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Raymond Craib @raycraib.bsky.social · 20h

Respect for the minivan

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

“A large part of the venture capital model is serving as a recruitment mechanism into tech fascism.”

My interview with @harrisonmooney.bsky.social of @thetyee.ca

thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

The Man Who Tracks Silicon Valley’s ‘Nerd Reich’ | The Tyee

Wonder what US tech titans wish for, Canada? Study their roots, says writer Gil Duran. A Tyee Q&A.

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Raymond Craib @raycraib.bsky.social · 4d

Seriously?! Wtf?! Authors of this piece blame protestors for the Tr*mpists’ assault on universities. Linda McMahon must’ve ghost written this. The vengeful little weevils in the WH would have found any excuse to go after higher ed. Stop shitting on student protests.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds

www.nytimes.com

Raymond Craib @raycraib.bsky.social · 4d

We’re all paying steep prices already numbnuts!

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 5d

I reviewed tech critic Cory Doctorow's essential new book, "Enshittification," for the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. Check eet out: lareviewofbooks.org/article/gian...

Giant Platforms of Shit | Los Angeles Review of Books

Dave Mandl catches a whiff of Cory Doctorow’s anatomy of platform “enshittification.”

lareviewofbooks.org

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 21d

SHE SAID

"TECHNO-LIBERTARIANS MAKE A PHILOSOPHY OUT OF A PERSONALITY DEFECT."

IN THE YEAR 2000!

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 21d

I interviewed Paulina Borsook, who warned of tech culture's toxic underbelly over 30 years ago.

She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish."

It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21d

This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.

Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week

A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.

www.cbsnews.com

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PM Press @pmpress.bsky.social · 21d

HBD to Ursula K. Le Guin, whose iconic sci‑fi and fantasy explored empathy, diversity, and humanity. Explore titles here: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 22d

This is absolutely crazy and also everything I have ever said is off the record

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 23d

I've written a deep dive into the Tories and Labour nationwide free zones rollout; every day, new info comes to light.
This article is forensically researched, references included. Please read, share and where possible subscribe, thank you❤️
open.substack.com/pub/european...

The Corporate Carve-Up: How Brexit Enabled the Systematic Privatisation of Britain

An investigation into the network of over 140 enterprise zones transforming Britain into a patchwork of corporate sovereignties

open.substack.com

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Raymond Craib @raycraib.bsky.social · 22d

Rereading Ballard’s Super-Cannes. So good and so rich in its imagery. And there are lines such as this one: “Dictators always step into an open jackboot.”

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 23d

Katherine Boyle, former Peter Thiel intern, says government is an enemy of families.

So she's investing in high-tech weaponry...for the government.

I shared my thoughts on her "American Dynamism" — a VC pitch-deck version of Christian nationalism.

NYT gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

The Tech Right Gets Its Own Phyllis Schlafly

www.nytimes.com

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Raymond Craib @raycraib.bsky.social · 28d

congrats Brad!

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Stefan Tiron @tironstefan.bsky.social · Oct 12

The answer to
Cory Doctorow repeated question - why not make Tiktok open source or really 'nationalize' it instead of putting it into another A hole shaped SF billionaire villain brings
one to post WWII period of heroic entrepreneurs + neoliberal shoring up profitability.
youtu.be/3uLpICsNTV4?...

"Enshittification": Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · Oct 12

In Pinochet’s Chile, “it was whispered” that an “unrepentant Nazi” had served as “an adviser to the dictatorship’s secret police and even [became] an interrogator. But was it true?” —Ariel Dorfman

Pinochet and the Vans of Death | Ariel Dorfman

In 38 Londres Street Philippe Sands investigates a Nazi war criminal’s collaboration with the Chilean dictatorship’s system of repression, torture, and murder.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · Oct 11

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Raymond Craib @raycraib.bsky.social · Oct 11

Teaching the excellent Offshore in two weeks in my utopia/dystopia/cryptopia seminar.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · Oct 11

Rothbard is a patron saint of the Broligarchs' efforts to establish their own personal empires offshore-which is why the subtitle of my new(ish) book is "The New Colonialism."
Rothbard-inspired techbros are styling themselves as imperial potentates.
See also, @raycraib.bsky.social's cool history.

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · Oct 10

Brilliant book of amazing photos of the damage caused by mining and other extractive sites in Chile and Latin America

By photographer Nicole Kramm www.instagram.com/nicole_kramm/

We worked together on an investigation into Anglo American and pollution in Chile www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Oct 9

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · Oct 8

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · Oct 7

They’re liars—and bad at lying.

These photos of “war-ravaged Portland” are from other countries.

Not Portland.

If it weren’t so dangerous, it would be laughable.

Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · Oct 7

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Raymond Craib @raycraib.bsky.social · Oct 5

Welcome to “the Middle Ages of the Future.” Check this out: @europeanpowell.bsky.social @gleemie.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social
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M82 @m82.bsky.social · Oct 5

Apocalypse nerds d' @oliviertesquet.bsky.social et @nastasiahadjadji.bsky.social vient d'arriver dans notre bibliographie partagée !
Il ne nous manque plus qu'un exemplaire pour le commenter :)

github.com/M82-project/...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Oct 5

“San Francisco's right-wing tech community and the Heritage Foundation (the organization behind Project 2025) are joining forces to produce a conference on remaking American government.” By @gilduran.com, 9/4/24 … 1/ www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-proje...

Reboot 2024: Project 2025, Peter Thiel and right-wing SF

A vision of our future politics?

www.thenerdreich.com

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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · Oct 5

Nazis, Jews "Clash" on Night of the Long Knives
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Trump authorizes National Guard in Chicago as ICE, protesters clash

A woman was shot, sparking protests Saturday. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker warned that 300 National Guard troops are being activated against his wishes.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Raymond Craib @raycraib.bsky.social · Oct 2

Thinking it would make a good blurb for the second edition of AC!!

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