<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Politics on Chrizzle23.net</title><link>https://chrizzle23.net/tags/politics/</link><description>Recent content in Politics on Chrizzle23.net</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Chrizzle23.net and all blog posts © 2026 by Chris Anderson is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://chrizzle23.net/tags/politics/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The Nerd Reich</title><link>https://chrizzle23.net/posts/250324-nerd-reich/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://chrizzle23.net/posts/250324-nerd-reich/</guid><description>&lt;p>A few weeks ago I wrote about &lt;a href="https://chrizzle23.net/posts/broligarchy/">&lt;em>the broligarchy&lt;/em>&lt;/a> but I have heard of a new term for the &amp;ldquo;Silicon Valley techno-fascists&amp;rdquo; aka, &lt;a href="https://www.thenerdreich.com/">&lt;em>the nerd reich&lt;/em>&lt;/a>. I haven&amp;rsquo;t read very much on The Nerd Reich website just yet. It&amp;rsquo;s worth clicking the link just to see the front page.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>I know that I said I would keep politics on my other blog, but this is a tech site, and &lt;a href="https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/01/06/musk-trump-and-the-broligarchs-novel-hyper-weapon-le-monde-4-1-2025-full-original-english-version/">the broligarchy&lt;/a> is a &lt;em>tech industry&lt;/em> issue, it just &lt;em>also happens&lt;/em> to be a political issue as well.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Broligarchy</title><link>https://chrizzle23.net/posts/250127-broligarchy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://chrizzle23.net/posts/250127-broligarchy/</guid><description>&lt;p>Listening to &lt;a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/01/24/podcast-silicon-valley-tech-gilded-age-trump/">this week&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;The Intercept Briefing&amp;rdquo; titled &amp;ldquo;The Broligarchy&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a> fired up my &lt;a href="http://chrizzle23.com/posts/gentrified-web/">Gentrified Web&lt;/a> neurons again. I have been venting my political energy on another site, but Elon Musk buying his way into the presidency gets close to something that I started writing about here, but never quite captured: feeling like my history has been stolen.&lt;/p>
&lt;h1 id="the-techo-counterculture">The Techo-counterculture&lt;/h1>
&lt;p>I have worked in tech for almost 30 years. I spent a couple of years out west at a startup company, where I learned about silicon valley and the brutality of venture capital. Most of my career has been spent fixing broken shit for normal people that barely understand what computers are.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>