Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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8/ There is little so vile as authoritarian statecraft wedded to ubiquitous, technology-enabled systems of social and behavioral control. A militarist matrix, global, transnational, totalizing. cgpolicy.org/.../the-global-implications-of-re.../ x.com/.../status/1273963281573650434/photo/1

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Quoted by@nils_gilman Singapore slang of yore, ‘Banana politics.’ Yellow on the outside: white technocrat on the inside. “But without adequate laws and regulations, such accomplishments can be used to erode personal privacy and freedom.” Quite the euphemism for algorithmically-supercharged genocide.Quoted by@steve_simonis @umairh @juliejunket It's lots of places, wearing different clothes, actually. China, for one, is perhaps even further down the line of totalizing tyranny. But authoritarianism everywhere is hot for the technological trot. ?s=20