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paninid
Coach Sankhavaram ® @paninid@mastodon.world · Aug 06, 2026
RE: https://flipboard.com/@incmagazine/lessons-from-startups-entrepreneurs-4r5rsrsdz/-/a-T5rjruEAT3K6SRyskwpgYw%3Aa%3A902842762-%2F0 I feel like we’ve memoryholed when the term #SiliconValley was coined and for what reason.
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mxchara
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 24, 2026
Replying to @mxchara@seattle.pink
re: the can't do spirit of U.S. techno-optimism Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive
This ties directly into the can't-do spirit, the incredibly bleak and straitened sense of priorities which the technology sector and #SiliconValley have imposed on the United States. It's simply summed up: they've got their own vision of the Apocalypse and foresee a future of ever worsening war and cultural collapse until arriving at a stagnant state of space-faring tyranny like something out of Dune or #Warhammer40K. The whole point of the "acceleration" is merely to go faster. The easiest way to go faster is to shed as much as possible. The technofascist future is one that furnishes only the very thinnest layer of social organization atop a self-governing war machine. (cont'd)
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TechDesk
Flipboard Tech Desk @TechDesk@flipboard.social · Jul 20, 2026
Up to five million homes could be powered by the electricity needed for Meta's data center. Silicon Valley's AI boom is now being followed by a data-center age, one that demands enormous amounts of energy and other resources. The Atlantic's Matteo Wong looks into how the "business of tech companies is more like oil-refining than coding." https://flip.it/.VAGpj #AI #DataCenter #SiliconValley
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rpolenz
Ruprecht Polenz @rpolenz@mastodon.social · Jul 17, 2026
Boosted by Trending Bot @trending@homestead.social
I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible, sagt Peter Thiel. Demokratische Kontrollmechanismen betrachtet er als Einschränkung wirtschaftlicher Freiheit. Dafür erhält er die Döpfner-Variante von Infantinos FIFA-Friedenspreis. #Demokratie #SiliconValley
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hopland
Thor A. Hopland @hopland@snabelen.no · Jul 17, 2026
In comes @madthumbs@lemmy.world with the #SecurityThroughObscurity argument that the #SiliconValley barons have been promoting for decades now. But what he's suggesting isn't actually wrong. You should use a #Linux distro that is properly preconfigured and vetted by a community. This is why #Arch or #NixOS shouldn't be your first recommendation for newcomers. In fact, if we are to go by high security standards, your first distro should be an immutable one like #Bazzite or #Silverblue.
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remixtures
Miguel Afonso Caetano @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org · Jul 16, 2026
"Concern about the influence of the United States is nothing new in Canadian politics. Left-wing activists have long criticized the country as little more than a vassal of the United States, especially since the original North American Free Trade Agreement. But defending Canada’s sovereignty in the 21st century will require much more than increased military spending and trade diversification. It requires the government to get serious about digital sovereignty. Until Canada gets off U.S. tech platforms and services, the government, major companies, and even much of the modern military hardware the government is procuring from the United States is in jeopardy. The U.S. government can request Canadian data stored in the servers of U.S. cloud companies, it has weaponized our use of those services to expand its surveillance apparatus, and it can even suspend access to any of those services at a moment’s notice. The libertarian framing of the internet as a place of freedom and expression was a potent mask for a project U.S. lawmakers always understood was imperial in nature: to defend its government’s power and geopolitical position. Now it has countries around the world exactly where it wants them. They have to choose: will they act quickly to take back that power, or accept the subservient position the United States has designed for them?" https://disconnect.blog/global-dependence-on-us-tech-was-always-the-plan/ #USA #SiliconValley #DigitalSovereignty #TechnologicalDependency #Trump #Imperialism
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arteesetica
Arte es Ética @arteesetica@mastodon.social · Jul 13, 2026
