Gil Duran

Gil Duran

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4.2K
Account age
3 yrs

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I was sunning by the pool when the boxes arrived. And here in my hand is my life’s work: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy.” Coming 8/18. Pre-orders make a huge difference! Make a fascist sweat—pre-order today! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=24006513995&gbraid=0AAAAADv-uEkWp8z8v90-41_7yjIScpp419 views I was sunning by the pool when the boxes arrived. And here in my hand is my life’s work: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy.” Coming 8/18. Pre-orders make a huge difference! Make a fascist sweat—pre-order today! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=24006513995&gbraid=0AAAAADv-uEkWp8z8v90-41_7yjIScpp

📊 Post engagement

173
Avg engagement / post
4.1%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: When billionaires preach "abundance," remember that the richest · 936 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
4 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
8.3×
Follows 514 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post When billionaires preach "abundance," remember that the richest man in the world killed the poorest children in the world just for the LOLs. And if these AI fascists get their way, most of us will join the starvation class. https://www.thenerdreich.com/a-silicon-valley-genocide/ ★ 936
Last year, I wrote about Politico's $50 million Thiel problem. Perhaps its explains why that outlet has been so oblivious/nonchalant about tech fascism. https://www.thenerdreich.com/politico-peter-thiel-problem-dopfner-jd-vance/ ★ 31 Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "… ★ 26 Trump's "communist" panic isn't just senile ranting. It's a strategy. It comes straight from a book Bannon and Vance endorsed, a genocide-themed screed that calls for dehumanizing Democrats as demons who don't deserve rights. The "Unhuman… ★ 134 I was sunning by the pool when the boxes arrived. And here in my hand is my life’s work: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy.” Coming 8/18. Pre-orders make a huge difference! Make a fascist sweat—pre-order tod… ★ 419 Good News: Bryan Johnson is dying. Just like the rest of us. The wannabe longevity guru's recent diagnosis is a brutal reality check for the sick billionaires who seek to rule the world...and live forever. https://www.thenerdreich.com/bry… ★ 23 Ten years ago today, JD Vance published an essay calling Donald Trump “cultural heroin” and “an opioid of the masses.” Now, he’s the #1 pusher of Trump’s poison. This July 4, let’s remember the words of a man who sold his soul to sell out … ★ 71 "It's not clear why we need these new cities." I talked to @moreperfectus about Silicon Valley's push to replace government with billionaire-run city-states. The Network State cult: From Próspera to Gaza to California Forever. 224K vi… ★ 10 We already have abundance. It is not justly or rationally distributed. The billionaires and trillionaires are not going to share. Ever. They are going to fixate on becoming quadrillionaires or robots or whatever. The USAID cuts reveal th… ★ 321 World’s richest man kills world’s poorest children …and becomes a trillionaire. This is Greek myth territory. I joined @krystalball and @kylekulinski to discuss Elon Musk's USAID cuts, which my book describes as “Silicon Valley’s other ge… ★ 40 On the flip side, a creative political brain could exploit this two-faced confusion to push the state billionaire tax. "Even Gov. Gavin Newsom supports a billionaire tax..." Let them fact check the straddle. ★ 19 Low-information Democrats will lap this up. "Wow, Gavin fights the billionaires!" In reality, Gavin is previewing his 2028 strategy: fake populist-talking billionaire tool. (Don't worry, billionaires: President Gavin would never actually p… ★ 49

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
journa.host
A journalists server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 173 views per post.
📤Posts about 4× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

80/100 Excellent
  • Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Strong engagement (~4.1% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
97%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

California journalist and writer. Ida Tarbell stan. FrameLab (w/@GeorgeLakoff). Beat: tech fascism, billionaire extremism, meta narratives, network state, mirror worlds.

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