https://madkatomega.blog/tags/politics/Recent content in Politics on Madkat OmegaHugoen-usSun, 25 Oct 2026 00:16:01 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-phantom-safety-net-silicon-valleys-fake-ubi/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:16:01 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-phantom-safety-net-silicon-valleys-fake-ubi/How corporate equity pledges and sovereign wealth schemes are being used to paper over the destruction of America’s public infrastructure.https://madkatomega.blog/posts/what-it-really-means-to-win-the-ai-race/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:32:41 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/what-it-really-means-to-win-the-ai-race/On the morning of July 17, 2026, Xi Jinping took the stage in Shanghai for his first in-person address to China’s World AI Conference, and he began his keynote by crediting the United States. Seventy…https://madkatomega.blog/posts/liable-for-your-own-actions/Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:08:36 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/liable-for-your-own-actions/The Accountability Gap in Alex Karp’s AI Nationalization Pitchhttps://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-automation-of-certainty/Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:20:25 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-automation-of-certainty/How Stale Priors and Epistemic Arrogance Cascade from Synthetic Text to Kinetic Warfarehttps://madkatomega.blog/posts/nobody-voted-for-the-ai-race/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:53:06 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/nobody-voted-for-the-ai-race/The United States has a long history of treating technological competition as a crisis, and of building permanent institutions on the strength of that crisis.https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-rise-of-anti-intellectualism/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:20:09 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-rise-of-anti-intellectualism/Where It Comes From, How to Spot It, and How to Outlast Ithttps://madkatomega.blog/posts/enclosure-again/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 02:50:05 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/enclosure-again/The AI buildout and the oldest bargain of the industrial agehttps://madkatomega.blog/posts/dont-build-the-blackwall/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:15:14 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/dont-build-the-blackwall/How the fight against rogue AI is being hijacked to rebuild the mid-century telecom monopoly.https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-ancient-source-of-neon-and-chrome/Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:37:22 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-ancient-source-of-neon-and-chrome/There is a moment near the start of William Gibson’s Neuromancer, published in 1984, when the reader learns exactly what kind of story this is going to be. Case, a washed-up console cowboy, has been…https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-ai-data-center-problem-in-2026/Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:48:55 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-ai-data-center-problem-in-2026/The people who packed the Tucson city council chambers on the sixth of August, 2025, had been told almost nothing, and what they had figured out on their own was enough.https://madkatomega.blog/posts/building-the-bridge-to-ubi-it-doesnt-mean-what-you-think-it-means/Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:40:22 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/building-the-bridge-to-ubi-it-doesnt-mean-what-you-think-it-means/Elon Musk has been warning about falling birth rates for the better part of a decade. In 2019 he called population collapse the biggest problem the world would face in twenty years. In 2022 he argued…https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-american-civic-year/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:10:49 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-american-civic-year/On February 15, 2003, people gathered in more than six hundred cities to oppose an invasion that had not yet happened. The BBC estimated that between six and ten million people turned out across as…https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-stranger-who-shines/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:13:06 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-stranger-who-shines/Phanes, the Rebel Archons, and the Fable Genshin Impact Is Quietly Handing to the Westhttps://madkatomega.blog/posts/forking-the-government-taiwans-civic-hackers-and-the-american-case-for-networked-democracy/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:57:28 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/forking-the-government-taiwans-civic-hackers-and-the-american-case-for-networked-democracy/In late 2012, the government of Taiwan released an advertisement for its Economic Power-Up Plan. The ad’s message, repeated over and over, amounted to this: we have a very complex plan, it is too…https://madkatomega.blog/posts/where-the-machine-must-stop/Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:39:50 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/where-the-machine-must-stop/Between the corporations optimizing us out of the org chart and the governments optimizing us out of the decision, there is a third path: bound the machine, and let institutions be human.https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-agi-manhattan-project-treating-frontier-ai-like-a-weapon/Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:39:32 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-agi-manhattan-project-treating-frontier-ai-like-a-weapon/[UPDATED 7–2–2026] The outrage over gated AI models misses the real story. The United States has reclassified advanced artificial intelligence as a national-security asset — something closer to a…