Daily Archives: December 15, 2024

Decoding America’s Slide Into Soft Totalitarianism 2013-2022 (12-15-24)

01:00 Don’t be a sucker, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15826709:30 Marc Andreessen on AI, Tech, Censorship and Dining With Trump, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgTeZXw-ytQ13:00 Debanking over your politics, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15825716:00 Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15824330:00 The emerging counter-elite who are often … Continue reading

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How To Avoid Getting Conned

When I moved to Los Angeles in 1994 and pursued work in acting, I was taken for about $10,000 by various cons that appealed to my vanity. At the time I was handing over my money (and I was living … Continue reading

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Debanking

In a recent interview with Bari Weiss, Marc Andreessen talks about America’s slide soft authoritarianism between 2013 to 2022. Every public pronouncement I remember from Andreesen seemed like commonsense (unlike those of Elon Musk, which are often nonsense). Over the … Continue reading

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