In a few years (or is it already happening?) there will be those who have brains which function, produce ideas and solve problems, and those who have surrendered the joy of thinking to #technofascism's stochastic parrots, A.K.A. #AI.
Maybe Aristotle was right after all: maybe there ARE people that are slaves by nature, and this technology gives them just the pretext they needed.
For them, there's this (vulgar) Greek proverb:
«Θέλει η πουτάνα να κρυφτεί, μα η χαρά δεν την αφήνει»
@sharponlooker
Yeah, science behind paywalls and only for the priesthood. Good old ancient Egyptian style is the future in #technofascism.
Well, thanks to Samsung support (#NoThanks), email on my phone lost all of my accounts. But I found Thunderbird has an Android version. Yeah Mozilla! (+open source +privacy).
Meanwhile, my university no longer supports standalone Office stuff so all my MS software is frozen. Yeah #LibreOffice that @susankayequinn and others have been touting for some time.
And I just added Joplin. Importing my many OneNotebooks now.
Whew
Antidotes to #technofascism #enshittification
Watching you – Die Welt von Palantir und Alex Karp
"Erstmals schaut ein Dokumentarfilm auf den US-Milliardär Alex Karp und seine so mysteriöse wie abgeschottete Firma #Palantir. Neben Elon Musk, seinem Mitgründer #PeterThiel und Sam Altman gilt der CEO von Palantir als einer der bedeutendsten Digital Leader. Wie sie profitiert Alex Karp von der Wahl Donald Trumps zum Präsidenten der USA. Doch hierzulande ist er noch recht unbekannt – und das obwohl auch deutsche Polizeibehörden mit der Palantir-Software “Gotham” arbeiten: Das erfolgreiche und gleichzeitig umstrittene Datenanalyse-Programm ist darauf spezialisiert, große Mengen an Daten zu bündeln und zu visualisieren, mit dem Ziel der Informationsgewinnung und Überwachung. “Gotham” kann über digitale Datenanalysen weltweit Profile einzelner Menschen erstellen. Die Software unterstützt Geheimdienste, Militär und Polizeibehörden bei der Terrorbekämpfung."
ARD #Doku:
https://www.ardmediathek.de/film/watching-you-die-welt-von-palantir/NzBiODA4OWItZGZmZS00NGY0LWIxZDUtNWU0NDYxMTUzOWVm
More on why capitalism and #technofascism will NOT solve the #ClimateCrisis:
𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐢𝐝. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬!
https://rhodes-center-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/why-capitalism-cant-solve-the-climate-crisis
With Brett Christophers, professor at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University and author of the new book “The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet”
Nog een juweeltje uit het verkiezingsprogramma van de VVD.
Dat van die killer robots mag je heel letterlijk nemen.
Geautomatiseerd mensen afknallen, zonder menselijke tussenkomst, zelfs zonder dat je weet wie het is?
De VVD vindt dat een goed idee. Robots die geautomatiseerd mensen vernietigen.
It would seem as if we were living in parallel universes, but #technofascism Made In The #USA is real and here to stay.
A stochastic parrot technology marketed as #AI has taken the world by storm. It offers nothing that can actually improve the lives of people, steals IP from millions of creators to make billions in profits for a few billionaires, and consumes enormous amounts of energy at a time of #climateCrisis.
Welcome to 21st c. dystopia. This is the real thing.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/16/zuckerberg-meta-data-center-ai-manhattan
Big Tech goes #MAGA - Transformation zum autokratisch-faschistoiden ‚Fortschrittsprojekt‘
"Das Zusammenwirken von rechtsextremen Autokratie-Anhängern und Faschisten mit reaktionären Tech-Feudalisten erreicht in den #USA 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….‘
https://emrawi.org/?Big-Tech-goes-MAGA-Transformation-zum-autokratisch-faschistoiden-3746
Apple appeals €500m EU fine
Apple finds its own terms for using its app store, revised to conform with #EU's Digital Markets Act which allow developers to use its Apple Store to advertise other venues for downloading their application, "confusing" to developers 
I guess Apple should get used to abiding by #EU law now. No more ripping off European developers in a door-less app store cage.
They can still do it to US developers though… #technofascism
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/07/apple-appeals-eu-fine-app-store
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.
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 #BigTech and #technofascism.
9/9
#SiliconValley capitulation to #technofascism shown Snyder that this is even possible? No. That's why his proposal is sad, as it is 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥.
To understand why the #US 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
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"Musk predicted in December [2020] that his company will have humans on Mars by 2026."
"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."
From "Proudly made in the USA" to "#BS made exclusively in the USA", that's the surest way to bring down a superpower. #technofascism
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/elon-musk-people-probably-die-mars-mission
"Move fast and break things"
"A bunch of people will probably die"
For more joy, use a chainsaw if you happen to have one.
‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing.
"Always carry a hammer in your Tesla", says Germany’s largest automobile club, ADAC.
Read more horror stories:
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
"[Facebook] knows who your friends are, what they are interested in,
and who you are spending time with…even watch you write something that you end up deleting and never actually send."
"Apps [are] automatically taking screenshots of themselves and sending them to 3rd parties."
"Facebook can find you on whatever device you’ve ever checked Facebook on. It can exploit everything that retailers know about you"
https://newatlas.com/computers/smartphone-listening-conversations-ads-facebook
Great cartoon by Ellis Rosen.
#Cartoon
#Tech
#technoFascism
#ScienceFiction
#Littérature
#ia #ai
#nightmareOnLLMStreet
Cloudflare is an American company capable of controlling how people access the internet all over the world, currently serving 20% of all internet websites.
If you think this is not a political issue, read here why it is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare#Controversies
How difficult is for a company to join #technofascism, if the "boss" asks so? Recent history proves it's just a leap away.
In ancient Greek #democracy, anyone gaining more power than was tolerable by the 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑠 was expelled from the city-state.
No, You Aren’t Hallucinating, the Corporate Plan for AI is Dangerous
https://socialistproject.ca/2025/06/no-you-arent-hallucinating-corporate-plan-for-ai-dangerous/
#tech #ethics #ai #chatgpt #tiktok #geopolitics #labor
@humanities
@socialsciences
#education #technofascism #techbros
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon
#union #work #socialism #america #mexico #africa @watch_union
@ucl @unionsolidaires @UnicornRiot
Seven minutes into this video and I'm pretty scared.
Not by technology, but of people being exploited and people allowing this exploitation.
What stands in the way of spiraling this into another false division of people: for believers and inter *cough* “synthetic” humans?
Not the technofash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCynxiV_8I from @taylorlorenz
Edit: essentially Cult as a Service (~30:00).
He compartido esto en #Instagram (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. #Signal #WhatsApp #Meta #technofascism #fuckZuckerberg
Actualizo: he escrito esto para explicarlo mejor: https://redesnuestras.net/2025/06/17/por-que-dejar-de-usar-whatsapp-y-cual-es-la-alternativa/
Stones of David
