A new tech-friendly governor?

The California governor’s race has been a crowded field without notable frontrunners.
#Newsom had been a long-time friend of the tech industry, hosting Google’s #Page and #Brin as guests at his wedding
and referring to Salesforce chief executive Marc #Benioff as “family”.
His departure appears to have Silicon Valley fretting.

#Singleton, from the Chamber of Progress, said Newsom had long recognized “how pivotal the technology industry is in California”.

But then, late last month, Matt #Mahan, a moderate Democrat and the mayor of San Jose, announced his candidacy.

Before Mahan got involved in politics in 2020, he had a career in the tech sector.
He was an undergraduate at Harvard with Zuckerberg,
and in 2014 co-founded a startup with funding from #Conway, #Benioff and Napster co-founder Sean #Parker.

Mahan appears to be the savior the tech industry had been searching for.
Since his candidacy announcement just two weeks ago,
⚠️millions have poured into his campaign.

According to public records, he’s received donations from several venture capitalists,
along with Roblox CEO David #Baszucki, Y Combinator CEO Garry #Tan, GitHub co-founder Chris #Wanstrath, Cloudkitchen co-founder Diego #Berdakin, and Ring founder #Siminoff.

Mahan has even courted donors who helped launch companies known for working with the Trump administration,
including Palantir co-founder Joe #Lonsdale and Anduril co-founder Matt #Grimm and his wife Kimberly Grimm, according to public records.

Google’s #Brin has also backed Mahan, maxing out the limit for an individual campaign donation at $78,400.

Several of Mahan’s other tech backers also maxed out their donations.
🔥At this point, Mahan has now raised more than double the two most prominent democrats in the race, ⭐️Eric Swalwell
and ⭐️Katie Porter.

As political races and ballot measure campaigns continue to heat up across California in 2026, tech’s influence is only expected to grow.

“It’s going to be a fun session,” Singleton said. That’s for sure.”

#MattMahan #KatiePorter #EricSwallwell #CAGovernor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/california-billionaires-state-elections

The “California Billionaire Tax Act”,
often referred to simply as the #billionaire #tax,
is a proposalthat would require any California resident worth more than $1bn to pay a
one-off, 5% tax on their assets to help cover education, food assistance and healthcare programs in the state.

It’s sponsored by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West,
and if it receives enough signatures from California voters, it will go to the ballot in November.

When the proposal was put forward at the end of last year,
many among tech’s billionaire elite threw a #tantrum.

Some opened offices or bought mansions in Florida or Texas,
vowing to leave California for good.
The fleeing rich included Palantir co-founder Peter #Thiel,
whose current net worth is $25bn;
Google co-founders Larry #Page and Sergey #Brin,
worth around $255bn and $240bn respectively;
and Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David #Sacks,
whose net worth is not publicly known.

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Meta CEO
Mark #Zuckerberg,
worth $229bn, has also bought a property in south Florida valued between $150 and $200m.

Thiel has additionally led the charge in donating to a lobbying group, the "California Business Roundtable",
which has pledged to fight the wealth tax.

The Palantir co-founder handed over $3m to the political action committee in late December.
Other major donors include realtors, entrepreneurs and private equity firms.
James #Siminoff, who founded the camera-embedded Ring doorbell company, also donated $100,000, according to public records.

“The most powerful money in politics is to be on the no-side of a ballot measure,” said #McCuan.
“You can even pre-empt something getting to the ballot, like a billionaire’s tax,
by explaining to everyone out there that this is a bad idea for economic growth.”

Tech investors and venture capitalists have been extremely vocal in their opposition to the tax,
saying that the state will lose revenue as billionaires flee and it will hurt the state’s ability to be economically competitive.

Just this week, Chamath #Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and current venture capital investor, wrote
“the loss of this tax revenue was totally avoidable but is now forever”.
#Balaji #Srinivasan, an investor and former chief technology officer of Coinbase, wrote,
“the most successful tech founders of all time have now exited the failed state of California”.

Adding on, Paul #Graham, the co-founder of seed capital firm Y Combinator, wrote:
“It’s important that people like Zuck and Larry Page are willing to move in response to the proposed wealth tax.
It shows politicians what will happen if they try things like this.”

Joining the billionaires, #Newsom has pledged to fight the tax, saying it will “drive a race to the bottom” and stifle innovation as the ultra-wealthy leave.
“This will be defeated – there’s no question in my mind,” Newsom told the New York Times in January.
“I’ll do what I have to do to protect the state.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/california-billionaires-state-elections

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Élections municipales 2026 : kit pour agir
https://france.attac.org/se-mobiliser/municipales-2026/article/elections-municipales-2026-kit-pour-agir
À l'occasion des élections municipales 2026, de nombreuses campagnes thématiques sont menées par des partenaires d'Attac, ou par des collectifs dont nous faisons partie : services publics locaux, bifurcation écologique et sociale, alimentation, solidarité internationale, lutte contre l'extrême-droite...
#Politique #Municipales2026 #Page«Unique»CachéeDesMoteursDeRechercheEtDuFlux

