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In SoylentNews' continuing coverage of the aftershocks of the US Presidential election, it appears that tech will factor large in a Trump administration:
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is putting together a brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders to share ideas with the transition team for President-elect Donald Trump. But he's having trouble finding takers.
For the full story, consult the Washington Post article.
Some further tidbits:
Thiel, a libertarian who was shunned by his tech industry peers for being a Trump supporter, is pitching his personal network of entrepreneurs on the opportunity to influence an incoming administration that is somewhat of a blank slate when it comes to technology policy. Because Trump had so few ties to the world of tech, Thiel will have an unusually powerful influence on the new administration, the people familiar with his thinking said.
This much we already knew. Real estate development is ancient tech. Heck, Emperor Nero of Rome did it when he let Rome burn so he could build new condos! But there is resistance in the Valley of Silicon.
But in the liberal bastion of Silicon Valley — where Trump is despised and even admitting you're a Republican can hurt your candidacy for a job – that coveted opportunity has been fraught with challenges. And some people have turned him down altogether. Thiel declined to comment.
We may have reached the corporate defined limits of fair use, so I encourage one and all to read the complete WaPo article. I have not heard anything about an offer being made to The Mighty Buzzard yet, but it is in the range of possibility!
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Monday November 28 2016, @04:59PM
"You'd think that eventually if someones mental map doesn't cooperate well with observations of reality that they'd just cave in and operate under a new mental map"
On this very site a die-hard anti-Trump lesbian told me to "take your [personal sexual assault experience] and shove it up your grandmother's ass." because "I don't speak for sexual assault victims" even though I am one.
It was not enlightening to me, as I have been ridiculed and lambasted by, funnily enough, more lesbians about that experience more than I have been by straight white men.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @06:03PM
As a straight White Man I don't find your experience - of which I have no details of - funny in the least. SJWs are sick people who drove me from the left simply by me observing their behavior, there is no cure for them.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday November 28 2016, @06:20PM
The cure for them is the same as their counterparts/progenitors on the right: IGNORE THEM. Understand they're a mirror image of the "Children of the Sun" types; same pathology, opposite polarity.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @11:14PM
On this very site a die-hard anti-Trump lesbian told me to "take your [personal sexual assault experience] and shove it up your grandmother's ass."
So, just curious, how did that work out for you? Or did you just decide not to try it?