I recommend Carole Cadwalladr's Substack essay "Total information collapse" today. As with everything she writes, it's incisive, richly thoughtful, and disturbing (in the best way possible). Hard to choose passages to excerpt in an essay so dense. Here's a taste:

"We are so ill-equipped to face the coming threat."

#Trump #Musk #Zuckerberg #disinformation #EconomicElites #authoritarianism
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broligarchy.substack.com/p/tot…

Total information collapse

It's started. And it's only going to accelerate from here.

^{Carole Cadwalladr (The Power)}

Recently unearthed photograph of what Mark Zuckerberg looks like at night after he peels off his rubber skin and is ready to be plugged into be recharged. Fact checked ✅

#meta #facebook #instagram #threads #zuckerberg

@jakob
Ich habe Zuckerberger, nun hat sich eine Metastase gebildet. 🤔

#digitalekrankheit #zuckerberg #meta #facebook #insta #socialmedia

#Zuckerberg on #JoeRogan’s show (no link because #FuckZuck, find the clip yourself):

“Probably in 2025, Meta, as well as other companies, will have an AI that can effectively be a mid-level engineer that you have at your company that can write code. In the beginning that will be very expensive to run, then at some point a lot of the code we have in our apps will be built by AI engineers instead of people engineers. In my opinion that will augment the people working on it. My view is that in the future people will be so much more creative and freed up to do crazy things.”

I state again: to most capitalists pouring money into #AI, THE CORE VALUE PROPOSITION FOR AI IS DISPLACEMENT OF HUMAN LABOR. What capitalists want are slaves that replace workers.

Robots have replaced a lot of *repetitive* human work, and capitalists have hoarded all the profits from their increased productivity. Now they want AI to replace *intelligent* human work, and capitalists want to hoard those profits too.

New facts about Mark Zuckerberg keep popping up. I’m glad this one was triple checked by Meta.

#meta #facebook #instagram #threads #whatsapp #zuckerberg

"Die Anwälte der Kläger in einer Urheberrechtsklage gegen #Meta behaupten, dass Meta-CEO Mark Zuckerberg dem Team, das hinter den Llama-KI-Modellen des Unternehmens steht, grünes Licht für die Verwendung eines Datensatzes mit raubkopierten E-Books und Artikeln zum Training gegeben hat."

#zuckerberg scheint immer mehr das nächste grosse Arschloch im Club zu sein.

techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/mark…

Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims | TechCrunch

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team approval to train on copyrighted documents, according to a new court filing.

^{Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)}

I read that Zuckerberg is calling people who leave his platforms, "virtue signalers." Yup. Indeed. I'd also add, "ethics and morality signalers and patriots." We should all signal that we don't support this kind of behavior. With action.

#Zuckerberg #Meta #Ethics #ProtectDemocracy #USPol

In addition to FB, I’m gonna cancel Amazon Prime on Jan 20.

Let’s make Trump’s Inauguration Day a day to defund fashy and fash-curious billionaires.
#trump #bezos #zuckerberg #fascism

#Zuckerberg sei Dank wird das fediverse vermutlich weiteren Zulauf bekommen. Wie wär's mit einem neuen #MastodonServer für #HannoverUndRegion ? Ich stelle mich als mod, samt ein paar (schmalen) Euros, zur Verfügung. Und ein paar accounts von fb könnte ich wohl auch rüberlocken.

Sonderlich Plan habe ich zwar nicht und meine Zeit wird auch eher noch knapper. Aber es muss wohl sein. Also: Bist du dabei?

Boosten mehr als erwünscht ❤ #meta #facebook #Hannover #RegionHannover

"By the end of 2024, #Zuckerberg had given up on finding any middle path through the polarized and opposite criticisms leveled against him by Republicans & Democrats.
#Musk spent the past year showing how Republican party support can be bought — cheaply. Zuckerberg’s motivation has only ever been to win. And a doddering, transactional Trump presented #Meta with a rare opportunity for a fresh start.
All they would have to do is whatever #Trump wanted them to do."

platformer.news/meta-fact-chec…

Meta surrenders to the right on speech

“I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer

^{Casey Newton (Platformer)}

I regard Facebook users like X users. If you are comfortable there, we can't be comfortable here.

#Zuckerberg #Meta #Satan #X #Facebook #Instagram

Mark Zuckerberg is a fascist, nationalist, bigoted, misogynistic, white supremacist.

In support of those beliefs he is rapidly making Meta a fascist mouthpiece. Fake AI accounts, limited-to-no moderation, and propaganda.

Delete your Facebook/Instagram accounts. Now is the time. I’ve put off deleting Insta for too long. Because of the artists I follow there. But I can’t stay. I will not support that ecosystem.

techpolicy.press/transcript-ma…

#Meta #SocialMedia #Zuckerberg #Fascism

Transcript: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Major Changes to Meta's Content Moderation Policies and Operations

The Meta founder and CEO says "it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram."

^{Justin Hendrix (Tech Policy Press)}

Jetzt fängt es an.

#Zuckerberg #Facebook #Instagram #Faschismus #Faktencheck

Oder vielleicht sogar: Jetzt ist es vorbei.

tagesschau.de/multimedia/video…

Facebook und Instagram: Meta-Konzern beendet Faktencheck-Programm

^{tagesschau.de}

#Zuckerberg is aligning with #Musk and #Trump and discontinuing any remaining semblance of being a site for the truth and moving some operations to #Texas - land of the oppressed.

Do the right thing and deactivate and shutdown all your remaining #Meta accounts.

For me that means Instagram, and it will be hard because it's the last place I share with family for family news and photos.

#USPOL #Fascism

#Zuckerberg is now at the grovelling stage of happily being the lackey whose job is laying the groundwork of social acceptability, for his new buddies #Trump and #Republicans to then make this happen universally throughout law.

(and sorry, I didn't know that Wired only allows one free article a month earlier)

#Meta #Facebook #LGBTQ #gay #trans

C'mon, tooters, I'm sure this is gonna work out *just great!*

I mean, look at how lovely Xitter is now, such a friendly place to hang out and chat!

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly74m…

#Facebook #Zuckerberg #AllBillionairesAreEvil

Meta to replace 'biased' fact-checkers with moderation by users

Meta says its platforms will instead rely on "community notes" from its users, an approach pioneered by X.

^{Liv McMahon, Zoe Kleinman & Courtney Subramanian (BBC News)}

Posted a joke to Threads about 'being able to post any old shit on here now that there's no fact checkers', and within 20 minutes, all of my Meta accounts - Facebook, Instagram, Threads - had been suspended.

Hurray for free speech!

#Threads #Meta #Instagram #Zuckerberg #MarkZuckerberg

After Meta's rather disturbing actions today, would you like to move to a Fediverse server that defederates Meta and Threads?

Fedi.Garden is a directory of well-run servers that have all defederated Threads:

➡️ fedi.garden

All of them are compatible with the requirements listed at fedi.garden/about-this-site

#Fediverse #Threads #Meta #Zuckerberg

Fedi.Garden

Highlighting nice servers on Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.garden

@jakob 👍 Und #Musk ist nicht mal allein: #Zuckerberg und #Bezos unterstützen #Trump und sind imho garantiert mit von der Partie bei Musk, auch wenn Zuckerberg quasi Konkurrent ist.

US business leaders set to break record on donations to Trump inaugural fund

theguardian.com/business/2024/…

US business leaders set to break record on donations to Trump inaugural fund

Donations, not restricted by campaign finance laws, come as industries seek favor with incoming administration

^{Edward Helmore (The Guardian)}

US business leaders set to break record on donations to Trump inaugural fund
theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Parmi les entreprises qui donnent ou s'apprêtent à donner des fortunes pour l'investiture de #Trump, pulvérisant tous les records précédents, on trouve, outre #Musk (#x et #Tesla), #Zuckerberg (#Facebook, #lnstagram & #Whatsapp), #Bezos (#Amazon), Ford, Toyota, General Motors ...

Tout le monde se lamente de l'arrivée des deux dangereux abrutis Musk et Trump à la tête des USA, et pourtant des millions des gens continuent à utiliser leurs produits à longueur de journée, et donc à les enrichir. Quelque chose m'échappe.

#BoycottX #BoycottMeta #BoycottAmazon

US business leaders set to break record on donations to Trump inaugural fund

Donations, not restricted by campaign finance laws, come as industries seek favor with incoming administration

^{Edward Helmore (The Guardian)}

Ni algorithme
Ni maître

Neque algorithmus, neque magister.

#NiAlgorithmeNiMaitre

(J'ai pensé à celle-là suite à une publication de @_elena : elenarossini.com/2024/10/wear-… qui cherchait une réponse au “Aut Zuck aut nihil” de #Zuckerberg .)

Voilà, je trouve que ça incarne bien l'esprit un peu anarchique du #fedivers .

Wear your values — Elena Rossini

Ideas about creating sweatshirts and t-shirt that raise awareness about the Fediverse - in reaction to "aut Zuck aut nihil"

^{Elena Rossini}