Inscription - Formation aux actions de désobéissance civile
https://france.attac.org/se-mobiliser/article/inscription-formation-aux-actions-de-desobeissance-civile
Inscription pour une formation aux actions de désobéissance civile. Ces formations auront lieu au siège d'Attac au 5 villa de la Tourelle à Montreuil. Merci de vous inscrire avec le formulaire ci-dessous. Inscription pour une formation aux actions de désobéissance civile. Ces formations auront lieu au siège d'Attac au 5 villa de la Tourelle à Montreuil à ces dates : Mercredi 18 février - 19h Vendredi 6 mars - 19h Dimanche 22 mars - 14h Merci de vous inscrire avec le formulaire (…)
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Kein neues Phänomen:

Was heute #Thiel #Musk #Bezos und #Page sind, waren früher #Vanderbilt #Rockefeller #Morgan #Stanford #Astor

usw…

Man nennt sie die „Räuberbarone“

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Today at Shadomain we review the highlights of PAGE (Philadelphia Area Gaming Convention) 2026. Check it out and let us know what your favorites from #PAGE were!
https://shadomain.com/philadelphia-area-gaming-expo-review/

Today at Shadomain we review the highlights of PAGE (Philadelphia Area Gaming Convention) 2026. Check it out and let us know what your favorites from #PAGE were!
https://shadomain.com/philadelphia-area-gaming-expo-review/

Today at Shadomain we review the highlights of PAGE (Philadelphia Area Gaming Convention) 2026. Check it out and let us know what your favorites from #PAGE were!
https://shadomain.com/philadelphia-area-gaming-expo-review/

Some new update on : Vectosolve.com

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JPEG XL Demo Page

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Our haul from PAGE this past weekend. Some awesome stuff to dive into! Alt text has a listing of everything.

#ttrpg #PAGE #PAGE3 #PhillyAreaGamingExpo #DnD

Rarely does the mere filing of a #ballot #initiative scramble politics in California.

But the "#Billionaires #Tax" proposal is suddenly dominating the discourse
as proponents collect signatures to place it on the November ballot
— and wealthy residents, like Google co-founders
Larry #Page and Sergey #Brin,
move their assets out of the state rather than wait to see if it will pass.

The idea of taxing billionaires’ total assets
— a more aggressive idea than the income taxes California already levies on high earners
— has long captivated the left,
galvanizing labor and shaping presidential politics.

But now that
SEIU-UHW,
a union representing more than 100,000 health care workers,
has pushed the idea closer to reality than ever before,
California is getting a vivid glimpse of just how politically explosive the proposal is
and, for supporters, how high the stakes are for getting it right

The fight has reignited a struggle over the Democratic Party’s economic agenda in the runup to the 2028 presidential contest,
-- drawing vehement denunciations from Governor #Newsom and prominent Democratic donors like Reid #Hoffman

-- while being embraced by progressives like Ro #Khanna,
who represents Silicon Valley and is also mulling a presidential run.

Sen. Bernie #Sanders called it “a model that should be emulated throughout the country.”

“This isn’t radical. This is fairly simple. We live in the wealthiest country in the world and people are struggling,”
Liz #Perlman, executive director of AFSCME 3299, said on a call this week in which unions and progressive groups from around the country trumpeted higher taxes in all 50 states.

But beyond Perlman, the unions on that call did not necessarily embrace a wealth tax. And even Democrats championing populist economic messages are treading cautiously on this particular wealth tax proposal.

California Sen. Adam #Schiff, for example, signed onto a letter this week encouraging Democrats to “demonstrate a real willingness to take on corporate power and the billionaires” in advance of the midterms.

But Schiff has not yet taken a position on the proposal roiling politics in his home state.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/16/wealth-tax-push-california-politics-00732882

Vier Männer versus alle Kühe
Die vier reichsten Personen der Welt sind neben Tesla-CEO Elon #Musk, Google-Erfinder Larry #Page, Softwaregründer und Tiktok-Investor Larry #Ellison und Amazon-Chef Jeff #Bezos. Sie haben zusammengezählt ein Vermögen von 1.24 Billionen Dollar. Und damit sind sie mehr wert als alle Kühe auf der Welt. Denn der geschätzte Wert der Rinder weltweit beträgt laut Oxfam 1.21 Billionen Dollar.
https://www.srf.ch/news/wirtschaft/oxfam-bericht-reichtum-der-reichsten-vier-absurde-fakten

Back home after a very long but very fun game convention at PAGE. Now it's time to watch some Red Dwarf episodes for the billionth time and turn my brain off. Tomorrow will be time to check out my new cool stuff, and emailing everybody praise and thank yous. Good games, great people!

#PAGE #PAGE3 #PhillyAreaGamingExpo #ttrpg

How the Lobsters front page works

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@pndc Alas I can't rely on 65C02 so I was guessing I'll end up with

stub_funcname:
LDA bankreg
PHA
LDA #page
STA bankreg
JSR _funcname
TAY
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or similar (obviously they can all share the last 5 instructions via a JMP if I wanted to squeeze a bit)

RobertDouglas brokers $24.25M Hyatt Place sale in Page, AZ

https://hotelrealtor.biz/robertdouglas-brokers-sale-of-hyatt-place-page-az/

#HotelSales #Brokerage #Arizona #Page #USA #Hyatt #Hotels

Woot woot! I'm running games at the Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo on Friday and Saturday! Search for "secrets in the clay" to find them. Tables are full enough but not yet full. I am *really* looking forward to meeting *lots* of interesting people! #shadowdark #phillyareagameexpo #PAGE