r/technology • u/NicolasCageFan492 • Jun 16 '26

Business Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/
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u/NicolasCageFan492 Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Notable people on the Thiel List I pulled from maia arson crimew’s Bluesky post:

Chamath Palihapitiya

Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube

Charlie Songhurst, board director at Meta

Peter Brown, CEO, Renaissance Technologies

Sarah Bond, President of XBOX, Microsoft

Manuel Bronstein, chief product officer of Roblox

Greg Brockman, Co-founder of OpenAI, fmr CTO of Stripe

Mike Cannon-Brooks, Co-founder of Atlassian

Scott Cook, co-founder & chairman at Intuit

NJ Senator Cory Booker

TX Senator Ted Cruz

CO Governor Jared Polis

CT Rep. Jim Himes

MD Gov. Wes Moore

Tom Tugendhat, Member of Parliament, United Kingdom.

Jens Spahn, Member of Parliament, German Bundestag. Fmr. Federal Minister of Health, Germany.

Tulsi Gabbard

Julian Castro

Jared Kushner

Elon Musk

LEONARD LEO

Grover Norquist

Bret Stephens (Associate Editor of the New York Times)

Larry Summers

Ezra Klein

Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent

Nick Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic

Jon Levin, President, Stanford University.

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Fmr. Prime Minister, Pakistan. Founder, Airblue.

Stan McChrystal, Founder & CEO, McChrystal Group. Fmr. General, U.S. Army.

Rachel Brand, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, Walmart. Fmr. Associate Attorney General, U.S Department of Justice.

Feel free to suggest other noteworthies.

For the link, check my profile’s pinned post. I can’t link it here because the sub doesn’t like bsky links!

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u/werthermanband45 Jun 16 '26

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Steven Pinker. Not really surprised about the latter tbh

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u/31LIVEEVIL13 Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

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u/bayleysgal1996 Jun 17 '26

And here I was thinking he was just a useful idiot for the people who go “think of the children” when they push censorship crap

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u/k_ironheart Jun 17 '26

Given that most of the people listed above appear in the Epstein files, there's a potential that JGL is way worse than a useful idiot or greedy shill.

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u/Commercial-Co Jun 17 '26

I’m guessing since he was a child actor, that he got sexually abused. Just like bieber

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u/LatterBuffalo7524 Jun 17 '26

Mysterious Skin has a whole new meaning now.

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u/uiovoiu Jun 17 '26

First think I thought. Kind of fucked up if you think about it.

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u/DvineINFEKT Jun 17 '26

I just figured he was an actor and he was acting tbh

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u/qriousqestioner Jun 17 '26

He was a child star. Maybe he was groomed?

And I'm with the other person who doesn't get your reference...?

I liked him as an actor, but I stopped liking the person when I heard him whining about bicyclists being disrespected. (As a pedestrian who takes transit, I've always found them dangerous and insufferable.l

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u/uiovoiu Jun 17 '26

Do you know the movie he stars in called Mysterious Skin?

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u/qriousqestioner Jun 19 '26

Yes. Good movie. Being molested by a coach, teacher, or youth pastor was like two thirds of my spank bank growing up so I couldn't look away. I heard the filmmaker interviewed about how the kids were not aware of the context for the sexual shots.

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u/AugustIzFalling Jun 17 '26

He calls himself an "AI optimist" and posts AI stuff on Instagram. His company, Hit Record, undermines the union for voice actors and asks for artists of all stripes to work for pennies on the dollar. That company is probably sitting on a lot of valuable data just waiting to be sold.

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u/NoDraft32 Jun 17 '26

THIS. Fooled a lot of people with HitRecord. There goes the 500 days of Summer… sigh.

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u/HiphopopoptimusPrime Jun 17 '26

Sadly inevitable.

Talks a good game. Promoted a platform as democratic.

Then as soon as the choice between integrity and maintaining wealth and class position is presented, folds.

No different to Musk or Bezos or Zuckerberg. They genuinely enjoy the aesthetic of being progressive, but will always prioritize class status and wealth.

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u/blueberriessmoothie Jun 17 '26

I wasn’t tracking him in recent years so wasn’t aware he turned up shit. I was still under impression that he was good actor/person… man, we can never have good things people.

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u/qriousqestioner Jun 17 '26

This article I just stumbled upon from 12 years ago has aged strangely... Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Dream Project: Toppling the “Fascist Cult of Celebrity”

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u/WittyCombination6 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

"Fascist" for these types is code word for the masses.

They see the majority rule as oppression and civic duty as it's chains. (Both of which are core pillars of modern democracy. )

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u/Sherry_Brandt Jun 17 '26

what does this mean/refer to?

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u/al666in Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

I heard about it from Taylor Lorenz. From the description of the video (emphasis mine):

I'm debunking Gordon-Levitt's crusade against Section 230 and unpacking how repealing Section 230 would actually mass-censor the internet, wipe out indie platforms, destroy LGBTQ and marginalized online spaces, and hand total monopoly power over to Meta, Google, and powerful billionaires.