"And the oil companies and tech broligarchs coveting them probably have more in common with the 20th century’s United Fruit Company and sugar barons than they think."

#Trump #Venezuela #Greenland #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #EconomicElites #TechBros #oil #FossilFuels #BigOil #SiliconValley #broligarchy
/17

“But now things suck even for me and I’m sad!”

Oh, the gravy train ran out of gravy, did it? Something about leopards eating people’s faces?

Here, have a very fucking tiny violin.

🎻

#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism

“How could we have known?!”

Maybe if you’d listened to those of us warning you – often times your own damn friends – instead of siding with the corporations that paid your salaries/consulting fees/sponsored your conferences/invited you to parties and bought you free booze…

🤷‍♂️

#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism

@karen @bkuhn Six years on, and with these companies now openly standing with Trump and complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, do you still support your decision to have Google and Microsoft as sponsors at your conference? Would you do so again today?

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/#fsf-and-the-software-freedom-conservancy

#SFC #softwareFreedom #FOSS #Google #Microsoft #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley

@karen @bkuhn Six years on, and with these companies now openly standing with Trump and complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, do you still support your decision to have Google and Microsoft as sponsors at your conference? Would you do so again today?

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/#fsf-and-the-software-freedom-conservancy

#SFC #softwareFreedom #FOSS #Google #Microsoft #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley

Your occasional reminder that a good chunk of "effective philanthropy" + "altruism" + "futurism" is lightly disguised eugenics & racist fake science being funded by the same people that ran with Jeffrey Epstein

TESCREAL is a must read & it's a good idea to be cautious about providing credibility to them or taking their money: https://www.dair-institute.org/projects/tescreal/

#SiliconValley #TESCREAL #UltraWealthy

An interview I gave to Euronews six years ago. Interview is in English with Turkish subtitles.

You decide how it has aged.

https://tr.euronews.com/2019/03/08/teknoloji-sirketleri-insan-varligini-tehdit-ediyor-dijital-haklar-aktivisti-aral-balkan

#BigTech #SiliconValley #PeopleFarming #fascism #SmallTech #tech #HumanRights #democracy #peerocracy

Your occasional reminder that a good chunk of "effective philanthropy" + "altruism" + "futurism" is lightly disguised eugenics & racist fake science being funded by the same people that ran with Jeffrey Epstein

TESCREAL is a must read & it's a good idea to be cautious about providing credibility to them or taking their money: https://www.dair-institute.org/projects/tescreal/

#SiliconValley #TESCREAL #UltraWealthy

This applies in Aus too

'Any private contract between a European customer and a US cloud provider is ultimately subordinate to US federal law. A warrant issued under the CLOUD Act legally compels an American company to hand over data, overriding any contractual commitments of data residency or privacy'

#digitalSovereignty #technology #siliconValley

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/europe_gets_serious_about_cutting/

This applies in Aus too

'Any private contract between a European customer and a US cloud provider is ultimately subordinate to US federal law. A warrant issued under the CLOUD Act legally compels an American company to hand over data, overriding any contractual commitments of data residency or privacy'

#digitalSovereignty #technology #siliconValley

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/europe_gets_serious_about_cutting/

Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-groq-for-about-20-billion-biggest-deal.html

#HackerNews #Nvidia #Groq #AIChip #Acquisition #TechNews #$20BDeal #SiliconValley

"The immediate concern is that AI is becoming a financial bubble whose bursting will harm lots of innocent people including, perhaps, you.

Anyone remember the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s? The housing bubble of 2006? The tulip-mania bubble of the 1630s? The South Sea bubble of 1720?

They all followed a well-worn pattern."

~ Robert Reich

#AI #crypto #Trump #TechBros #broligarchy #EconomicElites #SiliconValley #economy #bubble #StockMarket
/1

"The immediate concern is that AI is becoming a financial bubble whose bursting will harm lots of innocent people including, perhaps, you.

Anyone remember the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s? The housing bubble of 2006? The tulip-mania bubble of the 1630s? The South Sea bubble of 1720?

They all followed a well-worn pattern."

~ Robert Reich

#AI #crypto #Trump #TechBros #broligarchy #EconomicElites #SiliconValley #economy #bubble #StockMarket
/1

"And essentially they're capturing, they're just capturing everything, capturing democracy, spending, you know, Elon Musk spent over $200 million, almost $300 million, excuse me, to try to get Trump elected, spent over $20 million in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race."

