About Brotopians

Brotopians is an independent publication about techbro utopians and their discontents launched in January 2026 by David Futrelle, i.e. me. If you subscribe today, for fucking free, you'll get to comment on posts and you'll also get shiny new email newsletters about new posts when they go up. You want to subscribe. You YEARN to subscribe. Did I mention it's free?

What will you get if you subscribe? Weekly (or therabouts) posts on what I call the brotopians, their wild dreams of perfect lives and perfect worlds (for them anyway) and the regular squashing of these dreams by reality. I will talk about everything from failed charter cities to the weird diets of life-extensionists.

I will talk about Effective Altruism and Effective Accelerationism and why they are not at all the same thing. We'll do peptide raves. I will explore why pretty much all of these techie utopians tend to be men, though that may become obvious after reading a post or two.

So stick around, for the schadenfreude if nothing else. 

Welcome to Brotopians.

As for me, your friendly host, you may remember me from my old blog We Hunted the Mammoth, which actually hunted misogynists. Or (though less likely) from my other blog My AI Obsession. Or from my articles over the years in places like The New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate, The Cut, Vice, and many others. I've been doing this a long time. I am very very old.

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