The radicalization of Silicon Valley is the subject of my forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War on Democracy."

It exposes a decades-long campaign to use tech power to overthrow democracy and destroy nations. Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

It reminds me of the howls from big tobacco when smoking bans were put into place. It usually requires a policy shift at the top to see societal change at this level. How much of the 'activists' too are also paid lobbyists? My child isn't here to generate profit for Meta et al but NL won't do a ban

So AI, which will turn any half-cocked idea into a mediocre text/script/whatever is an amateur’s *dream*. But something pro largely shrugs off – especially because a good final product usually only slightly resembles the initial idea. The actual work improves it greatly. Still can’t skip that.

This isn't even the point, but I feel pissed off that my years of editorial experience and genuine, lifelong enthusiasm for the work is being channelled into a new role as a professional fluffer for a large-language model.

But also creatively, intellectually, personally.

Where's the reward? Where's the pleasure, where's the pain? Just like the text it generates, the experience, too, is frictionless, humourless, effortless, dull, unfelt, literally predictable. The whole thing frigid as a robot's bare metal arsecheek.

This is the level of genius debate women in academia come up against every day by the way