Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@theintercept Big Tech's real product is governability: who gets seen, scored, stopped, or targeted. It provisions the universal stack—data pipes, identity resolution, model scoring, delivery. Social feeds. Population registries. Factory-style genocide workflows. Same profit infrastructure.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 25 Oct 2025

@Harpers @ccrais Plus ça change. The weapons trade doesn’t just follow history; it writes it. Track the trends, read the plot. Worldwide, interlocking security economies blur the line between war-fighting and policing. Cloud technocracy begets totalitarian fantasy—total control, fully executable.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @RBReich Maybe Benjamin saw it first. Authoritarian 'storms' aren't accidental as much as the inevitable culmination of a total machine fusing in a unitive repressive stack. Who needs jackboots when you have APIs, enthroned as techno-modern progress, coding resistance out of possibility?Quoted by@RBReich Maybe Benjamin saw it first. Authoritarian 'storms' aren't accidental as much as the inevitable culmination of a total machine fusing in a unitive repressive stack. Who needs jackboots when you have APIs, enthroned as techno-modern progress, coding resistance out of possibility?