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Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/
More than 200 of the world’s elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
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LuckyDevilDialog 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.”
“Evil Single Male Billionaire looking for Evil Single Female Billionaire. I just want someone I can continue pillaging the world with before eventually escaping to our luxury underground bunker in a secure location where we will escape the consequences of our actions. I like long walks on the beach, and reading poetry. ❤️”
RimuA dating pool consisting of 90% sociopathic old white men. Cringe and bizarre.
cecilkorikSo they’ve been working together and planning all this shit for at least 20 years, you think? *idly sharpens guillotine*
I got a linked in job offer come to me and their pro talking points was Peter Thiel was a board member. So instant delete. Like how tone def are recruiters
Like how tone def are recruiters
They just ate the illusions capitalism threw at them. You’d be surprised about the number of people who simply don’t care that their lives are run by shadow elites who destroy the world as long as they can watch TV and go on holidays.
Panem et circenses, 2000 years later, still works. You just need to make people believe they’re the winners of capitalism and they’ll support every ugly bit of it.
aquafunkalisticbootywhapIt doesnt hurt when they also use their mountains of cash and control of mass media and news production and outlets to champion voices supporting them, silence dissenting voices, stoke nationalism and xenophobia, and generally bend and warp popular culture to make fun of those who spend their time learning and doing well in school, educating themselves about history, gathering as workers, making patient, informed purchases-
the whole thing collapses when you look behind the curtain, everyone just hopes it’s not that bad, that the next big one happens after they die, and their kids can’t come knocking on their door to ask what the actual fuck were they thinking
I remember watching Bond movies as a kid and wondering “where did that evil supervillian get all these henchmen?” Turns out the answer all-along was “linkedin.”.
was thiel one of the founders/financiers of that company. i know thiel likes to be in the shadows while actually controlling his companies.
Where can we get a list of names? The archive.is link isn’t working
LOL Ted Cruz is right there next to all the CEOs
there are a bunch of other congressmen to. not really surprised bryan johnson is on there, the freak is has drank the koolaid on “blood boy” that thiel is also into(getting blood from his hot young male model who got defenestrated, and likely using clavicular now), bryan johnson basically gets young blood from his son and injects it to himself. he really believes his own bs/pseudoscience of staying young.
Cory Booker, no surprise there.
Noxyhe always seemed slimy. not surprised tulsi and ted cruz is also in there. especially tulsi is into cults.
SocialistVibes01My strong opinions on the matter could disrupt the neoliberal conformity and immobilism that beehaw calls well-being.
Gaywallet (they/it)I mean this is a list of people actively being intolerant of the world… paradox of tolerance applies here.
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irelephant [he/him]Ezra Klein being on the list is so fucking funny. Like, you telling me the “abundance” guy associates with the “techno monarchy” guy? Shocked I tell you, that the guy who’s proposed ideological concept basically just boiled down to “what if we deregulated stuff further to make economy good?” Is deeply tied to tech oligarchs.
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A_norny_mousseI think that concentrating too much wealth / power into a person’s hands affects their mental health.
I think cause and effect are exactly opposite here: you have to be exceptionally, sociopathically greedy to want to become that rich, and then work towards it. Imagine all the actively harmful and antisocial decisions each billionaire has to make to increase their wealth. I believe most people just aren’t cut out for it.
But of course wealth/power then serves as an amplifier.
It’s definitely this. The Venn diagram between psychopaths and billionaires is a circle. Hell it’s almost a circle just with CEOs in general.
The lack of empathy is a massive advantage to operating in the corporate world.
I’m not sure, I think money does corrupt all but the steeliest of hearts. Right now I wish I made a little more so we could accomplish several goals we want. Once those are done, there are loftier long-term goals! Like many, I doubt I’ll ever be satisfied with my income, because I’m ambitious in the rest of my life. If I won a million dollars, I like to think I’d be satisfied because I could get those things done, although I’d still have to work. But… at that point I’d want more, so I could retire early and have more time to spend on the rest of my life. Now if somehow I got that much money - I like to think I’d be satisfied. But we can see time and again how that doesn’t happen. There’d be something else just out of reach. Our capability to want is near endless, and it’s a hunger that gets worse the more you feed it.
So really I don’t fool myself into thinking I’m immune to it, and I’m not a sociopath.
To be clear, Thiel was A Bad Dude from the get-go, but his impact and influence has expanded immensely since he made his nut in the PayPal era (he’s one of the OG PayPal mafia, along with phony stark)
treadfulThe retreat is scheduled for August 12-16 at a venue near Dublin, Ireland.
The Irish’ll know what to do.
Notable people on the Thiel List pulled from maia arson crimew’s Bluesky post:
Chamath Palihapitiya
Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube
Charlie Songhurst, board director at Meta
Peter Brown, CEO, Renaissance Technologies
Sarah Bond, President of XBOX, Microsoft
Manuel Bronstein, chief product officer of Roblox
Greg Brockman, Co-founder of OpenAI, fmr CTO of Stripe
Mike Cannon-Brooks, Co-founder of Atlassian
Scott Cook, co-founder & chairman at Intuit
NJ Senator Cory Booker
TX Senator Ted Cruz
CO Governor Jared Polis
CT Rep. Jim Himes
MD Gov. Wes Moore
Tom Tugendhat, Member of Parliament, United Kingdom.
Tulsi Gabbard
Julian Castro
Jared Kushner
Elon Musk
LEONARD LEO
Grover Norquist
Bret Stephens (Associate Editor of the New York Times)
Larry Summers
Ezra Klein
Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent
Nick Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic
Jon Levin, President, Stanford University.
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Fmr. Prime Minister, Pakistan. Founder, Airblue.
Stan McChrystal, Founder & CEO, McChrystal Group. Fmr. General, U.S. Army.
Rachel Brand, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, Walmart. Fmr. Associate Attorney General, U.S Department of Justice.
There is overlap between that Dialog member list and the Epstein files. I don’t have time to go through it right now, but at first glance just skimming the Bluesky list, Larry Summers is in the Epstein files, as is Peter Attia.
I’d bet anything they’re not the only ones on both, either. If I get the opportunity I’ll look through it later and see if I can spot more.
jballsWTF is Jared Polis doing on this list? Maybe that explains his out of the blue decision to grant clemency to Tina Peters
acargitzOther talks include “Build-a-Cult,” moderated by the founder of the Christian networking site Pray.com, and “Build-a-Party,” run by a former White House national security official.
Well… I don’t like that.
derAbsenderIreland! Do your thing!
Herbal GamerI found this rather amusing:
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.
Well that’s… fascinating. And kind of explains the trajectory of more than a few things in the recent-ish past.
Notable people on the Thiel List pulled from maia arson crimew’s Bluesky post:
Chamath Palihapitiya
Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube
Charlie Songhurst, board director at Meta
Peter Brown, CEO, Renaissance Technologies
Sarah Bond, President of XBOX, Microsoft
Manuel Bronstein, chief product officer of Roblox
Greg Brockman, Co-founder of OpenAI, fmr CTO of Stripe
Mike Cannon-Brooks, Co-founder of Atlassian
Scott Cook, co-founder & chairman at Intuit
NJ Senator Cory Booker
TX Senator Ted Cruz
CO Governor Jared Polis
CT Rep. Jim Himes
MD Gov. Wes Moore
Tom Tugendhat, Member of Parliament, United Kingdom.
Tulsi Gabbard
Julian Castro
Jared Kushner
Elon Musk
LEONARD LEO
Grover Norquist
Bret Stephens (Associate Editor of the New York Times)
Larry Summers
Ezra Klein
Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent
Nick Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic
Jon Levin, President, Stanford University.
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Fmr. Prime Minister, Pakistan. Founder, Airblue.
Stan McChrystal, Founder & CEO, McChrystal Group. Fmr. General, U.S. Army.
Rachel Brand, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, Walmart. Fmr. Associate Attorney General, U.S Department of Justice.
This dickhead keeps trying to be some kind of TED lecturer, but gets laughed at by everyone outside his billionaire circle-jerk.
You’re rich, dude. Go sit on a beach and leave us alone.
ZakThe list: https://github.com/nzaki-dev/dialog
- Immad Akhund - Founder & CEO, Mercury.
