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#broligarchy

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Darker Knight

CYD

"Do you wish your Bluesky posts automatically got deleted, except for the ones that went viral? Do you want to migrate your photos out of Instagram and Facebook and into something better?"

"Do you want to keep a public archive of your tweets, but just not hosted in Elon Musk's nazi bar?"

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#privacy#techbros#broligarchy
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Tommi 🤯

Does anyone here have information about the status of Matrix-WhatsApp bridging/interoperability? (Maybe @matrix?) 🤔

Ads coming to WhatsApp is making me much more frustrated than I already was. I haven’t been updating the app since the introduction of Meta AI, but now WhatsApp is demanding that I update within 15 days or I won’t be able to use the app anymore.

So, the time has come: I have two weeks to backup and quit WhatsApp for good.

Since I’m here: could I also ask for your advice for local-only, not cloud, software that can backup ALL my #WhatsApp chats and store them locally in a browsable format/database? I found out about WhatsApp-Chat-Chat-Exporter but I’d like to learn more before testing it out.

Boosts welcome, let’s help each other and resist the broligarchy together! ✨

Damn, we wouldn’t have all this trouble if only the #DMA was actually enforced 🤬

A cross-platform tool for parsing WhatsApp chat databases from Android and iOS/iPadOS backups. Supports Android .crypt12, .crypt14, .crypt15, and the latest database formats. Outputs chat history i...
GitHubGitHub - KnugiHK/WhatsApp-Chat-Exporter: A cross-platform tool for parsing WhatsApp chat databases from Android and iOS/iPadOS backups. Supports Android .crypt12, .crypt14, .crypt15, and the latest database formats. Outputs chat history in readable HTML or structured JSON.A cross-platform tool for parsing WhatsApp chat databases from Android and iOS/iPadOS backups. Supports Android .crypt12, .crypt14, .crypt15, and the latest database formats. Outputs chat history i...
#Matrix#bridge#interoperability
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Weltschmerz à Gogo

Good, long, expansive article on how billionaires are actually different from the rest of us, their loathing of anything like accountability or democracy, and the project of capturing state power on a scale unprecedented in the US.

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Naturally, this grandiosity also extends to the tech elite’s accelerationist agenda. Musk believes that in 20 years — and thanks to his own genius — a million humans will be living on Mars. (Never mind that his budget-travel version of spaceships keep exploding.) Bezos wants humanity spread throughout the solar system on enormous space stations (that a galactic Amazon presumably stocks). And Silicon Valley is steeped in the idea that all of this will come about thanks to the imminent arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI), a point at which artificial intelligence equals that of humans and then iterates upon itself, growing exponentially more brilliant with every version. Once we reach this singularity — and assuming that the tech is aligned with the forces of good and not evil — we can rely on AI to solve any problem, from reversing aging to curtailing climate change to colonizing space so that humanity’s growth is not limited by the resources on just this measly planet Earth.

Which means that, when it comes to noblesse oblige, such as it were, we have in fact entered a new frontier. A Gilded Age oligarch who exploited his workers or cheated his customers might build a library or concert hall or train station to burnish his image. Now, the technocrats have framed their contribution as an algorithmically guaranteed utopia that will bring about the salvation of mankind. The concern is not with the general welfare of humans who are alive today (those forlorn Amazon drivers peeing in bottles) but rather with the potential future happiness of trillions of potential future humans, spread joyously throughout the cosmos — the offspring of those wealthy enough to afford a ticket off planet Earth. (Musk has said that he hopes to get the cost of a ticket to Mars below $500,000, though in 2020, it cost $3 billion to send one rover, one tiny helicopter, and zero people to the planet.) Such thinking not only reduces every problem to one that can be solved with technology, but it also casts the growth of the technocrats’ businesses as a moral imperative, while implying that those who question their “genius” are enemies of not just progress but of all humankind. 
And that, in turn, explains much of what has recently happened in America’s particular corner of the cosmos. The hubris of extreme wealth might once have aligned itself with views of American exceptionalism; and, indeed, to the extent that Trump’s populism could ever mesh with the libertarian vein of Silicon Valley, it’s because of their shared strongman vibe. But as their wealth has grown, the tech right’s long-standing opposition to government ­regulation has shifted — publicly — toward a more extreme, neo-­reactionionary, and antidemocratic frame of mind. Why should the “fittest” men submit themselves to taxes, regulation, DEI accountability? Why shouldn’t they be the ones in charge, if not here in America then in their floating island “network states” or on their interplanetary colonies? And if pesky government interference threatens the development of the miraculous tech that will allow these things to come to pass, why shouldn’t the American government be bought, infiltrated, and managed just like a tech startup, with total corporate control and the “fittest” guys at the top of the roster?
rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

Illustration of a head where you can see the cartoonish inside of the billionaire's mind
Rolling Stone · What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like UsBy Alex Morris
#broligarchy#billionaires#LiterallyEatTheRich
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DrALJONES

Analysis: "Tech Moguls Want to Build a Crypto Paradise on a Native American Reservation"

The broligarchs are solving this "problem":

"For thought leaders who want to move fast & break things, what can be done about laws that get in the way?"

One “special economic zone" is Próspera in Honduras, "an autonomous jurisdiction with limited regulations."

And "a tech-backed carveout of Native territory already exists".

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

#Broligarchy #USPol #EuroPol #NetworkState #Thiel .

Mother JonesTech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservationAnd hope to gobble up some land near you.
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Martin Nutty

Excellent conversation with Cory Doctrow in conversation with Micah Loewinger

@pluralistic pulls the curtain back on how big tech continues to squeeze both its customers and suppliers for every last possible red cent

#Podcast #broligarchy #technofeudalism
#enshittification

pca.st/episode/13bc7ae0-91c9-4

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JWcph, Radicalized By Decency

"They're selling absolute bullshit!" - Carole Cadwalladr

Always remember: The incompetence is inherent. The fascist surveillance state isn't built to be accurate or reliable, or even functional - it just has to be powerful, a purpose often served better by being random & incompetent.

I say this as a warning; be vigilant about what this #technofascist approach does & who it does it to - not how it does it.

youtube.com/watch?v=vG7CvbccdV #fascism #broligarchy #CaroleCadwalladr

YouTubeCarole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily ShowBy The Daily Show
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