Yesterday I asked about Pax Silica, because Sweden just signed it.
This morning I stumbled on this very long read, and just wow it hits so hard. Recommended.
"[Jacob] Helberg, the public face of [Pax Silica], is also worth a quick treatment. He’s a former Google policy staffer who married PayPal mafia member Keith Rabois at a ceremony officiated by Sam Altman—the CEO of OpenAI (the man whose $500 billion Stargate project is the single largest beneficiary of the Gulf capital Helberg’s initiative is designed to mobilize). From Google, Helberg moved to Palantir, the surveillance firm and military contractor founded by Peter Thiel, where he established himself as a technologist and China hawk in Trump’s orbit. As if that weren’t enough, he’s become something of a conduit between the American and French far right."
"That the kill chain runs on good ol’ American compute is key to all of this. To just focus on one head of the many-headed beast here, we can look at Google and Amazon. Their $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract doesn’t just provide Israel’s military and intelligence services with cloud infrastructure and machine learning tools—it contractually prohibits either company from pulling the plug for any reason whether it be human rights violations, humanitarian crisis, or genocide."
https://www.thetechbubble.info/p/how-much-a-dollar-cost (unfortunately hosted on Substack)
This is the model citizen running Pax Silica.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2026/02/08/jacob-helberg-trump-s-direct-link-to-france-s-far-right_6750263_117.html
(You can use archive.ph to read Le Monde if you need.)
HRH the Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden was there at the signing of Pax Silica on Tuesday as well.
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/consul-general-of-sweden-in-houston-anna-hammarlund-blixt-news-photo/2267150411
V-dem: Sweden are the top of our democracy ranking again this year.
Maria Malmer Stenergard: WTF!? Hold my beer!