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  • Ex-uber CEO claims that he’s close to major scientific discoveries through ‘vibe physics’

  • The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America

  • The psychic structure of disciplinary imperialism

  • The hostility of digital elites to expertise

  • The jouissance of the new far right

  • Taking the AGI pill

  • Are digital elites literally trying to establish a new species?

  • The millions of instances of (accidental) torture which Ray Kurzweil believes will precede the Singularity

  • Why didn’t Will MacAskill predict Sam Bankman-Fried’s malfeasance?

  • The ‘vibes shift’ as a preemptive declaration of hegemony

  • Digital elites and reactionary modernism

  • TikTok is the next stage in Elon Musk’s cultural machinery of reaction

  • There will be 13 billionaires in the Trump administration

  • How much time does Elon Musk spend tweeting each day?

  • What is Elon Musk’s end game?

  • Elon Musk: First Buddy of the United States

  • Was Tony Blair the first effective accelerationist?

  • Sam Altman: the billionaire prepper who believes he has achieved enlightenment

  • Elon Musk (2010) vs Elon Musk (2024): the radicalisation of America’s digital elites

  • That time Bill Gates paid the government to build him a secret tunnel to his vacation home

  • Why hasn’t Twitter/X died yet?

  • Why digital elites are embracing Trump

  • A Lacanian reading of digital elites

  • Who will pay for your digital butler? Why the utopia of the digital daemon would inevitably become a dystopia

  • Marc Andreessen’s vision of the digital daemon

  • Peter Thiel at the Oxford Union

  • Why do people who worry about the existential risks of AGI refuse to talk about capitalism?

  • What’s it like to spend your entire life as a cruise ship guest?

  • The importance of a chart is inversely proportional to its necessity to the argument

  • What will it be like to work on Elon Musk’s Mars colony?

  • Elon Musk as the intersection between influencer culture and the stock market

  • In defence of lurid curiosity about the lives of the rich and powerful

  • The private symposia of the rich and powerful

  • The fast eat the slow, the rich eat the fast. Or, the moral economy of Thomas Friedman’s digital illiteracy

  • The paradox of the liberal contrarian

  • Medium as a forum for warring digital elites

  • The scholarly career of BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti

  • A few notes the digital aristocracy

  • Silicon startup schools

  • Technology and the billionaire class

  • The Great Disruptive Project

  • The awkward silences of digital elites

  • The organic sociology of Silicon Valley

  • The Eschatology of Technology

  • The class politics of innovation and the new digital elite

  • Biographical Approaches to Studying Digital Capitalism

  • The Janus-faced ideology of philanthropic elites

  • Billionaires are people, too

  • A partial defence of Gawker’s prurience: the necessity of scrutinising #DigitalElites

  • The Epistemic Consequences of Technological Privilige

  • the messianic zeal of Eric Schmidt

  • The obsessive homogeneity of digital elites 

  • The genesis of the PayPal Mafia

  • “world of warcraft is the new golf”

  • the expanding ambitions of digital elites 

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