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@jaredwhite@indieweb.social · 5 days ago

Every major software project should appoint a UX Czar who has the authority to kill a feature if they have reason to believe it will royally piss off any more than a mere fraction of the userbase of the product.

New features should always benefit *a reasonable subset* of the total users of the product.

Either that, or release the possibly-hated feature as a totally optional add-on and make it clear that it's optional.

This feels like it shouldn't be rocket science… 🙃

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 4 hours ago

@jaredwhite

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/

AI slop is being imposed on an unwilling user base for reasons other than feature development.

AI slop is spyware.
AI slop is fossil fuel funded fascism.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2025/11/26/saudi-arabias-push-for-ai-remains-a-challenge/

Petrostate despots and #PrinceBonesaw assure us that AI isn't malign.

https://www.arabnews.jp/en/saudi-arabia/article_162676/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/02/tech/saudi-arabia-ai-powerhouse

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-saudi-deals-expected-defense-nuclear-energy-ai-senior-us-administration-2025-11-18/

The worst vulture capitalists...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/blackstone-saudi-ai-firm-humain-ink-3-billion-data-center-deal

Doesn't everyone want a AI automated nuclear war?

CNN

Saudi Arabia is making a massive bet on becoming a global AI powerhouse | CNN Business

Humain is setting out to make Saudi Arabia the world’s third-largest AI market, after the United States and China. It’s a bold ambition for a newcomer to the industry, but its CEO argues the Kingdom’s competitive edge lies in its abundant and cheap energy resources that can feed the seemingly insatiable demand for computing power.

Arab News Japan

Saudi House kicks off Davos with push on Vision 2030, AI platform and ‘humanizing’ tourism

DAVOS: For regulars at the World Economic Forum, Monday in Davos is usually a chance to ease into the week, a ・・・

Forbes

Saudi Arabia’s Push For AI Remains A Challenge

Saudi Arabia, which currently lags behind AI field leaders China and the U.S., aims to become a major player in the global AI and data infrastructure race.

Forbes

Five Billionaires Pledged $1 Billion To Boost Economic Mobility Using AI

Five of America’s top philanthropists are teaming up for a new venture aimed at helping low-income Americans rise from poverty. An AI giant has signed on to help.

Bloomberg.com

Saudis Plan $100 Billion AI Powerhouse to Rival UAE Tech Hub

Saudi Arabia is planning a new artificial intelligence project with backing of as much as $100 billion as it seeks to develop a technological hub to rival the neighboring United Arab Emirates, people familiar with the matter said.

Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)

@jaredwhite@indieweb.social · 5 days ago

@Sarahp I can’t stand the companies making the deals with Wikimedia, but if the content's already getting scraped anyway, definitely a good step to get paid fairly for it.

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 5 days ago

@jaredwhite @Sarahp

Beware of rug pulls with "benefactors".

Once PBS got David Koch on their board, Frontline & Nova rarely aired critiques of Koch Network's anti-democracy activities again.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/27/a-word-from-our-sponsor

https://www.pbs.org/publiceditor/blogs/ombudsman/global-warming-koch-and-nova/

https://harpers.org/archive/2014/10/pbs-self-destructs/

https://truthout.org/articles/the-corporate-dictatorship-of-pbs-and-npr/

A visit from #PrinceBonesaw to Silicon Valley in 2018 gave us the AI mess and a tech & fossil fuel axis alliance against democracy.

https://humanrightsfirst.org/library/welcoming-mbs-undercuts-u-s-values-and-security-human-rights-first-warns/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour
Patrons means control.

Truthout

The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR

Thanks to the giant transnational corporations that own them, mainstream media outlets tailor their programming to appease their corporate backers.

Harper's Magazine

PBS Self-Destructs, by Eugenia Williamson

And what it means for viewers like you

PBS Public Editor

Global Warming, Koch and NOVA

Have NOVA broadcasts tackled global warming directly? The ombudsman has doubts.

The New Yorker

David Koch vs. PBS

The conservative industrialist has given millions to public television. Is he trying to change it?

Bloomberg.com

Google, Thiel Feature in Saudi Prince's Silicon Valley Tour

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wrapped up a whirlwind tour of technology titans on Friday, part of a three-week U.S. visit focused on economic opportunities to diversify the oil-rich nation.

Ars Technica

@arstechnica@mastodon.social · last week

Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Google’s rules—why is it still in the Play Store?
Google describes apps exactly like Grok and says they are banned from Google Play.
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/01/apps-like-grok-are-explicitly-banned-under-googles-rules-why-is-it-still-in-the-play-store/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Ars Technica

Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Google’s rules—why is it still in the Play Store?

