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#BigTech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead
Good news for #Andreessen (#a16z) and accelerationists is they backed Trump and he won. Andreessen is advising. Venture Capitalist David Sacks is #WhiteHouse #AI and #crypto “czar.” Musk and his posse are doing the slashing and burning themselves. Tegulation on AI and everything else they didn’t like is in process of being removed, administration is working on #taxcuts that will benefit them all.
404media.co/big-tech-backed-tr

404 Media · Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President InsteadEffective accelerationists didn’t just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot. They methodically blew off each of their toes with a .50 caliber sniper rifle.

#Pixelfed and other #Fediverse platforms like #Mastodon were just mentioned on German television (ZDF) 🎉:

Trump and his new big tech autocracy: Trump, Musk & Co are trying to dismantle the state at high speed. A culture war has broken out. Is democracy in danger?

How dangerous is this and what can Europe do to counter it? Will the EU's democratic rules stand up to the superiority of US big tech?

zdf.de/video/reportagen/aspekt

SUCCES!

Vores webinar ” Ud af tech-giganternes kløer – Hvordan din organisation kan frigøre sig fra afhængighed af store tech-virksomheder” var en stor succes. 🤩

Deltagerne stillede mange gode og relevante spørgsmål, hvilket tyder på, at digital uafhængighed er noget, der optager flere og flere virksomheder.

En stor tak skal der lyde til Jens Kjellerup fra Ballerup Kommune, der delte ud af sin store erfaring med open source. Det er en lige så stor del af hans DNA som Semaphors. Dejligt ❤️

Spørgelysten var så stor, at Tobias @fonsmark har tilbudt at fortsætte sine digitale åbent hus arrangementer alle fredage i april også (kl. 13.00). Her er der mulighed for at fortsætte snakken fra webinaret, og stille alle de spørgsmål du måske har brændt inde med.

💻 Deltag i åbent hus meet.semaphor.dk/ÅbentHus

👀 Se eller gense webinaret her semaphor.dk/nyheder/webinar-ud

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If you want to understand the horrifying future these tech billionaire nazis have in store for humanity, it helps to understand what parts of our "glorious past" as a species they're looking to recreate. This interview with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign information sciences and media studies professor Anita Say Chan talks a bit about the history of data and eugenics, what it means that guys like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel (along with most of Silicon Valley's movers and shakers) are devout believers in eugenicist philosophies, and how that's reflected in their efforts to reshape society in horrifying, and objectively fascist ways. In terms of our discussion about the uber rich fascists who heavily influence the Trump regime they bought and paid for, I'm mostly including this here to point out that these guys have gone on record in support of a lot of openly fascist shit and for the most part, your media pretends we don't already know these guys are nazis; it's not a secret, it's just not "worth mentioning" when media orgs are fawning over technofascist billionaires destroying our planet and our lives.

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech

"Big Tech successors like Musk and PayPal billionaire-turned-arms dealer Peter Thiel have overtly promoted fraudulent race science, with Musk amplifying users on X who argue that people of European descent are biologically superior. In response to another user’s deleted post suggesting that students at historically Black institutions have lower IQs, Musk posted, “It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE”—diversity, equity, and inclusion, misspelled. In 2016, Thiel buddied up to a prominent white nationalist, and, the same year, was said by a Stanford dorm-mate to have complimented South Africa’s “economically sound” system of racial apartheid."

Mother JonesEugenics isn't dead—it's thriving in techA new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley.
#Fascism#Trump#Musk

I just wrote this post about what to think about regarding your digital privacy, after a conversation with someone who would be visiting America soon. It was weird, we couldn't talk (via app) about what we wanted to say. Like communist Germany in the 80s. The post is just 2 lists, aimed at non technical ppl who dont really know about the risks.

#privacy #security #phones #vpn #email #data #academicchatter #academia #bigtech

penworks.net/blog/privacy-what

penworks.netPrivacy, what privacy?I just wanted to jot down a few things regarding privacy on the internet and in digital life. Though I'm not a security professional expert, I am...

I think Im about to step out of academic life now. Ofc its easier for me, Ive had my 20 years of study, lecturing, paper writing, app making and phd doing. I can step away, Im older, I can afford to. But Im not tired or bored, Im angry, appalled, Im not able to carry on because Im ethically so compromised. I just cannot be part of this charade for big tech extractive grifting anymore. Im with Miyazaki.

#academicchatter #academia #bigtech #edtech #ai #genai

bloodinthemachine.com/p/openai

Blood in the Machine · OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itselfBy Brian Merchant