network state
Network State eyes Native American reservations
Plus: An ‘unhinged rumor‘ about Peter Thiel and Washington D.C.
tech fascism
As Musk flames out, the tech fascist project must mutate—and get smarter
Plus: My talk with Heather Cox Richardson TODAY
Curtis Yarvin
In two hours, at 10 a.m. Pacific (1 p.m. Eastern), I'll join writer Wajahat Ali for a live discussion of Curtis Yarvin. Details below. The New Yorker magazine profiled Curtis Yarvin, the Peter Thiel “house philosopher” and friend of Vice President JD Vance who believes democracies
As Musk flames out, the tech fascist project must mutate—and get smarter
Plus: My talk with Heather Cox Richardson TODAY
“Mars is terrible. The gravity is too low. The radiation is too high. There’s no air — and the dirt is made of poison ... You would just die.” — Adam Becker In this episode of the Nerd Reich podcast, scientist Adam Becker destroys tech billionaire delusions like Mars colonization, “God-like” artificial
Also: Network State mentioned in New York Times — kinda
Dr. Ruha Benjamin’s must-see talk on tech's ‘artificial intelligentsia’
A must-hear conversation with Rev. Otis Moss III and Dr. Émile P. Torres
The Nerd Reich | Silicon Valley tech billionaire politics
“Mars is terrible. The gravity is too low. The radiation is too high. There’s no air — and the dirt is made of poison ... You would just die.” — Adam Becker In this episode of the Nerd Reich podcast, scientist Adam Becker destroys tech billionaire delusions like Mars colonization, “God-like” artificial
Also: Network State mentioned in New York Times — kinda
Dr. Ruha Benjamin’s must-see talk on tech's ‘artificial intelligentsia’
A must-hear conversation with Rev. Otis Moss III and Dr. Émile P. Torres
Trump’s fixation on taking Gaza, like his obsession with acquiring Greenland, reveals a clear alignment with the Network State ideology.
‘At some stage a civil war is coming to the Trump movement. And I think Musk and Vance will be on two very different sides of that civil war.’
Beltway journalists finally catching on
A conversation with Mariel Garza, who quit the LAT in protest
Plus: The End Times Fanaticism of Silicon Valley Elites
No, Elon Musk isn't leaving government. Yes, JD Vance is a Curtis Yarvin follower
Yesterday, the San Francisco Standard named Curtis Yarvin to the “SF100,” the publication’s list of the city’s most influential people. “If democracy has felt precarious lately, that’s by design,” declared the Standard in a brief description of Yarvin that labeled him “MAGA’s house philosopher.” “Specifically, by
A movement based on “tech Zionism” seeks to create “The Next America”