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  1. What's the Cloudillo philosophy and how does it fit in with the "decentralized" internet? This 3-minute read, 'Breaking Free from Cloud Giants' will open your eyes:

    medium.com/@szilu/breaking-fre

  2. "While #Musk was looking to the stars, the people of Belfast were still reeling from several days of racist violence. The Belfast pogrom drew strength from the #farRight ecosystem that Musk has nurtured with the money from #SpaceX, #Tesla and other companies."

    Long Reads talks w/ #BenTarnoff and #QuinnSlobodian, authors of #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

    Pt 1 of 2
    podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/

    #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #techCriticism #techOligarchs #SiliconValleyRight #books @bookstodon

  3. "While #Musk was looking to the stars, the people of Belfast were still reeling from several days of racist violence. The Belfast pogrom drew strength from the #farRight ecosystem that Musk has nurtured with the money from #SpaceX, #Tesla and other companies."

    Long Reads talks w/ #BenTarnoff and #QuinnSlobodian, authors of #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

    Pt 1 of 2
    podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/

    #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #techCriticism #techOligarchs #SiliconValleyRight #books @bookstodon

  4. "While #Musk was looking to the stars, the people of Belfast were still reeling from several days of racist violence. The Belfast pogrom drew strength from the #farRight ecosystem that Musk has nurtured with the money from #SpaceX, #Tesla and other companies."

    Long Reads talks w/ #BenTarnoff and #QuinnSlobodian, authors of #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

    Pt 1 of 2
    podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/

    #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #techCriticism #techOligarchs #SiliconValleyRight #books @bookstodon

  5. "While #Musk was looking to the stars, the people of Belfast were still reeling from several days of racist violence. The Belfast pogrom drew strength from the #farRight ecosystem that Musk has nurtured with the money from #SpaceX, #Tesla and other companies."

    Long Reads talks w/ #BenTarnoff and #QuinnSlobodian, authors of #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

    Pt 1 of 2
    podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/

    #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #techCriticism #techOligarchs #SiliconValleyRight #books @bookstodon

  6. "While #Musk was looking to the stars, the people of Belfast were still reeling from several days of racist violence. The Belfast pogrom drew strength from the #farRight ecosystem that Musk has nurtured with the money from #SpaceX, #Tesla and other companies."

    Long Reads talks w/ #BenTarnoff and #QuinnSlobodian, authors of #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

    Pt 1 of 2
    podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/

    #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #techCriticism #techOligarchs #SiliconValleyRight #books @bookstodon

  7. As the bizarre cover art illustrates (a plastic human body topped with a horse head), the real debate isn't about what the technology can do. It’s about who the tech is doing it to, and who it’s doing it for.

    A vital, labor-first reality check to cut through the Silicon Valley hype.

    #AI
    #CoryDoctorow
    #TechCriticism
    #LaborRights
    #Automation

  8. As the bizarre cover art illustrates (a plastic human body topped with a horse head), the real debate isn't about what the technology can do. It’s about who the tech is doing it to, and who it’s doing it for.

    A vital, labor-first reality check to cut through the Silicon Valley hype.

    #AI
    #CoryDoctorow
    #TechCriticism
    #LaborRights
    #Automation

  9. As the bizarre cover art illustrates (a plastic human body topped with a horse head), the real debate isn't about what the technology can do. It’s about who the tech is doing it to, and who it’s doing it for.

    A vital, labor-first reality check to cut through the Silicon Valley hype.

    #AI
    #CoryDoctorow
    #TechCriticism
    #LaborRights
    #Automation

  10. As the bizarre cover art illustrates (a plastic human body topped with a horse head), the real debate isn't about what the technology can do. It’s about who the tech is doing it to, and who it’s doing it for.

    A vital, labor-first reality check to cut through the Silicon Valley hype.

    #AI
    #CoryDoctorow
    #TechCriticism
    #LaborRights
    #Automation

  11. As the bizarre cover art illustrates (a plastic human body topped with a horse head), the real debate isn't about what the technology can do. It’s about who the tech is doing it to, and who it’s doing it for.