#Trump #broligarchy #libertarianism #PeterThiel #Musk #JDVance #CurtisYarvin #MarkZuckerberg #SiliconValley #TechBros
/20

Random thought of the day about #AI :

The amount of computing power made available to the average user nowadays to run inference for these #LLMs probably far exceeds the amount of compute you would need to (for example) render a Blender video, or run post-production on 4K-quality video, which would probably be more useful to most average users than what LLMs provide — and they provide all that computing power for free to literally hundreds of millions of users.

I mean, come on, you stupid despot-kings of Silicon Valley, if you are going to provide that much free computing power to just anyone, can you at least let me do like Adobe Premier or After Affects, i.e. post-production of my home videos, directly on Google Drive without extorting me for monthly subscription fees?

On the one hand, it’s incredible that so much computing power is available to ordinary people now, on the other hand, it is even more incredible how much those computers (and the energy needed to power them) are wasted on something so frivolous as drawing a Pikachu with big boobs, or as dangerous talking with a companion that will always agree with you even if you suggest committing suicide.

But I guess that is why this tech financial bubble must eventually explode. No one can reasonably provide that much computing power for something so useless for free for very long, it is just not economically feasible.

#tech #ai #AIbubble #LLM #SiliconValley

The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402

#HackerNews #NerdReich #SiliconValley #Fascism #Democracy #TechPolitics

My #introduction needs a refresh.

I'm a #PhD student at the University of #Vermont, studying the #Evolution of #Evolvability. I'm into #AI, #ALife, #Biology, and #Philosophy, because I want to understand #life, #adaptation, and #intelligence using my native language of #ComputerScience. I share my musings and #research on my #blog. I love #science generally, and am full of bitchy #AcademicChatter.

I was a #SoftwareEngineer in #SiliconValley for many years, but left in 2021. I'm glad I did, and now I feel a bit betrayed by the #TechIndustry. I've been going back to my #FOSS roots, and gradually #DeGoogle ing my life. I still love to talk about #code #craft, #UX, and healthy #engineering #culture. Recently I've been enjoying #gpu #programming, mostly in #taichilang.

I have a wife and a #cat. I love #nature, #photography, #cooking, and #yoga.

All kinds of people are valid and worthy, but #trans people, folks on the #autism spectrum, and #bipoc get a shout out right now because they need our support.

Random thought of the day about #AI :

The amount of computing power made available to the average user nowadays to run inference for these #LLMs probably far exceeds the amount of compute you would need to (for example) render a Blender video, or run post-production on 4K-quality video, which would probably be more useful to most average users than what LLMs provide — and they provide all that computing power for free to literally hundreds of millions of users.

I mean, come on, you stupid despot-kings of Silicon Valley, if you are going to provide that much free computing power to just anyone, can you at least let me do like Adobe Premier or After Affects, i.e. post-production of my home videos, directly on Google Drive without extorting me for monthly subscription fees?

On the one hand, it’s incredible that so much computing power is available to ordinary people now, on the other hand, it is even more incredible how much those computers (and the energy needed to power them) are wasted on something so frivolous as drawing a Pikachu with big boobs, or as dangerous talking with a companion that will always agree with you even if you suggest committing suicide.

But I guess that is why this tech financial bubble must eventually explode. No one can reasonably provide that much computing power for something so useless for free for very long, it is just not economically feasible.

#tech #ai #AIbubble #LLM #SiliconValley

@Tutanota What a waste! All that data could be better utilised in planning the economy ahead of time, in anticipating human needs rather than manufacturing wants. Such is the poverty of imagination within #SiliconValley.

My #introduction needs a refresh.

I'm a #PhD student at the University of #Vermont, studying the #Evolution of #Evolvability. I'm into #AI, #ALife, #Biology, and #Philosophy, because I want to understand #life, #adaptation, and #intelligence using my native language of #ComputerScience. I share my musings and #research on my #blog. I love #science generally, and am full of bitchy #AcademicChatter.

I was a #SoftwareEngineer in #SiliconValley for many years, but left in 2021. I'm glad I did, and now I feel a bit betrayed by the #TechIndustry. I've been going back to my #FOSS roots, and gradually #DeGoogle ing my life. I still love to talk about #code #craft, #UX, and healthy #engineering #culture. Recently I've been enjoying #gpu #programming, mostly in #taichilang.

I have a wife and a #cat. I love #nature, #photography, #cooking, and #yoga.

All kinds of people are valid and worthy, but #trans people, folks on the #autism spectrum, and #bipoc get a shout out right now because they need our support.