Podcast: Die Peter Thiel Story

• denn man sollte verstehen, mit wem es die Demokratien da zu tun haben.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/die-peter-thiel-story-100.html

Peter Thiel ist der Strippenzieher hinter dem kulturellen Rechtsruck in den USA und einer der wichtigsten Unterstützer von Donald Trump. Mit Paypal und Facebook ist er reich geworden. Das ist die Geschichte des geheimnisvollen Tech-Milliardärs.

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

https://piefed.social/post/814701

"Meet Zachary Terrell, #DOGE ’s apparent authority on scientific merit... Terrell’s apparent qualifications for overruling decades of #scientific expertise? A 2022 bachelor’s degree from Kansas State & a brief career in #crypto.

...This is the expertise now trumping peer review at the #NSF. Not content knowledge, not research experience... Just the confidence that comes with being a 23-yr-old #techbro who thinks he knows better than any actual expert."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/02/a-23-year-old-crypto-bro-is-now-vetoing-nsf-grants-while-staring-at-his-water-bottle/

OPINION >>> MAUREEN DOWD: #TechBro Had to Go

#ElonMusk came to Washington with a #ChainSaw and left with a #BlackEye

Shrinking government is hard, particularly when you do it callously and carelessly — and apparently on #Hallucinogens

As with President #DonaldTrump’s tariffs, #DOGE has created more volatility than value

A guy who went bankrupt six times doesn’t really care about spending

#Trump certainly didn’t want to see the headline, “Trump Cuts #SocialSecurity"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/opinion/elon-musk-doge-trump.html

My country, #SouthAfrica, is closely associated with the #RhodesMandela scholarship system. That system has a terrible history, all about #empire and the #techbro s of the late 19th Century.

One 21st Century pattern in Rhodes Mandela scholarship grants is for #SouthAfrican students to go to #Harvard. There's even local jokes about it - when you've blown your political capital in SA, you bow out to 'do a post-grad at Harvard'.

We want that. We want that to continue. We want that SO MUCH.

It's a history thing. It's a money thing. It's a relationship thing. It's an intellectual capital thing.

When my country-people go to Harvard, it makes my sometimes parochial or provincial country look outwards, raise their heads, dream dreams and see visions.

#CoryDoctorow at his fiery best, telling us how we got to here and why and then topping it off with ways to undo all the shitty #TechBro malignancy to bring about a better, fairer internet (as well as a better society).

Replete with real world examples of how we’ve all been ‘captured’ by ruthless individuals and what has been done so far to address the raping of our privacy and curtailment of our choices.

If you can spare a hour to watch Cory’s address at the Python Conference on ‘enshitification’ and the solutions to it, you will come away hopeful of a better tomorrow. It might also spurr you to action when you have the opportunity to make a difference

#Enshitification #TechBros #Monopolies #DigitalAge

https://youtu.be/ydVmzg_SJLw

Ob TikTok-Generation oder Facebook-Boomer: wenig prägt uns so sehr wie die #TechMonopolisten, die unseren Alltag regieren. Aber was macht deren Macht auf öffentliche Güter, Politik und Räume mit unseren Demokratien?

Auf der #rp25 mappen meine Kollegin Laura Hille und ich vom @CDCLeuphana den (politischen) Einfluss und das strategische Netzwerk des #TechBro Universe vom #siliconvalley bis ins Weiße Haus. Quartett gespielt wird auch - kommt vorbei!

Hier gibt's das Poster schonmal zum Ausdrucken (CC 4.0): https://logistical.city/techbromap/

Fuck #Duolingo. Christ, why are all these techbros such horrid human beings?

#ai #techbro #gross

“Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will still exist ‘because you still need childcare’”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/duolingo-ceo-says-ai-better-091300739.html

Lire dans @mediapart :
La Contre-Révolution californienne » , l'influence des Républicains mais aussi (l'absence de surprise est totale) la trahison des démocrates au service du capitalisme techno barbare

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/210525/la-silicon-valley-est-nee-de-la-repression-de-l-etat-social-et-progressiste-de-roosevelt

et repenser aux paroles des Dead Kennedys dans California Über Alles.

#Politique
#UsPol
#Californie
#Tech
#TechBro
#Capitalisme
#Fascisme

Whenever you fly somewhere, this organization called "Airlines Reporting Corporation" tells US police, ICE, and the pentagon, among (many) others, from where to where you fly and when. No matter whether you booked your flight through booking.com, Expedia or whatever.

But yeah, assholes are continuing their propaganda that data privacy were an "innovation killer". And that regulation equals communism. That the EU is both evil and stupid because it doesn't allow Apple Intelligence in Europe. And besides, millions died under Maoism! #techbro

#capitalism #communism #regulation #privacy

https://truthout.org/articles/airlines-collect-passenger-data-and-sell-it-to-ice-other-federal-agencies/

German article: https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1191234.beteiligung-von-lufthansa-flugdaten-riese-gibt-milliarden-passagierprofile-an-us-behoerden.html

L'avantage avec les techbro libertariens fascistes c'est qu'ils parlent sans filtre.
C'est intéressant de savoir ce que pense l'adversaire.

L'inconvénient c'est c'est qu'ils n'ont vraiment aucun filtre et leur prooojeeet est flippant.

Le capitalisme à l'etat chimiquement pur.

#Tech
#Libertariens
#TechBro
#TechnoFascistes
#Capitalisme

Via > @totomathon https://piaille.fr/users/totomathon/statuses/114500683210693566
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Tech billionaires are actual super villains https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdMV9Buk/

never ceases to amaze me how willfully ignorant is the #techbro #deathCult

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/12/for-silicon-valley-ai-isnt-just-about-replacing-some-jobs-its-about-replacing-all-of-them

let me just say this:

1. finance ≠ economics and neither are synonyms for Economy
2. Smith & Marx wrote about POLITICAL economy
3. economies don’t need capitalists nor “tech”
4. employment ≠ labor
5. economies exist without employment but not labor
6. money is a metaphor for labor
7. devalue labor and you remove the reason to use money
8. economies exist without money
9. people are economies

"You are not a #techbro, you are a modern day #factory #worker."

#Oakland, #California

Today I got new inspiration regarding #WebSocial (aka the #Fediverse), when I met an old acquaintance and his friend

The acquaintance tried to call me a #TechBro. With some salt, and sugar, I explained what a tech bro was, why I despised them and rolled out a simple explanation of what #Mastodon was.

His friend was surprised and said he didn't know that such a thing existed. My acquaintance then said he wanted to start his own server.

I then realized he's probably not the only one in my city.

so are all the #Hollywood celebrities hawking #techbro #spyware and #crypto scams, fascist collaborators or nah?

Is your State or Province or Country Suing Google for collecting Data on its citizens?

Its a very good way to get money for digital security. Texas did, hoo boy.

Get your suit lined up. look at the headline.

"Google Will Pay $1.4 Billion to Texas to Settle Claims It Collected User Data Without Permission "

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/10/0430217/google-will-pay-14-billion-to-texas-to-settle-claims-it-collected-user-data-without-permission