Un cheque en blanco para el Gobierno de Milei y para las Big Tech 🚨 «El Súper RIGI traslada la lógica del extractivismo a la era digital. Busca transformar a la Argentina en una plataforma de sacrificio para las grandes corporaciones tecnológicas», denuncia Enrique Viale, presidente de la Asociación Argentina de Abogados Ambientalistas (AAdeAA) 🔗 INFORME COMPLETO de Agencia Tierra Viva: https://agenciatierraviva.com.ar/informe-especial-super-rigi-extractivismo-en-fase-inteligencia-artificial/ #AI #Argentina #Milei #RIGI #Súperrigi #tech #technology #SiliconValley #JavierMilei
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AAKL
AA @AAKL@infosec.exchange · Jul 15, 2026
This was posted yesterday https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-skyline-drive-how-to-live-104974284/episode/organ-trail-338808969/ Futurism picked it up today. Judge for yourself. "It’s not technically alive because it’s exclusively the organs. And they’re in this little biological platform that you can test on and you can map out the cross-organ interactions.” Futurism: Secretive Silicon Valley Startup Tries to Quash Interview, Says It’s Definitely Not Working on Growing Brain-Free “Organ Sacks” for Experimentation https://futurism.com/future-society/secretive-silicon-valley-startup-interview-organ-sacks @Futurism@flipboard.com #SiliconValley
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TheBadPlace
The Bad Place @TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · Jul 13, 2026
CounterPunch.org | Abundance Jumps the Shark by Dean Baker AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Dean Baker’s “Abundance Jumps the Shark” argues that the popular “abundance” mantra— which blames excessive government regulation for scarcity and high prices—oversimplifies a complex reality. While some rules indeed block useful projects such as EV‑charging stations or broadband expansion, many regulations chiefly protect wealthy interests, from patent monopolies that keep drugs and medical equipment expensive to bankruptcy laws that let private‑equity firms shed debts and enrich themselves. The piece contends that the housing‑crisis narrative, which blames restrictive zoning, ignores broader factors: a pre‑2006 building boom, a post‑pandemic surge in demand, and Vancouver’s rapid population growth, which together drive up prices regardless of zoning flexibility. Baker warns that a blanket push to eliminate regulations—especially by Silicon‑Valley‑backed “abundance” funders—risks discarding rules that actually curb waste and protect the public, and urges a careful, case‑by‑case assessment before dismantling any regulation. (Originally published on Dean Baker’s Beat the Press blog.) Read more: https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/29/abundance-jumps-the-shark/ #DeanBaker #EzraKlein #DerekThompson #SiliconValley #economics
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TheBadPlace
The Bad Place @TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · Jul 12, 2026
The Atlantic | A New Phase of the AI-Jobs Panic by Lila Shroff AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. The article examines how, despite growing alarm over AI‑driven job displacement, U.S. government and Silicon Valley responses have been limited and often self‑serving. The author recounts a federal AI‑literacy text‑message course that feels more like a “side‑hustle” push than a robust safety net, while political proposals such as Senator Bernie Sanders’s AI Sovereign Wealth Fund—aimed at giving the government a half‑ownership stake in major AI firms—receive lukewarm support from CEOs like Sam Altman, who favor watered‑down public‑ownership plans that could also benefit their companies. Meanwhile, tech giants are funding initiatives that portray them as saviors: OpenAI and Anthropic have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to research, grants and programs like “Claude Corps,” and the new nonprofit Raise Us, backed by Silicon Valley donors and led by Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, will test policies such as wage‑insurance, apprenticeship and AI‑tool training in several states. Economists remain uncertain whether AI will trigger a mass‑layoff crisis, but the article argues that the industry’s “public‑private” efforts mainly aim to shape the narrative, increase dependence on AI tools, and protect its reputation while modestly addressing the looming labor transition. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/silicon-valley-plan-ai-jobs-layoffs/687863/?utm_source=feed #BernieSanders #SamAltman #OpenAI #RaiseUs #SiliconValley #GinaRaimondo
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viennawriter
Klaudia (aka jinxx) @viennawriter@literatur.social · Jul 03, 2026
