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IT News<p>Google Hires Top A.I. Leaders From Windsurf, Which OpenAI Was Courting - Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf, which OpenAI had been ... - <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/technology/google-windsurf-openai.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/07/11/technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/google-windsurf-openai.html</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/mergersacquisitionsanddivestitures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mergersacquisitionsanddivestitures</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/appointmentsandexecutivechanges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>appointmentsandexecutivechanges</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/windsurf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windsurf</span></a>(exafunctioninc) <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/computersandtheinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computersandtheinternet</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/deepmindtechnologiesltd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deepmindtechnologiesltd</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/siliconvalley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>siliconvalley</span></a>(calif) <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hiringandpromotion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hiringandpromotion</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/microsoftcorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microsoftcorp</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hassabisdemis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hassabisdemis</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/start" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>start</span></a>-ups</p>
California Politics Huddle<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@CA_Politics_Huddle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CA_Politics_Huddle</span></a></span> </p><p>CPH Daily Bulletin 7/11/2025</p><p>🧵 9/15</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> venture capitalist helps lead controversial race to start mining ocean floor</p><p><a href="https://www.siliconvalley.com/2025/07/10/silicon-valley-venture-capitalist-lead-controversial-race-start-mining-ocean/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">siliconvalley.com/2025/07/10/s</span><span class="invisible">ilicon-valley-venture-capitalist-lead-controversial-race-start-mining-ocean/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OceanMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OceanMining</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ocean</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CleanEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CleanEnergy</span></a></p>
Paris Marx<p>Tech billionaires are turning the world on its head. We must challenge their power, but we also need to be clear that the individuals aren’t the sole problem.</p><p>There are structural forces at play that would pressure anyone in their position to do much the same. They must be dismantled.</p><p><a href="https://www.disconnect.blog/p/better-founders-wont-fix-silicon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">disconnect.blog/p/better-found</span><span class="invisible">ers-wont-fix-silicon</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/siliconvalley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>siliconvalley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The Register: Folks aren’t buying the PCs that US vendors stockpiled to dodge tariffs . “Total PC shipments in the US will increase by just 2 percent this year, thanks to Trump’s tariffs and little appetite from consumers for spending on ‘big-ticket’ items, despite the looming end of Windows 10 support.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/09/the-register-folks-arent-buying-the-pcs-that-us-vendors-stockpiled-to-dodge-tariffs/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/09/the-register-folks-arent-buying-the-pcs-that-us-vendors-stockpiled-to-dodge-tariffs/</a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Labour is selling the nation out to the Tech Bros without even a vote on the matter.</p><p>Quislings and Appeasers to fascists and fascist enablers. </p><p>They want our Youth dangerous and isolated, they want Fascism on every phone screen and Labour isn't going to stop them</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/uk-governments-deal-with-google-dangerously-naive-say-campaigners" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/technology/202</span><span class="invisible">5/jul/09/uk-governments-deal-with-google-dangerously-naive-say-campaigners</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBros</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOLITICS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOLITICS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Quislings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quislings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>The Nazi affiliated Substack duking the stats so users think their audience is steadily increasing and stick around on the platform?</p><p>Would Tech Bros be so duplicitous?</p><p>Of course they would, we're all rubes to them!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Substack</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fraud</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBros</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LateStageCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LateStageCapitalism</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@_elena" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>_elena</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>molly0xfff</span></a></span> everything the Tech Bros make is a con. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBros</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Substack</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>If somebody murdered all the Tech Bros we'd all have such a big party on their graves.</p><p>I wish there was some way they could know and understand this sentiment on a deep level, I suspect they still think we are in love with them and their words.</p><p>No matter how much money they have, they can't make most of us think they're cool.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBros</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EatTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EatTheRich</span></a></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p>A paraitre...<br>"Apocalypse Nerds", essai sur le <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/technofascisme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technofascisme</span></a></p><p>Lire aussi : Comment les leaders de la Silicon Valley sont devenus "technosécessionnistes" <a href="https://usbeketrica.com/fr/article/comment-les-leaders-de-la-silicon-valley-sont-devenus-technosecessionnistes" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">usbeketrica.com/fr/article/com</span><span class="invisible">ment-les-leaders-de-la-silicon-valley-sont-devenus-technosecessionnistes</span></a></p><p>FYI <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@danahilliot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>danahilliot</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a></p>
