From @pluralistic : United States #BigTech now poses the same risk to the world

"that China hawks warned of when it looked like Huawei would provide all of the world’s 5G infrastructure: allow companies that are absolutely beholden to an autocrat who is not restrained by the rule of law to permeate your society, and your society becomes a prisoner to the autocrat’s whims and goodwill.”

This should destroy the US as a global tech power.

#uspol #pathocracy

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Nah, fuck it, turned everything back on again. Why should I fix your damn broken interface and fool myself into thinking this piece of shit is anything but? Going to experience iOS 26 in all its enshittified glory. Will make it easier to hate this phone and move onto something more ethical once it finally croaks.

Apple is likely one release cycle away from going full Microsoft/Google anyway.

#ios26 #BigTech #apple #theAestheticsOfBurgeoningFascism

Warning: kissing fascist ass may result in liquid glass.

So my phone tricked me into updating to iOS 26 (nice one, asshats). And wow: it really is a case study in form over function. Gratuitous, meaningless aesthetics and motion. Decoration, not design. “Look what I can do!”

Oh well, if it gets me using my phone less, that’s a good thing, I guess.

But the next time you hear someone from Apple talking about design, please feel free to laugh in their damn faces. What a sad joke they’ve become.

#apple #ios26 #liquidAss #design #decoration #BigTech #fascism #aesthetics

Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.

You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.

AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.

Reject this future.

Keep your hardware local.

Run #Linux.

Own your data.

The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.

#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich

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Adversarial interoperability should be legal. Users should be able to use software on their own devices the way they want to. The tariff wars have opened up a new political opportunity to make that happen. @pluralistic explains it well:

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#BigTech #FreeSoftware #FOSS #AdversarialInteroperability #startups #UserFreedom

Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again

The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow

^{Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)}

@helge And is headquartered in Ireland and being protected by the Irish government from taxes and regulation.

I’d say the fight is exactly where it needs to be.

#ireland #EU #BigTech #complicity

So, now they know how real creators feel after having been ripped off by "AI"…

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#tech #technology #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #NVIDIA #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude

Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized

A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.

^{Joe Wilkins (Futurism)}

"The door is open a crack, the wind is blowing, the post-American internet is upon us: it's a new, good #internet that delivers the technological self-determination of the old, good internet, and the ease of use of Web 2.0 that let our normie friends use it, too."
@pluralistic

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#enshittification #tariffs #digitalmarketsact #eu #apple #amazon #google #facebook #instagram #whatsapp #microsoft #chatgpt #tesla #technology #bigtech #economics #diday #opensource #foss

A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all...

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"Tax is redistributive and getting money back from American companies after they steal it from [everyone] is much harder than simply arranging the system so it's much harder for American companies to steal from [everyone] in the first place..." - @pluralistic

(sidebar: I for one am glad you enabled quote-tooting, Cory 😁)

#resist #BigTech #predistribution #tech #business #intpol

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

Attached: 1 image All over the world, for all of this decade, governments have been trying to figure out how to rein in America's tech companies.

^{Cory Doctorow (Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net)}

...this not happening, which it isn't, except for some countries, like #Norway and #China, to some degree.

Now that thanks to #Trump the #US are back on track for #Ecocide by #BigOil 4) and #BigTech's energy frenzy due the proliferation of #AI #datacenters 5) 6), the...

4) #BigOilKnew: mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1106…

5) The #Ressurection and further of communal #Minoan, #Roman, and #Andean #WaterManagement practices and techniques should have been rolled...

Einer der Gründe für den Start der Mastodon-Instanz von «momou.social» war definitiv auch das aktuell eher zermürbende Erlebnis in den «grossen» sozialen Medien ...

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) brachte das in seinem ermutigenden und sehr empfehlenswerten Vortrag «A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet» am diesjährigen «Chaos Computer Congress» ziemlich gut auf den Punkt und fordert auf, ein «neues» Internet ohne #BigTech mitzugestalten.

Da sind wir natürlich mit dabei! 🙂

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#enshittification #digitalsovereignity

A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all...

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Wow, seems the people farmers of surveillance capitalism have fully embraced scammer techniques now.

Ran into this new flow on a number of sites just now (Indiewire, Variety, and RollingStone) delivered by the colossal douchebags at html-load.com who run report-error.com.

They make it look like a browser error has occurred and then tell you to disable your tracker/ad blocker.

To the asshole developers who built this for them instead of refusing: Fuck you for making everyone less safe. You dickheads are the problem.

#surveillance #capitalism #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarmers #adtech #peopleFarming #BigTech #IWasJustFollowingOrders #reportErrorDotCom #htmlLoadDotCom #Indiewire #Variety #RollingStone

An enviro defense group reached out asking for my security take on using BigAI in activism work. After giving them the take (basically "don't"), I took liberty to talk about the ethics of using it in the first instance, especially in the context of human rights and climate activism.

Sharing here in case useful on the same grounds elsewhere.

#bigai #bigtech #climate #humanrights

An interview I gave to Euronews six years ago. Interview is in English with Turkish subtitles.

You decide how it has aged.

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#BigTech #SiliconValley #PeopleFarming #fascism #SmallTech #tech #HumanRights #democracy #peerocracy

'Bir dönemin 'casus yazılımları' şu an Silikon Vadisi'nin iş modeli'

İnsan hakları, hayvan hakları, işçi, kadın, erkek herkesin hakkını aradığı günümüz dünyasında dijital haklarımız için savaşan bir aktivist: Aral Balkan.

^Euronews.com

💬Readers added context they thought people might want to know…

“Europe is hurtling toward digital vassalage. Under Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, EU laws to tackle tech giants have been either not applied or delayed, for fear of offending Donald Trump. Now leaked documents reveal that the European Commission plans to gut a central part of Europe’s digital rulebook. This will hurt Europe’s innovators and hand the future of Europe’s tech sovereignty to US firms.”

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#EU #privacy #GDPR #BigTech #hoHoHo ec.social-network.europa.eu/@E…

The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power

The GDPR is Europe’s defence against digital oligarchy and child harm. Deregulation plans are misguided, say Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles

^{Johnny Ryan (The Guardian)}