- Turki Al Faisal Al Saud - Founder, King Faisal Foundation. Fmr. Minister of Intelligence, Saudi Arabia.
- Reema Al-Saud - Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the U.S.
- John Arnold - Co-Chair, Arnold Ventures. Fmr. Founder, Centaurus Advisors.
- Susan Athey - Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business. Fmr. Chief Economist, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice.
- Peter Attia - Physician, Attia Medical. Author, Outlive.
- Scott Belsky - Partner, A24 Films. Fmr. Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Product Officer, Adobe. Founder, Behance.
- Nicolas Berggruen - Founder & President, Berggruen Holdings.
- Scott Bessent - Secretary, U.S. Treasury.
- Preet Bharara - Fmr. U.S. Attorney, New York Southern District.
- Elizabeth Blackburn - Fmr. President, Salk Institute for Biomedical Studies. Nobel Prize winner.
- Sarah Bond - President of Xbox, Microsoft.
- Cory Booker - Senator (New Jersey), U.S. Senate.
- Rachel Brand - Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, Walmart. Fmr. Associate Attorney General, U.S Department of Justice.
- Scooter Braun - CEO, Hybe America. Founder, Ithaca Holdings.
- Pete Briger - Principal & Chairman of the Board, Fortress Investment Group.
- Greg Brockman - Co-Founder & President, OpenAI. Fmr. CTO, Stripe.
- Manuel Bronstein - Chief Product Officer, Roblox.
- Peter Brown - CEO, Renaissance Technologies.
- Thasunda Brown Duckett - President & CEO, TIAA.
- Sophia Bush - Actress, One Tree Hill.
- Mike Cannon-Brookes - Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Atlassian.
- Cesar Carvalho - Co-Founder & CEO, Wellhub.
- Wences Casares - Founder & Fmr. CEO, Xapo Bank. Founder: Wanako Games, Banco Lemon, Lemon Wallet.
- Julian Castro - Fmr. Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
- Bob Cialdini - Author, Influence.
- Matt Clifford - Prime Minister’s Advisor on AI Opportunities, U.K. Government. Co-Founder, Entrepreneur First.
- Caroline Cochran - Co-Founder & COO, Oklo.
- Matt Cohler - Fmr. General Partner, Benchmark.
- Scott Cook - Co-Founder & Chairman, Intuit.
- Tyler Cowen - Professor of Economics & Director, Mercatus Center, George Mason University.
- Ted Cruz - Senator (Texas), U.S. Senate.
- Adam D’Angelo - Co-Founder & CEO, Quora. Fmr. CTO, Facebook.
- Mitch Daniels - Fmr. Governor, State of Indiana. Fmr. President, Purdue University.
- Dan Driscoll - Secretary, U.S. Army.
- Charles Duhigg - Author: The Power of Habit, Supercommunicators.
- Steve Ells - Founder & Fmr. CEO, Chipotle.
- Tim Ferriss - Author: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef. Host, The Tim Ferriss Show.
- Marcos Galperin - Co-Founder & CEO, MercadoLibre.
- Atul Gawande - Author: Being Mortal, The Checklist Manifesto. Fmr. Assistant Administrator for Global Health, USAID.
- Tom Goldstein - Partner, Goldstein & Russell. Founder & Fmr. Publisher, SCOTUSblog.com.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Actor, 500 Days of Summer, Inception, Looper, Snowden.
- Adam Grant - Organizational Psychologist, Wharton School of Management. Author: Think Again, Originals, Give and Take.
- Severin Hacker - Co-Founder & CTO, Duolingo.
- Jonathan Haidt - Professor, Stern School of Business, NYU. Author: The Anxious Generation, The Righteous Mind, The Coddling of the American Mind.
- Peggy Hamburg - Fmr. Commissioner, U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
- Sam Harris - Podcast Host, Making Sense. Author: Free Will, Lying, Waking Up.
- Jim Himes - Congressman (Connecticut), U.S. House of Representatives.
- Auren Hoffman - CEO, NQB8. Chairman & Fmr. CEO, SafeGraph. Founder & Fmr. CEO, LiveRamp. Chairman, Dialog.
- Reid Hoffman - Partner, Greylock Partners. Co-Founder & Fmr. Executive Chairman, LinkedIn.
