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Imagine amassing more wealth and power than even kings of old would know what to do with, waiting for your invitation to the Illuminati, and learning that it\u2019s never coming because it doesn\u2019t exist? Something along those lines appears to be what happened to PayPal founder Peter Thiel, who got to the top of the totem pole only to find there was no secret clubhouse.<\/p>\n

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He was not the only person who seemed to lament this fact. In a , former MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito told the convicted child sex offender, \u201cpeter thiel LOVED the secret socieity [sic) idea. he has done alot of work on the concept\u201d\u2014though, as Ito noted at the time, \u201call failed so far.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether the idea under discussion in Ito\u2019s email ever got off the ground is unknown, but it does seem that Thiel\u2019s kind of been running his own secret society. On Tuesday, Wired reported on a trove of records related to Dialog, an invitation-only club founded by Thiel, first revealed by the Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew. The members of the group have never been revealed, but documents leaked online appear to give a list of figures\u2014notable names in politics, finance, tech, and other major industries\u2014who have participated in the group\u2019s clandestine meetings and, even more damning, willingly spent time with Peter Thiel.<\/p>\n

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Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn’t properly render the website.<\/p>\n

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The list is a real who\u2019s who of people in power and people who can influence public narratives. Per Wired, a list of 222 people on a registration list for Dialog\u2019s 2026 features multiple active Trump administration members, elected officials, and people of international influence. Some of the powerful names include General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO\u2019s supreme allied commander Europe and the head of US European Command, current Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, and Senator Ted Cruz. Perhaps more surprisingly, Democratic Senator Corey Booker and Maryland Governor Wes Moore also appear.<\/p>\n

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Those officials, with significant say over governing policies, share a group with the heads of companies that you\u2019d expect them to regulate. The world\u2019s most annoying venture capitalist, Chamath Palihapitiya, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman are all listed as members. So, too, are noteworthy members of the media: author and podcast hosts Tim Ferriss and Sam Harris are on the list, as is New York Times columnist Ezra Klein, and former editor-in-chief of Wired\/current CEO of The Atlantic, Nicholas Thompson.<\/p>\n

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The membership list really seems to stretch across the ideological divide (well, at least to the extent that is acceptable to Peter Thiel, which means it ranges from \u201ccenterist liberal\u201d to \u201cfascist authoritarian\u201d), which might make one wonder: what do these guys\u2014and it is mostly guys\u2014even talk about, other than to ask each other why Joseph Gordon-Levitt is at the meeting?<\/p>\n

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Well, Wired has some insight there, thanks to a leak of a 2026 retreat scheduled for August 12-16 at the Powerscourt Hotel outside Dublin, Ireland (there\u2019s still time to register!). Scheduled sessions for the multi-day getaway include topics like \u201cMoney (Does?) Buy Happiness,\u201d \u201cNavigating WWIII,\u201d and \u201cBring Back Nuclear.\u201d Other talks include \u201cBuild-a-Cult\u201d and \u201cBuild-a-Party,\u201d for the more leadership inclined.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a session called \u201cHow\u2019s Your Sex Life?\u201d which probably pairs well with any attendees who mark that they are \u201clooking for love\u201d on their registration form\u2014a real option they have. Wired also reported that there is a dating portal on the Dialog website to help facilitate \u201cmeaningful connections for exceptional people\u201d\u2014basically like if Raya was only for annoying people.<\/p>\n

Also, joke about Epstein and Thiel talking secret societies aside, it seems Epstein actually kinda hated Dialog. While he was listed as a participant in the group in an , who was invited to a Dialog event in 2014, other emails reveal him and others shit-talking the operation. Tech investor Ian Osborne complained to Epstein that Thiel doesn\u2019t even show up to the events, , \u201cPeter doesn\u2019t even attend. I will tell him that he should stop them using his name.\u201d Even when Epstein , it wasn\u2019t because the event was good but because the location of it, in Sundance, Utah, was nice.<\/p>\n

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It does seem like Dialog is a collection of people in positions of power who gather to discuss things behind closed doors. But it seems much closer to something like Davos for fascist-curious than the Illuminati. Nice to know that even the ultra-wealthy and powerful seem to think a lot of their meetings could just be emails.<\/p>\n

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