Gil Durán
@gilduran.com
California writer. Ida Tarbell stan. Beat: tech fascism, billionaire extremism, network state, crypto cartels.
Writing a book: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.”
The Nerd Reich: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Writing a book: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.”
The Nerd Reich: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Is your pension fund fueling fascism?
Wanna do something about it?
Join this call on December 8 to find out how you can help stop pouring public funds into tech fascist coffers.
👉 www.stopfundingbillionaires.org
Wanna do something about it?
Join this call on December 8 to find out how you can help stop pouring public funds into tech fascist coffers.
👉 www.stopfundingbillionaires.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Is your pension fund fueling fascism?
Wanna do something about it?
Join this call on December 8 to find out how you can help stop pouring public funds into tech fascist coffers.
👉 www.stopfundingbillionaires.org
Wanna do something about it?
Join this call on December 8 to find out how you can help stop pouring public funds into tech fascist coffers.
👉 www.stopfundingbillionaires.org
This random copy shop has a stronger message than the Democratic Party
November 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
This random copy shop has a stronger message than the Democratic Party
Cover Reveal!
“The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026.
How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it.
Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
“The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026.
How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it.
Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Cover Reveal!
“The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026.
How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it.
Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
“The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026.
How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it.
Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Heard some strange knocking on my window last night and discovered that Bernie had snuck out onto the balcony and was now demanding to be let back in. Bad boy!
November 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Heard some strange knocking on my window last night and discovered that Bernie had snuck out onto the balcony and was now demanding to be let back in. Bad boy!
“Even business leaders once portrayed as liberal visionaries were swept up in the rising tide of American fascism, becoming some of its most enthusiastic public admirers. Their conversions served as powerful and useful propaganda tools for the regime.”
November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“Even business leaders once portrayed as liberal visionaries were swept up in the rising tide of American fascism, becoming some of its most enthusiastic public admirers. Their conversions served as powerful and useful propaganda tools for the regime.”
Srinivasan took most of his ideas from Curtis Yarvin, reframing them as the Network State.
Dasha Nekrasova interviewed Yarvin on Red Scare a few months ago, so it comes full circle.
This stuff is not happening in a vacuum. It's a propaganda play.
Dasha Nekrasova interviewed Yarvin on Red Scare a few months ago, so it comes full circle.
This stuff is not happening in a vacuum. It's a propaganda play.
November 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Srinivasan took most of his ideas from Curtis Yarvin, reframing them as the Network State.
Dasha Nekrasova interviewed Yarvin on Red Scare a few months ago, so it comes full circle.
This stuff is not happening in a vacuum. It's a propaganda play.
Dasha Nekrasova interviewed Yarvin on Red Scare a few months ago, so it comes full circle.
This stuff is not happening in a vacuum. It's a propaganda play.
Why is South Park is covering tech politics better than every major US newpaper, magazine and cable news network combined?
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Why is South Park is covering tech politics better than every major US newpaper, magazine and cable news network combined?
Paris Hilton, Balaji Srinivasan, Steve Aoki, and the Winklevoss twins help raise $60 million for Network State guru Bryan Johnson—who does shock therapy on his penis, publicly trips on high-dose mushrooms, and claims he will not die.
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Paris Hilton, Balaji Srinivasan, Steve Aoki, and the Winklevoss twins help raise $60 million for Network State guru Bryan Johnson—who does shock therapy on his penis, publicly trips on high-dose mushrooms, and claims he will not die.
How I felt after finishing the latest chapter of my book (re the convergence of Silicon Valley and Christian nationalism)
November 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
How I felt after finishing the latest chapter of my book (re the convergence of Silicon Valley and Christian nationalism)
The Network State is top news in Sonoma County!
“Is the Network State — an online movement that uses cryptocurrency to fund self-governing micro-communities — coming to Cloverdale?”
“Is the Network State — an online movement that uses cryptocurrency to fund self-governing micro-communities — coming to Cloverdale?”
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 AM
The Network State is top news in Sonoma County!
“Is the Network State — an online movement that uses cryptocurrency to fund self-governing micro-communities — coming to Cloverdale?”
“Is the Network State — an online movement that uses cryptocurrency to fund self-governing micro-communities — coming to Cloverdale?”
Hard as they tried, the so-called best and brightest minds of the right could never determine precisely when — or by what curious influence — their younger followers had turned to a harsher, more fanatical strain of their own bigotry.
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Hard as they tried, the so-called best and brightest minds of the right could never determine precisely when — or by what curious influence — their younger followers had turned to a harsher, more fanatical strain of their own bigotry.
In 2022, Peter Thiel protégé Balaji Srinivasan—formerly of Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase—envisioned a Second American Civil War.
He predicted it would be triggered by Bitcoin.
This is how it would work:
He predicted it would be triggered by Bitcoin.
This is how it would work:
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
In 2022, Peter Thiel protégé Balaji Srinivasan—formerly of Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase—envisioned a Second American Civil War.
He predicted it would be triggered by Bitcoin.
This is how it would work:
He predicted it would be triggered by Bitcoin.
This is how it would work:
Introducing ADX Florence, the Network State for billionaires who want to overthrow democracy.
New units coming online in 2028 and beyond.
(If the billionaires can imagine eternal life, Mars colonies and a post-democracy world, we can imagine this. "Meme it and we will be it.")
New units coming online in 2028 and beyond.
(If the billionaires can imagine eternal life, Mars colonies and a post-democracy world, we can imagine this. "Meme it and we will be it.")
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Introducing ADX Florence, the Network State for billionaires who want to overthrow democracy.
New units coming online in 2028 and beyond.
(If the billionaires can imagine eternal life, Mars colonies and a post-democracy world, we can imagine this. "Meme it and we will be it.")
New units coming online in 2028 and beyond.
