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"AI buildout is inflationary with an unknown return for the companies who are investing trillions into compute." This junks any argument that neoliberals limit public investment to limit inflation. They'll throw the economy on the pyre when their wizards tell them to.
The UK government is making upwards of £4.9bn in profit from visa fees, citizenship fees & the immigration health surcharge. Meanwhile, people are getting into thousands of pounds of debt or going without food just to afford to these immigration fees. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
Government makes £5bn a year from immigration fees while applicants…
Home Office’s fees are up to 10 times the processing cost – and rising every year
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As far as I can tell, Effective Altruists are Utilitarians who are relieved that in the Trolley Problem, saving 5 people justifies their innate desire to kill the one guy
Went to a bookstore meetup with Pauline Borsook, author of Cyberselfish. She definitely saw the enshittification of tech and noticed it before a lot of other people did. I recommend the book. 📚💙 #BookSky
I love this slide. I really don't think the geopolitical implications of the clean energy transition have sunk in for most people.
This is oligarchy. "Don't criticize the oligarchs or they will destroy you" is a story about rising dictatorship, but framed as political consultant strategizing. Dems should be riding anti-AI anger to massive gains, but consultant class will help throw that away. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI
Democratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them.
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I see a lot of people are just picking up on the weird "rationalist" doomsday sex cult behind Big Tech. For those just joining us, we've got a couple books to recommend if you want to know how we got here and what to do about it
Congratulations to Paulina Borsook and @tinhouse.bsky.social on the US publication of Cyberselfish. We're looking forward to reading the UK edition out this month with our friends at Zer0 Books www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o...
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The Ulm 5 Trial Dramatizes Germany’s Complicity with Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Five activists who vandalized an Elbit Systems factory aim to put Germany and the Israeli weapons company on trial.
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I see a lot of people are just picking up on the weird "rationalist" doomsday sex cult behind Big Tech. For those just joining us, we've got a couple books to recommend if you want to know how we got here and what to do about it
One of the earlier examples of "listen to the women" in tech. There are many others.
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 12mo ago1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
As A.I. doomerism takes off, I tracked down the author of Cyberselfish to chat through her decades-old critiques of tech bros. slate.trib.al/rJzF11v
An Early Critic of Silicon Valley Is Back. She Has a Lot of Thoughts About What Went Wrong.
“It’s a kind of intellectual and emotional stillness I see these people having.”
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Go tell your local bookstore to stock up and buy it if you see it. Borsook figured out the guys from Silicon Valley in the late 90s her book was originally published in 2000 https://slate.com/technology/2026/09/cyberselfish-come-back-paulina-borsook-silicon-valley.html
I’d like to nudge people to go to your local bookstore and ask them to order “cyberselfish”. I want to read this book myself since it’s being published.. It was originally published in 2000. She knew what these people were like she saw it. This is the kind of journalism we needed […]
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Here's me on that Simon Shuster piece in The Atlantic. The reason why I think it struck a nerve is his sympathies are quite transparent. He spends two paragraphs at the start fawning over the grandeur of CCP state ceremonies
New Bloom@newbloommag.net · 2w ago"When Will the American Commentariat Give Up on Asking When Taiwan Will Give Up?" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
Paulina Boorsook's book Cyberselfish is fantastic -- a funny, enlightening anthropological view of The Nerd Reich published 26 years ago. If only I'd read it back then!
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 11mo agoI interviewed Paulina Borsook, who warned of tech culture's toxic underbelly over 30 years ago. She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish." It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...
#booksky 💡📚💙 I've been reading Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook, 25 years old but so much of it is still relevant: today's Techbros are still largely the same. She has a chapter on how tech people are generally stingy with philanthropy. Bill Gates later proved to be one to buck the trend. He...
And the following paragraph is even more to the point. Some things never change, and now this bleak vision is slowly becoming reality.
From Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook. This was written 26 years ago and it's still exactly what we are seeing today with genAI. #booksky 💡📚💙
UK version out September 29th from our sister imprint Zer0 Books www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o...
Cyberselfish from Zer0 Books
In 2000, Google’s motto was “Don’t be evil.” In 2018, with the company valued at $766 billion, the phrase was of...
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Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 2w agoPaulina Borsook’s book launch is next week in Oakland. New “Cyberselfish” —with a foreword by me. This event will sell out. Buy tickets now! (See you there?) luma.com/05tl0orh
Paulina Borsook’s book launch is next week in Oakland. New “Cyberselfish” —with a foreword by me. This event will sell out. Buy tickets now! (See you there?) luma.com/05tl0orh
An evening with Paulina Borsook about her classic book, Cyberselfish · Luma
Paulina Borsook's Cyberselfish, first published in the year 2000, was a groundbreaking exploration of the culture of Silicon Valley. The book saw the warning…
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Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 5mo agoRemember when y'all made this thread on Paulina Borsook go viral? Well, that resulted in her getting a deal to re-publish her book in the USA, the UK & Commonwealth, Belgium, France, and Switzerland! Coming Sept. 15—with a foreword by some guy named Gil Duran. Pre-order! www.cyberselfish.com
I’ve seen Gil Gil‘s previous interview with Paulina Borsook and I am glad to see her book published because she pegged the assholes in Silicon Valley long before anyone else noticed them https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-ghost-was-right/
Paulina Borsook's Cyberselfish Republished in 2026
Paulina Borsook's masterpiece, Cyberselfish, will be republished on September 17, 2026, with a foreword by Gil Durán of The Nerd Reich.
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Read this book! Paulina Borsook's Cyberselfish Republished in 2026 www.thenerdreich.com/the-ghost-wa...
Paulina Borsook's Cyberselfish Republished in 2026
Paulina Borsook's masterpiece, Cyberselfish, will be republished on September 17, 2026, with a foreword by Gil Durán of The Nerd Reich.
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The great news is that "Cyberselfish" is being re-published. Paulina Borsook 'saw' the tech future and, to her utmost credit, wrote about it before anyone else. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A tech prophet finally gets her second coming
In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.
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Cyberselfish
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Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2w agoI've said this in the past a few times, and it bears repeating: I'm convinced that most of the tech industry are sociopaths. There is no industry more committed to rationalizing mass destruction, and in our current environment, that's saying something.
In the July/August 1996 issue of @motherjones.com, Paulina Boorsook tried to tell us...and, here we are... Now what do we do?
Cyberselfish
Silicon Valley, one of the country's biggest recipients of government largesse, would like to bite the hand that feeds it.
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From our friends at Zer0 Books: www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o...
