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The near-term goal of crypto, AI and venture capital is to use their massive fraudulent wealth to buy our political system—both sides It’s not happenstance, it’s strategy. If you want to know more, have I got a book for you! Coming 8/18:

Gil Durán@gilduran.com

A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

fortune.comSon of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange | FortuneLux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million.

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Gil Durán

@gilduran.com

20 June

The real technology here is power—all levers of influence in one bundle that monopolizes our politics to destroy our democracy. That's the story I tell in "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy." Pre-order here to support indy bookstores: bookshop.org/a/109206/978...

bookshop.orgThe Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on DemocracySilicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

Mark Hurst

@markhurst.bsky.social

20 June

just dropped a note to Avid Reader Press - hope to have you on techtonic.fm

Tony Lee

@pigasuspress.bsky.social

20 June

The broligarchy’s AI is not science, or even tech... it’s just warfare by capitalism on genuine culture. What’s really at stake is not the global fiction of money, but everything else in the Arts that’s worth anything, to anyone.