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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

2025/08/06 · Leave a comment

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

2025/08/06 · Leave a comment

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

2025/07/22 · Leave a comment

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

2025/07/22 · Leave a comment

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

2025/07/20 · Leave a comment

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

2025/07/18 · Leave a comment

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

2025/07/11 · Leave a comment

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

2025/07/04 · 2 Comments

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

2025/06/27 · Leave a comment

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

2025/05/29 · Leave a comment

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