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"With Trump’s promise to ramp up mass deportation beyond what he attempted in his last term, and this cohort of loyalists at the fore, expect to see a renewed gold rush in dubious AI-enabled surveillance tech and database systems for tracking migrant workers and dissenters. Palantir was given contracts to handle such work during the last Trump term, Oracle has been helping the Trump team assemble databases of government workers loyal to Trump (presumably to spare in a coming purge), and Musk has already called for Luckey to meet with the White House. In sum, with a rise in Sinophobia, the US invested in wars in two theaters, and promises to execute historic mass deportation, expect the boom that has already begun in defense tech to continue, and an invigorated interest in surveillance and administrative AI—and for the men who most loudly backed Trump’s campaign to benefit.

All of the above will accelerate a trend that had already been underway; big tech companies more aggressively and openly pursuing defense department contracts, and work with agencies their employees may once have deemed unethical, like ICE. As I noted after the election, for many Silicon Valley elites, the days of taking employees’ ethical concerns and protests into account are fading happily into the past. Big tech has been quick to fire dissenting workers already, and now there’s a more explicit authoritarian creep into the sector."

bloodinthemachine.com/p/tech-u

Blood in the Machine · Tech under Trump, part 1By Brian Merchant

Did anyone hear about bigtech investing in #nuclear energy to supposedly power 'ai'? here's a supposed article that sounds like it's copy-pasted straight from the nuclear lobby's press release (you can tell because they write "clean energy" as opposed to "toxic waste generating energy that poisons children and placed in bombs to damag the #genetics of people in parts of the world bankers want to harvest").

Amazon bought a nuclear-powered #datacenter in march and now they are investing $500 million in "small modular reactors". The nuclear lobby must be thrilled that everyone seems to be too distracted with the election to even talk about this. This news from amazon came a day after google announced it has big plans to go nuclear over the next decade or so.

in case anyone needed another reason to boycott m$, amaz, and goog....