>>5617683hehe, I was the author of this copypasta, but it probably makes sense only if you have read a lot of Dan Abnett novels lol, and are also familiar with the doctrines of Gene Sharp.
I don't know if they still use that exact worded intro for the recent 40k fiction anymore as I stopped following the newer reboot editions of warhammer. I actually chose the words carefully, for instance I used regimen because it half rhymes with Astronomican etc, if you compare it to the original text read aloud some of it matches the ungainly rhythms and cadences lol. Originally I had K Street instead of Wall Street, but some people may not know what that is, in the UK I guess it would probably be Tufton Street. But I feel Wall Street as a metonymic substitution also works for manifestations of consensual psychic hallucination hehe.
>Western Left has been increasingly mistrustful of Big TechI think some AI safety people voiced objections at googl msft meta etc, but they have mostly all been fired.
Eric Schmidt was the inaugural Chairman of the Defense Innovation Board, In-Q-Tel funds everything, things like Project Keyhole / googl Earth, googl Jigsaw, or googl advertising executive Wael Ghonim doing Arab Spring and the idea of Silicon Valley as Grateful Dead Burning Man anti-war hippies is mostly a masquerade when you realise that as far back as David Packard (yes, of Hewlett-Packard, right in the middle of Palo Alto venture capital land) was US Deputy Secretary Of Defense during Vietnam. Then there is Peter Thiel or disturbing Sword Art Online anime fanatic Palmer Luckey, PLTR Palantir amusing Lord Of The Rings national security hehe.
The threat of Big Tech anti-trust and the repudiation of the Bork (1978) consumer welfare oriented monopoly regulatory stance is mostly instrumentative pressure keeping tech in alignment to the defense industrial base. Some of the source of those articles began with Pierre Omidyar and the Skoll Foundation, Omidyar has some... strange affiliations. I never met them but I did meet Meg Whitman, she was very nice.
My favourite image of US tech was captured by this photographer for a Bloomberg news article. I mentioned I really liked Tom Clancy tactical military videogames. Well here is Larry Page outside Trump Tower, with some cool assault rifle guards blurred in the background. This is what tech looks like when you see it in the flesh