“If you want to know how Banks views capitalist tech billionaires, you don’t have to hunt very hard. In the Culture series, a capitalist tech billionaire is the literal devil, only he couldn’t be bothered to build hell himself.”

—Constance Grady on how the broligarchy misreads Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels

@bookstodon

vox.com/culture/413502/iain-ba…

#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #scifi #SF #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #techbros #broligarchy #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg

The tech billionaires are missing the point of their favorite sci-fi series

They missed the books’ point completely.

^{Constance Grady (Vox)}

📢 UPDATE 12/05: social.coop/@rhyseverquill/114… 📢

We cannot ignore #Facebook's ongoing assault against publishers.

Just two days before the local #elections in #Leicestershire, our Facebook account was 'permanently suspended,' effectively banning us from the platform.

As a result, we will rely less on these platforms and seek more ethical ways to reach our audience, like our weekly newsletter and the #fediverse.

leicester.news/leicester-gazet…

#Leicester #BigTech #Zuckerberg #Media #Journalism

Leicester Gazette hit with Facebook account ban ahead of election

It has since been reinstated, but what does this saga mean for the future of the Gazette?

^{Leicester Gazette}

"Mark #Zuckerberg Says #SocialMedia Is Over

During testimony at #Meta’s antitrust trial, the #Facebook founder’s argument was, in so many words, that platforms like his are not what they used to be"

Huh

That's so weird Mark

And who is one of those primarily responsible for the #enshittification of centralized corporate social media?

Do you have any idea who that might be?

🤔

newyorker.com/culture/infinite…

Hello Fediverse admins, Meta's platform Threads has now switched to a new domain so it's time to add this to your defederation list:

threads.com

Here's how to defederate a server from the Mastodon admin interface: fedi.tips/how-to-defederate-fe…

(via @TechCrunch)

#Meta #Threads #FreeFediverse #Zuckerberg #FediPact

How to block (defederate) a server on Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips