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
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Last February, I wrote about Katherine Boyle, a venture capitalist pushing extreme anti-government ideas. Boyle, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, had delivered a speech in which she defined government as an enemy of the family. She supported her thesis by pointing out that Jesus Christ had been executed by the
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Yesterday, I received my copy of Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. The new book by journalist Jacob Silverman tells how Musk and his fellow tech billionaires became right-wing zealots, teaming up with Trump in a project to destroy American democracy. I encourage you to buy
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‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’
“The strange thing is that, if you look at any of these narratives—science fiction, Lord of the Rings, The Bible—the tech billionaires are obviously the villains in all of those books. Right? But they have such bad comprehension of reading—or maybe it’s a willful misinterpretation—that
An “unsatisfactory” ideology “cobbled together from various religious-philosophical fragments”
Journalist Paulina Borsook warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer
It was preceded in death by conservatism, which fell to a terminal case of fascism in 2016.
One can look at Trump’s increasingly authoritarian moves as the “end of America”—or as flagrant desperation.
Here's what the Palantir billionaire is trying to say
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Why are some of the richest people in the United States suddenly talking about demons, apocalypse, and even the “Antichrist”? On Monday, Peter Thiel—Palantir co-founder, Trump ally, and one of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley—will launch a secretive four-part lecture series in San Francisco. His topic?
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With 10 days to go before Peter Thiel begins his four-part series of secret Antichrist lectures in San Francisco, things are not looking good for the tech billionaire’s apocalyptic escalation. Yesterday, the PayPal and Palantir co-founder was ruthlessly mocked on the Joe Rogan podcast, the largest podcast in the
A Silicon Valley billionaire has declared Burning Man “demonic.” This is a very heavy concept to drop on a bunch of people who are currently tripping balls at the annual festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. But Nicole Shanahan, a former Burning Man attendee—and ex-wife of Google co-founder
Tech billionaire to lecture on Biblical bogeyman in San Francisco
“We’re witnessing, in real-time, a profound consolidation of power and collusion among political and tech elites—the ruling class of this country, and the world—wherein the tools and technologies that this industry has built, and continues to build, can now be deployed in service of an authoritarian regime.
As Silicon Valley embraces MAGA fascism and plots a post-American century, some consultants are urging the Democratic Party to bow down to the tech oligarchs. From a Wall Street Journal article headlined “Democrats Try to Halt Silicon Valley’s Swing to the Right” (see gift link at bottom of page)
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“The World After Society for which the billionaires are preparing is a world without money.”