|
Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social |
I wrote about Neoreactionary thought and why tech billionaires whose highest aspirations involve living forever inside a computer on Mars want you to believe the elites (who are definitely not them!) are lying to you: t.co/GfgxR9BQbb
44 replies 266 reposts 717 likes
|
Daniel Malmer
@malmer.com
[ View ] |
I once referred to David Sacks as a "tech oligarch" and he seemed genuinely baffled.
1 replies 0 reposts 11 likes
|
Charlotte Freeman
@cmf406.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Thanks from someone working in tech -- and thanks for the gift link! Really good ...
0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
jw
@bonobo.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Very thoughtful article and thanks for the freebie. And yeah, he’s laying out the reality we’re already in. But why monologue? You never saw the robber barons saying, “Hey. Thanks for letting us exploit you peasants and ps we’re robber barons!”
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
@robpennoyer.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Is Rushkoff on here?
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
@ptros.bsky.social
[ View ] |
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Impersonal Jesus
@jesusdontcare.bsky.social
[ View ] |
If any hacker in the known universe denies that they’re waiting for the day they can hack and/or wipe the computer brains of billionaires, they’re either simping or lying.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Staid Winnow
@staidwinnow.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It all started with Mencius Moldbug, aka Curtis Yarvin, the feudalism whisperer to the tech brah.
1 replies 0 reposts 10 likes
|
Jordie Welles 🏳️🌈
@jordie.bsky.social
[ View ] |
This was excellent. Thank you for your well written and spot on analysis.
0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
Seer Snively
@seersnively.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Why use a t.co link shortener here? It didn't even say New York Times anywhere, and I wasted a free article on an option piece.
6 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
Peter Jeffe
@pjeffe.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"As a piece of writing, the rambling and often contradictory manifesto has the pathos of the Unabomber manifesto but lacks the ideological coherency." 🔥
1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
Dan Turner
@ddt.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Was it always the case that kinds were unsatisfied with that, and strove to be philosopher kings?
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Ben Fowler
@benmffowler.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Is the crown there to hide how pointy his head is?
0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It was very generous of the art editor to obscure the true shape of Marc Andreessen’s noggin
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Scare Quotes
@quote-unquote.bsky.social
[ View ] |
This sobering line: “But the real problem with Mr. Andreessen’s manifesto may be not that it’s too outlandish, but that it’s too on-the-nose. Because in a very real and consequential sense, this view is already enshrined in our culture. Major tent-poles of public policy support it.”
0 replies 0 reposts 7 likes
|
Twill Condom
@twillcondom.bsky.social
[ View ] |
i want to put them in a grinded feet first as they are used to feed a gentle koy pond.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Joe Thompson
@kensey.bsky.social
[ View ] |
For a long-form deep-dive into the neoreaction of and tight links between some people mentioned in this article (Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin) as well as those around whom they coalesced like Nick Land and Eliezer Yudkowsky, I highly recommend @elsandifer.bsky.social’s _Neoreaction a Basilisk_.
0 replies 3 reposts 7 likes
|
Onno
@tinkerspider.bsky.social
[ View ] |
This piece is true and explains why they have so many bootlickers Which are often dudes annoyed by the fact they have to take other people into account Come to think of it: most of todays shitstorms are from people not liking accountability
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Kim
@kimoco.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The problem is the billionaires, not technology or democracy. No society needs any one person to have so much wealth, so much control over others. Especially men who act like teenage boys most of the time.
0 replies 0 reposts 14 likes
|
The future producer of “Himbo Heist”
@legalminimum.bsky.social
[ View ] |
As always, an excellent take.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
@dbmichele.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It’s a great article.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Sock Puppet Pundit
@sockpuppetpundit.bsky.social
[ View ] |
So much truth in one piece. I'd add the crossover for evangelicals is the prosperity gospel. The rich are rich because god blessed them for being 'moral' and the poor are poor as punishment for being 'immoral.'
0 replies 0 reposts 13 likes
|
Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell
@drhorrell.bsky.social
[ View ] |
As a biochemistry academic I've not seen any kickback money for championing how effective vaccines etc are. The cheques that give me the vast riches to invalidate my opinion, unlike the virtuous tech billionaire's opinions, must be in the mail.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
DR Darke
@drdarkeny.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"Neoreactionary" is a good term—I use "TechnoLibertarian" myself. Andreessen, Musk or Gates give me the same aura of self-aggrandizing desperation I get off Trump—Imposter Syndrome amped up to Eleventy-Stupid. They're sure THEY won't have to live w/the consequences of their actions!
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Estarianne
@estarianne.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It's me. I'm the elites. (stop genocide)
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
sagebiel
@aiformal.bsky.social
[ View ] |
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Nick S
@holgate.permanent.red
[ View ] |
Glad that you brought in Yarvin, because it's his influence (along with Nick Land) that pushes Egg's vision onward in darker directions from the Californian Ideology of the 90s. Well, that and a lot of money: Louis Rosetto's 'digerati' got rich enough to warp reality their way.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Kyle Ackerman
@kyleackerman.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Great piece! Particularly loved the line: "As a piece of writing, the rambling and often contradictory manifesto has the pathos of the Unabomber manifesto but lacks the ideological coherency."
0 replies 0 reposts 9 likes
|
T Sebastian - Pro Reality
@iamtsebastian.bsky.social
[ View ] |
You've captured the hubris & what I see as the immaturity of certain types of "billionaires". They don't know what they don't know & it shows.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Pino Gap
@pinogap.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The last sentence is the kicker and I've been saying it too, for years. You can buy everything in the world but eternal life. At least Egyptian pharaohs left behind some beautiful artifacts in their attempts.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Zeroisanumber
@zeroisanumber.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I liked your piece. Others have said that Andreesen and his techlord ilk are desperate to convince themselves that they're essential in spite of never having actually created anything in their lives, and I sense a hint of that in his scribbling.
1 replies 0 reposts 18 likes
|
Jerry Davis
@vanishingcorp.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Great piece! It's like Ayn Rand characters come to life. (The dream is that Galt's Gulch turns out to be the Pacific garbage island that Thiel has been secretly colonizing. I'm happy to have the UN recognize their libertarian paradise if it will get them out of California.)
0 replies 0 reposts 10 likes
|
Mela Storm
@melastorm.bsky.social
[ View ] |
But the biggest lie the one these bozos tell themselves. The one where they get to keep all the money they’ve accumulated after the country falls to an autocracy is the most delusional of all.
0 replies 0 reposts 4 likes
|
Parker
@jeffparker.bsky.social
[ View ] |
great piece Elizabeth!
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
@katlu92.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Oy. Our current world, indeed. Interesting piece.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Gareth Watkins
@garethwatkins.bsky.social
[ View ] |
This is good, but I think people need to be talking a lot more about Nick Land, who Andreesan quotes and cites as a 'patron saint of techno-optimism'. He's a genuinely awful human being and his ideology is central to all of this, much more than Moldbug's.
1 replies 0 reposts 4 likes
|
KB
@sorrykb.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Thank you for this piece, and for the gift link.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Sandy Parker
@sandyparker.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Elites telling people to not trust elites is such an amazing trick. Then again, white rich guys being the ones promoting the con makes it less of a trick and more like typical weird bro capitalistic libertarianism
1 replies 0 reposts 7 likes
|
Glenn Fleishman
@glennf.com
[ View ] |
I was additionally pissed that egghead sent me his essay AS A GODDAMNED SPAM: unsolicited and in violation of CAN-SPAM act requirements. 
0 replies 1 reposts 2 likes
|
Caring Uncle Minpict
@cabinfever.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Woooooooooo
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Kevin
@kja.bsky.social
[ View ] |
NYT staff doing its usual job of making rich folks look good by hiding Andreessen's very weird cone head
2 replies 0 reposts 10 likes
|
CrowMeris
@crowmeris.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"Mr. Andreessen claims to be against authoritarianism, but really, it’s a matter of choosing the authoritarian — and the neoreactionary authoritarian of choice is a C.E.O. who operates as king." Shudder inducing.
0 replies 0 reposts 4 likes
|
The Inconsistent Dragon, Alephwyr
@alephwyr.therian.wtf
[ View ] |
Hey, don't knock living forever in a computer on mars. Capitalist assholes don't own that.
0 replies 1 reposts 1 likes
|
MisterJayEm
@misterjayem.bsky.social
[ View ] |
A brilliant piece, well written. Bravo!
0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
Richard Keppler 🦋
@richardkeppler.bsky.social
[ View ] |
How long does an article have to be out before its authors are willing to post unlocked links?
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes