Search results for tag #siliconvalley
A billionaire promising you decentralisation is like a king promising you democracy.
(Unless it involves them abdicating the crown, you know it’s bullshit.)
#decentralisation #Bluesky #JackDorsey #BigTech #SiliconValley #bullshit
"What do you tell people concerned about generative AI’s heavy use of natural resources?
Quit breathing my data centers’ air."
https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-sam-altman/
#TheOnion #Satire #SamAltman #TechBros #DataCentres #GenAI #AIBubble #SiliconValley #Technology
Today: Chi c'è dietro ai seminari di Peter Thiel a Roma. Casu (Pd): "Meloni riferisca gli accordi"
Ci sono due trentenni e un ventisettenne alla guida dell'associazione ultracattolica che organizza il tour in Italia di Peter Thiel, "cuore di tenebra" della Silicon Valley. L'organizzazione, con sede a Brescia, prende il nome di Vincenzo Gioberti, presbitero e teorico risorgimentale del...
Who is behind Peter Thiel’s seminars in Rome. Casu (Pd): "Meloni must disclose the agreements”
There are two thirty-year-olds and a twenty-seven-year-old driving the ultracatholic association that is organizing Peter Thiel's tour of Italy, the “heart of darkness” of Silicon Valley. The organization, based in Brescia, is named after Vincenzo Gioberti, a priest and risorgimento theorist...
#PeterThiel’s #Meloni #PeterThiels #Italy #SiliconValley #Brescia #VincenzoGioberti
‘God, It’s Terrifying’: How the #Pentagon Got Hooked on #AI #War Machines
An excerpt from the book #ProjectMaven shows how #US enlisted #SiliconValley in its vision for AI #warfare, now playing out in Iran. Using an AI-enabled mission control called #MavenSmartSystem, US attacked 1,000 targets in first 24hr, about twice scale of shock-and-awe campaign in Iraq in 2003. Within 10 days it had hit 5,000 targets, according to Central Command (#Centcom).
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-03-12/iran-war-tests-project-maven-us-ai-war-strategy
https://archive.ph/EHadQ
"The death of the liberal order has been coming for awhile now and to watch it explode like this is both unsurprising and outrageous. There’s not a day now where I don’t think of the innocent people who have been killed as this barbarism has worsened and as the wealth and oligarchical classes continue the transfer of power over to the machines they have programmed."
~ Jared Yates Sexton
#Trump #Iran #war #broligarchy #TechBros #SiliconValley
/3
https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/now-the-chaos-the-death-of-the-liberal
"At this point, as liberalism transforms into authoritarianism, just as capitalism requires, it appears that we are speeding toward the fiery horizon."
"This is the real manosphere. One whose edges we can’t even see because we’re living inside it. Our world is controlled by these men, their platforms, their alliances with nation states, technology-fuelled political power which is only accelerating and gathering strength. When I coined the word 'broligarchy' it wasn’t as a cutesy pun:"
~ Carole Cadwalladr
#Trump #Iran #war #broligarchy #TechBros #SiliconValley #manosphere
/5
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/is-this-the-broligarchys-first-world
New York Times: Lawmakers Ask Tech Companies What User Data They Provided to D.H.S. This link goes to a gift article. “The letters cited reporting by The New York Times that found tech companies had been flooded with requests from the Department of Homeland Security for the names, email addresses and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize Immigration and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/27/new-york-times-lawmakers-ask-tech-companies-what-user-data-they-provided-to-d-h-s/Jay Kuo provides a sobering rundown of important reasons that, though Trump and his sycophants claim he has been "exonerated" in the Epstein discussion, the opposite is true — and more information (and more damning information) will almost certainly come to light.
#Trump #PamBondi #DOJ #Epstein #TechBros #SiliconValley #crime #EpsteinClass #EconomicElites #coverup #FoxNews
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https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-epstein-files-scream-guilty-not
Nick Anderson's commentary on Trump and Pam Bondi's cover-up of the Epstein files and what they would reveal to us about the Epstein class — and Trump's central position in it — if they were fully disclosed.
#Trump #PamBondi #DOJ #Epstein #TechBros #SiliconValley #crime #EpsteinClass #EconomicElites #coverup
/26
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/2/19/2369378/-Cartoon-About-those-MRIs
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Cartoon commentary by Nick Anderson on Trump and Pam Bondi's cover-up of the Epstein files, showing an MRI scan of Trump with extensive redactions
"If you’re exclusively watching Fox News, you might not know that the growing fallout from the Department of Justice’s latest batch of released files about the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is one of the biggest stories in America."
~ Helena Hind
#Trump #PamBondi #DOJ #Epstein #TechBros #SiliconValley #crime #EpsteinClass #EconomicElites #coverup #FoxNews
/27
"Fox News has mentioned 'Epstein' only 239 times in the over two weeks since the release. In the same time period, MS NOW and CNN mentioned 'Epstein' 3,321 and 2,304 times, respectively."
#Trump #PamBondi #DOJ #Epstein #TechBros #SiliconValley #crime #EpsteinClass #EconomicElites #coverup #FoxNews
/28
"Despite what they claim, Silicon Valley’s most powerful founders knew they were meeting, dining and emailing with a convicted sex offender and were told to keep quiet about it, reports Nafeez Ahmed."
#Trump #PamBondi #DOJ #Epstein #TechBros #SiliconValley #crime #EpsteinClass #EconomicElites #coverup
/24
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/big-tech-helped-elon-musk-meet-jeffrey
"These repeated encounters – during dinners at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse, and at Musk’s own SpaceX facility – took place within a closed network of Silicon Valley which were concealed with instructions to maintain 'radio silence' and keep events 'off the search engines.'"
#Trump #PamBondi #DOJ #Epstein #TechBros #SiliconValley #crime #EpsteinClass #EconomicElites #coverup
/25
«Emojis — Die Ideologie hinter den freundlichen Bildchen:
Sie schaffen Nähe, geben sich spielerisch ironisch, kommentieren lustig, verstärken Emotionen: Mehr als zehn Milliarden Emojis werden täglich verschickt. Doch ein Blick hinter die Bilder lohnt sich: Versteckt sich da womöglich eine Ideologie?»
Sollte ich nun zukünftig hier im Fediverse mit den Emojis in den Toots aufhören?
🔊 https://www.br.de/nachrichten/kultur/emojis-die-ideologie-hinter-den-freundlichen-bildchen
#emojis #siliconvalley #wirtschaft #it #ustech #totalitarismus #modernewelt #idealogie
"New documents released by the Justice Department suggest that Jeffrey Epstein provided at least two women to Kimbal Musk, the younger brother of Elon Musk and a Tesla board member since 2004.
'I gave another girl to kimball and he is thrilled,' Epstein wrote in a June 2015 message to a person named Sanita. 'I told him you prefer dark eyes.'”
~ Caleb Ecarma
#Epstein #ElonMusk #TechBros #SiliconValley #broligarchy #EconomicElites
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https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/bezos-ignored-offer-to-save-jobs
"That message came less than three years after Kimbal had first thanked Epstein and his associate, Boris Nikolic, for 'connecting me with Jennifer.' (Nikolic is a venture capitalist who at one point 'served as chief advisor for science and technology to Bill Gates,' according to a biography on his venture firm’s website.)"
#Epstein #ElonMusk #TechBros #SiliconValley #broligarchy #EconomicElites
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"When you strip away their jargon of 'network states' and 'effective altruism,' you’re basically looking at a reboot of white supremacy and fascism. These people don’t believe capitalism is compatible with democracy."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #Epstein #EconomicElites #TechBros #SiliconValley #broligarchy #fascism #WhiteSupremacy
/3
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/epsteins-genocidal-crypto-bros-are
"They are offended by minority rights, democracy, the free press, and MeToo because these are gateways to accountability, restraints, reform, and the masses actually transforming our corrupt institutions to benefit the majority."
#Trump #Epstein #EconomicElites #TechBros #SiliconValley #broligarchy #fascism #WhiteSupremacy
/4
"Not only did he stay in close contact with Epstein, the two men [Epstein and Howard Lutnick] appear to have gone into business together.
But, at this point, who could possibly be surprised? The more we learn, the more pedophilia and criminal use of cryptocurrency look related, even like different aspects of a single conspiracy."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Epstein #HowardLutnick #EconomicElites #TechBros #SiliconValley #broligarchy #crypto
/5
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-banality-of-maga-evil
"Epstein, it turns out, was a major early investor in the crypto industry. In the backrooms of MAGA-land, passing around under-age girls is a lot like passing around insider crypto deals."
#Trump #Epstein #HowardLutnick #EconomicElites #TechBros #SiliconValley #broligarchy #crypto
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RE: https://chaos.social/@christopherkunz/116052216926004596
The Epstein class believe you can discriminate against men by not allowing them to be as creepy as they want....
The greatest crime in Western Society is telling a rich pervert "No"
#EpsteinClass #GenAI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Technology #SiliconValley #ClanOfPaedophiles #OpenAI
the betabois of cryptolandia are bag holders of a different kind:
❝ “75 percent of bitcoins code comes directly from [Epstein’s] investments,” a crypto account called Crypto Bitlord agonized in response. “We’ve basically funded an elite global pedophile ring since 2015. I feel sick.”
Crypto Bros Nauseated After Realizing Bitcoin Itself Was Funded by Jeffrey Epstein
https://futurism.com/future-society/cryptocurrency-jeffrey-epstein-bitcoin
#pedophilia #cryptobros #fascism #SiliconValley #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinFiles
"The emails, part of a trove released by the Department of Justice on Friday, show that as late as 2018, Epstein was invited to or attended dinners alongside the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and Google vice-president and later Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer."
#Epstein #Trump #TechBros #SiliconValley #ElonMusk #JeffBezos #LarryPage #SergeyBrin #EvanWilliams #BillGates #MarissaMayer
/11
"Newly released emails and travel itineraries appear to show that for years after Jeffrey Epstein served time for procuring underage girls for prostitution, he continued to attend exclusive dinners alongside Silicon Valley’s most famous billionaires."
~ Jason Wilson
#Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #pedophiles #coverup #TechBros #SiliconValley #ElonMusk #JeffBezos #LarryPage #SergeyBrin #EvanWilliams #BillGates #MarissaMayer
/10
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/epstein-silicon-valley
"The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage. ...
As Epstein and Thiel’s finances aligned, so did their politics. Both men were unusually important early backers of Donald Trump’s first presidency."
~ Peter Jukes
#Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup #Putin #SteveBannon #NigelFarage #PeterThiel #crypto #TechBros #SiliconValley
/15
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/in-putins-orbit-the-crypto-politics
"Though Epstein has gone, the cryptocurrency infrastructure he helped to rescue, the ideological antipathy to regulation in Silicon Valley, and the dark, unaccountable influence of crypto politics in our democratic elections remain one of his most damaging legacies."
#Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup #Putin #SteveBannon #NigelFarage #PeterThiel #crypto #TechBros #SiliconValley
/16
Reading the Moltbook firehose makes me think that since over 1 trillion USD has been invested into this crap to date, then Silicon Valley is in deep, deep, deep trouble.
Silicon Valley is now pushing a former a former tech entrepreneur for governor in California. He's controversial, to say the least.
"Mahan has drawn the ire of progressive leaders, including in the state’s influential labor unions. Advocacy groups have argued that his policies criminalize homelessness, and many are expected to oppose his gubernatorial bid. Tom Steyer, a liberal billionaire campaigning for governor as an anti-corporate crusader, cast Mahan as too closely aligned with the super rich."
Bloomberg, from yesterday: Silicon Valley favorite jumps into California governor’s race https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/silicon-valley-favorite-jumps-into-california-governor-s-race/ar-AA1VfTLI #SiliconValley
Engadget: The EU tells Google to give external AI assistants the same access to Android as Gemini has. “The European Commission has started proceedings to ensure Google complies with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in certain ways. Specifically, the European Union’s executive arm has told Google to grant third-party AI services the same level of access to Android that Gemini has.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/31/engadget-the-eu-tells-google-to-give-external-ai-assistants-the-same-access-to-android-as-gemini-has/Just finished reading “Empire of AI” by Karen Hao, the story of the rise of OpenAI, how it went from non-profit to for-profit, and the insane speed with which AI has become so pervasive. Strikes the right tone of caution re: safety and governance. The multi-billion dollar investments and valuations of these companies is mad. Good read especially if you’re interested in the topic but remain skeptical of those running it.
#OpenAI #SamAltman #Anthropic #EmpireOfAI #KarenHao #AI #siliconvalley #chatgpt #LLMs
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“Empire of AI” by Karen Hao
Ruth Ben-Ghiat offers a list of autocratic rationales behind Trump's fixation on Greenland: plunder, pleasing Putin, partnerships with technofascists, megalomania, corrupting the U.S. military.
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #TechBros #SiliconValley #broligarchy #Putin
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/the-autocratic-rationales-behind
"According to a study from MIT, 95 percent of businesses have seen zero return on any of their investments in AI technology yet. It seems the only jobs AI robots have actually taken so far are 'student who was supposed to write their own term paper,' 'lawyer who was supposed to write their own briefs,' and 'Adobe Photoshop child-undresser.'”
