MostlyTato

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@MostlyTato@mstdn.social

Archaeologist, graphic designer, scavenger, cheapskate gardener, loved by dogs, tolerated by cats. I'm here to watch the world move on. Corruption, nebulous networks & shady government plans, oh my! Really, I'm just a high-functioning potato.😏
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@ChrisMayLA6
Brexit Britain is the perfect beach-head to exploit his narrative across the smoking remains of the EU...

"Musk has become a kind of digital necromancer, like the white wizard Saruman, using his privileged position in the West to channel the dark autocracy of Sauron in his Kremlin towers to the east. (Perhaps, as in Tolkien’s epic, Musk deploys an all-seeing ‘Palantir’ courtesy of his tech ally and fellow South African Peter Thiel"

bylinetimes.com/2025/01/25/how

Byline TimesFrom Z to X: How Russian Information Warfare Primed the World for Trump and Musk“Money and information are the twin tactical nukes of modern politics” according to Steve Bannon. But the the seeds for this tech dystopia were sown more than a decade ago