Raymond Craib
@raycraib.bsky.social
Historian at Cornell. Adventure Capitalism: A history of libertarian exit from the era of decolonization to the digital age (PM Press 2022); Cry of the Renegade (OUP 2016); and Cartographic Mexico (Duke UP 2004). Ipswich Town FC.
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His book is a must read
November 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
His book is a must read
Yes, he definitely was. I’ve been working thru more archival stuff on him and it just keeps on giving, in a depressing way….
I’m reading Adventure Capitalism and the chapter titled Libertarian Noir features Mitch WerBell prominently, and boy that guy was wild.
1979. Mitch Werbell, communist hating mercenary
YouTube video by Geraldo Rivera
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Yes, he definitely was. I’ve been working thru more archival stuff on him and it just keeps on giving, in a depressing way….
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@raycraib.bsky.social has done some great writing about these sorts of projects and their looooong history
November 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
@raycraib.bsky.social has done some great writing about these sorts of projects and their looooong history
Colegas in Santiago
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Colegas in Santiago
I just want to be 100% clear:
The most important thing that is happening in tech fascism right now is that on Sunday there are elections in Honduras.
We are literally at risk of Honduras falling to tech fascism in front of our eyes.
The most important thing that is happening in tech fascism right now is that on Sunday there are elections in Honduras.
We are literally at risk of Honduras falling to tech fascism in front of our eyes.
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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I just want to be 100% clear:
The most important thing that is happening in tech fascism right now is that on Sunday there are elections in Honduras.
We are literally at risk of Honduras falling to tech fascism in front of our eyes.
The most important thing that is happening in tech fascism right now is that on Sunday there are elections in Honduras.
We are literally at risk of Honduras falling to tech fascism in front of our eyes.
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I just want to be 100% clear:
The most important thing that is happening in tech fascism right now is that on Sunday there are elections in Honduras.
We are literally at risk of Honduras falling to tech fascism in front of our eyes.
The most important thing that is happening in tech fascism right now is that on Sunday there are elections in Honduras.
We are literally at risk of Honduras falling to tech fascism in front of our eyes.
Prospera is pushing hard with threats to use skewed and business-friendly dispute resolution tribunal and now getting major favoritism from Trump admin and election interference. Trump praised Argentine pres Milei’s an-cap crap philosophy and is looking to see it planted in Honduras. Very grim…
I just want to be 100% clear:
The most important thing that is happening in tech fascism right now is that on Sunday there are elections in Honduras.
We are literally at risk of Honduras falling to tech fascism in front of our eyes.
The most important thing that is happening in tech fascism right now is that on Sunday there are elections in Honduras.
We are literally at risk of Honduras falling to tech fascism in front of our eyes.
November 29, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Prospera is pushing hard with threats to use skewed and business-friendly dispute resolution tribunal and now getting major favoritism from Trump admin and election interference. Trump praised Argentine pres Milei’s an-cap crap philosophy and is looking to see it planted in Honduras. Very grim…
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It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
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On the military side, Responsible Statecraft and specifically William Hartung has really done a great job of exposing Silicon Valley's attempts to takeover the MIC. He has a new book out, the Trillion Dollar War Machine, that I'm not done reading but really good
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
On the military side, Responsible Statecraft and specifically William Hartung has really done a great job of exposing Silicon Valley's attempts to takeover the MIC. He has a new book out, the Trillion Dollar War Machine, that I'm not done reading but really good
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Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit book is also very good. The academics have been way ahead of the journalists on this but are definitely a bright spot. EuropeanPowell has good stuff on how this is affecting the UK and Europe. @andreaskemper.bsky.social is well worth a look.
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit book is also very good. The academics have been way ahead of the journalists on this but are definitely a bright spot. EuropeanPowell has good stuff on how this is affecting the UK and Europe. @andreaskemper.bsky.social is well worth a look.
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yeah, there's a lot of junk out there to be honest... BUT some people i really like on these topics are quinn slobodian (Wrote Hayak's Bastards, great read,) @ojutel.bsky.social does really cool work, (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...), Erin McElroy's "Silicon Valley Imperialism" is real good
The Network State, Exit, and the Political Economy of Venture Capital
This article focuses on the Network State movement as embodying the venture capital (VC) logic of exit. Exit constitutes both a strategy for lucrative returns and an ideology seeking out new territor...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
yeah, there's a lot of junk out there to be honest... BUT some people i really like on these topics are quinn slobodian (Wrote Hayak's Bastards, great read,) @ojutel.bsky.social does really cool work, (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...), Erin McElroy's "Silicon Valley Imperialism" is real good
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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We all need to support each other‘s labor struggles. Thanks for the solidarity, @rweingarten.bsky.social!
We stand with UConn faculty as they fight for academic freedom and fair wages & benefits to retain staff! @AFTCT.bsky.social dailycampus.com/2025/11/18/l...
LTTE: Support UConn Faculty’s Reasonable Contract Demands
For months now, the UConn-AAUP negotiating team has made minimal progress at the bargaining table across from the UConn administration’s negotiators.
dailycampus.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
We all need to support each other‘s labor struggles. Thanks for the solidarity, @rweingarten.bsky.social!
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As I watch Forest City’s proposal unfold in Suffolk, a plan to build a city for one million people on 45,000 acres of farmland, I’m struck by an eerie familiarity. The same architect. The same libertarian backers. The same progressive rhetoric masking corporate governance.
November 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
As I watch Forest City’s proposal unfold in Suffolk, a plan to build a city for one million people on 45,000 acres of farmland, I’m struck by an eerie familiarity. The same architect. The same libertarian backers. The same progressive rhetoric masking corporate governance.
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Here’s where the Forest City connection becomes impossible to ignore.
Patrik Schumacher, principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, designed Próspera’s initial buildings and sits on its advisory board.
Patrik Schumacher, principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, designed Próspera’s initial buildings and sits on its advisory board.
November 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Here’s where the Forest City connection becomes impossible to ignore.
Patrik Schumacher, principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, designed Próspera’s initial buildings and sits on its advisory board.
Patrik Schumacher, principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, designed Próspera’s initial buildings and sits on its advisory board.
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Q13 — What profit do founders receive?
Shiv Malik — 80 acres of land, gifted to the consortium.
"Albion City Development Corp... gets a gift of 80 acres. That's the reward for risking 200m of private money."
80 acres within a million-person SEZ masterplan = tens of millions in uplift value. Thread
Shiv Malik — 80 acres of land, gifted to the consortium.
"Albion City Development Corp... gets a gift of 80 acres. That's the reward for risking 200m of private money."
80 acres within a million-person SEZ masterplan = tens of millions in uplift value. Thread
Forest City 1 | Britain's Next Great City
Britain needs millions of homes. We have a plan and a team to build them, east of Cambridge, as a beautiful, permanently affordable city.
forestcity.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Q13 — What profit do founders receive?
Shiv Malik — 80 acres of land, gifted to the consortium.
"Albion City Development Corp... gets a gift of 80 acres. That's the reward for risking 200m of private money."
80 acres within a million-person SEZ masterplan = tens of millions in uplift value. Thread
Shiv Malik — 80 acres of land, gifted to the consortium.
"Albion City Development Corp... gets a gift of 80 acres. That's the reward for risking 200m of private money."
80 acres within a million-person SEZ masterplan = tens of millions in uplift value. Thread
A bit reminiscent of the 1980s scheme of some white supremacist asses to launch an invasion (from New Orleans) of Dominica and set up a nazi free enterprise country…. its failure was dubbed The Bayou of Pigs….
imagine knowing literally anything about Haiti and deciding to try this
Gavin and Tanner, planned and trained for nearly a year, legal documents say, in an elaborate attempt to invade a Haitian island, kill its Black men, enslave its Black women and Black children and fulfill their "rape fantasies."
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
November 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
A bit reminiscent of the 1980s scheme of some white supremacist asses to launch an invasion (from New Orleans) of Dominica and set up a nazi free enterprise country…. its failure was dubbed The Bayou of Pigs….
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'It's green colonialism'
Thousands of miles in Patagonia could be covered in wind farms & industrial infrastructure - as European and British firms invest in green fuel mega-projects
My report from Chile
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
@criordor.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social
Thousands of miles in Patagonia could be covered in wind farms & industrial infrastructure - as European and British firms invest in green fuel mega-projects
My report from Chile
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
@criordor.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social
‘Will it change the weather? Will wildlife cope?’: Europe’s rush to build energy projects in Chile might not be as green as it seems
The country’s government is upbeat about the economic prospects of the growing number of windfarms, solar parks and industrial complexes but others warn of ‘green colonialism’
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
'It's green colonialism'
Thousands of miles in Patagonia could be covered in wind farms & industrial infrastructure - as European and British firms invest in green fuel mega-projects
My report from Chile
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
@criordor.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social
Thousands of miles in Patagonia could be covered in wind farms & industrial infrastructure - as European and British firms invest in green fuel mega-projects
My report from Chile
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
@criordor.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social
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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?”
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Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
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“A large part of the venture capital model is serving as a recruitment mechanism into tech fascism.”
My interview with @harrisonmooney.bsky.social of @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
My interview with @harrisonmooney.bsky.social of @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
The Man Who Tracks Silicon Valley’s ‘Nerd Reich’ | The Tyee
Wonder what US tech titans wish for, Canada? Study their roots, says writer Gil Duran. A Tyee Q&A.
thetyee.ca
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“A large part of the venture capital model is serving as a recruitment mechanism into tech fascism.”
My interview with @harrisonmooney.bsky.social of @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
My interview with @harrisonmooney.bsky.social of @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Seriously?! Wtf?! Authors of this piece blame protestors for the Tr*mpists’ assault on universities. Linda McMahon must’ve ghost written this. The vengeful little weevils in the WH would have found any excuse to go after higher ed. Stop shitting on student protests.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Seriously?! Wtf?! Authors of this piece blame protestors for the Tr*mpists’ assault on universities. Linda McMahon must’ve ghost written this. The vengeful little weevils in the WH would have found any excuse to go after higher ed. Stop shitting on student protests.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
We’re all paying steep prices already numbnuts!
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
We’re all paying steep prices already numbnuts!