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CEO-King and the only right bestowed to citizen-subscribers being the right to leave and patch yourself to some other tech-monarch’s territory.

Acid facism.pdf

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What’s so annoying about these cultures is that they blatantly position the individual at the center of everything without being able to understand the need for care and various networks that would have to go into maintaining something over thousands of years. What infrastructures do you need in place, what kinds of labor, what kinds of storytelling would you need in order to pass on information? They focus on the technology, on the object itself, and nothing around it, which is a common problem that people within these particular subcultures seem to have.

Who Gets to Live Forever? With Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez

Tamara Kneese , Santiago Sanchez

I’d argue that since Silicon Valley is the sector that makes the fastest and most far-ranging developments in the forces of production—basically, machines and how we interact with them—it is sort of a stand-in “capital as such.” (In the *Grundrisse,* Marx describes the apogee of capitalism as the subsumption of labor under the totalizing power of machinery.

Big Tech's Class War Politics

John Ganz

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