The real history of Polymarket, directly connecting the company to Peter Thiel's efforts to resurrect DARPA's Policy Analysis Market where another Thiel-linked company, Augur, had previously failed.
When it was reported that Wegmans grocery stores were utilizing facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect data on their customers, the company declined to disclose the software-end of its surveillance machine.
Ohio has become the new destination for Big Tech data centers and AI infrastructure. The state owes much of its rapid transformation into the so-called "Silicon Heartland" to the now vast array of public-private partnerships pioneered by the state's richest man.
In Part 2, we look at how that city-state model manifests internationally and what it implies, not just for global governance structures, but for humanity.
The ambitions of the Koch-backed network behind Project 2025 and the the PayPal Mafia behind President Trump are set to converge in a public-private fin-tech industry that distributes school choice subsidies using digital wallets and stablecoins based on AI social credit analytics.
Iain Davis shows how Thiel’s and Musk’s ideologies are becoming policy: Freedom Cities modeled on Próspera, a Ukrainian “digital state,” and privately issued stablecoins - all of which are building toward a multipolar world of gov-corp Technates.
What did Elon Musk mean by “dark MAGA”? Iain Davis unpacks Technocracy and the Dark Enlightenment championed by Musk and Thiel, respectively. The two ideologies would replace government with corporate rule and treat humans as programmable customers.
A concise post-mortem on The Chain series, a deep dive on the creation of the Bitcoin-Dollar system which names the names and explains the technology upholding the deflationary and highly-surveillable digital financial system fast approaching.
While Facebook’s Libra seemed to fail, it set the stage for stablecoin regulation. The finale of The Chain traces how Libra, the 2023 bank failures and the Gillibrand-Lummis bill realized PayPal’s founding goal of a “new world currency.”