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The next interesting panel has begun: Beyond Silicon Valley's Tech Fantasies - How Science Fiction shows Better Futures with @Otherland-Bookshop, Nelo Locke and Christopher Coenen, moderated by Isabella Hermann. #SiliconValley #TechnoFascism #SciFi #Utopia #Dystopia #capitalism #Future #FutureTech #Eurocon #MetropolCon2026 #MetropolCon
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remixtures
Miguel Afonso Caetano @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org · Jul 04, 2026
"I can’t tell if Zuckerberg is dimwitted or just evil. The problem during the first era of the AI boom (circa 2023) was indeed that Meta was too slow to identify the metaverse flub. But that was no longer Meta’s problem entering the agentic coding era: The problem, rather, was that Meta had no coherent strategy. The last thing it should’ve done was “move fast enough to adopt” because “adopting” was not the answer to Meta’s problems. AI-assisted programming has developed in the last six months — contrary to Zuckerberg’s claim that it “hasn’t really accelerated” — but indeed not in the way Meta expected, because Meta’s vibes-based management this time was just plain wrong. AI never had the potential to replace so many workers at an instant. The vibe was — unlike in 2023 — not late, but wrong entirely. And I’m confident in saying only a fool could have lent credence to that laughably incorrect theory." https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/07/03/zuckerberg-admits-metas-layoffs-were.html #Meta #AI #Metaverse #AIBubble #BigTech #SiliconValley
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hopland
Thor A. Hopland @hopland@snabelen.no · Jul 04, 2026
Day 2 with #GrapheneOS: #SiliconValley #propaganda goes hard. Even #Norwegian service providers try to tell you that "your phone is insecure". This is due to the lack of #GooglePlay and #GooglePlayProtect - which are glorified gatekeepers for the #Google monopoly. I'm still gonna two try though, because the idea of giving any American company that much control over my digital life is repugnant to me.
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kubikpixel
𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕™ @kubikpixel@chaos.social · Jul 27, 2024
Replying to @kubikpixel@chaos.social
🧵 …hach ja, die oben erwähnten Alternativen um Inhalte im #Web zu finden sind nicht KI getrieben. #KI ist nicht #Logik sondern maschinelles Raten aber wir wollen Fakten, auch im #Internet. »KI-Suchmaschine – #SearchGPT ist auch nur ein Bluff: Nach Microsoft und Google hat auch #OpenAI eine KI #Suchmaschine veröffentlicht. Die Erwartungen sind riesig, aber wesentliche technische Probleme sind nicht gelöst. Das #SiliconValley hat nichts auf der Hand.« 🤖 https://t3n.de/news/ki-suchmaschine-searchgpt-ist-auch-nur-ein-bluff-1637728/
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aral
Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al · Jun 13, 2026
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Pettet8/116742131579090788 “Google was a different company 9 years ago.” Hmm… was it, though? 🤔 https://ar.al/talks/#free-is-a-lie #google #BigTech #peopleFarming #SiliconValley #surveillance #capitalism #meaCulpa
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TheBadPlace
The Bad Place @TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · Jun 13, 2026
CounterPunch.org | AI is a Public Resource: You Should Own Half of It by Bernie Sanders AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Bernie Sanders argues that artificial intelligence—foreseen as the most transformative technology in history—will reshape every aspect of society, from the economy and democracy to health, the environment, and education, and that its impact is inevitable; the real question, he says, is who will own and control that future. He stresses that AI is built on the collective knowledge, creativity, and data of generations of people—books, songs, art, journalism, code, research, conversations, images, and ideas—yet the tech elite have appropriated this work without permission or compensation. To prevent a handful of billionaires from monopolizing the benefits, Sanders proposes an “American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act,” which would impose a one‑time 50 percent tax in the form of stock ownership in the largest U.S. AI companies, creating a public sovereign wealth fund so that the wealth generated by AI is shared by all rather than concentrated in a few corporate moguls. Read more: https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/08/ai-is-a-public-resource-you-should-own-half-of-it/ #BernieSanders #OpenAI #Anthropic #xAI #SiliconValley #SamAltman #ElonMusk #DarioAmodei
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