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Gil Durán on Nostr: I interviewed Paulina Borsook, who warned of tech culture's toxic underbelly over 30 ...

I interviewed Paulina Borsook, who warned of tech culture's toxic underbelly over 30 years ago.

She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish."

It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇

[www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-kwZdkiOA&lc=UgwAAbMX6X0PdlqKqF54AaABAg )

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[The Woman Who Predicted Tech F...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-kwZdkiOA&lc=UgwAAbMX6X0PdlqKqF54AaABAg )
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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