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Autonomie und Solidarität<p>Big Tech goes <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> - Transformation zum autokratisch-faschistoiden ‚Fortschrittsprojekt‘</p><p>"Das Zusammenwirken von rechtsextremen Autokratie-Anhängern und Faschisten mit reaktionären Tech-Feudalisten erreicht in den <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> ein neues Bewegungsniveau. Die sogenannte Tech-Oligarchie stellt dabei nicht nur Technologien zur Verfügung, die insbesondere rechtsextremen Bestrebungen nützlich sind, sondern befeuert aktiv einen breit angelegten rechten Kulturkampf. Ihr radikal anti-demokratisches Technologieversprechen dient dabei als visionäre Fortschrittserzählung, die angesichts einer allgemeinen Utopiearmut in der Mehrfachkrise mehr und mehr verfängt….‘</p><p><a href="https://emrawi.org/?Big-Tech-goes-MAGA-Transformation-zum-autokratisch-faschistoiden-3746" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">emrawi.org/?Big-Tech-goes-MAGA</span><span class="invisible">-Transformation-zum-autokratisch-faschistoiden-3746</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Thiel</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBros</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technofascism</span></a></p>
65dBnoise<p>Apple appeals €500m EU fine</p><p>Apple finds its own terms for using its app store, revised to conform with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a>'s Digital Markets Act which allow developers to use its Apple Store to advertise other venues for downloading their application, "confusing" to developers 🤣 </p><p>I guess Apple should get used to abiding by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> law now. No more ripping off European developers in a door-less app store cage.</p><p>They can still do it to US developers though… <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/07/apple-appeals-eu-fine-app-store" 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/07/apple-appeals-eu-fine-app-store</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EUpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EUpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
65dBnoise<p>I know my views may be unpopular with Democrat voters, because in spite of being a pragmatic analysis by an obsessed-with-facts engineer, they seem to break an imaginary "unity" of democrats against fascism. Not so.</p><p>There's no such goal and unity at a leadership level, as those now overused by me images below can tell. Unity exists only in masses of people with common goals, and in action, not in fantasy. In flesh, not in social networks spied on by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a>. </p><p>9/9</p>
65dBnoise<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> capitulation to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> shown Snyder that this is even possible? No. That's why his proposal is sad, as it is 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥.</p><p>To understand why the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> has slipped into oligarchy and fascism one needs a political theory that dares to explain the historic data in political terms, and not simply describe the present and be apologetic for being political. And political guts to call out the betrayal by the Democratic party leadership and ask for a new organization and </p><p>6/</p>
65dBnoise<p>"Musk predicted in December [2020] that his company will have humans on Mars by 2026."</p><p>"In 2015, Musk discussed putting a city on Mars after a successful rocket landing by SpaceX. He then published a paper in June 2017 on making humanity a multi-planetary species, laying out plans for having as many as 1 million people on Mars."</p><p>From "Proudly made in the USA" to "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BS</span></a> made exclusively in the USA", that's the surest way to bring down a superpower. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/elon-musk-people-probably-die-mars-mission" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/elon</span><span class="invisible">-musk-people-probably-die-mars-mission</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a></p>
65dBnoise<p>"Move fast and break things"<br>"A bunch of people will probably die"</p><p>For more joy, use a chainsaw if you happen to have one.</p><p>‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing.</p><p>"Always carry a hammer in your Tesla", says Germany’s largest automobile club, ADAC.</p><p>Read more horror stories:<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/05/the-vehicle-suddenly-accelerated-with-our-baby-in-it-the-terrifying-truth-about-why-teslas-cars-keep-crashing" 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/05/the-vehicle-suddenly-accelerated-with-our-baby-in-it-the-terrifying-truth-about-why-teslas-cars-keep-crashing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hype</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a></p>
Activersity<p>"[Facebook] knows who your friends are, what they are interested in,<br>and who you are spending time with…even watch you write something that you end up deleting and never actually send."</p><p>"Apps [are] automatically taking screenshots of themselves and sending them to 3rd parties."</p><p>"Facebook can find you on whatever device you’ve ever checked Facebook on. It can exploit everything that retailers know about you"</p><p> <a href="https://newatlas.com/computers/smartphone-listening-conversations-ads-facebook" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newatlas.com/computers/smartph</span><span class="invisible">one-listening-conversations-ads-facebook</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>facebook</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigbrother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigbrother</span></a></p>
matiu bidule<p>Great cartoon by Ellis Rosen.</p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cartoon</span></a><br><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a><br><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/technoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technoFascism</span></a><br><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a><br><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Litt%C3%A9rature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Littérature</span></a><br><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/ia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ia</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a><br><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/nightmareOnLLMStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nightmareOnLLMStreet</span></a></p>
65dBnoise<p>Cloudflare is an American company capable of controlling how people access the internet all over the world, currently serving 20% of all internet websites.</p><p>If you think this is not a political issue, read here why it is:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare#Controversies" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudfla</span><span class="invisible">re#Controversies</span></a></p><p>How difficult is for a company to join <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a>, if the "boss" asks so? Recent history proves it's just a leap away.</p><p>In ancient Greek <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a>, anyone gaining more power than was tolerable by the 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑠 was expelled from the city-state.</p>
🔻Stones of David🔻<p>No, You Aren’t Hallucinating, the Corporate Plan for AI is Dangerous</p><p><a href="https://socialistproject.ca/2025/06/no-you-arent-hallucinating-corporate-plan-for-ai-dangerous/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">socialistproject.ca/2025/06/no</span><span class="invisible">-you-arent-hallucinating-corporate-plan-for-ai-dangerous/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatgpt</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/tiktok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tiktok</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@humanities" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>humanities</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@socialsciences" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>socialsciences</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/techbros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techbros</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AntiImperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiImperialism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/tiktok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tiktok</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/yemen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yemen</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/blackmastodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>blackmastodon</span></a></span><br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>work</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/america" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>america</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mexico</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>africa</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@watch_union" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>watch_union</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://todon.nl/@ucl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ucl</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://syndicat.solidaires.org/@unionsolidaires" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>unionsolidaires</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>UnicornRiot</span></a></span></p>
Autonomie und Solidarität<p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technofascism</span></a></p>
Dźwiedziu<p>Seven minutes into this video and I'm pretty scared.</p><p>Not by technology, but of people being exploited and people allowing this exploitation.</p><p>What stands in the way of spiraling this into another false division of people: for believers and inter *cough* “synthetic” humans?</p><p>Not the technofash.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCynxiV_8I" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=zKCynxiV_8I</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>taylorlorenz</span></a></span> </p><p>Edit: essentially Cult as a Service (~30:00).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/degenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>degenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/latestagecapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>latestagecapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a></p>
teclista<p>He compartido esto en <a href="https://hortensia.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> (sí, sigo teniendo una cuenta ahí, la vida es complicada...) con algo de éxito, así que lo pongo por aquí por si a alguien le es útil. <a href="https://hortensia.social/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> <a href="https://hortensia.social/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhatsApp</span></a> <a href="https://hortensia.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://hortensia.social/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> <a href="https://hortensia.social/tags/fuckZuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fuckZuckerberg</span></a></p><p>Actualizo: he escrito esto para explicarlo mejor: <a href="https://redesnuestras.net/2025/06/17/por-que-dejar-de-usar-whatsapp-y-cual-es-la-alternativa/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">redesnuestras.net/2025/06/17/p</span><span class="invisible">or-que-dejar-de-usar-whatsapp-y-cual-es-la-alternativa/</span></a></p>
65dBnoise<p>My sensationalist headline and lead:</p><p>«They did it again!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> tech-bro kleptocracy, founded on luring people with "free" services and then 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 their data without consent or permission and using it to make big profits, did it again!»</p><p>Too strongly worded? Well, sugar-coating may make it sweeter and cover the stench, but won't change the facts:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technofascism</span></a> acquires power and makes money from surveilling people and manipulating their behavior. </p><p><a href="https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-t</span><span class="invisible">racking-explained-it-could</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GDPR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DSA</span></a></p>
Paul Feigelfeld<p>June 26, Berlin: Join us for the <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Berkeley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Berkeley</span></a> organized annual meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes at the <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MaxPlanckGesellschaft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaxPlanckGesellschaft</span></a></p><p>With Wendy Chun, Alberto Toscano, Zahid R. Chaudary, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@bildoperationen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bildoperationen</span></a></span> and me</p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a></p>
⠵⠻⠷⠕⠭ 🍥🍉⚪🌹<p>Hero <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7CvbccdVM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=vG7CvbccdVM</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CambridgeAnalytica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CambridgeAnalytica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CaroleCadwalladr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CaroleCadwalladr</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechnoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WorldPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palantir</span></a></p>
65dBnoise<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@jmjm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jmjm</span></a></span> <br>by bread and circuses, or by identity politics, or by gender equality talk, then let them have it", would my thinking, had I been a billionaire.</p><p>That graph I posted shows exactly that. "Good" Obama administration did nothing to improve wealth inequality in the US. It bailed out the failed banks and they recovered almost immediately, while the middle class needed another 10 years to recover to previous levels. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technofascism</span></a> and surveillance capitalism took hold in those good Obama</p><p>2/</p>
