Anything you say or do in Firefox may be used by Mozilla against you. You have the right to use a different browser. If you cannot find a browser that doesn’t fuck you over one way or another, one will not be provided for you because capitalism is working exactly as designed.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-terms-of-use/

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/information-about-the-new-terms-of-use-and-updated-privacy/td-p/87735

Carole Cadwalladr is, to my mind, one of the most insightful, prescient commentators on what our culture and political sphere have made of themselves at this point in time. Today, she writes,

"Just after Trump’s re-election in November 2024, I wrote a column headlined ‘How to Survive the Broligarchy’ (reproduced below) and in the three months since, pretty much everything it predicted how now come to pass."

#Musk #Trump #broligarchy #SiliconValley
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https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-d8b

Google, a brief history

2004: Don’t be evil
2018: OK, be evil but at least don’t kill people
2025: Fuck it, kill people

https://www.independent.co.uk/business/google-drops-pledge-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons-b2692533.html

Web 1.0: We gather data when you visit our web site
Web 2.0: We gather data when you visit every web site
Web 3.0: We buy your government and get the data straight from your treasury

The United States has declared economic war on some of its closest allies and Silicon Valley is itching to use the power of the state to defend its interests at all costs.

It’s time for an alliance not just to combat US belligerence, but to build a different vision for tech.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/we-need-an-international-alliance

#US stock market lost trillions as #DeepSeek outperformed every top US AI
This means that AI developments will shift to low-cost, open-source models that use the DeepSeek framework, and that the trillions already invested in expensive, proprietary models will be wiped out.
The solution for #WallStreet and #SiliconValley to protect trillions of dollars in stocks and future cash flows is to pressure Western regulators to ban DeepSeek and create rules that prevent open-source AI models

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism
The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s
Lungo e interessante articolo di Becca Lewis, ricercatrice alla Stanford University, comparso mercoledì scorso sulla home page del #Guardian e subito scomparso nel meandri del sito #SiliconValley #BigTech #Technofascism #destre #USA
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Analysis: The Broligarchy: Who's who in the Silicon gilded age:

"Tech CEOs cozying up to Trump want to reshape reality to their politics."

Seated in *front of the incoming cabinet* were Zuckerberg, Pichai, Bezos, & Musk.

Cook, Altman & Shou Zi Chew looked on.

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/24/podcast-silicon-valley-tech-gilded-age-trump/

#Trump #Musk #Broligarchy #SiliconValley #Fascism #Racism #WhiteSupremacy .

A special thank you to the useful idiots in the tech world who spent the last decade vilifying those of us who spoke out against Big Tech while providing them with social capital and legitimacy, oftentimes benefitting financially from the transaction.

We couldn’t have made it here without you.