The Rise of the Nerd Reich

[Aglaopheme]

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas

Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society. In 2008, a software developer in San Francisco named Curtis Yarvin, writing under a pseudonym, proposed a horrific solution for people he deemed “not productive”: “convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses.” Yarvin, a self-described reactionary and extremist who was 35 years old at the time, clarified that he was “just kidding.” But then he continued, “The trouble with the biodiesel solution is that no one would want to live in a city whose public transportation was fueled, even just partly, by the distilled remains of its late underclass. However, it helps us describe the problem we are trying to solve. Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide.”

 

[RoryN]

That phrase is gonna stick.

Especially with Elon around.

 

[Aglaopheme]

https://newrepublic.com/article/177733/billionaire-solano-california-tech-secession

Yet there’s potentially a more sinister angle. California Forever aligns suspiciously with a cultish dystopian movement to build so-called “network states”—private zones where tech zillionaires can abandon democratic society to live under the rule of their own private micro governments. The secret plot to assemble vast swaths of land and build a new city fits a pattern of wealthy Silicon Valley types attempting to construct similar enclaves around the globe. San Francisco billionaire Michael Moritz, a driving force behind California Forever, appeared to hint at the idea in his pitch to potential investors back in 2017. “We can secede by removing children from state-run schools, converting currency into gold or cryptocurrency, relocating to states with lower taxes, obtaining a second passport, or expatriating to a tax haven,” writes Slobodian. “We can secede, and many have, by joining gated communities to create private governments in miniature.”

 

[Aglaopheme]

https://washingtonspectator.org/understanding-tescreal-silicon-valleys-rightward-turn/

Dr. Timnit Gebru, a prominent AI researcher fired from Google in 2020 for speaking up against what she perceived as the company’s lack of proper ethical guardrails, has partnered with other researchers and philosophers to cointhe (somewhat unwieldy) acronym “TESCREAL” to describe the overlapping emergent belief systems that characterize the contrarian, AI-centric worldviews challenging progressivism. It stands for: Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism.TESCREAL proponents have an authoritarian “ends justify the means” mindset rooted in the idea that if we do not submit to their urgent demands, we will extinguish billions of potential future intelligent beings. Surely we must not allow that to happen!

TESCREAL is a convergent Venn diagram of overlapping ideologies that, because they often attract contrarian young men, tend to co-occur with other male-dominated reactionary and misogynistic movements. The Men’s Rights movement (Manosphere), the MGTOWmovement (Men Going Their Own Way), and PUA (Pick Up Artist) communities are near-adjacent to the TESCREAL milieu.

 

[Aglaopheme]

Gil Durin has written a lot of pieces on this. Here is an interview he did.

https://techwontsave.us/episode/221_techs_plan_to_ethnically_cleanse_san_francisco_w_gil_duran

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

When you go “all in” with a talking point, but fail to realize the freak show in this administration, starting with President Poopy-Pants all the way down are the “weird”….

God, you clowns are the gift that keeps on giving…