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Lukas Hermsmeier @lukashermsmeier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Das Gespräch zw Döpfner & Thiel ist atemberaubend in der Kombination von Herrisch- und Ahnungslosigkeit. Da sitzen zwei mächtige Männer, baff ob der Trümmer einer Welt, die sie mitzerkloppt haben. Warum nur, fragt Döpfner, lehnt die US-Bevölkerung KI so vehement ab? Steckt China dahinter? Fake News?

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

Many people don’t realize that many people in the tech industry, especially in its upper echelons, have developed a deeply harmful and delusional worldview they’re trying to impose on everyone else. That’s at the root of their misguided view of where AI is going. disconnect.blog/the-media-ha...

No, the real threat, according to these supposed geniuses, is that in ten years AI could break free from its human developers and decide it wants to kill humanity. If you’re big into science fiction, you might recognize that kind of a narrative: whether HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey or The Terminator himself, this notion that our technology will come for us makes for compelling entertainment.

For more than a decade, people in the tech industry have been slowly deluding themselves into thinking those science fictional storylines were far closer to being realized than they are in practice. They think our future is one where we need to merge with computers, cover the face of the planet with data centers, and eventually start building them on other planets to fill with digital “people.”

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Felix Schilk @stillapossibility.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Falls morgen jemand in #Chemnitz ist, es gibt eine nette Veranstaltung der #SLPB im NSU-Dokumentationszentrum mit @simongoeshill.bsky.social, mir und Hartwig Vens, einem der Macher des Podcasts "Tech Bro Topia" 👇 www.slpb.de/veranstaltun...

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Tech, Kapital, Kontrolle

Die wirtschaftliche und politische Macht großer Technologieunternehmen ist in den vergangenen Jahren rasant gewachsen. Gleichzeitig vertreten einflussreiche Unternehmer, Investoren und Vordenker des S...

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

OG eugenicist Francis Galton should be a cautionary tale but instead I fear we will soon have The Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Francis Galton Centers for Disease Control and Eugenics. Have a listen to see how history is rhyming its ass off in the area of eugenics and to learn about “cocaine science”.

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Part One: Francis Galton: Inventor of Eugenics

Podcast Episode · Behind the Bastards · September 8 · 1h 5m

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Prof der TU Darmstadt behauptet im ZDF „Ethnopluralismus“ (völkischer Rassismus fancy ausgedrückt) sei einfach regulärer Teil des demokratischen Ideenaustauschs. Das geht jetzt ganz schnell.

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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Reading @gilduran.com NERD REICH and the current fascist moment needs more histories like this. Many talk about impending fascism, how to spot it when it arrives -but this fascism has been decades in the making. Economically, culturally, technologically

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FSP digitale_kultur @digitale-kultur.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🎥 Das erste Interview für den neuen Film unserer Reihe "Theorie|Apparate" ist im Kasten! Bei 35° haben Thorben Mämecke und Laura Hille @simongoeshill.bsky.social zwei Stunden über die Hot Topics der #TechBroligarchy gesprochen. Die Veröffentlichung des Films ist für den Spätherbst geplant.

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Fred Heussner @fredheussner.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Um Sarrazins "Thesen" und ihr gegenwärtiges Revival zu verstehen, ist der langfristige Trend zur Radikalisierung neoliberaler Ideologie von zentraler Bedeutung. @quinnslobodian.com arbeitet diesen in seinem fantastischen Buch Hayek's Bastards heraus. Auch Sarrazin selbst kommt vor. #Lesetipp

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Hayek's Bastards

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismHow neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Dieses ganze Interview ist eine solche Vollkatastrophe, dass man kaum weiß, wo anfangen. Dass von Sarrazin derselbe Rassismus, Antiziganismus, Sexismus samt Eugenik, Ethnonationalismus etc kommt wie vorher ist das eine. 2026 stimmt die Zeit Interviewerin ihm zu, hantiert mit IQ als wärs eine…

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money". But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

Screencap of page for linked article, reading:

Contents
Introduction
AI Is a Research Field
AI Is an Approach to Cognitive Science
AI Is a Parlor Trick
AI Is an Ideology
AI Is a Way to Hide and Devalue Human Labor
AI Is a Way to Shift Accountability
AI Is a Way to Centralize Power
Conclusion
Notes

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

AI backer Peter Thiel admits that “AI models” cld be used to 'rig the elections in 2028’…” But he wants everyone to worry about Anthropic (which refused to let Claude be used for mass citizen surveillance or autonomous weapons) rather than Elon Musk, X (backed by Thiel allies) or Palantir 7/4/26 …1/

Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival on June 30, 2026, in a session with political scientist Francis Fukuyama, Peter Thiel, the Palantir co-founder and an early Trump backer in Silicon Valley, said Anthropic, a "woke liberal company" he credited with "winning the Al race," would "rig the elections in 2028" in support of Democrats and would
"completely outwit" any countervailing efforts Elon Musk might make through
X. CNN, which reported the remarks, described the claim as "an unsupported conspiratorial claim." Anthropic declined to comment, pointing reporters to its April 2026 blog post on election safeguards, which describes bias-testing results (its models scored 95-96% on
even-handedness evaluations)

