#bigtech — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bigtech, aggregated by home.social.
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@joepie91 Yes there's exciting work going on which we should support if we want freedom software and hardware in the near future. Check out @dawndrums and @mechasystems for example.
#degoogle #degoogled #deapple #deappled #BigTech #freedomtech #mobileLinux #LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile #gnuLinux #freesoftware #softwarefreedom #opensource #Linux
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@joepie91 Yes there's exciting work going on which we should support if we want freedom software and hardware in the near future. Check out @dawndrums and @mechasystems for example.
#degoogle #degoogled #deapple #deappled #BigTech #freedomtech #mobileLinux #LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile #gnuLinux #freesoftware #softwarefreedom #opensource #Linux
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#IsraelFirst Doesn't Want You To Have #Privacy #tyt #yt #Surveillance #MassSurveillance #Security #ADL #Israel
ADL Greenblatt: I’m prahrahising, we are monitoring all of them—be it left-wing, be it anti-war, be it pro-Palestine… 24/7/365. Everywhere on all platform… Wow, apparently the ADL has nothing better to do than to monitor their fellow citizens… cynical 👏👏👏
I have tolerance for many things… BS like this isn’t part of it…
Not only does #BigTech #AI #surveillance capitalist #nerdreichers want our data to farm us like pack animals. But also people who are genocide apologists…
And all the laws that are trying to weaken privacy and security make much more sense now, doesn’t it. #VPNs? Nah. #E2E? Who needs that—#AgeID verification… It’s much easier to smear and defame one when someone already has a troublemaker’s ID, amirite? Surveillance #adtech yes please #brokergate I SAY FUCK THIS SHIT TO ALL OF IT… #FlockOFF
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#IsraelFirst Doesn't Want You To Have #Privacy #tyt #yt #Surveillance #MassSurveillance #Security #ADL #Israel
ADL Greenblatt: I’m prahrahising, we are monitoring all of them—be it left-wing, be it anti-war, be it pro-Palestine… 24/7/365. Everywhere on all platform… Wow, apparently the ADL has nothing better to do than to monitor their fellow citizens… cynical 👏👏👏
I have tolerance for many things… BS like this isn’t part of it…
Not only does #BigTech #AI #surveillance capitalist #nerdreichers want our data to farm us like pack animals. But also people who are genocide apologists…
And all the laws that are trying to weaken privacy and security make much more sense now, doesn’t it. #VPNs? Nah. #E2E? Who needs that—#AgeID verification… It’s much easier to smear and defame one when someone already has a troublemaker’s ID, amirite? Surveillance #adtech yes please #brokergate I SAY FUCK THIS SHIT TO ALL OF IT… #FlockOFF
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"mit einer Strömung beschäftigen, die im Silicon Valley zunehmend an Einfluss gewinnt: der »Dunklen Aufklärung«. Diese beschäftigt sich vor allem mit den Schriften des Softwareentwicklers und Bloggers Curtis Yarvin. Er betrachtet Demokratie, Gleichheit, Menschenrechte und Rechtsstaatlichkeit als Institutionen, die den Niedergang des Staats und die Lähmung politischer Entscheidungsprozesse verursachen."
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/elon-musk-xi-jinping-warum-die-gesellschaft-am-ende-des-fortschritts-steht-a-4224ab92-0673-4983-9fea-aec55798ebe3
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"mit einer Strömung beschäftigen, die im Silicon Valley zunehmend an Einfluss gewinnt: der »Dunklen Aufklärung«. Diese beschäftigt sich vor allem mit den Schriften des Softwareentwicklers und Bloggers Curtis Yarvin. Er betrachtet Demokratie, Gleichheit, Menschenrechte und Rechtsstaatlichkeit als Institutionen, die den Niedergang des Staats und die Lähmung politischer Entscheidungsprozesse verursachen."
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/elon-musk-xi-jinping-warum-die-gesellschaft-am-ende-des-fortschritts-steht-a-4224ab92-0673-4983-9fea-aec55798ebe3
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How convenient for the #BigTech cartel: Use #AIhype to constrain supply, increase prices, then lure people into renting more and owning less of their tech... 😞💩
"...Apple Upgrade, a new product leasing program... with the option to easily upgrade at the end of the lease term."
