An unelected tech billionaire has so much power over the government. Tech titans fell in line behind Trump, MAGA-style populism is giving way to an optimization-oriented vision for the country’s future. Historic parallels help explain Musk’s rampage.
In the process of accumulating enormous wealth, the tech-oligarchs created the conditions for their loss of social power and, when they realized this, they got a big dose of class consciousness and turned furiously reactionary.
Silicon Valley and the nativist right worked together to elect Trump. Now the infighting has begun.
For scholars of political ideology who have closely followed tech billionaire and Palantir founder Peter Thiel over the years, Trump’s selection of J.D. Vance as his running mate is utterly terrifying.
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Tech and disability, the French Murdoch, and more media flashes
Deteriorating working conditions have led to a shift in perspective, sparking an unprecedented wave of worker activism.
California’s tech industry cannot escape its original sins.
All the ways Saudi Arabia’s cash powers tech startups and venture capital. In two years, MBS poured at least $11 billion into US startups, making it the industry’s largest single investor.
If the ongoing film and TV writers strike is successful, the Writers Guild of America could establish a model for how service sector, app-based gig workers can take on Silicon Valley.
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