techno-feudalism attempts the controlled demolition of democratic america
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Gil Duran on Trump, Tech, and “The Nerd Reich”
youtu.be/z2W3tmCBEnE?si=cmqSRIpX0GnOvEgs
Join journalist Gil Duran as he explores the rise of a new ideology—what he dubs “tech fascism” or the “Nerd Reich”—that’s influenced significant figures in tech and politics, including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and more, through a non-partisan forum hosted by the Commonwealth Club.
How Silicon Valley elites adopted extremist political ideas from controversial thinkers like Curtis Yarvin, advocating for CEO-led governance
Timely insight into the moral & ideological impact of Silicon Valley’s “tech fascists”
Learn about Curtis Yarvin’s influence, the concept of “Network States,” and the fusion of private empire with public power
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youtu.be/BdzM7hUPG_A?si=Vny5ovzB39Kn6FXo
More Everything Forever: AI, Crypto, and Silicon Valley's Hype Hijinks
Calling all AI prompstitutes/askholes, crypto whales, and everyone who grew up nerding out on Science Fiction...this episode is for you! Special guest Adam Becker, an astrophysicist, author, tech journalist, and scientific philosopher, joins Rick to dissect Silicon Valley's beating heart: techno-futurism and the Silicon Valley bros. Inspired by all of the weird stories he's heard at parties in the Bay, Adam decided he wasn't wearing enough hats already and wrote two books on the subject matter: What is Real?, about the unfinished quest for the meaning of quantum physics, and MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity. You all know Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Sam Bankman-Fried (not to mention the BIG power players like Google), but have you heard of JD Vance's friend and soft-cult leader Curtis Yarvin, or Netscape creator Marc Andreessen, or co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies (the surveillance state technology used in China) Peter Thiel? The PayPal Mafia spawned a LOT of bizarre shit, including the launch of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel's careers AND a lifelong rivalry. That’s only the beginning. Cover your keyboards, folks, Rick and Adam are brewing some piping hot Silicon Valley tea, so pull up a chair and the guys will spill it with you.
youtu.be/unSSHfIs3U0?si=ftHVUSnOoxYOMerr
French Senator criticizes Trump
youtu.be/zQyvq1kI6Fk?si=_VMOlUn657Btqk-k
The Ongoing Vandalism of Our Government | Shield of the Republic
youtu.be/qjnbnAqDLrE?si=bL1d6Dda01mCXGGd
Our Country Is SABOTAGING Itself! America in Self-Destruct Mode (w/ David Frum) | Mona Charen Show
youtu.be/vEkEPCfFgFI?si=Iyht-YylV3dnpHgW
Applebaum: Signalgate and the Authoritarian Playbook
youtu.be/f_RBi_uSHGw?si=FwWBQ-f6_0TXKExx
The Day America Lost Everything
youtu.be/o_W02geuleI?si=C4w1gDica71ytaTx
America's Techno-Fuedal Overlords with Andra Watkins | Lincoln Square
youtu.be/Y_3_PnnZ14I?si=63hfUqOc0jvpMbd-
Yanis Varoufakis on technofeudalism and the fall of democracy
youtu.be/X3FdIyNMaFY?si=Bx0xMMID4YwzzsqW
Yanis Varoufakis welcomes us to the age of Technofeudalism | FULL INTERVIEW
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
youtu.be/uxoijQfFg8I?si=n3PGTIcBZTKR-WYy
Trump's Term Is DOOMED! (w/ Jonathan Rauch)
0:00 Trumpian Patrimonialism
16:26 Incompetence & Corruption
34:18 Religion to save democracy?
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photo:
Carlo Scarpa - Querini Stampalia Foundation
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
1961–1963
intervention in Palazzo Querini Stampalia,
sestiere Castello, Venice, Veneto, Italy
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
fondoambiente.it/luoghi/fondazione-querini-stampalia
Carlo Scarpa
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Scarpa
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music:
youtu.be/k6LlpU7csRk?si=lk9DqCZIrgnSYjuY
Your Mind Is on Vacation · Mose Allison
youtu.be/mwmZJFUVjb4?si=OY_2C2N2ZnLEJCTz
Severance Season 2 Finale End Credits Sequence
youtu.be/3CXyrdk_e40?si=rupVEEzHbycsuZvw
Bach's Prelude in C Minor, BWV 847 (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1) [MIDI Tutorial]
youtu.be/djZYKsC1OD8?si=wq6Su3SFb5pK1DX_
KRAFTWERK -- Computer World (vinyl)
youtu.be/HSv0f3ZBOqM?si=VgwKju5ofXcvYV4F
When the Sh-- Goes Down
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“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
"Rhinocerization"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_(play)
Rhinoceros (French: Rhinocéros) is a play by playwright Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play was included in Martin Esslin's essay on post-war avant-garde drama "The Theatre of the Absurd", although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow.[citation needed] Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses; ultimately the only human who does not succumb to this mass metamorphosis is the central character, Bérenger, a flustered everyman figure who is initially criticized in the play for his drinking, tardiness, and slovenly lifestyle and then, later, for his increasing paranoia and obsession with the rhinoceroses. The play is often read as a response and criticism to the sudden upsurge of Fascism and Nazism during the events preceding World War II, and explores the themes of conformity, culture, fascism, responsibility, logic, mass movements, mob mentality, philosophy and morality.
Stand with Ukraine!
techno-feudalism attempts the controlled demolition of democratic america
.
Gil Duran on Trump, Tech, and “The Nerd Reich”
youtu.be/z2W3tmCBEnE?si=cmqSRIpX0GnOvEgs
Join journalist Gil Duran as he explores the rise of a new ideology—what he dubs “tech fascism” or the “Nerd Reich”—that’s influenced significant figures in tech and politics, including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and more, through a non-partisan forum hosted by the Commonwealth Club.
How Silicon Valley elites adopted extremist political ideas from controversial thinkers like Curtis Yarvin, advocating for CEO-led governance
Timely insight into the moral & ideological impact of Silicon Valley’s “tech fascists”
Learn about Curtis Yarvin’s influence, the concept of “Network States,” and the fusion of private empire with public power
.
.
youtu.be/BdzM7hUPG_A?si=Vny5ovzB39Kn6FXo
More Everything Forever: AI, Crypto, and Silicon Valley's Hype Hijinks
Calling all AI prompstitutes/askholes, crypto whales, and everyone who grew up nerding out on Science Fiction...this episode is for you! Special guest Adam Becker, an astrophysicist, author, tech journalist, and scientific philosopher, joins Rick to dissect Silicon Valley's beating heart: techno-futurism and the Silicon Valley bros. Inspired by all of the weird stories he's heard at parties in the Bay, Adam decided he wasn't wearing enough hats already and wrote two books on the subject matter: What is Real?, about the unfinished quest for the meaning of quantum physics, and MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity. You all know Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Sam Bankman-Fried (not to mention the BIG power players like Google), but have you heard of JD Vance's friend and soft-cult leader Curtis Yarvin, or Netscape creator Marc Andreessen, or co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies (the surveillance state technology used in China) Peter Thiel? The PayPal Mafia spawned a LOT of bizarre shit, including the launch of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel's careers AND a lifelong rivalry. That’s only the beginning. Cover your keyboards, folks, Rick and Adam are brewing some piping hot Silicon Valley tea, so pull up a chair and the guys will spill it with you.
youtu.be/unSSHfIs3U0?si=ftHVUSnOoxYOMerr
French Senator criticizes Trump
youtu.be/zQyvq1kI6Fk?si=_VMOlUn657Btqk-k
The Ongoing Vandalism of Our Government | Shield of the Republic
youtu.be/qjnbnAqDLrE?si=bL1d6Dda01mCXGGd
Our Country Is SABOTAGING Itself! America in Self-Destruct Mode (w/ David Frum) | Mona Charen Show
youtu.be/vEkEPCfFgFI?si=Iyht-YylV3dnpHgW
Applebaum: Signalgate and the Authoritarian Playbook
youtu.be/f_RBi_uSHGw?si=FwWBQ-f6_0TXKExx
The Day America Lost Everything
youtu.be/o_W02geuleI?si=C4w1gDica71ytaTx
America's Techno-Fuedal Overlords with Andra Watkins | Lincoln Square
youtu.be/Y_3_PnnZ14I?si=63hfUqOc0jvpMbd-
Yanis Varoufakis on technofeudalism and the fall of democracy
youtu.be/X3FdIyNMaFY?si=Bx0xMMID4YwzzsqW
Yanis Varoufakis welcomes us to the age of Technofeudalism | FULL INTERVIEW
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
youtu.be/uxoijQfFg8I?si=n3PGTIcBZTKR-WYy
Trump's Term Is DOOMED! (w/ Jonathan Rauch)
0:00 Trumpian Patrimonialism
16:26 Incompetence & Corruption
34:18 Religion to save democracy?
.
.
.
.
.
.
photo:
Carlo Scarpa - Querini Stampalia Foundation
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
1961–1963
intervention in Palazzo Querini Stampalia,
sestiere Castello, Venice, Veneto, Italy
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
fondoambiente.it/luoghi/fondazione-querini-stampalia
Carlo Scarpa
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Scarpa
.
music:
youtu.be/k6LlpU7csRk?si=lk9DqCZIrgnSYjuY
Your Mind Is on Vacation · Mose Allison
youtu.be/mwmZJFUVjb4?si=OY_2C2N2ZnLEJCTz
Severance Season 2 Finale End Credits Sequence
youtu.be/3CXyrdk_e40?si=rupVEEzHbycsuZvw
Bach's Prelude in C Minor, BWV 847 (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1) [MIDI Tutorial]
youtu.be/djZYKsC1OD8?si=wq6Su3SFb5pK1DX_
KRAFTWERK -- Computer World (vinyl)
youtu.be/HSv0f3ZBOqM?si=VgwKju5ofXcvYV4F
When the Sh-- Goes Down
.
“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
"Rhinocerization"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_(play)
Rhinoceros (French: Rhinocéros) is a play by playwright Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play was included in Martin Esslin's essay on post-war avant-garde drama "The Theatre of the Absurd", although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow.[citation needed] Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses; ultimately the only human who does not succumb to this mass metamorphosis is the central character, Bérenger, a flustered everyman figure who is initially criticized in the play for his drinking, tardiness, and slovenly lifestyle and then, later, for his increasing paranoia and obsession with the rhinoceroses. The play is often read as a response and criticism to the sudden upsurge of Fascism and Nazism during the events preceding World War II, and explores the themes of conformity, culture, fascism, responsibility, logic, mass movements, mob mentality, philosophy and morality.
Stand with Ukraine!