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ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Radio Free Asia: Facebook’s Zuckerberg oversaw censorship tool for China: whistleblower. “Meta compromised U.S. national security and freedom of speech to do business with China, a company whistleblower testified before U.S. senators. Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former global policy director at Facebook, told the U.S. Senate on Wednesday that Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg personally designed and […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/12/facebooks-zuckerberg-oversaw-censorship-tool-for-china-whistleblower-radio-free-asia/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/12/facebooks-zuckerberg-oversaw-censorship-tool-for-china-whistleblower-radio-free-asia/</a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Consciousness is the only reason life has value. It’s the only reason anything matters. Otherwise life would just be physical materials getting whipped about by natural forces without anyone feeling, sensing or experiencing any part of it. Suffering wouldn’t matter because it’s not being felt or experienced. Joy wouldn’t matter because it’s not being felt or experienced. There’d be no good reason not to torture someone, because there wouldn’t be any conscious experience of pain. There’d be no good reason to love anyone, because there wouldn’t be any conscious experience of love. Consciousness is the only reason life is worth living.</p><p>There is no basis on which to believe AI will ever be conscious. Consciousness isn’t some minor detail that science will easily work out once it gets around to it; it’s an all-encompassing phenomenon which has always been a complete mystery to all scientific fields. Science has no idea what consciousness is or why it happens, much less how to replicate it. It’s the single most important and fundamental aspect of every second of our waking experience of life, yet it remains a complete unknown to all of science. And this somehow gets left out of so much of the conversation about the future of artificial “intelligence”."</p><p><a href="https://x.com/caitoz/status/1910886574759526773" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">x.com/caitoz/status/1910886574</span><span class="invisible">759526773</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Singularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Singularity</span></a></p>
Alex 🐘<p>Sapevo che <a href="https://livellosegreto.it/tags/PayPal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PayPal</span></a> fosse il male, per certi versi, ma non credevo fino a questo punto.</p><p><a href="https://fleximize.com/paypal-mafia/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">fleximize.com/paypal-mafia/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://livellosegreto.it/tags/PayPalMafia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PayPalMafia</span></a> <a href="https://livellosegreto.it/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://livellosegreto.it/tags/GAFAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GAFAM</span></a> <a href="https://livellosegreto.it/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://livellosegreto.it/tags/Tecnologia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tecnologia</span></a></p>
Christian Schwägerl<p>Journalist Carole <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cadwalladr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cadwalladr</span></a> on mass manipulation, election fraud and the abuse of power by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> </p><p>in 2019 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSMr-3GGvQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=OQSMr-3GGvQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>in 2025 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>putin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a></p>
Television Moments<p>Zero with girls (Silicon Valley)&nbsp;<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TvMoments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TvMoments</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a></p>
Christian Schwägerl<p>Journalist Carole <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cadwalladr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cadwalladr</span></a> helped break the data abuse by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> with the Cambridge Analytica Story, effectively taking on all of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> . She was sued, digitally stalked, and paid a huge price for speaking truth to power, as you can see in this new talk at TED, a venue she has chosen very consciously. Her dire warning: Cambridge Analytica was chicken feed compared to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</span></a> coup happening today<br><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE&amp;t=811s&amp;pp=2AGrBpACAQ%3D%3D" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8Ab</span><span class="invisible">kNE&amp;t=811s&amp;pp=2AGrBpACAQ%3D%3D</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>putin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
Flipboard Tech Desk<p>Despite the tariff pause, the EU's willingness to target U.S. digital giants reflects a broader ambition to more tightly regulate the technology industry and ensure that foreign firms comply with EU standards. Via Pymts.com. <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trade</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://flip.it/jo4SN4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/jo4SN4</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>NextGov: Google, GSA agree to major governmentwide software discount. “Google is offering the entire federal government — and each federal agency — a 71% discount off current pricing on its Workspace software suite through Sept. 30 in an agreement reached with the General Services Administration effective April 10.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/11/nextgov-google-gsa-agree-to-major-governmentwide-software-discount/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/11/nextgov-google-gsa-agree-to-major-governmentwide-software-discount/</a></p>
LilMikeSF<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> tech startup <a href="https://c.im/tags/CEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CEO</span></a> gets <a href="https://c.im/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> sentence after scamming million$ from <a href="https://c.im/tags/investors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>investors</span></a> for <a href="https://c.im/tags/YouPlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouPlus</span></a> video <a href="https://c.im/tags/Analytics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Analytics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SearchEngine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SearchEngine</span></a> whose proprietary magic tech was just underpaid contract workers in India returning <a href="https://c.im/tags/PowerPoints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerPoints</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/marketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marketing</span></a> info. </p><p>• The startup was founded by Shaukat Shamim alongwith India-based Krishna Prasad Nadig</p><p>• Founder raised $17 Mn in VC money for bogus " video opinion search engine" </p><p>• Instead of AI tech, the company was paying workers in <a href="https://c.im/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a> to watch videos and faked <a href="https://c.im/tags/banking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>banking</span></a> statements, bilked investors for personal expenses like luxury clothing &amp; eyewear, and duty-free shopping splurges.</p><p><a href="https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/ceo-bay-area-ai-startup-serve-prison-time-fraud-20267930.php" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sfgate.com/bayarea/article/ceo</span><span class="invisible">-bay-area-ai-startup-serve-prison-time-fraud-20267930.php</span></a></p>
