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Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 11mo ago

I 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...

The Woman Who Predicted Tech Fascism — Paulina Borsook Was Right

YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran

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Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 11mo ago

1/ 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

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Repeater Books@repeaterbooks.bsky.social · last wk.

We hope you're enjoying the last few days of summer and preparing for the back-to-school season. To celebrate, we're hosting a sale on all our books. From today until the 4th of September, you can get 30% off site-wide. Visit our website and enter the code "SHOP30" at checkout to claim your offer.

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Weird Bros@weirdbros.bsky.social · 3w ago

Nice profile of Paulina Borsook, who predicted the tech billionaire madness 3 decades ago. (One thing I would have added: beyond @gilduran.com's promoting of Borsook and 'Cyberselfish', David Golumbia also helped with his 2024 book 'Cyberlibertarianism'.) 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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Repeater Books@repeaterbooks.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Now that Borsook’s worst and most apocalyptic visions have come true tenfold, people are ready to listen" 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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Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 3w ago

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.

kim_harding ✅@kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

A Tech Prophet Finally Gets Her Second Coming https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/cyberselfish-paulina-borsook/ 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.

A Tech Prophet Finally Gets Her Second Coming

The first thing to know about Cyberselfish, the chillingly prescient 2000 book about Silicon Valley that its author, Paulina Borsook, says “ruined my life” and caused a 25-year-long “curse” to befall her, is that it’s very, very funny. Cyberselfish, which Borsook cannot stand to name and instead calls “TDB” (short for “that damn book”), is […]

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Al Shipley@alshipley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music was released one year ago today. All of my love and gratitude to every person who I interviewed, and every person who helped with the publication, or bought the book or helped spread the word. repeaterbooks.com/product/toug...

Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music - Repeater Books

The definitive history of how a city danced its pain away. Drawing on interviews with dozens of DJs, producers, vocalists, club owners, and record store-owners who shaped the Baltimore club genre, Tou...

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Repeater Books@repeaterbooks.bsky.social · 2w ago

Belgian Repeaterites! Rile Books will be hosting a conversation Lucy McKenzie and Susan Finlay, reading from recent and forthcoming work involving Astro-Marxists, historic architecture of Brussels, hookup culture, and perhaps too many other places and people. Wednesday 2 September at rile*books!

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Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 3w ago

“They’re Fascists”: Silicon Valley Journalist Gil Durán on “The Nerd Reich” Takeover of U.S. Politics https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/17/theyre_fascists_silicon_valley_journalist_gil

“They're Fascists”: Silicon Valley Journalist Gil Durán on “The Nerd Reich” Takeover of U.S. Politics

Pt. 2 of our interview with Gil Durán, author of the new book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.

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Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 3w ago

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. @annamerlan.bsky.social sat down with the famed writer to discuss "Cyberselfish," her book that began as an essay that ran in this magazine.

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.

motherjones.com

Repeater Books@repeaterbooks.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Now that Borsook’s worst and most apocalyptic visions have come true tenfold, people are ready to listen" 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...

collectiveinkbooks.com

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 3w ago

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.

Gareth Dennis@garethdennis.uk · 3w ago

Was waiting for this, the worst take possible... Of course it's from the newspaper that hasn't published circulation figures since 2020 because it has so few readers. A reminder: the privatised railway collapsed under its own failures. BR had privatisation inflicted on it.

headline for a comment piece in the Telegraph reading "State control of railways is the wrong direction of travel"
Repeater Books@repeaterbooks.bsky.social · last mo.

"Essential reading for anyone who wishes to study the social history of resistance to industrial agriculture." -- Agricultural History Review Get you copy of The Garden by Matthew Ingram today at: repeaterbooks.com/product/the-...

The Garden: Visionary Growers and Farmers of the Counterculture - Repeater Books

The legendary countercultural growers who never stopped changing the world. The Garden explores the transformative journey of the 1970s countercultural farmers and growers whose radical practices red...

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Repeater Books@repeaterbooks.bsky.social · 3w ago

Love to see this! Paulina's book is coming out in the UK next month with our sister imprint, Zer0 Books. You can order it here: www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o...

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Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 3w ago

This is so great. Paulina Borsook deserves her flowers. One of the best things about the past year has been (accidentally) helping to get her book re-published. Paulina is one of the only tech critics who got it right. Buy her book! Put her on your show! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 3w ago

YouTube is going to delete my podcast, but my book is #111 on Amazon—one week before publication. Bring it on. Let's go all the way there.

Repeater Books@repeaterbooks.bsky.social · 3w ago

Love to see this! Paulina's book is coming out in the UK next month with our sister imprint, Zer0 Books. You can order it here: www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o...

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Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 3w ago

This is so great. Paulina Borsook deserves her flowers. One of the best things about the past year has been (accidentally) helping to get her book re-published. Paulina is one of the only tech critics who got it right. Buy her book! Put her on your show! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 3w ago

This is so great. Paulina Borsook deserves her flowers. One of the best things about the past year has been (accidentally) helping to get her book re-published. Paulina is one of the only tech critics who got it right. Buy her book! Put her on your show! 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.

motherjones.com

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 4w ago

In April, I was kicked off of X. Now, YouTube is threatening to delete the Nerd Reich podcast. Anyone have experience dealing with this kind of thing? It's clearly a coordinated campaign to kill our channel via false complaints, but it appears YouTube will nuke our channel in the next two days.

Repeater Books@repeaterbooks.bsky.social · last mo.

"Essential reading for anyone who wishes to study the social history of resistance to industrial agriculture." -- Agricultural History Review Get you copy of The Garden by Matthew Ingram today at: repeaterbooks.com/product/the-...

The Garden: Visionary Growers and Farmers of the Counterculture - Repeater Books

The legendary countercultural growers who never stopped changing the world. The Garden explores the transformative journey of the 1970s countercultural farmers and growers whose radical practices red...

repeaterbooks.com