🔗 Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city. … because of course they are.

The project was spearheaded by Jan Sramek, a 36-year-old former trader for the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, and is backed by prominent Silicon Valley investors including Michael Moritz, a venture capitalist; Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of Linkedin; Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of the philanthropic group Emerson Collective and wife of Steve Jobs; Marc Andreessen, an investor and software developer; Patrick and John Collison, the sibling co-founders of the payment processor Stripe; and the entrepreneurs Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, the Times reported.

Not clear how very much each put into the pot - but to remind - Andreesen is very big into land and property development. (🔗 Me back in August last year referencing his stake in ‘WeWork redux) - and who his wife’s dad was.

Surprised not to see Thiel there.

Surprised to see Lauren there.

🔗 🎙️ More Musk Manure … interview with Ronan Farrow after his New Yorker piece.

🔗 Vivek Ramaswamy says he wants Elon Musk to be his presidential adviser.

Oh FFS … just what we need …

🔗 I do like what Montaigne does - but I have no idea how I might really use it.

Not read much about Burning Man this year - except how it is no longer ‘hot’ (culturally speaking) - but in case you want to ‘sing along’ - 🔗 🎵 there’s a web site for that.

🔗 Japanese Nail Houses.

Spectacular idea of how just one person can stand up and be counted.

🔗 Ouch

🔗 I am exploring this more (Medium - sorry)

pUNk doesn’t ask for permission or seek forgiveness.

pUNk is and does. It is who we are in our being and our thinking and our action.

Yes — pUNk is notoriously brash but we need brashness now more than ever. We need the crazies, the ones who are positively disrupting, the thoughtful ones who are not hidebound by tradition or phased by the unknowns.

More to come as I bottom out where this is headed - but is one of three separate groups of people that have passed through the ‘Philpin Philters’ this week.

🔗 Kremlin denies Putin ordered plane crash to kill Yevgeny Prigozhin

… well they are hardly going to put their hands up and say “it was us” are they?