Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Techno-fascism

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25-6-7 Who on Earth Is Curtis Yarvin? - HCR > .

Curtis Guy Yarvin (born 1973), also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American far-right political blogger and software developer. He is known, along with philosopher Nick Land, for founding the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement (NRx).

In his blog Unqualified Reservations, which he wrote from 2007 to 2014, and in his later newsletter Gray Mirror, which he started in 2020, he argues that American democracy is a failed experiment that should be replaced by an accountable monarchy, similar to the governance structure of corporations. 

Yarvin has been described as a "neo-reactionary", "neo-monarchist" and "neo-feudalist" who "sees liberalism as creating a Matrix-like totalitarian system, and who wants to replace American democracy with a sort of techno-monarchy".

Yarvin's ideas have been influential among right-wrong-libertarians and paleolibertarians, and the public discourses of prominent investors like Peter Thiel have echoed Yarvin's project of seceding from the United States to establish tech-CEO dictatorships. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, an informal adviser to Donald Trump, has spoken approvingly of Yarvin's thinking. Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work. Vice-president JD Vance has cited Yarvin as an influence, saying in 2021, "So there's this guy Curtis Yarvin who has written about these things", which included "Retire All Government Employees" or RAGE, written in 2012. Vance said that if Trump became president again, "I think what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, 'The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'"

Techno-fascism (techno-populism), a term introduced by Janis Mimura, describes a form of authoritarian rule where technical experts and a technological mindset are central to government and society. It suggests a fusion of state power with the influence and control exerted by technology and tech companies, potentially leading to a system where technology is used to suppress dissent and concentrate power.

Techno-populism is either a populism in favor of technocracy or a populism concerning certain technology – usually information technology – or any populist ideology conversed using digital media. It can be employed by single politicians or whole political movements respectively. Neighboring terms used in a similar way are technocratic populism, technological populism, and cyber-populism. Italy's Five Star Movement and France's La République En Marche! have been described as technopopulist political movements.

Broligarchy is a neologism and portmanteau combining oligarchy and broism describing the rule of government by a coterie of extremely wealthy men (occupying leadership roles in the tech companies and tech-enabled businesses) who are perceived by the public as tech bros. It is also known as tech oligarchy. ? tech oligarchy ?

Key Components of techno-fascism / techno-populism / broligarchy / tech oligarchy :

Technocratic Rule:
Techno-fascism is characterized by an emphasis on technical expertise and data-driven decision-making, often at the expense of democratic processes and public participation.

State and Corporate Tech Power:
The term highlights the increasing convergence of government power and the power of technology companies, potentially leading to situations where tech companies wield significant influence over government policy and public discourse.

Suppression of Dissent:
Techno-fascism can involve the use of technology to monitor and control citizens, restrict access to information, and limit freedom of expression.

Concentration of Power:
This form of authoritarianism often involves the concentration of power in the hands of a select few, potentially leading to a situation where the needs and interests of the majority are overlooked.

Examples and Concerns:

Rise of Big Tech:
The growing influence of tech companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, along with their ability to collect and analyze vast amounts of personal data, has raised concerns about potential manipulation and control.

AI Development:
Unfettered AI development, particularly if it's used for surveillance or propaganda purposes, could pave the way for techno-fascism on a global scale.

Social Media Manipulation:
The ability of social media platforms to spread misinformation and polarize public discourse raises concerns about their potential to be used to manipulate public opinion and undermine democratic processes.

In essence, techno-fascism raises the specter of a future where technology is used to create a highly controlled and authoritarian society, one where the voices of the people are silenced and the power of the state is wielded by a select group of technocrats and tech giants.
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Techno-Fascism Comes to America: The historic parallels that help explain Elon Musk’s rampage on the federal government.

"When a phalanx of the top Silicon Valley executives—Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Google’s Sundar Pichai—aligned behind President Trump during the Inauguration in January, many observers saw an allegiance based on corporate interests. The ultra-wealthy C.E.O.s were turning out to support a fellow-magnate, hoping perhaps for an era of deregulation, tax breaks, and anti-“woke” cultural shifts.

The historian Janis Mimura saw something more ominous: a new, proactive union of industry and governmental power, wherein the state would drive aggressive industrial policy at the expense of liberal norms. In the second Trump Administration, a class of Silicon Valley leaders was insinuating itself into politics in a way that recalled one of Mimura’s primary subjects of study: the élite bureaucrats who seized political power and drove Japan into the Second World War. “These are experts with a technological mind-set and background, often engineers, who now have a special role in the government,” Mimura told me. The result is what, in her book “Planning for Empire” (2011), she labelled “techno-fascism”: authoritarianism driven by technocrats. Technology “is considered the driving force” of such a regime, Mimura said. “There’s a sort of technicization of all aspects of government and society.”"
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Saturday, November 2, 2024

Chips, FABs, Tech 2024

24-10-18 Should the EU become a Federation? - EUMS > .
24-4-23 Race to Secure Taiwan’s AI Chips vs Xinese Invasion | WSJ > .
22-10-20 Chris Miller: Chip War & Battle Between USA & Xina > .
24-5-28 Chip War: X-US Tech War Heats Up - Update > .
R&D&M Wars - Tense >> .

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

British Army - Digital Transformation

21-5-12 Digital Transformation: How Can The Army Adapt For Future Warfare? > .
24-2-19 AI Played Wargames - Result Not Reassuring - Sabine > .
24-2-6 Exclusive: Head of UK Strategic Command's full in-depth interview - Forces > .
24-2-1 Could National Service fix British forces recruitment crisis? | Sitrep > .
23-9-11 British Armymost lethal army in Europe by 2030 - CGS - Forces > .
23-7-19 Cyber & Technologies in Defence Command Paper - Forces > .
23-7-18 Futureproofing for changing threats; Defence Command Paper - Forces > .
22-9-29 Is Your Laptop's Microphone Spying On You? - Seytonic > .
22-9-29 Pegasus: The Most Dangerous Virus In The World - Tech > .

Sunday, January 1, 2023

Tech ➾ 2023

24-2-12 Bleeding Edge of Semiconductors: Tale of 3 Companies || Peter Zeihan > .Chip Off The Old Block - Buck Wagers >> .

2022 ..

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

➾ Chip & Tech Competition

22-3-10 Why Russia Can't Survive Tech Sanctions - TechAltar > .
24-2-17 Taiwan Question & World Order | X Economy - Update > .
24-2-12 Bleeding Edge of Semiconductors: Tale of 3 Companies || Peter Zeihan > .
23-11-7 Scientific Progress & War - [Counterproductive for Ruscia] (subs) - Katz > .
23-10-25 [Five Eyes Summit; XiXiP Whining About Exposure] - Update > .
23-10-18 US-Xina Tech Competition | Update > .  
23-10-17 Xina's Intellectual Property Theft | Five Eyes Leaders - Hoover > .
23-10-14 [Independent Taiwan versus Imperialist Dicktatorship] - Real > . 
23-9-28 Race for semiconductor supremacy | FT > .
23-9-9 Tech War: Xina's Future Shaky; AI Industry Competion - BuBa > .
23-8-29 Understanding the Limits of Innovation || Peter Zeihan >> .
23-8-10 How Taiwan Accidentally Became an Economic Superpower - Casual > .
23-8-7 Xina's Reliance On Western Innovation | John Lee > .
23-8-1 Sanctioning Russia | Effects: Dodging Sanctions, Brain Drain (subs) - Katz > .
23-7-25 Silicon Triangle | USA, Taiwan, Xina: Semiconductors - Hoover > . full > .
23-6-20 NVGs vs PLA - US Night Superiority, Can Xina [steal & copy]? - T&P > .
23-3-2 Xina Leads US in Key Technology Research: Report | Focus > .
23-2-7 Why Xina is losing the microchip war - Vox > .
23-1-28 West Strangles Xina's Semiconductor Ambitions - Update > .
22-11-19 G20 '22 Biden-Xi meeting = "start of a new Cold War" - Times > .
22-8-20 How Long Will It Take Russia to Rebuild Its Military? - CoCa > .
22-7-21 How the economy of Russia is dying (English subtitles) - Максим Кац > .

Sunday, January 9, 2022

Tech Theft ➾ Ċold Ŵar 2, 2022

22-1-28 F-35 just fell off a carrier, near China. Who’ll reach it first? - Binkov > .
23-10-14 [Independent Taiwan versus Imperialist Dicktatorship] - Real > . 
23-9-21 A Xinese blockade against Taiwan 'won't work' | Tim Cross > .
23-8-29 Understanding the Limits of Innovation || Peter Zeihan >> .
23-8-10 How Taiwan Accidentally Became an Economic Superpower - Casual > .
23-6-20 NVGs vs PLA - US Night Superiority, Can Xina [steal & copy]? - T&P > .
23-1-23 Xina’s Two-Year Tech Crackdown Winds Up | WSJ > .
22-11-19 G20 '22 Biden-Xi meeting = "start of a new Cold War" - Times > .
22-11-11 Fortress Xina - Xi's Plans for World Domination - laowhy86 > .
22-10-15 Xina's Economy is in Bad Shape - ColdFusion > .
22-10-9 "Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise" | Susan Shirk - CU > .
22-9-21 Western scholars debate decoupling; Xi plots tech dominance - Digging > .
22-8-3 Economic Disaster is Already Here - Peter Zeihan - Triggernometry > .
22-4-21 Russia–Ukraine war, US–China rivalry, Thucydides’s Trap > .
22-3-5 No. China won't get its hand on the sunken F-35C! - Defense > .
22-1-29 Race is on to reach sunken US plane... before China - BBC > .


Monday, July 26, 2021

Comprehensive Agreement on Investment

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The EU-China Investment Agreement - IntoEu > .
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23-10-23 Poland Must Defend Ukraine against Historical Rival: Russia - GeoP > .
22-7-4 Intermarium: Is Strongest Union In Europe About To Appear? - Complete > .


The European Union and Xina have signed an investment deal in principle. The deal is set to rebalance the relationship that the two blocks have. Xina’s forced technology transfers and other discriminatory practices against European firms will be brought to an end – on paper.

Despite being welcomed by businesses, the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment falls short on tackling human rights issues in Xina, which will lead to backlash on the deal within the European Parliament. Opposition by the United States, which wants Europe to pursue a common policy with it on Xina and from the European public may yet scupper the deal.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Hello Girls - WW1

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First World War and Votes for Women - namUK > .
Resisting Misogyny, Seeking Suffrage - Vīta Domī >> .

When the first members of the American Expeditionary Force arrived in France in 1917 they found that the telephone lines already in operation were overloaded. To solve the problem, John J Pershing called for experienced, bilingual switchboard operators, which meant women. Hundreds would don the uniform and answer the call as “Hello Girls”, serving in the Signal Corps.

The St. Francis Dam was a curved concrete gravity dam, built to create a large regulating and storage reservoir for the city of Los Angeles, California. The reservoir was an integral part of the city's Los Angeles Aqueduct water supply infrastructure. It was located in San Francisquito Canyon of the Sierra Pelona Mountains, about 40 miles (64 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, and approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of the present day city of Santa Clarita.

The dam was designed and built between 1924 and 1926 by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, then named the Bureau of Water Works and Supply. The department was under the direction of its general manager and chief engineer, William Mulholland.

At 11:57 p.m. on March 12, 1928, the dam catastrophically failed, and the resulting flood killed at least 431 people. The collapse of the St. Francis Dam is considered to be one of the worst American civil engineering disasters of the 20th century and remains the second-greatest loss of life in California's history, after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The disaster marked the end of Mulholland's career.

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

F-35 failure?

Fighter development


Fighter development

The Evolution of the Fighter in World War II: The World War II period saw the development of the fighter aircraft from the biplane through to the introduction of the first jet fighter aircraft. Aircraft featured in this volume include the Mustang, Spitfire, Hurricane, Bf 109, Bf 110, P-40, P-38 and A6M Zero.