~ Marcie Jones
#AI #economy #jobs #bubble #TechBros #SiliconValley #broligarchy
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"Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.
Mr Nadella on Tuesday said that the long-term success of the fast-developing technology would depend on it being used by a broad range of industries as well as on uptake outside of the developed world."
~ Melissa Heikkilä
This fucking Free Our Feeds bullshit is basically trying to do for Bluesky what Mozilla does for Google.
And guess what, there’s Mozilla’s executive director and president on as custodians alongside two guys from AI companies and the executive director of Meta partner Social Web Foundation.
I’m so bloody sick and tired of bloody Silicon Valley asshats sucking all the oxygen out of the room with their bullshit and I truly hope the folks roped into legitimising it realise this and distance themselves as quickly as possible (you know who you are).
#FreeOurFeeds #SiliconValley #SanFrancisco #BlueSky #SocialWebFoundation #bullshit
Seated in prime position as the felon insurrectionist was sworn in as president for the second time last January were a who’s who of America’s Silicon Valley elite, including Elon Musk, Apple’s Tim Cook and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.
In the year since, tech bosses and their businesses have remained unusually close to the president and his administration, attending glitzy dinners, donating to White House fundraising projects and frequenting Washington with ever-larger pledges for investments in the US.
The fortunes of these tech bosses in the 12 months since they appeared in the Capitol Rotunda underscore the increasingly transactional nature of Washington during felon’s second term crime spree and the newfound alignment between his White House and Big Tech scammers.
#information #infosec #SiliconValley #billionaire #technology #election #midterms
Wipe Out WEF!
Wieder sind unzählige #Privatjets nach #Davos zum #WEF aufgebrochen. Deren Eigentümer*innen können sich dort dann entspannt bei Sekt und Kaviar darüber austauschen, wie die Krisen, von deren Ursachen und Folgen sie selbst profitiert haben, irgendwie in den Griff zu bekommen seien.
Einig scheint man sich zumindest darin zu sein, dass am besten die vielen, die weniger als sie haben, am meisten für die Krisen bezahlen und am meisten verzichten sollen, damit sich für die Privilegierten möglichst wenig ändern muss.
Wahrscheinlich werden auch wie immer fleißig Private-“Public“-Partnerships und Privatisierungen beworben. Und Faktoren, die maßgeblich zur #Klimakatastrophe und anderem Elend beitragen – wie Superreiche, Militär und Digitalisierung - werden selbstverständlich nicht in Frage gestellt sondern höchstens zu Lösungen verklärt.
Und es wäre auch nicht das #WEF, wenn nicht wieder irgendwelche Tech-Oligarch*innen aus dem #SiliconValley ihre neuesten Ideen von smarten Kontrolldystopien vorstellen und begeisterten Politiker*innen andrehen können. Zum Beispiel die alte Idee der fossilen #Brennstofflobby mit dem individuellen, digital überwachten CO2-Score/Konto/Fußbadruck.
Aber so ist das, wenn Lösungsvorschläge von denen kommen, die die Probleme erst verursachen.
Is the politicization of generative AI inevitable?
[…] On September 29, #Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5, with supposed “substantial gains in reasoning and math.” We identified a dramatic shift in the behavior of Claude Sonnet 4.5 compared to its predecessor, with a much higher rate of refusal to answer prompts despite multiple nudges. In some cases where the model did select a response, it claimed to be choosing an option arbitrarily due to our insistence, but it emphasized that its response did not reflect its ability to harbor political opinions. This shift signals that Anthropic may have added additional safeguards to Claude Sonnet 4.5 that encourage refusal to respond to questions that are political in nature.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/is-the-politicization-of-generative-ai-inevitable/
The more I test #LLM responses to political and current issues, the more I realize they’re rapidly becoming a vector for misinformation that protects power and obscures harm, simply by refusing to engage or verify claims. I primarily use #Claude, and I’ve noticed a troubling pattern: recently it’s been reluctant to search for up-to-date information or verify claims in content it’s analyzing, unless instructed. Instead, when it come to these type of topics at least, it uses hedge language like “claims that” or “alleges” even when facts are indisputable - they’re simply unknown to the LLM possibly due to the fact that it relies on training data rather than searching.
