@being_on_line @bratton @NoemaMag 4/ This move is especially inapt given the present moment. We're watching AI consolidated as a cornerstone repressive technology by the control complex—surveillance, targeting, social control—yet we're told that thinking in terms of limits or endings is “rarified wankery”.
@DAaronovitch Theology thin as a receipt bent to a balance sheet that's structurally pro-carnage is a Luciferian tell—Leviathan wearing the mask of enlightenment: paranoia consecrated as prudence, Cloud authoritarianism enthroned as governance, and scapegoating industrialized as statecraft.
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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? Subtweets: nick_routledge 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. 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. Exactly. The functional totalitarianism of an interlocking, global, techno-industrial control-complex serving the weaponized exceptionalism of elite structures of power profitably and militantly vested in a form of Final Solution to unmanageable social tensions and inequalities. 2/ It's now endemic, of course, the devastating obscenity of a global militarist-media complex wedded through pen and sword to a universalized form of psychotic exceptionalism and its diabolical consecration of a terror war endlessly targeting internal scapegoat and foreign foe.
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