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Sam Altman thinks that Gen Z is lucky to grow up with AI, despite rising unemployment among college graduates and predictions that half of white-collar jobs will disappear.

I used to be a tech optimist, believing in a Star Trek future where technology solves the problems. People like him have turned this around.

Now it’s less about progress and more about control: which tech they release, how dependent it makes you and how much power it gives them
#samaltman #techbros

fortune.com/2025/08/10/sam-alt

Fortune · Sam Altman says Gen Z are the ‘luckiest’ kids in history thanks to AI, despite mounting job displacement dreadBy Nick Lichtenberg
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In case ANYONE is wondering (namely at @Defcon ), please feel free to refer to this useful chart, for guidance.

Inaction against nazis is tacit approval and indirect support. Anything OTHER than immediate, absolute push back is a wink and nudge to nazis, and an invitation.

Fucking tech bros, man. Some stupid group of tech bros has claimed responsibility for organizing the throwing of dildos onto WNBA basketball courts during games, to claim attention. He said, "It was more or less like an opportunistic approach to, you know, what is already trending. Where is there already controversy and how do we intercept some of that attention?"

What morons they are, and what idiots are those who buy this shit, making the morons rich for childish pranks. Unfortunately, this is the kind of "intelligence" (cunning, conning) that we have come to respect as the USian way.

#WBNA
#dildo
#SexToys
#TechBros
#crypto

espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/45923

ESPN · Crypto group says it orchestrated sex toy tosses in WNBA games - ESPNBy Katie Barnes

ME, two days ago:

❝ the people who make #fascism possible are not the hard-core minority of true believers. it’s the majority of corruptible cynics who will do anything for a buck.
mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1149

TIM COOK, chief executive officer of Apple Corp, bribing Trump today ―on camera― with a 24 karat, company-made chochtke. video via Aaron Rupar
threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/

Tim Cook is another fascist white gay man; but, unlike Gay Hitler, he’s a fascist out of pure greed.

Here, Elena Rossini explains Why and How she is purging #BigTech out of her life. While she readily admits she is not totally free of it, she has gone a long way. She has a blog where she talks about her journey to #Freedom from #Technofeudalism and calls out the hypocracy of some #TechWriters along the way。

“I watched a brilliant TED Talk by journalist Carole Cadwalladr about the broligarchy titled “this is what the digital coup looks like.” Shortly thereafter I discovered that Cadwalladr is using Substack (the Nazi-friendly newsletter platform funded by the broligarchs at A16Z) for her blog; her social media platform of choice is Bluesky (funded by crypto bros at Blockchain Capital). Sadly Cadwalladr has no social profiles on the Fediverse and isn’t using - as far as I know - any FOSS platforms to publish her reporting. This feels incredibly incongruous.”

It’s well worth a read. And for those still ‘fenced in’ by commercial social platforms, she offers hope and some ways to ditch them.

Personally, My tie to #TechBros #oligarchy is Gmail (though not for much longer as I am mostly migrated off). Otherwise, I’m on Signal and an Australian hosted mail server (until that one starts getting ideas I won’t agree with). My blog is about to transfer to a platform based in Australia for less $$ (of @shlee fame - I’m gettting there Shlee!) and getting off WordPress hosting (I’ll be using a #cpanel equiv #EnhanceDotNet.). My #Microsoft days are numbered with #LinuxMint on my other laptop ready to take over very soon. I’m still tied to Apple with my iPad (tooting away on it atm). My mobile is an old & cheap #Android device. My browser is #LibreWolf. My mail client is #Thunderbird .

Best thing that ever happened to me was to find out about the #Fediverse. I’ve never looked back from this, only forward.

I’m not going to lie, there is a cost to bear. I have lost digital links to all my friends and family (some overseas). But I’ve managed to keep those closest to me via other means (Face-to-face, phone calls, SMS, emails and Signal for those using it). Bottom line is, If am I going to #Rage against #TechBros, I should walk the talk as Elena Rossini is doing. So should you IMO.

#FOSS #Mastodon #Fediverse #cpanel

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news.elenarossini.com/technofe

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"[Thiel's ideology] is what Hannah Arendt called 'the banality of evil' in its most refined form: not the dramatic villainy of lesser monsters, but the systematic evacuation of moral weight from decisions affecting millions of lives. Thiel treats democracy like a venture capital portfolio, authoritarianism like a hedge fund position, human extinction like a fascinating thought experiment."

#Trump #MAGA #authoritarianism #morality #TechBros #PeterThiel
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