Few substances have defined material modernity as much as plastic.
As Astana builds AI infrastructure and eyes 1GW capacity, the real story is distancing from Russia, not pan-Turkic dreams.
European overtures for renewing diplomacy with Russia smack of hypocrisy and duplicity.
Anti-Russian disinformation campaign intensified due to the Forum.
Equality in relations among states within the same multilateral organization is impossible while there exists an economic and military superpower capable of subjugating smaller countries.
Palantir’s “Technological Republic” would be technocracy, the depoliticized political structure, driven by AI, organized as the Benthamite panopticon, in which scientists and engineers act as philosophical guardians.
CEOs got an 11% raise in 2025; workers just 0.5%. The average top exec now makes 490 years of a typical employee’s wages.
Palantir’s project is literally reactionary, as it intends to prevent the advent of multipolarity.