Google describes apps exactly like Grok and says they are banned from Google Play.

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · last week

@arstechnica

They are still in play on the Google store because the fossil fuel industry owns & operates tech.

#PrinceBonesaw, OPEC, and Koch Network run this operation to increase societal dysfunction & make money off it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-05-13/trump-mbs-tout-1-trillion-saudi-deal-commitment

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wall-street-mbs-saudi-al-rumayyan/

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/saudi-prince-mbs-silicon-valley-east-palo-alto-12799624.php

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people-events/article/2140923/saudi-prince-meets-google-executives-sergey-brin-and

https://humanrightsfirst.org/library/welcoming-mbs-undercuts-u-s-values-and-security-human-rights-first-warns/

South China Morning Post

Saudi Crown Prince meets Google execs during Silicon Valley visit

Prince, keen to set up tech hub in his kingdom, also held talks with Apple’s Tim Cook, Magic Leap’s Rony Abovitz and Virgin’s Richard Branson during US trip

SFGATE

Saudi Crown Prince expected in Silicon Valley for meetings with Apple, Google execs

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will meet with the Bay Area's top tech leaders...

The Nation

Wall Street Embraces MBS’s Money Man

After the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, business leaders made a show of shunning Saudi Arabia, doing deals only behind closed doors. Now it’s all out in the open.

Bloomberg.com

Google, Thiel Feature in Saudi Prince's Silicon Valley Tour

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wrapped up a whirlwind tour of technology titans on Friday, part of a three-week U.S. visit focused on economic opportunities to diversify the oil-rich nation.

Michael Graaf boosted

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social · 2 weeks ago

@sri @wdlindsy

The fossil fuel industry funds Trump to get restrictions on oil supply, not expansions of supply.

They want high oil prices.

Controlling oil lets OPEC & Koch Network squeeze China & India, who buy discounted Russian oil.

Putin can't fund his invasion of Europe unless oil prices are high.

Oil prices were headed below $60 a barrel before Trump's Venezuelan regime change.

Trump just did Putin's oil oligarchs & #PrinceBonesaw a solid favor.

https://united24media.com/latest-news/the-golden-age-is-over-russia-admits-crashing-oil-and-gas-revenues-14720

Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼

@sri@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

@wdlindsy They do know that it would take a lot of money to get the oil refined to a point that works well for Americans? I understand their crude oil is worse than Canada's.

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@sri @wdlindsy

The fossil fuel industry funds Trump to get restrictions on oil supply, not expansions of supply.

They want high oil prices.

Controlling oil lets OPEC & Koch Network squeeze China & India, who buy discounted Russian oil.

Putin can't fund his invasion of Europe unless oil prices are high.

Oil prices were headed below $60 a barrel before Trump's Venezuelan regime change.

Trump just did Putin's oil oligarchs & #PrinceBonesaw a solid favor.

https://united24media.com/latest-news/the-golden-age-is-over-russia-admits-crashing-oil-and-gas-revenues-14720

Ben

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party · last month

Just used Google search for the first time in ages (how bad could it really be) and it said September 2025 hasn't happened yet. 👍

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · last month

@TheBreadmonkey

Google gets worse every day.

I guess that's what happens when a company takes investment from #PrinceBonesaw; everyone gets an unwanted state surveillance platform that burns through fossil fuel at prodigious rates.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/03/29/saudi-crown-prince-socially-acceptable-war-criminal-enjoys-us-tour-hosted-americas

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-13/google-backs-saudi-ai-fund-as-trump-mbs-tout-new-investments

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/

Describing wasteful energy usage for a loathed product as "opportunity"
https://energydigital.com/news/iea-saudi-googles-ai-problem-this-weeks-top-stories

IEA, Saudi & Google's AI Problem: This Week's Top Stories

This week's top stories include the IEA's new report, Saudi Arabia's AI push, Sundar Pichai's views on AI's energy consumption and nuclear energy robots

Bloomberg.com

Google Backs Saudi AI Fund as Trump, MBS Tout New Investments

Saudi Arabian venture capital firm STV launched a $100 million artificial intelligence fund with backing from Google as part of a package of deals announced during US President Donald Trump’s visit to the kingdom.

Common Dreams

Saudi Crown Prince--'Socially Acceptable War Criminal'--Enjoys US Tour Hosted by America's Elite | Common Dreams

Despite public relations blitz, Saudi monarchy "retains an atrocious human rights record and the situation has only deteriorated since the crown prince was appointed."

