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Hello and welcome back to The Bunker explaining news, politics, life the universe and everything, every morning.

I'm Andrew Harrison.

Back in the days before Twitter became a Nazi-infested toilet, there was a beloved much-shared post from a games designer and onion writer called Alex Blechman.

It said,

sci-fi author. In my book, I invented The Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

Tech company replies, at long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel,

Don't Create the Torment Nexus. Tech heads and accelerationsists hate this particular line. They think it's shorthand for all technology is bad. But there is little denying that big tech has a knack

for inventing things, from social networking to artificial intelligence to surveillance and

military technology without caring about the long-term consequences. And for doing it so rapidly

that the law and political leadership

aren't just incapable of keeping up, they don't even understand what's happening. And that's

why Twitter is now a Nazi-infested toilet. So who should our leaders listen to in order to

...