#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #QuinnSlobodian & #BenTarnoff to talk about their book #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.

'We see a mind that is profoundly troubled by any contagion spreading into seemingly closed systems—it can take the form of racial others, transpeople, “woke” populations, or most generally and dismissively, “Non-Player-Characters.” '

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19188391-muskism-its-roots-nature-and-how-to-fight-it-a-conversation-with-quinn-slobodian-and-ben-tarnoff

#Musk #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs #books @bookstodon

RE: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/116535473179185669

#Muskism #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #books @bookstodon

Doug Henwood welcomes #QuinnSlobodian and #BenTarnoff, authors of #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, to discuss "Elon’s world and what he wants to do to ours."

https://kpfa.org/episode/behind-the-news-april-23-2026/
#Musk #ElonMusk #AI #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techOligarchs #techFutures #Tesla #Neuralink #books @bookstodon

"#DOGE did NOT reduce spending – at all. But it did reduce federal employment; 271,000 people lost their jobs in the federal government"

#StartMakingSense talks w/ #SashaAbramsky, author of #AmericanCarnage: How #Trump, #Musk and DOGE butchered the US Government

https://www.thenation.com/podcast/archive/sms-012026/

#USpol #USpolitics #DOGEbags #SiliconValleyRight #austerity #tech #BigTech #TechBros #books @bookstodon

"Because conservative Christianity is so tightly woven into the state’s political culture, #Musk and his fellow California exiles find themselves confronting a new ideological fusion, a blend of neoliberal economic policies and Christian-nationalist cultural ambition, rooted in the state’s long history of resource extraction and at ease with racism and misogyny."

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-texan-ideology-turner
#tech #BigTech #USpol #SiliconValleyRight #Texas #techMigration #techFutures

"Where Trump’s first administration was defined by a generally symbiotic but tenuous relationship with #BigTech, the second would be, from the jump, a rancid union of #SiliconValley ideology and fascist impulse. [...]

"In many ways, the shameless about-face comes as the culmination of the #tech world’s open embrace of self-advancing cynicism in recent years."

https://thebaffler.com/latest/e-pluribus-uh-oh-kim
#USpol #AI #SiliconValleyRight #technoauthoritarianism #techFutures

"The #AI boom has helped accelerate #SiliconValley’s lurch into authoritarianism. AI has been crucial in the operations of President Trump’s deportation machine and has further emboldened foreign dictatorships to harass and track dissidents abroad."

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/elon-musk-ai-saudi-funding/
#USpol #tech #BigTech #Musk #ElonMusk #surveillance #SiliconValleyRight #stateRepression #MBS #SaudiArabia #Grok #Twitter #socialMedia

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #QuinnSlobodian to discuss his book #HayeksBastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the #Capitalism of the Far Right.

"We take a deep dive into the genesis of a weird and powerful merging of two seemingly different groups - the #FarRight and #neoliberals"

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2025/08/21/neoliberals-meet-maga-a-conversation-with-quinn-slobodian-on-hayeks-bastards-race-gold-iq-and-the-capitalism-of-the-far-right/

#neoliberalism #MontPelerinSociety #NewRight #racialistRight #USpol #USpolitics #UShistory #MAGA #inequality #SiliconValleyRight #politicalTheory #books @histodons @bookstodon

"#ElonMusk may have resigned from the Department of Government Efficiency, but few believe he’s stepping away from power. In under a year, #DOGE brought #SiliconValley-style disruption to Washington, consolidating federal data and dismantling oversight. Now, #Musk is expected to channel what he gained into a private #AI venture – with public systems still in reach."

guest: @MattBinder

https://omny.fm/shows/the-take/what-did-elon-musk-get-from-doge-and-what-s-next
#USpol #SiliconValleyRight #DOGEbags #cronyCapitalism #MoveFastAndLootThings #tech