Gaga Announces "Outer Bio"

[Ladle Ghoulash 54,692]

1 hour ago, 27monster27 said:

He's the guy who propped up (and likely groomed) Clavicular. I mean, that's the most I know about him, but that alone seems to show quite a bit of who he is.

It’s much, much, much worse than that. Owns one of the largest AI based surveillance companies (Palantir), has been a global sponsor of the rise of the far right (had a heavy hand in propping up MAGA) as a way of destroying liberal democracy to create a vacuum to be filled by technofeudalism/fascism, and also handpicked and groomed JD Vance to become Trump’s VP and successor as a way of effectively controlling a potential future president.

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1 hour ago, RenegAde said:

Right but Gaga is not a tech bro though, that's her man. So while it may make sense for him, it doesn't automatically align for Gaga. That's makes me skeptical here, like why is she unnecessarily associating her insane unrelated brand with this.

Perhaps she feels he has been so supportive of HER work all these years that she feels it only fair to support him in HIS endeavors. Yes they come from different worlds but I do wish she wouldn't align so closely with some of these billionaire tech bros with controversial backgrounds and global intentions 

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1 hour ago, SleepingSun said:

Palantir is pretty omnipresent, so many global companies and agencies are linked to them, which is disturbing enough. But Michael being involved with Thiel and Gaga starting a new business with financial backing from Palantir partners was not something I'd have ever anticipated. Lesson learned I guess. And that lesson is: Money and power change people. The rich operate on a different plane of morality anyway. Maybe its time to move on. It's been 17 years.

 

1 hour ago, Bronco said:

Tech bro game plan for years has been to capture celebrity culture and use it for PR purposes. 
We know exactly why she's there and her name is attached. They want under informed stans to defend them in the court of popular culture/public opinion and making it a "stan war" instead of a legitimate class war which it actually is. 
It's why Bezos et al have been forcing themselves into the celebrity zeitgeist for so long

this is exactly why ive been a Michael hater since the beginning, i knew he'd drag her into his circles to help secure  funding for stupid **** like this 

and mind u a lot of uber rich people who fund these kinds of things have ideologies that borderline eugenics  

 

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Just now, phantasmas said:

 

this is exactly why ive been a Michael hater since the beginning, i knew he'd drag her into his circles to help secure  funding for stupid **** like this 

and mind u a lot of uber rich people who fund these kinds of things have ideologies that borderline eugenics  

 

Honestly, I never really dug that deep into Michael's background as he was never really interesting to me up until now. Well, huge mistake! Turns out you knew things others, me included, didn't bother to reasearch. Kudos to you 

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couldn't she have just found happiness with local hung tinder date? 

[Jackaroo 2,737]

whatever this is, if they could make it affordable and accessible to everyone then we’re talking  

while the science is sciencing, the human skin donation bit is a little weird tho fr, reminds me of the medical episodes on those black market/ human trafficking documentaries 💀 they’re just rebranding it with the clean girl aesthetic 

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5 minutes ago, SleepingSun said:

Honestly, I never really dug that deep into Michael's background as he was never really interesting to me up until now. Well, huge mistake! Turns out you knew things others, me included, didn't bother to reasearch. Kudos to you 

i live and work in Silicon Valley, these people and their delulu startups are a dime a dozen 

good for her tho, i would snatch up some techie trade for the money too 

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For some fans who are conflicted with this news I think it's a good moment to see Mayhem as her goodbye and move on, don't torture yourself over gaga questionable life choices.

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5 minutes ago, Jackaroo said:

the human skin donation bit is a little weird tho fr,

Eh, of all the parts of this people could take issue with, I feel like this is the least of it lol. Using in vivo human skin to test on human physiology without having to test on real people or animals is pretty efficient/ethical. 

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34 minutes ago, Jackaroo said:

whatever this is, if they could make it affordable and accessible to everyone then we’re talking  

That‘s been one of the rough patches with their philanthropic models …

Spoiler

How Sean Parker‘s plan to help the poor boosted the rich (via LA Times)

NAPA, Calif. — The Buena Vista tasting room is not just another downtown Napa wine bar.

It is a conspicuously indulgent place, where epicureans can fill their glasses with cabernet and sink into the carefully restored mezzanine’s dark velvet lounges for a tasting of fine caviar and artisan chocolates resembling museum pieces.

One vibe this nook of luxury does not give off is that of a community in distress. Its neighbor in the ornate 1920s Italianate edifice known as the Gordon Building is an Anthropologie store.

The redevelopment of the building, damaged in an earthquake, was bankrolled using a tax shelter created in 2017 for the wealthiest Americans on the promise it would bring opportunity to the most downtrodden places. 

Billions of dollars’ worth of tax breaks for the wealthy are being generated by the Opportunity Zone program, often in pursuit of luxury high-rises, high-end hotels and swank office space. It has subsidized hulking self-storage units nestled alongside freeways and upmarket apartments for employees of the hottest Bay Area tech firms.

One thing the tax break has fallen short on: creating opportunities in low-income communities.

“This has been perverted into a huge gift for people who did not need it,” said Aaron Seybert, managing director of social investment at the Kresge Foundation, which has found it difficult to put the tax break to work toward its effort to bring opportunity to America’s struggling communities. 

“They are spending my money and yours. They said they would do that because these low-income areas are falling behind and they want to help people who live there,” Seybert said. 

“The places I work in every day have raised virtually nothing” through the program, he said.

Spoiler

The same grievance can be heard from mayors of struggling towns throughout the nation. Among those declaring the program a bust is the East Baltimore pastor who went to the White House in 2018 to help President Trump unveil it. His community has been passed over as investors chase the double-digit returns that accompany the tax shelter in upscale markets. 

The story of how this all happened has deep California roots, sprouting from the vision of a Silicon Valley billionaire who inserted himself into the machinations of federal policymaking.

Sean Parker — founder of Napster, Facebook’s first president and the Silicon Valley bad boy depicted in the film “The Social Network” — seemed a stretch for this role.

Parker began working the Washington circuit late in the Obama era, when it was still hospitable to super-rich tech innovators but few had the patience or humility to navigate it. Washington is not about moving quickly and breaking things. Long, slow insider games of horse-trading precede almost every big new federal policy.

Yet Parker’s plan had bipartisan appeal. It focused on the wealth of Americans loath to reinvest their stock market, real estate and other capital gains profits because of the hefty tax bills that come when that money is moved. The idea was to give them a break on those taxes if they steered the money to communities desperate for investment.

[ https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-04-06/la-na-pol-opportunity-zones-sean-parker ]

… but time will tell moving forward if lessons were learned and learnings incorporated into a more equitably beneficial economic structure; or maybe there is a stronger incentive / greater capacity to provide people with accessible health care than affordable housing

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Wait, what’s happening? Can somebody explain?

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3 minutes ago, PSYCHOSHTICK said:

Wait, what’s happening? Can somebody explain?

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Y'all this is good. You just dont know it yet but this is more metal than ARTPOP.

Think of it as ARTPOP minus the music but all the money.

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Lady gaga actual patient

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Can she un-announce it?