Post #4054456
2026-07-24 05:00 UTC
#Technology journalism must be hyperbolically corrupt, because the fatal mixture of obsession with money and obsession with the supposedly magical powers of #tech is incredibly corrosive to ethics, like mixing nitric and hydrochloric acids in order to get a mixed acid (aqua regia, the queen of aqueous acids) capable of dissolving just about anything.
There's truth in what William Gibson (q.v. @GreatDismal@mastodon.social) said about the super-rich no longer being remotely human. Quite other forces are at work, which I propose to analyse here.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 05:03
This ties directly into the can't-do spirit, the incredibly bleak and straitened sense of priorities which the technology sector and #SiliconValley have imposed on the United States. It's simply summed up: they've got their own vision of the Apocalypse and foresee a future of ever worsening war and cultural collapse until arriving at a stagnant state of space-faring tyranny like something out of Dune or #Warhammer40K. The whole point of the "acceleration" is merely to go faster. The easiest way to go faster is to shed as much as possible. The technofascist future is one that furnishes only the very thinnest layer of social organization atop a self-governing war machine. (cont'd)