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Jeff Sharlet
@jeffsharlet.bsky.social

I keep seeing posts about a “sex cult” running Silicon Valley. What is it? People speak as if everyone knows. I don’t know! Googling “sex cult” would, I think, not be productive. Is there a good *reported* account to share?

jtunes6.bsky.social
@jtunes6.bsky.social

An excellent piece. I would not focus on the "sex" stuff - didn't really see it in there, but on the TESCREAL / techofascist stuff. The alliance between TESCREAL and the fascists is very alarming, and these people have tons of money. We need to 1) understand what it is, 2) be able to recognize it /2

jtunes6.bsky.social
@jtunes6.bsky.social

"in the field", in public policy argumentation, and 3) to offer up a popular grassroots resistance. We need to evangelize a competing worldview based on the traditional values of liberal democary: Empathy, Democracy, Human Rights, and the Environment (EDHRE! - pronounced "eh-drah"? :-)). /3

jtunes6.bsky.social
@jtunes6.bsky.social

*This*, and not an absurd cold rationalist prioritization of hypothetical lives millions of years in the future, should be the grounding, the north star, from which we evaluate and make public policy about technology. /4

Really?
@nunyarunii.bsky.social

“The kooks are now in power, and they are using that power to dismantle the institutions designed to keep the rest of us safe, healthy, and free.”

sri
@sramkrishna.bsky.social

I read some part of that post and what hit me is that these billionaires want to create AGI and then move their consciousness to it so they can live forever. It's like reading "Otherland" by @tadwilliams.bsky.social - except the cabal is called the Grail Brotherhood.