Trump-Vance Conspiracy Theory Doesn't Add Up

As Trump's poll numbers sink due to his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, a new conspiracy theory has emerged. It holds that Silicon Valley overlords are plotting to overthrow Trump and replace him with JD Vance. In fact, perhaps they are the ones orchestrating the entire Epstein

‘Tech Billionaires Accused of...Working to Implement Corporate Dictatorship’

Futurism Analyzes The Nerd Reich

Silicon Valley’s ‘silence is complicity.’ Nerd Reich meets Decoder

“Silence is complicity, and people sometimes get mad. They say, ‘Don’t say all tech, don’t say all Silicon Valley.’ Well, where are all the techies in Silicon Valley, the CEOs, speaking out against this stuff? Where are the people standing up and saying, ‘You know what? I’m

Who Sent $100M to Trump’s Crypto Company—and Why?

“How did a 30-year-old Chinese-Brazilian finance professional working for a Chinese state energy company secure $100 million to buy crypto tokens from the President of the United States’ main crypto firm? And what do he and his colleagues expect in return?” Journalist Jacob Silverman asks these questions in his latest

‘Too much wealth creates insanity’: Trump, Tech, and the Nerd Reich

“The Nerd Reich is a cult of interconnected tech billionaires who have decided that democracy is not the preferred operating system for the world, and that they have a better plan to install a new form of government—a sort of corporate autocracy with an eternal hierarchy that largely resembles

Epstein, Thiel, Trump and the Danger of Conspiracy Theory

Reality has become more conspiratorial than any conspiracy theory

Big Crypto's Assault on Democracy

New episode of The Nerd Reich podcast

From Gay Money to ‘God’s Wrath’: Praxis CEO Melts Down

How a Gay-Funded ‘Tech Utopia’ Turned Into a Bigot’s Apocalypse

Is Peter Thiel the Antichrist? NYT Didn’t Think to Ask

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel just can’t stop talking about the Antichrist. In a new interview with Ross Douthat of the New York Times, Thiel muses about the existence of the Antichrist and offers a novel theory for how to identify this person—a human figure who shall, according to

Comedian Tim Dillon Slams Thiel, Palantir, and Tech Elite

‘All of these people want a post-American future ... They're going to start buying up podcasters and YouTubers’

Tech Billionaire Brains and Crypto Politics

“This is an extremist ideological movement that sees democracy as outdated, and it’s amazing how much they talk about it.” That’s one of my quotes from a recent Rolling Stone piece by Alex Morris headlined “What You’ve Suspected is True: The Billionaires Are Not Like Us.” Click

AI Empire and Tech's Quest for Power

A conversation with Karen Hao and Roger McNamee