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“May noticed Elias Thorne popping up on Amazon as an author of alt-medicine cancer handbooks, a 2026 YouTube-algorithm guide, a book on Greek mythology, and a psychological thriller novella.”
I think the truth might be a bit more disturbing yet: the open statements of white supremacy have not harmed his business interests. Investors seem aware—they simply don't care.
The man about to become the world's first trillionaire is re-amplifying the calls for preemptive violence he expressed at the Unite the Kingdom rally in 2025.
Great piece on how the US-Israeli attack on Iran has supercharged China's cleantech sector, including fact that in Australia, nearly half of all vehicles sold in May were either battery-only, hybrid or plug-in hybrid.
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Disruption to global energy supplies sparks surge in demand for alternatives
"We’re the extracted and exploited colony of what is going to be one of the most highly valued entities in the world. People are going to die because of this pollution."
"Muskism" is a 21st-century political economy in which private firms sell sovereignty through infrastructure. This piece traces its roots to apartheid South Africa's self-sufficient "fortress futurism."
With @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com on @publicseminar.bsky.social
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I highly recommend listening to Jon Stewart’s interview with @quinnslobodian.com on this week’s @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
It’s a fascinating, historical perspective on the modern era, amid the machinations of Elmo.
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A very beautiful copy of the @the-breakdown.bsky.social issue 3 has arrived! It includes my piece on geoengineering and climate repair, alongside a wonderful collection of essays. Strange to read it in the place it was written six months ago, when so much has already changed.
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No I think it’s the fascism to be honest. White supremacy appears far more important to him than his business interests. Banks and shareholders seem unable to accept this too
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I finished to read Muskism: A guide for the perplexed @quinnslobodian.com & @bentarnoff.com . This made me think about re-reading three texts: "Americanism and Fordism" by Antonio Gramsci, "Thanatos Triumphant" by Mike Davis, and (not by accident) "Eros and Civilization" by Herbert Marcuse.
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Elon Musk is very busy attempting to incite violence in the UK. It's his response the the government's initiative designed to ban pornography on the mobile devices of children... pornography of which he is the principal supplier.
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something strange is haunting large language models... a character that's broken out of the LLMs and now authors books, sells albums, and shows up in fake news sites www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
Fantastic interview with @dwallacewells.bsky.social by @adriennebuller.bsky.social in the beautifully-produced @the-breakdown.bsky.social another strong argument for a print subscription!
Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI's supercomputers.
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Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, in their conversation with L. Zhang, discuss the political-economic model they call "Muskism."
