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FrameLab is a newsletter about political language and the ideological structures that shape perception. We deconstruct propaganda to help you defend democracy.

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August 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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5/ From climate change to pandemics to “AGI,” paranoid tech billionaires see threats everywhere.

But instead of using their power to solve them, they build escape hatches and doomsday bunkers for themselves.

Watch the full conversation on the Nerd Reich podcast:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_3P...
Zuckerberg’s Hawaii Compound: Burial Grounds, Bunkers & NDAs (What’s Actually Documented)
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
www.youtube.com
August 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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2/ @taylorlorenz.bsky.social calls them “techno-doomerists.”

Publicly, they promise a high-tech, AI-enhanced utopia.

Privately, they prepare for collapse.

www.youtube.com/shorts/TeIGA...
Taylor Lorenz: Why Tech Billionaires Are Secretly “Techno-Doomers”
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
www.youtube.com
August 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I laid out most of this last July — and I was late to the game! Going forward, I hope journalists pay closer attention to the bizarre ideologies bubbling up out of the dark corners of Silicon Valley. When backed by tech billionaires, they become dangerous.

newrepublic.com/article/1839...
Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas
Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.
newrepublic.com
May 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM