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The Tech Robber Baron who wants to take over San Francisco ( newrepublic.com )

Balaji, a 43-year-old Long Island native who goes by his first name, has a solid Valley pedigree: He earned multiple degrees from Stanford University, founded multiple startups, became a partner at Andreessen-Horowitz and then served as chief technology officer at Coinbase. He is also the leader of a cultish and increasingly...

The People of Solano County Versus the Next Tech-Billionaire Dystopia: If these Silicon Valley plutocrats have their way, a swath of Solano County will be transformed into their own nation-state. ( newrepublic.com )

California Forever, the new city that a group of tech billionaires want to build amid cattle pastures 60 miles north of San Francisco, aligns suspiciously with a cultish dystopian movement to build so-called “network states”—private zones where tech zillionaires can abandon democratic society to live under the rule of...

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