▲ 97 ▼ Marco Rubio tells diplomats to play down talk of American tech 'kill switch' (www.reuters.com) submitted 3 months ago by CityPop@lemmy.today to c/world 8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 18 points 3 months ago (2 children) No paywall https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-07-22/exclusive-marco-rubio-tells-diplomats-to-play-down-talk-of-american-tech-kill-switch permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] pnwpixel@programming.dev 8 points 3 months ago (1 child) Thanks for this link. My takeaway: diplomats are acting as quasi-sales people because our economy has another Enron event lined up. They need more money to prevent disaster, and overseas has it. https://thenextweb.com/news/tech-giants-hidden-off-balance-sheet-debt-ai permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 3 months ago You're welcome. I think the "shadow" and public facing governments are aware the collapse is ever more impending, and only hope to delay it long enough to make sure the domestic surveillance - genocide apparatus is in place and operational before they escape to their bunkers. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pnwpixel@programming.dev 8 points 3 months ago (1 child) Thanks for this link. My takeaway: diplomats are acting as quasi-sales people because our economy has another Enron event lined up. They need more money to prevent disaster, and overseas has it. https://thenextweb.com/news/tech-giants-hidden-off-balance-sheet-debt-ai permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 3 months ago You're welcome. I think the "shadow" and public facing governments are aware the collapse is ever more impending, and only hope to delay it long enough to make sure the domestic surveillance - genocide apparatus is in place and operational before they escape to their bunkers. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 3 months ago You're welcome. I think the "shadow" and public facing governments are aware the collapse is ever more impending, and only hope to delay it long enough to make sure the domestic surveillance - genocide apparatus is in place and operational before they escape to their bunkers. permalink fedilink source parent