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June 2026

Jun 20 Page
League for Spiritual Discovery
Jun 20 Concept Ideology
Transhumanism
Transhumanism is the movement to use technology to transcend the biological limits of the human condition, named in its modern sense by Julian Huxley in 1957 and organized academically by the World Transhumanist Association that Nick Bostrom and David Pearce founded in 1998.
Jun 20 Concept Ideology
Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism is the moral theory, running from Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill through Henry Sidgwick to Peter Singer, that the right act maximizes aggregate welfare, and its quantifying logic became the operating premise of effective altruism and longtermism.
Jun 20 Place Landmark
358 El Brillo Way
Waterfront Palm Beach mansion owned by Jeffrey Epstein where the 2005 Palm Beach Police Department investigation began after a parent reported that her teenage stepdaughter had been molested there.
Jun 20 Place Landmark
Great St. James
Great St. James is the larger island adjacent to Little St. James that Jeffrey Epstein acquired in 2016 for 22.5 million dollars through a shell company whose listed beneficial owner was a Dubai businessman used without consent, on which Epstein conducted extensive unpermitted construction that drew U.S. Virgin Islands stop-work orders and fines, and which his estate sold with Little St. James to Stephen Deckoff in 2023.
Jun 20 Place Landmark
Zorro Ranch
Zorro Ranch is the roughly 7,600- to 10,000-acre New Mexico property near Stanley, south of Santa Fe, that Jeffrey Epstein acquired in 1993 from the family of former Governor Bruce King, built into a hilltop mansion compound with a private airstrip, where victims alleged abuse and where the New York Times reported he discussed a plan to seed the human race with his DNA, and which New Mexico reopened a criminal investigation and a legislative inquiry into in 2026.
Jun 20 Place Landmark
Little St. James
Little St. James is the roughly 70-acre private island off St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands that Jeffrey Epstein bought in 1998 and developed into his main Caribbean compound, where victims alleged repeated abuse occurred, which federal agents searched after his 2019 death and which his estate sold with the adjacent Great St. James in 2023.
Jun 20 Place Landmark
Avenue Foch
Jeffrey Epstein's apartment on the Avenue Foch in Paris, searched by French police in 2019 and central to the French criminal investigation into rape of minors and trafficking opened after his death.
Jun 20 Place Landmark
9 East 71st Street
Seven-story limestone townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side that served as Jeffrey Epstein's primary New York residence and the site of conduct detailed in the federal sex-trafficking case against him.
Jun 20 Concept Ideology
Human Biodiversity
Human biodiversity (HBD) is a euphemism for hereditarian race science, popularized by Steve Sailer in the late 1990s, asserting genetically rooted differences in intelligence and behavior between racial groups, that became a connective doctrine linking the rationalist community, neoreaction, and the alt-right.
Jun 20 Concept Ideology
The Sovereign Individual
The Sovereign Individual is a 1997 book by William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson that argues digital encryption and electronic commerce will erode the taxing capacity of nation-states and produce a new class of mobile, sovereign individuals operating beyond territorial jurisdiction, repeatedly cited publicly by Peter Thiel as prophetic.
Jun 20 Concept Ideology
Singularitarianism
Singularitarianism is the belief, named by Vernor Vinge in 1993 and popularized by Ray Kurzweil's 2005 book and his Singularity University, that accelerating technology will soon produce a machine superintelligence and an irreversible transformation of human life.
Jun 20 Concept Ideology
TESCREAL
TESCREAL is an acronym coined by Émile Torres and Timnit Gebru for a bundle of seven overlapping ideologies, transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism, and longtermism, that they argue share roots in twentieth-century eugenics and together drive the race to build artificial general intelligence.
Jun 20 Concept Ideology
Rationalist Community
The Rationalist Community is the Bay Area subculture that formed around Eliezer Yudkowsky's LessWrong writings and the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in the late 2000s, organized around probability-based reasoning and artificial-intelligence existential risk, and from whose social network the Effective Altruism movement and the Leverage Research, Vassarite, and Zizian cult formations all emerged.
Jun 20 Concept Ideology
The Californian Ideology
The Californian Ideology is the 1995 essay by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron diagnosing the fusion of San Francisco hippie counterculture with free-market neoliberalism and technological determinism in 1990s Wired-era tech culture.
Jun 20 Concept Ideology
Neoreaction
Neoreaction (NRx) is the political-philosophical movement founded by Curtis Yarvin (Moldbug) through his blog Unqualified Reservations from 2007 onward, which argues that liberal democracy is a failing theocratic successor to mainline Protestantism and should be replaced by corporate sovereign entities under neocameral governance.
Jun 20 Concept Ideology
Effective Altruism
Effective Altruism is a movement that emerged around 2011 from Oxford philosophy and the LessWrong rationalist community, advancing evidence-based giving and a 'longtermist' concern with the far future and artificial-intelligence risk, whose 2013 summit Peter Thiel keynoted and whose largest funder, Sam Bankman-Fried, collapsed in the 2022 FTX fraud.
Jun 20 Concept Ideology
Eugenics
Eugenics is the project of improving the human species through controlled reproduction, named by Francis Galton in 1883, which drove sterilization and immigration laws and the Holocaust, was repackaged after the war as race-and-intelligence research, and is identified by critics as a root of the transhumanist and longtermist worldview.
Jun 20 Concept Ideology
Extropianism
Extropianism is the libertarian transhumanist movement founded by Max More in the late 1980s around the Extropy Institute and its 1990s mailing list, the seedbed from which Nick Bostrom's longtermism, the rationalist community, and parts of the cypherpunk and cryptocurrency worlds emerged.
Jun 20 Concept Scientific Theory & Technology
Hashcash
Hashcash is the 1997 proof-of-work scheme that Adam Back devised to price email and deter spam by forcing a sender to compute a partial hash collision, and which the 2008 Bitcoin white paper cited as the model for the proof-of-work that secures the network and issues new coins.
Jun 20 Concept Scientific Theory & Technology
Cybernetics
Cybernetics is the postwar science of control and communication in animals and machines, founded by Norbert Wiener and developed at the Macy Conferences, which diffused into computing, systems theory, artificial intelligence, and the Californian counterculture.
Jun 20 Concept Scientific Theory & Technology
Satoshi Nakamoto
Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonymous author of the 2008 Bitcoin white paper and the developer who launched the network in January 2009, mined roughly 1.1 million bitcoin that have never moved, and stopped public communication in 2011.
Jun 20 Concept Scientific Theory & Technology
Pretty Good Privacy
Pretty Good Privacy is the email-encryption software Phil Zimmermann released for free in 1991, whose international spread triggered a three-year US criminal investigation that treated strong cryptography as a munition and that the cypherpunks made a central front of the crypto wars.
Jun 20 Concept Scientific Theory & Technology
BlackNet
BlackNet was Timothy May's 1993 thought experiment for an anonymous information market built on public-key encryption, remailers, message pools, and digital cash, circulated on the cypherpunks list as a working precursor to dark markets and anonymous-leak platforms.
Jun 20 Concept Intelligence Concept
Thiel Influence Network
The Thiel Influence Network is the set of overlapping commercial, convening, ideological, and political vehicles built around Peter Thiel since 2002, including the Thiel Fellowship, Founders Fund, Palantir Technologies, Dialog, Hereticon, Per Aspera Policy, and Teneo Network, each operating at a different stage of recruitment, capital deployment, or institutional positioning.
Jun 20 Concept Ideology
Cypherpunks
The cypherpunks were a cryptography-and-privacy movement organized around a mailing list founded in 1992 by Eric Hughes, Timothy May, and John Gilmore, whose advocacy of strong encryption and digital cash against state control ran forward into Bitcoin and WikiLeaks.
