Mike Solana

United States

billionaire media tycoon and former mayor of san francisco. disinformation researcher. cmo @foundersfund. editor-in-chief @piratewires 🏴‍☠️

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Articles

Right Wing Civil War

3 weeks ago | piratewires.com | Mike Solana

The Day After the Election, Mainstream Media Turns on Americansnyt, atlantic, and msnbc are aiming their rage at americans after trump’s win, but other outlets seem ready to navigate an entirely revised political and cultural environment
More American Than America

3 weeks ago | piratewires.com | Mike Solana

While my career technically began in publishing in 2009, my journey through venture, and tech, and ultimately the kind of publishing I do today all began with Peter Thiel, who I first met that same year at a meet-up for a wild little organization called the Seasteading Institute.
Smoke Signals

1 month ago | piratewires.com | Mike Solana

american transit projects cost five to ten times more than our international counterparts' while taking years longer to complete. here's why — and how we can build again.
Freedom of Leech

1 month ago | piratewires.com | Mike Solana

npr’s ceo has has a near perfect record of ideological opposition to silicon valley, even arguing at oxford in 2018 that the rise of tech ‘empires’ are a net negative for society
Golden Age

2 months ago | piratewires.com | Mike Solana

as we work at building a better future, let's dig in to how we got to where we are today
Bad Ghibli

2 months ago | piratewires.com | Mike Solana

pirate wires #136 // paid influencers, foreign bot armies, and a biblical flood of AI-generated content — how much of our internet is real? and is there any way to save ourselves from slop?
Slop World

Mar 19, 2025 | piratewires.com | Mike Solana

kalshi funded influencers to imply its competitor polymarket and CEO shayne coplan were engaged in illegal activity after the fbi raided his apartment, per sources and screenshots we viewed
Shut Up and Pay Me

Feb 27, 2025 | piratewires.com | Mike Solana

‚Äč‚ÄčDEEP STATE (they/them) vs. the Wonder Boyspirate wires #133 // trump‚Äôs first strike on the bureaucracy reveals the face of real power, and unleashes its defenses; trump sends tech bros into the arena, and the stakes have never been higher
Sucks to EU

Feb 22, 2025 | piratewires.com | Mike Solana

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Talk is cheap (for Americans). Europeans were still reeling from a pair of unthinkable acts of American aggression when I arrived in London last week, and wow did they want to tell me all about it. First, President Trump signaled he would be negotiating Ukraine with Putin, a conversation Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy might not even be a part of.
Pirate Wires in Times Square

Feb 5, 2025 | piratewires.com | Mike Solana

Well, folks, I just got off the subway and holy shit this is cool ‚ÄĒ America‚Äôs Moon movement has made its way to Times Square. ‚ÄúMoon movement?‚ÄĚ you are possibly, if you just got here, asking? Long story short, yeah: Moon should be a state. The 51st state to be exact, but I guess we‚Äôd accept something after Greenland and Cuba. And while sure, yes, obviously we‚Äôre having fun over here, I‚Äôm really not kidding. That‚Äôs America‚Äôs moon.