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shanley @shanley.com · 19h

important read on startup cities, criminal networks and the growth of special economic zones from @tfa.ng

asteriskmag.com/issues/11/sc...

Scam Cities—Asterisk

Criminal networks throughout Southeast Asia are demonstrating the dangers of making “the ultimate exit.”

asteriskmag.com

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

This is remarkable, if the title is a bit misleading. It's about way, way more than venture capital fascists and their projects.

Not sure who's behind it, but it's worth at least a look. Valuable resource...

https://www.vcinfodocs.com/

Venture Capital Status

Verified information detailing the global impacts of Silcon Valley, United States venture capital and their global tech fascist projects: The Network State and American Dynamism.

www.vcinfodocs.com

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Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸 @ojutel.bsky.social · 2d

I have a new preprint manuscript on the attempt by crypto and VCs to embrace new urbanist aesthetics and tactics www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Crypto, Venture Capital and New Urbanism

PDF | This chapter will turn to the projects of exit that champion new and tactical urbanism. These projects make use of the political ambiguities of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

www.researchgate.net

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shanley @shanley.com · 1d

omg that's so great! lmk how it goes!!! thank you for what you are doing!!!

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shanley @shanley.com · 6d

New briefing up on vcinfodocs:

The tech and venture capital class is engaged in a centrally organized breeding program to grow their numbers, using fertility and eugenics technologies created by their startups.

Breeding and Eugenics Project — Venture Capital Status

www.vcinfodocs.com

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shanley @shanley.com · 3d

that is so messed up you can't get it where you are!!!! take care of yourself and protect yourself however you can!

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shanley @shanley.com · 3d

let's get ittttttt!!!!! omg i'm so sore though and i have a throbbing headache but WORTH IT

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shanley @shanley.com · 3d

got my covid and flu shot!
remember to get yours if you want to / can 💉🩹
lord knows you have enough problems without getting sick on top of it all

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shanley @shanley.com · 6d

New briefing up on vcinfodocs:

The tech and venture capital class is engaged in a centrally organized breeding program to grow their numbers, using fertility and eugenics technologies created by their startups.

Breeding and Eugenics Project — Venture Capital Status

www.vcinfodocs.com

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shanley @shanley.com · 6d

okay yeah let me post some thoughts later today but important question i have pondered often

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shanley @shanley.com · 6d

true life: i was a posting god

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shanley @shanley.com · 7d

the real antichrist: the crypto stock market

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shanley @shanley.com · 7d

lmfao

shanley @shanley.com · 8d

i wonder what the engineers assigned to work on Palantir's Manhattan Project are doing rn.

as we speak, somewhere in the world engineers are working HARD on an Palantir+Anduril+Oracle weapon of mass destruction.

let's all try to keep that in mind. the manhattan project is happening right now.

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shanley @shanley.com · 11d

"For some of the wealthiest and most powerful people on Earth today, the political division that matters isn’t right or left, Democrat or Republican—it’s the nation-state versus the network state."

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 11d

NEW from me for @wired.com's politics issue: I have spent SO much time fascinated by the "network state"--privatized cities in special economic zones (SEZs) where the normal rules and regulations don't apply.

www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

Tech Billionaires Already Captured the White House. They Still Want to Be Kings

From Montenegro to Northern California, the tech elite dream of building cities where they make the rules. Is this, finally, their moment?

www.wired.com

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JJDiablo @jjdiablo.bsky.social · 13d

As I noted in a post yesterday ...

One of the goals of the Network State ghouls is to exploit places like Argentina as initial bastions of their "new world order". Just like they tried in El Salvador with Bukele.

Milei is their boy. They don't give a shit about Argentinians. That's it.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13d

Read @pkrugman.bsky.social explain that Scott Bessent's bailout of Argentina is about ideology, not American interest.

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-is-tru...

In its dealings with other countries, Donald Trump’s administration is following a clear agenda of undermining liberal values, fomenting discord and withdrawing critical financial support. One of the administration’s first acts was to drastically cut funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development, then shut the agency down completely. Independent estimates suggest that these cuts have already led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, many of them children, and will lead to millions more deaths in the years ahead. It is trying to shutter Voice of America, a federally-sponsored news agency founded to fight the Nazis and promulgate democratic values throughout the world. The administration has vocally supported extreme right-wing parties like the AfD in Germany. He has withdrawn the US from the Paris Agreement environmental accords and the World Health Organization. He has severely reduced aid to Ukraine, a democracy struggling to survive conquest by Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

So it might have seemed out of character when Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, suddenly announced on Monday that the United States is prepared to offer open-ended financial support to Argentina:

[a screen cap of a Scott Bessent tweet declaring Argentina systematically important]

But although in this case America is offering aid rather than taking it away, our new Argentina policy is part of the same Trumpian agenda.

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.writes.news · 11d

The @telliotter.bsky.social network state story is here.

This is a really important concept driving a lot of the thinking coming out of Silicon Valley and influencing the GOP. The characters themselves are also something to behold. Trust me, you gotta check it out: www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

Tech Billionaires Already Captured the White House. They Still Want to Be Kings

From Montenegro to northern California, the tech elite dream of building cities where they make the rules. Is this, finally, their moment?

www.wired.com

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shanley @shanley.com · 11d

"For some of the wealthiest and most powerful people on Earth today, the political division that matters isn’t right or left, Democrat or Republican—it’s the nation-state versus the network state."

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 11d

NEW from me for @wired.com's politics issue: I have spent SO much time fascinated by the "network state"--privatized cities in special economic zones (SEZs) where the normal rules and regulations don't apply.

www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

Tech Billionaires Already Captured the White House. They Still Want to Be Kings

From Montenegro to Northern California, the tech elite dream of building cities where they make the rules. Is this, finally, their moment?

www.wired.com

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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 11d

NEW from me for @wired.com's politics issue: I have spent SO much time fascinated by the "network state"--privatized cities in special economic zones (SEZs) where the normal rules and regulations don't apply.

www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

Tech Billionaires Already Captured the White House. They Still Want to Be Kings

From Montenegro to Northern California, the tech elite dream of building cities where they make the rules. Is this, finally, their moment?

www.wired.com

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Eternal HellCat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 12d

Shanley vindication tour

Editrix Steph @editrixsteph.bsky.social · 12d

Could be subtitled @shanley.com Was Right About Everything All Along (But We’re Still Gonna Ignore Her). Embarrassing. www.wired.com/story/silico...

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

www.wired.com

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Editrix Steph @editrixsteph.bsky.social · 12d

Could be subtitled @shanley.com Was Right About Everything All Along (But We’re Still Gonna Ignore Her). Embarrassing. www.wired.com/story/silico...

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

www.wired.com

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shanley @shanley.com · 13d

there are no more great posters. we all flew away.

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shanley @shanley.com · 14d

spent way too much of my day today listening to venture capitalists and reading their bullshit and looking at their fuckin money and their portfolios and their new features and on and on and on

just like everyday lol but the days i am forced to listen to their podcasts are worst.

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shanley @shanley.com · Sep 4

Tech fascists are creating a baby boom to fuel their expansion and to create citizens for the Network State.

This is a fascist breeding program

I wrote about this recently:

substack: techfascism.substack.com/p/the-tech-f...

main blog: www.shanley.com/blog/the-tec...

The Tech Fascist Baby Boom

Hyperbreeding, Network State Population Growth and Civilization Building

techfascism.substack.com

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shanley @shanley.com · 14d

omg you worked at netscape that is so crazy!!!! hahah if he had a moustache it would be soooo much worse

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