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Jacob Silverman

New York

Writer and Journalist at Freelance

semi-pro podcast guest ✍GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY (Bloomsbury, Oct '25) [email protected] Signal: jacobsilverman.99

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Articles

  • Three Coin Monte

    1 week ago | prospect.org | Jacob Silverman

    This article appears in the June 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.

  • How Apple’s lucrative bet on China boosted the country’s tech sector

    2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Jacob Silverman

    How Apple’s lucrative bet on China boosted the country’s tech sector (washingtonpost.com) How Apple’s lucrative bet on China boosted the country’s tech sector By Jacob Silverman 2025052414000000 As the world's first $3 trillion publicly traded company, Apple is an unusual kind of political actor — endlessly resourced, capable of shaping a nation's industrial policy but still buffeted by the great forces of statecraft, of history.

  • hostile architecture of internet and social media is driving us crazy

    2 weeks ago | afr.com | Jacob Silverman

    Jacob SilvermanMay 23, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? In Novi, Michigan, an apparently delusional woman staying with her 20-year-old cat at a cheap hotel has a message for the world. What it is, I am not exactly sure, but I have been following her attempts for weeks while she posts updates on X and YouTube.

  • Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

    1 month ago | bookshop.org | Jacob Silverman

    A searing insight into the political radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, JD Vance and Donald Trump, and how it will affect the future of all our lives. From the pursuit of potentially apocalyptic artificial intelligence to life-extension start-ups that promise billionaires eternal youth and those who encourage the political far right around the world, the Silicon Valley techno-utopian dream has curdled.

  • Rise of the Crypto Keepers

    1 month ago | thenation.com | Jacob Silverman

    Feature / May 7, 2025 Rise of the Crypto KeepersThe promoters of scam currency spent more money than any other group in 2024. They’re now realizing a massive return on investment in Donald Trump’s White House.

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Jacob Silverman
Jacob Silverman @SilvermanJacob
15 May 25

beautiful uppercut launch angle

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Riley Greene - Detroit Tigers (10) https://t.co/TJCTJOOjtT

Jacob Silverman
Jacob Silverman @SilvermanJacob
14 May 25

You can just say anything

CoinDesk
CoinDesk @CoinDesk

What did the Democrats get wrong in the 2024 election? 🇺🇸 @IOHK_Charles thinks being anti-crypto was one of the "contributing factors to Harris losing." "55 million Americans own crypto, use crypto, know about crypto, and the majority of them are young and left-leaning." https://t.co/Keuwv2Inua

Jacob Silverman
Jacob Silverman @SilvermanJacob
14 May 25

Elon Musk's chatbot finally losing it over white genocide is perfect scripting

Aric Toler
Aric Toler @AricToler

I can't stop reading the Grok reply page. It's going schizo and can't stop talking about white genocide in South Africa. https://t.co/Y7IQonCkiG https://t.co/XdSLTW8tD5