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Gil Duran on Trump, Tech, and “The Nerd Reich”
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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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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.
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French Senator criticizes Trump
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The Ongoing Vandalism of Our Government | Shield of the Republic
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Our Country Is SABOTAGING Itself! America in Self-Destruct Mode (w/ David Frum) | Mona Charen Show
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Applebaum: Signalgate and the Authoritarian Playbook
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The Day America Lost Everything
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America's Techno-Fuedal Overlords with Andra Watkins | Lincoln Square
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Yanis Varoufakis on technofeudalism and the fall of democracy
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Yanis Varoufakis welcomes us to the age of Technofeudalism | FULL INTERVIEW
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
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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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Carlo Scarpa - Querini Stampalia Foundation
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
1961–1963
intervention in Palazzo Querini Stampalia,
sestiere Castello, Venice, Veneto, Italy
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
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Carlo Scarpa
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Your Mind Is on Vacation · Mose Allison
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Severance Season 2 Finale End Credits Sequence
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Bach's Prelude in C Minor, BWV 847 (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1) [MIDI Tutorial]
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KRAFTWERK -- Computer World (vinyl)
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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!
Excerpts from the press release today: "ATAI Life Sciences, a global biotechnology company builder that envisions an end to mental illnesses, announced the close of a $24 million financing round.
Several globally renowned investors like Peter Thiel as well as Steve Jurvetson and Maryanna Saenko of Future Ventures join ATAI's numerous other reputable backers like Michael Novogratz' Galaxy Digital, Thor Bjorgolfsson, Efrem Kamen, and ATAI founder Christian Angermayer's Apeiron Investment Group.
"We are thrilled to have partners like Peter Thiel and Future Ventures with us for the next phase of our journey," said Christian Angermayer, Founder of ATAI. "Both Peter and Steve have been prescient in identifying paradigm shifting enterprises, and we're honored by their trust in ATAI's vision."
ATAI is recognized as the world's leading mental health biotech company, leveraging a decentralized data-driven platform that combines an emphasis on psychedelic compounds with non-psychedelics and artificial intelligence. ATAI's portfolio currently includes: psilocybin for treatment resistant depression; ibogaine for opioid use disorder; arketamine for treatment resistant depression; deuterated etifoxine for anxiety; and a company designing next-generation psychedelic medicines using computational biophysics."
Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and the sales of relatively ineffective antidepressant drugs are $14B per year, and growing. "Given the immediate and long-term mental health impacts of coronavirus containment efforts, the urgency of the mental health crisis will only grow. We are more committed than ever to ensuring people around the world have access to safe and effective treatment alternatives." — ATAI CEO & co-founder Florian Brand
Here is the current collection of ATAI companies:
• Compass Pathways: synthetic psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression (TRD), in phase IIb clinical trials and an FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation
• Perception Neuroscience: Arketamine for patients with TRD. Compared to esketamine (FDA approved), animal models of arketamine suggest greater antidepressant efficacy and less dissociative effects, perhaps affording out-patient use
• GABA Therapeutics: deuterated etifoxine, a rapid onset anxiolytic without benzodiazepine-like side effects, for generalized anxiety disorder
• DemeRx: ibogaine and noribogaine for opioid use disorders, with clinical trial applications for phase II testing
• Neuronasal: emergency through-the-nose concussion treatment;
• Kures: deuterated mitragynine as a low-risk alternative for pain management and opioid dependence therapy
• Innoplexus: AI for accelerating drug development and trial design
• Entheogenix: AI-driven drug design platform for psychedelics focused on optimizing onset times and neurogenerative/anti-inflammatory/hallucinogenic effects.
And here is more information on the psychedelic medicines.
Free your mind and the rest will follow — in vogue again
This is the most difficult speaking event, by far, that I take on, and somehow I keep coming back.
Just spank me with that red paddle!
Five panelists are asked to come up with two tech trends that we think are worthy of the top 10 title, and that are, as they instruct:
1) Not obvious today
2) You believe there will be explosive growth in about five years’ time
When you do this for many years, it gets harder and harder. For several years now, I have done this, and have to come up with new ones each year. If it's too obvious, it's boring. If it's too radical, it might not be relevant over the next five years. And it had to be important and new... worthy of a top 10 tech trend.
So, here are the 10 trends...
What do you think? Which do you agree most with? Disagree most with? Think are too obvious?
