#siliconvalleyright — Public Fediverse posts

"What truly binds together this movement is a desire for freedom from, if not total control over, nation-states; a belief in the superiority, either innate or engineered, of a superior class of elite coders and engineers; and a complete rejection of any conception of social responsibility or equality under the law."

Ali Winston reviews @gilduran 's #TheNerdReich: #SiliconValley Fascism and the War on Democracy

https://thebaffler.com/latest/revenge-of-the-nerds-winston
#tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #books @bookstodon

LARB Radio Hour welcomes #KimPhillipsFein, author of #CountryOfLords: Neo-Aristocrats, #SocialDarwinists, #Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America

"Phillips-Fein examines a powerful countertradition that has challenged our well-mythologized national ideal of equality from the United States's founding to today."

https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/kim-phillips-fein-country-lords-podcast-interview/
#USpol #USpolitics #inequality #UShistory #socialTheorists #SiliconValleyRight #AmericanRight #racism #books @bookstodon

Part 2 of Long Reads' discussion with #BenTarnoff and #QuinnSlobodian, authors of #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/long-reads-trillion-dollar-baby-w-quinn-slobodian-and/id791564318?i=1000775222782

for Part 1 v. https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/long-reads-trillion-dollar-baby-w-quinn-slobodian-and/id791564318?i=1000773249464

#Musk #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #techCriticism #techOligarchs #SiliconValleyRight #books @bookstodon

"While #Musk was looking to the stars, the people of Belfast were still reeling from several days of racist violence. The Belfast pogrom drew strength from the #farRight ecosystem that Musk has nurtured with the money from #SpaceX, #Tesla and other companies."

Long Reads talks w/ #BenTarnoff and #QuinnSlobodian, authors of #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Pt 1 of 2
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/long-reads-trillion-dollar-baby-w-quinn-slobodian-and/id791564318?i=1000773249464

#ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #techCriticism #techOligarchs #SiliconValleyRight #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #QuinnSlobodian & #BenTarnoff to talk about their book #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.

'We see a mind that is profoundly troubled by any contagion spreading into seemingly closed systems—it can take the form of racial others, transpeople, “woke” populations, or most generally and dismissively, “Non-Player-Characters.” '

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19188391-muskism-its-roots-nature-and-how-to-fight-it-a-conversation-with-quinn-slobodian-and-ben-tarnoff

#Musk #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs #books @bookstodon

RE: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/116535473179185669

#Muskism #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #books @bookstodon

Doug Henwood welcomes #QuinnSlobodian and #BenTarnoff, authors of #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, to discuss "Elon’s world and what he wants to do to ours."

https://kpfa.org/episode/behind-the-news-april-23-2026/
#Musk #ElonMusk #AI #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techOligarchs #techFutures #Tesla #Neuralink #books @bookstodon

"#DOGE did NOT reduce spending – at all. But it did reduce federal employment; 271,000 people lost their jobs in the federal government"

#StartMakingSense talks w/ #SashaAbramsky, author of #AmericanCarnage: How #Trump, #Musk and DOGE butchered the US Government

https://www.thenation.com/podcast/archive/sms-012026/

#USpol #USpolitics #DOGEbags #SiliconValleyRight #austerity #tech #BigTech #TechBros #books @bookstodon

"Because conservative Christianity is so tightly woven into the state’s political culture, #Musk and his fellow California exiles find themselves confronting a new ideological fusion, a blend of neoliberal economic policies and Christian-nationalist cultural ambition, rooted in the state’s long history of resource extraction and at ease with racism and misogyny."

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-texan-ideology-turner
#tech #BigTech #USpol #SiliconValleyRight #Texas #techMigration #techFutures

"Where Trump’s first administration was defined by a generally symbiotic but tenuous relationship with #BigTech, the second would be, from the jump, a rancid union of #SiliconValley ideology and fascist impulse. [...]

"In many ways, the shameless about-face comes as the culmination of the #tech world’s open embrace of self-advancing cynicism in recent years."

https://thebaffler.com/latest/e-pluribus-uh-oh-kim
#USpol #AI #SiliconValleyRight #technoauthoritarianism #techFutures

"The #AI boom has helped accelerate #SiliconValley’s lurch into authoritarianism. AI has been crucial in the operations of President Trump’s deportation machine and has further emboldened foreign dictatorships to harass and track dissidents abroad."

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/elon-musk-ai-saudi-funding/
#USpol #tech #BigTech #Musk #ElonMusk #surveillance #SiliconValleyRight #stateRepression #MBS #SaudiArabia #Grok #Twitter #socialMedia

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #QuinnSlobodian to discuss his book #HayeksBastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the #Capitalism of the Far Right.