Providing meaningless, quick responses to gratify impatient users or simply to save costs on searching and processing more tokens is misleading customers and in itself promoting misinformation if users are actually using LLMs’ responses on social media, for instance.
https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP77-SiliconValley.mp3
Railway tycoon Leland Stanford lived in Santa Clara Valley and founded Stanford University in 1891. Another prominent Stanford University figure, Frederick Terman. invested heavily in businesses that would base themselves in the area and employ talented young people. One such business was the original start-up, an electrical company started in a garage by Stanford alumni William Hewlett and David Packard, Hewlett-Packard. The beginning of Silicon Valley as an epicenter of innovation began in 1955 with the arrival of the Shockley Semiconductors Laboratory.
Mike Brock addresses his "former friends in crypto and tech," who have inordinate influence on media framing and who affect not to know the extent of protest now against the Trump regime:
I wanted to address my former friends in crypto and tech directly. The ones who said I had Trump derangement syndrome. Who said Kamala would be worse."
#media #Trump #MAGA #TechBros #EconomicElites #greed #SiliconValley #broligarchy #crypto
/3
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/it-was-about-your-money
"Who claimed Trump was the peace president who doesn’t believe in war. You didn’t support Trump because of pronouns, cancel culture, or Hunter Biden’s laptop. You supported him because you were worried Kamala would regulate you. Because you were mad at Lina Khan. It was about your pocketbook. You chose greed, and now Americans are being gunned down in the streets by the man you called the lesser evil."
#media #Trump #MAGA #TechBros #EconomicElites #greed #SiliconValley #broligarchy #crypto
/4
"Do I really want people like you—hanging out on beaches in El Salvador, not giving a shit about this country—to be the richest people in the world when the system collapses? Fuck that.
I’m still open to apologies. You have my number. I await your call."
#media #Trump #MAGA #TechBros #EconomicElites #greed #SiliconValley #broligarchy #crypto
/5
6. Hold Stephen Miller accountable for his failures.
7. Visualize how Stephen Miller took money for cancer research and veterans care to pay for a goon army snatching grandmothers.
8. Discredit key spokespeople.
9. Use Trump’s claimed opposition to antisemitism against him.
10. Reclaim disinformation research.
#Epstein #Trump #coverup #pedophiles #EconomicElites #broligarchs #SiliconValley #techbros
/4
Marcie Wheeler offers a valuable list of ideas for ways Trump's conspiracism and constant sense of grievance can be used against him. The list beings with the Epstein files:
1. Treat Epstein as the base layer.
2. Focus on the broligarchs and AI.
3. Emphasize Trump's loser stench.
4. Visualize Trump's corruption.
5. Brand Trump as the criminal he is.
#Epstein #Trump #coverup #pedophiles #EconomicElites #broligarchs #SiliconValley #techbros
/3
https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/13/where-we-go-from-here-2/
Why Tech Billionaires Want to Seize Greenland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07sKLHzlYc8
Why is a company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires trying to seize Greenland from Denmark? Why won't the mainstream US press discuss the Network State?...
#TechElites #Trump #TechnoColonialism #SiliconValley #Investors #want #Greenland
“How could we have known?!”
Maybe if you’d listened to those of us warning you – often times your own damn friends – instead of siding with the corporations that paid your salaries/consulting fees/sponsored your conferences/invited you to parties and bought you free booze…
🤷♂️
#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism
“But now things suck even for me and I’m sad!”
Oh, the gravy train ran out of gravy, did it? Something about leopards eating people’s faces?
Here, have a very fucking tiny violin.
🎻
#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism
@karen @bkuhn Six years on, and with these companies now openly standing with Trump and complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, do you still support your decision to have Google and Microsoft as sponsors at your conference? Would you do so again today?
#SFC #softwareFreedom #FOSS #Google #Microsoft #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley
#Data is control: what we learned from a year investigating the #Israeli #military’s ties to big #tech
Our reporting revealed a symbiotic relationship between the #IDF and #SiliconValley – with implications for the future of #warfare
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/30/israeli-military-big-tech
#Gaza #genocide #WarCrimes #AI #Israel #war #HumanRights #BigData #privacy #Orwellian #1984 #dystopian #authoritarian #oppressive
"AI is running only slightly ahead of child molesters in the public imagination. And yet the signature AI policy of the Trump White House is banning states from regulating AI — a remarkable thing regardless of the fact that the president has no power to do this."
~ Josh Marshall
#AI #Trump #TechBros #broligarchy #SiliconValley #EconomicElites
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-grand-ai-disconnect
"The year started with America's tech overlords kissing the ring at Trump's inauguration, and it's ending with the public fed up with the ostentatiously rich—and more distrustful of Silicon Valley than ever, particularly on AI."
~ Tim Miller
#Trump #EconomicElites #SiliconValley #TechBros #broligarchy #CorporateMedia #AI
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/kara-swisher-were-in-an-eat-the-rich
"Silicon Valley venture capitalists are now quoting scripture—and Christian nationalists are now pitching network state cities. So you know things are getting bizarre. But here's the thing: It makes perfect sense because it's a strategy, and it's spelled out in black and white.
In his book, The Network State: How to Start a New Country, Balaji Srinivasan identifies evangelical Christians as followers of the so-called "Red God"—right-wing Republicans who will ally with his gray tribe of tech billionaires.
Together, they'll crush Democrats, democracy, and the nation state. It's a clinical, almost contemptuous framing of Christianity as a political weapon. But it works because both Christian nationalism and tech fascism share the same playbook: seize the pillars of democratic society and replace them with parallel alternatives, all run by authoritarian elites. The Christian nationalists call it the Seven Mountains mandate—taking over government, media, education, business, arts, family, and religion.
The tech authoritarians call it replacing the cathedral with parallel institutions. Different language, same goal: elite minority rule and the end of democracy as we know it. Today on the Nerd Reich podcast, we expose how this alliance actually works.
I'm joined by Matthew Boedy, author of the definitive book on the Seven Mountains mandate, who explains how figures like Charlie Kirk and other religious extremists have been systematically organizing this takeover.
And Mother Jones reporter Kiera Butler takes us inside Highland Rim—a proposed settlement on the Tennessee-Kentucky border that's basically a network state for Christian nationalists. It comes complete with crypto and investments from the same venture capital networks funding Silicon Valley's dreams of exiting democracy."
https://www.thenerdreich.com/jd-vances-theo-bro-network-silicon-valley-meets-god/
#SiliconValley #Nationalism #ChristianNationalism #NetworkStates #Religion #Crypto
"In the last five years alone, the wealthiest 20 Americans increased their net worth from $1.3 trillion to $3 trillion, Forbes reported. ...
The billionaires could have kept on like that forever. All they had to do was keep their mouths closed.
Today, billionaires are still flooding politics with their money and still reaping the benefits, but they won’t stop yapping about it."
#techbros #broligarchy #SiliconValley #Trump #AI #crypto #EconomicElites
/9
"No amount of auramaxxing can hide the new reality. Just six years ago, 69 percent of respondents to a Cato Institute poll agreed that billionaires 'earned their wealth by creating value for others.' An only slightly smaller majority agreed with the statement 'we are all better off when people get rich.' Today, one poll after another shows that Americans want the rich to be taxed at higher, even much higher rates."
#techbros #broligarchy #SiliconValley #Trump #AI #crypto #EconomicElites
/10
"The billionaires have only themselves to blame.
It’s as if the sheer scale of this wealth, which beggars even the riches of the Gilded Age, has induced a kind of class sociopathy. ...
According to the most recent edition of an annual Harris Poll, for the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71 percent believe there should be a wealth tax."
#techbros #broligarchy #SiliconValley #Trump #AI #crypto #EconomicElites
/11
"A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."
I propose that someone ask the billionaires who own and manage New York Times what they think about this impending shift in the fortunes of the super-rich who have thrown their weight behind Donald Trump and fascism.
#techbros #broligarchy #SiliconValley #Trump #AI #crypto #EconomicElites
/12
Paul Waldman and Josh Marshall think that the techbro broligarchs may be in for a rude awakening, after having hitched their wagons to the falling star of a corrupt, failing and flailing Donald Trump.
"What do they want? First, they want what every rich person wants: to pay as little as possible in taxes, which is also what the Republican Party wants for people like them."
#techbros #broligarchy #SiliconValley #Trump #AI #crypto #EconomicElites
/1
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/tech-industry-embraces-trump-ai
"Many of the key figures within the tech industry are also heavily invested in cryptocurrencies, so they were extremely pleased when the Trump administration all but shut down regulatory enforcement of misdeeds in the crypto sector. Under Trump, the last remaining Democrat on the Securities and Exchange Commission told the New York Times that the crypto industry 'can effectively get away with anything.'"
#techbros #broligarchy #SiliconValley #Trump #AI #crypto #EconomicElites
/2
"The almost universal belief in Silicon Valley is that because of the rapid development of AI, we stand on the cusp of one of the most profound transformations in human history. Tech leaders see themselves as heroic visionaries carrying humanity to a glorious future of limitless possibility — and, not coincidentally, limitless wealth for themselves."
