End Games
People raised on video games now run the world.
Corey Pein
Corey Pein is a writer based in Washington, D.C., and Portland, Oregon, and is the author of the book Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley.
Dawn of the Space Lords
They called it a “Sputnik moment.” In October, the Financial Times reported that over the summer of 2021, the Chinese government tested a new missile. It was reported to have been fired from a so-called hypersonic glide vehicle that circled the planet at speeds exceeding ...
Class Carpetbagger
February 3, 2020
Pete Buttigieg’s comedy of class-signaling errors is a great sign for the socialist movement.
Blame the Computer
Evidence mounts that the forces of digital civilization have produced a technological dystopia run by artificially unintelligent algorithms designed in the interests of greed for maximum efficiency. And true to the tropes of many a dark sci-fi reverie, these impersonal arbiters ...
The Moldbug Variations
October 9, 2017
Three years ago, Peter Thiel called me a conspiracy theorist . . .
Natural Human Behavior
Dispatches from the Northwest’s immigration dystopia.
Camping Trip
Corey Pein talks with Andrea Pitzer about concentration camps.
Fire and Fury
Corey Pein receives a report from Jason Wilson in Charlottesville, and speaks to Tim Shorrock about North Korea.