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João Seixas

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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We say… ❌ NO to supporting war mongers ❌ NO to draining our public wealth ❌ NO to the tech broligarchy NO TO #PALANTIR! Read the open letter from over 120 organisations from across Europe here: www.epsu.org/article/120-...
Graphic reading: “120+ organisations and unions across Europe call on governments and the European Commission to scrap Palantir contracts.” It adds that Palantir supports warmongers, drains public wealth and deepens dependence on tech billionaires, ending: “We say no to Palantir.”
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JuneSim63 💚 @junesim63.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On Thursday 1st October, patients, NHS workers and activists across England are taking action to say NO to Palantir in our NHS. See link for an action near you. #Palantir #NHS #UKPolitics People vs Palantir - International Day of Action | Amnesty International UK www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/inter...
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People vs Palantir – International Day of Action
On Thursday 1st October, patients, NHS workers and activists across England are taking action to say NO to Palantir in our NHS. Join a local action near you!
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João Seixas @joaoseixas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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R Phelps @greygosling.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is just nonsense. If you're a company in the position where this is the best you can do then you're majorly on the back foot. This is just tabloid press knowing how to sell a story. I think it's insulting the average man on the street to think they don't read the headline and blame OpenAI.
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is factually false, and the sole purpose of talking about it like this is to make it harder to understand what happened. The entire reason this problem is hard is that getting the models to do what they're told without any surprises is a difficult engineering problem. bsky.app/profile/eoin...
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Uplifting News @upliftingnews.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No one has to prompt agents to do that, even though bad actors of course will. This video is very long but is a fascinating insight into how swarms of autonomous agents can go rogue, far beyond their initial tasks youtu.be/X50zezLFWWI?...
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Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get"
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Right-wing "PINK SLIME" driven by AI is flooding news sites. '“People can come across these sites and be tricked into thinking they were real and trustworthy when they are algorithmically generated”' - I warned this would happen decades ago. This is from last year but it's happening now, big-time.
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Study: People Often Trust Fake Local News Sites More Than Real Ones; Yale Political Scientist Warns of Growing Influence of AI-Driven ‘Pink-Slime’ News
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 25/09/2026
One of the most frustrating things about creating anything is spending weeks creating something that takes 20 minutes to consume, and people who may really enjoy spending 20 min that way not having that 20 min available. We live in an attention economy where someone has X hours for infinity options.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 25/09/2026
Politico’s owner gave Peter Thiel an award today. Hardly surprising, since Peter Thiel gave the guy’s son $50 million. Have you heard of “The German JD Vance”? www.thenerdreich.com/politico-pet...
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Politico's $50M Peter Thiel Problem
Is Axel Springer CEO's son the 'German JD Vance'?
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Uplifting News @upliftingnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Kentucky is canceling medical debt for 46,000 people. The state funded a nonprofit to buy and forgive medical debt instead of pursuing collection.
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Kentucky is writing to 46,000 people this week to tell them their medical debt is gone, it gave $2.5m to a nonprofit that buys medical debt for the pennies debt collectors pay for it and then cancels it instead of chasing it, the first letters went…
Kentucky is writing to 46,000 people this week to tell them their medical debt is gone, it gave $2.5m to a nonprofit that buys medical debt for the pennies debt collectors pay for it and then cancels it instead of chasing it, the first letters went out within a week of 15 September.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026
my love and respect for Larry David grows all the time pagesix.com/2026/09/22/h...
After the dressing down — which ended up having the crowd in tears, of laughter and joy, the agent writes — Emanuel recalls, “Seating Larry at the same table as Elon Musk: Not my best decision.” 
As soon as the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star sees the Tesla mogul,”he starts cursing, yelling, saying things many people would like to say to Elon” about the SpaceX’s leader’s politics. 
David was “right up in Elon’s face, before the dinner starts,” and, guests had to separate them.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:
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OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift
The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump deliberately got rid of the US's cyber defense operation, probably as per request by Vlad Putin, his Russian intel handler.
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João Seixas @joaoseixas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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João Seixas @joaoseixas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Adam Gorightly @agorightly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Late stage Fuhrer
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Dave Lee @dave23lee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just signed this, the Government actually has a way to get Palantir out of our NHS, but only if they act before the end of the year. Takes one click to add your name 👉 the.organise.network/campaigns/te...
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Terminate the NHS contract with Palantir!
Add your name:
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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 10/09/2026
Was just notified that there will be a chapter about my work in the following academic publication: Publication NEW GAME ART – The Aesthetics of Play and Worldbuilding BNN, Inc., November 2026 Language Japanese
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 10/09/2026
The Trump Dividend is just another lie of course, but if he wants to help normalize a universal cash payment so that MAGA starts accepting UBI as capitalism instead of socialism or communism because it's treating citizens as stockholders, and that its cost doesn't matter, then okay. Normalize that.
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David Fenton @dfenton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Crypto companies are the largest donors in American politics. Very few Americans use crypto at all. Journalist @gilduran.com calls it a gun to the head of American democracy. If a politician goes against them, tens of millions of dollars land on their head.
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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 08/09/2026
Ready, Set, Restart New schedule and new direction josephmatheny.substack.com/p/placeholder
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Ready, Set, Restart
New schedule and new direction
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Reuters @reuters.com · 08/09/2026
LIVE: Alex Gibney speaks on Elon Musk documentary www.youtube.com/live/jMPNCQx...
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LIVE: Alex Gibney speaks on Elon Musk documentary
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João Seixas @joaoseixas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 07/09/2026
Evidence doesn't mean shit to these people. They call states the labs of democracy, do strict work requirements and we all see it utterly fail, but they keep pushing for what doesn't work while watching successful experiment after experiment of UBI, and lie about them failing and then even ban them.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 01/09/2026
There it is: Trump is *literally* pushing “Unhumans,” a book that encourages right-wing readers to view liberals and Democrats as “unhuman.” I raised the alarm on this extremely dangerous strategy in 2024 (and again last month): www.thenerdreich.com/why-trump-ke...
Donald Trump truth social post pushing for people to buy “Unhumans” book.
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Evonomics: The Next Evolution of Economics @evonomics.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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The Death of ‘Homo Economicus’
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Evonomics: The Next Evolution of Economics @evonomics.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Economist Sam Bowles says it’s time to cultivate and empower the better side of human nature instead of letting the few who behave like selfish maximizers ruin our economy. Archive pick: evonomics.com/deadly-sin-a... Credit: @ineteconomics.bsky.social Full video in comments.
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João Seixas @joaoseixas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 28/08/2026
The @wajali.bsky.social fan club showed up in force at the @cwclub.bsky.social. Little-known secret: Wajahat has the magical power to launch your book straight to the NYT bestseller list. Seriously: He has tirelessly championed my book and—boom!—here we are. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMM6...
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Gil Durán and Wajahat Ali: The Rise of "The Nerd Reich”
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Can a Democratic Presidential candidate who takes money from the broligarchy, specifically AI, Crypto, and AIPAC, change a corrupt system and bring necessary reforms in 2028? @gilduran.com, author of The Nerd Reich, answers.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The Rise of the Nerd Reich and How to Stop Them with @gilduran.com A group of Silicon Valley billionaires has bought their way into the Trump White House and is now abusing their power and wealth to usher in their fatalistic, fascist agenda. thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...
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victoria edel @victoriaedel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
listened to this as an audiobook this week and it was a great/horrifying/engrossing read. big recommend
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LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻 @lorifontanes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@gilduran.com happy to report from Paris that i nabbed the last copy of your book that Smith & Son had in stock (had to go to their Marais location to get it—more on order they said) i also told staff at both stores how important a book this is ✔️
photo of the cover of paperback copy of Gil Durán’s book “The Nerd Reich, Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy”
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Astro @blueace1878.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Really looking forward to seeing what @gilduran.com has done here. I’ve been standing by for this to arrive. Time to turn some pages.
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Adeninsola @eyilanke.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Someone needs to do guérilla drops of this book in Meta and Google and Palantir offices
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davidonstrike @davidonstrike.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The second I opened it, I had to send a pic to my friends. I was astounded.
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Jessica Lovering @lovering.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you missed the boat on pre-ordering, the good news is now you can buy it without the wait 😀
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“When Silicon Valley says it is ‘moving fast and breaking things,’ the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. @gilduran.com reveals something far more sinister: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule.” Seems like a REALLY important book.
Cover of the new best-selling book “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” By Gil Duran.
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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 27/08/2026
This book is blowing my mind. It was nice to discover that the suitcase I found of Ron Paul newsletters from the 1980’s in my dad’s closet wasn’t a fever dream I’d retained memories of all these years.
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Sarah O'Neill @girlvgrizzly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Can't recall a time I uttered so many What The Fucks while listening to podcsst. truthout.org/audio/silico... You better believe I ordered the book. I was always clear-eyed about the fact that this doesn't end on The Day, but, hell, do we have lots of organizing to do...
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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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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🧵✊🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Get yours and get copies for all your friends. Let’s get this to the top of the list. 👇🏼
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
JD Vance is at 14. Can’t wait for someone to ask JD how he feels about being outsold by The Nerd Reich.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/08/2026
Also: Proof that you don't need to be on fascist X to reach the people. Banning me only made me bigger! Why isn't every journalist getting banned? 🫠
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/08/2026
This is the beginning. Let's keep the momentum going! My goal was never to sell a book—that's a by-product. My mission: to force political and media establishments to confront reality and tell people what is happening. Make tech fascists pay, buy The Nerd Reich today! bookshop.org/a/109206/978...
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The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
“This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires linked to the second Trump administration...It’s an ominous look at an insular el...
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Astro Attorney ⚖️ @astroattorney.com · 27/08/2026
I highly recommend everyone read this book. It's infuriating, absolutely chilling but truly eye-opening. Please read it before you cast your votes.
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j west @jwestbennett.com · 27/08/2026
Fantastic and important book that does a great job weaving together all the wackadoodle things our crazy tech overlords really actually I-shit-you-not believe into as coherent a picture as possible.
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monk @warisaracket.me · 27/08/2026
Cannot recommend this enough. After you read it you will want to buy more copies for your friends/family.
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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ordered this today!
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/08/2026
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…
Image: Nerd Reich book cover, a New York Times Instant Bestseller
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