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@cstross 0 days since something that got the torment nexus treatment in 1975’s “the shockwave rider” by John Brunner had an advertising campaign

@cstross don't kink shame the leopard-sexuals. Of course this is purely jest. 🐆😂 🍆

@cstross Bahh nonsense. this techbro boot i'm licking sure tastes like freedom to me!

@cstross You would think the point of automation would be to shore up whatever doesn't work under communism, but noooooo

@cstross They want USSR Five Year Plan style central planning of big projects (Azovstal was based on a steel mill from Gary, Indiana, the "data center" of its day) They really don't like markets or political systems with any bottom-up influence

Stalin took his name from steel, maybe near-future dictators will go for "AI" themed names?

@cstross It's like their goal state is Mad Max, not Star Trek. Makes no sense!

@cstross fully automated luxury space communism implies that everyone is equal. Fully automated leopard-face-chomping neo-feudalism implies that one could be the Lord doing the face chomping. These shitheads want a hierarchy.

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America is just a goyim cattle farm to bleed like cash cows. Why are they even making profound observations, someone get them angry at immigrants

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It is rather curious

@cstross Probably because the techbros who aren't weird money-perverts drop out and become bar owners or goat farmers before amassing that kind of power.

@cstross I think it's simply that from a position of power the two look indistinguishable.

@cstross it’s pretty impressive how happy they don’t want other people to be.

@cstross As I always says WRT the neo-feudalists; they assume they’ll be the aristocrats, not the serfs.

@cstross The only parts of Star Trek they like are the parts where everything has gone wrong and people shoot at oneanother, things that happen as the last resort.