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Jacob Bruggeman

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Historian @osuchasecenter working on political histories of computing in modern America | Alum of @JHUhistory, @CamHistory, & @miamiuniversity.
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Don’t Look Now, But the Tech Bros Are Losing

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By Jacob Bruggeman
| The Bulwark Verified
(Photo illustration by Bill Kuchman/The Bulwark | Photos: Getty, Shutterstock) The Nerd ReichSilicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracyby Gil Durán Avid Reader, 352 pp., $30 IT WAS HARD TO MISS the American tech elite’s MAGA makeover. Tech CEOs poured money into Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and later his inauguration. Elon Musk alone spent a staggering $288 million to help elect Trump and downballot Republicans.
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Phreaking Politics in Modern America

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By Jacob Bruggeman, Johns Hopkins
| Cambridge University Press & Assessment
In the early 1970s, journalists, policymakers, and corporate executives in the United States grew concerned with a growing group of college students, telephone tinkerers, and electronics hobbyists who dubbed themselves “phone phreaks.” The phreaks, whose name reflected a phonetic play on “phone” and “freak,” were “college students high on electronic circuitry, freckle-faced teen-agers,” “pranksters,” and “blind kids,” wrote Los Angeles Times columnist Maureen Orth.
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Peter Thiel Looks Everywhere for the Antichrist Except the Mirror

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By Jacob Bruggeman
| The Unpopulist
Peter Thiel on Fox News’ Fox & Friends in 2019(The UnPopulist illustration) When droves of tech bros donning Patagonia puffers queued up opposite neo-Pagans, Satanists, and witches outside the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco last fall, it wasn’t just another day of conventions in the City by the Bay.
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