I'll be on @kqedforum.bsky.social on Monday 12/1 to discuss the latest.

10 am PST, one-hour talk, call with questions!

www.kqed.org/forum

In 2022, Peter Thiel protégé Balaji Srinivasan—formerly of Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase—envisioned a Second American Civil War.

He predicted it would be triggered by Bitcoin.

This is how it would work:

Whenever you hear a tech bro screeching about drug addiction in San Francisco, remember that crypto is supercharging the fentanyl trade and reflect on the quote historian Rick Perlstein attributed to Marc Andreessen in 2017:

“I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.”

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!

THIS is the energy we’ve been waiting for. Credit where credit is due.

As the federal government shutdown continues, Seattle and King County officials have announced a plan to help families who rely on WIC, federal food assistance for mothers, babies, and children when their benefits run out.

Now let's get the 278 men back from CECOT.

Why does Trump keep threatening to steal Gaza and build a new city there?

This is his version of the Network State — a gold-plated tech fascist casino built atop genocide and mass displacement.

Here's deeper story on Trump's embrace of tech colonialism:

www.thenerdreich.com/trump-gaza-a...

If any creators want viral content on the tech takeover, read John Robb.

He is a respected military analyst who is pro-Elon. The NYT, Wired, etc., have quoted him for years.

He explicitly describes what's happening as a "prototyping" of the Network State.
www.thenerdreich.com/network-stat...

They are saving money by murdering innocent children

newrepublic.com/article/1919...

The decline of the United States is a key goal of tech fascism, which aims to end democracy and remake the world as a billionaire-run enterprise.

It only looks like "chaos" if you don't grasp the strategy.

Everything you wanted to know about the Silicon Valley plan to destroy the USA but were afraid to ask. . .

I joined @xriskology.bsky.social and @katewillett.bsky.social on the Dystopia Now podcast:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

See: @george-lakoff.com and the “strict father moral hierarchy”

Great video by @gilduran.com (from @theframelab.bsky.social for my comms folks). "Silicon Valley elites like Curtis Yarvin have been pushing a blueprint to dismantle American democracy and consolidate power under a Dictator-CEO model." This plan is unfolding now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC62...

Trying to understand America's current crisis without examining Tech Fascism (the "Dark Enlightenment," the "network state") is like analyzing 9/11 while ignoring Al Qaeda.

This isn't random chaos – it is an orchestrated attack by a small, dangerous, and determined group.