AI Empire and Tech's Quest for Power

A conversation with Karen Hao and Roger McNamee

Startup seeks Trump AI emergency for California tech city

The Network State comes to Alameda County. Why is an unknown tech company drafting an executive order to declare a national security emergency?

Network State eyes Native American reservations

Plus: An ‘unhinged rumor‘ about Peter Thiel and Washington D.C.

Elon Musk’s War With White House Tests MAGA-Tech Pact

As Musk flames out, the tech fascist project must mutate—and get smarter

Trump's Fascist Cities Reflect Tech Plan to End Public Power

Plus: My talk with Heather Cox Richardson TODAY

New Yorker shrinks Curtis Yarvin down to size

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

Scientist Destroys Elon Musk's Mars Fantasy: ‘BS’

“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

Is a Network State Project Taking Root in Wyoming?

Also: Network State mentioned in New York Times — kinda

‘We can call bullshit on their eugenic futures’

Dr. Ruha Benjamin’s must-see talk on tech's ‘artificial intelligentsia’

Silicon Valley's Scary New Religion: TESCREAL

A must-hear conversation with Rev. Otis Moss III and Dr. Émile P. Torres

Trump, Gaza, and the Network State: Tech Colonialism Rises

Trump’s fixation on taking Gaza, like his obsession with acquiring Greenland, reveals a clear alignment with the Network State ideology.

The Nerd Reich vs. Catholic Right in Trump’s Circle

‘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.’