"We take a deep dive into the genesis of a weird and powerful merging of two seemingly different groups - the #FarRight and #neoliberals"

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2025/08/21/neoliberals-meet-maga-a-conversation-with-quinn-slobodian-on-hayeks-bastards-race-gold-iq-and-the-capitalism-of-the-far-right/

#neoliberalism #MontPelerinSociety #NewRight #racialistRight #USpol #USpolitics #UShistory #MAGA #inequality #SiliconValleyRight #politicalTheory #books @histodons @bookstodon

The Long Arc of #Fascism Teach-in | Panel 2: Fascism as Capitalist Counter Revolution

"[T]he second panel turned to the present, mapping how fascism re-emerges as a reactionary force defending #racialCapitalism and elite rule against emancipatory movements."

w/ Brenna Bhandar, Avery Everhart, Gastón Gordillo, Alberto Toscano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCK1yNFv5bE
#LateFascism #FarRight #NewRight #Palantir #BigTech #tech #SiliconValleyRight #technoauthoritarianism #politicalTheory

"#ElonMusk may have resigned from the Department of Government Efficiency, but few believe he’s stepping away from power. In under a year, #DOGE brought #SiliconValley-style disruption to Washington, consolidating federal data and dismantling oversight. Now, #Musk is expected to channel what he gained into a private #AI venture – with public systems still in reach."

guest: @MattBinder

https://omny.fm/shows/the-take/what-did-elon-musk-get-from-doge-and-what-s-next
#USpol #SiliconValleyRight #DOGEbags #cronyCapitalism #MoveFastAndLootThings #tech

"The reason why we ended up calling it 'end times #fascism' is because I think it gets at the narrative structure of all of these movements, and it is the same narrative structure as the rapture."

#NaomiKlein on #Trump 2.0 and "End Times Fascism"

https://youtu.be/Pw7nMKN7Bfc
#USpol #USpolitics #politicalTheory #Trumpism #neofascism #SiliconValleyRight #oligarchy #FarRight #NewRight

"Mr. #Musk’s grandfather was also a flamboyant leader of the political movement known as #technocracy.

"Leading #technocrats proposed replacing democratically elected officials and civil servants — indeed, all of government — with an army of scientists and engineers under what they called a #technate. Some also wanted to annex Canada and Mexico."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/opinion/elon-musk-doge-technocracy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE8.DkY0.xuUNqvaLaS8R&smid=url-share
#USpol #technosolutionism #oligarchy #TechBros #techOligarchs #FarRight #SiliconValleyRight #ElonMusk #JoshuaHaldeman

'In #SiliconValley, companies are instructed to “move fast and break things.” #Musk’s own companies often take this a step further: They have few employees devoted to things like compliance or communication and often take massive, possibly existential risks. This is what Musk wants the federal government to look like.'

https://newrepublic.com/article/194044/elon-musk-doge-fraud-report

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
#USpol #NLRB #DOGE #DOGEbags #MAGA #SiliconValleyRight #DanielBerulis #whistleblowers #dataBreaches

"#ElonMusk’s minions in the federal government have just fired key experts who regulate #Tesla"

https://newrepublic.com/post/193850/elon-musk-doge-tesla-firing-self-driving-car-experts
#USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #DOGE #NHTSA #DOGEbags #cronyism #CronyCapitalism #Musk #SiliconValleyRight

"[T]his #newRight does not really reject globalism but advances a new strain of it [...] The fix it finds in race, culture, and nation is but the most recent iteration of a pro-market philosophy based not on the idea that we are all the same but that we are in a fundamental, and perhaps permanent way, different." - #QuinnSlobodian

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/free-markets-and-fixed-natures

#neoliberalism #inequality #USpolitics #AltRight #UShistory #SiliconValleyRight #FarRight #MontPelerinSociety #racialistRight @histodons

"While much of #Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency remains shrouded in secrecy, the #surveillance would mark an extraordinary use of technology to identify expressions of perceived disloyalty in a workforce already upended by widespread firings and severe cost cutting."

Musk's #DOGE using #AI to snoop on U.S. #federalWorkers, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/musks-doge-using-ai-snoop-us-federal-workers-sources-say-2025-04-08/
#USpol #USpolitics #tech #DOGEbags #TechBros #stateRepression #MAGA #austerity #SiliconValleyRight

"People compare #Trump to Hitler or to Putin. But for us the closest historical comparison is Boris Yeltsin.

"So today we talk to #JacobSilverman about Trump’s #shitcoins and other #crypto schemes because they remind us so much of 1990s Russia and Yeltsin’s family corrupt deals."

