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Reporter at ICIJ.org and author. GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY is out in paperback. Signal: jacobsilverman.99 www.jacobsilverman.com linktr.ee/gildedrage

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 19h
"Ukrainian intelligence agencies estimate that about 50,000 North Korean troops have been sent to fight for Moscow, along with ballistic missiles and heavy artillery systems." www.ft.com/content/8a45...
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Seoul accuses Ukraine of violating secrecy pact on North Korean soldiers
South Korea demands apology after Volodymyr Zelenskyy discloses prisoner transfer
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 5h
Another day of life, another bite at the apple.
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 16h
Dua Lipa, are you interested in a book on the rise of the tech right?
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 20h
United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."
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Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 22h
The Adam Back as Satoshi theory never made sense in part because he would have access to tens of billions of dollars while his business record indicates otherwise. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Bitcoin Pioneer Adam Back’s Empire Beset by Hack, Lawsuits
Adam Back has long had a rarefied status in the Bitcoin world as a pioneering cryptographer whose work was cited by Satoshi Nakamoto and who has himself been rumored to be Bitcoin’s elusive creator.
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 23h
I've got ideas. If you don't like those, I have others.
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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JCO for the win.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look, Ive paid good money to touch an sr71. But 60 years old, in an outdoor static display for 25 years, no one produces the special fuel anymore, what is this about and why?
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Are you a nurse working in a hospital that’s using Palantir technology? Do you want to talk about how that affects your work for @motherjones.com ? Reach out on Signal at shurwitz.18–your anonymity will be protected
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Happy retirement to Justin Verlander. Here’s a throwback to me helping Kate Upton change your Wikipedia photo for my talk show WikiWhat!
Me and Kate Upton sitting at a computer in a fake doctor’s office. She is saying: He should get his picture changed. It’s not what he looks like.Kate Upton looking at Justin Verlander’s wikipedia page. She’s saying: He has that hat crease it’s just mean.Kate pointing at a picture in a mosaic of pictures as I watch. She’s saying says: “Look how cute this one is. You can even cut me out.”
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 28/09/2026
"This year’s El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California
The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 28/09/2026
Whenever I hear the word "discourse" I reach for my revolver
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 27/09/2026
It sounds like Tesla lawyers tried to intimidate or buy off witnesses in the big class action case about anti-Black racism at the Fremont factory. electrek.co/2026/09/23/t...
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Tesla’s 'hardcore lawyers' went a little too hardcore
On day one of Tesla's racism trial, a witness said a Tesla lawyer misled him, and Tesla's counsel called the N-word a 'term of endearment.'
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 27/09/2026
Coolest possible last line
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Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This is so freckin cool
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sumosoul.bsky.social @sumosoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Day15 SPOILER I admit it, I was rooting for Ao, but then I saw Ōnosato overcome with emotion during Kimi Ga Yo, Japan's national anthem, and I realized what a relief it is for him and for sumo to have a yokozuna who can deliver. Does sumo deliver?! Everbody say "hai!" 🤗
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 27/09/2026
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Levy writes: "And the shoulders that Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and others stood on were not those of pocket-protector-wearing nerds clocking into jobs at Lockheed..." Except Woz's dad **worked** at Lockheed. Lockheed was the reason Woz grew up around the densest population of engineers on Earth
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 26/09/2026
Who convinced him to start using Meta/Zuck's preferred term?
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 26/09/2026
Some people can't handle raccoon culture.
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 25/09/2026
If a nation-state did this it'd be called espionage. openai.com/hugging-face...
openai.com
The Hugging Face incident and other third-party impact from misaligned models
Read OpenAI’s findings on the Hugging Face incident and AI model misalignment, including investigation updates, safety research, and lessons learned.
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 25/09/2026
We live in a sour candy golden age, yet the world remains in disarray.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 24/09/2026
Don Jr.-backed drone-parts manufacturer congratulates Eric Trump-backed drone manufacturer on winning a DoD contract.
Unusual Machines
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More momentum for XTEND. 🚀

Congrats to the team on another important U.S. defense milestone. Proud to be an investor and supplier. 🦅

$UMAC $XTND #Drones #DefenseTech
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XTEND has been awarded Phase III of the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Modular Kinetic Lethal Drone (MKLD) program.

The award follows XTEND’s recent Gauntlet II top-performer selection under the Drone Dominance Program.

