Notices tagged with bigtech

An interesting read…

"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this. Instead, there’s a final battle. And this is where it gets really dark. The people who are advancing this agenda are also building their luxury bunkers and their spaceships to Mars. They don’t believe that there is a future. These people believe history is ending, literally."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/naomi-klein-trump-musk-thiel-oligarchs-climate-science-1235330780/

#tech #technology #BigTech #USpol #politics #US #USA #america #capitalism

Big Tech likes your data. We just like building a browser. Small company, big ideas. 🇳🇴🇮🇸

#BigTech #LittleTech #Vivaldi #Browser #Privacy

Uit mijn vaders archief: een keurig uitgetypt college dat hij op 22 april 1970 gaf aan de Faculteit Elektrotechniek van de TU (toen nog TH) Delft.

55 jaar geleden sprak hij deze woorden, en ze zijn nog steeds actueel.

#Archief #TUDelft
#Elektrotechniek #Informatica #Technologie #Tech #BigTech
#Onderwijs #Wetenschap #Ethiek

@hjes

Nachdem ich nicht nur eine (und viele andere auch!) #Dystopie 1) sondern über ein Dutzend Realität werden sehe, und keiner weiss, was übermorgen in der Retrospektive verboten sein wird (#GreatFirewallOfChina, #Palantir, Massenausweisungen von ausländischen Studenten durch #USgov, usw.), halte ich es für extrem gefährlich, #BigTech aus #China oder den #USA #PII oder #Metadaten...

@73CC @kuketzblog

Big Tech's moment of truth is here

#StakesHigh #MetaEarnings #TechGiants #BigTech #AppleEarnings

https://qz.com/apple-amazon-meta-microsoft-earnings-stock-tech-tariffs-1851778348

Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, and Coca-Cola: Stocks to watch this week

#CocaCola #USMarkets #BerkshireHathaway #BigTech #InvestmentWatch

https://qz.com/aapl-amzon-meta-msft-berkshire-stock-earnings-1851777849

Wow, I think the latest Black Mirror season is quite excellent. I’ve seen five episodes now, and my personal favorite is “Plaything.”

https://letterboxd.com/metinseven/film/black-mirror-plaything/ #BlackMirror #TV #series #Netflix #tech #technology #BigTech #SciFi

"According to Wynn-Williams, Facebook actually built an extensive censorship and surveillance system for the Chinese state – spies, cops and military – to use against Chinese Facebook users, and FB users globally. They promise to set up caches of global FB content in China that the Chinese state can use to monitor all Facebook activity, everywhere, with the implication that they'll be able to spy on private communications, and censor content for non-Chinese users.

Despite all of this, Facebook is never given access to China. However, the Chinese state is able to use the tools Facebook built for it to attack independence movements, the free press and dissident uprisings in Hong Kong and Taiwan."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/#zdgaf

#SocialMedia #Facebook #Meta #BigTech #Oligopolies #Surveillance #Censorship #Privacy #HumanRights

FTC sues Uber over difficulty of canceling subscriptions, "false" claims

#TrumpAdministration #BigTech #LegalAction #FalseClaims #ConsumerProtection

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/ftc-sues-uber-over-difficulty-of-canceling-subscriptions-false-claims/

"O #Mastodon—desenvolvido por uma empresa #semfinslucrativos e formado por comunidades com admins independentes—tornou-se essencialmente imune ao conhecido padrão de #enshittification da #socialmedia.
O #Bluesky, apesar de sua tecnologia inovadora e das boas intenções,é construído sobre a mesma fundação das #BigTech, apoiado por #venturecapital.
O Mastodon—apesar de mais desafiador para começar—representa nossa melhor chance de construir uma #opentownsquare na internet."
Https://phillipjreese.com/the-social-network-that-cant-sell-out-understanding-mastodon-vs-bluesky/

A good time to remind you that free is a lie.

https://ar.al/talks/#free-is-a-lie

#free #SiliconValley #Google #AI #BigTech #bullshit https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114354341408668876

Zuckerberg Really Thought Trump Would Make Meta's Legal Problems Go Away

#TrumpInterference #SocialMediaRegulation #ZuckerbergTrump #BigTech #MarkZuckerberg

https://gizmodo.com/zuckerberg-really-thought-trump-would-make-metas-legal-problems-go-away-2000589897

Just liberated the video of one of my talks from YouTube and uploaded a copy to our Vimeo account:

Big Brother Awards 2014: We need an ethical approach to design

https://vimeo.com/1075963646

(Imagine what a different world we’d be living in today if folks in tech had heeded our warnings back then. But I guess they were too busy making mint.)

PS. yt-dlp is your friend (on Mac: brew install yt-dlp). Also make sure you have ffmpeg installed (brew install ffmpeg). Finally, I had to manually tell yt-dlp where to find ffmpeg although your mileage may vary based on installation method: yt-dlp "<URL>" --write-subs --ffmpeg-location=/opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg (--write-subs saves the subtitles if there are any to a file in a format you can use on the web).

#EthicalDesignManifesto #ethics #design #ethicalDesign #AralBalkan #SmallTech #BigBrotherAwards #BitsOfFreedom #technology #tech #BigTech #panopticon #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #fascism #technofascism #Google #Facebook

Folks in five years: Oh, Bluesky enshittified, who could have seen it coming?

OK, OK, calm down, I’m just kidding.

It won’t take five years.

#SiliconValley #BigTech #ventureCapital

In a first, the Japan Fair Trade Commission has issued a cease-and-desist order against Google, accusing it of violating the country's anti-monopoly law by forcing manufacturers to preinstall its apps in smartphones. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/15/companies/google-anti-monopoly-law/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #google #phones #bigtech #search #ftc #tech #apps

How much tax does Big Tech avoid paying?

the Fair Tax Foundation has looked at average tax rates paid by US corporations & the effective tax rates paid the 'Silicon Six' & has concluded they've paid around $278bn less than they should have over the last decade.

So if you wondered how the big tech moguls become so rich, the answer in part is we've been subsidising them....

[I would be very surprised if the European tax situation varies much from the US]

#tax #BigTech
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/silicon-six-accused-of-avoiding-almost-278bn-in-us-corporation-taxes-over-10-years

Ireland: we love Big Tech, they create jobs

Big Tech:

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0411/1507107-ebay-worker-says-he-was-forced-to-quit-after-reprimand/

#Ireland #BigTech #SiliconValley #ebay #USA

El impacto ecosocial de una imagen generada por #IA estilo Ghibli.

Por @tunubesecamirio

utilizar una imagen “ghiblificada” tiene unos impactos ecosociales en todo el planeta y solo contribuye a concentrar el poder en las manos de las #BigTech de EEUU. Y esta acumulación de poder en manos de unos pocos tecnobros, que apoyan claramente la necropolítica de Trump.

https://www.algorace.org/2025/04/09/el-impacto-ecosocial-de-una-imagen-generada-por-ia-estilo-ghibli/

Amazon, Microsoft e Google estão operando data centers que usam grandes quantidades de água em algumas das áreas mais secas do mundo e estão construindo muitos mais, segundo uma investigação da SourceMaterial e do The Guardian.

https://www.source-material.org/amazon-microsoft-google-trump-data-centres-water-use/

#datacenter #colapsoclimatico #bigtech