#SiliconValley #Switzerland #media #copyright
'Large online services such as Google and X are set to pay copyright fees in Switzerland in future for displaying only short extracts from newspaper articles.'
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/parliament-can-decide-on-ancillary-copyright-for-media/89552014
This is the biggest sign that capitalism is very much beyond its peak. Nowadays, the largest tech companies mostly rely on State/public monies by way of military contracts to ensure that their profitability rate continues growing: Palantir, SpaceX, StarLink, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. - they are all chasing public monies
"Now Silicon Valley is coming around. Desperate not to be seen as losers, they’ve replaced virtue signaling with vice signaling. Among the Detachment 201: Executive Innovation Corps enlistees is the chief technology officer of Meta, a company that, under Mark Zuckerberg’s direction, once aimed to appear cuddly and nonthreatening but has now pivoted to wanting to appear imposing, brash, and, as Zuckerberg himself suggested, aggressively masculine.
This is the Palantir effect, and its implications extend far beyond Zuckerberg’s MAGA makeover. A new common sense is taking hold in Silicon Valley: the companies that once flamboyantly postured as social justice allies are now currying favor with Donald Trump’s administration — and welcoming criticisms along the way, taking them as a badge of honor, proof positive they’re not effete liberal pushovers. To heed public criticism is to bend the knee to the “woke,” which Karp calls “the central risk to Palantir, America and the world.”
Armed with this new anti-moral sensibility, tech is dissolving into the pulsating nexus of MAGA, crypto, combat sports, and the US military. The merger is exemplified by the list of corporate sponsors of Trump’s military parade last weekend, which included Palantir, the weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin, the global data-mining conglomerate Oracle, the crypto platform Coinbase, and Phorm Energy, a new energy drink company created by Dana White, who is both the CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship and a member of the Meta board."
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/silicon-valley-palantir-military-trump
Zuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff*: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’
* or anyone else with more than one brain cell who hasn’t been living under a rock for the past couple of decades
Daten über Amerikaner auszutauschen. Um diese Aufgabe zu erfüllen, wählte Trump Palantir Technologies….
Quelle: Robert Reich Substack
#SiliconValley
#AI
#Military
#Trump
#Dictatorship
#Palantir
#PeterThiel
#TechBros
Oh my $DEITY, the "AI" #slop problem...
I do #hobby #electronics. I ran into a problem that I was having difficulty figuring out from the IC manufacturer's datasheet (which is terse, but does contain several example uses / circuits). It felt like I was missing something fundamental about the way it worked, so I searched the web for 3rd-party documentation, tips, tricks, examples of use, etc.
And I got pages and pages and pages of results that were nothing but slop.
Language clearly stolen from the official datasheet and reworded by #AI into not making sense.
Articles that repeat the same point in multiple sentences in multiple sequential paragraphs.
Descriptions that refer to numbered components that do not appear on the shown schematic.
Descriptions of the working of the component that are incredibly obviously incorrect, to the point that anyone who's ever measured the voltage drop across a resistor would say "That can't be right".
Confident declarations of the function of many of the device's (numerous) control pins, which are not only wrong, but sometimes completely the opposite of reality. To the point that if you followed the given instructions, you would very quickly release the #magic #smoke and become sad.
Out of the first ~60 #search results, I saw 2 that were actual humans communicating. And neither of them had a solution, they were only semi-related.
The #web is #broken. Thanks, #SiliconValley #techbros.
…”when the #MeToo movement began, in the twenty-tens, something changed. Powerful #men like #HarveyWeinstein were accused of serially assaulting #women & then actually faced punishment. Women came forward w/stories of #harassment by prominent #journalists & #SiliconValley founders, & the internet took up their cause. Men lost their jobs; some went to #prison.
[Then came the backlash]
#MaleSupremacy #RapeCulture #BelieveSurvivors
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/23/what-happened-to-the-women-of-metoo
"Draw a circle around all the assets in America now devoted to #AI
Draw a 2nd circle around all the assets devoted to the #US military.
A 3rd around all assets being devoted to helping the #Trump regime collect & compile personal information...
And a 4th circle around the parts of #SiliconValley dedicated to... a libertarian dictatorship led by #tech bros.
Where do the four circles intersect?
At a corporation called #Palantir Technologies & a man named #PeterThiel."
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/palantir-the-worst-of-the-corporate
Breaking News: The US #Army, in a bold move straight out of a Silicon Valley fever dream, has decided that tech execs are the new warlords.
Because, clearly, the best way to outthink adversaries is to hire the folks who brought us targeted ads and AI chatbots.
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/06/18/palantir-execs-appointed-colonels/ #BreakingNews #TechExecs #Innovation #SiliconValley #AIChatbots #HackerNews #ngated
The Return of #SiliconValley’s Greatest Fraud #theranos #by coldfusion #yt
When #SiliconValley ideologues express fears of extinction, they don’t mean what they want you to think they mean. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/a-tale-of-two-extinctions/ #California #ClimateChange
I ranted about the apple design, but f*ck it. The bigger picture is more relevant, it doesn't matter that much how much liquid glass an apple UI has, when its controlled by palantir and grounded in techno-fascism for concentrating more power in few and observing the rest.
A great and lengthy Essay by "the stories we tell".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jopmic-McK0
Thank you for pointing me to it via your newsletter @mspro
I thought this drawing did a pretty good job at consolidating the current situation with #AI into a single picture.
From:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86k8N4YsA7c
#siliconvalley #tescreal #technology #industry
#SiliconValley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won’t Have to Attend Boot Camp). Like Cadet Bone Spurs wished he had done. https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valley-execs-join-the-army-as-officers-but-wont-have-to-attend-boot-camp-2000617223 #California
#military #technology #politics #SiliconValley
'In a June 13, 2025, news release, the Army announced the swearing-in of four tech executives as lieutenant colonels, a rank that typically takes nearly two decades to achieve. The executives will serve part-time in the Army Reserve as senior advisers. As of this writing, all of the executives either currently hold or once held senior positions at Meta, Palantir or OpenAI. '
…The biggest hurdle for the industry has always been legislative: securing #regulations that confer legitimacy without adding onerous requirements. And for that, executives & lobbyists had to turn their full attention to #Congress.
Ahead of the 2024 election cycle, a network of #SiliconValley #crypto executives & political strategists set their sights on DC. They formed a number of crypto-focused super PACs which spent a total of >$130M to #influence tight congressional races nationally.
Speaker just announced there are 30,000 people here for #NoKings rally in San Jose.
#democracy #SanJose #SantaClaraCounty #SiliconValley #50501movement
#legal #liability #SiliconValley #Brazil #SocialMedia
"The majority of justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court have agreed to make social media companies liable for illegal postings by their users, in a landmark case for Latin America with implications for U.S. relations."
Design Milk : A Backyard ADU in Silicon Valley Brings Japanese Tranquility https://design-milk.com/a-backyard-adu-in-silicon-valley-brings-japanese-tranquility/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-backyard-adu-in-silicon-valley-brings-japanese-tranquility #DetachedAccessoryDwellingUnit #AccessoryDwellingUnits #vaultedceilings #accordionroof #SiliconValley #Architecture #buildingLab #California #gabledroof #skylights #skylight #Main #DADU #ADU