For a short overview, see for example:
https://mondediplo.com/2025/11/02tech
Beyond Palantir, under the banner of ‘patriotic tech’, a coalition of firms, funders and ideologues is engineering a planetary infrastructure for techno-political control. It’s a stacked system – cloud platforms, AI models, financial rails, drone networks, orbital systems – forming what I call the ‘Authoritarian Stack’. Where traditional authoritarianism relies on mass mobilisation and state violence, this system operates through technological infrastructure and financial coordination, making classic resistance appear not just difficult but obsolete. At its helm stand Silicon Valley’s most rightwing figures – Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, Palmer Luckey and Alexander Karp – whose investments align with a political project: the remaking of sovereignty as a private asset class.
(The above summary is sadly partially paywalled, perhaps a better source exists? But the website linked as OP is freely accessible. )
There is one bright light in this cloud of darkness.
These chucklefucks are so incompetent they won’t achieve their end goals.
Unfortunately Rich incompetent people have a habit of succeeding in spite of themselves. Basically that’s the story of human history.
The story of human history is they succeed to a certain point and then get very painfully put to death. There just comes a point where the proles won’t stand any more and burn everything down.
Oh goodness how I do wish that were true but it just simply isn’t. Occasionally that happens but the vast vast majority of the time they get away with it. History’s full of very few happy endings.
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Know what? I’m not even going to try to correct this.