Clash of Wings - Discovery Channel - playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCD409097FB2DA594

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_Wings .


Great Machines 1930s - Supermarine Spitfire > .

Flashy Russian Stealth - Su-75

2021 Can Russia Afford A New Stealth Fighter... Checkmate? - CoCa > .Aircraft Innovation - 21st - Gerere >> .

A prototype of Russia's prospective fighter jet was displayed at the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky outside Zhukovsky, Russia, July 20, 2021.

The Sukhoi Su-75 "Checkmate" (Сухой Су-75; LTS, short for Light Tactical Aircraft in Russian), is a single-engine, fifth-generation stealth fighter aircraft under development by Sukhoi for export and for the Russian Aerospace Forces. The Sukhoi Design Bureau also designates the aircraft as T-75 with marked registration RF-0075.
 
A prototype was unveiled at the 2021 MAKS air show with President of Russia Vladimir Putin in attendance. The Checkmate's maiden flight is expected in 2023 and initial deliveries are planned for 2026-2027. The Checkmate is designed to be low cost and for export, and may compete with the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and Shenyang FC-31 aircraft of the same light to medium-weight category. Production is forecast to be 300 planes over 15 years.

According to the chief executive of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, the LTS ‘Checkmate’ Fighter Jet is expected to cost US $25-30 million each. Rostec is anticipating that Argentina, India and Vietnam are primary export destinations of the aircraft, as well as some African countries could buy the aircraft.

The Sukhoi Su-57 (Сухой Су-57; NATO reporting name: Felon) is a single-seat, twin-engine stealth multirole fighter developed by Sukhoi for the Russian Aerospace Forces. The aircraft is the product of the PAK FA (ПАК ФА, short for: Перспективный авиационный комплекс фронтовой авиации, Perspektivny Aviatsionny Kompleks Frontovoy Aviatsii, lit. ''prospective aeronautical complex of front-line air forces'') fighter programme that would form the basis for a family of stealth combat aircraft. Sukhoi's internal designation for the aircraft is T-50. The Su-57 is the first fighter in Russian military service to feature stealth technology.

According to Sukhoi, the multirole fighter is designed to have supercruise, supermaneuverability, stealth, and integrated avionics to overcome the previous generations fighter aircraft as well as ground and naval defences. The Su-57 is intended to succeed the MiG-29 and Su-27 in the Russian Air Force and entered service in December 2020. The fighter is expected to have a service life of up to 35 years.

Overhyped?
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Expert: Justin Bronk
00:58 - Russian Air Power since Cold War
05:53 - Technical difference: East vs West
11:35 - Su57: Russian Stealth
15:06 - The Scary Stuff
21:31 - Major recent changes for Russian Aerospace
27:17 - Recommendations

Focke Wulf Fw 190 A-8

Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Pt. 1, design philosophy and features >
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Pt.2 > .
A lot of the characteristics that make the 190 a deadly fighter are difficult to quantify. It's not the planes speed, maneuverability or any other easy to measure performance standard. In fact, for most of the war, it's performance was only about average as compared with other front line fighters. What made the 190 special was the designer Kurt Tank's design philosophy which was unusual at the time.

Focke-Wulf Ta 152 H-1 Extreme Speed At High Altitudes > .

Monday, September 21, 2020

Hurricane

Sea Hurricane > .
The Only Surviving Sea Hurricane | Restoration Classics > .

Between 1936 and 1944, 14,231 Hawker Hurricanes were built of which about 20 remain. This is the story of the restoration of the oldest and rarest, the only surviving Sea Hurricane out of 700 converted during WWII.

Thursday, July 16, 2020

MIC - Military Industrial Complex

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2019 Why America has the World's biggest army? - VisualPol > .


00:00​ Intro 
00:56​ The Rise of the Military Industrial Complex 
03:48​ War is a Racket 
06:01​ Warfare is Welfare 
08:32​ Control the Media 
11:05​ A Manufactured Threat


MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..


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