"You know, you probably know this phrase, 'Do not obey in advance.' That's Tim Snyder, who's a historian of authoritarianism. We now are in techno-authoritarianism. We have to learn how to digitally disobey. That can be as simple as the dropdown box. Don't accept the cookies, don't give your real name, download Signal (@signalapp), the encrypted messaging app. Don’t bomb Yemen, don't add the editor of 'The Atlantic' to your group chats."
-- Carole Cadwalladr
"So look after facts. You'll miss them when they've gone. This is Wayback Machine (@internetarchive). Give them money, they're trying to preserve the internet as it's being deleted day by day."
-- Carole Cadwalladr
"This is my guide, and it has to start with naming it. It's a coup. I know you probably don't want to hear that, and especially here, but we can’t fight it if we can’t see it. And we can’t see it if we don’t name it."
-- Carole Cadwalladr
https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like
This is a must watch. She did break the Cambridge Analytics scandal, we ought to listen to Cadwalladr.
Carole Cadwalladr: This is what a digital coup looks like | TED Talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like
I chose to come back to TED because I'm reclaiming my story, my words.
We are not powerless.
The 30,000 people who supported me proved that – we ar not powerless.
Because we know who we are, and we know what we stand for.
And my question to Silicon Valley is, do you?
Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk. Your are not gods. You are men, and you are careless.
You think that by allying yourself with an autocrat you will be protected. That's not how history works. It's not even how oligarchy works.
[…]
You are sucking up to a tuyrant who is trying to destroy the laws who made your businesses possible.
You are collaborators.
You are complicit in a regime of fear and cruelty.
Don't experiment on children
And in years to come, allowing your child to be data-harvested from birth will be considered child abuse.
You didn't know, but now you do.
Privacy is power.
Watch or read Carole Cadwalladr's #TED talk: "Speaking truth to tech gods"
"We now are in techno-authoritarianism.
We have to learn how to digitally #disobey.
That can be as simple as the dropdown box.
Don't accept the cookies,
don't give your real name,
download #Signal the encrypted messaging app...
... I do not consent.
#Privacy is power.
And we have more of it than we think."
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/speaking-truth-to-tech-gods-i-return
[MIRROR] This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
"Politics is technology now". Carole Cadwalladr (wieder) mit einem prophetischen TED-Talk.
"This is what a digital coup looks like".
"We are in technical authoritarism."
"This is my data. I did not consent."
"You are not gods. You are men. And you are careless."
https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like
Carole Cadwalladr returned to TED. Didn’t hold back.
“TED has just released [her talk] as the first talk from the conference. I got to name what is happening for what it is: a coup. I call the Silicon Valley companies who attend this conference and even sponsor it, collaborators who are complicit in a regime of fear and cruelty. And I accuse Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, who is talking here on Friday not just of data theft but data rape.”
#TED #CurrentAffairs https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/speaking-truth-to-tech-gods-i-return?utm_campaign=email-post-title&utm_medium=email
‘#TED is ground zero of the #AI gold rush. But there was also cheerleading and l’ve been overwhelmed by huge love and support from others who see exactly what is happening. It’s the weirdest time to be here.
And it was the weirdest energy from an audience of any talk I’ve ever given. But then, it was intended to make them uncomfortable.
Politics is technology now.
#SiliconValley is desperate to deny that, but it can’t and nor can we.’
Carole #Cadwalladr
‘#TED gave me editorial freedom to say what I wanted. The #Guardian/ #Observer won’t even allow me to write about it, in any form.I pitched a piece for this Sunday about the experience.
It would be my last article for the paper, it transfers to #Tortoise next week who have declined to renew my contract; an epitaph to my 20-year career there and an an end point to an investigation that brought the Guardian and Observer extraordinary kudos and the most money it has ever raised from any story.’
Carole #Cadwalladr is one very brave investigative journalist. Last time she did a TED talk in 2019 it almost ended her career, took the roof from over her head and severely impacted her mental well-being.
But she’s back.
Talking truth to power.
The talk is less than 20 mins. It’s definitely worth your time.
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | #TED
Carole #Cadwalladr is back! She was among the first and bravest journalists calling out #CambridgeAnaytica social media impact, she identified Brexit targeted propaganda as a dry run for the 2016 US elections, and survived a year-long court case against her.
She's at #TED again for an update on our descent into the Broligarchy.
New video! Trying to fix a really badly broken Commodore 16, taking numerous wrong turns along the way.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/k_PFjvFz9v0
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/xrumFds6iLf5FXVvr9Txdk
𝗧𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝗱𝘂𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝗮𝗿 𝗚𝗮𝗮𝗻 𝗭𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗿: 𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝘇𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴
Ted (70) heeft het in 'Daar Gaan Ze Weer' niet makkelijk. Ze leeft al vier maanden zonder elektriciteit en dus ook zonder verlichting. Daarom voelt elke donkere ochtend voor haar als een speurtocht door haar eigen huis.
https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/entertainment/artikel/5498111/ted-daar-gaan-ze-weer-geen-verlichting
I found this #TED talk to be a very helpful framework for thinking about a variety of things: https://www.ted.com/talks/charles_duhigg_the_science_behind_dramatically_better_conversations_mar_2025
Most pointedly, #Democrats would do well to reflect on this. We're not having the same conversation, and that's why we're where we are. The nation isn't strictly divided on political lines, it's much more primal than that.
As much as #Trumpism is nakedly awful on its face, it's having an _emotional_ conversation (and to a lesser degree, a _social_ one). Most of us in #America are pissed off, even fully aware that #Republicans are to blame due to their policy priorities and laissez faire approach to damn near everything, all but ensuring immiseration for all but the rich.
What made #Obama and #Biden successful in their 2008 and 2020 runs? A variety of factors, to be sure, but both of those campaigns were having the same kind of conversation, selling "hope" after 9/11 and the Iraq war, and talking about the "soul of America" after the disruption of the pandemic and inhumanity of the prior administration. What made #Kamala fail? Again, a variety of factors, but she was almost exclusively having a _practical_ conversation.
When you have a deep, radiating hurt inside of you (i.e. most key issues driving the general malaise people have felt over the past few years), and someone's response to that is purely logical/practical, it only serves to invalidate and frustrate you, nothing else.
In that framing, it's easy to understand why people did what they did, whether they voted for either party, or not at all. Why would you choose differently if you feel that you won't otherwise have the conversation you want?
This is also why #Bernie, #AOC, #JasmineCrockett, #ChrisMurphy and others are resonating so much with people right now - they are having an _emotional_ conversation, which is exactly what people are seeking in such a painful and worrying time. Nobody is looking for marginal policy improvements or safe poll-tested messaging. They are tapping into the _emotional_ core of those trying to #resist.
BTW, I think this is also why #GavinNewsom went and stepped on his own dick - our #trans friends are in dire need of _emotional_ support right now, not _social_ discussions about an imaginary "common ground".
