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Please buy my book GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · Oct 7
It's pub day for my book, "Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley," which chronicles the rise of the tech right and their role in the 2024 election. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way.
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A searing look at the rise of Silicon Valley's far right. Out October 2025.
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I want to read this but I'm in UK right now and when I click on link it says "Unavailable due to UK online safety act." Is that safety from fascism? From knowing *about* fascism?
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
August 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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atrupar.com
“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
"Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."
www.publicnotice.co
November 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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forgot* that i'd written a story, of a kind, about AI driving humans to psychotic, if not suicidal, breaks. the first story in this
@bigechoscifi.bsky.social piece www.bigecho.org/4-paranoid
4 Paranoid-Rationalist Horror Stories — Big Echo
www.bigecho.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment.

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FBI Informant Who Lied About Bidens Quietly Released From Jail Sparking Trump Pardon Fears
Alexander Smirnov was quietly furloughed from prison months ago.
jacquelinesweet.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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One month of GILDED RAGE

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One Month of GILDED RAGE!
My new book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, has been on store shelves for a month now, along with a CBC limited podcast series called “The Making of Musk.” I am reall...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month:

“.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Why Tech Billionaires Are So Angry: Elon Musk and the Gilded Rage of Silicon Valley
Episode 1611: Jacob Silverman and The Right-Wing Radicalization of Silicon Valley
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November 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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As folks head to the polls today from CA to NYC, here's a good reminder that part of what's on the ballot is the power of the tech oligarchy (see: Musk backing Cuomo etc). Last week, I spoke with @jacobsilverman.com about his new book, GILDED RAGE, and our chat feels pretty relevant today.
Understanding the tech oligarchy and its gilded rage with Jacob Silverman
Why did Silicon Valley's most powerful figures lurch right and embrace authoritarianism? Why are they so angry? How do we push back? Plus, some great luddite horror films and a riff on Frankenstein.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Sharing a great new paper on VC from David Kampmann, LSE really leading the way on the new critical scholarship on VC
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The political economy of venture capital: winners-take-all and founder control
Abstract. In many US Tech corporations such as Meta, Alphabet, and SpaceX, founders still hold shareholder voting control. How can we better understand the
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November 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Mamdani is proof that a successful marriage can only have one poster in it
November 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Getting hit in the chest from point blank range with a footlong sub and an enormous Peckinpah-style squib of sweet onion teriyaki sauce explodes from my chest.
johnrogers.bsky.social John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 7d
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
joshmankiewicz.bsky.social Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 7d
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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This Vegas police equipment thing was a small detail in a wonderful book conversation I saw recently with @jacobsilverman.com talking about GILDED RAGE. It's all so gross and awful.
apnews.com The Associated Press @apnews.com · 9d
The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November thanks to a donation from a U.S. tech billionaire, raising concerns about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.
Nation's largest fleet of police Cybertrucks to patrol Las Vegas
The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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paul skenes is being held hostage in a raising canes
November 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net.

In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
SNAP benefits feed essential needs while still leaving many hungry for more
Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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I was happy to talk with Paul Krugman about GILDED RAGE, the rise of the tech right, and what American oligarchy looks like.
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Gilded Rage: Talking With Jacob Silverman
Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian
open.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
jacobsilverman.com
I was happy to talk with Paul Krugman about GILDED RAGE, the rise of the tech right, and what American oligarchy looks like.
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Gilded Rage: Talking With Jacob Silverman
Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian
open.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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John Roberts when you ask him if something clearly unconstitutional is legal
November 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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It's scary how cute Park Slope was tonight.

Happy Halloween, NYC.
November 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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It takes guts to stand up to the homelessness-industrial complex!

(Techbro Joe Lonsdale, from Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley (2025) by @jacobsilverman.com )
nation."" On his own blog, Lonsdale claimed that "Florida's homelessness revolu- tion" was at hand.12 "When we started working on homelessness, many people considered these ideas fringe," wrote Lonsdale after Florida banned street camping. "Activists have vociferously opposed us at every turn. It takes guts to stand up to the homeless-industrial complex. "13 Fringe ideas can be revolutionary, part Of an intellectual vanguard staking out a claim for progress, or they can be regressive, consigned to society's margins for understandable rea- sons. It's clear how Innsdale viewed his home- lessness policy. The United States' conservative-dominated Suptæme Court agreed with Lonsdale.
October 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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fresh audio product:

• Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage, on the rightward move of the tech elite
• Forrest Hylton conducts a political tour d’horizon of South America

www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
October 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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waldo.net
The Democratic Party would do well to look to the social programs of the Black Panther Party as inspiration if SNAP disappears on Saturday. Just running party-sponsored food drives and regular party-sponsored spaghetti dinners in some major cities would be both helpful and good PR.
October 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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thebulwark.com
"Gilded Rage" isn’t simply a rehash of existing reportage. What separates it from other writeups, and where his it truly shines, is its attempt to get at the root of Silicon Valley’s anti-democratic lurch. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...
Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn
A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.
www.thebulwark.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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hardresetmedia.com
"True tech libertarianism has never been practiced. People like Peter Thiel have talked about exiting society...But then they pour money in recent years into controlling, subverting, or influencing the US government."

- @jacobsilverman.com

www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-crypto...
The crypto libertarians who now love big government
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao was pardoned last week. Is crypto yet another pillar of tech that is fusing with the state?
www.hardresetmedia.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM