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When I reached Yarvin’s friend Michael Anton, a former Trump administration official and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank, he said he believes Yarvin takes cues from a famous Machiavelli quote: “For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.”

The Far-Right Guru Who Has Befriended Silicon Valley’s Extreme Factions

Julia Black

Well before the novel coronavirus taught us to maintain a fearful distance from everyone else, a clutch of Cassandras from the fields of social psychology and neuroscience were warning us that we were experiencing a touch famine—that rates of affiliative touch had dropped to a fifty-year low because we were all choosing to stroke digital displays instead of one another.

Getting Back in Touch - Believer Magazine

believermag.com

The project, developed in partnership with the local government and Startup Madeira, a local entity supporting entrepreneurs, is the brainchild of Gonçalo Hall, a digital nomad of four years and the chief executive of NomadX, a global digital nomad community and consultancy. So why was Madeira the island of choice?

The World's First Digital Nomad Village, One Year On

Miriam Partington and Tim Smith

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