Just going to put this into the world, but I would so love to do a tight, smart book on the aesthetics, implications, and impacts of slop

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2026 is out now! Edited by @xkcd.com (and series-edited by me) it's full of fascinating, beautiful stories bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I was too pregnant to go to the National Book Awards after party last year, but there is an alternative world where I attended and my water would have literally broken on the dance floor and sometimes I really regret that not having come to pass, for the bit

Anyways-- www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.

Altman. Musk. Huang. Bezos. They all came to the White House Thursday night, though you might not have seen it on TV.

I know this industry has really made me ill because I really get a visceral pleasure looking at a great sales track on Bookscan (not one of my books, is the alarming part)

tooooo much discourse for a Sunday night

What a moment

My current nonfiction reading, maybe there is a theme? Thanks to @gilduran.com, @naomiaklein.bsky.social , @astra.bsky.social, the late Mark Fisher, and Claire Stapleton for the light reading 🙏

I have a crush on every good publicist in book publishing

how am I doing? well the seventh DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL novel made me weep this week

As I read journalist @gilduran.com’s provocative new book over a long weekend, an unnerving realization took hold—in my hands was the most urgent warning for American democracy I have ever encountered. www.confrontthehate.com/p/the-most-u...

'The Nerd Reich': An Urgent Warning for American Democracy

Decades of investigating government corruption couldn't prepare me for Gil Durán’s chilling account of Silicon Valley’s authoritarian ambitions.

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a rather happy publishing condition to be nervous late on a Wednesday afternoon

He literally bankrolled your entire political career

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Vance: I'd be not shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us. But I try not to focus too much on it

Oh man. @chrislhayes.bsky.social talking with @gilduran.com about his book “The Nerd Reich” is so good. overcast.fm/+ABLPgmGa6ZU

’The Nerd Reich’ with Gil Durán — Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

Silicon Valley was once viewed as a center-left stronghold where tech founders partnered with Democrats to push clean energy and digital innovation. But today, the world’s most powerful tech titans in...

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My “We Operate Under U.S. Law” ad is raising a lot of questions already answered by the ad.

honestly extremely fun to read a seasoned critic absolutely freak out in the good way over a book www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/b...

Book Review: ‘The Disappearers,’ by Marlon James

Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.

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unfortunately I think I have an amazing idea for a publishing industry Substack

Here's the NPR 1A show I did on Monday with @gilduran.com and @himself.bsky.social. We talked about tech billionaires' Olympian view of themselves and how they're attacking the already rickety pillars of American democracy. the1a.org/segments/if-...

If You Can Keep It: The world tech billionaires want

Imagine that the U.S. isn't a democracy.

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We did it! “The Nerd Reich” is a New York Times Instant Bestseller! My book debuts at #3 on the non-fiction list. Thanks to all who pre-ordered /bought the book—or requested it at the public library or promoted it on social. Without you, I’m just an unemployed guy with a laptop. But with you…

Congratulations to @gilduran.com: as brilliant, intrepid, and savvy an author as they come, who has been so fearless in the crucial & frightening reporting work of THE NERD REICH, and who is now an instant New York Times Bestseller, debuting at #3!

This week we chatted with author and journalist @gilduran.com about his terrifying new book, "The Nerd Reich." He walked us through how tech billionaires are scheming to end democracy and institute an authoritarian "Network State." youtu.be/394Fb1Vgj-s

Your Tech CEO Doesn't Want to Fix Democracy. He Wants to End It. (ft. Gil Durán)

YouTube video by Cancel Me, Daddy

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ugh, the author-targeted, AI-generated publishing scams are so bad right now-- between the agent/editor impersonators and the bookclub/festival scammers, just feels like it's everywhere. and I'm aware I'm only seeing the ill-aimed fraction of it!

So thrilled that @gilduran.com's THE NERD REICH is an Indie Bestseller this week, debuting at #4 on the hardcover nonfiction list! www.indiebound.org/bestseller-l...

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

I had two very distinct reading experiences this week and I came up with a conclusion: the souls of our tech elite are much darker and emptier than the soul of one book-loving Hollywood actress. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

The Maris Review, vol 119

The theme of the week is who has a soul and who is a mere husk of a person (the answer might surprise you) What I read this week The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy by G...

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Not long ago, the tech sector billed itself as liberal champions of freedom and connection. Those days are long gone: Silicon Valley’s elite has executed a sharp right turn. With “The Nerd Reich,” Gil Durán maps the road to our technofascist moment. thebaffler.com/latest/reven...

Revenge of the Nerds | Ali Winston

In his new book, Gil Durán examines the origins and ambitions of Silicon Valley’s war on democracy.

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I spoke with @gilduran.com this week to discuss the roots and rise of tech fascism—and how it might fall.

Charting the rise of tech fascism

How the tech right seized power, with Gil Duran, author of the Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.

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Great to have @gilduran.com back on the show as he celebrates the release of his new book THE NERD REICH! He has no qualms about calling out the industry’s political project as a fascist one and criticizing those who enable it. A must-watch interview, and a must-read book.

Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 2mo ago

Tech billionaires would rather get rid of democracy than admit their fascist project is a bad idea. This week @gilduran.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss how tech billionaires are upending the political system to serve their own ends. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/342_...

“We can have billionaires or we can have democracy. We cannot have both.” Says Gil Duran of the bizarre fixations and political fantasies of tech billionaires like Peter Thiel, and how those ideas are being translated into real-world governance.

Silicon Valley’s Billionaire Cults Are Coming for Democracy

“We can have billionaires or we can have democracy. We cannot have both,” says Gil Durán.

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I think you should listen to Tested from @reveleth.com, follow their work, and check out @coyotemedia.org - especially everyone in the Bay Area! It's one of the best podcasts I've listened to. Incredibly well done on every level. www.tested-podcast.com/about/

About – TESTED

Since the very beginning of women’s sports, there has been a struggle to define who, exactly, gets to compete in the women’s category. A century later, this struggle is still very much alive.

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