Affadavit is British for “one half of Dave”

Well deserved, Jacob. Here is a 🧵in the fediverse to a larger audience chaos.social/deck/@harkan...

Here's a brief thread of the fiction that has stayed with me most in 2025, a year in which I reviewed exactly 100 books, and was more grateful than ever for the chance to do so. First, these are screenshots of the three brilliant novels that made the WSJ Best Books list. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

#Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Andreessen #Karp 1/mehr Heut gibts ausnahmsweise mal eine Buchempfehlung , nämlich "The Gilded Rage" von @jacobsilverman.com Ein garstiges Sittenbild, wie eine parasitäre Oberschicht aus Investoren, "Entrepreneurs", Zockern... www.jacobsilverman.com/p/preorder-g...

NEW: I looked into MAGA darling Anduril's latest foreign partner, and its weapons are accused of fueling the ongoing genocide in Sudan. theintercept.com/2025/12/11/a...

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Tech multibillionaires form our new aristocracy, more than happy to establish a corporate monarchy in America. They aren’t kidding, and they’re putting their money behind the effort. Jacob Silverman explains it all.

I was very glad to talk to Marianne Williamson about tech oligarchy and my book GILDED RAGE: substack.com/@mariannewil...

I appreciate this review of GILDED RAGE alongside David Morris' STEALING THE FUTURE, which says they are "among the most important books of the year." prospect.org/2025/12/09/a...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

NBA Capitalism is the government version of Liver King Capitalism www.thestar.com/business/how...

Something I’ve been thinking about, ever since this conversation, is a phenomenon I think of as NBA Capitalism.

Rich, angry U.S. tech oligarchs have bent politics and policy to their favour. "Gilded Rage" author @jacobsilverman.com tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social how a few wealthy men – including Elon Musk and Peter Thiel – pivoted right, and merged corporate and government power.

Why are tech billionaires buying land in Honduras and beyond? Tonight @jeyantvo.bsky.social talks to @jacobsilverman.com about his book "Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley," and the quest for tax-free, bespoke nations run by elites. | Producer: Mike Attenborough

For the November issue of Future Relics, my monthly Substack journal that records items of interest, I discuss @jacobsilverman.com's book Gilded Rage: The Radicalisation of Silicon Valley, the metaphor of cloud storage and imaginings of Al. It's a short read: open.substack.com/pub/emilyeho...

Why it matters

SCOOP from me + @makenakelly.bsky.social: despite recent reports, DOGE isn’t dead—it’s actually everywhere. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/what-i...

feels like few reporters (besides @jacobsilverman.com) are really clocking the implications of literal Saudi/Emirati/Qatari investment in the consolidation and conservative overhaul of American media variety.com/2025/biz/new...

I had a good time talking with the Toronto Star's Richard Warnica about the very dim state of US democracy under Trump and the tech oligarchs. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

4/This is not simple corruption or lobbying. This is an effort at world building/recreating international order. As @segoddard.bsky.social and I lay out, it is a world not of state interests but clique interest. Welcome to neo-royalism. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If any news outlets would like to chat about Pinnacle, I’m happy to connect you to our tenants union @thecity.nyc @hellgatenyc.com @wnyc.org

A few years ago, David Sacks was a Republican troll funding recall elections in San Francisco. He's come a long way, baby. newrepublic.com/article/1681...

Hatchards, the oldest bookstore in the UK, says about GILDED RAGE: "At times shocking and enlightening, this is an essential account of the current technological industries." www.hatchards.co.uk/book/gilded-...

I followed a fair bit of the twitter acquisition but my jaw dropped reading this By @jacobsilverman.com

One possible motivation to demand access was to steal data, and I think that was a part of it, but also I think DOGE (or Musk, anyway) was motivated by a conspiracy theory: The belief that government workers would conspire to use the government's computer systems against them.

"Jacob Silverman outlines how Silicon Valley produced our modern-day Bond supervillains, their pathway towards radicalization, and how they’re abusing their wealth to manipulate the system to achieve their racist and authoritarian endgame."

Jacob Silverman on the Tech Bros’ Gilded Rage: Journalist Jacob Silverman joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about his new book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. He discusses the rightward shift in ideology… #CraftandCriticism #Features

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

Terrific, eye-opening interview with @jacobsilverman.com. Not to be missed. thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-gilded...

Did you catch Gilded Rage by @jacobsilverman.com on @theguardian.com's Audio Long Read? Listen online now 👉 bit.ly/43GAFBW

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth... THE LEFT HOOK @wajali.bsky.social @jacobsilverman.com

Just finished the audiobook for @jacobsilverman.com’s Gilded Rage and it was amazing! I went into it with no expectations but it was interesting and way more leftist than I expected (no offense to Jacob, I was unaware of his game).

I'm banking on posthumous glory

For The Nation, I wrote about this week's US-Saudi gala and business summit, during which the US economy's dominant forces -- oligarchy, AI, Saudi cash, social media content makers -- came together to celebrate America's favorite dictator. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

In his excellent new book Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, the independent left wing business journalist Jacob Silverman reports a particularly pungent utterance from a MAGA luminary that...

This is how Elon Musk, Thiel, and the Silicon Valley Broligarchy Plan on Destroying Our Democracy...with reporter @jacobsilverman.com. He's got the receipts and wrote the book on it. He joins me now on The Left Hook. thelefthook.substack.com

“A weeklong debauch brought together tech insiders and the leaders of a brutal monarchy to keep stoking the AI bubble…” by Jacob Silverman www.thenation.com/article/econ...

For The Nation, I wrote about this week's US-Saudi gala and business summit, during which the US economy's dominant forces -- oligarchy, AI, Saudi cash, social media content makers -- came together to celebrate America's favorite dictator. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

Friday's THE LEFT HOOK 12 pm ET: @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and Democracy-Ish! 1 pm: @joyannreid.bsky.social 2 pm: @jacobsilverman.com on the Gilded Rage of Tech Bros 3:15 pm: @rweingarten.bsky.social on MAGA's attack on education thelefthook.substack.com No paywalls! Join up!

NEW EPISODE:Journalist @jacobsilverman.com joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about his new book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley which discusses the rightward ideological shift among tech giants and their companies lithub.com/jacob-silver...

@ddayen.bsky.social on the "perverse and irrational" private credit deals financing the AI boom, w "huge mismatches between the life cycle of the assets being funded and the amount of time it will take to pay them off." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

The Financial Times named GILDED RAGE one of its best tech books of 2025. www.ft.com/content/af55...

Kpop Angel Hunters, and they have to storm Heaven and kill God by singing too good. This will make someone a billion dollars

Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian Gilded Rage: Talking With Jacob Silverman open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

he is a scary man!!! california forever is definitely his personal baby. you might be interested in reading about some of his/a16z's other projects www.vcinfodocs.com/status-of-th...

On the money observation by @jacobsilverman.com in Gilded Rage following the Supreme Court decision in Grant’s Pass: “The VC push against homelessness seemed to go beyond clearing away the unhoused masses. It was part of a classist, authoritarian vision for how cities should be run and for whom.”