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Go to Mars, Never Die and Other Big Tech Pipe Dreams In “More Everything Forever,” the science journalist Adam Becker subjects Silicon Valley’s “ideology of technological salvation” to critical scrutiny. nytimes.com/2025/04/23/boo… via New York Times Books
MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER by Adam Becker (Adam Becker is not really here anymore) is called "smart and wonderfully readable" in the The New York Times. Read what else they have to say in the full review ↴ nytimes.com/2025/04/23/boo…
Tech billionaires are building a scary new cult religion — and it's coming for us all. My conversation with Rev. Otis Moss III & Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them) on "TESCREAL," which seeks to replace the soul with code, heaven with Mars, and Jesus with billionaire saviors youtube.com/watch?v=S1tcBU…
Been sitting on this a while - dug with jason wilson back through the support network for Oakland’s reactionaries & came across this network state hub in Wyoming that’s deeply interlaced with the intellectual wing of the “Dissident Right” theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
A Wyoming lodge bills itself as a staging ground for the “Network State.” Ali Winston & jason wilson expose “Wagon Box DAO,” a rural hangout rooted in an extremist idea. Guests include Oakland political operative Seneca Scott & journalist James Pogue (?) theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
Why tech billionaires want a dictatorship, and why most of Silicon Valley will quietly watch democracy burn. My interview with Jon Fortt (my fellow DePauw University '98 grad) about the dangerous coalition between the far right and the tech right via Decoder Podcast theverge.com/decoder-podcas…