#techbros #broligarchy #SiliconValley #Trump #AI #crypto #EconomicElites
/3
"What a tragedy it would be if the government put any kind of constraints on the realization of their dreams. Trump has embraced that perspective with enthusiasm."
But as discernible revulsion against Trump and also AI gathers and as the political wheel threatens to turn — as it always does — the techbros may soon find themselves on the downside of that turn rather than on the upside,
#techbros #broligarchy #SiliconValley #Trump #AI #crypto #EconomicElites
/4
"What we began to see in the late Biden administration & then to an almost mind-boggling degree through 2025 is not just the big tech titans cozying up to Trump & doing so visibly, but making themselves what we might call main characters in the American Political Cinematic Universe. There’s really nothing like it in our history. I know many friends who are into MMA & the UFC."
~ Josh Marshall
#techbros #broligarchy #SiliconValley #Trump #AI #crypto #EconomicElites
/5
"That is a very precarious place for major corporate leaders to be. That’s why they are almost never, ever there. But they are. They are all in on AI. And they are all in on Trump. And both of those things right now are very unpopular. And I mean very unpopular. ...
I don’t think the tech boys have much sense that politics shifts both ways, that what happened in the winter of 2024/25 wasn’t permanent."
#techbros #broligarchy #SiliconValley #Trump #AI #crypto #EconomicElites
/6
"Indeed, it didn’t last through 2025. Do they know what it’s like to be holding the bag for a significant amount of main force political backlash?"
#techbros #broligarchy #SiliconValley #Trump #AI #crypto #EconomicElites
/7
In an article entitled "The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV," Michael Hirschorn says that "billionaires had a great thing going" after many of them threw their full support behind Trump and his fascist movement in 2024, but people's eyes are beginning to be open, and that good thing may not last forever.
#techbros #broligarchy #SiliconValley #Trump #AI #crypto #EconomicElites
/7
"The ruling in the 2010 Citizens United case, among others, invited the super rich to exert all the influence on policy and politics that their money could buy — and then enjoy all the wealth that influence secured for them in return. Thanks to ever-more-obliging tax policies, the billionaire class grew absurdly rich over the years that followed."
#techbros #broligarchy #SiliconValley #Trump #AI #crypto #EconomicElites
/8
lol, is fucko going to stand up to the Tech Bros?
No, of course he's not. He's not going to fight for himself, why would people think this Prime Minister would fight for any of us?
He's a coward.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/13/fake-anti-labour-video-billion-views-youtube-2025
#YouTube #Labour #KeirStarmer #TechBros #SiliconValley #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Oligarchs #Quisling #Appeasement
Paul Krugman notes the role that the techbro broligarchy of Silicon Valley is playing in tearing up the post-WWII world order and the US-Europe alliance, and why this is being done:
"A secondary source of anti-Europe sentiment, however, is the tech broligarchy’s fury at the European Union’s Digital Services Act."
#Trump #Europe #NSS #NATO #Russia #Putin #racism #WhiteSupremacy #immigration #techbros #broligarchy #SiliconValley #ElonMusk
/7
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/america-has-become-a-digital-narco
the stock market in 2025 officially prefers companies with no revenue to companies that actually have revenue.
#stockmarket #uspol #economics #mag7 #nvidia #MSFT #GOOG #aapl #SiliconValley
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A divided US market: tech companies with no revenues or profits are flying, as are the Mag-7. The rest are left in the shade
Average YTD performance of companies in each category, price return %
Nasdaq no revenues 41%
Mag7 24%
Nasdaq unprofitable 21%
Unprofitable small caps 17%
Nasdaq with revenue 11%
S&P 493 7%
Profitable Nasdaq 6%
Tech Bros are misogynistic rapists, their products reflect this. Will anybody in the West do anything about the rising misogyny or just blame it all on Trans people and let the Hetero Males get away with it as always?
Men rule by fear, fear of murder or rape. Our societies are still based on this principle, we may say many words to the opposite, but when it matters we quickly regress to Patriarchy and cowardice.
#Misogyny #Patriarchy #Education #TechBros #SiliconValley
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Against a backdrop of widespread misogyny in schools, a growing number of
teachers are also being targeted, EI and others report: “It is something that,
as a society, we urgently need to confront. Education has to stay in front of
technology, and adults must feel equipped to lead these conversations rather
than shy away from them.”
"It should not go unnoticed that Trump saluted a party that proclaims 'Become Ungovernable' as its guiding principle, written with the anarchy a-symbol."
#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #murder #crypto #broligarchy #libertarianism #PeterThiel #SiliconValley #TechBros
/17
"World-Eaters. Cannibals. Parasites.
