When the words "little is known" are used in reference to the goings-on of "four execs from Meta, Palantir and OpenAI", that is when we cross over the line from Sus into Assume The Worst.

"Detachment 201, the US Army unit led by tech executives"
April 13, 2026
@el_pais English

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-04-13/detachment-201-the-us-army-unit-led-by-tech-executives.html

#technoligarchy #broligarchy #technofascism #TheNetworkState #TheNerdReich

๐ŸŽฏ ๐ŸŽฏ ๐ŸŽฏ ๐ŸŽฏ ๐ŸŽฏ

Also: crypto, AI, and #theNetworkState have spent millions of dollars to manufacture what you think you know about Katie Porter. Don't give the technoligarchy free access to your mind.

The shady Silicon Valley giant taking over Britain | Carole Cadwalladr interview

YouTube

from DisruptApps via YouTube:

"This video is political satire that was created as a cautionary measure regarding Americaโ€™s current situation...

...The images, text and themes that appear in this expressive work show how dark, historic, faded echoes are manifesting loudly and abruptly before our very eyes in a new way -- enabled by Big Tech."

https://youtu.be/HJ4bAitl6mU

#technofascism #TheNetworkState #TheNerdReich #AuthoritarianSlide #autocracyInAction #BigBrother #BraveNewWorld #NoAI #AIfree

RE: https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/115542438061252486

Starve the billionaires -- remove yourself, including your data and your privacy, from their portfolios in every way you possibly can.

#TheNetworkState #Project2025 #ProjectRussia

Bill Gates's stunted political vision

https://lemmy.world/post/38332894

Bill Gates's stunted political vision - Lemmy.World

There is a stunted type of political vision [https://www.wired.com/story/the-10000-year-clock-is-a-waste-of-time/] that can only ever imagine the world getting better through the cognitive largesse of the power elite. This vision begins from the bedrock beliefs that (a) there is a social hierarchy, (b) it is basically meritocratic, and ยฉ it produces a rising tide that lifts all boats. The cognitive largesse can take two forms. (1) Geniuses can innovate, gifting us with new technologies or business ideas, or (2) Geniuses can make large, magnanimous gifts to the less-fortunate. If one buys into this political vision, then it stands to reason that you should never do anything to make the rich and powerful uncomfortable. Taxes and legal restraints and unions just slow them down and make them feel less generous. The path to building a better world necessarily runs through the better angels of their nature. (I wrote about all this in my 2020 essay about the Clock of the Long Now [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/07/tim-cook-trump-gift/85555805007/]. Itโ€™ll also be in the forthcoming book.) In 2021, Bill Gates wrote an entire book titled How To Avoid a Climate Disaster. He took seriously that climate change was a generational threat. The better angels of his nature were up to the challenge. And he indicated in the book that he knew this would be a long, hard slog. It has only been four years. By some measures, we have seen remarkable progress. The cost of renewable energy has plummeted. If we just have the political will to prevent fossil fuel companies from extracting market-bending favors, the trajectory of the energy sectors would look pretty damn promising right now. But the politics of 2025 couldnโ€™t be much farther from the politics of 2021, particularly in the United States. The Trump Administration has declared climate change a hoax. They are defunding scientific research and canceling already-existing clean energy projects. They are weaponizing the IRS to pursue political enemies, a list which includes the climate movement. And meanwhile, centrist pundits from the โ€œpopularistโ€ school of thought have decided that climate is a bummer of an issue, and are telling Democratic elected officials that the electoral cost of taking the climate crisis seriously outweigh the benefits. This is a time when your fair-weather-friends flee to the hills. And now it seems that Bill Gates has gone full Llomborg [https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/three-tough-truths-about-climate]. Bjorn Llomborg has been a mini-celebrity for around 25 years. His schtick, in a nutshell, is as follows: - Climate change is real, but it wonโ€™t be all that bad. - There is a finite and fixed pool of resources that humanity can spend making things better. - So the responsible thing to do is to apply cost-benefit analysis and make sure our money does the greatest good for the greatest number. Aw shucks. It turns out that we can do way more good by focusing on mosquito nets and world hunger! Inaction on climate change is downright responsible, when you think about it! Think of this as proto-effective altruism. Llomborg has been banging this drum since before William MacAskill hit puberty. He figured out long ago that there is money and fame in telling the rich and powerful, โ€œeverything will be just fine.โ€ Itโ€™s pathetic, but it isnโ€™t the least bit surprising. The fight against climate change was always going to require technologies and markets and a social movement with the political will to make inconvenient demands upon the powerful. This was never going to be easy, nor was it ever going to be quick. Bill Gates and his pals were never going to be anything but fair-weather-friends to the climate movement, because they lack the political vision to imagine that the problems of global climate change are also problems of the global social hierarchy that they sit comfortably atop.

Peter Thiel, Nazi Philosophy, and Lord of the Rings

https://lemmy.world/post/36737656

Peter Thiel, Nazi Philosophy, and Lord of the Rings - Lemmy.World

โ€œThe strange thing is that, if you look at any of these narrativesโ€”science fiction, Lord of the Rings, The Bibleโ€”the tech billionaires are obviously the villains in all of those books. Right? But they have such bad comprehension of readingโ€”or maybe itโ€™s a willful misinterpretationโ€”that they somehow think theyโ€™re the heroes. But the tech bros are โ€œtranshumanists.โ€ Well, in the Lord of the Rings, Saruman is the one who is creating orcs, pulling them out of his factories. Thatโ€™s themโ€”creating artificial intelligence and promising us a future with no jobs and lots of killer robots.โ€ Thatโ€™s an excerpt from my interview with Matt Lech and David Griscom of the Left Reckoning podcast. We discuss Peter Thiel, tech fascism, the Lord of the Rings, and various other problematic subjects (such as, um, the Antichrist). Any questions? Weโ€™ll soon be taping an episode of the Nerd Reich podcast with Adam Becker and Dr. Brooke Harrington. Ask us anything!

๐™๐™๐™š ๐˜ฝ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ž๐™ง๐™š๐™จ ๐™๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐˜ฝ๐™š๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™๐™ง๐™ช๐™ข๐™ฅ
๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜‰๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ถ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ: ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ ๐˜‹๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ
by #FrancescaFiorentini

"Someday Donald Trump and the movement that got him elected will be gone. And the billionaires who back him won't care. Because they have other plans.

This is the story of how deeply un-American the billionaires who buy our politicians are, from their disregard for democracy, their freak-outs over equality, or the fact that they want to secede from the United States altogether.

The #broligarchy has no regard for this country.

And now, their dystopian plans for it have come out of the shadows and into the light."

#TheBitchuationRoom #TheNerdReich #techbros #technoligarchy #technofascism #TheNetworkState #PeterThiel #MarcAndreesen #DavidSacks #JDVance #ElonMusk #BryanArmstrong #BalajiSrinivasan #DonaldTrump #CurtisYarvin #Palantir

https://youtu.be/kZituqz4Kvs

๐™’๐™๐™ฎ ๐™„๐™จ ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™๐™ž๐™œ๐™๐™ฉ ๐™Š๐™—๐™จ๐™š๐™จ๐™จ๐™š๐™™ ๐™’๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™‡๐™ค๐™ง๐™™ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™จ?
๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜‰๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ถ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ: ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ ๐˜‹๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ
by #FrancescaFiorentini

"Every fantasy franchise has an insufferable part of its fan base... but this one takes the cake.

Powerful conservatives are obsessed with The Lord of The Rings. We know this because they name their military tech companies, surveillance companies, and venture capital firms after objects in Middle Earth.

They believe theyโ€™re in a fight against dark forces, and that theyโ€™re heroic men of Gondor, or Elves of Rivendell. Whatโ€™s worse is that they believe that Tolkienโ€™s Catholicism means he would agree with their world view that immigrants, feminists, and global cooperation are the enemy.

Francesca digs deep into 'The Nerd Reichโ€™s' misreading of Lord of the Rings, and how they took all the wrong lessons from the story."

#TheBitchuationRoom #thenerdreich #techbros #technoligarchy #thenetworkstate #PeterThiel #technofascism #LotR

https://youtu.be/1hiKvi6BDcw