Florida state senators Ileana Garcia (R), Jason Brodeur (R), and Ana Maria Rodriguez (R) won their seats after apparently planted NPA candidates siphoned away votes from the Democrats. #FlaPol 1/
More details from a memo I created to keep track. 2/
6/ There was an apparently planted candidate in the Seminole County tax assessor’s race too. Planted to help Republican Joel Greenberg who is now indicted. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1421592…
7/ How many Florida races were tainted this way????
WTH? First, a company (“Hugging Face”) said it had “resorted to [an open source] Chinese AI model to battle a fully autonomous cyberattack bc US model guardrails stymied its defense”
Then we’re told that the perpetrator was a rogue “OpenAI test model” that had “escaped”. 1/
👀 El Salvador's AI Agency has named Ginger Luckey Gaetz (Matt Gaetz's wife, Palmer Luckey's sister) as Strategic Advisor. Palmer’s firm Anduril is backed by Peter Thiel & partners w/ Palantir.
El Salvador recently joined the Thiel-ally-led “Pax Silica” global initiative....1/
😳 Jacob Helberg—who left his position as an advisor at *Palantir* to join Trump’s State Dept—spearheads the international “Pax Silica” initiative. In May, he discussed it w/ Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale: “Jacob Helberg on Pax Silica & the New Global Order in the AI Age” 1/
Well, well, well. In early 2025, the wife of Brendan Carr (Trump’s FCC chairman) “joined billionaire Peter Thiel’s data analytics firm, Palantir Technologies, as its head of global policy.” 4/28/25 … 1/
3/ Brendan Carr also spoke during Reboot 2024–hosted by the Foundation for American Innovation (FAI) whose board at that time included *Peter Thiel* protege Michael Kratsios (now a Trump official) & Mike Solana, a VP at *Peter Thiel’s* Founders Fund. h/t @sf_mills