Trend 1. Radical Globalization of Social Commerce (Kevin Efrusy)
In prior cycles, international segments consisted of 30-40 percent of revenue, begun 3-5 years after the US effort. Going forward, "ROW" can dominate domestic, and players who wait to address it are vulnerable to competitors who go global first.
Trend 2. Zero Marginal Cost Education (Bing Gordon)
In the 1970s, ATMs were considered “dehumanizing” and bank tellers were the gold standard. But tellers got worse, while ATMs improved. Public education seems to be repeating this pattern, and the oligopolists of “big education” don’t seem to have read Innovator’s Dilemma.
Trend 3. Massive Sensors and Data (Reid Hoffman)
Sensors cost trends to zero; there are sensors everywhere and part of everything. In combination, we'll create multiple data collections that power applications and innovations to improve our lives. Genetics, disease, and symptom data for automate tri-corders, precision diagnosis, and personalized medicine. Collaborative filtering of all kinds of discovery– from music to information to professional training.
Trend 4. All Vehicles Go Electric (Steve Jurvetson)
Eventually all motor vehicles will transition to an electric drive train, affording greater efficiency, convenience, and a multitude of new design options. Within five years, this inevitability will become clear. ([it got heated at times; here is a short video clip of Peter Thiel's reaction.)
Trend 5. A Shift Toward Technocracy: Doing More with Less (Peter Thiel)
Democrats want government to do more with more. Republicans say government should do less with less. Technology might allow it to do more with less.
Trend 6. It's Just the Venture Cycle (Kevin Efrusy)
The fortunes of Silicon Valley rarely mirror the rest of the world because the ebb and flow of creative disruption follows a different pattern and 14-16 year cycle than the macro economy. We appear to be right on schedule...
Trend 7. Gamification of Everything (Bing Gordon)
As Lance Armstrong wrote, “Every second counts.” As digital natives increasingly multi-task, and as the social web creates geometric growth in posts, the battle is for engagement. For the growing population of game-players, reportedly 70% of Americans, games are important systems for creating meaning, and can increase behavior by 25 to 100%.
Trend 8. The New Hardware: Bits to Atoms (Reid Hoffman)
Open Source patterns now applied to hardware. Collective design bases with rapid modifications. Flexible manufacturing producing limited run and unique devices. 3D printing means revolution in custom and unique goods. Ultimately, revolutions in biological and medical products and solutions.
Trend 9. Moore's Law Accelerates Beyond Silicon (Steve Jurvetson)
When we consider Moore’s Law in the abstract, the dropping cost of computation is not tapering off. Rather it will accelerate further still as we look beyond the silicon era.
Trend 10. The Beginnings of Bioinformatics; Intelligent Design Over Random Drug Discovery (Peter Thiel)
More powerful computers will turn biology into an information science.
Billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel has rocked Silicon Valley with his support for Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump. Thiel will discuss that political endorsement and the 2016 election at a National Press Club speakers newsmaker event on Monday Oct. 31.
Thiel, who co-founded PayPal and Palantir Technologies Inc., endorsed Trump at the Republican National Convention in July and pledged a $1.25 million campaign donation in support of the candidate.
Blake Gates Masters, aka Blake Masters, is an acolyte of Peter Thiel and is running for the US Senate in Arizona.
This caricature of Blake Masters was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore's Flickr photostream.
Blake Gates Masters, aka Blake Masters, is an acolyte of Peter Thiel and is running for the US Senate in Arizona.
This caricature of Blake Masters was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore's Flickr photostream.
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Photo taken at PandoDaily's PandoMonthly event featuring Peter Thiel by Kenneth Yeung. Permission is allowed for use in your blog, website or presentation as long as you adhere to the stated Creative Commons license for this photo/image. Attribution must be included and a link back to this photo page is required.
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You wouldn't want to be caught fumbling over Jack Dorsey had a mentor too. Find out who in our this interview question.
Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel, right, talks with DEMO Executive Producer Erick Schonfeld, left, after Thiel gave a keynote speech entitled “How To Build The Future” during DEMO Fall 2014 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, November 19, 2014. Complete coverage of DEMO, New Tech Solving Big Problems, can be found at bit.ly/DEMOsite. Photo by Stephen Brashear (www.stephenbrashear.com)
Photo taken at PandoDaily's PandoMonthly event featuring Peter Thiel by Kenneth Yeung. Permission is allowed for use in your blog, website or presentation as long as you adhere to the stated Creative Commons license for this photo/image. Attribution must be included and a link back to this photo page is required.
