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An important, but sickening read: US tech companies enable "digital caging" of repressed people in China
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88
An important, but sickening read: US tech companies enable "digital caging" of repressed people in China
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88
By Stephen Greenblat:
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/opinion/universities-science-trump-china.html?smid=tw-share
This return to the Dark Ages with all the thoughtfulness of Atilla The Hun seems to be driven by the arrogance of those who own #AI assets.
The #SiliconValley overlords believe that they are a year or two away from disintermediating academics and scientists through the creation of an #AGI. I have my doubts on that front
#TechnoFeudalism#USPolitics#TechnoFascism#Broligarchy#Technogarchy
Fuck Trump, fuck Silicon Valley, and fuck Big Tech.
Look at the state of these slimy sycophants.
🤮
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3SHsyF9_Xpo
#Trump#USA#SiliconValley#BigTech #tech #fascism #technoFascism
Fuck Trump, fuck Silicon Valley, and fuck Big Tech.
Look at the state of these slimy sycophants.
🤮
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3SHsyF9_Xpo
#Trump#USA#SiliconValley#BigTech #tech #fascism #technoFascism
Humanity is against the Bluesky Social Terms of Service.
#BlueSky#SiliconValley#BigTech #israel #genocide#Gaza#Palestinehttps://mastodon.social/@joynewacc/115113184762671559
Repeat after me: The Linux Foundation are a bunch of Big Tech bellends. Don’t listen to a single thing they say.
https://social.lfx.dev/@linuxfoundation/114993371357953940
#FOSS #openSource #BigTech #LinuxFoundation #TheLinuxFoundation #linux #SiliconValley #Orwellian #bellends #GDPR #privacy #humanRights #democracy
Silicon Valley has shifted into its artificial intelligence age — some call it the "hard tech” era — and the signs are everywhere. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/11/tech/silicon-valley-hard-tech-era/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #siliconvalley #tech #socialmedia #defense #apple #netflix #google #internet #apps #markzuckerberg #facebook #ai #chatgpt
Microsoft is complicit in genocide.
#microsoft#BigTech#SiliconValley #israel #genocide#ethnicCleansing #apartheid#settlerColonialismhttps://social.coop/@raph/114939060724442709
“Move fast and break things.”
The things:
- Human rights
- Our habitat
- Democracy
#BigTech#SiliconValley#ventureCapitalhttps://mastodon.social/@freakonometrics/114860155869573459
Is it possible to imagine a better future where we use less computation? The effects of AI hype almost demand it.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @danmcquillan so he could lay out the concept of decomputing as a different way of assessing technology.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/286_decomputing_for_a_better_future_w_dan_mcquillan
What is Donald Trump's plan for AI? @brianmerchant read his Action Plan and executive orders and watched his speech. Here's what he learned. "Broadly speaking, the plan is that the Trump administration will help Silicon Valley put the pedal down on AI, delivering customers, data centers and power, as long as it operates in accordance with Trump’s ideological frameworks; i.e., as long as the AI is anti-woke," Merchant writes for his Blood in the Machine newsletter. "It’s above all a blueprint for consolidated control, a vision where worker power withers, citizens become subservient to AI; to its corporate masters and federal overseers, where fossil fuels are ushered again into prominence at the height of the climate crisis, and democracy is sidelined in favor of automation technologies. It is, in summary, pretty grim!"
#Tech#Technology#ArtificialIntelligence#AI#TrumpAdministration#DonaldTrump#Politics#DEI#SiliconValley
What is Donald Trump's plan for AI? @brianmerchant read his Action Plan and executive orders and watched his speech. Here's what he learned. "Broadly speaking, the plan is that the Trump administration will help Silicon Valley put the pedal down on AI, delivering customers, data centers and power, as long as it operates in accordance with Trump’s ideological frameworks; i.e., as long as the AI is anti-woke," Merchant writes for his Blood in the Machine newsletter. "It’s above all a blueprint for consolidated control, a vision where worker power withers, citizens become subservient to AI; to its corporate masters and federal overseers, where fossil fuels are ushered again into prominence at the height of the climate crisis, and democracy is sidelined in favor of automation technologies. It is, in summary, pretty grim!"
#Tech#Technology#ArtificialIntelligence#AI#TrumpAdministration#DonaldTrump#Politics#DEI#SiliconValley
Is it possible to imagine a better future where we use less computation? The effects of AI hype almost demand it.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @danmcquillan so he could lay out the concept of decomputing as a different way of assessing technology.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/286_decomputing_for_a_better_future_w_dan_mcquillan
This is the Silicon Valley “startup” model. Startups are not long-term sustainable businesses or small businesses. A startup is a temporary business designed to either grow exponentially and exit (sell) or to fail fast.
A little reminder that DuckDuckGo is venture capital (VC) funded.
The way VC works:
1. You get VC
2. You grow as fast as you can (or fail fast)
3. You sell (either to a larger corporation or to the public in an IPO; this is called the “exit”)
(In case any of you are surprised by recent/future developments.)
This is the Silicon Valley “startup” model. Startups are not long-term sustainable businesses or small businesses. A startup is a temporary business designed to either grow exponentially and exit (sell) or to fail fast.
“Move fast and break things.”
The things:
- Human rights
- Our habitat
- Democracy
#BigTech#SiliconValley#ventureCapitalhttps://mastodon.social/@freakonometrics/114860155869573459
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