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Bryan Johnson is Dying
Pallid mascot of Silicon Valley’s death panic gets a brutal reality check
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Network State Comes for Venezuela
Less than one week after American military forces conducted an illegal raid to kidnap the authoritarian president of Venezuela, some want to build a Network State there. Mark Lutter, executive director of the Charter Cities Institute, has issued a public call for Trump to put a “freedom city” in Venezuela:
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The Cult of Venture Capital Wants Your Future
“The rational fear of those who dislike economic inequality is that the rich will convert their economic power into political power: that they’ll tilt elections, or pay bribes for pardons, or buy up the news media to promote their views. I used to be able to claim that tech
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Tech Billionaires Threaten to Flee California—Again
Tech billionaires in California are furious. A new proposal for a wealth tax on the super rich has them packing their bags and threatening to leave the Golden State for good. Again. Oligarchs regularly make such threats and fail to follow through, so we must take such antics with a
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Financial Times Discovers the Network State Cult
The Financial Times is the latest mainstream newspaper to discover the existence of the Network State cult. In a story headlined “Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities,” FT writer Hannah Murphy outlines the basics of the movement to create new tech-controlled fascist cities all over the
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Trump Pardons Drug Trafficker Who Backed Network State City
On Tuesday, Donald Trump pardoned a convicted drug trafficker who happens to be the former president of Honduras. There's a Network State angle. Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted of conspiring to smuggle over 400 tons of cocaine into the United States, is the right-wing politician who
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Silicon Valley Sacks Washington
David Sacks “has occupied one of the most advantageous moonlighting roles in the federal government, influencing policy for Silicon Valley in Washington while simultaneously working in Silicon Valley as an investor”
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Esmeralda: Network State comes for Cloverdale
The questions no one is asking about strange new California ‘town’
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Garry Tan Called Me a ‘Parasite.’ Now I'm in a Book
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
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Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance guru—Plans to Flee USA
‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’
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Network State eyes Native American reservations
Plus: An ‘unhinged rumor‘ about Peter Thiel and Washington D.C.
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Elon Musk’s War With White House Tests MAGA-Tech Pact
As Musk flames out, the tech fascist project must mutate—and get smarter