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Joel Michael

@jpm@aus.social · 2 weeks ago

@GossiTheDog

Kevin Beaumont

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social replied · 2 weeks ago

Image of a news article headline from "The Times" detailing Microsoft's significant $400 billion loss in market capitalization due to investor concerns over AI-related costs, described as the second-largest in stock market history.

ROTOPE~1 :yell:

@rotopenguin@mastodon.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@GossiTheDog as reported in The The 👑 Sunday Times Times.

Jonathan Sambrook

@hmmn@mindly.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@rotopenguin

@GossiTheDog

Any reason not to cite this?

https://www.thetimes.com/business/companies-markets/article/microsoft-shrinks-by-400bn-as-investors-shun-huge-ai-costs-3rq8d9x52

Microsoft shrinks by $400bn as investors shun huge AI costs

New sell-off after the software group reported quarterly earnings is the second-largest loss of market capitalisation in stock market history

Joel Michael

@jpm@aus.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@GossiTheDog

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · last week

@jpm @GossiTheDog

#FFFO

"Fund a Fascist, & Find Out"

AI is a state surveillance platform designed to automate election interference, hence the alliance with fossil fuel funded fascists like Charles Koch & #PrinceBonesaw

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/

https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/microsoft-receives-licence-export-thousands-ai-chips-uae

https://news.microsoft.com/source/emea/features/building-the-foundations-for-saudi-arabias-ai-powered-future/

Fossil fuel funded fascism.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/us-approves-ai-chip-exports-to-gulf-after-saudi-crown-prince-visit.html

Cancer always starts small, then metastasizes

https://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/koch-brothers-rnc-113359

Source EMEA

Building the Foundations for Saudi Arabia’s AI-Powered Future - Source EMEA

Across the Middle East and Africa, I have had the opportunity to witness many ambitious national transformation journeys. Alongside other leading nations in the region, Saudi Arabia stands out for the scale of its ambition and the pace at which is translating vision into action.

Forbes

Five Billionaires Pledged $1 Billion To Boost Economic Mobility Using AI

Five of America’s top philanthropists are teaming up for a new venture aimed at helping low-income Americans rise from poverty. An AI giant has signed on to help.

Middle East Eye

Microsoft receives licence to export thousands of AI chips to UAE

Tech company says its ability to 'accumulate' AI chips in the UAE opens the path to invest billions in data centres there

https://www.nytimes.com

Koch Political Operation Spent Nearly $550 Million During 2024 Cycle

DeSmog

The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show

Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.

Business Insider

Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people's data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there

Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.

Preston von Gabbleduck

@backupbear@aus.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@jpm @GossiTheDog This appeared in one of my social feeds years ago and is always my go-to. (Alas I failed to note where it came from.)

A supposed electron microscope (or other highly magnified) image of a Tardigrade, with the Tardigrade playing a violin.

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange replied · 2 weeks ago

@GossiTheDog

The structural problems with MS management structure that led to this are obvious to anyone who worked there and paid attention. The fact that they are not obvious to the senior leadership team makes it very clear that they are all desperately unqualified for their jobs. Which somehow doesn’t stop them taking home tens of millions of dollars a year.

tom jennings

@tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org replied · 2 weeks ago

@david_chisnall

What they DO, is their job. Taking home that money is the job.

@GossiTheDog

1a1nC

@1a1nC@mastodon.online replied · 2 weeks ago

@david_chisnall @GossiTheDog IMO even if MS f*ks up massively, it'll just change direction (fire the CEO and a ton of employees, leave a bunch of data centres half built) then pass the cost of its failure onto its customers who will probably just suck up the bill

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