@404mediaco @saraislet Usually, in science, the subjects concent to the experiment. These #techbros are about as ethical as psychology in the 1920s. This is kind of "scientific experiment" has a name: psychological torture. 🤮
https://prospect.org/2025/12/22/demands-for-data-center-moratoriums-surge/
Maybe this will bring these folks down before they burn down the world.
#ai #genai #techbros #billionaires #plutocrats #oligarchs #datacenters #democracy #justice #affordability #humanrights #labor
bhaugen
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"Under Trump II, the broligarch campaign to take down independent media has gone into overdrive. ... What they are after is buying favor with Donald Trump and, more broadly, advancing their own authoritarian agenda."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #EconomicElites #broligarchy #TechBros #media #fascism #authoritarianism #AI
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/maga-the-broligarchs-and-the-media
Jan :rust: :ferris:
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🚨 BREAKING: Tech Bros Discover "Source Available" ≠ "Open Source"! 🚨 In this week’s episode of "My License is Bigger Than Yours," #DHH tried to pass off his latest toy, #Fizzy, as open-source, only to be schooled by the internet on the actual meaning. 🤦♂️ Meanwhile, open-source veterans watch in dismay, realizing that, yet again, nobody read the fine print. 📜🔍
https://dri.es/source-available-is-not-open-source-and-that-is-okay #TechBros #OpenSource #LicenseMyth #FinePrint #HackerNews #ngated
I've finally switched to the @Vivaldi browser. I've been using Firefox for as long as I've been on the internet, but the focus on AI means it's no longer the browser for me. Thankfully unlike Chrome, Vivaldi supports the uBlock Origin extension which is the most important extension for being able to browse the web nowadays.
Andreas Wagner
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Ich denke, es gibt aktuell drei große Herausforderungen:
- unbesteuerter #Überreichtum
- kollabierende Ökosysteme und
- #Überwachungskapitalismuss der #TechBros
Die Folgen davon sind absehbar:
- faschistoide Politik,
- Neo-Pauperismus und
- erbitterter Ressourcenkampf.
Ich wünsche mir sehr, dass wir als Gesellschaft einen Weg finden, diese Herausforderungen zu adressieren. Dafür brauchen wir eine starke solidarische Allianz zwischen der Mittelschicht und dem Prekariat.
Ich denke, es gibt aktuell drei große Herausforderungen:
- unbesteuerter #Überreichtum
- kollabierende Ökosysteme und
- #Überwachungskapitalismuss der #TechBros
Die Folgen davon sind absehbar:
- faschistoide Politik,
- Neo-Pauperismus und
- erbitterter Ressourcenkampf.
Ich wünsche mir sehr, dass wir als Gesellschaft einen Weg finden, diese Herausforderungen zu adressieren. Dafür brauchen wir eine starke solidarische Allianz zwischen der Mittelschicht und dem Prekariat.
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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"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
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Claudius Link
and 3 others
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Fascinating story from a software dev Fedi friend, shared with permission to keep it anonymous:
❝A couple of days ago, I had an experience at work that made me understand one of the reasons why the chasm of opinion about LLMs is so deep and wide.
My department mostly does fiddly lowlevel work, [close to hardware]. A few of us don't use LLMs at all, a few use them sparingly, and one member is absolutely all-in. So during one of our morning meetings he suddenly started going off on a deeply disturbing diatribe about how we need to treat the LLMs “like slaves”.❞
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115662283433619271
been trying for a decade to articulate that the #surveillance economy is a form of financial #slavery.
slaveowners kept dockets on slaves. the first securitized assets in Wall Street were bundled slave dockets held by slaveowners.
after abolition, many plantations created banks to use a similar docket system for indentured servants. once banned regionally, Reagan resurrected them as national credit reports.
Silicon Valley #techbros exist to globalize the financialization of slavery.
"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
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"Under Trump II, the broligarch campaign to take down independent media has gone into overdrive. ... What they are after is buying favor with Donald Trump and, more broadly, advancing their own authoritarian agenda."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #EconomicElites #broligarchy #TechBros #media #fascism #authoritarianism #AI
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/maga-the-broligarchs-and-the-media
"Young adults follow the news less closely than any other age group. Overall attention to news has declined since 2016, and the youngest age group has remained consistently at the bottom.
At the same time, there is one place where young adults are more likely to get news than any other age group: social media."
~ Pew Research Center
#Trump #EconomicElites #broligarchy #TechBros #media #fascism #authoritarianism #AI #GenZ
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https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/12/03/young-adults-and-the-future-of-news/
"We used to worry about media consolidation because it reduced competition. But now we have to worry about it because it's being used to create unified propaganda infrastructure. Absolutely. And that's what's happening with media. That's what's happening in the AI space…."
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #EconomicElites #broligarchy #TechBros #media #fascism #authoritarianism #AI
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/corporate-media-is-now-an-active
"I know it’s hard to keep track of which megacorp owned by which billionaire is acquiring the next media outlet and how much money they’ve all given to Trump. But here’s the bottom line: instead of holding power to account, the US media is increasingly getting into bed with it."
~ Arwa Mahdawi
#Trump #EconomicElites #broligarchy #TechBros #media #fascism #authoritarianism
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Jamey Sharp
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The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/ #AI #LLM #Tech #TechBros
Fascinating story from a software dev Fedi friend, shared with permission to keep it anonymous:
❝A couple of days ago, I had an experience at work that made me understand one of the reasons why the chasm of opinion about LLMs is so deep and wide.
My department mostly does fiddly lowlevel work, [close to hardware]. A few of us don't use LLMs at all, a few use them sparingly, and one member is absolutely all-in. So during one of our morning meetings he suddenly started going off on a deeply disturbing diatribe about how we need to treat the LLMs “like slaves”.❞
1/
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115662283433619271
been trying for a decade to articulate that the #surveillance economy is a form of financial #slavery.
slaveowners kept dockets on slaves. the first securitized assets in Wall Street were bundled slave dockets held by slaveowners.
after abolition, many plantations created banks to use a similar docket system for indentured servants. once banned regionally, Reagan resurrected them as national credit reports.
Silicon Valley #techbros exist to globalize the financialization of slavery.