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When the Pentagon hoped Noam Chomsky would help build AI weapons against communists
With this new Jeffrey Epstein Spectacle drop, everyone is once again buzzing about Noam Chomsky and his relationship with The Pimp to Our Unfuckable…
 • Yasha Levine
Enjoy the slop while you still can
Yes, we’re cursed to live in interesting times…and blessed, too.
 • Yasha Levine
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: INTERNET JUNKIE ANONYMOUS
NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS LIVE IN SF!
 • Yasha Levine and Evgenia
Fighting the vampires
Listen now (55 mins) | We dial in to talk about my Silicon Valley Soviet immigrant tech bro origins story, my early anti-tech documentary attempts, and…
 • Yasha Levine and Evgenia
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AI and the internet. It has always been about power and control.
The future is here.
 • Yasha Levine
The best docs on the internet
...were not made in the place that birthed the internet
 • Yasha Levine
Help me make Vampire Valley
...a film about the internet.
 • Yasha Levine
The spooked up builders of Vampire Valley
Who is building the AI data centers fueling the bubble? The same company that built missile and Air Force bases in Taiwan and NATO and is involved in…
 • Yasha Levine
The vampires feed on us when we're alone
This parasocial technology took over from where television left off and pushed society even more radically into an atomized configuration.
 • Yasha Levine
Sam Altman's fantasies of theurgy
“Mad?” Baldanders rumbled.
 • Yasha Levine
How a Mossad/IDF raid inspired the first Google Maps
Been doing some research for my Vampire Valley doc and I came across something that I think I mentioned in Surveillance Valley only in passing...
 • Yasha Levine
Vampire Valley: A toilet manifesto about the internet
I want to convince you the internet was never your friend.
 • Yasha Levine
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