William<p>“It’s worth thinking of Saudi Arabia and MBS as distilled versions of a broader reality: The decline in democracy worldwide, and the attacks on press freedom, activists and basic human rights that have come with it, are also concurrent with tech acceleration.” <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a><br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/29/mbs-saudi-arabia-big-tech-authoritarian-embrace/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/opinions/20</span><span class="invisible">25/05/29/mbs-saudi-arabia-big-tech-authoritarian-embrace/</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> appears to be building an unprecedented <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SpyMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpyMachine</span></a> that could track Americans</p><p>A new report shines light on contracts with tech company <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palantir</span></a>, which could create data profiles of Americans to surveil and harass them. </p><p>By Ja'han Jones<br>May 30, 2025, 4:25 PM EDT</p><p>"The push has put a key Palantir product called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Foundry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Foundry</span></a> into at least four federal agencies, including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> and the Health and Human Services Department. Widely adopting Foundry, which organizes and analyzes data, paves the way for Mr. Trump to easily merge information from different agencies, the government officials said. Creating detailed portraits of Americans based on government data is not just a pipe dream. The Trump administration has already sought access to hundreds of data points on citizens and others through government databases, including their bank account numbers, the amount of their student debt, their medical claims and any disability status. Mr. Trump could potentially use such information to advance his political agenda by policing immigrants and punishing critics, Democratic lawmakers and critics have said."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-palantir-surveillance-americans-rcna210017" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/t</span><span class="invisible">rump-palantir-surveillance-americans-rcna210017</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KristiNoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KristiNoem</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBrother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigBrother</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingJournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingJournalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SurveillanceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechnoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFascism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>I just read a piece about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palantir</span></a> in the latest issue [June 2025] of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DSA</span></a> newsletter, "In These Times." A very timely piece indeed!</p><p>Palantir and American <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechnoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFascism</span></a></p><p>by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlbertoToscano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlbertoToscano</span></a></p><p>"A new recruitment campaign appeared on the elite U.S. college campus last April. In schools such as Carnegie Mellon, Cornell and Penn, posters glued to bus stops, with black background, issued a disturbing warning: the time has come for reckoning for the West, before accusing most technology companies of not considering the national interest when they decide what should be built. On the contrary, Palantir, the defense contractor specializing in data analysis and responsible for this recruitment campaign, stated that he does not merely build technological products - to guarantee the future of the United States, but, in fact, to dominate.</p><p>"The implicit message of advertising reflects the conviction of Palantir's leaders, including founder <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeterThiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeterThiel</span></a> and Chief Executive Officer <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlexKarp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlexKarp</span></a>, that Silicon Valley's real mandate is to consolidate the military supremacy of the United States and the West, a nostalgic reaction to the happy days of the Cold War and its merger between state, engineering and capital.</p><p>"In this version of technological <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nationalism</span></a>, the make America great again translates into an impulse for dominance, of course, against foreign adversaries but also against the "Woke capital," effeminate consumerism and a university system dedicated to social justice and diversity (the Palantir posters were published together with a new initiative that invites talented high school students to "judge the indoctrination" of higher education in exchange for a four-month Palantir scholarship).</p><p>"Palantir has strong reason to organize his recruiting career. Although critics retangled when their shares plummeted briefly after Trump's tariff announcement, Palantir's stock market capitalization currently exceeds $270 billion, more than triple its value last September. In addition, the company's ability to establish high-level contacts among national security personnel has generated a series of government contracts linked to the acceleration of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trumpist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a>.</p><p>"Palantir has already collaborated with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceX</span></a> and the AI and robo robotor <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anduril" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anduril</span></a> (another tech company with the theme of The Lord of the Rings led by another <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a> businessman) to begin building Trump's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GoldenDome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoldenDome</span></a>, an American version of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>'s Iron Dome air defense system. It is also working with Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a>) to create an app programming interface that will allow <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HomelandSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomelandSecurity</span></a> to track tax data for more undocumented taxpayers to expel.