Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

It has never been more clear that unaccountable systems of wealth are the PRIMARY destructive element of our politics, economy, and society as a whole. Unchecked abuse of all kinds. The current US admin is just the latest, purest personification of this trend.

“Given that ‘fetch and follow instructions from the internet every four hours’ mechanism we better hope the owner of moltbook.com never rug pulls or has their site compromised!”

‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture

Over the last 11 months, however, one crisis has been ongoing. I have repeatedly warned that the Republican voter suppression and election-subversion machine continues to grind on. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

A Moscow school stabbing shows how far-right extremism operates as a transnational ecosystem. The attacker drew directly from online white supremacist culture—manifestos, symbolism, and the “Great Replacement”—showing how digital radicalization lives across borders and turns ideology into violence.

I may have been overly optimistic about the amount of reading I’d get done on a two week vacation…

“Glitching”

Instagram is letting neo-Nazism go mainstream. Influencers like Hayden McDougall and Dylan Shane push Holocaust denial, Nazi symbols, and extremist merch to millions — all under Meta’s watch. A platform built for connection is now powering the spread of openly extremist ideology. Read more:

This was such a great event!

The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Nick Fuentes has long trafficked in racism and misogyny. Now, mainstream podcasters and platforms are helping him reinvent himself—muting his slurs while amplifying his reach. His sanitization shows how extremists are being normalized in U.S. politics and media. Read more:

On the one hand it continues to be disgusting that he demands fealty and terror from his cabinet but on the other hand I love how much he hates Vance lmao

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

As Canada prepares for COP30, accurate climate information is more important than ever for effective climate action. The UN’s Global Initiative on Climate Change Information Integrity underscores that policy ambition cannot succeed without trustworthy information environments. 🧵

Say what you want, but these companies’ commitment to releasing half baked, insecure, or just plain dangerous products is something to behold.

🎶 Get a taser and a cop for this wet amphi-bussy 🎵

I just watched a video of an ICE agent trying to find a costumed frog's rear air hole to stick pepper spray in it, and, like, why are we paying people to do this

One of the great ironies of political theory is that the best way to do radical politics is to not scare the hoes, yet many radicals fetishize scaring the hoes because, well, otherwise they wouldn't be radicals!

At a major "anti-hate" conference a few years ago I was on a panel where I lightly suggested big tech companies were faking their concerns about hate/misinfo. It didn't go over too well. But let the record show that once again I was right. They only care about money. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

once again, tapping the sign in most cases trying to identify or analyze the political leanings of a shooter one way or the other is falling for the bit

I've said it before, but I think the current spree of memekillings is the product of an ideological transition. It's hard to parse because it's rapidly evolving. It's clearly derived from far right precursors, but it hasn't progressed to coherence yet.

What’s up with Peter Thiel’s secret Antichrist lectures? Let us pierce the veil. For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture. Consider this an urgent warning: newrepublic.com/article/2004...

During GamerGate, when women were targeted with threats of violence and death, everyone from the local cops to Democratic congressmen insisted “it’s just the internet. There’s nothing we can do.” Now come to find out that when you accurately quote a white man… well then they can do something.

We are rapidly declining across big democratic markers in the U.S. Media are threatened & jailed doing their job. Civilians are targeted by police & online users for their peaceful free speech. Corporate & academic entities bend the knee to our head autocrat. Truth is a fight. Hate is everywhere.

New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

i can understand why right-wing grifters who want abhorrent ideas to spread or influencers whose bread is buttered by the “creator economy” would be hostile to crackdowns on social media and algorithmic amplification of harmful and sensationalist content, but that doesn’t mean we stop those efforts

There are good reasons why intel might be marked for domestic eyes only. But this is *so* clearly the politicization of intelligence that can and should be shared with Ukraine's allies, precisely *because* they are Ukraine's allies.

cyberlibertarian narratives are deeply entrenched, were explicitly designed in the 90s/00s to benefit tech companies, and have the added benefit of aligning with recent right-wing free speech bullshit. a lot of that context is obscured today. we need to keep that US influence out of our countries.

"In July, New York Times reporters witnessed other Adams supporters handing out red envelopes with cash at three separate campaign events." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...

I replace Jam’s food tray and bowls every morning when she wakes up and every morning when I put the tray down but haven’t gotten the food out yet she stares at the bowl with a look of disappointment and betrayal

In the abstract there's no inherent connection between crypto and being a malevolent, transgressive asshole. But the two things run together with remarkable consistency.

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

Extremism is the belief that an in-group’s success or survival can never be separated from the need for causing harm to an out-group.

*sigh*

It's so pleasant to be able to scroll on here and not endure a barrage of targeted ads 😵‍💫

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

ICYMI: Amazon still doing Amazon things The company is not only reintroducing new versions of old features that allow police to access footage from Ring users Amazon is introducing a new Ring feature that will allow police to request *livestream* access to our home security devices. @eff.org

it will probably be the best thing that ever happened to him

In my research on complicity one thing is clear: It is VERY hard for people to backtrack on rationalizations and self justifications, i.e., to admit they were wrong. People coming to a realization that they were scammed is a big deal; no one likes to admit they were fooled 1/

Biden calling out social media platforms for facilitating the spread of life-threatening bullshit during a pandemic = “censorship”, but Trump ordering athletic teams to change their names back to offensive racist tropes = ???.

I looked more into this episode, and the majority of these participants are influencers. They are openly & brazenly racist, antisemitic etc. They are using this to gain a mainstream audience by being boosted by both Jubilee and Zeteo. This is how the left often helps mainstream the far right.

I hate when someone unearths my pube-autograph to the world's most famous pedophile while I'm dying of cankles

BREAKING: Now it's 117% BREAKING: Wait, it's 4% BREAKING: It's 1,238% BREAKING: It's -50%

Given the use of memes and certain words it was basically impossible for this thing to NOT have 4chan post making up a decent chunk of it's training data. I said this earlier.