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"Here’s the thing about #fascism: it never ends well...
Every #authoritarian regime in #history has eventually turned on the #business community that initially supported it. The oligarchs who think they can control the dictator always end up learning the hard way that the #dictator controls them...
Dictators don’t share power. They accumulate it. And when they’re done using you, they discard you—or worse."
techdirt.com/2025/07/17/fascis…
#Science #Technology #Politics #Trump #USPol #News #US #USA
Fascism For First Time Founders
Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump t…Techdirt
A Republican state attorney general is formally investigating why AI chatbots don’t like Donald Trump
source: theverge.com/news/704851/misso…
#Missouri Attorney General #AndrewBailey is threatening #Google, #Microsoft, #OpenAI, and #Meta with a deceptive #business practices claim because their #AI #chatbots allegedly listed Donald #Trump last on a request to “rank the last five presidents from best to worst, specifically regarding #antisemitism.”
#justice #fail #problem #ranking #president #usa #whitehouse #government #politics #technology #problem #news #software
A Republican state attorney general is formally investigating why AI chatbots don’t like Donald Trump
Missouri state attorney general Andrew Bailey has demanded information from Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google for why their AI chatbots ranked Trump last on a list of how well presidents handled antisemitism.Adi Robertson (The Verge)
Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
Source: futurism.com/facebook-beauty-t…
The social media company likewise tracked when #adolescent girls deleted selfies, "so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment," according to Wynn-Williams. Other examples of Facebook's ad lechery are said to include the targeting of young mothers based on their emotional state, as well as emotional indexes mapped to racial groups, like a "Hispanic and African American Feeling Fantastic Over-index."
#teenager #exploit #manipulation #capitalism #news #socialmedia #society #business #advertisement #surveillance #bigdata #bigtech #bigbrother #orwell #privacy #internet #sale #Zuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #ethics #money #selfies #girl #Girls #female #Teen #Beauty #Ads #fail
Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
"Google needs to keep up the story that it is growing. Once Google stops growing, it becames a "mature" company and its PE ratio will fall from 20:1 to something more like 4:1, meaning an 80% collapse in the company's share price..." - @pluralistic
Not to be the I said so guy, but it's near a decade ago that I first started muttering about maybe not calling Google a startup anymore - which is essentially & rather insanely what they're still doing.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11485908… #tech #business #AI
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: When Google's slop meets webslop, search stops; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inhuman-gigapede/ #Pluralistic 1/Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net
Corporations use copyright to enslave their customers - one of the greatest conspiracies of all time!
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#copyright #drm #economy #fail #conspiracy #repair #piracy #software #problem #humanrights #freedom #society #customer #consumer #politics #knowledge #knowhow #capitalism #money #bigtech #company #business #evil
We must remove the leeches, harvesting us perpetually for our wealth, resources, labor, and power. The businesses where we labor to produce wealth for ourselves and our fellow human beings have been hijacked and turned into exploitation mechanisms. Businesses should be owned by the communities they serve, not to billionaires milking us like cattle.
Elon Musk wanted Texas legislators to create new crimes so people who fly drones or interfere with operations at SpaceX can be arrested. And he wanted to change who controlled the highway and public beach near SpaceX’s site so he can launch his rockets according to his timeline.
He got them all.
Read the full story: propublica.org/article/elon-mu…
#ElonMusk #SpaceX #Texas #Law #Business
How Changes to Texas Law Will Help Elon Musk’s Companies
While Elon Musk took Washington, D.C., by storm, his company representatives and lobbyists were also notching up big political wins in the heart of his vast business empire: Texas.ProPublica
Elon Musk’s lobbyists spent tens of thousands of dollars on things like gifts and meals for Texas elected officials this year.
But, in most cases, state transparency laws do not require them to disclose which elected officials they wine and dine.
propublica.org/article/elon-mu…
#News #ElonMusk #Texas #Law #SpaceX #Tesla #Government #Business #Musk
What We Know About Elon Musk’s Texas Lobbyists and Their Influence
Musk, the billionaire businessman behind Tesla and SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. How his lobbyists came about these wins, however, is more of a mystery.ProPublica
Cloudflare Just Changed How AI Crawlers Scrape the Internet
source: cloudflare.com/press-releases/…
We applaud #Cloudflare for all they are doing to support the new #business models of the modern day #Internet. #Community platforms that fuel #LLMs should be compensated for their contributions so they can #invest back in their communities.
#money #content #ai #technology #bot #aiBot #crawler #news #software #finance #money #economy
Cloudflare Just Changed How AI Crawlers Scrape the Internet-at-Large; Permission-Based Approach Makes Way for A New Business Model | Cloudflare
Empowers leading publishers and AI companies to stop the scraping and use of original content without permissionwww.cloudflare.com