- Rob Hur - Fmr. Special Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice.
- Bob Jain - CIO, Millennium Management. Founder, Jain Family Institute.
- Bryan Johnson - Founder & CEO: Kernel, Blueprint.
- Kaja Kallas - Vice President, European Commission. Fmr. Prime Minister, Estonia.
- Gaurva Kapadia - Founder & CEO, XN.
- Karen Karniol-Tambour - Co-CIO, Bridgewater Associates.
- Garry Kasparov - Fmr. Member, Russian Opposition Movement’s Coordinating Council. Fmr. World Chess champion.
- Neal Katyal - Partner, Milbank. Fmr. Partner & Supreme Court Practice Leader, Hogan Lovells.
- Shahid Khaqan Abbasi - Fmr. Prime Minister, Pakistan. Founder, Airblue.
- Ezra Klein - Opinion Columnist, The New York Times. Founder & Fmr. Editor-in-chief, Vox. Host, The Ezra Klein Show.
- Tarō Kōno - Digital Minister, Japan. Fmr. Minister of Defense, Japan.
- Henry Kravis - Co-Founder, Co-Chairman & Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
- Jared Kushner - Founder, Affinity Partners.
- Jason Kwon - Chief Strategy Officer, OpenAI.
- Leonard Leo - Co-Chairman & Fmr. Executive Vice President, Federalist Society.
- Jon Levin - President, Stanford University.
- Howie Liu - Founder & CEO, Airtable.
- Joe Lonsdale - Founding Partner, 8VC. Co-Founder: Palantir, Addepar.
- Micky Malka - Founder & Managing Partner, Ribbit Capital.
- Stan McChrystal - Founder & CEO, McChrystal Group. Fmr. General, U.S. Army.
- Neal Mohan - CEO, YouTube.
- Lisa Monaco - Fmr. Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice.
- Wes Moore - Governor, State of Maryland.
- Elon Musk - Founder & CEO, SpaceX. Co-Founder & CEO, Tesla Motors.
- Demet Mutlu - Founder & CEO, Trendyol Group.
- Vas Narasimhan - CEO, Novartis.
- Grover Norquist - President, Americans for Tax Reform.
- Mike Novogratz - CEO, Galaxy Digital. Fmr. CIO, Fortress Investment Group.
- Jim O’Neill - Nominee for Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Co-Founder, Thiel Fellowship.
- Chamath Palihapitiya - Founder & CEO, Social Capital LP. Co-Owner, Golden State Warriors.
- Benj Pasek - Songwriter & Producer: La La Land, The Greatest Showman, Dear Evan Hansen. Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony winner.
- Daniel Pink - Author: Drive, To Sell is Human, The Power of Regret. Fmr. Chief Speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore.
- Steven Pinker - Professor, Harvard University. Author: Enlightenment Now, The Better Angels of Our Nature.
- Jared Polis - Governor, State of Colorado.
- Jonathan Ross - Founder & CEO, Groq.
- Robert Rubin - Fmr. Secretary, U.S. Treasury. Fmr. Co-Chairman, Goldman Sachs.
- Gretchen Rubin - Host, Happier with Gretchen Rubin. Author: The Happiness Project, Better Than Before, The Four Tendencies.
- Sheikh Nawaf Saud Nasir Al-Sabah - CEO, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.
- Will Scharf - Co-Founder & CTO, Oscar Health.
- Mario Schlosser - Staff Secretary and Assistant to the President, U.S. White House.
- Eric Schmidt - Founder, Schmidt Futures. Fmr. CEO: Google, Alphabet.
- Dan Schulman - Fmr. President & CEO, PayPal.
- Drew Scott - Co-Founder, Scott Brothers Global. Co-Host, Property Brothers.
- Kim Scott - Author, Radical Candor.
- Pete Shadbolt - Founder & Chief Science Officer, PsiQuantum.
- Ali Siddiqui - Board Chair, OnZero. Fmr. Ambassador of Pakistan to the U.S.
- Barry Silbert - Founder & CEO, Digital Currency Group.
- Anne-Marie Slaughter - CEO, New America. Professor, Princeton. Fmr. Director of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State.
- Charlie Songhurst - Board Director, Meta. Fmr. Head of Corporate Strategy, Microsoft.
