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A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s tech lords need a new ideology to legitimise their rule. I call it techlordism.

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[–] artifex@piefed.zip 23 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Not once they have private armies of killer robots.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

"We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power. It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun."

[–] artifex@piefed.zip 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

If they have marching armies of weaponized death machines they will also definitely have unlicensed nuclear reactors.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

And their workers outfitted with kill switches. Probably their stupid phones first, later collars that can deliver paid or death remotely. Dark shit.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

We can already see how this will work out. They get you trapped in their walled garden kingdom.

If you get banned from their services and you can't access your files, make payments, login to your phone or computer, start your car, etcetcetc.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 17 hours ago

Remember when we denounced China for setting that up 15 years ago?