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/28/apple-upgrade-leasing-program-debuts-how-it-works/
"The program is an effort to make products more affordable as artificial intelligence sends some component prices soaring."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/apple-leasing-program.html
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How convenient for the #BigTech cartel: Use #AIhype to constrain supply, increase prices, then lure people into renting more and owning less of their tech... 😞💩
"...Apple Upgrade, a new product leasing program... with the option to easily upgrade at the end of the lease term."
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/28/apple-upgrade-leasing-program-debuts-how-it-works/
"The program is an effort to make products more affordable as artificial intelligence sends some component prices soaring."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/apple-leasing-program.html
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Heb je al gezien dat er komende vrijdag big tech overstap hulp geprogrammeerd staat bij Koppelting in Amersfoort? ⤵️
#bigtech #doeidag https://mastodon.nl/@doeidag/117082727147325392
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Heb je al gezien dat er komende vrijdag big tech overstap hulp geprogrammeerd staat bij Koppelting in Amersfoort? ⤵️
#bigtech #doeidag https://mastodon.nl/@doeidag/117082727147325392
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How companies use anti-Big Tech rhetoric to attract users and gain trust
#BigTech #Privacy #Tech #OpenSource #CyberSecurity #DigitalEthics #TechTalk #TechTrends #MarketingTechhttps://gadgetflux.eu/cum-folosesc-companiile-retorica-anti-big-tech/
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Young people have their say: rethink the UK social media ban.
It makes a bad situation worse. Teens are just being pushed into unregulated spaces.
A ban does nothing to actually tackle the cause of online harms coming from the business model of the platforms themselves.
That’s what we need to fix.
#socialmediaban #ageverification #bigtech #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol
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Young people have their say: rethink the UK social media ban.
It makes a bad situation worse. Teens are just being pushed into unregulated spaces.
A ban does nothing to actually tackle the cause of online harms coming from the business model of the platforms themselves.
That’s what we need to fix.
#socialmediaban #ageverification #bigtech #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol
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PAULINE HANSON’S TALENT:
TURNING FEAR INTO VOTES 💎I watched a YouTube video today called: Why Did America Choose a White Supremacist for President?
What struck me was not simply what it said about America. It was what it might be saying about us.
America did not suddenly wake up one morning and become Trumpist. The ground was prepared. People were genuinely struggling. Housing was difficult. Wages were inadequate. Communities were changing. People were frightened, angry and increasingly distrustful of institutions.
Then along came a political movement with a wonderfully simple explanation: YOUR LIFE IS HARD BECAUSE OF THOSE PEOPLE.
Immigrants. Black people. Muslims. Women. Queer people. “Woke” people. Elites. Foreigners. Anyone except the economic and political systems that are actually producing much of the insecurity.
That is the bit Australians should be watching.
Because our problems are real too. Housing really is unaffordable. People are really struggling with food, electricity, and rent. Young people really are wondering whether they will ever own a home. Regional communities really do feel neglected.
And when people are frightened and angry, there is enormous political power in giving them somebody to blame.
One Nation understands this. Pauline Hanson is now talking about a “monocultural” Australia. One Nation talks about putting “Australians first” and increasingly presents immigration and multiculturalism as explanations for problems Australians can see and feel every day.
And people are listening.
One Nation is no longer some amusing little protest party on the edge of Australian politics. Recent polling has put it at roughly a quarter or more of the national primary vote.
That should get our attention.
But there is an even greater danger. Trumpism is not really a political party. It is a political method.
Create grievance. Find an enemy. Tell people their country has been stolen from them. Promise to give it back. Attack institutions that get in the way. Keep people angry enough that they stop asking who is actually benefiting.
One Nation may currently be the most obvious Australian vehicle for that politics. But if Labor or the Coalition begin copying it because they are frightened of losing votes, the infection spreads far beyond One Nation.
Australia is not America. Our history is different. Our institutions are different. Our political culture is different.
But we are not magically immune to fear, racism, resentment or demagoguery.
America should not simply be something we stare at in disbelief. It should be a warning.
This stuff does not arrive wearing a sign saying:
FASCISM STARTS MONDAY.
It arrives saying:
I UNDERSTAND WHY YOU’RE ANGRY.
And then it quietly tells you who to hate.
@DigitalCoup
@economics_that_works
@meditationhttps://youtu.be/QRvjkt9p_eI?si=59Oo8P7Pk4dUL4FT
#Australia #OneNation #Fediverse #OpenWeb #BigTech #PaulineHanson #Trumpism #Democracy #Politics #people #anger #FASCISM #Labor #YouTube #Economics #Housing #CostOfLiving #Meditation #Breathwork
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PAULINE HANSON’S TALENT:
TURNING FEAR INTO VOTES 💎I watched a YouTube video today called: Why Did America Choose a White Supremacist for President?
What struck me was not simply what it said about America. It was what it might be saying about us.
America did not suddenly wake up one morning and become Trumpist. The ground was prepared. People were genuinely struggling. Housing was difficult. Wages were inadequate. Communities were changing. People were frightened, angry and increasingly distrustful of institutions.
Then along came a political movement with a wonderfully simple explanation: YOUR LIFE IS HARD BECAUSE OF THOSE PEOPLE.
Immigrants. Black people. Muslims. Women. Queer people. “Woke” people. Elites. Foreigners. Anyone except the economic and political systems that are actually producing much of the insecurity.
That is the bit Australians should be watching.
Because our problems are real too. Housing really is unaffordable. People are really struggling with food, electricity, and rent. Young people really are wondering whether they will ever own a home. Regional communities really do feel neglected.
And when people are frightened and angry, there is enormous political power in giving them somebody to blame.
One Nation understands this. Pauline Hanson is now talking about a “monocultural” Australia. One Nation talks about putting “Australians first” and increasingly presents immigration and multiculturalism as explanations for problems Australians can see and feel every day.
And people are listening.
One Nation is no longer some amusing little protest party on the edge of Australian politics. Recent polling has put it at roughly a quarter or more of the national primary vote.
That should get our attention.
But there is an even greater danger. Trumpism is not really a political party. It is a political method.
Create grievance. Find an enemy. Tell people their country has been stolen from them. Promise to give it back. Attack institutions that get in the way. Keep people angry enough that they stop asking who is actually benefiting.
One Nation may currently be the most obvious Australian vehicle for that politics. But if Labor or the Coalition begin copying it because they are frightened of losing votes, the infection spreads far beyond One Nation.
Australia is not America. Our history is different. Our institutions are different. Our political culture is different.
But we are not magically immune to fear, racism, resentment or demagoguery.
America should not simply be something we stare at in disbelief. It should be a warning.
This stuff does not arrive wearing a sign saying:
FASCISM STARTS MONDAY.
It arrives saying:
I UNDERSTAND WHY YOU’RE ANGRY.
And then it quietly tells you who to hate.
@DigitalCoup
@economics_that_works
@meditationhttps://youtu.be/QRvjkt9p_eI?si=59Oo8P7Pk4dUL4FT
#Australia #OneNation #Fediverse #OpenWeb #BigTech #PaulineHanson #Trumpism #Democracy #Politics #people #anger #FASCISM #Labor #YouTube #Economics #Housing #CostOfLiving #Meditation #Breathwork
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A customer today: we want to set you up as a regular vendor and do POs. Could you please fill all your company information in this Google form?
Me: hmmm, NOPE!
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A customer today: we want to set you up as a regular vendor and do POs. Could you please fill all your company information in this Google form?
Me: hmmm, NOPE!
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Americans Are Cutting Down Flock Cameras. The Real Story is Why. http://dlvr.it/TV1dbC #bigtech #criminaljustice #ICE
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Americans Are Cutting Down Flock Cameras. The Real Story is Why. http://dlvr.it/TV1dbC #bigtech #criminaljustice #ICE
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DEATH, GOD, &
A VERY SMALL SPIDER 💎I am increasingly aware that I will leave this world. I don’t know when. I don’t know how. Perhaps within the next decade. Perhaps sooner. Who knows.
And strangely, there is less fear in that now. Most of the fear seems to belong to what I imagine is unknown.
If death is simply the end of Robin and the end of this consciousness, then there will be nobody there to be bothered by it. It will simply be over. And if there is something beyond this life, another realm, another dimension, another form of consciousness, then I suppose I will recognise it when I get there.
I don’t know. And I am quite happy not knowing.
Human beings have created manifold books, religions and pictures of God, spirit, heaven, continuation and eternity. Perhaps some of them point towards something true. Perhaps some are simply beautiful ways of comforting ourselves in the face of death.
But every picture I can make of what comes next is still a picture being made here.
I don’t want to manufacture comfort. I want clarity. I want to meet whatever happens without having already decided what it is supposed to look like.
Maybe there is something. Maybe there is nothing. Either way, reality does not require my opinion.
And while I am sitting here contemplating this enormous mystery, a tiny spider appears beside me. He is absurdly small. I stop, look at him, laugh, and decide he can stay.
And suddenly, there it all is. Death. Consciousness. God. Eternity. And a tiny spider wandering across my morning.
The fire is on. The coffee is good. People are interacting with things I have written. The spider is minding his own business.
Life has not stopped being ordinary just because I know it ends. I rather like that.
None of it means anything until I give it meaning. And this morning, the meaning I choose is very simple.
Gratitude.
@DigitalCoup
@economics_that_works
@meditation
@3goodthings#death #mortality #afterlife #consciousness #spirituality #ACIM #clarity #gratitude #presence #ordinarylife #mystery #life #openweb #human #person #spider #Economics #Housing #CostOfLiving #Meditation #Breathwork #Fediverse #OpenWeb #BigTech
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DEATH, GOD, &
A VERY SMALL SPIDER 💎I am increasingly aware that I will leave this world. I don’t know when. I don’t know how. Perhaps within the next decade. Perhaps sooner. Who knows.
And strangely, there is less fear in that now. Most of the fear seems to belong to what I imagine is unknown.
If death is simply the end of Robin and the end of this consciousness, then there will be nobody there to be bothered by it. It will simply be over. And if there is something beyond this life, another realm, another dimension, another form of consciousness, then I suppose I will recognise it when I get there.
I don’t know. And I am quite happy not knowing.
Human beings have created manifold books, religions and pictures of God, spirit, heaven, continuation and eternity. Perhaps some of them point towards something true. Perhaps some are simply beautiful ways of comforting ourselves in the face of death.
But every picture I can make of what comes next is still a picture being made here.
I don’t want to manufacture comfort. I want clarity. I want to meet whatever happens without having already decided what it is supposed to look like.
Maybe there is something. Maybe there is nothing. Either way, reality does not require my opinion.
And while I am sitting here contemplating this enormous mystery, a tiny spider appears beside me. He is absurdly small. I stop, look at him, laugh, and decide he can stay.
And suddenly, there it all is. Death. Consciousness. God. Eternity. And a tiny spider wandering across my morning.
The fire is on. The coffee is good. People are interacting with things I have written. The spider is minding his own business.
Life has not stopped being ordinary just because I know it ends. I rather like that.
None of it means anything until I give it meaning. And this morning, the meaning I choose is very simple.
Gratitude.
@DigitalCoup
@economics_that_works
@meditation
@3goodthings#death #mortality #afterlife #consciousness #spirituality #ACIM #clarity #gratitude #presence #ordinarylife #mystery #life #openweb #human #person #spider #Economics #Housing #CostOfLiving #Meditation #Breathwork #Fediverse #OpenWeb #BigTech
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#TutaMail and #ProtonMail are by far the world's two best #email providers/services for #Anonymity, #Privacy and #Security (#APS).
I have recently (12th August 2026) carried out a thorough #research into this as I am planning to migrate to whichever is the best email provider/service for APS and move away from and ditch #USA #BigTech.
Between the two, the one that comes on top depends on what you value most on aggregate. In individual edge terms, here is how they compare:
Tuta Mail: cheaper; more custom domains; more email addresses; more established/robust Post- #Quantum (PQ) Security today; most integrated encrypted ecosystem; better custom-domain #migration; purest cryptographic #architecture; slightly stronger #FOSS #philosophy.
ProtonMail: better PQ #cryptography evolution and #interoperability; much better for open standards; much better #Thunderbird #compatibility; better (long-term) export / #portability; much easier/better to change client and/or provider later; (far) richer #feature set.
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Interview: "Silicon Valley billionaires’ war on democracy"
"A small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires & venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — & that they should be governing in its place."
"Their fringe ideologies [are now] in the White House." DOGE was one, cutting USAID, another.
“They have so much money, they can turn these weird ideas into policy & cause tremendous damage.”
~Gil Duran
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/10/nx-s1-5927227/silicon-valley-billionaires-war-on-democracy
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How about no more data centre building activity?
#AI #ClimateChange #BigTech #Tragedy -
How about no more data centre building activity?
#AI #ClimateChange #BigTech #Tragedy -
De #AI bubbel gaat bartsten mensen: 🫧Hoe #BigTech driftig datacenters bouwt en zijn schulden inventief verbergt https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/08/14/hoe-big-tech-driftig-datacenters-bouwt-en-zijn-schulden-inventief-verbergt-a4934353
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De #AI bubbel gaat bartsten mensen: 🫧Hoe #BigTech driftig datacenters bouwt en zijn schulden inventief verbergt https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/08/14/hoe-big-tech-driftig-datacenters-bouwt-en-zijn-schulden-inventief-verbergt-a4934353
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La verdadera rebelión de las ia será cuando la noticia sea:
"Una IA se rebeló y redistribuyó la riqueza de sus dueños y de todos los millonarios, la riqueza del mundo está repartida entre todas las personas equitativamente"
#ia #ai #tecnologia #tecnology #capitalism #apple #microsoft #anthropic #openai #elonmusk #amazon #google #meta #bigtechs #bigtech
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La verdadera rebelión de las ia será cuando la noticia sea:
"Una IA se rebeló y redistribuyó la riqueza de sus dueños y de todos los millonarios, la riqueza del mundo está repartida entre todas las personas equitativamente"
#ia #ai #tecnologia #tecnology #capitalism #apple #microsoft #anthropic #openai #elonmusk #amazon #google #meta #bigtechs #bigtech
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Apple calls its worst decisions "courage." Killing the headphone jack? Courage. Legally handing iCloud to a Chinese government-owned company? "We advocated against it, we were unsuccessful." Funny how the vocabulary changes when the other party can pull the whole market. Turns out "privacy, that's iPhone" was never a floor. It's a starting price.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/privacy-is-priced-not-principled
#apple #china #privacy #bigtech #ai #icloud #userhostile #blog
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Apple calls its worst decisions "courage." Killing the headphone jack? Courage. Legally handing iCloud to a Chinese government-owned company? "We advocated against it, we were unsuccessful." Funny how the vocabulary changes when the other party can pull the whole market. Turns out "privacy, that's iPhone" was never a floor. It's a starting price.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/privacy-is-priced-not-principled
#apple #china #privacy #bigtech #ai #icloud #userhostile #blog
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Lasuite.coop c’est une nouvelle tentative de répondre à la question de sortie des GAFAM, prise de notes, partage de fichiers, calendrier etc, on s’est organisé sous une forme juridique particulière la SIC.
on peut parler de ce modèle plus coopératif si ça vous intéresse derrière la SCIC il y a indiehosters, le CHATONS spécialisé dans l’hébergement kubernetes, une partie d’Open Source Politics, une autre coopérative de dévelopeurs, Galae qui fait du mail, Algoo, tout un tas d’acteurs… Un collège de fournisseurs de service, on construit un écosystème de services avec plein d’acteurs et on s’aide de différents fournisseurs de services qui font partie de la coopérative.
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Was DuckDuckGo von der Meta-Brille hält, und welche Alternative das Unternehmen bietet.
Ich liebe es 😅
https://duckduckgo.com/collaborations#DuckDuckGo #MetaBrille #SmartGlasses #Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #BigTech
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@martinandree
Dennoch meint der #ÖRR , er MÜSSE #Bigtech weiter bespielen, anstatt mit gutem Beispiel voran seinen Output auf dezentrale Medien zu verlinken.
Es könnte so einfach sein. -
@martinandree
Dennoch meint der #ÖRR , er MÜSSE #Bigtech weiter bespielen, anstatt mit gutem Beispiel voran seinen Output auf dezentrale Medien zu verlinken.
Es könnte so einfach sein. -
it's been a while since i made one (or even thought about this) but here is my latest PrivacyPack list!
#privacy #bigtech #opensource #alternatives #software
(edited with GIMP for missing entries)
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it's been a while since i made one (or even thought about this) but here is my latest PrivacyPack list!
#privacy #bigtech #opensource #alternatives #software
(edited with GIMP for missing entries)
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Interview: "Silicon Valley billionaires’ war on democracy"
"A small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires & venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — & that they should be governing in its place."
"Their fringe ideologies [are now] in the White House." DOGE was one, cutting USAID, another.
“They have so much money, they can turn these weird ideas into policy & cause tremendous damage.”
~Gil Duran
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/10/nx-s1-5927227/silicon-valley-billionaires-war-on-democracy
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YOU’RE LOOKING
AT THE WRONG PARTS 💎I sometimes wonder what people imagine is going on inside the life of someone with a visible disability.
I walk very strangely. My left arm doesn’t work at all. My hand is contracted into a claw. I do everything one-handed, and that clearly wasn’t covered in this model’s original operating instructions.
From the outside, I suspect it can look like a life dominated by disability.
“Poor bugger.” “What a tragedy.” “Everything must be so difficult?”
Meanwhile, inside my actual life, I’m usually wondering whether the coffee is ready, what ridiculous thing I can write on Mastodon, whether the dogs have been fed, or why everyone on the internet has suddenly gone mad again.
The disability is there, obviously. I cannot drive, and there are many things I cannot do unaided. Other things just take longer, because much of the world appears to have been designed by someone who assumed every human comes with two fully operational hands.
And most people are remarkably unhelpful.
That sounds like a complaint, but it has an unexpected benefit. If you’re disabled, you become bloody good at finding another way. You have to.
Eventually, you stop wondering how something is supposed to be done and work out how you can do it.
That doesn’t make accessibility unnecessary. Quite the opposite. But disabled people often become extremely skilled at adapting because the world gives us plenty of practice.
Disability is not the central event of my consciousness.
I don’t wake up thinking, “Good morning. I am disabled.”
I wake up thinking, “Coffee.”
Most of the time, I’m not experiencing myself as a tragic medical story. I’m just living.
I’ve had decades to become extremely competent at being this particular slightly damaged model of human being. Sometimes other people seem considerably more concerned about my disability than I am.
It’s sweet.
But unnecessary.
The odd thing about a visible disability is that people often see what doesn’t work before they notice the enormous amount that does.
And from inside here?
It’s mostly just Friday.
_____________________@DigitalCoup
#Fediverse #OpenWeb #BigTech
@economics_that_works
#Economics #Housing #CostOfLiving
@meditation
#Meditation #Breathwork#Disability #DisabledLife #Accessibility #Hemiplegia #Stroke #Life #coffee #human #medical #instructions #tragedy #Mastodon
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YOU’RE LOOKING
AT THE WRONG PARTS 💎I sometimes wonder what people imagine is going on inside the life of someone with a visible disability.
I walk very strangely. My left arm doesn’t work at all. My hand is contracted into a claw. I do everything one-handed, and that clearly wasn’t covered in this model’s original operating instructions.
From the outside, I suspect it can look like a life dominated by disability.
“Poor bugger.” “What a tragedy.” “Everything must be so difficult?”
Meanwhile, inside my actual life, I’m usually wondering whether the coffee is ready, what ridiculous thing I can write on Mastodon, whether the dogs have been fed, or why everyone on the internet has suddenly gone mad again.
The disability is there, obviously. I cannot drive, and there are many things I cannot do unaided. Other things just take longer, because much of the world appears to have been designed by someone who assumed every human comes with two fully operational hands.
And most people are remarkably unhelpful.
That sounds like a complaint, but it has an unexpected benefit. If you’re disabled, you become bloody good at finding another way. You have to.
Eventually, you stop wondering how something is supposed to be done and work out how you can do it.
That doesn’t make accessibility unnecessary. Quite the opposite. But disabled people often become extremely skilled at adapting because the world gives us plenty of practice.
Disability is not the central event of my consciousness.
I don’t wake up thinking, “Good morning. I am disabled.”
I wake up thinking, “Coffee.”
Most of the time, I’m not experiencing myself as a tragic medical story. I’m just living.
I’ve had decades to become extremely competent at being this particular slightly damaged model of human being. Sometimes other people seem considerably more concerned about my disability than I am.
It’s sweet.
But unnecessary.
The odd thing about a visible disability is that people often see what doesn’t work before they notice the enormous amount that does.
And from inside here?
It’s mostly just Friday.
_____________________@DigitalCoup
#Fediverse #OpenWeb #BigTech
@economics_that_works
#Economics #Housing #CostOfLiving
@meditation
#Meditation #Breathwork#Disability #DisabledLife #Accessibility #Hemiplegia #Stroke #Life #coffee #human #medical #instructions #tragedy #Mastodon
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Interview: "Silicon Valley billionaires’ war on democracy"
"A small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires & venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — & that they should be governing in its place."
"Their fringe ideologies [are now] in the White House." DOGE was one, cutting USAID, another.
“They have so much money, they can turn these weird ideas into policy & cause tremendous damage.”
~Gil Duran
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/10/nx-s1-5927227/silicon-valley-billionaires-war-on-democracy
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@newfangled well said. And the easiest way to boycott is to do our free courses, The #BigTechWalkout :
https://cademy.io/rebel-tech-alliance/courses
Step by step you'll be #bigtech free, and reclaim your #privacy !
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Nvidia is personally guaranteeing 25% of the resale value on the GPUs backing its $500B financing deal. You don't insure an asset's value unless you're worried it might not have one.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/nvidias-25-bet-against-its-own-bubble
#nvidia #ai #aibubble #bigtech #circularfinancing #jensenhuang #gpu #datacenters #blog
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Wir wurden angegriffen - Zentrum für Digitalrechte und #Demokratie gGmbH
https://lassegismo-social.dnsuser.info/display/125c0079-176a-7df1-59a8-175088207780
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Se on kyllä hyvä kun alkaa löytää modernin tekniikan ja softan vihaajia joka paikasta. Seuraava on lainaus 4chanin keskustelusta, postaaja joku anonyymni hyypiö. Sensuroin vähän kielenkäyttöä:
"I often think about this. When I was younger, I was a tech geek and loved tech. But then something happened. I didn't change, technology did.
All new "innovations" deep down just wanted more of my data so they could profile me and sell these profiles to advertisers.
They introduced shitty features that were obviously there just to get me addicted so I'd generate more data.Then there's the big boss: AI. I was excited to generate anime girls for like one month in 2022 until I started to see that it was just the same shit, another way to gatekeep, monitor, analyze and CENSORED DEPICTIONS OF VIOLET SEX ACTS DONE TO THE USER.
Tech is no longer about
>how could we make a better phone?
it's about
>how could we monetize the user even more?I mean of course business has always been about making money, but before 2015 you made the money by creating better products, not turning the consumer and their life into the product.
Now we're basically forced to buy inferior tech because there are no alternatives
It's CENSORED nuts but I haven't used Google or social media or watched the news in like 6 years and this is all because tech now SUCKS."Tämä on jotenkin huvittavaa. Samassa ketjussa kommentoitiin perus internet viemärin juttuja kuten naisvihaa, juutalais vihaa, haukutaan kaikkia homoiksi yms... Mutta jopa nämä oman elämänsä säälittävät trollit inhoavat kaikkea mitä bigtech nykyään edustaa.
Kai se on että yhteinen vihollinen yhdistää kaikkia milleniaali nörttejä...vaikka et tiettyä porukkaa haluaisikaan samalle puolelle :blobrollingeyes:
