"#ElonMusk may have resigned from the Department of Government Efficiency, but few believe he’s stepping away from power. In under a year, #DOGE brought #SiliconValley-style disruption to Washington, consolidating federal data and dismantling oversight. Now, #Musk is expected to channel what he gained into a private #AI venture – with public systems still in reach."

guest: @MattBinder

https://omny.fm/shows/the-take/what-did-elon-musk-get-from-doge-and-what-s-next
#USpol #SiliconValleyRight #DOGEbags #cronyCapitalism #MoveFastAndLootThings #tech

"The reason why we ended up calling it 'end times #fascism' is because I think it gets at the narrative structure of all of these movements, and it is the same narrative structure as the rapture."

#NaomiKlein on #Trump 2.0 and "End Times Fascism"

https://youtu.be/Pw7nMKN7Bfc
#USpol #USpolitics #politicalTheory #Trumpism #neofascism #SiliconValleyRight #oligarchy #FarRight #NewRight

"Mr. #Musk’s grandfather was also a flamboyant leader of the political movement known as #technocracy.

"Leading #technocrats proposed replacing democratically elected officials and civil servants — indeed, all of government — with an army of scientists and engineers under what they called a #technate. Some also wanted to annex Canada and Mexico."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/opinion/elon-musk-doge-technocracy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE8.DkY0.xuUNqvaLaS8R&smid=url-share
#USpol #technosolutionism #oligarchy #TechBros #techOligarchs #FarRight #SiliconValleyRight #ElonMusk #JoshuaHaldeman

'In #SiliconValley, companies are instructed to “move fast and break things.” #Musk’s own companies often take this a step further: They have few employees devoted to things like compliance or communication and often take massive, possibly existential risks. This is what Musk wants the federal government to look like.'

https://newrepublic.com/article/194044/elon-musk-doge-fraud-report

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
#USpol #NLRB #DOGE #DOGEbags #MAGA #SiliconValleyRight #DanielBerulis #whistleblowers #dataBreaches

"#ElonMusk’s minions in the federal government have just fired key experts who regulate #Tesla"

https://newrepublic.com/post/193850/elon-musk-doge-tesla-firing-self-driving-car-experts
#USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #DOGE #NHTSA #DOGEbags #cronyism #CronyCapitalism #Musk #SiliconValleyRight

"[T]his #newRight does not really reject globalism but advances a new strain of it [...] The fix it finds in race, culture, and nation is but the most recent iteration of a pro-market philosophy based not on the idea that we are all the same but that we are in a fundamental, and perhaps permanent way, different." - #QuinnSlobodian

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/free-markets-and-fixed-natures

#neoliberalism #inequality #USpolitics #AltRight #UShistory #SiliconValleyRight #FarRight #MontPelerinSociety #racialistRight @histodons

"While much of #Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency remains shrouded in secrecy, the #surveillance would mark an extraordinary use of technology to identify expressions of perceived disloyalty in a workforce already upended by widespread firings and severe cost cutting."

Musk's #DOGE using #AI to snoop on U.S. #federalWorkers, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/musks-doge-using-ai-snoop-us-federal-workers-sources-say-2025-04-08/
#USpol #USpolitics #tech #DOGEbags #TechBros #stateRepression #MAGA #austerity #SiliconValleyRight

"People compare #Trump to Hitler or to Putin. But for us the closest historical comparison is Boris Yeltsin.

"So today we talk to #JacobSilverman about Trump’s #shitcoins and other #crypto schemes because they remind us so much of 1990s Russia and Yeltsin’s family corrupt deals."

#TheRussians pod w/ #EvgeniaKovda & #YashaLevine

https://www.nefariousrussians.com/p/shitcoins-for-shitocracy-wjacob-silverman
#USpol #MAGA #cronyism #cronyCapitalism #oligarchy #SiliconValleyRight #CryptoBros #tech #TechBros #DOGEbags #MoveFastAndLootThings

#DOGE Employee Known as “Big Balls” Once Helped #Cybercrime Gang

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-staffer-big-balls-provided-tech-support-cybercrime-ring-records-show-2025-03-26/
#DOGEbags #USpol #USpolitics #SiliconValleyRight #tech #TheBestAndTheBallsiest #MoveFastAndLootThings

"More immediately ominous to people familiar with the systems was the possibility that, by tampering with the code, Elez could cause the systems, in whole or in part, to simply stop working. 'It’s like knowing you have hackers on your network, but nobody lets you do anything about it,' a Treasury employee told WIRED."