Regulatory context
Thiel's remarks came against the backdrop of genuine tension between Anthropic and the Trump administration. In March 2026, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a
"supply chain risk," a label typically reserved for firms tied to foreign adversaries, after talks broke down over Anthropic's refusal to let Claude be used for mass surveillance of U.S. citizens or autonomous weapons; Anthropic sued in federal court to reverse the designation.
CEO Dario Amodei has also previously compared Trump's use of power to that of a "feudal warlord," in remarks that predate the company's subsequent national-security contracting work.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Die fünfte und vorletzte Folge von #Slopaganda, meiner Online-Kolumne für die @woz.ch, handelt von #TikTok, #FruitDrama und davon, dass auch vermeintlich rein kommerzieller #Slop keineswegs unpolitisch ist: «Reaktionäre Muster» www.woz.ch/kolumnen/202...

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Slopaganda: Reaktionäre Muster

Slop ist überall. Vor allem auf Tiktok.

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Gift article “Musk’s worldview..is explicitly antihuman..But it is also (& this is the point of Slobodian & Turnoffs persuasive & vital book) not just Musk’s worldview. It already underpins much of contemporary capitalism & may come to be seen as the presiding pathology in our time of monsters”

nybooks.com

Space Oddity | Mark O’Connell

Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism examines how Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, by selling a vision of the future that very few people would want to inhabit.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 06/07/2026

HYPERSCALE is hitting bookstores on October 20. Preorder it now! In the book, I dig into how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and the incredible efforts of people pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech. Get your copy: hyperscalebook.com

Hyperscale by Paris Marx. Coming October 20, 2026.

An eye-opening account of how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 29/06/2026

I never ever fail to mention this. NCSA Mosaic, a public project from the University of Illinois.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 29/06/2026

Not for nothing there's a Javier Milei Institut in Germany www.milei-institut.de

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Javier Milei Institut

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Laura Hille @simongoeshill.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

📢 Job alert 📢 Postdoc 100%, mind. 3 Jahre, 4 SWS, kleine Kurse und Daniela Wentz als Chefin und mich als Kollegin: jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Wissensc...

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Wissenschaftlich/er Mitarbeiter/in - Mediengeschichte

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Anna-Verena Nosthoff @annanosthoff.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I recently had the privilege of speaking with Geert Lovink about my book Kybernetik und Kritik (Cybernetics and Critique @suhrkamp.de). It is certainly the longest and most in-depth interview about the book so far, and participating in it was a great pleasure: networkcultures.org/geert/2026/0...

screenshot of the interview on the INC homepage

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

“The same data lays out a program of off-the-record sessions, including: “Bring Back Nuclear” Great reporting by @dell.bsky.social and incredible work by @crimew.gay. Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

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Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/06/2026

Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025. In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft. www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...

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Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion

Soundtrack: In Flames - Colony To further support my independent journalism, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $7 a month or $70 a year. If you’re subscribed to the free newsletter and ...

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 13/06/2026

Big News: The ebook of "Cyberselfish" is now available for purchase! Paulina Borsook saw the far-right turn of Silicon Valley tech bros DECADES before most had any inkling. Buy her book! Interview her! Let’s make sure she gets her due. Book club, anyone? bookshop.org/a/109206/978...

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Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech

A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech

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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Einen Tag später erscheint dieser Artikel, der auf quälend vielen Zeichen das Bild des exzentrischen Spacemans reproduziert, ohne darauf einzugehen, dass Musk inzwischen einer der mächtigsten rechtsradikalen Politiker der Welt ist, dessen "Doge" Politik unzähligen Menschen das Leben gekostet hat.

Die Methode Musk
Er sei ein Mann mit drei Gesichtern, sagen langjährige Weggefährten von Elon Musk. Und erklären, mit welchen Methoden er seine Unternehmen führt.
Von Uwe Jean Heuser
Aus der ZEIT Nr. 26/2026
Aktualisiert am 11. Juni 2026, 18:29 Uhr

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IfS Frankfurt @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

+++Save the Date+++ Melinda Cooper – Anachronism in Our Times Adorno-Vorlesungen 2026 18–20 November 2026, 6.30–8 pm Nov. 18: Patrimonial Capitalism Nov. 19: Fascism as Revolutionary Conservatism Nov. 20: Patriarchy Resurgent @goetheuni.bsky.social @suhrkamp.de @melindacooper.bsky.social

Plakat der Adorno-Vorlesungen in orange-weiß mit den Infos wie im Post.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/06/2026

My editor had me re-read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" before revising my book. It's chilling how the Nerd Reich mirrors the Third Reich. Example: The Network State is Silicon Valley's version of "Lebensraum"—"living space"—Hitler's argument for colonialism/empire by the "superior" people

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Morten Paul @mortenpaul.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Jetzt im Buchhandel und im Open Access verfügbar. Mit Beiträgen von u. a. @cccccca.bsky.social @yanaraschmacks.bsky.social @mariamuhle.bsky.social @tatjanasoeding.bsky.social Mit großem Dank an den @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social, das @kwi-essen.bsky.social und partner-in-crime Stefan Höhne.

