Carl Benedikt Frey on Twitter / X

‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur

Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...

ben guo 🏇 on Twitter / X

i gave this talk last night at @southpkcommons about why the personal computing revolution never happened, and what we can do about it. pumped about the feedback afterwards: "it's giving early tumblr", "you guys are like punk apple", "i want more early internet mixtape vibes" pic.twitter.com/0Lwz3CaWBX— ben guo 🏇 (@0thernet) November 6, 2025

Implicit Feudalism — Rushkoff Archive

Too many of us think it doesn’t matter when a platform like X/Twitter has a single, all-powerful owner. Most of our online worlds are simply run by what we hope are benevolent dictators. After all, we figure, if we don’t like what they’re doing or allowing, we can just leave, right? But in most cases we’re just jumping from one rich dude’s idea for how the world should be to another rich dude’s idea for how the world should be.

The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites

I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and now every time a reactionary Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation. Here's the column: On Instagram, there’s an activist named Brian Patrick (@pano.

Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X

I had the honor of giving a keynote at the International Conference on Machine Learning in Seoul last week titled “What will be left for us to work on?” I addressed the widespread anxiety about how we should adapt as AI capabilities increase. I was thrilled by the talk’s… pic.twitter.com/GEq0q6hEM0— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) July 13, 2026

Dan Woods on Twitter / X

https://t.co/WEFb86xtnS— Dan Woods (@danveloper) March 18, 2026

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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

Shawn Gude on Twitter / X

.@BernieSanders: "An essential story about one of America’s greatest champions for workers." Sara Nelson (@FlyingWithSara): "This book couldn’t be more timely.” @GraceBlakeley: "Masterful." Preorder American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs today!…— Shawn Gude (@shawngude) August 31, 2026

Shreya Shankar on Twitter / X

This problem has gotten significantly worse. As Twitter and other social media have become primary channels for sharing research, academics are now expected to make the same ideas legible and appealing to both the general public (to go "viral") and senior scholars (to get the… https://t.co/zPF3tKzbVa— Shreya Shankar (@sh_reya) July 25, 2026

Ian Preston (@ianopolous.bsky.social)

Mathematician/particle physicist turned privacy researcher. Java Rockstar #Oxford Building a better web - private, self-sovereign identity, p2p, social - with @peergos.org. Public social media undermines democracy. #covidisairborne #maskswork #cleantheair

John Coogan on Twitter / X

Best thing I’ve read recently. pic.twitter.com/FOksO0RDkR— John Coogan (@johncoogan) March 24, 2025

GREG ISENBERG on Twitter / X

I think the most interesting thing about Jack Dorsey's "Slack killer" is the idea around shared compute.I haven't seen people talk about it so here are my thoughts FWIW:Open models got good, close enough to the paid frontier stuff to run for real. But the strongest ones need… https://t.co/b5PBgYjAGL— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) July 25, 2026