    A vital, labor-first reality check to cut through the Silicon Valley hype.

    #AI
    #CoryDoctorow
    #TechCriticism
    #LaborRights
    #Automation

  12. "We have, I believe, crossed a new threshold, and all authored writing [...] will be judged according to which side of that divide it falls on. On one side are texts produced before the arrival of generative #largeLanguageModels (#LLMs). On the other, everything that has followed—texts that might still be useful, even compelling, but that will always face a lingering suspicion of not being entirely human..."

    lareviewofbooks.org/article/fa
    #AI #artificialIntelligence #tech #literature #techCriticism

  13. "We have, I believe, crossed a new threshold, and all authored writing [...] will be judged according to which side of that divide it falls on. On one side are texts produced before the arrival of generative #largeLanguageModels (#LLMs). On the other, everything that has followed—texts that might still be useful, even compelling, but that will always face a lingering suspicion of not being entirely human..."

    lareviewofbooks.org/article/fa
    #AI #artificialIntelligence #tech #literature #techCriticism

  14. "We have, I believe, crossed a new threshold, and all authored writing [...] will be judged according to which side of that divide it falls on. On one side are texts produced before the arrival of generative #largeLanguageModels (#LLMs). On the other, everything that has followed—texts that might still be useful, even compelling, but that will always face a lingering suspicion of not being entirely human..."

    lareviewofbooks.org/article/fa
    #AI #artificialIntelligence #tech #literature #techCriticism

  15. "We have, I believe, crossed a new threshold, and all authored writing [...] will be judged according to which side of that divide it falls on. On one side are texts produced before the arrival of generative #largeLanguageModels (#LLMs). On the other, everything that has followed—texts that might still be useful, even compelling, but that will always face a lingering suspicion of not being entirely human..."

    lareviewofbooks.org/article/fa
    #AI #artificialIntelligence #tech #literature #techCriticism

  16. "We have, I believe, crossed a new threshold, and all authored writing [...] will be judged according to which side of that divide it falls on. On one side are texts produced before the arrival of generative #largeLanguageModels (#LLMs). On the other, everything that has followed—texts that might still be useful, even compelling, but that will always face a lingering suspicion of not being entirely human..."

    lareviewofbooks.org/article/fa
    #AI #artificialIntelligence #tech #literature #techCriticism

  17. #SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #QuinnSlobodian & #BenTarnoff to talk about their book #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.

    'We see a mind that is profoundly troubled by any contagion spreading into seemingly closed systems—it can take the form of racial others, transpeople, “woke” populations, or most generally and dismissively, “Non-Player-Characters.” '

    speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.

    #Musk #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs #books @bookstodon

  18. #SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #QuinnSlobodian & #BenTarnoff to talk about their book #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.

    'We see a mind that is profoundly troubled by any contagion spreading into seemingly closed systems—it can take the form of racial others, transpeople, “woke” populations, or most generally and dismissively, “Non-Player-Characters.” '

    speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.

    #Musk #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs #books @bookstodon

  19. #SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #QuinnSlobodian & #BenTarnoff to talk about their book #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.

    'We see a mind that is profoundly troubled by any contagion spreading into seemingly closed systems—it can take the form of racial others, transpeople, “woke” populations, or most generally and dismissively, “Non-Player-Characters.” '

    speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.

    #Musk #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs #books @bookstodon

  20. #SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #QuinnSlobodian & #BenTarnoff to talk about their book #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.

    'We see a mind that is profoundly troubled by any contagion spreading into seemingly closed systems—it can take the form of racial others, transpeople, “woke” populations, or most generally and dismissively, “Non-Player-Characters.” '

    speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.

    #Musk #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs #books @bookstodon

  21. #SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #QuinnSlobodian & #BenTarnoff to talk about their book #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.

    'We see a mind that is profoundly troubled by any contagion spreading into seemingly closed systems—it can take the form of racial others, transpeople, “woke” populations, or most generally and dismissively, “Non-Player-Characters.” '

    speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.

    #Musk #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs #books @bookstodon

  22. Fighting Fascism pod welcomes Sarah Myers West, "who lays out why #AI, as it's currently structured, is all about the consolidation of power among a handful of #oligarchs, but also how that's not how it needs to be."

    redcircle.com/shows/de5dbe33-6

    (v. her co-authored piece, "The Great AI Grift": thenation.com/article/economy/)
    #tech #artificialIntelligence #BigTech #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs

  23. Fighting Fascism pod welcomes Sarah Myers West, "who lays out why #AI, as it's currently structured, is all about the consolidation of power among a handful of #oligarchs, but also how that's not how it needs to be."

    redcircle.com/shows/de5dbe33-6

    (v. her co-authored piece, "The Great AI Grift": thenation.com/article/economy/)
    #tech #artificialIntelligence #BigTech #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs

  24. Fighting Fascism pod welcomes Sarah Myers West, "who lays out why #AI, as it's currently structured, is all about the consolidation of power among a handful of #oligarchs, but also how that's not how it needs to be."

    redcircle.com/shows/de5dbe33-6

    (v. her co-authored piece, "The Great AI Grift": thenation.com/article/economy/)
    #tech #artificialIntelligence #BigTech #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs

  25. Fighting Fascism pod welcomes Sarah Myers West, "who lays out why #AI, as it's currently structured, is all about the consolidation of power among a handful of #oligarchs, but also how that's not how it needs to be."

    redcircle.com/shows/de5dbe33-6

    (v. her co-authored piece, "The Great AI Grift": thenation.com/article/economy/)
    #tech #artificialIntelligence #BigTech #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs

  26. Grimes calls AI "more influential than Jesus" — and also "the most dangerous thing coming."

    She warns about military AI, names OpenAI and Grok as particularly risky, and criticizes Silicon Valley's pursuit of a "digital god."

    Her new album Psy Opera is mostly human-made — except one track, "DeepSeek," with lyrics by open-source DeepSeek.

    She backs decentralized AI, not lab control.

    #Grimes #AI #DeepSeek #OpenAI #TechCriticism

  27. Grimes calls AI "more influential than Jesus" — and also "the most dangerous thing coming."

    She warns about military AI, names OpenAI and Grok as particularly risky, and criticizes Silicon Valley's pursuit of a "digital god."

    Her new album Psy Opera is mostly human-made — except one track, "DeepSeek," with lyrics by open-source DeepSeek.

    She backs decentralized AI, not lab control.

    #Grimes #AI #DeepSeek #OpenAI #TechCriticism

  28. Grimes calls AI "more influential than Jesus" — and also "the most dangerous thing coming."

    She warns about military AI, names OpenAI and Grok as particularly risky, and criticizes Silicon Valley's pursuit of a "digital god."

    Her new album Psy Opera is mostly human-made — except one track, "DeepSeek," with lyrics by open-source DeepSeek.

    She backs decentralized AI, not lab control.

    #Grimes #AI #DeepSeek #OpenAI #TechCriticism

  29. Grimes calls AI "more influential than Jesus" — and also "the most dangerous thing coming."

    She warns about military AI, names OpenAI and Grok as particularly risky, and criticizes Silicon Valley's pursuit of a "digital god."

    Her new album Psy Opera is mostly human-made — except one track, "DeepSeek," with lyrics by open-source DeepSeek.

    She backs decentralized AI, not lab control.

    #Grimes #AI #DeepSeek #OpenAI #TechCriticism

  30. Grimes calls AI "more influential than Jesus" — and also "the most dangerous thing coming."

    She warns about military AI, names OpenAI and Grok as particularly risky, and criticizes Silicon Valley's pursuit of a "digital god."

    Her new album Psy Opera is mostly human-made — except one track, "DeepSeek," with lyrics by open-source DeepSeek.

    She backs decentralized AI, not lab control.

