways that would benefit some of his party’s largest donors. </p><p>In March, for example, he publicly reversed course on forcing the sale of the Chinese-owned social-media app TikTok, <br>despite having signed an executive order, <br>in August, 2020, <br>stating his intention to ban the app if it was not sold to a U.S.-based buyer within forty-five days. </p><p>Back then, Trump warned that a Chinese company owning so much of Americans’ personal data was a national-security threat. </p><p>But this winter, when the Biden Administration endorsed a bipartisan bill to force TikTok’s sale, <br>Trump came out against the measure. </p><p>On Truth Social, he wrote, <br>“If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck”<br>—his derogatory name for Facebook’s C.E.O., Mark Zuckerberg<br>—“will double their business.” </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steve</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bannon</span></a>, Trump’s former adviser, posted another explanation for the about-face: <br>“Simple: Yass Coin.”</p><p>Days earlier, at an event in Florida for the conservative group Club for Growth, <br>Trump had met with <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yass</span></a>, a major investor in TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. </p><p>Yass, a libertarian-leaning Wall Street billionaire who started out as a professional poker player, <br>has not officially endorsed Trump or donated directly to him. </p><p>Instead, he has given more than $25 million to the "Club for Growth" pac, which is supporting the ex-President’s reëlection. </p><p>(According to OpenSecrets, Yass and his wife have contributed more than $70 million to conservative candidates and causes this election cycle.) </p><p>Yass also appears to have had a hand in Trump’s personal enrichment. </p><p>This spring, the company behind Truth Social merged with Digital World Acquisition Corp., <br>a company in which Yass’s trading firm, Susquehanna, <br>was the single largest institutional investor. </p><p>Truth Social went public in March, and Trump’s majority stake in the company is now worth an estimated $3 billion.</p><p>Perhaps the most striking example of the former President’s donor-friendly flexibility in 2024 has been his shift on the <a href="https://c.im/tags/cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cryptocurrency</span></a> industry. </p><p>In recent years, he was unambiguously critical of bitcoin, <br>the most widely traded digital currency, <br>saying it <br>“seems like a scam” and “potentially a disaster waiting to happen.” </p><p>But, in 2024, he became an unapologetic promoter of it, attracting contributions from major players in the field, <br>such as the twin brothers <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cameron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cameron</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tyler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tyler</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Winklevoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Winklevoss</span></a>, <br>each of whom donated $1 million in bitcoin to help Trump. </p><p>The former rowing stars who famously sued Zuckerberg, their classmate at Harvard, for allegedly stealing the idea for Facebook, <br>went on to found the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini. </p><p>(In a speech this summer, Trump called them “male models with a big, beautiful brain.”) </p><p>This year’s Republican Party platform offers few details on many policy issues affecting Americans, <br>but it is unusually specific on crypto, <br>promising to <br>“defend the right to mine Bitcoin” <br>and opposing the creation of a <br>“Central Bank digital currency,” <br>which could threaten the crypto industry’s biggest investors.</p><p>In July, Trump flew to Nashville for the Bitcoin 2024 conference, <br>where he spoke shortly after one of his top fund-raisers, <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Howard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Howard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lutnick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lutnick</span></a>. </p><p>Lutnick, the C.E.O. of the Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald, has become a leading public proponent of the crypto industry; </p><p>at the conference, he announced a plan to lend $2 billion to crypto investors, </p><p>allowing them to use bitcoin as collateral. </p><p>Onstage, Trump said that his Administration would permit the creation of so-called <a href="https://c.im/tags/stablecoins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stablecoins</span></a>, <br>which, he promised, would <br>“extend the dominance of the U.S. dollar to new frontiers around the world.” </p><p>Trump also promised to fire 🔸Gary Gensler, Biden’s chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, <br>whose pro-regulatory positions on crypto have outraged bitcoiners. </p><p>The United States, Trump vowed, “will be the crypto capital of the planet.”