Flipboard Tech Desk<p>AI has ignited an investor frenzy in Silicon Valley and beyond. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Techcrunch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Techcrunch</span></a></span> provides this list of powerhouse startups that have attained unicorn status in 2025.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/kMUxku" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/kMUxku</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Startups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Startups</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"The intoxicating buzz around artificial intelligence stocks over the last few years looks concerningly like the dot-com bubble, top investor Richard Bernstein warns.</p><p>The CIO at $15 billion Richard Bernstein Advisors wrote in a June 30 post that the AI trade is starting to look rich, and that it may be time for investors to turn their attention toward a more "boring" corner of the market: dividend stocks.</p><p>"Investors seem universally focused on 'AI' which seems eerily similar to the '.com' stocks of the Technology Bubble and the 'tronics' craze of the 1960s. Meanwhile, we see lots of attractive, admittedly boring, dividend-paying themes," Bernstein wrote.</p><p>Since ChatGPT hit the market in November 2022, the S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq 100 have risen 54% and 90%, respectively. Valuations, by some measures, have surged back toward record highs, rivaling levels seen during the dot-com bubble and the 1929 peak.</p><p>While Bernstein said he's not calling a top, trades eventually go the other way, and the best time to invest in something is when it's out of favor — not when a major rally has already occurred."</p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-crash-ai-dot-com-bubble-dividend-investing-bernstein-2025-7" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">businessinsider.com/stock-mark</span><span class="invisible">et-crash-ai-dot-com-bubble-dividend-investing-bernstein-2025-7</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIBubble</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIHype</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/StockMarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StockMarket</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"In May, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University released a paper showing that even the best-performing AI agent, Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro, failed to complete real-world office tasks 70 percent of the time. Factoring in partially completed tasks — which included work like responding to colleagues, web browsing, and coding — only brought Gemini's failure rate down to 61.7 percent.</p><p>And the vast majority of its competing agents did substantially worse.</p><p>OpenAI's GPT-4o, for example, had a failure rate of 91.4 percent, while Meta's Llama-3.1-405b had a failure rate of 92.6 percent. Amazon's Nova-Pro-v1 failed a ludicrous 98.3 percent of its office tasks.</p><p>Meanwhile, a recent report by Gartner, a tech consultant firm, predicts that over 40 percent of AI agent projects initiated by businesses will be cancelled by 2027 thanks to out-of-control costs, vague business value, and unpredictable security risks.</p><p>"Most agentic AI projects right now are early stage experiments or proof of concepts that are mostly driven by hype and are often misapplied," said Anushree Verma, a senior director analyst at Gartner.</p><p>The report notes an epidemic of "agent washing," where existing products are rebranded as AI agents to cash in on the current tech hype. Examples include Apple's "Intelligence" feature on the iPhone 16, which it currently faces a class action lawsuit over, and investment firm Delphia's fake "AI financial analyst," for which it faced a $225,000 fine.</p><p>Out of thousands of AI agents said to be deployed in businesses throughout the globe, Gartner estimated that "only about 130" are real."</p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/ai-agents-failing-industry" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/ai-agents-failing</span><span class="invisible">-industry</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIAgents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAgents</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIHype</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIBubble</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>“The modern-day system of colonialism and sharecropping being constructed by the new East India Company that is Silicon Valley isn’t uncouth or stupid enough to put people in physical shackles. It doesn’t want to own your body, it is content with owning your simulation. And yet, as we have already seen, the more data they have about you – the higher the fidelity of your simulation – the closer they are to owning you.</p><p>…</p><p>If this doesn’t sound like democracy, it is because it is not. Surveillance Capitalism isn’t compatible with democracy.</p><p>The system we live in today can best be described as a corporatocracy; a feudalism of corporations.</p><p>Ours is a neo-colonial age of multinational monopolies.</p><p>A digital imperialism, if you will.”</p><p>– Me, The Nature of the Self in the Digital Age, 2016</p><p><a href="https://ar.al/notes/the-nature-of-the-self-in-the-digital-age/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/notes/the-nature-of-the-</span><span class="invisible">self-in-the-digital-age/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/feudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feudalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/corporatocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporatocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://j12t.social/@j12t/114798595701343934" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">j12t.social/@j12t/114798595701</span><span class="invisible">343934</span></a></p>
happyborg<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Remittancegirl</span></a></span> </p><p>Yes, though I think they're related in that traits can be innate or acquired. </p><p>I think we're all vulnerable to that, some are lucky not to be, or lucky enough to be forced to wake up and see it.</p><p>Good to hear *your* voice.</p><p>I watched an old episode of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> last night where Gilfoil created an AI chatbot of himself to avoid tedious interactions. Very funny, and not at all funny now we've reached this point. Plus, begins with Richard addressing Congress and nailing it.</p>
