This is a must-read article.
The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity | Common Dreams
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
www.commondreams.org
August 31, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This is a must-read article.
Yarvin's whole thing is that he wants wizard-kings but since wizards aren't real he has to try to back into it with techlords.
it is as stupid as that makes it sound
it is as stupid as that makes it sound
June 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Yarvin's whole thing is that he wants wizard-kings but since wizards aren't real he has to try to back into it with techlords.
it is as stupid as that makes it sound
it is as stupid as that makes it sound
The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
by @camargy.bsky.social
www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
by @camargy.bsky.social
www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...
The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity | Common Dreams
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
www.commondreams.org
August 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
by @camargy.bsky.social
www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
by @camargy.bsky.social
www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...
the techlords seem to have genuinely forgotten that their worker base is filled with highly educated liberals who hate Trump
January 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
the techlords seem to have genuinely forgotten that their worker base is filled with highly educated liberals who hate Trump
target the techlords and red state major producers
January 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
target the techlords and red state major producers
It's not knee-jerk. It's an environmentally-destructive technology designed to fetishize idea over effort and excise artists from art in order to make techlords richer by plagiarizing pre-existing material made by *actual* creative people and not quote-unquote "prompt engineers."
I get the knee-jerk reaction against generative AI, especially with how much of it gets wrapped up in the whole Silicon Valley tech-bro culture.
But I fear we’re seriously missing the mark in writing it off entirely like this. There’s a ton of creativity happening with advanced prompt engineering.
But I fear we’re seriously missing the mark in writing it off entirely like this. There’s a ton of creativity happening with advanced prompt engineering.
I get why techbros and their ilk like gen-AI: artists and writers to them are just an obstacle to be bypassed. But I'll never get an author/artist/musician who uses it. "I want to be a writer." No you don't. You fetishize ideas but hate the work. You don't respect the craft or its practitioners.
March 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It's not knee-jerk. It's an environmentally-destructive technology designed to fetishize idea over effort and excise artists from art in order to make techlords richer by plagiarizing pre-existing material made by *actual* creative people and not quote-unquote "prompt engineers."
I think this is going to be combatable by pointing at the techlords, which has the virtue of being substantially correct
I feel like the already sort of percolating anti-semitism throughout the right is gonna get fucking supercharged when the economic takes a real fall that people notice, unfortunately
March 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I think this is going to be combatable by pointing at the techlords, which has the virtue of being substantially correct
his solution is going to be violent repression of ethnic minorities by local techlords, though, just like usual
March 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
his solution is going to be violent repression of ethnic minorities by local techlords, though, just like usual
The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity:
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
Article BASE thread 🧵 (10 min) 📖🍿🔊
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
Article BASE thread 🧵 (10 min) 📖🍿🔊
The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity | Common Dreams
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
www.commondreams.org
August 28, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity:
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
Article BASE thread 🧵 (10 min) 📖🍿🔊
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
Article BASE thread 🧵 (10 min) 📖🍿🔊
The techlords are not going to deliver UBI. They’re going to turn us all into human batteries like the Matrix.
It’s all well and good for tech leaders to endorse UBI. But it feels convenient to only focus on a distant political prospect. The GOP, right now, is doing reverse-UBI (work requirements on SNAP). It’d be nice to hear more objections to that.
April 22, 2026 at 2:23 PM
The techlords are not going to deliver UBI. They’re going to turn us all into human batteries like the Matrix.
The techlords assure us we must allow their AIs to scrape and operate our websites, and this is good and correct and ethical and the way of the future. Also the websites the techlords themselves run make you click a button to prove you're human and not an AI trying to scrape or operate their website
September 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The techlords assure us we must allow their AIs to scrape and operate our websites, and this is good and correct and ethical and the way of the future. Also the websites the techlords themselves run make you click a button to prove you're human and not an AI trying to scrape or operate their website
im inclined to agree with the techlords that AI is dangerous. again, not because it's alive but because they're insisting on putting it in positions where it can hurt people, leaving aside the promised jobpocalypse they're promising us. chimp with gun
September 10, 2026 at 7:49 PM
im inclined to agree with the techlords that AI is dangerous. again, not because it's alive but because they're insisting on putting it in positions where it can hurt people, leaving aside the promised jobpocalypse they're promising us. chimp with gun
So Trump was definitely convinced by the AI techlords to go to war with Iran to provide them with an actual real world testing battleground for their shitty tech, right? That’s the thing that’s actually driving this?
September 25, 2026 at 2:19 PM
So Trump was definitely convinced by the AI techlords to go to war with Iran to provide them with an actual real world testing battleground for their shitty tech, right? That’s the thing that’s actually driving this?
at last, the techlords have recognized that my un-hattable head makes me superior
January 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
at last, the techlords have recognized that my un-hattable head makes me superior
What Techlords Don't Want You to Study
(History. Religion. Philosophy. Classics. And, of course, literature.)
open.substack.com/pub/virginia...
(History. Religion. Philosophy. Classics. And, of course, literature.)
open.substack.com/pub/virginia...
What Techlords Don't Want You to Study
History. Religion. Philosophy. Classics. And, of course, literature.
open.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
What Techlords Don't Want You to Study
(History. Religion. Philosophy. Classics. And, of course, literature.)
open.substack.com/pub/virginia...
(History. Religion. Philosophy. Classics. And, of course, literature.)
open.substack.com/pub/virginia...
“They advocate the removal of almost all public officials and services, increasing the numbers of the armed forces and police, building up the capacity for repression by the powers that be, no longer public, but corporate and business. [DOGE and militia-style police (ICE)] is a trial run of this.”
The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity | Common Dreams
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
www.commondreams.org
August 31, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“They advocate the removal of almost all public officials and services, increasing the numbers of the armed forces and police, building up the capacity for repression by the powers that be, no longer public, but corporate and business. [DOGE and militia-style police (ICE)] is a trial run of this.”
'Techlords being disappointed in the consequences of their creations' is an ongoing subplot of this era.
A thing worth thinking about social media sites is many of them were founded by libertarian adjacents who believed they were creating salons full of paeans to the wonders of capitalist innovation and discovered instead that the people who wanted to discuss politics were mostly some kind of leftist.
March 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
'Techlords being disappointed in the consequences of their creations' is an ongoing subplot of this era.
Techlords giving commencement addresses
May 17, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Techlords giving commencement addresses
Read this several times, because it's their EXACT motivation: Techlords want the masses believe that computer programs are not only sentient, but "getting out of control", because that would mean that the Techlords are gods with the power to create free-willed life forms. It's megalomania.
Rich white tech bros believe that they are gods, who are immortal. They also want very much to believe that they can “create life” or at least: a sentient consciousness. But they’re also v anxious about the idea that the “life” they create will escape their personal control and be used against them
September 15, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Read this several times, because it's their EXACT motivation: Techlords want the masses believe that computer programs are not only sentient, but "getting out of control", because that would mean that the Techlords are gods with the power to create free-willed life forms. It's megalomania.
Unlimited Gulags for zionists, billionaires, and AI techlords!
I remember when the bf (friend) of a friend told her to ask me about gulags and purges after I thought they mentioned at some point I was a commie...
And as a Commie I stand on my words "Commies should never think gulags, purges and oppression are good and should see them as tragic and awful"
And as a Commie I stand on my words "Commies should never think gulags, purges and oppression are good and should see them as tragic and awful"
Mao was bad. It’s insane that that’s a potentially divisive statement on this website.
September 19, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Unlimited Gulags for zionists, billionaires, and AI techlords!
lol it's very funny to get into a fight over "maybe we shouldn't back the Mouse uncritically to own the techlords"
August 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
lol it's very funny to get into a fight over "maybe we shouldn't back the Mouse uncritically to own the techlords"
Trump and his billionaire techlords want to take us back to the days when LA air smelled like bleach. For SoCal peeps, these pics are esp wild 👀
waterandpower.org/museum/Smog_...
waterandpower.org/museum/Smog_...
March 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Trump and his billionaire techlords want to take us back to the days when LA air smelled like bleach. For SoCal peeps, these pics are esp wild 👀
waterandpower.org/museum/Smog_...
waterandpower.org/museum/Smog_...
The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...
The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity | Common Dreams
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
www.commondreams.org
May 24, 2026 at 2:29 AM
The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...
It is important that we understand the utter contempt with which the FB team specifically, but techlords in general, view their target and product, which is us.
I wish I had posted this addition before this little thread went viral but PLEASE read Careless People. The info is importanr, the prose is actually good, and she’s a kick ass narrator.
Also BSky may not require algorithm use but bad actors can still use it to manipulate.
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
Also BSky may not require algorithm use but bad actors can still use it to manipulate.
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
Careless People Audiobook on Libro.fm
#1 New York Times BestsellerA 2025 best book of the year so far by The New York Times, The Economist, NPR, and more“Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-W...
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July 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It is important that we understand the utter contempt with which the FB team specifically, but techlords in general, view their target and product, which is us.