Bloomberg.com

Google, Thiel Feature in Saudi Prince's Silicon Valley Tour

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wrapped up a whirlwind tour of technology titans on Friday, part of a three-week U.S. visit focused on economic opportunities to diversify the oil-rich nation.

Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 boosted

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social · last month

@vfrmedia @wdlindsy

Focus on the people funding civil rights rollbacks.

Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, Uihlein
https://www.newsweek.com/koch-bros-hide-donations-behind-civil-rights-precedent-477786

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/koch-brothers-americans-for-prosperity-rightwing-political-group

https://www.metrojustice.org/7_disturbing_facts_about_the_koch_brothers_relationship_with_race_and_civil_rights

https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/leonard-leo-koch-networks-pour-millions-prep-potential-second-trump-ad-rcna144360

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/08/11/koch-network-uses-national-philanthropic-trust-to-conceal-transactions/

https://politicalresearch.org/2021/10/21/sowing-seeds-white-supremacy-through-education

Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, David Sacks, Peter Thiel.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/04/chris-buskirk-maga-vance-post-trump/

https://newrepublic.com/article/203337/trump-vance-populism-kleptocracy-oligarch

Putin, #PrinceBonesaw
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/saudi-arabia-human-rights-raif-badawi-king-salman

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/politics/video/donald-trump-saudia-arabia-human-rights-crown-prince-journalist-9-11-al-queda-jihadi-jake-tapper-reports-lead

Political Research Associates

Sowing the Seeds of White Supremacy Through Education

School board meetings across the country have seen an influx of parents and community members over the last few months, many there to fight Critical Race Theory (CRT)—something that the majority of primary and secondary schools don’t teach, and a term many Americans hadn’t even heard of until recently.

DeSmog

6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025

More than $120 million from a few ultra-wealthy families who have spent years working to promote climate change denial has powered the Heritage Foundation and other groups that created the plan to remake American government.

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social · last month

@vfrmedia @wdlindsy

Focus on the people funding civil rights rollbacks.

Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, Uihlein
https://www.newsweek.com/koch-bros-hide-donations-behind-civil-rights-precedent-477786

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/koch-brothers-americans-for-prosperity-rightwing-political-group

https://www.metrojustice.org/7_disturbing_facts_about_the_koch_brothers_relationship_with_race_and_civil_rights

https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/leonard-leo-koch-networks-pour-millions-prep-potential-second-trump-ad-rcna144360

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/08/11/koch-network-uses-national-philanthropic-trust-to-conceal-transactions/

https://politicalresearch.org/2021/10/21/sowing-seeds-white-supremacy-through-education

Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, David Sacks, Peter Thiel.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/04/chris-buskirk-maga-vance-post-trump/

https://newrepublic.com/article/203337/trump-vance-populism-kleptocracy-oligarch

Putin, #PrinceBonesaw
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/saudi-arabia-human-rights-raif-badawi-king-salman

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/politics/video/donald-trump-saudia-arabia-human-rights-crown-prince-journalist-9-11-al-queda-jihadi-jake-tapper-reports-lead

Political Research Associates

Sowing the Seeds of White Supremacy Through Education

DeSmog

6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social · 2 months ago

@gemlog @brewsterkahle @bougiewonderland @electricarchaeo

There's an added advantage.

Trump's fascist movement has the funding of the richest people in the world, not just Putin & #PrinceBonesaw.

Project 2025 is funded by six main dynasties.

Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid and Uihlein.

The boycott of American alcohol distillery & distribution hits a GOP megadonor like Coors especially hard, just like #TeslaTakedown .

Boycott all GOP donors.

https://coloradonewsline.com/2024/07/25/project-2025-joe-coors/

Alex Akselrod boosted

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social · 2 months ago

@GossiTheDog

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"How to turn every Windows 11 machine into a zombie botnet or surveillance platform in one easy step."

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7

Does anyone remember agreeing to send their data to petrostate despots as part of their licensing or subscription?

Like many other tech companies accepting #PrinceBonesaw's investment money, these companies are imposing these features on an unwilling user base in turn.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/critics-scoff-after-microsoft-warns-ai-feature-can-infect-machines-and-pilfer-data/

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-ai-ceo-pushes-back-against-critics-after-recent-windows-ai-backlash-the-fact-that-people-are-unimpressed-is-mindblowing-to-me

Business Insider

Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people's data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there

Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.

Randahl Fink

@randahl@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

This clip is priceless!

In their constant attempts to intimidate, the Trump regime wants to sue President Obama, but a reporter then asks, if they were not the ones to ensure that presidents have immunity?

Watch the legendary own goal:

https://youtube.com/shorts/QydSSYN42E0?si=muRwIrkH4BlzH87B

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 2 months ago

@randahl

Trump and Koch's corrupt Supreme Court Justices are establishing a body of law, legal interpretations, and precedents that can be turned on Republicans in the next administration.

GOP billionaires forced to reveal how they colluded with Putin & #PrinceBonesaw.

Republican operatives taking plea deals in exchange for their testimony.

Former employees using stolen documents to buy their way out of jail.

Tech billionaires forced to reveal how their data mining is evidence.

Anne Applebaum

@anneapplebaum@journa.host · 2 months ago

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trumps-war-peace/685024/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3x5H8-x30wTOq6lDtv0xjW4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 2 months ago

@anneapplebaum

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations

The sudden appearance of this extortion scheme begs the question:

1. Are the megadonors implicated by the Epstein Files involved?

2. Did the recent visit with Trump's fossil fuel co-conspirator #PrinceBonesaw have anything to do with this fossil fuel shakedown?
https://theintercept.com/2025/06/18/trump-oligarchs-billionaires-profits/

These wealthy donors aren't unknowable.

Just look at the attendees at Trump's inaugurations.
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/04/01/musk-trump-tech-oil-oligarchs/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/18/us-oil-gas-industry-wealth-trump

the Guardian

Wealth of US ‘oil-garchs’ went up 15% in nine months as industry figures plan Trump inauguration party

Oil and gas firms have given more than $75m to Trump’s campaign and stand to benefit from his ‘drill, baby drill’ plan

Food & Water Watch

The Tech and Fossil Fuel Oligarchs Behind Musk-Trump’s Chaos

Oligarchs in the Big Tech and fossil fuel industries are pulling strings to amass more wealth and power for themselves.

Common Dreams

Trump to Big Oil Execs: Give Me $1 Billion and I'll Help You Wreck the Planet | Common Dreams

"You won't read a more important story today," said one commentator. "Trump is willing to literally destroy the planet for $1 billion."

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social · 2 months ago

@GossiTheDog

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"How to turn every Windows 11 machine into a zombie botnet or surveillance platform in one easy step."

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7

Does anyone remember agreeing to send their data to petrostate despots as part of their licensing or subscription?

Like many other tech companies accepting #PrinceBonesaw's investment money, these companies are imposing these features on an unwilling user base in turn.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/critics-scoff-after-microsoft-warns-ai-feature-can-infect-machines-and-pilfer-data/

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-ai-ceo-pushes-back-against-critics-after-recent-windows-ai-backlash-the-fact-that-people-are-unimpressed-is-mindblowing-to-me

Business Insider

Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people's data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there

Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.

Aral Balkan boosted

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social · 2 months ago

@anneroth

What did we think would happen after a US tech company accepted investment from a petrostate despot called #PrinceBonesaw?

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/6/17206358/saudi-crown-prince-visit-tech-silicon-valley

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/saudi-prince-mbs-silicon-valley-east-palo-alto-12799624.php

We have two wannabe despots establishing an international state surveillance platform together.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5606355-trump-welcomes-saudi-crown-prince/

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social · 2 months ago

@anneroth

What did we think would happen after a US tech company accepted investment from a petrostate despot called #PrinceBonesaw?

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/6/17206358/saudi-crown-prince-visit-tech-silicon-valley

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/saudi-prince-mbs-silicon-valley-east-palo-alto-12799624.php

We have two wannabe despots establishing an international state surveillance platform together.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5606355-trump-welcomes-saudi-crown-prince/

Stefan Bohacek

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online · 2 months ago

EDIT: The Malwarebytes article has been updated:

"After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case."

This confusion could've been easily avoided if Google was more clear in how they communicate with their users.

ORIGINAL:

PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!

"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

#gmail #AI

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 2 months ago

@stefan

When a company takes investment money from someone known as #PrinceBonesaw, what did we think would happen?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

Heidi Li Feldman

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

Usually, I ignore Trump in real time. But his appearance from the WH with MBS of Saudi Arabia is so disturbing, I cannot ignore. Two depraved men, fawning over each other from the seat of executive power in the U.S. I’m sick.

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 2 months ago

@heidilifeldman @gleick

That feeling is getting worse.

#PrinceBonesaw is meeting with Trump to strategize on fossil fuel policy.

How to coerce consumers like the EU to keep buying these toxic products & thwart climate action.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/18/more-than-80-countries-join-call-at-cop30-for-roadmap-to-phasing-out-fossil-fuels

Trump used tariff threats to switch India & the EU to a different supplier.