Inside Elon #Musk's 'Digital Coup'

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-digital-coup-doge-data-ai/
https://archive.ph/vF0uL
#USpol #USpolitics #DOGE #DOGEbags #TechBros #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #MAGA

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes Sarah T. Roberts

topics
⦁"the hidden humans behind #ArtificialIntelligence" & #AI's dependence on hyperexploited outsourced #labour
⦁#DOGE, "an emblem of how #SiliconValley executives have embraced a brand of #tech rapture that disdains and destroys democracy and attacks the idea that people can take care of each other"

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/16761835-the-hidden-humans-behind-artificial-intelligence-and-the-sociopathology-of-elon-musk-a-conversation-with-sarah-t-roberts
#BigTech #techWorkers #Musk #cyberlibertarianism #technosolutionism #USpol #USpolitics #SiliconValleyRight #DOGEbags

"[W]e are witnessing something new: the convergence of three strains of politics that have never simultaneously been this proximate to power [..] the Wall Street–#SiliconValley nexus of distressed debt and startup culture; anti–New Deal #conservativeThinkTanks; and the extremely online world of #anarchocapitalism and right-wing accelerationism." - #QuinnSlobodian

What is #DOGE?

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/02/15/speed-up-the-breakdown/
https://archive.ph/WEUjr
#SiliconValleyRight #MAGA #USpol #USpolitics #Musk #DOGEbags #BigTech

"Wealthy #crypto executives and investors supported #Trump and other Republicans with millions of dollars in campaign donations. Now, they aim to cash in."

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-crypto-bitcoin-corruption/
#USpol #USpolitics #TrumpCabinet #cronyism #CronyCapitalism #2024election #CryptoLobby #tech #SiliconValleyRight

« Alors que les grands patrons des #GAFAM font déjà allégeance au futur 47ème président des Etats-Unis, la #tech accentue-t-elle son virage cyber-autoritaire ? »

entretien avec @parismarx (en angl, avec intro et sous-titrage en fr)

https://youtu.be/8l63vEnTrUM
#PolitiqueAméricaine #SiliconValleyRight #BigTech #USpol #USpolitics #cyberautoritarisme #AutoritarismeNumérique #lobbys #DroiteTech #DroiteTechAméricaine #MAGA #trumpisme

"Why would the CEO of Tesla want to end a program that makes it cheaper for people to buy #EVs?

"Well, according to Musk, it would devastate #Tesla's rivals. And Tesla wants to keep its strong lead in the US EV market, which recently slipped under 50% for the first time."

Why #Musk supports #Trump getting rid of #EVTaxCredits

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/why-musk-supports-trump-getting-rid-of-ev-tax-credits/ar-AA1u6tqe?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=5324e663366e4855b328294958118749&ei=25
#USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #SiliconValleyRight #TechBros #CronyCapitalism #monopolism #affairisme #tizamis

"#Trump’s new #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency or '#DOGE' will comprise of two clueless #TechBros. What targets, exactly, will #Musk and #Ramaswamy try to hit?"

#ChrisLehmann | DOGE shit

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/welcome-to-the-department-of-government-idiocracy/
#USpol #USpolitics #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #MAGA

"Some politicians may be friendly to right-wing #SiliconValley '#broligarchs,' but #Vance has fashioned himself in #Thiel’s image." - #JacobSilverman

https://zeteo.com/p/peter-thiel-jd-vance-trump-maga-broligarch
#JDVance #PeterThiel #SiliconValleyRight #NewRight #TechOligarchs #TechBros #tech #BigTech #GOP #USpol #USpolitics #2024election

"Big names in #BigTech are in for a second #Trump presidency, from Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick, #JDVance, to millions of dollars in monthly campaign donations. What’s behind some #TechBillionaires’ embrace of the right, and how does their vision align with Trump's vision for America?"

guest: @parismarx, host of #TechWontSaveUs

https://omny.fm/shows/the-take/is-silicon-valley-going-maga
#SiliconValley #SiliconValleyRight #NewRight #TechOligarchs #TechBros #tech #2024election #USpol #USpolitics #GOP

"If, two years ago The New York Times could make the dubious claim that #TechGiants like #Musk were hard to pin down politically, there is no room now for even that level of credulousness. It’s official: #SiliconValley has been fully #MAGA-pilled, and the #tech authoritarians are bringing their money with them." - #JacobSilverman

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/silicon-valley-trump-support-donations/
#USpol #USpolitics #2024election #TechOligarchs #BigTech #TechBros #NewRight #SiliconValleyRight

"The choices #tech titans make in their personal lives [..] show that a segregated, shrouded life is their ideal. But they profit off technologies which, while encouraging our own social withdrawal, are focused on capturing as much information about us as possible."

#RebeccaSolnit reads her powerful LRB essay, "Losing #SanFrancisco"

https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley
#SiliconValley #cities #gentrification #inequality #BigTech #plutocracy #TechFutures #TechBros #TechCulture #SiliconValleyRight