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A former Palantir exec just published an extortion letter in the Washington Post: Democrats must fund tech oligarchs, abandon antitrust, and create 15 deregulated corporate zones—or “lose.”
When I challenged her, she blocked me.
Tech’s moral rot, exposed:
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
When I challenged her, she blocked me.
Tech’s moral rot, exposed:
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Silicon Valley’s Extortion Letter to Democrats
Ex-Palantir Exec Warns Democrats to Bow Down or Lose the Future
www.thenerdreich.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A former Palantir exec just published an extortion letter in the Washington Post: Democrats must fund tech oligarchs, abandon antitrust, and create 15 deregulated corporate zones—or “lose.”
When I challenged her, she blocked me.
Tech’s moral rot, exposed:
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
When I challenged her, she blocked me.
Tech’s moral rot, exposed:
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
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Jeffrey Epstein survivors released a new video urging Congress to vote to release the Epstein files
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Jeffrey Epstein survivors released a new video urging Congress to vote to release the Epstein files
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
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What in the flying fuck does patriotism have to do with working around the clock without pay to appease a bunch of asshole billionaires hellbent on robbing this country blind?
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
What in the flying fuck does patriotism have to do with working around the clock without pay to appease a bunch of asshole billionaires hellbent on robbing this country blind?
Also provides insight on why Bluesky is a far more pleasant experience than most mainstream social media platforms...
"Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the West"
Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...
Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Also provides insight on why Bluesky is a far more pleasant experience than most mainstream social media platforms...
Well-researched, critical reading on dark tech bro agendas and ecosystems.
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Well-researched, critical reading on dark tech bro agendas and ecosystems.
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I think of this graphic every day.
My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes.
Original graphic cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath
Original graphic cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath
September 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I think of this graphic every day.
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When you call yourself the leaders of a democratic country, but have to hide on a military base from the people that you rule.
"Stephen Miller soon joined a growing list of senior Trump-administration political appointees—at least six by our count—living in Washington-area military housing, where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest." Others include Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth.
Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.
www.theatlantic.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:45 AM
When you call yourself the leaders of a democratic country, but have to hide on a military base from the people that you rule.
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…waiting to get tariffed for quoting the former leader of the Republican Party to remind Republicans they have abandoned all their professed values and principles to appease a weak, insecure imbecile.
October 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
…waiting to get tariffed for quoting the former leader of the Republican Party to remind Republicans they have abandoned all their professed values and principles to appease a weak, insecure imbecile.
I’d like to think this is happening because upholding core human values matters for most people — and Trump is the antithesis of that.
Enten: "Canada is far more popular than Donald Trump is here in the United States. The net popularity of Canada is +49. Trump is -10. We're talking about Canada coming out nearly 60 points ahead on the net popularity ratings versus Donald Trump here in the US"
October 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I’d like to think this is happening because upholding core human values matters for most people — and Trump is the antithesis of that.
“Liberal democracy is indeed undergoing a profound crisis, but that crisis need not be terminal. The question is whether we will meet it with the rigorous self-examination that has historically enabled democratic renewal….”
Context for quote is China redefining the frame of modernity
Context for quote is China redefining the frame of modernity
“China isn’t just an analytical problem. It is the master key to understanding modernity; the biggest laboratory of organized modernizations there has ever been or ever will be at this level [of] organization.” Adam Tooze talking to Kaiser Kuo www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-gr...
The Great Reckoning - The Ideas Letter
The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about…
www.theideasletter.org
October 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“Liberal democracy is indeed undergoing a profound crisis, but that crisis need not be terminal. The question is whether we will meet it with the rigorous self-examination that has historically enabled democratic renewal….”
Context for quote is China redefining the frame of modernity
Context for quote is China redefining the frame of modernity
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When a jellyfish is stressed, it can age backwards to its polyp stage to start things over again. And again. And again. A little life advice: it’s okay to keep starting over. This and more pointers from sea creatures.
Dear Sea Creature - Orion Magazine
Life advice from your favorite ocean dwellers
orionmagazine.org
October 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
When a jellyfish is stressed, it can age backwards to its polyp stage to start things over again. And again. And again. A little life advice: it’s okay to keep starting over. This and more pointers from sea creatures.
the grim reality of legacy media
I can’t wait for the media to tell us in 2029 all about Trump’s steep cognitive decline and psychosis while he was president, with numerous examples that they just discovered through extensive research and sourcing.
