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whstancil.bsky.social
silicon valley is going to destroy america
February 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
georgetakei.bsky.social
They found no fraud—just a new way to screw over retirees at Silicon Valley speed.
May 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
bombsfall.bsky.social
"Silicon Valley built the modern world" you guys make apps
February 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
jamellebouie.net
no bigger ideological bubble right now than the silicon valley/media nexus
January 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
the silicon valley technofascists are the definition of good times breed weak men
July 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
"I'm down to three shitty fucking commas. Pathetic."
June 24, 2026 at 8:40 PM
carlbergstrom.com
In Silicon Valley, nexus torment you.
October 9, 2026 at 6:28 AM
jamellebouie.net
i will become a total shill for whichever politician decides to become the joe mccarthy of rooting out silicon valley ideology and influence
February 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
marisakabas.bsky.social
how is silicon valley real
faineg.com Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12d
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below.

Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
Ann Pierce @itsannpierce 20h I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology. I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again. This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein… People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc. Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!) Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun! I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great! Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky. Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone. And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity. I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
September 27, 2026 at 6:18 PM
internethippo.bsky.social
Silicon Valley guys casting government employees as lazy, parasitic, and malevolent seems like a giant case of projection imo
March 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
muffinlab.bsky.social
how i'm entering silicon valley after the Great Unraveling
April 21, 2026 at 8:39 PM
xeiaso.net
The silicon valley model of consent
April 1, 2025 at 3:59 AM
milesklee.bsky.social
the entire internet to Silicon Valley VCs:
January 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
My man looks like a Silicon Valley CEO pitching an idea he calls "orphanmaxxing"
October 4, 2026 at 6:57 PM
rob-sheridan.com
Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:
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November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
edzitron.com
Silicon Valley guys love libertarianism right up until they don't
November 18, 2023 at 6:07 PM
georgetakei.bsky.social
This is a partner in Sequoia Capital in Silicon Valley. Unacceptable. Will the company condemn this?
July 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
gilduran.com
Remember when Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale called for public executions?

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
October 9, 2026 at 5:19 AM
victoriascott.bsky.social
I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too
September 8, 2026 at 2:41 PM
gilduran.com
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
chadloder.dev
"Why Peter Thiel is leaving Silicon Valley" (2018)
December 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
bencollins.bsky.social
Hematoligarchy (nation run by 6 Silicon Valley bloodboys)
February 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
politico.com
The head of the Defense Innovation Unit — the Pentagon’s in-house tech incubator — has abruptly stepped down, severing a key link with Silicon Valley.
Pentagon’s tech innovation head abruptly steps down
Doug Beck has been a critical link between the Defense Department and Silicon Valley.
www.politico.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
rmac.bsky.social
Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships.

We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
Jeffrey Epstein’s Money Mingled With Silicon Valley Start-Ups
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:21 PM
wapplehouse.bsky.social
China oneshotted Silicon Valley yesterday lol
January 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM