@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.
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Excerpt from tweet thread here: 18/ Across multiple vectors—content moderation, technical infrastructure, data analytics, operational support and political synchronization—a stakeholder-biased alignment-regime hardwires the stack to deliver preferred geopolitical outcomes, typically masked as neutral standards. 19/ Together, these vectors reveal "national interest" has dissolved in a diabolical convergence whereby an elite network operates a unified, interlocking, transnational militarist matrix transcending borders and identities—Country Club authoritarianism at a planetary scale.
@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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