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The Winklevoss Twins Have a New Show on Sirius Called Winklevoss Radio
Nitasha Tiku · 05/21/14 03:05PMTomorrow night marks the premiere of Winklevoss Radio, a new "an hour-long, limited-run" show on Sirius XM. Most of us only know Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss as Greenwich Ken dolls with opposable thumbs *litigation comes separately. So it will be great to introduce the element of sound at no additional cost.
Silicon Valley Royalty Cosplay for Game of Thrones Party
Sam Biddle · 04/09/14 12:08PMYour Sexiest Bachelors of '14 Include Three Silicon Valley Sociopaths
Sam Biddle · 01/17/14 01:25PMI understand why Town & Country shoehorned three techies into their "Sexiest Bachelors 2014" list. If coders are the new bankers, and bankers were the new imperial vassal lords (or something), it fits. To a regressive glossy, powerful parvenues are the best bachelors—but try not picking the creepiest in Startupland.
Leaked Emails Show How Palantir Founder Recruits for Global Domination
Nitasha Tiku · 10/17/13 11:15AMThe world-changing aspirations of Twitter and Facebook are a drop in the bucket, a single bloom in an Arab Spring, compared to what former Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale wants to do with Formation 8, a venture capital firm that raised $448 million to modernize and disrupt all of Asia's power centers, basically. The leaked emails (below) show how Lonsdale intends to recruit engineers to his cause: by making them “feel special because they think they've been identified by technology [i.e. Palantir] that helped locate bin Laden.”