Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead
January 19, 2026
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January 19, 2026
Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead
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Taylor Lorenz Episodes Around January 19, 2026
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<p>SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz</a> </p><p>Or buy a paid subscription to my Substack newsletter to support my work!!!! 🙏 <a href="https://www.usermag.co" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.usermag.co</a> </p><p>For decades, tech billionaires have sold us a shiny future powered by AI. But what if the future they’re building doesn’t include us? A disturbing ideology has quietly come to dominate Silicon Valley: the belief that we need to dispose of the flawed, biological human race in order to give birth to a superior AI intelligence that will ultimately replace us. Tech billionaires are already investing in the technology and infrastructure to make this happen.</p><p>I dove deep into how these ideas, known as TESCREAL, took hold, who’s funding them, who the power players are in this new movement, how they've been quietly prepping the public to accept this fate for years, how TESCREAL, pro-extinction beliefs are already shaping how the most powerful companies on Earth operate, and how real, human workers are paying the price for all these decisions. </p><p>If you're feeling uneasy about AI hype, billionaire bunker “prepper” culture, and getting the sense that AI technology is moving way too fast, you have probably seen evidence of these extreme beliefs manifesting in the world already.</p><p>Follow me:</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/taylorlorenz" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/taylorlorenz</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/taylorlorenz3.0" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/taylorlorenz3.0</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorlorenz" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorlorenz</a></p><p><a href="https://x.com/taylorlorenz" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://x.com/taylorlorenz</a> </p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/taylorlorenz.bsky.social" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/taylorlorenz.bsky.social</a> </p>
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