Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@jasonhickel And an imperial elite, unable or unwilling to resolve the social fractures at home and abroad that mirror its own comeuppance, now bets the house on AI as its killer app: not to reckon with the crisis, but to automate its surveillance, pacification, monetization and governance.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 4 Feb 2026

@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”.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @jamespoulos @lukeburgis More like the cursed exceptionalism of a unified, transnational, technocratic control complex. And a plutocratic cabal, Karp, Thiel, Ellison, Musk, Schmidt, Altman, Andreessen, Horowitz et al, securitizing unmanageable social tensions and inequalities by making Gazans of us all.Quoted by@jamespoulos @lukeburgis More like the cursed exceptionalism of a unified, transnational, technocratic control complex. And a plutocratic cabal, Karp, Thiel, Ellison, Musk, Schmidt, Altman, Andreessen, Horowitz et al, securitizing unmanageable social tensions and inequalities by making Gazans of us all.