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[Life in Common @ArthurSmid]

Envision a new economy as you collaborate to overcome a corporate entity that has a limitless supply of credit (and debt).

Utopoly: A Utopian Research Method

By Neil Farnan @NeilFarnan

https://t.co/6eA9SF5oov PDF via @UALRO

[Jon Fortt @jonfortt]

Are tech billionaires sinking democracy? I got to interview my old friend @gilduran76 for @DecoderPod about his upcoming book, and a side of tech that hasn’t gotten much scrutiny. Agree with his conclusions or not, it’s an important debate:
https://t.co/a8R59aAm8M

[Robert Young Pelton @RYP__]

"The Nerd Reich is a term that some people use to describe a cultish group of tech billionaires who basically seek to replace democracy with something resembling corporate dictatorship" https://t.co/xUwwS9EWia

[WIRED @WIRED]

Elon Musk says he'll step back from the government. While it may seem as though the worst excesses of DOGE have passed, the reality is, the whole government is DOGE now.

#WIREDPoliticsLab: https://t.co/0uoLJFIdxz

[Ali Winston @awinston]

Been sitting on this a while - dug with @jason_a_w back through the support network for Oakland’s reactionaries & came across this network state hub in Wyoming that’s deeply interlaced with the intellectual wing of the “Dissident Right” https://t.co/dOKLN3AOCF

[Emily Mills @sf_mills]

Remote Wyoming vacation lodge emerges as haven for US ‘dissident’ right | Wyoming | The Guardian https://t.co/TlfYsSYkG6

[Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them) @xriskology]

This was such a fun and incredibly interesting experience. I joined the brilliant Rev. Dr. Otis Moss and Gil Duran (of "The Nerd Reich" fame!) to discuss the TESCREAL bundle of ideologies. If you have the time, give it a listen. We cover a lot of fascinating ground! Link below:

[Abhilash Shukla @AbhilashShuklaa]

Tech oligarchs are gambling our #future on a fantasy | Adam Becker #climate https://t.co/hxeRIYVdPN

[Basic Books @BasicBooks]

MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER by Adam Becker (@FreelanceAstro) is called "smart and wonderfully readable" in the @nytimes. Read what else they have to say in the full review ↴ https://t.co/SGEQUpQpkD

[Nino Brodin @Orgetorix]

Go to Mars, Never Die and Other Big Tech Pipe Dreams

In “More Everything Forever,” the science journalist Adam Becker subjects Silicon Valley’s “ideology of technological salvation” to critical scrutiny. https://t.co/H3UQixa3Vt via @nytimesbooks

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Exposing the origins of the improbable – and at times scary – plans of tech billionaires makes Adam Becker's More Everything Forever a disturbing but important book https://t.co/7PKkDDTsDY