Jacob Silverman
@jacobsilverman.com
Please buy my book GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY
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One possible motivation to demand access was to steal data, and I think that was a part of it, but also I think DOGE (or Musk, anyway) was motivated by a conspiracy theory:
The belief that government workers would conspire to use the government's computer systems against them.
The belief that government workers would conspire to use the government's computer systems against them.
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
One possible motivation to demand access was to steal data, and I think that was a part of it, but also I think DOGE (or Musk, anyway) was motivated by a conspiracy theory:
The belief that government workers would conspire to use the government's computer systems against them.
The belief that government workers would conspire to use the government's computer systems against them.
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"Jacob Silverman outlines how Silicon Valley produced our modern-day Bond supervillains, their pathway towards radicalization, and how they’re abusing their wealth to manipulate the system to achieve their racist and authoritarian endgame."
The Gilded Rage: How Musk and Silicon Valley Will Destroy Us
The Silicon Valley tech bros, flush with ungodly sums of money, are aggressively inflating economic bubbles, gobbling up industries, and funding hatemongers as they pursue authoritarian control.
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The Silicon Valley tech bros, flush with ungodly sums of money, are aggressively inflating economic bubbles, gobbling up industries, and funding hatemongers as they pursue authoritarian control.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
November 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"Jacob Silverman outlines how Silicon Valley produced our modern-day Bond supervillains, their pathway towards radicalization, and how they’re abusing their wealth to manipulate the system to achieve their racist and authoritarian endgame."
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Jacob Silverman on the Tech Bros’ Gilded Rage: Journalist Jacob Silverman joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about his new book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. He discusses the rightward shift in ideology… #CraftandCriticism #Features
Jacob Silverman on the Tech Bros’ Gilded Rage
Journalist Jacob Silverman joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about his new book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. He discusses the rightward shift in ideology among leading tech giants and their companies,
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November 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Jacob Silverman on the Tech Bros’ Gilded Rage: Journalist Jacob Silverman joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about his new book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. He discusses the rightward shift in ideology… #CraftandCriticism #Features
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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Terrific, eye-opening interview with @jacobsilverman.com. Not to be missed. thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-gilded...
The Gilded Rage of the Broligarchy: How Musk and Silicon Valley Will Destroy Us
The Silicon Valley tech bros, flush with ungodly sums of money, are aggressively inflating economic bubbles, gobbling up industries, and funding hatemongers as they pursue authoritarian control.
thelefthook.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Terrific, eye-opening interview with @jacobsilverman.com. Not to be missed. thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-gilded...
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Did you catch Gilded Rage by @jacobsilverman.com
on @theguardian.com's Audio Long Read?
Listen online now 👉 bit.ly/43GAFBW
on @theguardian.com's Audio Long Read?
Listen online now 👉 bit.ly/43GAFBW
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Did you catch Gilded Rage by @jacobsilverman.com
on @theguardian.com's Audio Long Read?
Listen online now 👉 bit.ly/43GAFBW
on @theguardian.com's Audio Long Read?
Listen online now 👉 bit.ly/43GAFBW
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Just finished the audiobook for @jacobsilverman.com’s Gilded Rage and it was amazing! I went into it with no expectations but it was interesting and way more leftist than I expected (no offense to Jacob, I was unaware of his game).
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Just finished the audiobook for @jacobsilverman.com’s Gilded Rage and it was amazing! I went into it with no expectations but it was interesting and way more leftist than I expected (no offense to Jacob, I was unaware of his game).
I'm banking on posthumous glory
If you're an author being published by small and tiny presses, please shamelessly promote your work, however much your temperament might militate against it. I've seen many wonderful authors at this level so quickly forgotten when they die, you deserve all the readers you can get while you're alive.
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I'm banking on posthumous glory
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For The Nation, I wrote about this week's US-Saudi gala and business summit, during which the US economy's dominant forces -- oligarchy, AI, Saudi cash, social media content makers -- came together to celebrate America's favorite dictator.
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
The Grim Spectacle of Trump’s Gaudy Saudi Summit
A weeklong debauch brought together tech insiders and the leaders of a brutal monarchy to keep stoking the AI bubble.
www.thenation.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
For The Nation, I wrote about this week's US-Saudi gala and business summit, during which the US economy's dominant forces -- oligarchy, AI, Saudi cash, social media content makers -- came together to celebrate America's favorite dictator.
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
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In his excellent new book Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, the independent left wing business journalist Jacob Silverman reports a particularly pungent utterance from a MAGA luminary that...
Right Wing Populism and Lumpen Capitalism
In his excellent new book Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, the independent left wing business journalist Jacob Silverman
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November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
In his excellent new book Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, the independent left wing business journalist Jacob Silverman reports a particularly pungent utterance from a MAGA luminary that...
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This is how Elon Musk, Thiel, and the Silicon Valley Broligarchy Plan on Destroying Our Democracy...with reporter @jacobsilverman.com.
He's got the receipts and wrote the book on it.
He joins me now on The Left Hook.
thelefthook.substack.com
He's got the receipts and wrote the book on it.
He joins me now on The Left Hook.
thelefthook.substack.com
The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali | Substack
A political, cultural, and intellectual playground for the rest of us with writer Wajahat Ali. Click to read The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscriber...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is how Elon Musk, Thiel, and the Silicon Valley Broligarchy Plan on Destroying Our Democracy...with reporter @jacobsilverman.com.
He's got the receipts and wrote the book on it.
He joins me now on The Left Hook.
thelefthook.substack.com
He's got the receipts and wrote the book on it.
