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@JohnGBrungardt Really? Try Benanti.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 22 Mar 2026

@lukeburgis Here, Benatti on Thiel, AI, the PayPal mafia, et al. It may well amount to the most astute take yet. And, for the record, a quiet counterfactual, archived in HTML. Proof, if nothing else, that other trajectories were available from the start. x.com/Realgeopolitica/status/2035484704577556864

Copy of tweet here: What with auction talk in my world, a collaborator from yesteryear notes that the Save The Earth ArtRock Web Auction we initiated in 1995, is still going strong 25 years later. Then, UCLA's Inst. of the Environment & Sustainability, its beneficiary. /2 https://t.co/qW2rJT51n0 Counting coups. Here, the original eBay patent declaring the Save The Earth ArtRock silent auction, the 2nd web-based auction on record. We were a couple of weeks behind the EIT Computer Museum and likely the first philanthropic effort of its type. /3 https://t.co/w9cR9kb0UR
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Copy of tweet here: What with auction talk in my world, a collaborator from yesteryear notes that the Save The Earth ArtRock Web Auction we initiated in 1995, is still going strong 25 years later. Then, UCLA's Inst. of the Environment & Sustainability, its beneficiary. /2 t.co/qW2rJT51n0 Counting coups. Here, the original eBay patent declaring the Save The Earth ArtRock silent auction, the 2nd web-based auction on record. We were a couple of weeks behind the EIT Computer Museum and likely the first philanthropic effort of its type. /3 t.co/w9cR9kb0UR

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