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Blake Montgomery

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Tech editor at the Guardian US, science fiction writer, and a tale told by an idiot. Email me: [email protected]

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · Feb 19

Read my weekly newsletter about tech and [insert here] www.theguardian.com/technology/s...

TechScape newsletter | The Guardian

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 20h

I wrote about Peter Thiel’s lectures on the Antichrist and how the fact that there’s a strong chance Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the literal Antichrist isn’t even the weirdest thing about them — at the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

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Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 18h

Also please read @adriandaub.bsky.social's searing and hilarious commentary on Thiel.

He's reminded of Apocalypse Now where a character meets a platoon "and asks who’s in charge here. 'Ain’t you?' Ain’t you running the world, Peter? If it isn’t you, who is?"

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Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

www.theguardian.com

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Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 18h

As the mostly-young and mostly-male crowd lined up for Thiel's last lecture this week, a trio of “satanists” offered attendees a goblet of red liquid saying, “Will you bring our dark lord Peter Thiel this baby’s blood?”

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Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 18h

We got the audio from Peter Thiel's off-the-record antichrist lectures and... my brain hurts.

But please read what we wrote, it's long, weird, and has Thiel's take on everyone from Musk to Netanyahu to Mamdani. (With @jmbooyah.bsky.social & Nick Robins-Early)

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 20h

Stanford professor Adrian Daub critiques Peter Thiel's lectures on the antichrist:

"The picture of Thiel that emerges is someone desperate to disidentify from their own power."

"More often than not, Thiel ends up with something that reads like Dan Brown."

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

www.theguardian.com

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 21h

We got leaked audio from Peter Thiel’s off the record antichrist lectures: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 21h

We obtained leaked recordings of Peter Thiel's off-the-record lectures about the antichrist. Here's what one of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley and US politics is saying about the end of the world behind closed doors.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 2d

"The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one" apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 3d

Why Sora was so much more popular than Meta's Vibes www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

OpenAI throws caution to the wind, and a year of covering Elon Musk

The AI company’s app Sora makes a bigger splash than Meta’s Vibes. Plus, everything I learned about the Tesla CEO in the past 12 months

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 9d

Excuse me?

Anti-Defamation League takes down extremism research after Musk leads rightwing backlash

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Anti-Defamation League takes down extremism research after Musk leads rightwing backlash

Prominent US Jewish advocacy and anti-hate organization removed over a thousand pages of research

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 10d

Meta and YouTube are papering over their own recent history, caught up in the anti-vax spirit of the age and blaming Biden for their own decisions on lies about covid www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The divide: who really profits in today’s economy?

Broadway flops despite rising ticket costs, farmers face huge shortfalls largely due to Trump’s tariffs, tech cashes in

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 11d

I'm old enough to remember when the ADL defended Elon Musk www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Musk calls Anti-Defamation League ‘hate group’ for documenting Christian extremism

Organization earlier this year came to the tech mogul’s aid over his widely criticized salutes at Trump’s inauguration

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 13d

Remember the last time Trump sent troops to Portland? gizmodo.com/donald-trump...

Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump

A new Homeland Security report details orders to connect protesters arrested in Portland to one another in service of the Trump's imaginary antifa plot.

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Keenan Chen @NICAR25 @kcinbk.bsky.social · 15d

I wrote about how foreign apparel sellers rushed to cash in on Charlie Kirk’s death. Within hours, these astroturf accounts started flooding Facebook and Instagram with merch ads. Some of these paid posts even claimed “100% of the profits” would go to his orgs and family.

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Merch sellers cash in on Kirk’s killing with flood of social media ads

Foreign brands not linked to Kirk’s Turning Point USA sell patriotic gear with unclear promises to donate profits

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 17d

In 2021, a 25-year-old US citizen had their DNA collected by CBP at a Chicago airport according to new govt data. They were just one of about 2000 US citizens who had their DNA collected by border agents & shared with the FBI including some as young as 14. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

US border patrol collected DNA from thousands of US citizens for years, data shows

CBP officers took DNA samples from about 2,000 citizens, some as young as 14 and many who never faced criminal charges, new analysis shows

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 18d

NEW: How does ICE actually use Palantir?

A new cache of documents obtained by @justfutureslaw.bsky.social from 2014-2022 give us a fresh look at real examples of how the agency has used the technology to perform enforcement operations www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 17d

My newsletter on Trump's talent tariffs www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Tariffs on talent? Trumps’s visa fees threaten tech’s most prized employees

The president’s deal on visas could upend Silicon Valley, and will a TikTok purchase finally go through?

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 18d

For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training docs and reports sheds light on how Palantir helps Ice with investigations and on-the-ground enforcement
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Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir

For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how...

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 26d

To think about next time you use Gemini: AI raters contracted by Google describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around their work making chatbots seem intelligent www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · Sep 9

Tim Apple put his son on Ozempic

Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · Sep 9

The news today is like "The president gave a pedophile a sexy birthday card" and "Israel probs bombed Qatar holy shit", but me and the rest of the tech journos are like "omggg u guys new iphone!!"

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · Sep 8

Be Best, bots: Melania Trump has turned her attention from her “Be Best” anti-bullying campaign to the nation’s best bots for tots.

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Be Best, bots: Melania Trump and tech CEOs discuss saturating US schools with AI

Pivoting from her anti-bullying campaign, the US first lady has inaugurated a taskforce on AI and childhood education

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · Sep 7

When Ross Ulbricht received a pardon from Trump for running Silk Road, the dark web drug marketplace, we wondered what his next move would be.

Over the past 7 months, he's gone on a speaking tour and received tens of millions of dollars in donations. It's a story tailor-made for the Trump era.

The Spectacular Comeback Tour of a Crypto Overlord

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · Sep 2

Antonio Gracias, one of Elon Musk's closest associates at Doge and in business, is part of the growing movement among Silicon Valley’s right wing enamored with the therapeutic and commercial potential of drugs like MDMA

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How Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the US’s biggest MDMA company

Antonio Gracias is part of the growing movement among Silicon Valley’s right wing enamored with the therapeutic and commercial potential of drugs like MDMA

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨Journalism job alert🚨

We're hiring an investigative reporter to join my team at @wired.com. We're looking for someone who has both traditional and non-traditional reporting skills (coding/data work/OSINT, etc). Fit the bill? Come work with me! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...

Senior Writer, Investigations

WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...

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