Business Idiots have been the bane of my existence as one who wants only to do competent, quality work and earn a respectable wage.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/
“…generative AI feels magical [to CEOs], because it does an *impression* of somebody doing a job, which is an accurate way of describing how most executives and middle managers operate”
Also rips financialization and tech-media stenographers. Long and a bit ranty; needs editing for length.
Incels goading vulnerable adults into suicide, they are in this to have power over people, not to help them find release.
“But this is my concern: people in power will only act if they feel what this grief feels like. I would not wish that on anyone. But if Mark Zuckerberg, for example, lost a child to online harms, then he’d be like, ‘Oh my God, I need to wake up.’”
@MichaelimOdenwald There is an entire ecosystem on my Win10 machines. The ecosystem has a problem with migrating.
I totally reject where M$ is going. Just like with Adobe they control access to your creations with their subscription models and worse with sneaking in exploitation clauses to your intellectual property.
#techfeudalism #M$ #techFscism #Apple #Adobe #Microsoft #SiliconValley #neoliberalism
Scale… grow… ever larger… always…
Motherfucking rocket ships baby!
Who’s gonna be the European Elon Musk? We need one, right?!
Let’s embrace Big Tech and recreate Silicon Valley in Europe because what could fucking go wrong?
Instead of say… supporting small, decentralised technology that protects human rights and democracy. No, sorry, we have no money for that sort of crap.
https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology
(In our ten years of existence Small Technology Foundation has not received 1 fucking Euro from the EU. And this, so very clearly, explains why. Enjoy your European version of US technofascism when it arrives. You’ll have deserved it fully.)
#EU #startups #BigTech #scale #growth #cancer #capitalism #SiliconValley https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114585055099190059
Exciting news! Ali Partovi and Russell Kaplan are joining the star-studded lineup at StrictlyVC Menlo Park on June 18. Don't miss this fantastic night of ideas and conversation in the heart of Silicon Valley. Register now! #StrictlyVC #SiliconValley #VentureCapital
In today’s knowledge-driven world, work defines our identity and purpose. Is job crafting replacing traditional social gatherings and religion? Join Andrew M. Henry and Carolyn Chen in discussing how this trend is transforming communities, especially in tech! #WorkCulture #JobCrafting #SiliconValley
https://www.designative.info/2025/05/27/watch-tech-companies-a-new-religion-with-andrew-m-henry/
Annika Brockschmidt auf #stage1 4/x
#eugenie großes Thema der #religiösenRechten und der #SiliconValley Bewegung; diese betreibt Selektion nach IQ und äußeren Merkmalen, setzt hier auch künstliche Befruchtung ein. Religiöse Rechte sind klar gegen künstliche Befruchtung.
#WeißesHaus will #Geburtenrate steigern und Medaille für hohe Geburtenrate einführen. Historisch stark an nationalsozialistisches #Mutterverdienstkreuz angelehnt.
Es difícil entender por qué los simpatizantes más destacados de la trilogía de Tolkien son los señores de la #tecnología de #SiliconValley, como Elon #Musk y #PeterThiel, y un grupo creciente de políticos de #extremaderecha tanto en Europa como en Estados Unidos. https://nyti.ms/3FkTdyI
Do we need publicly-owned social networks to escape #SiliconValley?
In the end #siliconvalley will all leave the #trump bandwagon because in the end they simply can't do what he's asking them to.
I disagree with most of what Trump does but usually I understand it. This, I don't.
Maybe he just wants to set them up as traitors to blame, but beyond that; I got nothing.
Science Fiction for Venture Capitalists disguised as futurology:
"We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution.
We wrote a scenario that represents our best guess about what that might look like. It’s informed by trend extrapolations, wargames, expert feedback, experience at OpenAI, and previous forecasting successes."
#AI #AIAgents #Futurology #ScienceFiction #BigTech #SiliconValley #AGI
The Register: Builder.ai coded itself into a corner – now it’s bankrupt. “Backed by Microsoft, Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, and a host of venture capitalists, Britain-based Builder.ai rose rapidly to near-unicorn status as the startup’s valuation approached $1 billion (£740 million). The London company’s business model was to leverage AI tools to allow customers to design and create […]
American Prospect warns of an AI bubble threatening Silicon Valley and beyond. #AI #SiliconValley #BigTech
https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-bubble-trouble-ai-threat/
Whistleblowers warn Elon Musk is 'hijacking' Republicans to control the US government. #ElonMusk #BigTech #SiliconValley
#AI #gov #email #privacy #SiliconValley
'Mountain View-based company GovernmentGPT filed 90 California Public Records Act requests with multiple cities across the Bay Area for emails from residents addressed to mayors, councilmembers and city clerks from 2020 to 2023. The goal is to create an artificial intelligence tool that can easily summarize a resident’s thoughts based on public comments.'
https://sanjosespotlight.com/silicon-valley-cities-hit-with-request-for-resident-emails-to-train-ai/
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: #TeleMessage is used by everyone from DC's finest to Silicon Valley's finest—because who doesn't love a good security breach? 🤦♂️ Congrats, your secrets are now open source #research tools! 🎉🔓
https://micahflee.com/telemessage-customers-include-dc-police-andreesen-horowitz-jp-morgan-and-hundreds-more/ #SecurityBreach #OpenSource #DC #SiliconValley #HackerNews #ngated
Silicon Valley's power war is waged on human emotion. Read Mike Brock's take. #BigTech #SiliconValley #Privacy
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-hollow-men-of-silicon-valley
#SurgeAI #AI #DigitalSweatshops #labor #SiliconValley
'The proposed class action lawsuit alleges that "data annotators" — hired by Surge AI to ensure that powerful AI systems run by Meta and OpenAI can properly generate text responses that are accurate and capable of mimicking human expressions — were "deliberately" classified as independent contractors, denying them benefits given to employees.'
https://www.aol.com/news/surge-ai-latest-san-francisco-205539828.html