The Project 2025 donors, Heritage Foundation, plans to dismantle the EU using the same tactics of division & fossil fuel funded fascism.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-18/momentum-builds-at-cop30-for-road-map-from-fossil-fuels

Ars Technica

@arstechnica@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

Google is rolling out conversational shopping—and ads—in AI Mode search
Conversational shopping is Google's first big swing at monetizing AI Mode search.
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/11/google-rolling-out-conversational-shopping-and-ads-in-ai-mode-search/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 2 months ago

@arstechnica

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/14/nx-s1-5608188/data-center-ai-space-lizards

https://www.desmog.com/2025/04/22/ai-energy-demand-can-keep-fossil-fuels-alive-tech-backers-promise-worlds-two-biggest-oil-producers/

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"The fossil fuel industry burns tons of its toxic products for each of these AI-enabled spyware features.

Keep up the good work Google! The planet is frying.

#PrinceBonesaw is visiting Trump in November and you know how he gets when he's disappointed."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/jamal-khashoggi/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/us/politics/jamal-khashoggi-killing-cia-report.html

https://nypost.com/2025/11/13/world-news/widow-of-slain-journalist-demanding-compensation-from-mbs/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/29/mbs-saudi-arabia-big-tech-authoritarian-embrace/

https://www.theenergymix.com/a-trillion-more-barrels-of-oil-new-ai-tool-would-trigger-400-billion-tonnes-of-climate-pollution/

https://www.nytimes.com

Saudi Crown Prince Is Held Responsible for Khashoggi Killing in U.S. Report (Published 2021)

DeSmog

AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers

An AI-fossil fuel axis is forming in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as AI advocates pledge an endless need for energy — spelling disaster for the climate.

Dan Gillmor

@dangillmor@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

This guy runs the Windows unit at Microsoft, and he's telling you that the company intends to infiltrate "AI" into every aspect of the operating system.

If you use Windows, this is an injection of a living, self-replicating virus into your digital existence.

Yes I use Linux.

Twitter post: "Today we’re taking the next step in making powerful AI easy and useful on Windows 11. With Copilot and new agentic experiences at the center, every Windows 11 PC becomes an AI PC that empowers you to connect, create, and work in more natural ways. Voice is becoming the next..."

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 2 months ago

@dangillmor

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

https://karenattiah.substack.com/p/jamal-khashoggi-the-washington-post

" #PrinceBonesaw wants his energy hogging state surveillance platform, no matter the price."

https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/bill-gates-chartered-saudi-prince-superyacht-06152025.php

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/29/mbs-saudi-arabia-big-tech-authoritarian-embrace/

Reminder: #PrinceBonesaw is very interested in knowing the location of women. So is the GOP.
https://www.businessinsider.com/absher-google-slammed-for-siding-with-saudi-government-app-2019-3

https://www.businessinsider.com/absher-google-refuses-to-remove-saudi-govt-app-that-tracks-women-2019-3

https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-mbs-human-rights-violations-apple-google-app-store-2022-9

And hacking the phones of billionaires
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/01/mohammed-bin-salman-jeff-bezos-hack-could-be-a-ticking-time-bomb

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/01/bezos-hack-amazon-saudi-mbs-whatsapp/605755/

The Atlantic

The Staggering Vulnerability of Global Elites

Anyone can get hacked. But when it happens to the rich and powerful, the stakes can be extraordinarily high.

Business Insider

Saudi Arabians are using a widely available Google and Apple store app to report activists who speak out against the government. Some have received harsh sentences while others are self-censoring.

Kollona Amn is being used to target Saudi human-rights activists and sentence them to years in prison, despite Big Tech's policies against harassment.

Business Insider

Google, siding with Saudi Arabia, refuses to remove widely-criticized government app which lets men track women and control their travel

Google reviewed the app — called Absher — and ruled that it does not violate any agreements, and therefore will remain on Google Play.

Business Insider

'Grotesque': Marco Rubio leads intense criticism of Google for refusing to pull down Saudi government app that lets men track and control women

The app — called Absher — has been the subject of intense protest since INSIDER reported its existence. Google has rejected calls to stop hosting it.

Business Insider

Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people's data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there

Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 boosted

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social · 2 months ago

@rysiek

Reminder of which petrostate despot is a Google shareholder... #PrinceBonesaw .
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/07/heres-a-look-at-who.html

The fossil fuel industry wants control of tech, not for a post-oil future, but for a prolonged fossil fuel funded fascist movement.

MBS's intentions aren't benign.
https://www.businessinsider.com/absher-google-refuses-to-remove-saudi-govt-app-that-tracks-women-2019-3

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7