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Whispers of the Nerd Reich: Inside Trump’s impending 'moment of reckoning’
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Silicon Valley Is Building the Machinery of Authoritarianism
Domination Is the Product
Palantir’s recruitment language is unusually honest: “we build to dominate.” The company supplies data systems to intelligence agencies, police, militaries and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Meanwhile, wealthy technologists including Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen and Balaji Srinivasan have promoted political visions that subordinate democracy to private power, technological control or elite “exit.” The relevant story is not that eccentric billionaires hold disturbing…
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