</p><p>Lutnick, who has known Trump for thirty years and who once made a guest appearance on “The Celebrity Apprentice,” <br>supported Trump’s previous campaigns. </p><p>But he has significantly increased his giving in 2024. </p><p>According to Bloomberg, Lutnick and his wife donated $30,200 to Republicans in 2016 <br>(though he also gave $1 million to Trump’s 2017 Inauguration committee), <br>$1.3 million in 2020, <br>and $12.1 million so far this year. </p><p>In May, during the former President’s trial in Manhattan, Lutnick hosted a fund-raiser for him at Lutnick’s apartment in the Pierre hotel. </p><p>In early August, he held another event at his forty-acre estate in Bridgehampton, which brought in $15 million; seats for a roundtable with Trump in Lutnick’s dining room went for $250,000. </p><p>The following Monday, maga Inc., a pro-Trump super pac, recorded a $5-million donation from Lutnick, <br>the largest individual political gift he’d ever made.</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>During this year's Republican primaries, Nelson Peltz gave $100,000 to a super pac supporting Tim Scott, <br>the South Carolina senator, <br>but Scott dropped out before a single G.O.P. vote was cast. </p><p>By the time of Peltz’s dinner, it was clear that Trump would secure the Republican nomination for an unprecedented third consecutive election. </p><p>Peltz, who was no longer on speaking terms with the ex-President, opened the discussion with a blunt assessment of the race. </p><p>🔥“I don’t like Donald Trump,” an attendee recalled Peltz saying. </p><p>“He’s a terrible human being, but our country’s in a bad place, and we can’t afford Joe Biden.” </p><p>So, Peltz concluded, however much they might dislike it, ❌“we’ve all got to throw our support behind him.”</p><p>Some of Peltz’s guests remained skeptical, <br>holding to the view, as the attendee put it, that <br>“Trump’s a terrible person<br>—I’m going to focus on the Senate.” </p><p>Most of the donors, however, adopted a more pragmatic approach to the ex-President. </p><p>Many of them had been granted significant access to the White House during his four years in office. </p><p>Some were expected to be considered for senior roles in a second term: </p><p>Trump has personally floated the name of the hedge-fund tycoon <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>John</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Paulson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paulson</span></a>, for instance, as a potential Secretary of the Treasury, touting him as <br>💥“a money machine.” </p><p>“They know how transactional he is,” the attendee told me. </p><p>“They’re hoping to have some influence over the course of appointments and therefore the direction of his Administration.”</p><p>A few of Peltz’s guests were all in. <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steve</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wynn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wynn</span></a>, the Las Vegas gambling titan, has known Trump for decades; </p><p>his wife, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andrea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Andrea</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hissom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hissom</span></a>, is close to the former First Lady, Melania, and the two couples have spent time together in Palm Beach. </p><p>And then there was <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>, the world’s richest man, who had reportedly got to know Peltz through Peltz’s son <a href="https://c.im/tags/Diesel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Diesel</span></a>, a tech entrepreneur. </p><p>At the time, Musk had said that he would NOT back a candidate in the Presidential race. </p><p>♦️By the fall, he would enthusiastically endorse Trump, spending $75 million to support him through a new super pac, <br>-- and spreading pro-Trump lies and conspiracy theories on his social-media platform, X.</p><p>Trump, the richest man ever to serve in the White House, is himself a billionaire, <br>though the extent of his wealth has long been in question. </p><p>(As of mid-October, with stock in Trump’s social-media venture, Truth Social, experiencing a pre-election bounce, Forbes estimated his net worth at about $5.5 billion.) </p><p>In 2016, Trump hardly bothered to court big donors. </p><p>He was shunned by much of the G.O.P. élite and largely self-funded his Republican primary campaign. </p><p>He lambasted Jeb Bush, the brother and son of Presidents, as a tool of the moneyed class. </p><p>👉“Super pacs are a disaster,” Trump said in a 2016 debate. <br>“They’re a scam. They cause dishonesty. <br>And you’d better get rid of them, because they are causing a lot of bad decisions to be made by some very good people.”</p><p>⚠️But in 2020, as an incumbent President, Trump embraced super pacs and their funders. </p><p>The two main super pacs supporting his campaign raised <br>💥$255 million on his behalf that year; </p><p>his total fund-raising came to more than<br>💥 $1 billion. </p><p>However, Biden, like Hillary Clinton four years earlier, raised even more than Trump, <br>bringing over-all spending in the 2020 Presidential race to a record🔥 $5.7 billion.</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NelsonPeltz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NelsonPeltz</span></a></p>
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