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Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks 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.
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Randahl Fink
@randahl@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks 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

Does Obama have presidential immunity?
Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks 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.

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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum@journa.host  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks 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  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks 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

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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."
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Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks 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.
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Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks 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/

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Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks 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/

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Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks 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  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks 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

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Heidi Li Feldman
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks 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  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks 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

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Ars Technica
@arstechnica@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks 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

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Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks 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.
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Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks 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..."
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..."
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  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks 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.
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 boosted
Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

@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

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@rysiek@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Keep Android Open
https://keepandroidopen.org/

This is important. We already have a basic duopoly in mobile operating systems, now Google is trying to lock down their platform even more. Nobody benefits from this other than Google's shareholders.

Whether you are a device owner, a developer, or a public institution, this affects you and should matter to you.

Everyone can meaningfully help to push back.

:boost_requested:

#FuckGoogle #Android #FOSS #Mobile

Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

@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

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tante
@tante@tldr.nettime.org  ·  activity timestamp last month

We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?

This is a sign for how fucking atrophied our mental muscles are. How limited our space for thinking about how things should be.

You want to democratize "going to therapy"? Make it "free" as in paid by socialized healthcare. You want to democratize "making art"? Give people money and free time to express themselves.

None of these things are meaningfully addressed through tech. It's always about the political struggle to give people what they need and deserve.

Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

@tante

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-energy-industry-ai-fossil-fuels-pittsburgh-summit/

None of these startups are funded for altruistic reasons or even for revenue potential.

They're being funded to keep a status quo; a world order ruled by the fossil fuel industry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/saudi-arabia-ai-exporter.html

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

https://www.tipranks.com/news/saudi-arabia-moves-billions-from-neom-to-ai-investments-backed-by-nvidia-and-amazon

The goal is wasting fossil fuel on white elephants & price gouge.

The aim is to thwart an urgent fossil fuel phase out.

If Blackrock & #PrinceBonesaw are funding it, it's evil.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/blackstone-saudi-ai-firm-humain-ink-3-billion-data-center-deal

TipRanks Financial

Saudi Arabia Moves Billions From Neom to AI Investments Backed by Nvidia and Amazon - TipRanks.com

Saudi Arabia is shifting its focus from its $500 billion Neom project, the futuristic city announced in 2017, to AI-related technology. The change marks a shift awa...
https://www.nytimes.com

Saudi Arabia’s New Power Play Is Exporting A.I. to the World

WIRED

Trump and the Energy Industry Are Eager to Power AI With Fossil Fuels

At a Pittsburgh summit, the Trump administration, energy executives, and tech barons joined as one to promote AI as the future of fossil fuels.
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Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@cobalt123 @billyjoebowers

When a nation takes #PrinceBonesaw's money they stop being a sovereign nation.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/crunch-time-saudi-arabia-financial-elite-descend-riyadh-2025-10-24/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/photos-tech-ceos-mingle-with-trump-and-mbs-at-saudi-investment-forum.html

A fossil fuel axis alliance forms to kill democracy & the planet.

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

When a tech company takes #PrinceBonesaw 's money, the mandatory surveillance spyware & Trump bootlicking isn't far behind.

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

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

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://thebulletin.org/2025/06/trumps-ai-gamble-in-the-gulf-doesnt-put-america-first/

Business Insider

Saudi Arabia's millennial crown prince got a rare tour inside Apple's new $5 billion campus

Saudi Arabia's millennial crown prince got to see the inside of Apple's new $5 billion campus.
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Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@cobalt123 @billyjoebowers

When a nation takes #PrinceBonesaw's money they stop being a sovereign nation.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/crunch-time-saudi-arabia-financial-elite-descend-riyadh-2025-10-24/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/photos-tech-ceos-mingle-with-trump-and-mbs-at-saudi-investment-forum.html

A fossil fuel axis alliance forms to kill democracy & the planet.

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

When a tech company takes #PrinceBonesaw 's money, the mandatory surveillance spyware & Trump bootlicking isn't far behind.

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

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

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://thebulletin.org/2025/06/trumps-ai-gamble-in-the-gulf-doesnt-put-america-first/

Business Insider

Saudi Arabia's millennial crown prince got a rare tour inside Apple's new $5 billion campus

Saudi Arabia's millennial crown prince got to see the inside of Apple's new $5 billion campus.
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Emily Young
@emilyyoung@tech.lgbt  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

I cannot begin to describe how little interest I have in an AI web browser.

Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@emilyyoung

Few people want anything AI

"Smart" appliances with such poor longevity, even garbage dumps won't accept them for disposal

IoT devices so compromised that 40% of internet bandwidth is going to bots.

Microsoft & Google taking investments from #PrinceBonesaw with such alacrity, they "forgot" to include privacy clauses in contracts
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7

AI being shoved onto every device unwillingly & unnecessarily, using opt-out on some obscure section of the settings

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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.
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Just one problem: the US Trade Rep bullied every country in the world into banning jailbreaking, meaning that if Trump (a man who never met a grievance that was too petty to pursue) orders Tim Cook (a man who never found a boot he wouldn't lick) to remove apps from your country's app store, you won't be able to get those apps from anyone else:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/#data-dieselgate

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https://pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! (15 Oct 2025)

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@Npars01@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@pluralistic

The mechanisms by which citizens are remade into subjects & serfs, it often begins with being made into a captive consumer.

Reminder of who funds Apple: #PrinceBonesaw

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

The fossil fuel industry is deeply invested in choicelessness.

Business Insider

Saudi Arabia's millennial crown prince got a rare tour inside Apple's new $5 billion campus

Saudi Arabia's millennial crown prince got to see the inside of Apple's new $5 billion campus.
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tools for commensality 🧿
@inquiline@assemblag.es  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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  ·  activity timestamp 2 months 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

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Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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

Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months 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

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Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@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

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