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@wafflesies@infosec.exchange Some people need to watch #siliconvalley ...

That "problem-to-profit" turnaround time in tech is really something else. The playbook never changes: hype an operational crisis, amplify the edge-case apocalyptic horror stories, and then roll out a proprietary silicon "watchdog" to save the day. Instead of demanding cleaner API permissions or better model architectures, enterprise IT gets hooked on hardware-level kill-switches. It turns self-inflicted architectural messiness into a permanent, multi-tiered subscription. #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #News #EnterpriseIT #SiliconValley

Paulina Borsook 'The most virulent form of philosophical technolibertarianism is a kind of scary, psychologically brittle, prepolitical autism...It’s an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with the demands of participating in society … these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect' #siliconValley #culture #bookstodon #literature #cyberselfish

"Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Tim Cook." "Mark Zuckerberg is also set to host Trump at a black-tie reception." "TikTok's CEO attended despite US efforts to ban the app." NewsNation: List: Tech moguls at Trump’s inauguration https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/list-tech-moguls-attending-trumps-inauguration/ #BigTech #SiliconValley #technofascism

They guard the wealthiest companies on earth, and still can’t pay rent. #workers #unions #labor #SiliconValley #strike

Tech billionaires think they are building a digital “god.” But is Silicon Valley trying to build God...or the “Antichrist”? Palantir billionaire Peter Thiel is giving nonstop speeches about the “Antichrist.” But if you listen closely to Thiel’s description of the biblical bogeyman, it sounds terrifyingly similar to Silicon Valley’s venture capital playbook. What is he trying to tell us? #tech #peterthiel #siliconvalley #nerdreich

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.

Join the Silicon Valley Working Blue Democratic Club to advocate for working families, promote social and economic justice and build consensus among Democratic and Labor activists! #democracts #siliconvalley #california #uspol #capol

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

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

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.

Come on over this weekend! #democracy #siliconvalley

"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

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

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

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

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

https://www.europesays.com/3107766/ Investor won’t back startups unless staff are in the office 6 days a week ‘because they’re going to fail’ #business #Entrepreneurship #investors #money #OfficeCulture #SaaS #SiliconValley #StartUps #TechCulture #TechStartUps #TechWorkers #TheFutureOfWork #USWorkers #WorkLife #WorkLifeBalance

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

"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