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a Cult
222 people planned your future in a hotel outside Dublin. You weren't invited. Now you are.
The Directory
Their Agenda — August 2026, Dublin
- Money (Does?) Buy Happiness
- Bring Back Nuclear
- Navigating WWIII
- Battlefield Technologies
- How's Your Sex Life?
- Build-a-Cult
- Build-a-Party
These are the actual session titles from Dialog's 2026 retreat. Off the record. No FOIA. Every government official registered with personal email.
222
Registered attendees
20
Years in secret
0
Officials who used government email
$16K+
Registration fee per person
Sources: Forbes Real-Time Billionaires, Bloomberg Billionaires Index, SEC filings, public reporting · June 2026 estimates
The Essay
The War in Ones and Zeros
222 people are planning your future in a hotel outside Dublin. You weren't invited.
There is a war being waged in ones and zeros. It is not a war between nations. It is a war between a handful of the wealthiest, most networked people in human history and a passive, comfortable, distracted population of billions who haven't yet realized what's at stake.
The weapon is artificial intelligence. The battlefield is every platform, every institution, every government. And the outcome will determine whether the most transformative technology since the printing press liberates humanity or enslaves it.
“Comfort is the most effective tool of control ever devised because it doesn't feel like control. It feels like freedom.”— The War in Ones and ZerosRead the Full Essay →
Documented Conflicts
The regulators and the regulated, in the same room.
We present the documented overlap and let you draw the conclusions.
According to WIRED, a major consumer-data broker sat in the same private network as the official whose department writes the rules on financial data.
Source: WIRED ↗According to WIRED, Hoffman's data-broker firms fall under the FTC's data-privacy authority — the agency Cruz's committee oversees.
Source: WIRED ↗According to WIRED, a Pentagon software supplier was named alongside the senior defense official overseeing a service branch that procures defense technology.
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