Link: https://lucid.substack.com/p/silicon-valley-fascism-and-fascist

To give everyone a feel for these weekly conversations, and because it’s important to understand the ideas and protagonists of what tech journalist Gil Durán calls Silicon Valley fascism, I am making available to everyone the video of my conversation with Gil, who writes The Nerd Reich newsletter which focuses on extremist tech politics, and is writing the book The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.

I am also including a roundup of my writings on Fascist biopolitics and on Musk and DOGE’s danger to democracy. I believe that knowledge of history and, in my case, how autocrats think and act, allows you to separate the signals from the noise while things are unfolding in the present. I have found it also helps me to forecast what may develop in the future. I feel it is important to “show my work” and document my early intuitions and thoughts about what we could expect from the Trump administration.

Being prepared mentally is important to effective resistance efforts, and Lucid aims to help with that.