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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻Day 14 cont 🗣️🎙️📺 🇺🇸“Price was appointed to lead a government efficiency unit if the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Coalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coalition</a> government is elected after 3 May. The unit, which would sit within the prime minister’s department, has been compared to one led by US <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> billionaire Elon Musk (<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TechWeenie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechWeenie</a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Oligarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligarch</a>), whose Department of Government <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Efficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Efficiency</a>, or Doge, is taking a razor to US government departments.“Let’s be very, very clear, media, you’re obsessed with Donald Trump 🎃. We’re not obsessed with Donald Trump. We’re actually obsessed with ensuring that we can improve the circumstances for <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Australians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australians</a>,” she said.”Devoid of any <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#policy</a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#analysis</a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/costing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#costing</a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ideas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideas</a> an LNP Senator makes a word salad of foreign phrases about making the “Bond market” sexy again, from a <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BowlingClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BowlingClub</a> on a Saturday in <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Perth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Perth</a>.Repeat the slogans, Repeat the slogans, Repeat the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/slogans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slogans</a>. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LNP</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Liberal</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#propaganda</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/JacintaNampijinpaPrice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JacintaNampijinpaPrice</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/indoctrination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoctrination</a> <<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/12/jacinta-price-says-coalition-will-make-australia-great-again-then-accuses-media-of-being-obsessed-with-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/12/jacinta-price-says-coalition-will-make-australia-great-again-then-accuses-media-of-being-obsessed-with-trump</a>

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻“The push to develop in-house chips is part of a long-term plan at <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meta</a> to bring down its mammoth <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#infrastructure</a> costs as the company places expensive bets on <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> tools to drive growth.Meta, which also owns <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatsApp</a>, has forecast total 2025 expenses of $US114 billion ($181 billion) to $US119 billion, including up to $US65 billion in capital expenditure largely driven by spending on AI infrastructure.…Meta’s new training chip is a dedicated accelerator, meaning it is designed to handle only <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AISpecific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AISpecific</a> tasks. This can make it more power-efficient than the integrated graphics processing units (GPUs) generally used for AI workloads.”Move into chip development, to reduce costs 🤣😂☺️<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zuckerberg</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TechWeenie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechWeenie</a> <<a href="https://archive.md/2ibTc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.md/2ibTc</a>> / <<a href="https://www.afr.com/technology/meta-begins-testing-its-first-ai-training-chip-to-challenge-nvidia-20250312-p5livs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.afr.com/technology/meta-begins-testing-its-first-ai-training-chip-to-challenge-nvidia-20250312-p5livs</a>>

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻🚨 <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TechWeenie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechWeenie</a> Alert Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley“An influential Silicon Valley publication runs a cover story lamenting the “pussification” of tech. A major tech CEO lambasts a Black civil rights leader’s calls for diversifying the tech workforce. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Technologists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Technologists</a> rage against the “PC police”.No, this isn’t <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SiliconValley</a> in the age of Maga. It’s the tech industry of the 1990s, when observers first raised concerns about the rightwing bend of Silicon Valley and the potential for “<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technofascism</a>”. Despite the industry’s (often undeserved) reputation for <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/liberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#liberalism</a>, its reactionary foundations were baked in almost from the beginning. As Silicon Valley enters a second Trump administration, the gendered roots of its original reactionary movement offer insight into today’s rightward turn.”<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BeccaLewis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BeccaLewis</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/oligarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarch</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TechOligarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechOligarch</a> <<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism</a>>

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻“the recent <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/erasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#erasure</a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/submerging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#submerging</a> of abortion-related content, so soon after Donald Trump’s return to <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#power</a>, has caused fear among some abortion rights supporters that a bigger crackdown could be on the horizon – and concerns that the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meta</a> founder <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/MarkZuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarkZuckerberg</a>’s promise to protect “<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/FreeExpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeExpression</a>” may not apply to all speech.”🚨 <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TechWeenie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechWeenie</a> Alert <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/oligarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarch</a> <<a href="https://theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/29/abortion-pills-instagram-shadow-banning" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/29/abortion-pills-instagram-shadow-banning</a>>

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<a href="https://infosec.exchange/@n_dimension" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@n_dimension</a> Also there is the fashion ware line. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TechWeenie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechWeenie</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BigGlasses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigGlasses</a> <<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-to-be-such-losers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-to-be-such-losers</a>>

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻“We are deeply alarmed by recent <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leadership</a> decisions that have led readers to question the integrity of this institution, broken with a tradition of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transparency</a>, and prompted some of our most distinguished colleagues to leave, with more departures imminent,… This is about retaining our competitive edge, restoring trust that has been lost, and re-establishing a relationship with leadership based on open <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/communication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#communication</a>,”“The Post lost 250,000 <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/subscribers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#subscribers</a>, or 10% of its <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/subscription" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#subscription</a> base, following its decision not to endorse. This reportedly was a massive contributor to the paper losing a whopping $100m in 2024,”<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TechWeenie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechWeenie</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bezos</a>/ <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaPo</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <<a href="https://theguardian.com/media/2025/jan/15/washington-post-jeff-bezos" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theguardian.com/media/2025/jan/15/washington-post-jeff-bezos</a>>

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻“The <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> layoff wave continued through 2024. Following significant <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/workforce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workforce</a> reductions in 2022 and 2023, 2024 saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 542 companies, according to independent <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/layoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#layoffs</a> tracker <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LayoffsFyi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LayoffsFyi</a>. Large companies like <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tesla</a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amazon</a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TikTok</a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Snap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Snap</a>, and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> conducted sizable layoffs in 2024, while smaller-sized <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/startups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#startups</a> also experienced cuts, and in some cases, shut down operations altogether.”<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TechWeenie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechWeenie</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WhiteCollar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteCollar</a> <<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/tech-layoffs-2024-list/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/tech-layoffs-2024-list/</a>>

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻“Meta lays off staff at WhatsApp and Instagram to align with ‘strategic goals’”<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TechWeenie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechWeenie</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zuckerberg</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WhiteCollar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteCollar</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatsApp</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/sacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sacking</a> <<a href="https://apnews.com/article/meta-layoffs-whatsapp-instagram-4af727c7fb75f89bc50c84284fef2fee" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/article/meta-layoffs-whatsapp-instagram-4af727c7fb75f89bc50c84284fef2fee</a>>

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