"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - 1984
And in this case, whichever one of these #NetworkState fetishists (Altman, Musk, Zuckerberg, Pichai, Amodei) achieves market dominance first could very well shape that reality in their own image.
Orwell Didn't Predict Grok, Bu...
#networkState
The new zone would be run by tech companies. #NetworkState
$215 million fine for a San Francisco based AI/fintech (and I'm assuming crypto) VC fund GVA Capital that was laundering money for russian oligarchs (at least until someone makes some "arrangements" with the #Trump family)
few understand the extent to which a lot of these tech VC funds exist mainly as ways to launder / re-onshore criminal assets...
(h/t @cybeardjm)
https://ofac.treasury.gov/media/934366/download?inline
#uspol #uspolitics #nerdreich #sanfrancisco #SFpol #russia #ukraine #putin #SuleimanKerimov #corruption #NetworkState #Ukrainewar #sanctions #GVACapital #VentureCapital #AI #fintech #Putin #OFAC #crypto
Analysis: "Tech Moguls Want to Build a Crypto Paradise on a Native American Reservation"
The broligarchs are solving this "problem":
"For thought leaders who want to move fast & break things, what can be done about laws that get in the way?"
One “special economic zone" is Próspera in Honduras, "an autonomous jurisdiction with limited regulations."
And "a tech-backed carveout of Native territory already exists".
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/tech-crypto-native-american-musk-balaji-network-state/
Analysis: "Tech Moguls Want to Build a Crypto Paradise on a Native American Reservation"
The broligarchs are solving the problem: "For thought leaders who want to move fast & break things, what can be done about laws that get in the way?"
One “special economic zone" is Próspera in Honduras, "an autonomous jurisdiction with limited regulations."
And "a tech-backed carveout of Native territory already exists".
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/tech-crypto-native-american-musk-balaji-network-state/
Tech Moguls Want to Build a Crypto Paradise on a Native American Reservation
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/tech-crypto-native-american-musk-balaji-network-state/
Tech Moguls Want to Build a Crypto Paradise on a Native American Reservation...
...And hope to gobble up some land near you.
@kieraevebutler.bsky.social of @motherjones.com exposes yet another #NetworkState project.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Tech moguls want to build a cr...
Un article dans Libé du 29/05 sur le concept des "Network States" et autres "Freedom Cities" très en vogue chez les libertariens nourris aux mamelles de la Silicon Valley.
Original : https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/network-states-quand-les-rois-de-la-tech-libertariens-revent-de-faire-secession-20250528_ACDXAWL5FZATLLLYID2PS67PWY/
Archive : https://archive.ph/cuAnP
PS: je travaille sur un long post sur ce sujet pour mon blog depuis un certain temps. A suivre...
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale recently accused Balaji Srinivasan of “insane CCP thinking” for not getting behind the project of fusing Silicon Valley to the Pentagon.
It exposed a disagreement on how to best expand the power of the tech elite, but not on tech’s deeper right-wing turn.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-ideological-rift-on-the-tech
@eff @newyorktimes Opportunity missed? #Palantir and #PeterThiel are at the very heart of the #NetworkState project (also see #Project2025) intent on ending liberal democracy and indeed USA as a republic.
It also strikes me as insane to have Palantir involved in #EuropeanDefence projects. In fact most of the new military startups in the USA are intimately linked to the fascist-leaning #techbros... 😬
Elon Musk's SpaceX town in Texas warns residents they may lose right to 'continue using' their own property.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/29/elon-musk-spacex-starbase-texas.html
“Freedom cities” are being pushed by Network State figures, a dangerous step toward corporate rule and lost rights. #NetworkState #CorporateDystopia #BigTech
I'm too tired to summarize. Suffice to say: the "network state" cretins just loooooove to throw around anarchist-y sounding jargon (anarchists being well known for their eternal quest to find that one special kind of state that will fix everything).
Fuck those guys.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/24/wyoming-vacation-lodge-rightwing
#NetworkState #NRx #CurtisYarvin #NickLand #neoreaction #BalajiSrinivasan #fascism
A long read on how anti-democracy bros are settling up yet another settlement, this time in Wyoming.
Story, WY is about 400 miles north of Denver, CO. The article details the laws in WY that allow for anonymous incorporation. #Wyoming #NetworkState #RightWingStrongHold #DAO #Compound
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/24/wyoming-vacation-lodge-rightwing
Remote Wyoming vacation lodge emerges as haven for US ‘dissident’ right
Wagon Box Inn, founded by Paul McNiel, attracts figures with ambitions to push politics and culture rightwards
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/24/wyoming-vacation-lodge-rightwing
Excellent and important investigative reporting by @jasonaw.bsky.social and @awinston.bsky.social on the #DissidentRight and #NetworkState proponents who wet-dream about thousands of small #CompanyTowns replacing nation states.
#FarRight
#Techno-Feudalism
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Remote Wyoming vacation lodge ...
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nerd-reich-with-gil-duran/id1610914569?i=1000700273812
#TheNerdReich podcast : Journalist #GilDuran exposes the #NetworkState, the latest in a long line of libertarian ideologies.
Based on the ideas of people like Patri Friedman, Balaji Srinavasan, Curtis Yarvin and other such ilk, the movement aims to dismantle the American governement in favour of a network of federated states, all competing for citizens.
The ideology has found a home in the second Trump admin and is gaining momentum quickly.
This podcast discusses what it is, where it came from, and how to stop the spread
Crypto corruption isn’t just about money—it’s about fracturing democracy itself.
The goal: decentralize governance in the same way that crypto seeks to decentralize finance.
But don’t take my word for it. Listen to the CEO of Coinbase
#NetworkState
newrepublic.com/article/1857...
The Most Powerful Crypto Bro i...
@briankrebs i think you just described the #NetworkState
@wendysiegelman the network state is actually just a med spa
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