Opinion | The Strange Death of...
https://authoritarian-stack.info/
"Under the banner of "patriotic tech", this new bloc [#tech #fascists] is building the #infrastructure of #control—#clouds, #AI, #finance, #drones, #satellites—an integrated system we call the #Authoritarian #Stack. It is faster, #ideological, and fully #privatized: a regime where #corporate #boards, not public law, set the rules.
Our investigation shows how these firms now operate as #state-like powers—writing the #rules, winning the tenders, and exporting their model to Europe, where it poses a direct challenge to democratic governance"
The Problem With The School of Life: Revisited

The Trump administration has now killed at least 43 people in 10 strikes against so-called drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean. The threat of war against Venezuela and the surrounding region is growing as the Pentagon deploys the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, to the Caribbean. Alejandro Velasco, associate professor at New York University, says the Latin American policy is “primarily Marco Rubio’s ideological project,” motivated by a desire to oust the government of Venezuela and weaken the allied government of Cuba.
For a summary of recent SCOTUS back-stabbings🔪, see this list from the Guardian:
“…like Congress, the Republican majority on the supreme court has lined up behind most of the president’s sweeping assertions of novel powers. [novel ~ kind of like Corona virus]
- The supreme court has #blocked lower federal court #rulings that had reined in the president’s #authority to withhold #medical research #grants for #ideological reasons.
- It has allowed the executive branch to deploy roving [masked] immigration #patrols to engage in racial #profiling
- to expel noncitizens to countries on the brink of civil wars where they could face #torture trafficking or death;
- to fire ‘non-regime-friendly’ officials (in #violation of federal law);
- to #dismantle entire departments and more.”
'The End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book of #political #philosophy by American political scientist #FrancisFukuyama which argues that with the ascendancy of Western #liberal #democracy... humanity has reached "not just... the passing of a particular period of post-war #history, but the end of history as such: That is, the end-point of mankind's #ideological #evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy"'
LOL
Francis Fukayama: master #troll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Last_Man
#CfP THE IMAGINATIVE LANDSCAPE OF AI – VISIONS, POSITIONS, CONFLICTS
❓ What are the #future #visions and #imaginaries of #communications, #society, and social change in diverse #global contexts in relation to #AI, #AGI and #ComAI?
❓ Which novel #ideological positions have emerged around the specific #affordances and #dilemmas of AI?
📣 We are looking for submissions for a Special Section of the International Journal of Communication addressing questions like these: