Jacob Silverman
@jacobsilverman.com
3 books. My latest is GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY
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www.jacobsilverman.com
https://linktr.ee/gildedrage
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NEW: In January 2024, a man purchased Meta's newly AI-infused smart glasses.
He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
January 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
NEW: In January 2024, a man purchased Meta's newly AI-infused smart glasses.
He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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rhizome.org/editorial/20... thinking about how in 2017 Josh Begley and Seth Freed Wessler and I did a commission for of all places the Ace Hotel gallery about immigrant detention centers
To Serve the National Interest
An installation of new collaborative work by Ingrid Burrington, Josh Begley, and Seth Freed Wessler on view at Ace Hotel New York as part of Seven on Seven 2017.
rhizome.org
January 16, 2026 at 12:54 PM
rhizome.org/editorial/20... thinking about how in 2017 Josh Begley and Seth Freed Wessler and I did a commission for of all places the Ace Hotel gallery about immigrant detention centers
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Like how this by @jacobsilverman.com doesn't moralize about being on X, as is most people's wont over here. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/quitting-t...
Quitting Time
On trading one slop feed for others.
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January 15, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Like how this by @jacobsilverman.com doesn't moralize about being on X, as is most people's wont over here. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/quitting-t...
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"Grok, the AI chatbot anchoring Elon Musk’s X social media platform, has become the Internet’s leading maker of nonconsensual sexualized imagery, especially of young girls."
How Elon Musk Turned Grok Into a Pedo Chatbot
The tech oligarch sets a new low—for now—in the degeneration of online discourse.
www.thenation.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:03 PM
"Grok, the AI chatbot anchoring Elon Musk’s X social media platform, has become the Internet’s leading maker of nonconsensual sexualized imagery, especially of young girls."
Pretty much every day
January 14, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Pretty much every day
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"Finally, as a journalist, I think X has mostly exhausted its utility while becoming a professional liability."
January 14, 2026 at 11:07 PM
"Finally, as a journalist, I think X has mostly exhausted its utility while becoming a professional liability."
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“With a fascist at the helm, xAI has produced a fascist chatbot. In this political environment, that gets you Pentagon contracts. This week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth touted the department’s forthcoming integration of Grok in military networks.”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
How Elon Musk Turned Grok Into a Pedo Chatbot
The tech oligarch sets a new low—for now—in the degeneration of online discourse.
www.thenation.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:06 PM
“With a fascist at the helm, xAI has produced a fascist chatbot. In this political environment, that gets you Pentagon contracts. This week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth touted the department’s forthcoming integration of Grok in military networks.”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Some still remember the old ways!
Internet giants don’t deserve our deference...our relationships with them should be adversarial, full of skepticism & critique. They show little loyalty to us, collecting, mining, & selling ever more of our data, and so they should receive little in return.
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January 12, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Some still remember the old ways!
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@jacobsilverman.com’s Gilded Rage tracks Silicon Valley’s sharp rightward turn—from liberal hub to Trump-aligned power center. Tech elites like Elon Musk now openly reject regulation, democracy, and the state they say “held them back.”
January 8, 2026 at 11:08 PM
@jacobsilverman.com’s Gilded Rage tracks Silicon Valley’s sharp rightward turn—from liberal hub to Trump-aligned power center. Tech elites like Elon Musk now openly reject regulation, democracy, and the state they say “held them back.”
I had a great time talking to @wajali.bsky.social and @gilduran.com today about how messed up everything is.
www.jacobsilverman.com/p/how-captur...
www.jacobsilverman.com/p/how-captur...
How Capturing Greenland and Venezuela Helps The Tech Oligarchs Create Their Fascist State
A recording from Jacob Silverman and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
www.jacobsilverman.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:28 AM
I had a great time talking to @wajali.bsky.social and @gilduran.com today about how messed up everything is.
www.jacobsilverman.com/p/how-captur...
www.jacobsilverman.com/p/how-captur...
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How "Capturing" Venezuela and Greenland Are Key Steps to Help the Tech Oligarchy in Their Plan to Take Over the World.
With @gilduran.com and @jacobsilverman.com
2 pm ET
Join us thelefthook.substack.com
With @gilduran.com and @jacobsilverman.com
2 pm ET
Join us thelefthook.substack.com
The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali | Substack
A political, cultural, and intellectual playground for the rest of us with writer Wajahat Ali. Click to read The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscriber...
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January 5, 2026 at 6:51 PM
How "Capturing" Venezuela and Greenland Are Key Steps to Help the Tech Oligarchy in Their Plan to Take Over the World.
With @gilduran.com and @jacobsilverman.com
2 pm ET
Join us thelefthook.substack.com
With @gilduran.com and @jacobsilverman.com
2 pm ET
Join us thelefthook.substack.com
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“Working toward the Fuhrer” is a well established principle in authoritarian systems
Ive been wondering how many actions with media and government alike are less Trump’s orders and rather people doing what they think Trump would like to see.
December 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“Working toward the Fuhrer” is a well established principle in authoritarian systems
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this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
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This episode built around @jordanscarroll.bsky.social & @jacobsilverman.com had only 2 fewer downloads than the above, & boy do they have a lot of insight into our present predicament.
Check out their 2025 books SPECULATIVE WHITENESS & GILDED RAGE.
Thanks for listening. AV will be back next week.
Check out their 2025 books SPECULATIVE WHITENESS & GILDED RAGE.
Thanks for listening. AV will be back next week.
The Mutational Romances of Silicon Valley Speculation (A Tale of Today, Episode #18)
with Jordan S. Carroll, Jacob Silverman, and...Fredric Jameson
theamericanvandal.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This episode built around @jordanscarroll.bsky.social & @jacobsilverman.com had only 2 fewer downloads than the above, & boy do they have a lot of insight into our present predicament.
Check out their 2025 books SPECULATIVE WHITENESS & GILDED RAGE.
Thanks for listening. AV will be back next week.
Check out their 2025 books SPECULATIVE WHITENESS & GILDED RAGE.
Thanks for listening. AV will be back next week.
There's no upper bound to his fortune now. With USD1, he's printing fake digital dollars and selling them by the billion to Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds.
💰Trump’s wealth increased by about $2.5B since his reelection, to $6.9B
💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M.
💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M.
💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.
💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M.
💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M.
💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.
His policies are picking winners and losers — and blurring the lines between business and government. n.pr/48P2QSb
December 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
There's no upper bound to his fortune now. With USD1, he's printing fake digital dollars and selling them by the billion to Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds.
That is nice but imagine if we had universal healthcare.
Mr Cuban,
I just wanted to quickly thank you. My husband has XXXX cancer, a rare gastrointestinal cancer. We are between insurance right now and when we went to pick it up we were informed it was $29,000. We were able to get it from CostPlus for $990. Thank you for saving my husband's life.
I just wanted to quickly thank you. My husband has XXXX cancer, a rare gastrointestinal cancer. We are between insurance right now and when we went to pick it up we were informed it was $29,000. We were able to get it from CostPlus for $990. Thank you for saving my husband's life.
December 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
That is nice but imagine if we had universal healthcare.
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To the Ellisons, $8B for the chance to censor CBS reports about atrocious Trump regime actions is a good deal.
To Elon Musk (and the Saudis), $44B to censor and manipulate Twitter is worth it.
They don't need profits from media properties. For them, money long ago crossed the threshold into power.
To Elon Musk (and the Saudis), $44B to censor and manipulate Twitter is worth it.
They don't need profits from media properties. For them, money long ago crossed the threshold into power.
December 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
To the Ellisons, $8B for the chance to censor CBS reports about atrocious Trump regime actions is a good deal.
To Elon Musk (and the Saudis), $44B to censor and manipulate Twitter is worth it.
They don't need profits from media properties. For them, money long ago crossed the threshold into power.
To Elon Musk (and the Saudis), $44B to censor and manipulate Twitter is worth it.
They don't need profits from media properties. For them, money long ago crossed the threshold into power.
Recently I had a wide-ranging, if appropriately depressing, hour-long conversation with @krystalball.bsky.social about tech fascism, democracy, AI and industrial policy, the search for "exit," and much else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiuR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiuR...
Silicon Valley's Dark Quest For Techno Fascism
YouTube video by Breaking Points
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Recently I had a wide-ranging, if appropriately depressing, hour-long conversation with @krystalball.bsky.social about tech fascism, democracy, AI and industrial policy, the search for "exit," and much else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiuR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiuR...
Thanks to the Boston Globe for putting GILDED RAGE on their best books of 2025 list. They call it a "fascinating if chilling narrative."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/22/a...
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The 75 best books of 2025 - The Boston Globe
From fiction to nonfiction, discover the best books of 2025 with our curated list of 75 titles.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Thanks to the Boston Globe for putting GILDED RAGE on their best books of 2025 list. They call it a "fascinating if chilling narrative."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/22/a...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/22/a...
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“As @jacobsilverman.com puts it in his book, these tech titans ‘had the world at their fingertips and they couldn’t stand the touch.’”
@bcmerchant.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @jathansadowski.com @hagenblix.bsky.social
@bcmerchant.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @jathansadowski.com @hagenblix.bsky.social
The best books, films and TV that tackled AI + tech in 2025
The Great Blood in the Machine Guide to All Media
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“As @jacobsilverman.com puts it in his book, these tech titans ‘had the world at their fingertips and they couldn’t stand the touch.’”
@bcmerchant.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @jathansadowski.com @hagenblix.bsky.social
@bcmerchant.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @jathansadowski.com @hagenblix.bsky.social
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Affadavit is British for “one half of Dave”
December 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Affadavit is British for “one half of Dave”