(If the billionaires can imagine eternal life, Mars colonies and a post-democracy world, we can imagine this. "Meme it and we will be it.")
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forget the lies you have been told! rats are empathetic, intelligent, and sweet pocket puppies.
and their tails are beautiful.
forget the lies you have been told! rats are empathetic, intelligent, and sweet pocket puppies.
and their tails are beautiful.
October 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
currently the winning thumbnail 🐀
forget the lies you have been told! rats are empathetic, intelligent, and sweet pocket puppies.
and their tails are beautiful.
forget the lies you have been told! rats are empathetic, intelligent, and sweet pocket puppies.
and their tails are beautiful.
Coming soon to The Nerd Reich podcast...a rare cameo by Bernie the Anti-Fascist Fancy Rat!
Our new episode—an interview with Paulina Borsook, who saw tech fascism rising out of San Francisco 30 years ago—drops soon.
Subscribe on YouTube to get it first:
www.youtube.com/@TheNerdReic...
Our new episode—an interview with Paulina Borsook, who saw tech fascism rising out of San Francisco 30 years ago—drops soon.
Subscribe on YouTube to get it first:
www.youtube.com/@TheNerdReic...
October 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Coming soon to The Nerd Reich podcast...a rare cameo by Bernie the Anti-Fascist Fancy Rat!
Our new episode—an interview with Paulina Borsook, who saw tech fascism rising out of San Francisco 30 years ago—drops soon.
Subscribe on YouTube to get it first:
www.youtube.com/@TheNerdReic...
Our new episode—an interview with Paulina Borsook, who saw tech fascism rising out of San Francisco 30 years ago—drops soon.
Subscribe on YouTube to get it first:
www.youtube.com/@TheNerdReic...
You can tell the Antichrist thing is a disaster for Thiel because his big-mouthed toadies are totally silent.
Re: Satanic themes: Every year Thiel's firm throws a party called Hereticon—a literal celebration of heresy, with mock Christian themes.
Shh, don't tell the Christians!
Re: Satanic themes: Every year Thiel's firm throws a party called Hereticon—a literal celebration of heresy, with mock Christian themes.
Shh, don't tell the Christians!
October 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
You can tell the Antichrist thing is a disaster for Thiel because his big-mouthed toadies are totally silent.
Re: Satanic themes: Every year Thiel's firm throws a party called Hereticon—a literal celebration of heresy, with mock Christian themes.
Shh, don't tell the Christians!
Re: Satanic themes: Every year Thiel's firm throws a party called Hereticon—a literal celebration of heresy, with mock Christian themes.
Shh, don't tell the Christians!
Moral cowards, lacking core beliefs, can be pushed in any direction.
An insight to keep in mind as the billionaire class calculates the optimal path through fascism.
An insight to keep in mind as the billionaire class calculates the optimal path through fascism.
October 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Moral cowards, lacking core beliefs, can be pushed in any direction.
An insight to keep in mind as the billionaire class calculates the optimal path through fascism.
An insight to keep in mind as the billionaire class calculates the optimal path through fascism.
Globes, an Israeli business publication, says Gaza could become a "tax haven" with lax regulations for tech companies—and has drawn support from Peter Thiel.
October 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Globes, an Israeli business publication, says Gaza could become a "tax haven" with lax regulations for tech companies—and has drawn support from Peter Thiel.
The creation of ‘parallel’ institutions—media outlets, universities, political parties, etc—is key.
That's how billionaires turn their money into institutional capture and ideological weaponization.
Weiss already has a “university” and a “Free Press.”
Now she gets CBS...
That's how billionaires turn their money into institutional capture and ideological weaponization.
Weiss already has a “university” and a “Free Press.”
Now she gets CBS...
October 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The creation of ‘parallel’ institutions—media outlets, universities, political parties, etc—is key.
That's how billionaires turn their money into institutional capture and ideological weaponization.
Weiss already has a “university” and a “Free Press.”
Now she gets CBS...
That's how billionaires turn their money into institutional capture and ideological weaponization.
Weiss already has a “university” and a “Free Press.”
Now she gets CBS...
Just got my copy of Gilded Rage by @jacobsilverman.com
Please buy this important book about how tech zillionaires went off the edge.
(Bonus: I’m in it!)
Please buy this important book about how tech zillionaires went off the edge.
(Bonus: I’m in it!)
October 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Just got my copy of Gilded Rage by @jacobsilverman.com
Please buy this important book about how tech zillionaires went off the edge.
(Bonus: I’m in it!)
Please buy this important book about how tech zillionaires went off the edge.
(Bonus: I’m in it!)
Yes, it's weird that Peter Thiel can't stop talking up the Antichrist.
But look on the bright side—he's also the guy who:
-Gave @jd-vance-1.bsky.social his first VC job
-Funded Vance's firm
-Bought his Senate seat
-Got him the VP slot
Have a nice day!
But look on the bright side—he's also the guy who:
-Gave @jd-vance-1.bsky.social his first VC job
-Funded Vance's firm
-Bought his Senate seat
-Got him the VP slot
Have a nice day!
October 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Yes, it's weird that Peter Thiel can't stop talking up the Antichrist.
But look on the bright side—he's also the guy who:
-Gave @jd-vance-1.bsky.social his first VC job
-Funded Vance's firm
-Bought his Senate seat
-Got him the VP slot
Have a nice day!
But look on the bright side—he's also the guy who:
-Gave @jd-vance-1.bsky.social his first VC job
-Funded Vance's firm
-Bought his Senate seat
-Got him the VP slot
Have a nice day!
Timeline cleanse: Bernie the Rescue Rat chomping a tortilla.
October 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Timeline cleanse: Bernie the Rescue Rat chomping a tortilla.
2025 is just full of surprises
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
2025 is just full of surprises