AI-rapporteur @kimvsparrentak: ‘Europese Commissie laat haar oren hangen naar techoligarchen en Trump’ https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/03/26/ai-rapporteur-europese-commissie-laat-haar-oren-hangen-naar-techoligarchen-en-trump-a4887762 #ai #eu #techoligarchy #tech
"Meet the new #authoritarianism boss. Same as the old #authoritarian boss."
"How DOGE isn't just tearing down institutions but also laying the groundwork for an experimental new kind of authoritarian rule."... a #Libertarians #techbros #Broligarchy
"The #DarkEnlightenment: The #TechOligarchy #Ideology Driving #DOGE’s Destruction"
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/the-dark-enlightenment-the-tech-oligarch-ideology-driving-doges-destruction.html #Libertarianism= #Fascism pretending to have democratic goals, and many of you were indoctrinated to accept it via #HarryPotter books/moovees
Yarvin probably got his ideas from Buchanan... the tech oligarch version of property supremacy.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A3eYqaTk5RU
And let's not forget, Palantir, Peter Thiel's spyware is already in use in many countries. They're serious about it and the US is the first for them to try their dystopian vision.
Ich bekomme da so dunkle Erinnerungen
[Microsoft Tay](https://wiki.adminforge.de/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)?lang=en) eine frühe #KI welche ungefiltert auf #Twitter / #X losgelassen und rapide schnell hochgradig menschenverachtend wurde.
Der Weg zu vorgegebenen #Guidelines ist da nicht mehr weit. So könnte #GenerativeAi schnell zu einem Propagandaselbstläufer werden.
Auch eine gezielte Diskriminierung oder Verfolgung ist bei den Aussagen Trumps im Denkbaren.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-safety-institute-new-directive-america-first/
[en] #Luddite: anti-progress fanatics, a popular misconception
"... original ... Luddites weren’t against #technology. "
"... wrest back control of technology for #democratic ends ... kind of "#digital #Luddism" which echoes past struggles against high-tech #injustice."
"... systemic change towards #sustainable, #transparent and #usercontrolled infrastructure."
Billionaire Diplomacy? Musk’s Starlink deal in Pakistan shows how unelected tech moguls now have more diplomatic influence than most world leaders. Who voted for this? #TechOligarchy #Musk
https://champ.ly/dVhLe2Mw
[en] Concerns that US could access European #data
"The potential harm caused by an #interruption of public services could #disrupt the country and #society, the government auditing agency said" [#NL].
"The report [#KPMG] recommends ... a combination of multiple #European and #Dutch providers be chosen for #cloud services."
Google suddenly wants biometric information of mine to let me install an app! I do not have any trust in #TechOligarchy , and am about to switch to an open source os for smartphones. Does any one have any personal experience/recommendations with such an osos?
CEOs have a paternalistic attitude towards those below them in the economic and social hierarchy.
Tech CEOs doubly so.
This is another reason to more equally distribute power and wealth among workers.
The #maga movement & the #techOligarchy are (as it turns out) full of hot air
America needs to go back to doing it's homework
#Deepseek is just the beginning
Trump’s back in office, Elon’s doing “awkward hand gestures,” and the oligarchy 2.0 is right behind them.
On #SystemCrash, @brianmerchant and I talked to Jacob Silverman to discuss the inauguration and what we witnessed this week.
Listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/episodes/16493251-the-rise-of-the-silicon-oligarchy-ft-jacob-silverman
"If it wasn't already obvious, the last 72 hours have made it crystal clear that it is urgent to build & mainstream alternative, #decentralized #socialmedia platforms that are resistant to government #censorship and control, are not owned by #oligarchs and dominated by their #algorithms, and in which users own their follower list and can port it elsewhere easily and without restriction."
#DecentralizedSocialMedia Is the Only Alternative to the #TechOligarchy
https://www.404media.co/decentralized-social-media-is-the-only-alternative-to-the-tech-oligarchy/
"The tech oligarchy is here, and so content in their strangulation of the media that they can be unashamed in their fealty. They can cheer in public and give Nazi salutes and what of it. Their institutional capture is complete. Even the Anti-defamation League will look at a Sieg Heil and say, “that’s fine.” Because the tech oligarchs know, from last go round, that, as Astra Taylor has pointed out, the opposition becoming outraged about their offenses will ultimately amount to little. There is no longer any power to be found in yelling, or working the refs, or appealing to norms, if there was any to begin with. Our protests online will be filed away into the nooks of the sprawling platforms they own.
Is Elon Musk a card-carrying Nazi? It doesn’t matter. The salute was a juvenile display of power, one that aptly reflects the stature of the fully ascended tech oligarchy. Musk is the richest man in the world, he is the first buddy; he can transcend any norm, any offense, watch him. Like Trump before him, he can tell everyone to eat shit, and while the media wonders if he meant it, he’s already pointing his attention and posts and cannon of obscene wealth in another direction. He owns the platform that dictates his own reality. He barely had to defend himself, he barely denied it. He’ll probably do it again. Who’s going to stop him?"
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/elon-musk-did-a-nazi-salute-on-live
#FBPE #RejoinEU 
