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Hey some nerd (me) is quoted here in this Columbia Journalism Review story about how low-power FM radio stations weathered federal funding cuts by being too small to be eligible for federal funding... in contrast to NPR. The invulnerability of the truly grassroots? 📻💚
https://www.cjr.org/feature/public-media-funding-cut-low-power-radio-lessons-community-broadcasting.php

#LPFM #media #radio #PublicMedia

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 2 days ago

@inquiline

When you accept money from despots, they become your overlords.

Google & #PrinceBonesaw
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/07/heres-a-look-at-who.html

Apple & #PrinceBonesaw
https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4

Silicon Valley & Charles Koch
https://www.axios.com/2017/12/14/koch-tries-its-hand-at-venture-capital-1513277500

Twitter & Alwaleed bin Talal
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/10/31/saudi-prince-alwaleed-becomes-twitters-second-largest-shareholder/

#MoscowMitch & Deripaska
https://www.newsweek.com/company-russian-oligarch-millions-aluminum-plant-mitch-mcconnell-1397061

Trump & Vekselberg
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/5/11/17337448/viktor-vekselberg-michael-cohen-trump-russia

Dan Gillmor

@dangillmor@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

Google deletes history: https://www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-erased-7-years-of-our-political-history/

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@dangillmor

When a corporation accepts investment money from #PrinceBonesaw ...

Murderous petrostate despots have ideas on controlling access to information.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/07/heres-a-look-at-who.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-peter-thiel-rupert-murdoch-met-with-bin-salman-2020-1

https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/2025/accenture-and-google-cloud-advance-sovereign-cloud-and-generative-ai-adoption-in-saudi-arabia

Ditto for "cashless" systems... international state surveillance systems
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/inside-google-pays-saudi-arabia-launch-full-feature-breakdown-setup-guide-pros-and-cons-explained/articleshow/123942816.cms

https://www.electronicpaymentsinternational.com/news/saudi-arabia-digital-payments-google-ant/

The Moneyed & the rise of fossil fuel funded fascism
https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2025/05/us-and-saudi-arabia-announce-tech-investments-new-partnership/405285/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/13/american-business-titans-trump-saudi-arabia-00346653

Alex Akselrod boosted

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social · last month

@Gizmodo@artificial-intelligence-Gizmodo

https://thebulletin.org/2025/08/how-ai-and-surveillance-capitalism-are-undermining-democracy/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/07/25/ai-surveillance-palantir-openai-data/85341278007/

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Apple bends the knee to #PrinceBonesaw and begins Search Engine Enshittification. Just like Google.

Ever since he hacked Bezos's iphone, the Saudi Crown Prince has a compulsion to get his own internatiomal state surveillance platform, with a side bonus of energy-wasting data centers"

https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/21/amazon-boss-jeff-bezoss-phone-hacked-by-saudi-crown-prince

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social · last month

@Gizmodo@artificial-intelligence-Gizmodo

https://thebulletin.org/2025/08/how-ai-and-surveillance-capitalism-are-undermining-democracy/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/07/25/ai-surveillance-palantir-openai-data/85341278007/

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Apple bends the knee to #PrinceBonesaw and begins Search Engine Enshittification. Just like Google.

Ever since he hacked Bezos's iphone, the Saudi Crown Prince has a compulsion to get his own internatiomal state surveillance platform, with a side bonus of energy-wasting data centers"

https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/21/amazon-boss-jeff-bezoss-phone-hacked-by-saudi-crown-prince

TechAltar

@Techaltar@mas.to · last month

I recently talked with a guy who builds software for small & medium sized German insurance firms and he says almost all of their clients are working on removing US services from their tech stack due to perceiving them as highly risky. This includes cloud services, office tools, AI tools, etc. So far he said the switch is a mixed bag with some successes and some blunders, but the push is very clear.

Highly anecdotal stuff, but maybe this cut is deeper than I expected.

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · last month

@Techaltar

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-cia-made-larry-ellison-a-billionaire-2014-9

https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-keep-citizens-on-their-best-behavior-2024-9

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/

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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/12/20/elon-musk-spotted-world-cup-final/

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

Koch launched a Silicon Valley venture capital firm in 2017.
https://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/news/2024/04/03/koch-disruptive-venture-capital-funding-ai-invest.html

https://www.axios.com/2017/12/14/koch-tries-its-hand-at-venture-capital-1513277500

https://readsludge.com/2025/07/09/billionaire-pharma-investors-fund-privatized-strike-team-at-the-fda/

#PrinceBonesaw invested in Google, Palantir, Apple, Oracle & Microsoft in 2018.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/07/heres-a-look-at-who.html

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

ProPublica

@ProPublica@newsie.social · 2 months ago

Microsoft is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking. Yet a copy of the tech giant’s security plan obtained by ProPublica makes no reference to the company’s China-based operations.

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-china-defense-department-cloud-computing-security?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Microsoft #Tech #Data #China #Cybersecurity #Government #Technology

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 2 months ago

@ProPublica

Microsoft's reporting likely fails to mention much about its Saudi operations either.

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-pay-data-engineers-share-compensation-2025-8

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

https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-ai-groq-a16z-vision-2030-mbs-2024-9

American tech firms appear eager to do business with #PrinceBonesaw

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

https://www.oracle.com/eg/news/announcement/oracle-collaborates-with-saudi-arabia-ministry-communications-it-national-elearning-center-2025-04-16/

The next election-meddling Russian Internet Research Agency will likely come from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, & UAE petrostate despots.