He joins me now on The Left Hook.
thelefthook.substack.com
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“A weeklong debauch brought together tech insiders and the leaders of a brutal monarchy to keep stoking the AI bubble…” by Jacob Silverman www.thenation.com/article/econ...
The Grim Spectacle of Trump’s Gaudy Saudi Summit
A weeklong debauch brought together tech insiders and the leaders of a brutal monarchy to keep stoking the AI bubble.
www.thenation.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“A weeklong debauch brought together tech insiders and the leaders of a brutal monarchy to keep stoking the AI bubble…” by Jacob Silverman www.thenation.com/article/econ...
For The Nation, I wrote about this week's US-Saudi gala and business summit, during which the US economy's dominant forces -- oligarchy, AI, Saudi cash, social media content makers -- came together to celebrate America's favorite dictator.
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
The Grim Spectacle of Trump’s Gaudy Saudi Summit
A weeklong debauch brought together tech insiders and the leaders of a brutal monarchy to keep stoking the AI bubble.
www.thenation.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
For The Nation, I wrote about this week's US-Saudi gala and business summit, during which the US economy's dominant forces -- oligarchy, AI, Saudi cash, social media content makers -- came together to celebrate America's favorite dictator.
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
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Friday's THE LEFT HOOK
12 pm ET: @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and Democracy-Ish!
1 pm: @joyannreid.bsky.social
2 pm: @jacobsilverman.com on the Gilded Rage of Tech Bros
3:15 pm: @rweingarten.bsky.social on MAGA's attack on education
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No paywalls! Join up!
12 pm ET: @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and Democracy-Ish!
1 pm: @joyannreid.bsky.social
2 pm: @jacobsilverman.com on the Gilded Rage of Tech Bros
3:15 pm: @rweingarten.bsky.social on MAGA's attack on education
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No paywalls! Join up!
The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali | Substack
A political, cultural, and intellectual playground for the rest of us with writer Wajahat Ali. Click to read The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscriber...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Friday's THE LEFT HOOK
12 pm ET: @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and Democracy-Ish!
1 pm: @joyannreid.bsky.social
2 pm: @jacobsilverman.com on the Gilded Rage of Tech Bros
3:15 pm: @rweingarten.bsky.social on MAGA's attack on education
thelefthook.substack.com
No paywalls! Join up!
12 pm ET: @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and Democracy-Ish!
1 pm: @joyannreid.bsky.social
2 pm: @jacobsilverman.com on the Gilded Rage of Tech Bros
3:15 pm: @rweingarten.bsky.social on MAGA's attack on education
thelefthook.substack.com
No paywalls! Join up!
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NEW EPISODE:Journalist @jacobsilverman.com joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about his new book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley which discusses the rightward ideological shift among tech giants and their companies
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Jacob Silverman on the Tech Bros’ Gilded Rage
Journalist Jacob Silverman joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about his new book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. He discusses the right…
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November 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
NEW EPISODE:Journalist @jacobsilverman.com joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about his new book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley which discusses the rightward ideological shift among tech giants and their companies
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lithub.com/jacob-silver...
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@ddayen.bsky.social on the "perverse and irrational" private credit deals financing the AI boom, w "huge mismatches between the life cycle of the assets being funded and the amount of time it will take to pay them off." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
@ddayen.bsky.social on the "perverse and irrational" private credit deals financing the AI boom, w "huge mismatches between the life cycle of the assets being funded and the amount of time it will take to pay them off." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
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I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
The Financial Times named GILDED RAGE one of its best tech books of 2025.
www.ft.com/content/af55...
www.ft.com/content/af55...
Best books of 2025: Environment, Science and Technology
Pilita Clark, Clive Cookson and John Thornhill select their must-read titles
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The Financial Times named GILDED RAGE one of its best tech books of 2025.
www.ft.com/content/af55...
www.ft.com/content/af55...
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Kpop Angel Hunters, and they have to storm Heaven and kill God by singing too good. This will make someone a billion dollars
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Kpop Angel Hunters, and they have to storm Heaven and kill God by singing too good. This will make someone a billion dollars
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Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian
Gilded Rage: Talking With Jacob Silverman
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Gilded Rage: Talking With Jacob Silverman
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Gilded Rage: Talking With Jacob Silverman
Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian
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November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian
Gilded Rage: Talking With Jacob Silverman
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Gilded Rage: Talking With Jacob Silverman
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79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
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he is a scary man!!! california forever is definitely his personal baby. you might be interested in reading about some of his/a16z's other projects www.vcinfodocs.com/status-of-th...
Status of the Network State, Tech and Crypto Cities — Venture Capital Status
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November 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
he is a scary man!!! california forever is definitely his personal baby. you might be interested in reading about some of his/a16z's other projects www.vcinfodocs.com/status-of-th...
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On the money observation by @jacobsilverman.com in Gilded Rage following the Supreme Court decision in Grant’s Pass: “The VC push against homelessness seemed to go beyond clearing away the unhoused masses. It was part of a classist, authoritarian vision for how cities should be run and for whom.”
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
On the money observation by @jacobsilverman.com in Gilded Rage following the Supreme Court decision in Grant’s Pass: “The VC push against homelessness seemed to go beyond clearing away the unhoused masses. It was part of a classist, authoritarian vision for how cities should be run and for whom.”
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what if the vast, complex conspiracy of powerful men to ensure they evade consequences for violence and exploitation is just the US criminal legal system
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
what if the vast, complex conspiracy of powerful men to ensure they evade consequences for violence and exploitation is just the US criminal legal system