Aral Balkan<p>“International Business Machines, and its president Thomas J. Watson, committed genocide by any standard. It was never about the antisemitism. It was never about the National Socialism. It was always about the money. Business was their middle name.”</p><p>– Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust</p><p>The more things change…</p><p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocau</span><span class="invisible">st_b_1301691</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Holocaust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>israel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/apartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apartheid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/settlerColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>settlerColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/complicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>complicity</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@onrust/114779288628253881" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.exchange/@onrust/11477</span><span class="invisible">9288628253881</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"In her work on totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt already warned that totalitarianism flourishes when reality is replaced with a fictional narrative, when facts are drowned in floods of misinformation, thus erasing the boundary between fact and fiction. In this context, AI becomes a tool not for truth or enlightenment, but for totalitarian oppression. Through echo chambers and targeted micro-propaganda, A helps sculpt ideologically engineered realities in which authoritarianism is masqueraded as patriotism.</p><p>Tech kings like Elon Musk, once heralded as visionary innovators, increasingly flirt with authoritarian leaning politics. Musk’s takeover of Twitter (now X) shows how well-known platforms can become playgrounds for far-right ideologies and – indeed - coups. Empowering and normalizing extremist voices, increasing polarization, and framing criticism as censorship, they promote fascist narratives cloaked in the language of liberty.</p><p>The role Musk played in the Trump administration also shows how Big Tech is increasingly bolstering a techno-authoritarian vision where corporate power merges with nationalist, fascist-leaning politics."</p><p><a href="https://ieet.substack.com/p/democracy-in-danger" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ieet.substack.com/p/democracy-</span><span class="invisible">in-danger</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2208996/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2208996/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Trump slams Elon Musk as his megabill drops AI protections and hits snags in Senate <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MarshaBlackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarshaBlackburn</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PresidentTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PresidentTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RepublicanLawmakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanLawmakers</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RepublicanSenators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanSenators</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/StateRegulations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StateRegulations</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a></p>
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency<p>Fourth time this year. And yet if a car manufacturer has to recall a subset of cars once in a blue moon because of a build flaw it's considered so problematic it's an international news item. </p><p>It's possible that we should have started by holding digital products to the same standard as we do everything else, but the second-best time to do it is now. <br> <br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/114777627595560186" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.exchange/@BleepingComp</span><span class="invisible">uter/114777627595560186</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://helvede.net/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>regulation</span></a></p>
Observatoire d multinationales<p>Dérégulation de l'IA et des cryptomonnaies, nucléaire et énergies fossiles, contrats publics, soutien diplomatique...</p><p>6 mois après le retour de <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> à la Maison Blanche, les barons de la <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> ont déjà largement de quoi se féliciter de l'avoir soutenu</p><p>2e volet de notre enquête ➡️ <a href="https://multinationales.org/fr/enquetes/faf40/les-milliardaires-de-la-tech-et-trump-ce-qu-ils-ont-obtenu" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">multinationales.org/fr/enquete</span><span class="invisible">s/faf40/les-milliardaires-de-la-tech-et-trump-ce-qu-ils-ont-obtenu</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FAF40" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FAF40</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Unfortunately, despite the titillating headline, there isn't much new in the Douthat interview. Thiel essentially rolled Douthat by delivering canned lines that he has already used in other interviews.</p><p>“If the Antichrist were to come to power, it would be by talking about Armageddon all the time,” he said during an interview last year. He uses the same line with Douthat, who basically squanders the interview by allowing Thiel to rehash esoteric religious ideas he has already discussed with every other podcaster in the universe.</p><p>In fact, the Antichrist shtick is one of Thiel’s favorite bits (see below).</p><p>Totally normal behavior for a 57-year-old billionaire whose surveillance tech company, Palantir, is completely wrapped up in American law enforcement, intelligence and military operations. Right?</p><p>Either Ross Douthat didn’t do his homework, or he set out to lob softballs at Thiel—which may explain why the billionaire granted him the interview. When a journalist allows a subject to deliver their usual speech, they have failed.</p><p>In fairness, Douthat gets close to the mark with one question on AI, Palantir and the Antichrist:"</p><p><a href="https://www.thenerdreich.com/is-peter-thiel-the-antichrist-nyt-didnt-think-to-ask/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenerdreich.com/is-peter-thie</span><span class="invisible">l-the-antichrist-nyt-didnt-think-to-ask/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palantir</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a></p>