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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 10:27:03 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   Nerd Reich in 5 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC629l-wZBQ

   If you're unfamiliar with the "dark enlightenment" playbook that Curtis Yarvin / moldbug wrote out well over a decade ago, well, it's what you're seeing happening RIGHT NOW in the US. 5 minute video explainer.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 10:44:08 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     It's not the case that *all* of this came from Moldbug's writings. This is a confluence of shitty directions in conservativism, some of it also in Project 2025, etc. But the *plan of action* for destroying everything through appointing a CEO-king, that's stuff Moldbug has been writing about for over a decade, and hugely influential on tech billionaires and the policies they are rolling out

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     Michael Potter (mpotter@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 12:52:32 JST Michael Potter

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     @cwebber There's definitely similarities with the Moldbug philosophy. I also noticed parallels with the old Cambridge Analytica/Brexit scandal from the 🍊 1.0 days.

     In the following book, a whistleblower describes helping to build big-data and AI-enhanced simulation of a population's political behavior, specifically referred to as a "Palantir" or society "in silica," to win elections.

     https://bookshop.org/p/books/mindf-ck-cambridge-analytica-and-the-plot-to-break-america-christopher-wylie/9593326?ean=9781984854636&next=t&next=t