2025 - The Nerd Reich

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Dystopia

Why Are Silicon Valley’s Utopians Prepping for Collapse?

Taylor Lorenz and Guthrie Scrimgeour Discuss Mark Zuckerberg's $300M Hawaii bunker on The Nerd Reich podcast

crypto

Who Sent $100M to Trump’s Crypto Company—and Why?

“How did a 30-year-old Chinese-Brazilian finance professional working for a Chinese state energy company secure $100 million to buy crypto tokens from the President of the United States’ main crypto firm? And what do he and his colleagues expect in return?” Journalist Jacob Silverman asks these questions in his latest

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

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