</p><p>"In April, Palantir, who has long boasted of his collaborations with military, police and border agents, won a $29.8 million contract with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> to improve his <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dystopian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dystopian</span></a> Immigration Lifecycle Operating System. That is, it is intended to provide molecular and real-time information on immigrants that the government seeks to monitor, arrest and expel. The company is preparing to review ICE's investigative case management system to better track target populations across hundreds of data categories, from eye color to tattoos, job management and social security numbers.</p><p>"Palantir's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> research and development does not stop at the borders of the United States: the company and Karp have proclaimed their ideological and material support for Israel, which carries out the genocide in Gaza. In January 2024, during an extraordinary board meeting in Tel Aviv, the company announced its strategic alliance with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, providing it with technology for war, possibly including its Artificial Intelligence Platform, sold as a way to incorporate language models-fueled chatbots into real-time decision-making processes in war zones. The company's leadership has made it clear that its conception of Western supremacy implies the uncompromising defense of Zionism abroad and far-right nationalism in the country.</p><p>"In all this, it has become clear that Palantir represents the alliance between the technology industry and authoritarian nationalism much more than Musk's clumsy Nazi salutes, sensationalist pronatalism or trolling 'dark <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a>.' As technology academic Jathan Sadowski recently wrote, 'From the beginning, Palantir's purpose has been to provide... the ontological plan to fascism, helping his ideological objectives come true materially.</p><p>"In other words, Palantir is building the digital infrastructure to integrate the multiple forms of violence and state control on which contemporary <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> is based: from the software needed for mass deportations to AI used in wars against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColonizedPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColonizedPeoples</span></a>.</p><p>"But Palantir not only builds to dominate, he also wants to tell us why. Less than a month after Trump's inauguration, Karp published his book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, written with the head of Palantir's affairs, Nicolas W. - Zamiska. The book is a strange and prolific mix of neoconservative texts, pseudo-erudite reflections and corporate pamphlets (and apparently shows strong signs of possible use of artificial intelligence).</p><p>"In its attempt to unite the praise of Silicon Valley engineers with a strident demand for rearmament from the West, The Technological Republic draws a vision of the future in which the intuitions about creativity, taken from the study of swarms of bees or Jackson Pollock's paintings, are put at the service of ensuring a broad spectrum technological dominance. At the centre is the regret that a compact liberal elite has exhausted the moral courage and technological dynamism of the West just as it faces the revolution of artificial intelligence and emerging Chinese hegemony. After the vague rhetoric of the cultural war, it is not difficult to perceive Karp and Palantir's angry reaction to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> organized by technological workers through campaigns such as '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoTechForIce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoTechForIce</span></a> or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechWorkersCoalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechWorkersCoalition</span></a>' to the project of building to dominate.</p><p>"Just as Karp has underlined his company's commitment to Israeli supremacy, so does his book speak of a 'left' chased by the spectre of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a>. The executive director of a company that reaps huge profits from surveillance and data extraction systems, aimed at expelling dissidents and undocumented people, Karp writes with contempt of those who want to remain anonymous during Israel's war camps in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>. Quote a student who says, 'If I give my name, I lose my future.' With an astonishing lack of self-consciousness he comments: 'The protective veil of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anonymity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anonymity</span></a> could [...] rob this generation of the opportunity to develop an instinct for true mastery of an idea, of the reward of victory in the public square, as well as the costs of defeat.</p><p>"This is the same book that, in a variant of the conspiracy theory of cultural Marxism, Edward Said's Orientalism is the main culprit of the emasculation of an academic world built around Western civilization and, therefore, as one more factor in the hesitant technological supremacy of the United States. As Karp states, the book of the Palestinian-American critic has destabilized - a whole way of being an academic in the university establishment, has been the vehicle through which the academic world would be remade.</p><p>"The Technological Republic reveals that contemporary <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechnoNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoNationalism</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechnoMilitarism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoMilitarism</span></a> have nothing to do with building infrastructure for state control and violence, but also with the promotion of an indistinguishable ideology of those who try to sell you something. Palantir reaps benefits not only from the way fear of migrants, artificial intelligence, the upcoming wars waged by drone swarms, mobilizes the resources of governments, but also from speech and uproar. His company's stock market capitalization has quadrupled in the past year, far surpassing revenue-derived growth. This vacuum is filled with speculation, that is, with words and ideas about the future. The future Karp sells is one in which the alternative is ruin (China geopolitical supremacy) or (American) dominance. Behind all the complaints of The Technological Republic about the crisis of confidence in the West, what Karp really wants us to believe is in Palantir, that is, the old business of war, racism and repression marketed through a brilliant new interface."</p><p>[Original - in Spanish]<br><a href="https://ficciondelarazon.org/2025/05/14/alberto-toscano-palantir-y-el-tecno-fascismo-estadounidense/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ficciondelarazon.org/2025/05/1</span><span class="invisible">4/alberto-toscano-palantir-y-el-tecno-fascismo-estadounidense/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBrother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigBrother</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICERaids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICERaids</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldPol</span></a></p>