It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina! The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...

On the military side, Responsible Statecraft and specifically William Hartung has really done a great job of exposing Silicon Valley's attempts to takeover the MIC. He has a new book out, the Trillion Dollar War Machine, that I'm not done reading but really good

Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit book is also very good. The academics have been way ahead of the journalists on this but are definitely a bright spot. EuropeanPowell has good stuff on how this is affecting the UK and Europe. @andreaskemper.bsky.social is well worth a look.

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

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

We all need to support each other‘s labor struggles. Thanks for the solidarity, @rweingarten.bsky.social!

As I watch Forest City’s proposal unfold in Suffolk, a plan to build a city for one million people on 45,000 acres of farmland, I’m struck by an eerie familiarity. The same architect. The same libertarian backers. The same progressive rhetoric masking corporate governance.

Here’s where the Forest City connection becomes impossible to ignore. Patrik Schumacher, principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, designed Próspera’s initial buildings and sits on its advisory board.

Q13 — What profit do founders receive? Shiv Malik — 80 acres of land, gifted to the consortium. "Albion City Development Corp... gets a gift of 80 acres. That's the reward for risking 200m of private money." 80 acres within a million-person SEZ masterplan = tens of millions in uplift value. Thread

A bit reminiscent of the 1980s scheme of some white supremacist asses to launch an invasion (from New Orleans) of Dominica and set up a nazi free enterprise country…. its failure was dubbed The Bayou of Pigs….

'It's green colonialism' Thousands of miles in Patagonia could be covered in wind farms & industrial infrastructure - as European and British firms invest in green fuel mega-projects My report from Chile www.theguardian.com/global-devel... @criordor.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social

The Network State is top news in Sonoma County! “Is the Network State — an online movement that uses cryptocurrency to fund self-governing micro-communities — coming to Cloverdale?”

Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead

“A large part of the venture capital model is serving as a recruitment mechanism into tech fascism.” My interview with @harrisonmooney.bsky.social of @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

Seriously?! Wtf?! Authors of this piece blame protestors for the Tr*mpists’ assault on universities. Linda McMahon must’ve ghost written this. The vengeful little weevils in the WH would have found any excuse to go after higher ed. Stop shitting on student protests. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

We’re all paying steep prices already numbnuts!

I reviewed tech critic Cory Doctorow's essential new book, "Enshittification," for the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. Check eet out: lareviewofbooks.org/article/gian...

SHE SAID "TECHNO-LIBERTARIANS MAKE A PHILOSOPHY OUT OF A PERSONALITY DEFECT." IN THE YEAR 2000!

This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.

HBD to Ursula K. Le Guin, whose iconic sci‑fi and fantasy explored empathy, diversity, and humanity. Explore titles here: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

This is absolutely crazy and also everything I have ever said is off the record

I've written a deep dive into the Tories and Labour nationwide free zones rollout; every day, new info comes to light. This article is forensically researched, references included. Please read, share and where possible subscribe, thank you❤️ open.substack.com/pub/european...

Rereading Ballard’s Super-Cannes. So good and so rich in its imagery. And there are lines such as this one: “Dictators always step into an open jackboot.”

Katherine Boyle, former Peter Thiel intern, says government is an enemy of families. So she's investing in high-tech weaponry...for the government. I shared my thoughts on her "American Dynamism" — a VC pitch-deck version of Christian nationalism. NYT gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

The answer to Cory Doctorow repeated question - why not make Tiktok open source or really 'nationalize' it instead of putting it into another A hole shaped SF billionaire villain brings one to post WWII period of heroic entrepreneurs + neoliberal shoring up profitability. youtu.be/3uLpICsNTV4?...

In Pinochet’s Chile, “it was whispered” that an “unrepentant Nazi” had served as “an adviser to the dictatorship’s secret police and even [became] an interrogator. But was it true?” —Ariel Dorfman

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright: "I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you." This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

Rothbard is a patron saint of the Broligarchs' efforts to establish their own personal empires offshore-which is why the subtitle of my new(ish) book is "The New Colonialism." Rothbard-inspired techbros are styling themselves as imperial potentates. See also, @raycraib.bsky.social's cool history.

Brilliant book of amazing photos of the damage caused by mining and other extractive sites in Chile and Latin America By photographer Nicole Kramm www.instagram.com/nicole_kramm/ We worked together on an investigation into Anglo American and pollution in Chile www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened. This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

They’re liars—and bad at lying. These photos of “war-ravaged Portland” are from other countries. Not Portland. If it weren’t so dangerous, it would be laughable.

Welcome to “the Middle Ages of the Future.” Check this out: @europeanpowell.bsky.social @gleemie.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social @gilduran.com

“San Francisco's right-wing tech community and the Heritage Foundation (the organization behind Project 2025) are joining forces to produce a conference on remaking American government.” By @gilduran.com, 9/4/24 … 1/ www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-proje...

Nazis, Jews "Clash" on Night of the Long Knives www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

And Tyler Cowen accused me of being a ‘defective thinker’…🙄

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

The governments of four authoritarian states…

so this is what counts as an intellectual for the modern right, huh

#mustread #California #technolibertarian Total respect for Paulina Borsook, read her 1996 essay back in 2012 and will continue to consider her contribution essential to understand the political evolution of America Inc., #BigTech and the rise of the broligarchy. www.motherjones.com/politics/199...

I love Wired, but this is some weak ass tea. It's far too late for this mealy-mouth head-scratching from editor emeritus Rip Van Winkle. The cyberlibertarian to cyber-fascist trajectory is well understood at this point.

I had a nice conversation with Cory Doctorow at Ithaca’s Autumn Leaves bookstore. He rocked a packed house.

Great presentation and Q&A from Cory Doctorow on the increasing enshittification of everything and the policy that got us here, along with what to do about it. ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/vie...

ICE claimed the father tried to hit them with his car or that he "dragged" one of the agents. Then bystander video was released showing this was completely false. ICE executed a man on the street in broad daylight.

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Again, they say these troops are there to make the people of the city feel safe