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The Nerd Reich | The Cult of Venture Capital Wants Your Future by Gil Duran

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The article argues that Silicon Valley venture capital has morphed from a niche funding source into a powerful “cult” that now functions as the de‑facto planner of American capitalism and a looming threat to democracy. Drawing on a Nerd Reich podcast interview with scholar Olivier Jutel, the piece explains how VCs—through historic ties to the military‑industrial complex, massive fee‑based fund structures, and a 10‑year “future‑building” mindset—have shifted from backing disruptive apps to betting on AI, crypto, surveillance, war technologies and the “network‑state” vision of private sovereign zones. The author contends that these investors are increasingly relying on government bailouts to rescue failing bets, while simultaneously pursuing an agenda to extract value from the nation and ultimately “exit” democracy by creating their own crypto‑enabled, charter‑city‑style polities. In this view, venture capital is less about genuine innovation than about consolidating political power and reshaping society to serve a small elite’s ideological and financial goals.

Read more: https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-cult-of-venture-capital-wants-your-future/

#PeterThiel #NerdReich #networkstate #techauthoritarianism #venture-capital #GilDuran #OlivierJutel #MarcAndreessen #BalajiSrinivasan

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The Cult of Venture Capital Wants Your Future

How venture capital went from funding apps to funding fascism. Dr. Olivier Jutel on VCs' plan to exit democracy and remake the world

The Nerd Reich

"Palantir is now embedded in the Army, the NSA, the FBI, ICE, Border Patrol, the Pentagon, and Britain's National Health Service. Members of Congress and Trump officials are buying Palantir stock while handing it billions in contracts."

https://www.thenerdreich.com/how-to-purge-palantir/

#palantir #petertheil #hitler #nerdreich

Purge Palantir: The Campaign Against Peter Thiel's Spy Firm

And how I got permanently banned from X

The Nerd Reich

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Irisherself/116433673987402065

Despite widespread executive adoption, #AI's impact on productivity is showing minimal gains despite significant investment and high expectations, with potential for future reversal…

#nerdreich #promptingwithhitler #llm #ml

In: alien v Sanchez:

#Musk is an alien.

Elon Musk has accused Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of "high treason" over a government measure that will grant residency permits to over 500,000 undocumented migrants. Sánchez defended the measure, stating that Spain is "the daughter of migration and will not become the mother of xenophobia."

Oh yes, he has recently criticized tech-bros, like #nerdreich’s Musk, saying they are not exempt from the law or public interest. Also, #Spain has been one of the fastest-growing large economies in Europe, outpacing the eurozone average and also doing better than Germany, France, and Italy.

As for the racial undertone of the Neonazi South African immigrant, it’s as innocent as his seig heil.

#musk #nerdreich #spain

In #memeticwarfare:

Aron D'Souza's startup, Objection, uses LLMs (stochastic text prediction*) to adjudicate journalistic claims for a $2,000 fee, aiming to restore trust in media but facing criticism for potentially chilling whistleblowers and favoring powerful actors.

[…] First Amendment and defamation lawyer Chris Mattei was even more blunt, saying the platform “seems like a high-tech protection racket for the rich and powerful.”

See also:

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/116352003680380839

* #AI is marketing/anthropomorphization choice, not a technical description. There’s no intelligence in AI

#memeticwarfare #ai #PeterThiel #nerdreich #promptingwithhitler #freedomofpress #llm #aicon

oatmeal (@[email protected])

A large international study coordinated by the #EBU and led by the #BBC found that AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time across different languages and platforms, with #Gemini performing the worst. […] Key findings:  • 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. • 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. • 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. • Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance. • Comparison between the BBC’s results earlier this year and this study show some improvements but still high levels of errors. https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content #aihype #llm #openai #perplexity #chatgpt

kolektiva.social

In #technofeudalism and #antihumanism:

The narrative of #AI's “inevitability” is a tactic used by tech companies to discourage resistance and encourage compliance.

[…] When tech boosters want to demonise resistance, they invoke the luddites. By their telling, the luddites were primitive idiots, who smashed machines they were too stupid to understand. History though, tells a different story. As recounted by Brian Merchant’s sublime work Blood in the Machine, luddites were skilled artisans, fighting for their way of life against the “satanic mills” – textile sweatshops powered by child semi-slaves. Forbidden from unionising, luddites smashed machines as a protest tactic. And they did not lose to the inevitable march of progress. They lost to physical force. The government called in troops, and the luddites were either executed or shipped to penal colonies in Australia.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/12/is-ai-the-greatest-art-heist-in-history

#technofeudalism #antihumanism #ai #promptingwithhitler #nerdreich #llm #theaicon #aihype #histodons

Is AI the greatest art heist in history?

New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it

The Guardian

[No] profit from genocide.

[...] Mubi spent much of last year denying accusations it was profiting from what critics called genocide in Gaza, at the same time that its costliest-ever movie, “Die My Love,” flopped. The company ended 2025 with nearly 1.2 million subscribers, fewer than it started the year with, and lost $7.3 million on some $200 million of revenue, according to people familiar with the matter.

[...] Shaun Maguire, a Sequoia partner close to Elon Musk, became a focal point of criticism. He had supported Israel, criticized diversity policies, and in July wrote that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani was an "Islamist" who "comes from a culture that lies about everything"

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/how-vc-money-and-israel-outrage-derailed-a-hot-hollywood-startup-3d6f46ff (archived https://archive.ph/nGEKn)

#mubi #gazagenocide #bds #israel #Sequoia #ElonMusk #NerdReich