#hypercapitalism — Public Fediverse posts

Burn. Every. Last. One. Of. Them. To. The. Ground. #superscalars #ruination #hypercapitalism #fuck

People can still have their tools, someone will reproduce them [and understand that if they fuck up and get greedy they also burn], but these villains are ruining the world.

“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” an internal planning document said. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”

AI Firms Are Buying up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them
https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/29/ai-firms-are-buying-up-old-books-then-scanning-and-destroying-them/

@uriel yes, very nice, thank you.

The whole #AI thing is quite interesting from a Social experience design perspective. #SX has Humanity and Freedom as intrinsic values, and the aim is to develop unobtrusive, harmonious, and humane technologies that serve people's needs.

From that perspective I am anti #LLM as the disruptive introduction in society is totally irresponsible, making it inhumane technology. Yet unlike with blockchain there are also undeniable upsides, numerous positive applications of the technology too.

I think the biggest near-term risk is the dehumanization and further erosion of social fabric between humans, which is to the benefit to festering #hypercapitalism and the #EpsteinClass who ultimately owns the technology.

SX defines #CALMculture, for Constructive activism-led movements. I think the way I see most people conduct #activism against AI, closing ears and ostracising AI fans, is doomed to be ineffective. CALM involves cocreating pathway towards solutions.

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

In 2025 and with support of @nlnet I was able to continue my efforts, started in 2017, to help forge molecular bonds in our #fediverse petri dish, via my method of "Weaving in public", instrument of Social experience design. See:

https://discuss.coding.social/t/weaving-in-public-connecting-people-and-interests/85

The wicked problem is, when trying to organize for world improving radical change.. You can't be an atom that shouts: "All aboard! Let's form an organism and free us from the dish of #Hypercapitalism". It is not how Nature works. And yet, this is what we try to do, each in our own ways, and the means we are able provide.

To do this requires sustainable #evolution at scale for prolonged periods of time. To deliberately evolve into what we want to become: a better #future.

All our attempts to artificially scale, against forces of Nature, are doomed to fail. Nature emerges naturally, spontaneously, and grows organically.

We face the #Paradox of #Emergence in how we organize ourselves.

Topic of my next blog post..

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

🌈 Between locals and neighbors #hypercapitalism is weakest.

:boosts_appreciated: <--> 🌐 <--> 🌍 <--> 🏡 <--> 🫂 #ResidentialSocialNetworking ✊

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116368803389082089

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #ActivityPub

#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:

#AI / #LLM good or bad?

This same discussion is raging across the entire planet. Yet the 'yes I like it / no I hate it' back & forth isn't very interesting and fruitful. Turning thoughful debate into heated shouting matches.

Instead ponder the technology as-is. Adopt a more strategical, but also philosophical and psychological viewpoint, shift perspective. We need calm environments to analyse what all this means for our #future. Deal with utterly disruptive technology that is *already* dumped right in the midst of us. Much more to come.

Solution orientation is needed to tackle this huge #challenge. I consider LLM's inhumane tech, immoral and unethically introduced. Corporate capture of all human knowledge for pure commercial gain. Greed, vanity, power of the #EpsteinClass. Enormous resource use. Looming AI #dystopia. Hallmarks of #hypercapitalism.

What risks does #humanity face? How can we protect our #freedom? Can we tackle wicked problems?

#SX

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

#fediverse is at an inflection point.

Either revival and course correction to the original #ActivityPub protocol power and promise. With the potential to #ReimagineSocial.

Or keep current track with fedi-we-have. Be content with a few great and reasonably popular app platforms. Surely some more to come. But with a messy wire protocol that stifles #innovation and isn't future-proof.

#AskFedi do you dare to dream?

This special thought provoker is based on personal reflection and 8 years of #commoning. Deliberately exposed to the inherent unsustainability of the #FOSS movement. Burning privilege by spending my savings.

Goal: 1st-hand experience to learn the #social dynamics that make a #commons tick.

I invite you to a #brainstorm & #ideation ride. To ponder how #fedi can organically evolve. Become unbeatable by #hypercapitalism.

https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution

But in an age of #AI who still reads long handcrafted #blogs? Fill in the #poll.

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

@j9t @chatcontrol @EUCommission

Generally speaking the pursuit of creating "The European Union of Mistrust" isn't the way to go.

Sure, #governments have an urge for control in hypercomplex modern and chaotic #society. But just throwing #tech at it, is NOT the way, and will only backfire. Look only how much much 'safer' the world has become with all the advanced tech we already dumped into society, right?

If we want to build harmonious and peaceful societies that have the right conditions for #democracy to flourish, we better look at fostering social #cohesion between people. Focus on people's virtues, rather than assume vices in a distrust-first society.

"Distrust-first" is the environment of #hypercapitalism, where vices thrive and unfairly advantage people who wield them more.

#Trust is the currency that allows society to progress, and #trustworthiness is upon which it can stand.

@torgeros for sure! There is nothing I disagree with in what you say. It is just that there are many intricate forces and aspects to take into account where it comes to (F)OSS, 'world improvement', and transitioning to a society that is able to live sustainably with its environenment / has a future.

Btw, I am talking against the backdrop of what I was just posting about (and which may have led you to find this toot).. https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116136189819727192

My general argument, I guess, is that we tend to dictate way too many virtues to the fact that something is (F)OSS. Software freedom is a great quality, but only one piece of a larger puzzle.

If we drop the towel after #WorkingInPublic until #ItsFoss we won't be able to let our work bring most benefit to society, in a direction beyond festering #hypercapitalism

#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:

Commons based: You have opportunity to introduce a post-capitalist society

Default public: Sorry, it is #hypercapitalism for you. You lose.

https://coding.social

#SX #SocialCoding #ConwaysLaw

What is surveillance-fascism?
(a.k.a. what is the Fediverse missing?)

* big data
(collection of tons of private data used for profiling and authoritarian control)
* attention harvesting
(reducing attentionspan and causing addiction)
* ragebaiting
(hatred boosting alorithms & government botfarms)
* hyper-capitalism
(ads, more ads, profit, hidden ads, influencers, interrupting ads, plugs, camoflaged ads)
* AI

#SurveillanceFascism #SurveillanceCapitalism #enshittification #BigData #AttentionHarvesting #RageBait #HyperCapitalism #AI #LLMMeAlone #JoinTheFediverse

🪞 #reflection

Looking back on 9 yrs of intense commons janitoring, on unthankful chores of #community work to keep them healthy and safe, and all my weaving-in-public, outreach for #connecting #people. It gave me deeper insight.

🚸 RootCause of our wicked problems isn't #hypercapitalism. It's us, each and everyone one of us.

As long as we aren't able to #listen to the person next to us, act on best #decisions at microscale, well..

Aggregates to the 🌏 we 👀 see today!

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/115813198772367186

In our quest to solve #ClimateChange most people go no further in root cause analysis than "reduce carbon emissions".

I've always taken it up a notch on the stepping stones of #WickedProblems to say its #Hypercapitalism we must tackle.

Now deeper insight gleans. We 'deserve' these problems. Simply because we're incapable to do better at large scale. But moreover we fall short at smallest scale:

We're so busy living & world-improving that we lost ability to listen and learn from each other. 👋

Just ended a short #MorkBorg campaign w/ wife using #Mythic #GME.

Nechrubel sent an emissary to consume the youthful Anthelia before the apocalypse, just to show humans there is no hope.
With the help of her brother and copies of her from time loops (?) we found and beat him in an epic meaningless fight in the middle of the apocalypse.

My wife character joined the loop to eternally suffer the apocalypse. Mine was sent to #CyBorg to be tortured by hopeless #hypercapitalism.

It was GLORIOUS!

#PostCapitalism

For decades leftists have cheerfully called some especially troublesome developments in our society #LateStageCapitalism or post capitalism - acting like those developments were a sign that capitalism has run its course and we'd be freed from it soon.

I never understood that, as the natural successor to (hyper) capitalism is fascism, not socialism.
I wish I had been wrong.

#capitalism #SurveillanceFascism #HyperCapitalism #FalseHope

Social experience design #SX is the *opposite* of #DigitalTransformation and offers a #people-first "needs-driven" approach to solution development that scales from personal vantage point via inter-personal #relationships, up to societal levels. Digital transformation is no more than a shallow #technology-first "tech means progress" approach to improve #hypercapitalism's profitability.

Stop the mindless digital transformation trend. #DigitalTransformationRunsDeep into shitty dystopic territory.

I kinda dont like it that people always talk about capitalism in the current stage as "turbocapitalism", "hypercapitalism" or "neofeudalism". Because this implies that the current stage is different from "normal" capitalism. But it isnt. Its not a new form of capitalism. Its plain old capitalism. #neofeudalism #capitalism #communism #hypercapitalism #turbocapitalism

#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:

We rightfully revile Silicon Valley style techbroism as we take moral higher standpoints, stick to our values.

Yet in our total rejection of #techbro culture, do we fail to learn from it? SV outperforms #FOSS under #hypercapitalism. #BigTech is winning. We must improve our fitness formula to catch up.

Is where SV #culture differs that folks from across the globe totally dare to unleash creativity? While fedi sees ideas usually followed with techies-impl-talk?

@canadianglen you mean corps like.... Brookfield Assets Management.

#Carney #hypercapitalism #endstagecapitalism #HBC

20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend #Democracy from #Authoritarianism, According to Yale #Historian #TimothySnyder

in History | January 20th, 2017

"Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, is one of the foremost scholars in the U.S. and Europe on the rise and fall of #totalitarianism during the 1930s and 40s. Among his long list of appointments and publications, he has won multiple awards for his recent international bestsellers '#Bloodlands: Europe between #Hitler and #Stalin' and last year’s 'Black Earth: The #Holocaust as History and Warning.' That book in part makes the argument that #Nazism wasn’t only a #German #nationalist movement but had global #colonialist origins—in #Russia, #Africa, and in the #UnitedStates, the nation that pioneered so many methods of human extermination, #racist #dehumanization, and ideologically-justified #LandGrabs.

"The hyper-#capitalism portrayed in the U.S.—even during the Depression—Snyder writes, fueled Hitler’s imagination, such that he promised Germans 'a life comparable to that of the American people,' whose 'racially pure and uncorrupted' German population he described as 'world class.' Snyder describes Hitler’s ideology as a myth of racialist struggle in which 'there are really no values in the world except for the stark reality that we are born in order to take things from other people.' Or as we often hear these days, that acting in accordance with this principle is the 'smart' thing to do. Like many far right figures before and after, Hitler aimed to restore a state of nature that for him was a perpetual state of race war for imperial dominance."

https://www.openculture.com/2017/01/20-lessons-from-the-20th-century-about-how-to-defend-democracies-from-authoritarianism.html
#History #Histodon #Hitler #Fascism #Authoritarianism #HyperCapitalism #CorporateFascism #CorporateColonialism

#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:

There is the well-known saying "if you only have a hammer, then everything looks like a nail".

We find this quite obvious, and think people who fall for this anti-pattern are foolish.

Yet here we are in our #hypercapitalism-encased little global world, measuring *everything*, all value, every transaction in monetary terms.

How is that not the bluntest, dumbest hammer, and most ignorant way to misperceive value of life?

I hate hypercapitalism. Not only taking away the capacity to buy affordable homes 🏡 by artificially raising prices, they're even going after cookies 🍪 by artificially raising interior packaging.

Despite cookies not being a necessity this money-grubbing 🤑 practice is absurd and malicious because it will fester everywhere else—probably already does.

#marketing #HyperCapitalism #consumerism #degrowth #ethics

Thus to introduce a viable alternative economic model that aligns with human and planetary needs, we should first of all design a system that helps reinforce virtues, offer technological support that reinforce the levels of humanity in all of us.

Only then can we hope to counteract the eroding forces of #hypercapitalism on the social fabric of society and put stop to the destruction of our planet. Shape beautiful ways for us to live together that gradually take the upper hand.

A #peopleverse.

I just used the phrase "extractive enshittification" and yes, I'm fully aware -- as will be anyone who closely follows @pluralistic -- that "extractive enshittification" is redundant.

But the alliteration sounds good and people who aren't fully tuned up on the deep economic explanation of enshittification may find the adjective helpful.

#enshittification #hypercapitalism #PrivateEquity

@ProPublica
Yet another example of corporate greed overriding any sense of morality, common sense, or care for anything other than profit.

#FerengiNation
#hypercapitalism
#TooBigToFail
#TooBigToExist

Farmers - and UK's food security - threatened by #ClimateBreakdown and #hypercapitalism - where is the plan? Time for some #spiritof45
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/08/british-farmer-food-climate-crisis-business?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

“The moment you put people into big institutions the goal shifts from knowledge discovery to moneymaking.” —Sabine Hossenfelder, My dream died, and now I'm here

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LKiBlGDfRU8 #academia #WomenInAcademia #science #research #physics #HyperCapitalism