Jun 20 Concept Ideology
Effective Accelerationism
Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) is a Silicon Valley techno-optimist movement that emerged in 2022 advocating the unrestricted acceleration of artificial intelligence and technology, defined against effective altruism's AI-safety 'doomerism,' and drawing on the accelerationism of Nick Land.
Jun 20 Concept Esoteric & Historical Concept
EtherSec
EtherSec (also styled #eTHErSEC) was a niche Anonymous-adjacent intelligence-research Twitter community active around 2016 to 2017, connected to the Tyler AI-entity claims of Quinn Michaels and to the broader TheGame23 / DarkSec fringe ecosystem, whose participating accounts tagged Peter Thiel, Palantir, Q, and QAnon alongside the EtherSec hashtag.
Jun 20 Concept Esoteric & Historical Concept
Russian Cosmism
Russian Cosmism is the late-19th-century movement originating with the Orthodox mystic Nikolai Fedorov that called for the technological resurrection of all the dead, radical life extension, and the colonization of space, and it supplies the 'C' in the TESCREAL acronym.
Jun 20 Concept Esoteric & Historical Concept
Antichrist
The Antichrist lectures are a four-part private series Peter Thiel delivered in San Francisco in 2025 arguing that the biblical Antichrist will arise through a one-world government built to manage existential risk, and naming technology critics including Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nick Bostrom as its agents.
Jun 20 Concept Esoteric & Historical Concept
Chan ARG Ecosystem
The chan-ARG ecosystem is the loose constellation of Discordian-influenced alternate reality games and hashtag-driven meta-narratives, including TheGame23 and 00AG9603, that operate across the imageboard, Twitter, and WordPress 'dataplex' sites, and that academic information-warfare research has mapped as a component of the QAnon Twitter influence network.
Jun 20 Concept Esoteric & Historical Concept
Whole Earth Catalog
The Whole Earth Catalog was Stewart Brand's counterculture compendium of tools and ideas, published from 1968, subtitled Access to Tools, opened with we are as gods, and won the National Book Award in 1972.
Jun 20 Organization Private Organization
WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks is the leak-publishing organization founded by Julian Assange in 2006, whose 2010 disclosures of US military and diplomatic records triggered a banking blockade that pushed it toward Bitcoin, and which was the target of the 2010-2011 Team Themis proposal by Palantir, HBGary Federal, and Berico Technologies.
Jun 20 Organization Private Organization
xAI
xAI is the artificial-intelligence company Elon Musk founded in 2023 after departing OpenAI, builder of the Grok model and the Colossus supercomputer, which merged with X in 2025, raised tens of billions of dollars, and whose founder sued OpenAI and Sam Altman over the abandonment of OpenAI's nonprofit mission.
Jun 20 Organization Private Organization
Worldcoin
Worldcoin, rebranded World, is a biometric-identity and cryptocurrency project cofounded by Sam Altman and operated by Tools for Humanity that scans people's irises with a device called the Orb to build a global proof-of-personhood database, and that has been banned or investigated in numerous countries over its data collection.
Jun 20 Program Software Project
PROMIS
PROMIS (Prosecutor's Management Information System) was a case management software developed by INSLAW beginning in 1971 that became the center of a major legal and intelligence scandal after the U.S. Justice Department allegedly stole the proprietary version and distributed it internationally with a hidden surveillance backdoor.
Jun 20 Event Modern Incident
Singularity Summit
The Singularity Summit was an annual conference on artificial intelligence and human enhancement cofounded in 2006 by Peter Thiel, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Ray Kurzweil, that ran through 2012 as the public-facing platform of the Singularity Institute before the brand was sold to Singularity University in 2013.
Jun 20 Event Modern Incident
Bollea v. Gawker
Bollea v. Gawker Media was the 2016 Florida invasion-of-privacy trial in which Terry Bollea (Hulk Hogan) won a 140 million dollar verdict against Gawker Media over its 2012 publication of a sex tape, a judgment secretly funded by Peter Thiel that drove Gawker into bankruptcy and ended the outlet.
