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Although he was largely an observer of the technical community that created Silicon Valley, his various ideas and crusades around the Whole Earth Catalog, which he created in the fall of 1968, foreshadow and resonate with the techno-utopian culture that the Valley spawned.

John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

In his book, Friedman wrote about various “flatteners,” forces that were knitting the planet closer together. Several of these were digital technology: affordable Internet browsers like Netscape; workflow software that enabled collaboration between international businesses and…

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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

In another timeline, Yarvin might have remained an obscure and ineffectual internet crank, a digital de Maistre. Instead, he has become one of America’s most influential illiberal thinkers, an engineer of the intellectual source code for the second Trump Administration. “Yarvin has pushed the Overton window,” Nikhil Pal Singh, a history professor... See more

Ava Kofman • Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

He regularly invited top computer scientists to his office to explain emerging trends in hardware and software. He had three home computers. He was typing a future bestseller, Earth in the Balance, on an early laptop. He went to computer-industry conferences, wrote articles for Scientific American, and fluently spoke the language of VLSI and AI,

Margaret O'Mara • The Code

Elon is 100% right. Mackenzie Scott Bezos got divorced six years ago and has already spent $20B on far left-wing causes. Melinda French Gates got a personal philanthropic allocation of $12.5B in the divorce four years ago, and pretty much every cent she’s spent to date is allocated to... See more

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Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

131 - Will Curran (Endless Events) On The New Virtual Events Industry

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For years, Yarvin was best known, to the extent that he was known at all, as the court philosopher of the Thiel-verse, the network of heterodox entrepreneurs, intellectuals, and hangers-on surrounding the tech mogul.