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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 12h

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 14h

Thank you!

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

Q&A with journalist Jacob Silverman on his new book Gilded Rage, the radical politics of certain tech elites, AI's impact on Silicon Valley politics, and more (Calder McHugh/Politico)

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 19h

Me and RJD agree

Ronnie James Dio and Anil Dash, at the album release party for Magica in 2000

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 17h

Wow!! That's fantastic

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Sarah Birnbaum ❌👑 @sarahvb.bsky.social · 21h

Dio Singing In The Pick Of Destiny

YouTube video by Effe Collects

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20h

Great review of @jacobsilverman.com's extremely enjoyable (and enraging) new book

Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 3d

"tech leaders enjoyed a decade’s worth of free money, used it to build up unprecedented wealth, and, when suddenly presented with a bill in the form of a cryptocurrency crash and a potential tech slowdown, allied with Republicans to keep the good times rolling." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What Really Drove Silicon Valley’s Shift to the Right

In Gilded Rage, journalist Jacob Silverman argues that a decade of free cash turned tech’s utopians into power brokers and made Trump their unlikely ally.

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 21h

The only answer is Ronnie James Dio

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 23h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 1d

Sorry I don't believe in Web3. My last book was mostly about fraud in crypto.

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 2d

Ideal review.

Isaac @gunshowloophole.bsky.social · 2d

I started reading @jacobsilverman.com's Gilded Rage, it's good but I keep getting so mad that I have to put it down and pace around a bit.

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 2d

Love that. I am always glad to hear about the book appearing in some far-flung place (well far from the heart of empire where I live)

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 2d

I'm in San Francisco. Come hear me talk tomorrow with AI researcher, tech critic, and author Alex Hanna.
www.eventbrite.com/e/gilded-rag...

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk & the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

Veteran financial reporter Jacob Silverman joins Alex Hanna to discuss the tech world's reactionary turn.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 2d

Tomorrow in San Francisco: @jacobsilverman.com and @alexhanna.bsky.social at Litquake.

7 p.m. See you there?

litquake2025.sched.com/event/28YrM/...

Litquake 2025: Gilded Rage—Elon Musk and the Radicaliza...

View more about this event at Litquake 2025

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"Sceptics are privately - and some now publicly - asking whether the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be, at least in part, the result of what they call 'financial engineering'. In other words - there are fears these companies are overvalued."

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 2d

See:

@jacobsilverman.com
focuses on a cohort of men—& they are, to be sure, all men—who have receded so far into their own bubbles, surrounding themselves with ever more yes-men & hangers-on, that they have lost all sense of proportion & become disconnected from reality.”
#GildedRage

Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn

A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.

www.thebulwark.com

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 2d

Much obliged

Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 2d

Much appreciated

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 2d

good shit, buy shit

Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 6d

It's pub day for my book, "Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley," which chronicles the rise of the tech right and their role in the 2024 election. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way.
linktr.ee/gildedrage

Gilded Rage | Linktree

A searing look at the rise of Silicon Valley's far right. Out October 2025.

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 2d

Glad to talk with Politico about Gilded Rage, tech authoritarianism, SF, social media obsessed billionaires searching for an exit, and the crypto industry as a Democratic Party adversary.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

How Silicon Valley Swung Right — And Why It Won’t Swing Back

A Silicon Valley chronicler on the increasingly radical politics of Elon Musk, David Sacks and Mark Zuckerberg.

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 3d

What radicalized Silicon Valley billionaires to embrace Donald Trump, and how are they wielding their power?

This week @jacobsilverman.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss his new book GILDED RAGE and the distorted worldview of the men who shape our lives.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/297_...

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 3d

Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

"Gilded Rage" isn’t simply a rehash of existing reportage. What separates Silverman’s book from other writeups, and where his book truly shines, is in his attempt to get at the root of Silicon Valley’s anti-democratic lurch. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...

Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn

A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.

www.thebulwark.com

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Casfetera 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @casfetera.bsky.social · 3d

"Buoyed by wealth that few of us will ever know, these oligarchs have spun out of control and become handmaidens to authoritarianism."
www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...

Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn

A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.

www.thebulwark.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

For most Americans, perhaps the most surprising feature of the 2024 election was the rightward lurch of Silicon Valley. A new book helps make sense of it.

@cjcmichel.bsky.social reviews @jacobsilverman.com's "Gilded Rage": www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...

Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn

A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.

www.thebulwark.com

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 3d

I admit I was proud of that one

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