    #Grimes #AI #DeepSeek #OpenAI #TechCriticism

  31. "We have come to this cultural agreement that convenience is so important that it trumps everything else, forgetting that anything that matters in life is inconvenient [...] I think we should re-value difficulty, overcoming difficulty, and take pleasure in gaining mastery, because it is a form of empowerment"

    #SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #CarissaVéliz, author of #Prophecy

    speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.

    #AI #tech #artificialIntelligence #techCriticism #techFutures #BigTech #books @bookstodon

  32. "We have come to this cultural agreement that convenience is so important that it trumps everything else, forgetting that anything that matters in life is inconvenient [...] I think we should re-value difficulty, overcoming difficulty, and take pleasure in gaining mastery, because it is a form of empowerment"

    #SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #CarissaVéliz, author of #Prophecy

    speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.

    #AI #tech #artificialIntelligence #techCriticism #techFutures #BigTech #books @bookstodon

  33. "We have come to this cultural agreement that convenience is so important that it trumps everything else, forgetting that anything that matters in life is inconvenient [...] I think we should re-value difficulty, overcoming difficulty, and take pleasure in gaining mastery, because it is a form of empowerment"

    #SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #CarissaVéliz, author of #Prophecy

    speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.

    #AI #tech #artificialIntelligence #techCriticism #techFutures #BigTech #books @bookstodon

  34. "We have come to this cultural agreement that convenience is so important that it trumps everything else, forgetting that anything that matters in life is inconvenient [...] I think we should re-value difficulty, overcoming difficulty, and take pleasure in gaining mastery, because it is a form of empowerment"

    #SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #CarissaVéliz, author of #Prophecy

    speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.

    #AI #tech #artificialIntelligence #techCriticism #techFutures #BigTech #books @bookstodon

  35. "We have come to this cultural agreement that convenience is so important that it trumps everything else, forgetting that anything that matters in life is inconvenient [...] I think we should re-value difficulty, overcoming difficulty, and take pleasure in gaining mastery, because it is a form of empowerment"

    #SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #CarissaVéliz, author of #Prophecy

    speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.

    #AI #tech #artificialIntelligence #techCriticism #techFutures #BigTech #books @bookstodon

  36. 'As the higher brain functions of society fade, what remains gradually starts to look like an economic creature moving on instinct—a zombie, mostly brain-dead, reacting only to immediate stimuli and driven by an insatiable hunger. [...] Not the “new industrial revolution” promised by #AI leadership, but weak productivity, low-value workslop, and a massive bubble of unprofitability.'

    brooklynrail.org/2026/02/field
    #tech #techCriticism #labour #artificialIntelligence #SiliconValley

  37. 'As the higher brain functions of society fade, what remains gradually starts to look like an economic creature moving on instinct—a zombie, mostly brain-dead, reacting only to immediate stimuli and driven by an insatiable hunger. [...] Not the “new industrial revolution” promised by #AI leadership, but weak productivity, low-value workslop, and a massive bubble of unprofitability.'

    brooklynrail.org/2026/02/field
    #tech #techCriticism #labour #artificialIntelligence #SiliconValley

  38. 'As the higher brain functions of society fade, what remains gradually starts to look like an economic creature moving on instinct—a zombie, mostly brain-dead, reacting only to immediate stimuli and driven by an insatiable hunger. [...] Not the “new industrial revolution” promised by #AI leadership, but weak productivity, low-value workslop, and a massive bubble of unprofitability.'

    brooklynrail.org/2026/02/field
    #tech #techCriticism #labour #artificialIntelligence #SiliconValley

  39. 'As the higher brain functions of society fade, what remains gradually starts to look like an economic creature moving on instinct—a zombie, mostly brain-dead, reacting only to immediate stimuli and driven by an insatiable hunger. [...] Not the “new industrial revolution” promised by #AI leadership, but weak productivity, low-value workslop, and a massive bubble of unprofitability.'

    brooklynrail.org/2026/02/field
    #tech #techCriticism #labour #artificialIntelligence #SiliconValley