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Jeff Bezos Is Afraid Of What Comes Next
What comes after authoritarianism and the golden age of corruption? Billionaires are desperate to abuse their control of mass media to convince you it's anything other than good faith, popular, progressive reform.

Amazon reveals plans to spend $200bn in one year the day after Bezos guts Washington Post
Tech giant reports $213bn in revenue after its founder, who owns the Post, lays off a third of newspaper’s employees

Opinion: What the case of Jeffrey Epstein tells us about America's sickening worship of billionaire gods
The religion of money goes back centuries in America. Our country has always believed that you can do anything with human lives so long as you have enough cash to throw around
Carlos E. Perez on Twitter / X
What exactly drives the late-stage capitalist US economy?https://t.co/ERU764NoC4— Carlos E. Perez (@IntuitMachine) May 28, 2026
The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
In a world where corporations have detached buying from owning, one man attempts to do something radical: build his own cloud.
LinkedIn’s Plan for World Domination
Reid Hoffman believes that his company will determine everyone’s economic future. Is he right?

Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins. Investors don’t
Risking little of their own money, the US president and his sons have added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune from their main crypto ventures, while the investors they've wooed have taken a $2.3 billion hit, a Reuters examination found.

Tech moguls Altman, Bezos and Zuckerberg donate to Trump's inauguration fund
The donations are seen as the latest example of tech moguls' changing stance toward the incoming president. During his first administration, Trump clashed with Bezos and Zuckerberg.

GiveTrack™ - The future of philanthropy built upon Bitcoin and Blockchain
The Race to Allocate One Trillion Dollars in Philanthropic Capital
Frontier Lab IPOs are coming, and philanthropy isn’t ready

The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now
The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and Mark Zuckerberg acting in concert with a Trump-led authoritarian political project.

Bernie Sanders’ AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan - Schneier on Security
Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator asked: “Will the future of humanity be determined by a handful of billionaires who have promoted and developed AI, with virtually no democratic input, who stand to become even richer and more powerful than they are today?” We agree entirely that this is one of the most potent questions facing global democracy today. Our book, Rewiring Democracy, surveys the emerging uses for and impacts of AI in democracy around the world and reaches the same conclusion: that the most urgent risk posed by AI is the ...
The Joy of Becoming Worthless…except to each other — Douglas Rushkoff
My last piece, The Intentional Collapse, seems to have agitated a few people. I know it came off a bit dark. I talked about how the Uber wealthy believe the world as we know it is ending and that there won’t be enough essential resources to go around, so they need to take control of as much money and stuff and land as possible in order to position themselves for the end of days.
Unlocking the commons
"The most powerful and interesting media model will remain raising money from members who don't just permit but <em>insist</em> that the product be given away for free."

Power: A Primer for Perplexed Economists
Let's Assume an Unfettered Marketplace of Ideas! Or Actually, Let's Not.


Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and chairs

FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions

Amazon reveals plans to spend $200bn in one year the day after Bezos guts Washington Post

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

Warehouses: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers’ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat