@johncarlosbaez @cstross It’s a wild ride. I highly recommend a book called The Founders about the origins of PayPal. There’s a silly SciFi book series I enjoy Backyard Starship one of the villains is a transhumanist who meets his grisly end as an insane brain inside a grotesque spider like cyborg. I also find the #Techbro obsession with Trans people odd, when they are quite comfortable with transhumanism & as for how they reconcile transhumanism with Christianity 🤷♂️
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BTW
the largest fleet and flotilla that goes unchecked for #drugs #guns #human #trafficking are the private airplanes and yachts of USA’s #techbro #finbro #petromafia and their sundry milliardaire and millionaire bootlickers.
this especially includes the private jets of Hollywood stars & music acts. noticed years ago their travelling schedules across Latinoamerica & EU make them perfect mules & human traffickers.
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the largest fleet and flotilla that goes unchecked for #drugs #guns #human #trafficking are the private airplanes and yachts of USA’s #techbro #finbro #petromafia and their sundry milliardaire and millionaire bootlickers.
this especially includes the private jets of Hollywood stars & music acts. noticed years ago their travelling schedules across Latinoamerica & EU make them perfect mules & human traffickers.
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"The #techbro takeover of the US continues: while #CDC employees "clap out" their principled ldrs who resigned,🚨Trump swears in a 2-decade Thiel adv to lead CDC. Thiel's Palantir already has all your data -controls your VP. Now: your #PublicHealth too.
🚨THIEL TAKEOVER"
-Cap Hunters
"The WH named J O’Neill, #RFKJr's top deputy, as actg CDC dir after firing S Monarez. The move paves the way for Kennedy’s anti-vax agenda to reshape fed health policy."
-Rs agst Trump
#USPolhttps://www.citizen.org/article/jim-oneill-unfit/
"The #techbro takeover of the US continues: while #CDC employees "clap out" their principled ldrs who resigned,🚨Trump swears in a 2-decade Thiel adv to lead CDC. Thiel's Palantir already has all your data -controls your VP. Now: your #PublicHealth too.
🚨THIEL TAKEOVER"
-Cap Hunters
"The WH named J O’Neill, #RFKJr's top deputy, as actg CDC dir after firing S Monarez. The move paves the way for Kennedy’s anti-vax agenda to reshape fed health policy."
-Rs agst Trump
#USPolhttps://www.citizen.org/article/jim-oneill-unfit/
I know a lot of folks here have their qualms about Bluesky, but I hope folks are paying attention to what Rudy Fraser and Blacksky Algorithms are doing to decentralize their community from Bluesky PBC infra.
Decentralization at every level of the stack is happening on ATProto. It started *within* the Bluesky infra, slowly drifting away one step at a time, and it's inspiring to watch it all happen.
You can learn more here: https://www.blackskyweb.xyz/
@quillmatiq still NOT decentralized, still CORPORATE OWNED, still owned by vc crypto techbros.
thIs TimE wILL Be difFerEnT, right?
Hardest of passes, thanks, no.
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i will go to bat for y’all any day. ANY. DAY.
but your messaging to normies needs to be more pointed, more specific and more aggressive in how you describe the human rights #crimes the #techbro #broligarchy is getting away with due to people’s ignorance on how the microcomputers we use as phones are exploited and abused for #surveillance
love your work, @eff
that’s why i believe y’all can do better.
love,
liza
i will go to bat for y’all any day. ANY. DAY.
but your messaging to normies needs to be more pointed, more specific and more aggressive in how you describe the human rights #crimes the #techbro #broligarchy is getting away with due to people’s ignorance on how the microcomputers we use as phones are exploited and abused for #surveillance
love your work, @eff
that’s why i believe y’all can do better.
love,
liza
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We Don’t Need More Liberal Techno-Utopianism
There’s a lot of #fluffy around these days. Take books like Abundance – dressed up as bold new visions, but really just more of the same old liberal centrism with a shiny, tech-friendly finish. It flirts with Marx at the end, but only to dress up in borrowed credibility. At heart, it’s not socialist, it’s a manifesto to reassure the #mainstreaming chattering class that everything will be OK if we innovate harder and manage smarter. This is blinded feel-good “supply-side liberalism” […]
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We Don’t Need More Liberal Techno-Utopianism
There’s a lot of #fluffy around these days. Take books like Abundance – dressed up as bold new visions, but really just more of the same old liberal centrism with a shiny, tech-friendly finish. It flirts with Marx at the end, but only to dress up in borrowed credibility. At heart, it’s not socialist, it’s a manifesto to reassure the #mainstreaming chattering class that everything will be OK if we innovate harder and manage smarter. This is blinded feel-good “supply-side liberalism” […]
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Are you still on #Spotify?
Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has raised €600M for his new startup, which is developing AI TECH FOR WAR. Ek still owns 9% of Spotify, but has 37% voting control. His net worth went from $2.5B to $10B in the last two years alone, on the back of paying musicians a pittance in royalties.
And don’t forget:
• Spotify spent $250M of your subscription dollars to invite Joe Rogan to spew his disinformation on their platform.
• They’re still trying to embrace and extinguish Podcasts.
• They’re developing in-house, AI-generated “music” so users will play them (royalty-free) instead of music created by humans (who demand royalty).
And now, he’s using his wealth, created by your subscriptions, to fund tech that will use AI to literally murder humans in war.
Stop funding him. Quit Spotify now.
#QuitSpotify #music #ai#militaryTech #techbro
“Spotify’s CEO invests $1 billion into an AI military start-up — and musicians are fuming”