- Jens Spahn - Member of Parliament, German Bundestag. Fmr. Federal Minister of Health, Germany.
- Scott Stephenson - Chairman, President & CEO, Verisk Analytics.
- Barry Sternlicht - Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Starwood Capital Group.
- Bret Stephens - Opinion Columnist & Associate Editor, The New York Times. Pulitzer Prize winner.
- Lawrence Summers - Fmr. President, Harvard University. Fmr. Secretary, U.S. Treasury.
- Astro Teller - Captain of Moonshots, X.
- Peter Thiel - Co-Founder: Founders Fund, Palantir, PayPal, Dialog.
- Nick Thompson - CEO, The Atlantic. Fmr. Editor-in-chief, Wired Magazine.
- John Townsend - Author, Boundaries.
- Tom Tugendhat - Member of Parliament, United Kingdom.
- Tim Urban - Writer & Illustrator, Wait But Why. Author, What’s Our Problem?
- Rick Warren - Author, The Purpose Driven Life. Podcast Host, Pastor Rick’s Daily Hope.
- Strauss Zelnick - Chairman & CEO, Take-Two Interactive Software.
- Shivon Zilis - Director, Neuralink.
the_wizard_of_0ZI sometimes see these “leaks” as somewhat of a advertisement for their now justified crowd sourced security state. Gotta keep a eye on these plebs…. seee I told you so.
Update 6/16/2026, 5:47 pm EDT: WIRED updated this article… a small revision was also made to address a security concern raised by a Dialog representative.
A shame. Good journalism would make them even more paranoid.
Joseph gordon levitt…that’s kind of a surprise.
LasherzIf you watched him give the dumbest take ever on “parental rights” and facial recognition to push child privacy laws you’d definitely understand it better. He’s a soulless husk
CharlesDarwin
tipicaldikhow careless of you to post this! we wouldn’t want anyone turning this into a hit list or anything like that now, would we?
WashedupcynicJared Polis - Governor, State of Colorado. Well I guess we know why he released Tina Peters.
Cory Booker - Senator (New Jersey), U.S. Senate. 100% shocked by this one.
They don’t call it the uniparty for nothing. He probably has orgies with Ted Cruz and the rest of the ghouls on the list (all of them)
Fair play to Wired to release this and draw attention to it when their former Editor in chief is on it.
There are also some names here that seem to be missing from elsewhere, maybe because they’re part of an earlier leak?
The leaked registration list also names senior figures absent from the public directory of 113: Randy Kroszner, a former governor of the Federal Reserve who now serves on the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee; Hallie Hoffman, a former general counsel and acting chief of staff of the Drug Enforcement Administration; Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League; Peter Goettler, the president of the Cato Institute; Ryan Stowers, the executive director of the Charles Koch Foundation; and Roger Myerson, a Nobel laureate economist at the University of Chicago.
Greenblat couldn’t have been more obvious
Where list
Can we stop fuckng pretending that facial recognition to use your own computer and adult content has anything to do with child safety when JASON GORDON LEVITT is in the same fucking group as the creepy ass roblox guy?
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some pissed off Irishmen have what is, quite possibly, the best chance to do the funniest thing about the state of the world.
Kill them all?
I’m not calling for mass murder, but that would be funny and it would make the world a better place for sure!
I’m just saying that there are no innocent people likely to be invited to such a convention (reading the guest list included in that article, this suspicion seems to hold true – the ADL, the Cato Institute, the Koch Foundation – ew.), and the Irish have a history of asymmetric warfare and resistance against the powerful that gets results and doesn’t solely cause tragedy. They certainly seem to be much better at it than we Americans are. And having advance notice of when and where such a gathering is could be useful to the right person in the right place at the right time.
wishful thinking on my part, but god, how often do you hear “a great number of rich and powerful evil bastards ruining the planet, most of the ones worth knowing, are going to be gathering at this time and place” and not wish for something to happen? An asteroid. A car bomb. A sinkhole swallows their hotel. Something.
I’d be really surprised if it stays in Dublin at this point. All these guys are prepared for and used to last minute security change of venues
Even with the little detail above, it can’t be too hard to figure out the exact place…
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