Reading about #Technocracy, "Official Technocracy Gray" was the official colour of the movement's uniforms etc. What comes to mind are the time-stealing grey men – whose names are numbers, search "1x1809x56" – in #MichaelEnde's #Momo (1973).
Ende discussed #utopia with politician Erhard Eppler and theatre maker Hanne Tächl, bundled in his anti-Technocracy book Phantasie/Kultur/Politik (1982) https://michaelende.de/en/book/fantasy-culture-politics-0
@ned @The_Icarian
The only way to do that would be to get rid of the mechanism by which weath is accumulated and exchanged for anything, i.e. money, as well as eliminate the motivation to do so, such as providing a post-scarcity environment. Luckily, both of these are possible in North America (and possibly elsewhere) by using Technocracy: https://www.technate.org/tiki-index.php?page=Begin
The added benefit of this is that it also makes political government unnecessary, thus removing the other primary tool for removing people's rights. By comparison, in Technocracy, people's rights would be an objective part of how the system functions, built-in at the highest level. Any violation of such would be like a vital part of your car's engine being broken.
#technocracy #technate #SocialJustice
#Musk hopes to eradicate #CFPB that would oversee #regulating X
#ElonMusk made a big leap late last month toward his long-shot goal of turning #X into an "everything app," a service that could encompass a broad range of services, including the ability to transfer #money, similar to Venmo or PayPal.
#law #regulation #finance #tech #apps #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #security #privacy #fraud #oversight #corruption #ConsumerFinancialProtectionBureau #technocracy #broligarchy
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/12/nx-s1-5293382/x-elon-musk-doge-cfpb
#Google Calendar users no longer see default entries for events like #Pride, #BlackHistory Month
#nazi #hate #TrumpCoup #whitewashing #WhiteSupremacy #Heterosexism #MaleSupremacy #law #CivilRights #tech #SearchEngine #techbros #technocracy #plutocracy #broligarchy
https://apnews.com/article/google-calendar-pride-black-history-month-8c499cfbe399b1eccc436032b3c4ced0
In addition to Coristine, a 23-year-old colleague of his, former SpaceX intern Luke Farritor, is also listed in the #StateDepartment’s directory as working at the Bureau of #Diplomatic #Technology. Both report to Joseph Nason, a special assistant in the bureau.
Coristine & Farritor are among a group of 6 engineers 25 or younger whom WaPo has identified as working on behalf of #DOGE.
If you expect court orders to end this coup, we have a long road ahead of us.
#USPol
#MuskTakeover
#TrumpCoup
#Technocracy
#TechnoCoup
#LateStageUSianEmpire
We have to assume that #Musk has installed malware at the US #Treasury. #technocracy
Technocratic #GEEKS in charge! The #DOGE Bois. They ARE all boys... ie. Male, and these are the people with access to the nuclear codes, your Social Security number, and your tax returns.
May they all find their personal #LuigiMangione-s
The Dictatorship of the Engineer:
The right claims to loathe technocracy—but it has empowered Elon Musk to remake the government.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/trump-musk-doge-engineers/681580/
"Elon Musk is dismantling the civil service and fulfilling an old dream... a yearning for a savior... This is a fantasy of submission...
even as the right purports to loathe #technocracy, it has empowered an engineer to radically remake the #American state"
#AramMoghaddassi, who has worked for both X & #ElonMusk’s Neuralink; & #MichaelRusso, a #SiliconValley exec who has since been named chief info officer of the #SocialSecurity Admin.
…The push for access to the #Treasury sys came as the #Trump admin moved to dismantle #USAID, the govt’s lead agency for providing #humanitarian assistance globally. Much of the agency’s #workforce will be put on leave this week, & contracts have been halted.
…After public sector #unions sued over the issue, a #Trump #DOJ lawyer said in court on Wed that only #TomKrause & #MarkoElez, both *#Treasury employees*, had been given access to info in the system, which they have not shared outside the Treasury.
Marko Elez, a fmr employee of #ElonMusk’s at both X & xAI, is one of several staffers that #DOGE had planned to install at the Treasury. They also include Krause, a well-established #SiliconValley software exec;
Congress controls the budget and spending. Not the White House and definitely not unelected, unvetted technocrats!
"It's becoming clear that Elon Musk, under the banner of the totally made-up and not-authorized Department of Government Efficiency, has deployed a team of engineers barely old enough to buy beer and with ZERO government experience and given them free reign over the Treasury Department — and direct access to the code used to process TRILLIONS of dollars in federal payments.
"They are reportedly rewriting code, installing their own private email servers, and have access to the Social Security number of every living American. The ultimate goal of all this is clearly for Elon to seize control of government funding at the source and bypass Congress entirely.
"House Democrats marched to the Treasury Dept today and were denied entrance. So they held a protest outside the building to demand accountability."
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/
In a blog post published Tues, #Google’s head of #AI #DemisHassabis & the company’s senior VP for #technology & #society #JamesManyika said Google was updating its AI principles because the #tech had become much more widespread, & because there was a need for companies based in democratic countries to serve #government & #NationalSecurity clients.
Thoughtful, timely interview on WFMU's TechTonic today, political nerd fam: Mark compares Silicon Valley broligarchs to #comics super-villains with help from an MIT chaplain and Jim frickin Starlin (!) #techfeudalism #technocracy #boringdystopia #surveillance
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/148678
#Trump #Treasury Secy #ScottlBessent gave reps of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system late on Fri, acc/to 3 people…, handing #ElonMusk & the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor & potentially limit government #money.