#TheRussians pod w/ #EvgeniaKovda & #YashaLevine

https://www.nefariousrussians.com/p/shitcoins-for-shitocracy-wjacob-silverman
#USpol #MAGA #cronyism #cronyCapitalism #oligarchy #SiliconValleyRight #CryptoBros #tech #TechBros #DOGEbags #MoveFastAndLootThings

#DOGE Employee Known as “Big Balls” Once Helped #Cybercrime Gang

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-staffer-big-balls-provided-tech-support-cybercrime-ring-records-show-2025-03-26/
#DOGEbags #USpol #USpolitics #SiliconValleyRight #tech #TheBestAndTheBallsiest #MoveFastAndLootThings

"More immediately ominous to people familiar with the systems was the possibility that, by tampering with the code, Elez could cause the systems, in whole or in part, to simply stop working. 'It’s like knowing you have hackers on your network, but nobody lets you do anything about it,' a Treasury employee told WIRED."

Inside Elon #Musk's 'Digital Coup'

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-digital-coup-doge-data-ai/
https://archive.ph/vF0uL
#USpol #USpolitics #DOGE #DOGEbags #TechBros #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #MAGA

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes Sarah T. Roberts

topics
⦁"the hidden humans behind #ArtificialIntelligence" & #AI's dependence on hyperexploited outsourced #labour
⦁#DOGE, "an emblem of how #SiliconValley executives have embraced a brand of #tech rapture that disdains and destroys democracy and attacks the idea that people can take care of each other"

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/16761835-the-hidden-humans-behind-artificial-intelligence-and-the-sociopathology-of-elon-musk-a-conversation-with-sarah-t-roberts
#BigTech #techWorkers #Musk #cyberlibertarianism #technosolutionism #USpol #USpolitics #SiliconValleyRight #DOGEbags

"[W]e are witnessing something new: the convergence of three strains of politics that have never simultaneously been this proximate to power [..] the Wall Street–#SiliconValley nexus of distressed debt and startup culture; anti–New Deal #conservativeThinkTanks; and the extremely online world of #anarchocapitalism and right-wing accelerationism." - #QuinnSlobodian

What is #DOGE?

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/02/15/speed-up-the-breakdown/
https://archive.ph/WEUjr
#SiliconValleyRight #MAGA #USpol #USpolitics #Musk #DOGEbags #BigTech

"Wealthy #crypto executives and investors supported #Trump and other Republicans with millions of dollars in campaign donations. Now, they aim to cash in."

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-crypto-bitcoin-corruption/
#USpol #USpolitics #TrumpCabinet #cronyism #CronyCapitalism #2024election #CryptoLobby #tech #SiliconValleyRight

« Alors que les grands patrons des #GAFAM font déjà allégeance au futur 47ème président des Etats-Unis, la #tech accentue-t-elle son virage cyber-autoritaire ? »

entretien avec @parismarx (en angl, avec intro et sous-titrage en fr)

https://youtu.be/8l63vEnTrUM
#PolitiqueAméricaine #SiliconValleyRight #BigTech #USpol #USpolitics #cyberautoritarisme #AutoritarismeNumérique #lobbys #DroiteTech #DroiteTechAméricaine #MAGA #trumpisme

"Why would the CEO of Tesla want to end a program that makes it cheaper for people to buy #EVs?

"Well, according to Musk, it would devastate #Tesla's rivals. And Tesla wants to keep its strong lead in the US EV market, which recently slipped under 50% for the first time."

Why #Musk supports #Trump getting rid of #EVTaxCredits

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/why-musk-supports-trump-getting-rid-of-ev-tax-credits/ar-AA1u6tqe?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=5324e663366e4855b328294958118749&ei=25
#USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #SiliconValleyRight #TechBros #CronyCapitalism #monopolism #affairisme #tizamis

"#Trump’s new #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency or '#DOGE' will comprise of two clueless #TechBros. What targets, exactly, will #Musk and #Ramaswamy try to hit?"

#ChrisLehmann | DOGE shit

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/welcome-to-the-department-of-government-idiocracy/
#USpol #USpolitics #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #MAGA

"Some politicians may be friendly to right-wing #SiliconValley '#broligarchs,' but #Vance has fashioned himself in #Thiel’s image." - #JacobSilverman

https://zeteo.com/p/peter-thiel-jd-vance-trump-maga-broligarch
#JDVance #PeterThiel #SiliconValleyRight #NewRight #TechOligarchs #TechBros #tech #BigTech #GOP #USpol #USpolitics #2024election