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📻 NEW PODCAST: Gil Durán says explaining our politics without Thiel, Yarvin and the network state is like explaining 9/11 without Al-Qaeda. He joins me to talk tech fascism, crypto corruption, and the midterms. america2.news/podcast-nerd...

america2.newsPodcast: Nerd Reich Redux with Gil DuránGil joins Dave for a discussion of his recently-released New York Times bestselling book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" and what it might mean for the midterms.

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Lysander

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Ask Gil if he has ever met Yarvin or been to Prospera

Dave Troy

@davetroy.com

/cc @gilduran.com episode is up!! 👀

thanks!

Fantastic I must read this book Thanks for reminder

annneff.bsky.social

@annneff.bsky.social

On order via guardian bookshop

BlueSky Expert

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He stole everything from Shanley helpshanley.substack.com/p/did-gil-du...

helpshanley.substack.comDid Gil Duran Plagiarize Shanley Kane?Shanley wrote about tech fascism years before Gil Duran, but he never credited her.

Fan is the Plan

@e-meffeff.bsky.social

The ‘network’ state? I wonder if the engineers who feel trapped in a ‘build Frankenstein safely, but mostly first’ ai race use a different term to mean the same thing.