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If you believed techbros any time in the last quarter century, we’d be ferried around in self-driving cars that never need to be recharged on a Mars colony right now, while occasionally popping a pill to stay 25 forever and getting a foot massage (or other things) from a robot.
Why do people believe the techbros about AI now?
@thomasfuchs I'm disappointed that the #techbros haven't all fecked off to Mars. #goodriddance
#BigTech Helped Bankroll the #EastWing Destruction
#Meta, #Amazon, #Microsoft, #Apple, & #Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the #Trump admin. They all cut checks for the ballroom.
#TechBros #plutocracy #billionaires #corporations #corruption #bribery #extortion #law #antitrust #regulations #AI #energy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/white-house-east-wing-destruction-google-meta-apple-microsoft-amazone/
#BigTech Helped Bankroll the #EastWing Destruction
#Meta, #Amazon, #Microsoft, #Apple, & #Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the #Trump admin. They all cut checks for the ballroom.
#TechBros #plutocracy #billionaires #corporations #corruption #bribery #extortion #law #antitrust #regulations #AI #energy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/white-house-east-wing-destruction-google-meta-apple-microsoft-amazone/
TO ALL THE #NoKings NAYSAYERS
there’s always folks like you who crave the negative attention. maybe try counseling instead.
these protests act as containers for all the grievances people hold against the status quo. they have people protesting #ICE #transphobia #techbros #billionaires #christofascism #zionism #genocide #misogyny #racism because they are all connected.
oh, you just wanted your one special interest represented? today is a safe day to go protest about it. go out there & do it.
🙊 OpenAI thinks its critics are funded by billionaires. Now it’s going after them / @sfstandard
｢ In court filings and official complaints, OpenAI’s lawyers allege that groups opposed to its conversion to a for-profit company may be funded by Musk or are working with Zuckerberg ｣
https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/02/openai-sam-altman-elon-musk-ai-regulation/
Top Silicon Valley Democrat breaks with Marc Benioff as rift deepens / @politico
｢ A leading San Francisco venture capitalist and close ally of Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi resigned on Thursday from the Salesforce Foundation board, saying he’s “shocked and disappointed” over Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s support for a National Guard deployment to the city ｣
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/ron-conway-salesforce-san-francisco-00611579
"When Marc Andreessen describes liberation as freedom from 'having to pretend to care about other people at dinner parties,' when venture capitalists celebrate 'disruption' that destroys communities while enriching investors, when tech platforms optimize for engagement regardless of democratic consequences—they’re not just acting selfishly."
~ Mike Brock
#selfishness #greed #EconomicElites #TechBros #libertarianism #AynRand
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https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-birth-of-the-sociopath-why-smart
Zoe Williams surveys the landscape of self-help books right now, noting,
"If you yearn for an Ayn Randian existence of absolute self-reliance, there are plenty of bestsellers that can help. They may not make you happier though."
Contra the "Trumpy" philosophy of this literature, she cites psychotherapist Manu Bazzano, who observes,
#selfishness #greed #EconomicElites #TechBros #libertarianism #AynRand
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“It boils down to this. The measure of mental health in a person is the degree of their interest in others. That could be their neighbours, or it could be social and political.”
#selfishness #greed #EconomicElites #TechBros #libertarianism #AynRand
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"They’re evangelizing a worldview where selfishness is wisdom and concern for others is performance.
This spreads through elite networks, through media that treats cynicism as insight, through algorithmic systems that reward sociopathic behavior with attention and profit."
#selfishness #greed #EconomicElites #TechBros #libertarianism #AynRand
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Zoe Williams surveys the landscape of self-help books right now, noting,
"If you yearn for an Ayn Randian existence of absolute self-reliance, there are plenty of bestsellers that can help. They may not make you happier though."
Contra the "Trumpy" philosophy of this literature, she cites psychotherapist Manu Bazzano, who observes,
#selfishness #greed #EconomicElites #TechBros #libertarianism #AynRand
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"When Marc Andreessen describes liberation as freedom from 'having to pretend to care about other people at dinner parties,' when venture capitalists celebrate 'disruption' that destroys communities while enriching investors, when tech platforms optimize for engagement regardless of democratic consequences—they’re not just acting selfishly."
~ Mike Brock
#selfishness #greed #EconomicElites #TechBros #libertarianism #AynRand
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https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-birth-of-the-sociopath-why-smart
"They’re evangelizing a worldview where selfishness is wisdom and concern for others is performance.
This spreads through elite networks, through media that treats cynicism as insight, through algorithmic systems that reward sociopathic behavior with attention and profit."
#selfishness #greed #EconomicElites #TechBros #libertarianism #AynRand
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"When Marc Andreessen describes liberation as freedom from 'having to pretend to care about other people at dinner parties,' when venture capitalists celebrate 'disruption' that destroys communities while enriching investors, when tech platforms optimize for engagement regardless of democratic consequences—they’re not just acting selfishly."
~ Mike Brock
#selfishness #greed #EconomicElites #TechBros #libertarianism #AynRand
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https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-birth-of-the-sociopath-why-smart
China has launched its first major sodium-ion battery storage station. The facility will channel 30 million kWh of clean energy into the grid annually, power 20,000 homes, and cut CO2 emissions by 13,500 tonnes while using a cheaper, more abundant alternative to lithium.
re-normalize direct download and manual installation (aka side-loading) of software on our mobile microcomputers.
mobile phones are microcomputers with telephony.
we should have a right to the root directory of our microcomputers ―to install any software we want―, just as with our laptop and desktop computers.
https://eicker.news/@technews/115342245890643580
AND REMEMBER
the #techbros Silicon Valley fascistocracy would have never existed without the stalkerware they peddle as “smart” phones
Goddammit. I was so excited about the #Ladybird Browser project.
Turns out project lead Andreas Kling has a lot of braindead public takes about pronouns, Charlie Kirk, and white replacement in tech 🤢
I'm not touching that anymore until he's replaced and they put in place a proper contribution policy and code of conduct.
That leaves us with @servo and Flow Browser as alternatives to Chrome and Firefox. (Anyone have any damning news on those? 😨 )
Thanks to @sir for pointing this out.
https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/24/2025-09-24-Cloudflare-and-fascists.html
#LadybirdBrowser #AndreasKling #fascism #racism #sexism #TechBros
re-normalize direct download and manual installation (aka side-loading) of software on our mobile microcomputers.
mobile phones are microcomputers with telephony.
we should have a right to the root directory of our microcomputers ―to install any software we want―, just as with our laptop and desktop computers.
https://eicker.news/@technews/115342245890643580
AND REMEMBER
the #techbros Silicon Valley fascistocracy would have never existed without the stalkerware they peddle as “smart” phones
"It's perfect in it's simplicity, but complex in it's subtlety"
Einblicke in das #Datenspuren-Programm
Heute: The End of the World as we know it? Wie „#KI“ und Tech-Mogule unsere Welt (ver-)formen
https://talks.datenspuren.de/ds25/talk/8H9TE9/
Darüber, wie #TechBros die Zukunft planen und weshalb wir diese Zukunft stoppen, um Planeten & Gesellschaft zu erhalten, sprechen @Katika und @HonkHase in ihrem Talk auf den #Datenspuren25.
Wann? So. 21. September, 16:00 – 16:45 Uhr
Wo? Henny Brenner Saal und auf @mediacccde
Hier gibt es das komplette Programm: https://talks.datenspuren.de/ds25/schedule/
Einblicke in das #Datenspuren-Programm
Heute: The End of the World as we know it? Wie „#KI“ und Tech-Mogule unsere Welt (ver-)formen
https://talks.datenspuren.de/ds25/talk/8H9TE9/
Darüber, wie #TechBros die Zukunft planen und weshalb wir diese Zukunft stoppen, um Planeten & Gesellschaft zu erhalten, sprechen @Katika und @HonkHase in ihrem Talk auf den #Datenspuren25.
Wann? So. 21. September, 16:00 – 16:45 Uhr
Wo? Henny Brenner Saal und auf @mediacccde
Hier gibt es das komplette Programm: https://talks.datenspuren.de/ds25/schedule/
”Investors realised that they could get far more return from hype than from any kind of legitimate business. … This led to the dot-com bubble, …with the latest fad being the AI bubble. … But…the AI bubble is showing signs of imminent bursting. However, the finance and tech bros have learnt their lesson and are developing the next bandwagon to ride off into the sunset with all our money, ready for when they inevitably need to jump ship.”
—Will Lockett
https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/the-ai-bubble-is-about-to-burst-but
#ai #techbros
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