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@DavidFutrelle
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Writer. Writing coach. Thing for cats to sit on. The We Hunted the Mammoth guy.

Clips in NYT, WaPo, Slate, The Cut, Vice, among other outlets.

we hunted the mammoth (my blog)https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com
My YouTube Pagehttps://www.youtube.com/@HuntedTheMammoth
My writing coach pagehttps://www.david-futrelle.com
mindfully eating like a pig

If you're a subscriber to My AI Obsession (which is basically defunct at this point) I want to remind you to a) check out my latest piece in The Nation and b) to check out BROTOPIANS, which is my new newsletter about antidemocratic techbros and which isn't defunct.

https://open.substack.com/pub/myaiobsession/p/im-in-the-nation-talking-about-anthropic?r=l3r4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I'm in The Nation, talking about Anthropic and the politics of killer robots

Check it out!

My AI Obsession
Billionaire-Owned Newspaper Rails Against Billionaire Tax

BREAKING NEWS! The newspaper owned by the world's third-richest man thinks it would be a very bad idea for the government of the country that enabled him to become so rich to take back five percent of his $232 billion fortune. A post on Jeff Bezos' personal Substack – I'm sorry,

Brotopians
A big salad is too much responsibility

I'm in The Nation, talking about Anthropic and the politics of killbots.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/anthropic-pentagon-iran-war-gaza/

Garbage In, Carnage Out

The harrowing lessons of the Pentagon’s recently dissolved partnership with Anthropic.

The Nation

So I went on Wajahat Ali’s The Left Hook podcast earlier this week to talk about my Nation article on Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel. And also killer robots. You can find links to both in this post!

https://www.brotopians.com/hey-im-in-the-nation-and-on-the-left-hook-podcast-talking-about-peter-thiel-and-jeffrey-epstein/

Hey! I'm in The Nation and on The Left Hook podcast, talking about Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein

So, as you may have gathered from the headline here, I have a piece in The Nation on Brotopian philosopher-king Peter Thiel and his weird (or maybe not-so-weird) bromance with Jeffrey Epstein. [W]hat really united this odd couple was a common political and ideological project. Both believed that civilization

Brotopians

Elon Musk's plans for a city on the moon are at least as stupid as his plans for a city on Mars, and maybe more so.

https://www.brotopians.com/whitey-on-the-moon-elon-musk-edition/

Whitey on the Moon: Elon Musk Edition

Elon Musk has always been the most ambitious of all the Brotopians. While his colleagues may dream about building largely unregulated and tax-free cities in Honduras or Venezuela or Nigeria, Musk has been talking about sending a million earthlings (including, possibly, him) to live in a self-sustaining city on freaking

Brotopians

I'm in The Nation, talking about the weird bromance between Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/peter-thiel-jeffrey-epstein-democracy/

What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein

In the extensive correspondence between the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and the late pedophile, both men expressed a deep aversion to democracy.

The Nation

Fall Eras in Order of Greatness According to Me

The Brix Era (1984-1989)
The Post-Brix Era That Also Includes Brix Briefly (1990-2000)
The Pre-Brix Era (1979-1983)
The Still Hanging In There Era (2003-2010)
Preview of Suck (2001-2002)
The Suck Era (2011-2017)

If you're looking for a little winter vacation in the Caribbean that incudes longevity hacking, electric knife fights, and possibly sloths, have I got a package for you! Brotopians post: Crypto-bro Knife Fight Extravaganza

https://www.brotopians.com/crypto-bro-knife-fight-extravaganza/