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PRESSURE SYSTEMS — LATEST EDITION

Epistemic Fractures Demand The Impossible

May 5, 2026

Defense contractors and platform monopolies are consolidating algorithmic authority over critical infrastructure, converting health data, journalistic ecosystems, and military targeting into proprietary surveillance architectures. This technical centralization accelerates epistemic fragmentation, as prediction markets financialize systemic collapse while memetic warfare normalizes authoritarian mythologies across attention economies. Lacking commons-based data governance or institutional accountability, democratic oversight yields to turnkey totalitarianism and techno-authoritarian consolidation.

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