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California journalist. Ida Tarbell stan. FrameLab (w/@GeorgeLakoff). Find me on BlueSky instead! bsky.app/profile/gildur…

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Is Peter Thiel the Antichrist? Here's what the New York Times should have asked the tech surveillance billionaire with the Armageddon obsession. thenerdreich.com/is-peter-thiel…

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Why do Republicans keep calling Trump "daddy"? @georgelakoff explained it decades ago – and it's the key to understanding GOP politics. theframelab.org/daddy-issues-w…

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On June 4, NYT reported that dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein invested with Peter Thiel. I'm just a guy who ran the opinion sections of two local newspapers but, golly gee folks, I think this topic would need to be addressed in a podcast interview with Thiel.

On June 4, NYT reported that dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein invested with Peter Thiel.

I'm just a guy who ran the opinion sections of two local newspapers but, golly gee folks, I think this topic would need to be addressed in a podcast interview with Thiel.
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Peter Theil is a nihilist and a pessimist, who plays at being a Machiavellian. All of his faith in tech accelerationism is grounded in a reductionist and determinist worldview that sees dominance and suffering as natural, and humans as disposable.

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Ross David’s interview with Thiel was truly bad, except when he joked that reasonable people might fear Thiel rather than Greta Thunberg is the real totalitarian harbinger. Thiel honestly came off as incoherent, if not deranged.

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"To use a venture capital metaphor...Vance has only just progressed from his pre-seed to seed funding." JD Vance is everywhere—and he’s the highest point of contact, Trumpworld sources say, for tech billionaires who went all-in on Donald Trump. wired.com/story/jd-vance…

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Crypto is Corruption: “A United Arab Emirates-based fund has bought $100 million worth of digital tokens issued by World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture of U.S. President Donald Trump's family, becoming its largest publicly known investor.” reuters.com/business/finan…