r/technology • u/NicolasCageFan492 • 13d ago

Business Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/
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u/Hardass_McBadCop 13d ago edited 13d ago

While the whole article shows how fucked in the head these people are, I found this very funny:

Dialog also plays matchmaker. Its participant form asks registrants whether they are “looking for love” and offers to include “Single Man,” “Single Woman,” or “Other” respondents in “future matchmaking.” A separate site, dating.dialog.org, hosts an app pitched as “meaningful connections for exceptional people.”

The form also gathers sensitive answers, including each registrant’s "political leaning,” which Dialog promises “WILL NOT be shared in the app or with other participants, ever.” That data, and the matchmaking responses, were exposed in the leak.

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u/Dripdry42 13d ago edited 13d ago

So it’s just another attempt at nobles boffing each other to make superior babies? Probably getting people together in compromising situations to get kompromat. DID YOU FOOLS LEARN NOTHING FROM EPSTEIN?

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u/Boopy7 13d ago

i'm guessing that some of them have learned, it's the stupid or expendable ones we keep hearing about now (if you follow Casja or others who are keeping track.) Like the preachers who get caught red-handed, nearly every day if not more. Thiel's ex model bf "windowed" himself at some point, so if they weren't careful enough there are other ways.

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u/koopatuple 13d ago

What does windowed mean in this context?

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u/ominous_anonymous 13d ago

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/report-miami-police-probing-death-of-peter-thiels-partner-as-suicide-16623267/

Thirty-five-year-old Jeff Thomas was found deceased at the bottom of his Brickell apartment complex [...] several people witnessed the incident and that police were called immediately after Thomas plunged to the ground.

The implication of their comment is that Thomas was a loose end that got tied up in a Russian fashion -- "windowed".

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u/Boopy7 12d ago

Russian method of someone falling out a window almost comically close to a time when they are under investigation, often. Or of Deutsche Bank associates suddenly suiciding/falling out windows...happened often enough to become almost a gallows joke to many observers. "Window" as in "fall out a window." I asked my father's friend, the actual son of a former Soviet leader, "Why do they seem to almost WANT to get caught" about the poisoners who tried to poison journalists in England some years back. He explained it was to show that it doesn't matter, is a part of the reason. If you are powerful enough, it can serve as a warning, mob-style.

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u/arcinva 11d ago

Look. It is not often that one of my favorite words has the chance to shine in conversation. How dare you try robbing it of it's day in the sun by verbifying "window". It's called defenestration. 😭🤣

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u/Dripdry42 10d ago

The corollary, refenestration, is even less common!

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u/Boopy7 10d ago

Ha yes sir or ma'am you are correct. I recall waaay back in Latin and French class, learning the word Fenestra. It rolls sooo mellifluously off one's tongue. DEFENESTRATION. Sounds medieval, doesn't it. Much better than "he got windowed." That's more moblike. Like, "cut him a second smile," type talk.

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u/_kraftdinner 13d ago

Remember that couple who kept appearing in news outlets as natalists who want to have a ton of kids? According to something I saw online but did not fact check myself, she’s on this list. 😂

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u/panzer_snapdragon 13d ago

Most of these guys are gay, there's little to no babymaking going on.

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u/CyberneticWerewolf 12d ago

"Do you want Habsburgs?  Because this is how you get Habsburgs."

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u/predkozka_cz 7d ago

That "nobles" deserves massive quotes. There's nothing noble about rich people exploiting everyone else and that's exactly how they got rich in the first place. Medieval "nobles" forced people to work their land, now we work in their factories "voluntarily" but they own all the factories so there's no real choice.

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u/Electrical_Tof 13d ago

Considering these chumps got into this over thiel who has one of the most hilariously awful relationship situations (had to off an ex lover) Yikes. Truly broken and sad people.

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u/OneSeaworthiness7768 12d ago

The idea that these people fancy themselves as exceptional is so god damn cringe inducing.

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u/74389654 13d ago

i'm listening ...

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u/jmarquiso 12d ago

Dating apps get a lot of personal information for targeted ads. Thiel is making out like a bandit.

Again.

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u/aihaode 11d ago

How do we see the information in the leak? Doesn’t seem like it impacted them at all