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   Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 03:13:23 JST Sick Sun

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   • Meredith Whittaker
   @Mer__edith has anyone replied yet that before Silicon Valley was tech it was all military contractors :-D
   
   I worked in and tangentially to defense for a number of years, and my belief is that it really is being driven by America's weakness to asymmetric warfare, cyberattack and propaganda, which is acute. AI/drone/tech companies address this weakness better than companies that make military hardware so money is flowing to them. Every defense company has or is organizing a cybersecurity division to try to claw back this money, though.
   
   Thank you for posting the paper, it was a good read.
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     Meredith Whittaker (mer__edith@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 03:13:24 JST Meredith Whittaker

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     (Yes, gentlemen, I know about ARPA and the US-military origins of networked computation. But I'm sure there's someone else out there who'd love an explanation.)

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     Meredith Whittaker (mer__edith@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 03:13:26 JST Meredith Whittaker

     Extremely important research.

     It's not possible to understand the state of BigTech, or its pathologies at the moment, without understanding these companies' transformation into defense contractors, in addition to their central role as surveillance providers to the state. 👇

     https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/SiliconValley