Mike Brock 🇺🇸
@brockm.bsky.social
Ex-tech exec. Deeply unfashionable. Penning dispatches from democracy's peril at notesfromthecircus.com. Unmasking the unholy alliance of Silicon Valley and aspiring despots. 2+2=4, even when power insists otherwise. For Frodo.
The truth hurts. Which is why none of these people believe in it.
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The truth hurts. Which is why none of these people believe in it.
This is what the Epstein scandal feels like right now.
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This is what the Epstein scandal feels like right now.
August 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Steve Jobs was the soul of Silicon Valley. In retrospect, it died with him. Jobs saw computers as bicycles for the mind. Today's breed of tech leaders see minds as resources to be optimized and controlled by computers, through algorithmic control.
June 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Steve Jobs was the soul of Silicon Valley. In retrospect, it died with him. Jobs saw computers as bicycles for the mind. Today's breed of tech leaders see minds as resources to be optimized and controlled by computers, through algorithmic control.
I've never seen the libertarian-to-fascist pipeline so viscerally represented. This is incredible.
June 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I've never seen the libertarian-to-fascist pipeline so viscerally represented. This is incredible.
Here is Wikipedia's definition of liberalism.
June 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Here is Wikipedia's definition of liberalism.
Remember who backs this regime.
June 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Remember who backs this regime.
As the country tears itself apart, what does Bari Weiss' project of balanced, objective journalism look like? It's a reactionary front-op, meant to gently keep you angry at the left. That's what it is. It's managed opposition.
June 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
As the country tears itself apart, what does Bari Weiss' project of balanced, objective journalism look like? It's a reactionary front-op, meant to gently keep you angry at the left. That's what it is. It's managed opposition.
The clever analysts who told us opposing mass deportations was "bad politics" just watched Trump go underwater on immigration. Turns out moral clarity beats electoral calculus. Keep a list of these sophisticated cowards—their judgment is worthless when it matters most.
June 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The clever analysts who told us opposing mass deportations was "bad politics" just watched Trump go underwater on immigration. Turns out moral clarity beats electoral calculus. Keep a list of these sophisticated cowards—their judgment is worthless when it matters most.
It's kind of nuts how many American adults don't realize how much civil unrest there was in California and other parts of America in the late 1960s. Yet these ignoramuses among us, have strong opinions about how much better the past was.
June 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It's kind of nuts how many American adults don't realize how much civil unrest there was in California and other parts of America in the late 1960s. Yet these ignoramuses among us, have strong opinions about how much better the past was.
Yeah just a minor tussle. Happens all the time! Normal stuff. Is there anyone more embarrassing than Jason Calacanis?
June 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Yeah just a minor tussle. Happens all the time! Normal stuff. Is there anyone more embarrassing than Jason Calacanis?
I must confess some degree of satisfaction from being sure of the fact that we have passed the peak of Mr. Fridman's cultural and political influence.
June 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I must confess some degree of satisfaction from being sure of the fact that we have passed the peak of Mr. Fridman's cultural and political influence.
My take on Weinstein from back in February. Applies as much to this conversation with Carroll as it did to this tweet.
May 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
My take on Weinstein from back in February. Applies as much to this conversation with Carroll as it did to this tweet.