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Photo taken at PandoDaily's PandoMonthly event featuring Peter Thiel by Kenneth Yeung. Permission is allowed for use in your blog, website or presentation as long as you adhere to the stated Creative Commons license for this photo/image. Attribution must be included and a link back to this photo page is required.
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Blake Gates Masters, aka Blake Masters, is an acolyte of Peter Thiel and is running for the US Senate in Arizona.
This caricature of Blake Masters was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore's Flickr photostream.
Photo taken at PandoDaily's PandoMonthly event featuring Peter Thiel by Kenneth Yeung. Permission is allowed for use in your blog, website or presentation as long as you adhere to the stated Creative Commons license for this photo/image. Attribution must be included and a link back to this photo page is required.
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Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel talks with DEMO Executive Producer Erick Schonfeld after Thiel gave a keynote speech entitled “How To Build The Future” during DEMO Fall 2014 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, November 19, 2014. Complete coverage of DEMO, New Tech Solving Big Problems, can be found at bit.ly/DEMOsite. Photo by Stephen Brashear (www.stephenbrashear.com)
Peter Thiel (The Founders Fund) gestures on the podium during the DLD Conference at the HVB Forum on January 22, 2013 in Munich, Germany. DLD Conference 2013, Patterns that Connect, Munich, January, 20-22 – Free Press Photo © Hubert Burda Media / picture alliance / Tobias Hase
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(l-r) Peter Thiel, Naveen Jain, Dr. Hubert Burda, Tony Hsieh and Ian Osborne talk together on the podium during the DLD Conference at the HVB Forum on January 22, 2013 in Munich, Germany. DLD Conference 2013, Patterns that Connect, Munich, January, 20-22 – Free Press Photo © Hubert Burda Media / picture alliance / Tobias Hase
Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel delivers a keynote entitled “How To Build The Future” during DEMO Fall 2014 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, November 19, 2014. Complete coverage of DEMO, New Tech Solving Big Problems, can be found at bit.ly/DEMOsite. Photo by Stephen Brashear (www.stephenbrashear.com)
Peter Thiel,linebacker, takes down the golden bears ball carrier during the 2nd half, as the University of Saskatchewan Huskies take on the University of Alberta Golden Bears during the Canada West Semifinal at Potash Park in Saskatoon, SK, on Saturday November 6th, 2010
Photo Liam Richards
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Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel delivers a keynote entitled “How To Build The Future” during DEMO Fall 2014 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, November 19, 2014. Complete coverage of DEMO, New Tech Solving Big Problems, can be found at bit.ly/DEMOsite. Photo by Stephen Brashear (www.stephenbrashear.com)
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Peter Thiel,linebacker makes a tackle on Matt Henry, running back during the 1st half, as the University of Saskatchewan Huskies take on the University of Manitoba Bisons at Potash Park in Saskatoon, SK, on Friday October 1st, 2010
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Peter Thiel as the University of Saskatchewan Huskies football team holds a practice at Potash Corp Park on the U of S campus in Saskatoon, SK, August 18, 2011. LIAM RICHARDS
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Peter Thiel,linebacker celebrates an interception during the 1st half, as the University of Saskatchewan Huskies take on the University of Manitoba Bisons at Potash Park in Saskatoon, SK, on Friday October 1st, 2010
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University of Saskatchewan Huskies defensive lineman Zach Hart (44), linebacker Tom Lynch (34), and linebacker Peter Thiel (31) sam to knock the ball loose on a tackle in the forth quarter as the University of Saskatchewan Huskies football team take on the University of Regina Rams at Mosaic Stadium in Regina, SK, October 22, 2011. The officials did not call it a fumble although a large crowd of fans didn't agree. The Huskies defeat the Rams 16-15.
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Photo taken at PandoDaily's PandoMonthly event featuring Peter Thiel by Kenneth Yeung. Permission is allowed for use in your blog, website or presentation as long as you adhere to the stated Creative Commons license for this photo/image. Attribution must be included and a link back to this photo page is required.
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University of Saskatchewan Huskies linebacker Peter Thiel (31), linebacker Tom Lynch (34), and defensive back Mitch Friesen (24) make a tackle in the forth quarter as the University of Saskatchewan Huskies football team take on the University of Regina Rams at Mosaic Stadium in Regina, SK, October 22, 2011. The Huskies defeat the Rams 16-15.
Photo Liam Richards Photography