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New York Times publishes dramatic warning
‘There's also a human-shaped hole in many of their lives.’
network state
The Financial Times is the latest mainstream newspaper to discover the existence of the Network State cult. In a story headlined “Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities,” FT writer Hannah Murphy outlines the basics of the movement to create new tech-controlled fascist cities all over the world. This
New York Times publishes dramatic warning
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
On Tuesday, Donald Trump pardoned a convicted drug trafficker who happens to be the former president of Honduras. There's a Network State angle. Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted of conspiring to smuggle over 400 tons of cocaine into the United States, is the right-wing politician who supported
David Sacks “has occupied one of the most advantageous moonlighting roles in the federal government, influencing policy for Silicon Valley in Washington while simultaneously working in Silicon Valley as an investor”
Make sure to read this: The New York Times has profiled Paulina Borsook, the tech critic who warned of Silicon Valley’s dark side thirty years ago. (I interviewed her last month on the Nerd Reich podcast.) Writes David Streitfeld of the NYT: Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish” saw the seeds
“Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
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Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
On Tuesday, Donald Trump pardoned a convicted drug trafficker who happens to be the former president of Honduras. There's a Network State angle. Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted of conspiring to smuggle over 400 tons of cocaine into the United States, is the right-wing politician who supported
David Sacks “has occupied one of the most advantageous moonlighting roles in the federal government, influencing policy for Silicon Valley in Washington while simultaneously working in Silicon Valley as an investor”
Make sure to read this: The New York Times has profiled Paulina Borsook, the tech critic who warned of Silicon Valley’s dark side thirty years ago. (I interviewed her last month on the Nerd Reich podcast.) Writes David Streitfeld of the NYT: Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish” saw the seeds
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‘Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore. It’s building empires.’
Silicon Valley promises that technology will save us. But what if the financial system powering that dream is actually poisoning everything it touches? In this episode of the Nerd Reich podcast, I talk with Catherine Bracy, author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy, about how venture
Tomorrow morning, we’ll release the latest episode of the Nerd Reich podcast—an episode focused on how the venture capital model is warping US politics. Today, I wanted to share a gift link to this must-read Washington Post story. Reporter Elizabeth Dwoskin takes a deep dive on Rockbridge, a
