So Epstein associate Pinker attacks MSF, HRW for Israel the day before their ban. He offers up HRF as his ideal. It’s a right wing regime change cut out backed by Thor Halvorsen Sarah Scaife and Peter Thiel. Among its core policy planks is pushing bitcoin in the developing world.

Year in review, in loving memory of D’angelo. With help from the homies including @colenowicki.com

One of my highlights of 2025 was linking up with @gilduran.com and sharing notes on VC Cults. Delighted to appear on @nerdreich.bsky.social youtu.be/u-fThWjJP8A

New: Inside the Tech Cult: How Venture Capital Plans to Exist Democracy. My conversation with @ojutel.bsky.social on the Nerd Reich pod. We talk about the failing bets that have helped to radicalize tech VCs, who now wish to cash in on democracy and humanity itself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-fT...

Year in review, in loving memory of D’angelo. With help from the homies including @colenowicki.com

Upcycling the filing cabinet

Upcycling the filing cabinet

Dashing through the streets

Dashing through the streets

Dunedin grom skate crew have put a great vibe capsule of a skate vid www.youtube.com/watch?v=laSX...

This piece by Hanna Murphy www.ft.com/content/b127...

It was such a blast talking to Olivier on the podcast! Be sure to check it out!

Man the Le Monde Diplo paywall may be the most unbreakable. Anyone got Morozov's latest essay on AI Chips, Crypto dollar imperialism?

I went on my in my pal @alinau27.bsky.social 's podcast The Anti-Dystopians. open.spotify.com/episode/19Q1...

Jamie Bartlett did a great job of exposing Sam Altman's shtick back in 2017. Total condescension and techno-triumphalism masquerading as "optimism"

The latest fire from @edwardongwesojr.com on the geopolitics of the AI bubble open.substack.com/pub/thetechb...

What's the best thing written about the pre-$TRUMP shitcoin surge on Solana '24? I am particularly interested in degens engaged in forms of depraved pumping?

Our national broadcaster and right-wing politicians conspiring to create the myth that we have too much leave and too much time at the beach. Such utter balls! www.rnz.co.nz/life/lifesty...

Worth noting here that part of Joe's meltdown included calling Claire Lehman of Quilette a radical leftist www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

Grateful to Hannah Murphy at the FT for covering the Network State movement. Quotes from yours truly. Shoutout @shanley.com for the assist and doggedly pushing this story. www.ft.com/content/b127...

“just because it’s stupid doesn’t mean it won’t inherit the Earth.” @ojutel.bsky.social ht @niedermeyer.online

Nice time to ROCK Minnie Muja's 'Somali Homies' youtu.be/EtovIGkyKzg?...

It was an honor to have so many conversations w Leslie Lee on his podcast & mine. His being out about his LC status on every platform was extremely brave. There’s a social cost to being out about chronic illness & “salting the vibe”. Whether talking TV or pandemic, he was incisive & a truth teller

Everyone has seen the demonic Kalshi video about assetizing opinions and financializing everything, but the a16z hype is equally deranged [cont.] a16z.com/prediction-t...

Once upon a time (April 2014) I did a gig with Boots Riley as DJ Goldstein at Chick's Hotel Ōtepoti/Dunedin

Opinions are #assets

Once upon a time (April 2014) I did a gig with Boots Riley as DJ Goldstein at Chick's Hotel Ōtepoti/Dunedin

Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.

My best line in a minute! FEZ on a 1995 winter's day

Tether Investments: What a $100B stablecoin empire does with its profits protos.com/tether-inves...

Sacks is a throwback to an era where you can't squeeze a cigarette paper between government and capital

yeah, there's a lot of junk out there to be honest... BUT some people i really like on these topics are quinn slobodian (Wrote Hayak's Bastards, great read,) @ojutel.bsky.social does really cool work, (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...), Erin McElroy's "Silicon Valley Imperialism" is real good

Mira Murati has supervoting shares for her vaporous $50 billion start-up, which amount to 'all the other board directors’ votes plus one' archive.ph/fd3wN#select...

Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.

The refrigerator/shipping container metaphor for AI infrastructure is idiotic/illiterate. It's fixed capital, that will consume as much energy as NYC and then die about 24 months. You can't mass produce Coke with that.

@amandathomas.bsky.social representing for Uni Workers for Palestine in our bid to divest our pension from Palantir, Elbit and genocide. www.1of200.nz/podcast/1/20...

Thierry and Annemarie Jutel, then and now: we’ll miss these two bright sparks at Te Herenga Waka, but wish them well in their ‘retirement’ down south!

Some interesting reporting but the framing is as you'd expect from AC, NED, Soros etc. Protects American tech oligarchs from scrutiny, focusing on Russians and North Koreans. Brock Pierce, the WinkelVi, Thiel, Andreessen are a bigger problem than Vladimir Okhotnikov www.icij.org/investigatio...

Some interesting reporting but the framing is as you'd expect from AC, NED, Soros etc. Protects American tech oligarchs from scrutiny, focusing on Russians and North Koreans. Brock Pierce, the WinkelVi, Thiel, Andreessen are a bigger problem than Vladimir Okhotnikov www.icij.org/investigatio...

Lil hop, skip and heelflip

Lil hop, skip and heelflip

Such good guys. ❤️‍🔥

Our financial system is ruled by illiterate narcissists. Imagine identifying financialization, the very thing that makes Naval and Angellist possible, as socialism.

@leslieleeiii.bsky.social was one of my favourite voices on Covid & I'm devastated to hear about his passing. A brilliant writer and ally. Incredible loss for our community 💔

A few things are obvious, 1) we are ruled by degen sex criminals 2) crypto/Tether is BCCI for the same elite and intel networks decrypt.co/348586/epste...

In Aotearoa/NZ the crypto lobby is claiming they have support from NZ Green Party(?) and their working group is called DAWG. The call for regulatory clarity is just a call to legalise crime cryptocurrency.org.nz/news/bitcoin...

Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes. Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

Cloverdale, a tiny town in Sonoma County, California, is being invaded by secretive investors who want to build a new "town." Of course, the backers of "Esmeralda" have very deep ties to the Network State cult and Peter Thiel. My notes: www.thenerdreich.com/esmeralda-ne...

"I spend a lot of time talking to Nazis, real Nazis" Alex Karp.