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Palantir and the New Order: Neoliberalism is dead. Say hello to Techlordism (thepoint.com.au)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

While true now, with the introduction of micro reactors, we might truely be fucked

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    These clowns can't operate this shit safely. They will mini melt down and scapegoat others then do it again.

    The regulators have been relegated to bootlicking. There is no one making them do it safely, only their own judgement (shudders.)

    We are truly fucked though, and this nuclear bs is part of it.

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  • [+] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Data centers have paid off the government to do a bunch of nuclear mini reactors, the administration naturally cannibalized the Nuclear regulatory commission already, Some are opening old ones, like the infamamous three mile island that melted down, but others are doing the mini thing.

    I was looking for the guardian article I just read like a week ago and the enshitified search engines aren't producing it, they aren't even trying to find what we ask. These guys are trustworthy though, and will explain the process at least.

    https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2506_FSW_GoingNuclear.pdf

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago

    Nuclear is actually one of the safest forms of power, with the corollary that competency is the norm in the industry. I spent years in the Naval Nuclear program and they have not had an uncontrolled release of radioactive contamination to the public in the 80 year history of the program.

    Three Mile Island killed nobody, and the reactor they are restarting had been operating up until 2015.

    While I am less than pleased that it's basically all going to Microdick's AI centers, it's important not to lump nuclear power in by guilt by association.

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