#technofascists

[victusinveritas]

U.S. Civil War Reenactors Are Going Into Battle Against AI Data Centers

Locals and living historians are furious at the rise of AI data centers on historic lands. Now, lawsuits are flying like Civil War cannonbal

Hurrah for the Union Army in its holy fight against the Confederacy the evil AI overlords and the destruction of historic sites.

I'd pay way too much money to see a full Civil War era artillery assault on an AI data center.

[webntrmpt2x]

The right is obsessed with The Lord of the Rings. But they don’t understand it.

The bizarre conservative misunderstanding of The Lord of the Rings, explained.

[greatprinceofabraham]

@natcounterpunch

"For #Hegseth, the #techbros, and #technofascists who have infiltrated the government, all of the above represent the best of #Americaninnovation. For them, innovation is a pseudonym for #constantsurveillance, never-ending #warfare, and widespread #environmentaldestruction."

#genai_mil #DOW #AI #StarTrek #AsimovLaws

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/06/the-militarys-ai-strategy-threatens-everything-we-love/

[greatprinceofabraham]

@natcounterpunch

"For #Hegseth, the #techbros, and #technofascists who have infiltrated the government, all of the above represent the best of #Americaninnovation. For them, innovation is a pseudonym for #constantsurveillance, never-ending #warfare, and widespread #environmentaldestruction."

#genai_mil #DOW #AI #StarTrek #AsimovLaws

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/06/the-militarys-ai-strategy-threatens-everything-we-love/

[webntrmpt2x]

Tech Billionaires Threaten to Flee California—Again

California billionaires panic over proposed 5% wealth tax. Peter Thiel and Larry Page threatening to flee. Haven't we heard this before?

Gil Duran

“Oligarchs regularly make such threats and fail to follow through, so we must take such antics with a grain of salt. But the possibility of a new tax on super wealth shows that backlash against the fat cat class is coming, and the billionaires’ threats to flee show just how much they fear fairness and accountability.”

Also:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/12/27/possible-california-wealth-tax-causes-billionaire-freakout-page-thiel-threaten-to-leave/

[webntrmpt2x]

Entering a Golden Age for War Profiteers

When, in his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the unwarranted influence wielded by a partnersh

William D. Hartung

Excerpt:

“A further risk posed by AI-driven warfare is the possibility that the new weapons could choose their targets without human intervention. Current Pentagon policy promises to keep a human “in the loop” in the use of such systems, but military logic runs counter to such claims. As Anduril President and Chief Strategy Officer Christian Brose has written in his seminal book Kill Chain, the high-tech wars of the future will hinge on which side can identify and destroy its targets most quickly — an imperative that would ensure slow-moving humans were left out of the process.

“In short, two possibilities arise if the U.S. military transitions to the “new improved” military-industrial complex espoused by the denizens of Silicon Valley: complex systems that don’t perform as advertised, or new capabilities that may make war both more likely and more deadly. And such dystopian outcomes will only be reinforced by the ideology of the new Silicon Valley militarists. They see themselves as both the “founders” of a new form of warfare and “the new patriots” poised to restore American greatness without the need for a democratic government in the war-making mix. Their ideal, in fact, would be to ensure that the government got out of the way and let them solve the myriad problems we face alone. Ayn Rand would be proud.

“Such a techno-autocracy would be far more likely to serve the interests of a relatively small elite than aid the average American in any way. From Peter Thiel’s quest for a way to live forever to Elon Musk’s desire to enable the mass colonization of space, it’s not at all clear that, if such goals could even be achieved, they would be generally available. It’s more likely that such opportunities would be restricted to the species of superior beings that the techno-militarists see themselves as being.”