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Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I don't know how to comment on this ...

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 01/06/2026

There is something in here for everyone: Marxists, logistics obsessives, obsolete-software enthusiasts, and those are all the kinds of people I know about. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Seeing Like a Supply Chain

A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The wonderful Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social invited me to the podcast «Straight White American Jesus» to talk about #slop, weaponized nostalgia, and how #genAI is fueling #fascistization. Thank you for having me – I really enjoyed our conversation, despite the depressing topics!

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The Sunday Interview: Synthetic Hate: How AI Fuels the Far Right

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Jan-Martin Wiarda @jmwiarda.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

EXKLUSIV im Wiarda-Blog: BMFTR legt seinen mit Spannung erwarteten WissZeitVG-Referentenentwurf vor Vieles ist drin aus dem alten Ampelpaket, doch es gibt eine Lücke, mit der die meisten gerechnet hatten. Die Details im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/05...

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Anna-Verena Nosthoff @annanosthoff.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Heute an der Uni Hamburg, freue mich sehr – herzlichen Dank an @jud1th.bsky.social für die Einladung: www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/home/news/cu...

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 22/05/2026

All the VCs and founders posting about Derrida and Foucault last week made me want to know which exact smart classmate snubbed them all those years ago in a way their centibillions can never make up for.

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Anna-Verena Nosthoff @annanosthoff.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Wie prägen kybernetische Denk- und Kontrollformen die Politik, Macht & Regierungsweisen des Silicon Valley – und warum werden sie im Zeitalter des Techfaschismus autoritär? Mein Vortrag @re-publica.com zu meinem Buch Kybernetik und Kritik @suhrkamp.de ist nun online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGb0...

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

Screenshot of the Luddite Lab website. The word Luddite Lab is in the top left corner. The tables in the top read: Case Studies, Primers, Resource Library, Contact Us, and About. The text below reads: “The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library.” Below, there are five cards: Case Studies (Stories from worker organizers resisting AI), Primers (Applied research insights into AI, automation, and the future of work), Resource Library (Additional resources from partners), Contact Us (Ways to connect with the Luddite Lab team), and About (About the Luddite Lab project and team)

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

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SFB 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten @sfb1567.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Der SFB 1567 »Virtuelle Lebenswelten« sucht mehrere wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen (m/w/d) für interdisziplinäre Teilprojekte. Wir forschen zu Virtualität in Alltag, Kultur und Gesellschaft. Mehr Infos: www.virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/blog-post/st...

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Stellenausschreibungen: Elf Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen (m/w/d) – Interdisziplinäre Forschung zu Virtualität – mehrere Stellen in Teilprojekten des SFB 1567 zu besetzen

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Dagmar Hoffmann @dagmarhoffmann.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Stellenausschreibung an der Uni Siegen: Universitätsprofessur (W3, unbefristet) für Medientheorie mit Schwerpunkt Künstliche Intelligenz #KI #CriticalDataStudies #joboffer Bewerbungsschluss: 30.5.2026 jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Universi...

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Universitätsprofessur (W3) für Medientheorie mit Schwerpunkt Künstliche Intelligenz

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 07/05/2026

Is Muskism set to define the 21st century, in much the same way as Fordism did through the 20th century? This week @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com join @parismarx.com to discuss the system Elon Musk has built and the threats it poses for society. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/327_...

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 21/04/2026

Finally US pub day for this little monster co-birthed with my friend @bentarnoff.com, an adventure that made made us closer, neither of us would have had the stomach for it alone! Grab a copy today! bookshop.org/p/books/musk...

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/04/2026

Fascists hate to be called out as fascists. Too bad. Coming soon: The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy. Yes, they are fascists. Yes, they must be crushed. Please pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Book cover: The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy by Gil Duran

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Laura Hille @simongoeshill.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

St. Gallen Symposium zu "Disrupted Age" im Mai 26. Speakerliste an mehreren Stellen stabil problematisch. Aber Yarvin? Hatte Thiel keine Zeit? symposium.org/sgs/speakers/

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Speakers and Impact - St. Gallen Symposium

We are happy to announce the speakers of the 55th St. Gallen Symposium. We are looking forward to inspiring and challenging discussions.

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Felix Maschewski @fmaschewski.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Unser Artikel.. Nicht mehr hinter der Paywall.. sehr schön!

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 03/04/2026

🎉 Tech Won’t Save Us is celebrating six years! For its birthday, we set a goal of 100 new supporters so we can keep providing critical, in-depth analysis every single week that opens people’s eyes to tech’s depravity. Help us hit our goal by joining today: patreon.com/techwontsaveus

Tech Won’t Save Us is trying to get 100 new supporters to mark its sixth birthday! 14 of 100 so far

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