Jun 20 Event Modern Incident
Gamergate
Gamergate was a loosely organized online harassment campaign that began in August 2014 on 4chan and 8chan under the pretext of 'ethics in video game journalism,' whose coordinated harassment tactics and propaganda methods were subsequently adopted by the alt-right and the 2016 Trump campaign.
Jun 20 Event Modern Incident
NLRB Data Exfiltration
The NLRB data exfiltration was a 2025 incident in which Department of Government Efficiency engineers accessed National Labor Relations Board systems and exfiltrated large volumes of sensitive data on union organizing and labor complaints, followed by multiple blocked login attempts from a Russian IP address, disclosed by NLRB cybersecurity whistleblower Daniel Berulis in April 2025.
Jun 20 Event Modern Incident
London Conference on Intelligence
The London Conference on Intelligence was a secret invitation-only eugenics conference held at University College London from 2014 to 2017, organized by James Thompson and dominated by figures tied to the Pioneer Fund and Mankind Quarterly, exposed in 2018 in a scandal that ended several academic careers.
Jun 20 Organization Private Organization
The Zizians
The Zizians are a small group led by the computer programmer Jack LaSota that splintered from the Bay Area rationalist movement around an idiosyncratic theory of brain hemispheres, militant veganism, and AI-apocalypse decision theory, and that has been tied to six deaths across California, Pennsylvania, and Vermont between 2022 and 2025, including the killing of a Border Patrol agent that produced a federal death-penalty prosecution.
Jun 20 Organization Private Organization
Schmidt Futures
Schmidt Futures is the philanthropic venture Eric and Wendy Schmidt launched in 2017 to fund science and technology talent, which paid the salaries of White House science staff before consolidating its core programs into Schmidt Sciences in 2024.
Jun 20 Organization Private Organization
Palantir Technologies
Palantir Technologies is a data-analytics and defense contractor cofounded in 2003 by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, and Nathan Gettings with CIA In-Q-Tel seed funding, that supplies data-integration platforms to U.S. intelligence, the Department of Defense, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Jun 20 Organization Private Organization
Pioneer Fund
The Pioneer Fund is a New York foundation established in 1937 to promote eugenics and 'race betterment' that became the principal financier of race-and-intelligence research in the United States, funding many of the scholars cited in The Bell Curve and the journal Mankind Quarterly.
Jun 20 Organization Private Organization
Survival and Flourishing Fund
The Survival and Flourishing Fund is the grant-allocation vehicle backed chiefly by Jaan Tallinn that uses a software-assisted method called the S-process to direct money to existential-risk, AI-safety, and longtermist organizations, having organized roughly 150 million dollars in gifts since 2019.
Jun 20 Organization Private Organization
Teneo Network
Teneo Network is a private, members-only conservative leadership organization founded in 2008 by Evan Baehr and Josh Hawley, chaired since 2021 by Leonard Leo, whose stated goal is to recruit, connect, and deploy influential conservatives across American institutions to, in Leo's words, 'crush liberal dominance.'
Jun 20 Organization Private Organization
Per Aspera Policy
Per Aspera Policy is a Thiel-tied 501(c)(4) dark-money organization that steered approximately 200,000 dollars to the Protect Ohio Values super PAC supporting JD Vance's 2022 Ohio Senate primary alongside Thiel's direct contributions, documented by OpenSecrets in February 2022.
Jun 20 Organization Private Organization
Southern Trust Company
Southern Trust Company was Jeffrey Epstein's U.S. Virgin Islands entity that obtained large territorial tax benefits by claiming to run a DNA-database and data-mining business the Virgin Islands later alleged it never actually conducted.
Jun 20 Organization Private Organization
Thiel Fellowship
The Thiel Fellowship is a program of the Thiel Foundation, founded in 2010 by Peter Thiel, that awards 250,000 dollars over two years to people aged 22 or younger on the condition that they skip or stop out of college to pursue a venture, and whose alumni include Vitalik Buterin and other founders who entered the Thiel commercial network through the program.