Autiste à :ch_Vaud:🌊 #woke<p>Ce n'est pas juste pour apaiser Washington. Toute personne un tant soit peu avertie sait que ça ne sert à rien de se plier devant Trump pour le calmer. Non, c'est bien pire que ça. Apparemment, certains législateurs semblent avoir découvert là un moyen de détricoter tous les efforts de ces dernières décennies pour imposer un certain nombre de responsabilités aux géants de la tech et réduire le désastre du <a href="https://tooting.ch/tags/n%C3%A9olib%C3%A9ralisme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>néolibéralisme</span></a> à la sauce <a href="https://tooting.ch/tags/siliconvalley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>siliconvalley</span></a> et <a href="https://tooting.ch/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techbro</span></a> !</p><p><a href="https://www.letemps.ch/cyber/l-europe-decide-de-s-aplatir-brutalement-devant-les-etats-unis-sur-le-terrain-numerique-mais-ce-ne-sera-jamais-suffisant" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">letemps.ch/cyber/l-europe-deci</span><span class="invisible">de-de-s-aplatir-brutalement-devant-les-etats-unis-sur-le-terrain-numerique-mais-ce-ne-sera-jamais-suffisant</span></a></p>
Cecilia Mjausson Huster<p>I’ve wrestled this swinging chair outside to take pictures of it. I’m selling it for $20 because I definitely don’t want to move it! <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/siliconvalley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>siliconvalley</span></a></p>
Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’<p>OMG, you’ve simply GOT to read this, by the inimitable Carole Cadwalladr, one of the bravest journos of our time. She got into heaps of legal battles when she gave a TED talk 6 years ago, this time around who knows what the repercussions will be. “speaking truth to tech gods” indeed……</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy/p/speaking-truth-to-tech-gods-i-return" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/broligar</span><span class="invisible">chy/p/speaking-truth-to-tech-gods-i-return</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techgods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techgods</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedomofspeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedomofspeech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Yes, Facebook lied to the press often, about a lot of things; yes, Internet.org (Facebook’s strategy to give “free internet to people in the developing world) was a cynical ploy at getting new Facebook users; yes, Facebook knew that it couldn’t read posts in Burmese and didn’t care; yes, it slow-walked solutions to its moderation problems in Myanmar even after it knew about them; yes, Facebook bent its own rules all the time to stay unblocked in specific countries; yes, Facebook took down content at the behest of China then pretended it was an accident and lied about it; yes, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg intervened on major content moderation decisions then implied that they did not. Basically, it confirmed my priors about Facebook, which is not a criticism because reporting on this company and getting anything beyond a canned statement or carefully rehearsed answer from them over and over for years and years and years has made me feel like I was going crazy. Careless People confirmed that I am not.</p><p>It has been years since Wynn-Williams left Facebook, but it is clear these are the same careless people running the company. When I wonder if the company knows that its platforms are being taken over by the worst AI slop you could possibly imagine, if it knows that it is directly paying people to flood these platforms with spam, if it knows it is full of deepfakes and AI generated content of celebrities and cartoon characters doing awful things, if it knows it is showing terrible things to kids. Of course it does. It just doesn’t care."</p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/careless-people-is-the-book-about-facebook-ive-wanted-for-a-decade/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/careless-people-is</span><span class="invisible">-the-book-about-facebook-ive-wanted-for-a-decade/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ContentModeration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ContentModeration</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The vision for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenland</span></a>, one of the people said, could include a hub for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>, autonomous vehicles, space launches, micro <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> reactors &amp; high-speed rail.</p><p>The discussions reflect a longstanding <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> movement to establish low-<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regulation</span></a> cities globally, including in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a>, which <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> himself promised to do in a 2023 campaign video. Proponents use different names for variations on the idea, …with the common goal of spurring innovation through sweeping regulatory exemptions.</p>
janhoglund<p>“…we are not powerless.<br>Because we know who we are, and we know what we stand for.<br>And my question to Silicon Valley is,<br>do you?”<br>—Carole Cadwalladr<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/siliconvalley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>siliconvalley</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>JFC</p><p>As the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration intensifies efforts to acquire <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenland</span></a> from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Denmark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Denmark</span></a> — or take it by force — some <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> investors are promoting the frozen island as a site for a so-called freedom city, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/libertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libertarian</span></a> utopia with minimal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corporate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regulation</span></a>, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/technocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greenland-freedom-city-rich-donors-push-trump-tech-hub-up-north-2025-04-10/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/europe/green</span><span class="invisible">land-freedom-city-rich-donors-push-trump-tech-hub-up-north-2025-04-10/</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>“The entire business model of Silicon Valley is surveillance.<br>It harvests our data in order to sell us stuff.<br>We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism.”<br>—Carole Cadwalladr<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/siliconvalley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>siliconvalley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a></p>
Juggling With Eggs<p>‘<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TED</span></a> is ground zero of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> gold rush. But there was also cheerleading and l’ve been overwhelmed by huge love and support from others who see exactly what is happening. It’s the weirdest time to be here. </p><p>And it was the weirdest energy from an audience of any talk I’ve ever given. But then, it was intended to make them uncomfortable. </p><p>Politics is technology now. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> is desperate to deny that, but it can’t and nor can we.’</p><p>Carole <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cadwalladr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cadwalladr</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Gerry Adams standing up for British Creatives while our Government debates selling them all out for Trump trade deal.<br>So who had that on their bingo card? </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GerryAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GerryAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a></p>
Ⓐ Consciousness Revolutions 🏴<p>I am enjoying the hell out of "Picks and Shovels" by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> and I bet you will, too (full disclosure: I have been grokking computers since the early 1980s, which makes so much of the book's geeky name-dropping resonate with me; and my absolute lack of any knowledge of accounting does not detract from the enjoyment).</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/siliconvalley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>siliconvalley</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/geek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geek</span></a></p>