October 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
the grim reality of legacy media
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$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
October 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
Holy crap batman, a third of US GDP growth since 2000 can be attributed to recovering from climate disasters.
The long game on disaster capitalism is a complete and utter dead end.
Time to be looking in the mirror and taking steps, much more deliberately, to do better as and for humanity.
The long game on disaster capitalism is a complete and utter dead end.
Time to be looking in the mirror and taking steps, much more deliberately, to do better as and for humanity.
A good example of the "broken windows fallacy." A rising GDP driven (in part) by disaster recovery spending does not mean we are better off.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable...
October 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Holy crap batman, a third of US GDP growth since 2000 can be attributed to recovering from climate disasters.
The long game on disaster capitalism is a complete and utter dead end.
Time to be looking in the mirror and taking steps, much more deliberately, to do better as and for humanity.
The long game on disaster capitalism is a complete and utter dead end.
Time to be looking in the mirror and taking steps, much more deliberately, to do better as and for humanity.
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After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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George Carlin, eat your heart out.
The federal government's list of words to be scrubbed is more than seven, and it is growing fast.
pen.org/banned-words...
The federal government's list of words to be scrubbed is more than seven, and it is growing fast.
pen.org/banned-words...
Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship
Banned words list 2025: The federal government is banning a growing number of words to comply with executive orders from President Trump.
pen.org
October 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
George Carlin, eat your heart out.
The federal government's list of words to be scrubbed is more than seven, and it is growing fast.
pen.org/banned-words...
The federal government's list of words to be scrubbed is more than seven, and it is growing fast.
pen.org/banned-words...
This needs to be more widely understood:
“The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.”
“The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.”
I have a new piece on the politics of discounting in the latest @nybooks.com, hopefully of interest to some.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Price of Tomorrow | Geoff Mann
The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.
www.nybooks.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This needs to be more widely understood:
“The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.”
“The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.”
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NEW | Solar and wind OUTPACED global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025, leading to a fall in fossil fuels compared to this time last year ☀️🌪️
Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time.
https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk
Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time.
https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk
October 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
NEW | Solar and wind OUTPACED global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025, leading to a fall in fossil fuels compared to this time last year ☀️🌪️
Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time.
https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk
Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time.
https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk
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Trump has had such a good life in this country. It's been overwhelmingly beneficial to him. He is far wealthier than most.
Yet he oozes w/contempt for the US & its democratic traditions.
My honest, non-trolling advice to DJT is that you'd be a much happier person if you showed a little gratitude.
Yet he oozes w/contempt for the US & its democratic traditions.
My honest, non-trolling advice to DJT is that you'd be a much happier person if you showed a little gratitude.
The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.
Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.
Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.
October 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Trump has had such a good life in this country. It's been overwhelmingly beneficial to him. He is far wealthier than most.
Yet he oozes w/contempt for the US & its democratic traditions.
My honest, non-trolling advice to DJT is that you'd be a much happier person if you showed a little gratitude.
Yet he oozes w/contempt for the US & its democratic traditions.
My honest, non-trolling advice to DJT is that you'd be a much happier person if you showed a little gratitude.
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Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.
October 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.
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You have to hand it to the generals. Unlike so many other people in this country, they know how to conduct themselves in public. They know they are supposed to be apolitical. So they greeted Trump's political speech with silence. And you could have heard a medal drop when Pete Hegseth finished.
October 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
You have to hand it to the generals. Unlike so many other people in this country, they know how to conduct themselves in public. They know they are supposed to be apolitical. So they greeted Trump's political speech with silence. And you could have heard a medal drop when Pete Hegseth finished.
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The last seconds are absolutely shocking
More guns than people…
Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?
Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?
October 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The last seconds are absolutely shocking
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Hey Canada, Trump brought up his whole “Canada should be the 51st State” again today, for the first time in a while, to a room full of all the top-ranked military leaders in the United States.
I’m sure that’s a coincidence. Right?
I’m sure that’s a coincidence. Right?
October 1, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Hey Canada, Trump brought up his whole “Canada should be the 51st State” again today, for the first time in a while, to a room full of all the top-ranked military leaders in the United States.
I’m sure that’s a coincidence. Right?
I’m sure that’s a coincidence. Right?