https://www.wired.com/story/i-saw-the-face-of-god-in-a-tsmc-factory/

I had discharged my insomniac unease by looping through iOS games while perseverating on Putin, Xi, MAGA Republicans, and the rest of the nihilistic flexers with malevolent designs on democracy.

Xi, famous nihilist

  • CriticalOtaku [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    TSMC and the principles it expresses have started to appear in my dreams as the last best hope for—well, possibly human civilization. I want to view the Sacred Mountain and its promises with innocent eyes, as if nothing at all in the past three centuries had compromised the fondest fantasies of Locke, Newton, Adam Smith.

    :aaaa: :aaaa: :aaaa: :screm3:

    This article seems designed as a straight up cognito hazard. The stuff about the history and the process is cool, the neoliberal Adeptus Mechanicus fanfic surrounding it wasn't. If you'll excuse me, I need to go wash my brain with bleach now.