The Rise of Silicon Valley’s Techno-Religion
The Rationalists, a community focused on the risks of artificial intelligence, regularly gather with tech figures and other like-minded people in a complex that covers much of a city block. … Continue reading →
Lighthaven: Techno-Cult in Berkeley
The Nerd Reich: Tech cult compound rises in Berkeley Gil Duran 06 Aug 2025 — 3 min read The New York Times has published a story about the “Rise of Silicon Valley’s Techno-Religion”: In downtown … Continue reading →
Gil Duran: The Dark Enlightenment
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/707010/gil-duran-the-nerd-reich-tech-billionaires-authoritarianism-dictator?ref=thenerdreich.com Why tech billionaires want a dictatorship Jon ForttJul 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM EDT Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Jon Fortt, CNBC journalist, cohost of Closing Bell: Overtime, and … Continue reading →
Medicaid: This was the Plan
So …force the deportation of Hispanic migrant farm workers, and replace them with “American” Medicaid recipients. Most of these potential workers would come from nearby rural areas. A significant number … Continue reading →
Monasteries as Sanctuaries of Service
Better Burma, a non-profit organization that funds relief and education services for people in Myanmar, reports that many Buddhist monasteries have become centers of service for displaced and impoverished victims … Continue reading →
Thanissara: ICE & US Fascism
Dispatch from the Transnational Capitalist Coup. (Part One) by Thanissara This last July 4th marked 249 years of the U.S. as an entity, and its funeral. With Trump’s Big “Ugly” Bill, … Continue reading →
Transition Towns Post-Mortem: An Opportunity Lost
Transition Towns Post-Mortem: an Opportunity Lost [Editor: this article stems from my ten years of doctoral research and thinking about Transition Towns, a movement for local resilience and climate change … Continue reading →
Happy Fourth of July
Happy Fourth of July. Millions of people gonna die. And we all know the reason why. MAGA* took our health care away. Millions of people cut off from basic medical … Continue reading →
No One Threw Bricks for This
By Scott Alan • Charlottetown • “No One Threw Bricks for This”‘, Published in Wayves, 2SLGBTQI+ Newsletter of Atlantic Canada, 2025-06-27 Pride is here. The flags are up, the music … Continue reading →
Mass Deportation: The Pushback Begins in Worcester
Neighbors in a Worcester neighborhood came out in force to stop ICE and other Federal agents from arresting and detaining a grandmother and her daughter, who is a teenage mother … Continue reading →