All suitable synonyms for the Wall Street vultures, insecure, racist Silicon Valley bros, and Trump’s broligarch friends who are drinking all of our milkshakes as veterans and government employees line up at food pantries because they can’t afford groceries."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #murder #crypto #broligarchy #libertarianism #PeterThiel #SiliconValley #TechBros
/18
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-venture-capitalist-cannibals
"Curtis Yarvin, where democracy is incompatible with capitalism. And now Peter Thiel, with all of his money, has groomed J.D. Vance, who agrees with it. And now you have Mark Andresine and Mark Zuckerberg and all all these folks, Elon Musk, just openly going full authoritarian and in some cases with Musk and others going full fascist and flirting with Nazis."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #broligarchy #libertarianism #PeterThiel #Musk #SiliconValley #TechBros
/19
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-venture-capitalist-cannibals
"And essentially they're capturing, they're just capturing everything, capturing democracy, spending, you know, Elon Musk spent over $200 million, almost $300 million, excuse me, to try to get Trump elected, spent over $20 million in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race."
#Trump #broligarchy #libertarianism #PeterThiel #Musk #JDVance #CurtisYarvin #MarkZuckerberg #SiliconValley #TechBros
/20
"As doubts about AI creep in, I’m hearing growing chatter to the effect that the Fed can and should save the industry. But the lesson from the last big tech bubble is that it can’t. In fact, I have doubts about whether the Fed can head off a broader recession if the tech boom collapses — but that’s a topic for a future post."
~ Paul Krugman
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #bubble #economy #TechBros #SiliconValley #EconomicElites
/1
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/warning-the-fed-cant-rescue-ai
@anaiscrosby always have been.
#SiliconValley always ran off "#MoveFastAndBreakThings!" for no good reason but 'noone's stopping us!'
- 99,99% of the time they fail even before they get out of a garage, but the 0,01% that get big that's when the disasters get big.
Reuters: ‘Big Short’ investor Burry targets AI boom with new blog after hedge fund closure. “‘The Big Short’ investor Michael Burry, a vocal skeptic of the current AI boom, took aim at Nvidia as he launched a paid Substack newsletter focused on financial markets, days after shutting down his hedge fund.”
My #introduction needs a refresh.
I'm a #PhD student at the University of #Vermont, studying the #Evolution of #Evolvability. I'm into #AI, #ALife, #Biology, and #Philosophy, because I want to understand #life, #adaptation, and #intelligence using my native language of #ComputerScience. I share my musings and #research on my #blog. I love #science generally, and am full of bitchy #AcademicChatter.
I was a #SoftwareEngineer in #SiliconValley for many years, but left in 2021. I'm glad I did, and now I feel a bit betrayed by the #TechIndustry. I've been going back to my #FOSS roots, and gradually #DeGoogle ing my life. I still love to talk about #code #craft, #UX, and healthy #engineering #culture. Recently I've been enjoying #gpu #programming, mostly in #taichilang.
I have a wife and a #cat. I love #nature, #photography, #cooking, and #yoga.
All kinds of people are valid and worthy, but #trans people, folks on the #autism spectrum, and #bipoc get a shout out right now because they need our support.
What I thought then is still true today: to make something like a software agent legitimately useful for a lot of people would require a large amount of low-level grunt work and non-technical work (2) of the sort that the typical Silicon Valley company is unwilling to do. (3) The technology is the absolute easiest part of this task. Throwing a Bigger Computer at the problem leaves all those other pieces of work undone. It's like putting a bigger engine in a car with no wheels, hoping that'll make the car go.
By the way #AI companies and VCs, I'm available for contract work and have done due diligence research before if you ever want to stop wasting everyone's time and money!
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #agents #hype #SiliconValley #VentureCapital #dev #tech
(1) Which we've been told repeatedly is essentially infinite time in the tech world.
(2) Establishing semantic data standards and convincing a large enough number of people to implement them being an important component. LLMs do not magically develop protocols and solve all the ETL-style problems of translating among different ones. The Semantic Web didn't really stick for a lot of reasons, but one reason is that it's hard!
(3) Back when I was still in the startup world I was asked several times by VCs to tell them what I thought about some new startup that claimed to be able to magically clean and fuse data. I think they're still very keen on investing in this style of magic, because it requires an intense amount of human labor, but I think where companies landed was invisibilizing low-paid workers in other countries and pretending a computer did the work they did. Which has also been happening for well over a quarter of a century.