Hahahahahaha, the Irish Data Protection Commission is and always has been a sick joke.

Now they’ve just become a parody of themselves.

If you’re surprised by this, you haven’t been paying attention:

https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/#luck-of-the-irish

In the EU, the Irish DPC doesn’t enforce GDPR, @noybeu does.

CC The muppets at @EUCommission – your Single Market for Institutional Corruption is doing great, sweetie.

#ireland #DataProtectionCommission #DPC #dataProtection #GDPR #EU #corporateCapture #BigTech #SiliconValley #Meta #technoFascism https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ParadeGrotesque/115428228176439210

Hahahahahaha, the Irish Data Protection Commission is and always has been a sick joke.

Now they’ve just become a parody of themselves.

If you’re surprised by this, you haven’t been paying attention:

https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/#luck-of-the-irish

In the EU, the Irish DPC doesn’t enforce GDPR, @noybeu does.

CC The muppets at @EUCommission – your Single Market for Institutional Corruption is doing great, sweetie.

#ireland #DataProtectionCommission #DPC #dataProtection #GDPR #EU #corporateCapture #BigTech #SiliconValley #Meta #technoFascism https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ParadeGrotesque/115428228176439210

Algorithmed (v): to be conditioned into thinking a certain way by algorithms that filter your reality in line with the goals of those who author them.

e.g., “They were algorithmed into thinking that way about trans people.”

#algorithmed #algorithms #truth #reality #tech #filters #BigTech #SiliconValley #technoFascism

But more poignantly for me, a cog in the Silicon Valley machine, is how Big Tech royally screwed itself by completely misunderstanding what motivates the core of the right wing. They thought they could endear themselves to the right by debasing themselves before Trump and kissing his ring, but the right wing aren’t buying any of it. They remember that only a year ago, Big Tech was all into deplatforming them and cozying up to “diversity” and left-wing ideas—ideas that are diametrically opposed to their view of Western Civilization; and now Big Tech claims they’re part of the right wing? Yeah, right.

The right wants to see Big Tech burn. And ironically, now so does the left, because Big Tech’s prostration and capitulation before Trump has thoroughly disgusted those fighting for progressive values.

Trump is the only person holding Big Tech and the right wing together. And when Trump is gone—and he will be gone—Big Tech will find itself without anyone on their side.

#conservatism #siliconValley

/end

The biggest surprise (to me) from this conversation is that there is a growing and likely *irreparable* rift between the core right-wing intelligentsia and Big Tech, and much of it driven by #AI.

Those on the right are still reeling from having their media outlets “cancelled” and deplatformed by Big Tech over the last five years, only to learn that Big Tech is now training AI on their material, which can potentially jeopardize their monetization. That puts right-wing pundits on the same team as small-time creators whose works are being stolen by Big Tech. Strange bedfellows indeed.

According to Nguyen, conservatives are so deeply distrustful of Big Tech that they now make it a priority to own their entire tech stack—something that the left can probably learn from—and not ever depend on the good graces of AWS or Meta ever again. Truth Social is built on such vertical integration. Now that the right has their tech stack, they no longer need Big Tech, and a divorce is underway.

#conservatism #siliconValley

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Jay Graber acting like the head mod of a shitty Fediverse server that's about to get Fediblocked by everyone for obvious bigotry.

I hear the 'phobes are using 'Waffles' as a slur against trans people now, if you needed an update.
Fuck Silicon Valley and fuck Transphobia.

#JayGraber #Bluesky #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialMedia #SiliconValley #transphobia

"What Silicon Valley calls inevitability is really a rhetorical posture: a way of talking about the future as if it could not be otherwise. It borrows from different philosophical schools of thought (fatalism, determinism, technological determinism) — each distinct, and often incompatible."

https://deviantabstraction.com/2025/09/29/against-the-tech-inevitability/

#SiliconValley #Technology #Inevitability

"What Silicon Valley calls inevitability is really a rhetorical posture: a way of talking about the future as if it could not be otherwise. It borrows from different philosophical schools of thought (fatalism, determinism, technological determinism) — each distinct, and often incompatible."

https://deviantabstraction.com/2025/09/29/against-the-tech-inevitability/

#SiliconValley #Technology #Inevitability

Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel

> One of the world’s most powerful technology leaders has reportedly warned that regulating artificial intelligence risks hastening the coming of the Antichrist.

> Peter Thiel, the conservative billionaire who co-founded Palantir, the data analytics group, and PayPal, the payments operator, is said to have made the comments during a lecture delivered in San Francisco this week.

> Thiel, a former donor to #DonaldTrump and mentor to #JDVance, the vice-president, said that fearing or regulating promising technology and scientific progress, including in #AI, risked courting the devil, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited people who attended the event.

> #Palantir said last week it would invest up to £1.5 billion in the #UK, creating up to 350 jobs, part of a package of announcements from US technology companies which coincided with Trump’s state visit.

> The Ministry of Defence is expected to spend up to £750 million on Palantir’s AI technology in return, which could help identify targets on the battlefield in any future war.

> The deal has prompted concerns that it could be at the expense of British companies and jobs.

> The Times has previously reported on Thiel’s devout #Christian views and their mingling with his business interests and how he is among several #SiliconValley figures who have been speaking more openly about their faith. https://archive.is/2025.09.25-151156/https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/technology/article/palantir-founder-peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-religion-qzmpth35t #artificialintelligence #PeterThiel #conservative #billionaire #PayPal

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

#surveillance#SiliconValley

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

#surveillance#SiliconValley

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

#tech #decomputing #ai#generativeai #aihype #siliconvalley