Read more: xtend.me/xtend-secures-…
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 25/09/2026
How did Pete Hegseth add $1 million to one of his banking accounts since being appointed as SecDef? www.cnbc.com/2026/09/24/p...
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Pete Hegseth reports at least $3.1 million in cash, investments and bitcoin
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reported at least $3.1 million in assets as he faces an impeachment push in Congress over his handling of the Iran war.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A friend ran into Evo Morales about 25 years ago at La Paz airport when Evo was still an obscure coca activist. He’d just returned from Africa, carried no luggage, and stank. “Why don’t youchange clothes?” my friend asked. Evo responded that if he carried luggage, the govt could plant drugs on him.
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François Picard @francoisf24.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump perhaps needlessly turning the AI race into a zero sum game between superpowers, argues @jacobsilverman.com More in #F24Debate ➡️ f24.my/CBDP
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 24/09/2026
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 24/09/2026
I was on France 24 English talking about Xi, Trump, AI, and whether it need be a zero sum China-US rivalry. youtu.be/5iKDNyDHL4o?...
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Trump-Xi summit dismisses calls for global oversight • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2026
Author Jacob Silverman discusses how tech elites like Peter Thiel and David Sacks are shaping the Trump administration’s approach to technology.
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“Gilded Rage”: Jacob Silverman on How a Radicalized Silicon Valley Shapes Trump’s AI Policies
“One of the features we see in … a lot of the billionaire tech elites is a real kind of anger,” says Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. “They’r...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/09/2026
Orthodox Jewish protesters gathered outside the U.N. headquarters ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech shared a friendly exchange with the Palestinian permanent observer to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hannah Einbinder arrested for chanting "Arrest Netanyahu" outside the UN as Netanyahu arrives.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026
Silicon Valley in the age of Big AI is kinda like a much dumber Los Alamos in the Manhattan Project era, except with zero disapproving normie government oversight. Also, they’re not building a nuclear bomb in the midst of a nightmare world war, they’re building a chatbot.
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Bloomsbury Books UK @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
👑 Gilded Rage – Jacob Silverman What happens if the world's richest and most powerful men decide to dismantle democracy?
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026
As @segyges.bsky.social notes, here’s famed rationalist and AI doomer Eliezer Yudkowsky - who’s advising @sanders.senate.gov on AI and who is in a recent Netflix documentary - claiming that AI extinction risk is SO bad that it’s worth risking nuclear war. Which is *nuts*. time.com/6266923/ai-e...

Frame nothing as a conflict between national interests, have it

clear that anyone talking of arms races is a fool. That we all live

or die as one, in this, is not a policy but a fact of nature. Make

it explicit in international diplomacy that preventing Al

extinction scenarios is considered a priority above preventing

a full nuclear exchange, and that allied nuclear countries are

willing to run some risk of nuclear exchange if that's what it

takes to reduce the risk of large Al training runs.
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 24/09/2026
"The artificial intelligence buildout is on track to require a larger share of US output than the rollout of electricity, railroads, interstate highways or the internet, with an increasingly complicated financial structure that poses ‌potentially systemic risks" www.reuters.com/business/fin...
reuters.com
Financing of historic AI buildout raises systemic risks in US, researcher says
The artificial intelligence buildout is on track to require a larger share of ​US output than the rollout of electricity, railroads, interstate highways or the internet, with an increasingly complicat...
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 24/09/2026
I'm going to be on Democracy Now sometime in the 8-9am slot.
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 23/09/2026
Alexander Maksik, recent national book award nominee www.jezebel.com/how-a-teache...
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How A Teacher's Alleged Student Affair Became His Acclaimed 'Novel'
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 22/09/2026
Today is the paperback release, with a new afterword, of GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY. It's my look at the rise of the tech right, the 2024 election, and the bankrupt ideologies animating tech oligarchs. www.bloomsbury.com/us/gilded-ra...
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
City of San Francisco sues Trump Media for facilitating insider trading by selling early access to the president's social media posts. www.documentcloud.org/documen...
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Truth Social 2026-09-21 Complaint
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Protos @protos.com · 22/09/2026
Strategy paid $100M extra to buy back the bitcoin it sold protos.com/strategy-pai...
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Strategy paid $100M extra to buy back the bitcoin it sold
Strategy spent recent weeks rebuying 5,553 of the BTC it sold this summer. After selling low and re-buying high, the cost exceeds $100M.
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 22/09/2026
Today is the paperback release, with a new afterword, of GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY. It's my look at the rise of the tech right, the 2024 election, and the bankrupt ideologies animating tech oligarchs. www.bloomsbury.com/us/gilded-ra...
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ICIJ @icij.org · 22/09/2026
"The many calls for press freedom and for the men’s swift release are an example of the solidarity that matters when a journalist’s safety is put at risk," ICIJ director Gerard Ryle said. Read the update here: www.icij.org/news/2026/09...
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ICIJ journalist Micah Reddy freed after 4 days in secretive Djibouti custody - ICIJ
Reddy and local guide Mohamed Willo Ismael (“Kooki Mahmoud”) went missing Sept. 17 in Djibouti City.
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ICIJ @icij.org · 22/09/2026
Update: ICIJ reporter Micah Reddy has been released from custody in Djibouti. He is safe and will soon reunite with his family. We are grateful to everyone who shared their support for Reddy, his family and ICIJ's efforts to bring him home. buff.ly/Uh160cS
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Statement on missing ICIJ journalist Micah Reddy - ICIJ
ICIJ lost contact with our colleague Micah Reddy, ICIJ's Africa coordinator, and local journalist Mohamed Willo Ismael ("Kooki Mahmoud"), in Djibouti City on Saturday, Sept. 19.
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 22/09/2026
Massive operation with a whiff of Wirecard. Also involves billions of dollars worth of Tether USDT issued to Russians.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The SVB review-review is (finally) public. It goes to great lengths to absolve the "tailoring" regime under Trump I. But the report sets up a straw man: that critics view tailoring as the sole or proximate cause, rather than one (albeit important) factor. 21211564.hs-sites.com/hubfs/Probat...
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 21/09/2026
Trail mix and beef jerky are locked up at this CVS.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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