phildini
boosted
There you have it, the end of civilization 😞
There you have it, the end of civilization 😞
America forced this ‘national security’ sale at gunpoint, then distributed board seats like victory spoils.
Yet what does he oversee exactly? ByteDance still controls the algorithm. Oracle holds the data. The correct surname now sits atop the apparatus.
We tell ourselves that expertise would matter eventually. That merit would reassert itself. That #civilization selects for capability, not pedigree.
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