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Show Notes
The New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Elon Musk’s seizure of power within the U.S. government, the tech industry’s slide into right-wing politics, and how the ideology of techno-fascism is taking root in Silicon Valley. Can the populists and the technologists coexist in Donald Trump’s Washington?
This week’s reading:
- “Elon Musk’s A.I.-Fuelled War on Human Agency,” by Kyle Chayka
- “The Second Trump Administration’s New Forms of Distraction,” by Kyle Chayka
- “Make South Africa Great Again?,” by Isaac Chotiner
- “Elizabeth Warren Fights to Defend the Consumer Protection Agency She Helped Create,” by John Cassidy
- “A Fistfight Over Donald Trump at the Evangelical Version of Harvard,” by Emma Green
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