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The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley

27 November 2025 at 08:10
Paulina Borsook’s β€œCyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.

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Paulina Borsook in Berkeley, Calif. Her 1999 book, β€œCyberselfish,” was largely ignored and written off as overly skeptical of Silicon Valley at the time.

Caught in the privileges of their youths and the tragicomedies of their lives

11 July 2025 at 03:01
Savage's essay has attracted both derision and amens in newspapers and journals, on social media and Substacks, over drinks and in group chats. "I think the nerve I hit is fairly obvious," Savage said in an interview, adding, "being able to put numbers behind it was cathartic to some people and triggering to others." Humming underneath the disputation is a less tangible but more significant question. Let us say the perspective of the straight white man is being dampened in the world of literary fiction. Should we care? from The Death and Life of the Straight White Man's Novel [NY Times; ungated]
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