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Nick Radcliffe

2 days ago

Nick Radcliffe
2 days ago

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticising AI
By Cory @pluralistic Doctorow
— pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop…

Fantastic, essential piece on #AI #LLM #GenAI #art #work #bullshit #capitalism #bubble

If Cory didn't exist, we'd have to invent him.

(Via @manton)

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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#art #ai #capitalism #bullshit #Work #llm #genai #bubble @Cory Doctorow @Manton Reece

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Guillotine Jones, Flâneur

5 days ago

Guillotine Jones, Flâneur
5 days ago

This classic Ed Zitron article will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about how corrupt CEOs advance their corporate juggernauts by any means they can get away with.
You'll also find out why NVIDIA's strange growth strategies are curiously reminding people of such historic market disasters as Lucent, WorldCom, and Enron.
In ironically saying that NVIDIA is NOT Enron, Sitron made ME think that that's only because the scale of the financial stakes are much higher today -- and, potentially more devastating.
Also the US currently has a regime that is all-in on making as much as they can off this scam before the bubble bursts.
Trust me, a lot of speculators are already shorting Ai stocks as fast as they can -- knowing that the party is about to come screeching to a halt.
Slightly off-topic side note: Trump is about to achieve a trifecta: crashing the US government and with it the economy, causing a stock market crash that will make Hoover's look minor by comparison, and destabilizing the world order leading to multiple new wars.
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#ai #capitalism #nvidia #uspolitics #jensenhuang #edzitron

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diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋

1 week ago

diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋
1 week ago

#capitalism

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Script Kiddie

1 week ago

Script Kiddie
1 week ago

Don't let them degrade you to a pet and train you to perform tricks.

#meme #capitalism #bigtech #like #ego #economy #bigdata #orwell #surveillance #tracking #pet #problem #humanity #socialnetwork #media #internet #online #humanrights #business #politics #facebook #meta #influenca

♲ Anarchist Art Ⓐ - 2025-12-02 19:08:09 GMT

#business #economy #internet #meme #facebook #problem #capitalism #politics #media #surveillance #humanrights #humanity #tracking #meta #online #BigTech #pet #socialNetwork #Orwell #bigdata #like #ego #influenca

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Niklas Pivic

1 week ago

Niklas Pivic
1 week ago

bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-comp…

How to quit Spotify: a guide from Brian Merchant.

He's gone with Qobuz, a platform that I'm also running with. I'd love to try Coda, as they claim to give artists the most money; I've listed my favourite music-streaming platforms on a page: garden.pivic.com/music/music-s… - please let me know if I've missed a good platform that treats musicians like human beings.

While places like Spotify and Tidal are overrun by AI slop, Qobuz feels *clean*.

#BrianMerchant #spotify #BrokenRecord #Björk #Qobuz #capitalism #greed #DanielEk

The pop star Lily Allen says she makes more money selling pics of her feet on OnlyFans than she does from Spotify royalties. Meanwhile, Spotify just raked in nearly $700 million in quarterly profits. It’s rank exploitation. Don’t take it from me, take it from Bjork. Earlier this year, she succinctly described Spotify as “probably the worst thing that has happened to musicians,” thanks to how the company, and the streaming model it normalized, have so completely corroded artists’ incomes over the last decade or so.

Meanwhile, the company declines to label the AI songs that are overrunning the platform and even boosts them into Discover Weekly playlists, incentivizing their spread. Founder and CEO Daniel Ek used his Spotify fortune to invest in a lethal military tech startup, prompting the most recent round of artist boycotts from the platform. I could go on, but that will probably do—Spotify is everything that’s wrong with Silicon Valley’s engagement with culture and labor condensed into a single platform.

How to quit Spotify

This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative

^{Brian Merchant (Blood in the Machine)}

#capitalism #spotify #greed #bjork #DanielEk #qobuz #brianmerchant #brokenrecord

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Hyperlink Your Heart

1 week ago

Hyperlink Your Heart
1 week ago

Some reflections on what tech companies actually value, with reference to Framework’s recent sponsorship choices, but really more generally than that.

blog.hyperlinkyourheart.com/va…

#Framework #Capitalism #Socialism #BigTech

Value and Values

Some reflections on what tech companies actually value, with particular reference to Framework’s recent sponsorship choices, but really...

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#capitalism #framework #BigTech #socialism

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Police State UK

4 weeks ago

Police State UK
4 weeks ago

"#Epstein’s human trafficking organization depended entirely on the wealth management industry (WMI). It was how he obtained the capital to build it, and it was how he hid his activities from the authorities. And none of this was an abuse of the industry; it is precisely how the WMI is designed to work. Nor is it an abuse of the law, because both American and international law has been carefully designed to accomodate the WMI."

#USPol #Politics #Wealth #Capitalism

jacobin.com/2025/11/epstein-tr…

Capitalism Enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes

The strategies Jeffrey Epstein used to hide the money funding his sex trafficking organization were perfectly legal. In fact, they are the same legal strategies that most of the top 0.1% uses to avoid taxes and other regulations.

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