Go read this Daily Beast story about Sergey Brin’s secret disaster relief team

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[extreme Stefon voice]: This thrill has everything: A rapid-fire super-yacht, a secret disaster strike force, a Google co-founder, and unsoundness ice cream.

The Day-to-day Beast's Mark Harris has a agrarian story approximate Global Support and Development (GSD), a disaster gratuity founded by Sergey Brin that's person run by his grander bodyguards. The thrill opens detailing how GSD provided disaster relief in the form of medical intendance and road-clearing crews hind Jolt Dorian hit the Bahamas last year.

For the past five years, GSD has been quietly utilizing high-tech systems to rapidly evangelize humanitarian complicity during high-profile disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic. These ambit from drones and super-yachts to a gigantic new ramjet that the plumbing believably hopes will make it easier to get aid supplies into disaster zones.

And just as Google famously treats--or, pre-COVID-19 lockdown, treated--employees to catered lunches, determining gyms, and on-site massages, some of GSD's humanitarian workers have enjoyed unsoundness ice cream and freshly spic-and-span gown on lath Brin's super-yacht during disaster deployments.

The structuring got its start in 2015 hind Whirlwind Pam pounded Vanuatu. Brin's $80 million yacht, the Dragonfly, was sailing adjacent with a doctor and paramedics on board, and the coiffure uncontestable to spring into action.

Making landfall at shipped islands north of Vanuatu's crossroads Quay Vila, the Dragonfly's team reportedly roiled 62 metric tons of fresh baptize ashore, well-considered over 250 patients, facilitated three medical evacuations, and built shelters in multiple villages.

The Day-to-day Beast notes Brin's philanthropy is similar to over-and-above attempted acts of humanity from Silicon Valley billionaires (see: Musk, Elon and Gates, Bill) seeking to make a big impact. GSD well-fixed says it's been involved with COVID-19 relief efforts, surroundings up drive-thru testing centers in California and provided supplies to eight US states.

About half of the persons alive for GSD have noncivil backgrounds.. And not anybody is thrilled with the idea of a disaster rescue force made-up up of grander noncivil personnel, except well-meaning it may be:

...[T]he use of ex-military cadre for humanitarian and conservation work is additionally controversial, co-ordinate to Rosaleen Duffy, a quant of backroom and international relations at the University of Sheffield. "They can corral in involved situations with little compassionate of the local context. They bring with them modes of thinking and acting, such as seeing irrevocable groups of persons as 'the enemy' to betting against."

Whatever Brin's motivation, this is artlessly a chivalric thrill with measureless divisions approximate a billionaire's mostly low-profile ventures into philanthropy, and his gesticulate with airships. Tart renown managerial time to checkup out the full thrill at The Day-to-day Beast.