network state
Network State eyes Native American reservations
Plus: An ‘unhinged rumor‘ about Peter Thiel and Washington D.C.
tech fascism
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
Curtis Yarvin
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
Elon Musk
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
network state
Is a Network State Project Taking Root in Wyoming?
Also: Network State mentioned in New York Times — kinda
2025
‘We can call bullshit on their eugenic futures’
Dr. Ruha Benjamin’s must-see talk on tech's ‘artificial intelligentsia’
TESCREAL
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.’
Curtis Yarvin
'Yarvin is the brain' behind DOGE, Washington Post reports
Beltway journalists finally catching on
parallel media
How a ‘Good’ Billionaire Broke the LA Times Editorial Board
A conversation with Mariel Garza, who quit the LAT in protest