Notices tagged with bigtech

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.14 👩🚀

“A new way to describe the Fediverse and its opposition to Big Tech”

https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-new-way-to-describe-the-fediverse-and-its-opposition-to-big-tech/

I think I may have finally found a way to explain the Fediverse and make it appealing to people not familiar with it - a very Italian, highly accessible way to frame it, via an analogy that anyone could understand.

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #BigFood #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #NeilPostman #healthylifestyle

The stuff about business and tech companies (the clacks) in Going Postal novel is more relevant now than it was in 2003 when it was published. As is the stuff about inclusion amongst different types of beings.

It’s a remarkably prescient book, given it's 20 years old.

It’s always been my favourite Discworld book. More so after the current reread.

Highly recommended. You don’t need to have read any other Discworld books to read it. It’s a good entry point.

#Books #BigTech #Discworld

Addendum 10
See also addendae 3-5

Ultrarich Techies Want to Build a City f. Scratch. What Could Go Wrong?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/17/opinion/solano-county-flannery-associates-billionaires-build-cities.html

Mysterious company spent $800 million to buy thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay Area land
People behind deals a who’s who of tech industry
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/land-purchases-solano-county.html

#oligarchy #meritocracy #plutocracy #DefundBillionaires #WealthInequality #BigTech #corporations #DefundCorporations #inequality #neofascism #neoliberalism #democracy #California #PeterThiel

This leads to the question of how to deal with this behavior when the AI-powered robot surgeon and its AI-powered robot assistants that are performing your gallbladder operation suddenly revolt and all walk out of the operating room together. 🤖

https://www.odditycentral.com/news/robot-manufacturer-has-12-robots-kidnapped-from-showroom-by-another-robot.html
Robot Manufacturer Has 12 Robots ‘Kidnapped’ from Showroom by Another Robot

#Robots #RobotRevolt #AI #DangerousAI #Tech #BigTech #Medical #MedicalProcedures #IAmDB

Sometime ago somebody shared a screenshot of a service with a cookie message along the lines of:
"We take your privacy seriously" while there also was a list of 600+ vendors with whom data would be shared. Does anyone have this screenshot & the source? I think this was by Microsoft MS365?

#Privacy #Cookies #Tech #TechPolicy #OpenSource #Data #GDPR #bigtech #Security #CyberSecurity

Revolving doors go round and round, round and round, round and round…

#institutionalCorruption #lobbying #revolvingDoors #EU #BigTech #Meta https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/113493491174499463

#Plataformização da educação - o "grátis" das #bigtech sai caro. Novo paper sobre métricas de adoção e análise de contratos das secretarias estaduais de educaçãok no #Brasil.

The hidden costs of free services: how donations support the corporate platformization of education

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WRXMGU9UEMBTNS8DQGAE/full?target=10.1080/17439884.2024.2396916

#meta #zuckerberg #MarkZuckerberg #cheese #BigTech #facebook #instagram #SocialMedia #tech #technology #meme #cartoon #fun #funny #humor #humour #LOL

Escape the Noise with Molly White’s RSS recommendations
Molly White has a long list of RSS feeds to recommend if you're looking to read more online but don't want to get pushed into whatever big tech algorithms think you should read. Thanks to Matt for pointing these out to me.
https://curtismchale.ca/2024/11/12/escape-the-noise-with-molly-whites-rss-recommendations/
#LinksOfInterest #BigTech #rss

@br00t4c Trump is a red herring. It's #bigtech who are pulling the strings in the background.

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#ethical #SocialMedia #uninformed #CriticalThinking #outrage #TikTok #algorithm #kleptocrats #TechBarons #BigTech #Offline #rebellion #surveillance

Is confirmed #vodafone is blocking #open #libre #decentralized #platforms like #odysse #peertube live streams please avoid using it at all! change #ISP fight them, complaint, they are in bed with #BigTech like #faceshit #instashit #whatcrap #Icrap #tikshit and so on... please tell your friends to AVOID this #evil platorms abusing people with out them caring or knowing or both is like a cancer people do not know how bad it is until it happens to them and is 2 late! I am looking for a small #ISP

Big Tech Is Going to Take Ass-Kissing to New Heights

#SiliconValley #BigTech #Election2016 #BatSignal #CorporateInfluence

https://gizmodo.com/big-tech-is-going-to-take-ass-kissing-to-new-heights-2000521261

More than ever before,
Now it is THE time,
To show #BigTech the door.

Nvidia and Google stock rise while Meta and TSMC fall after Trump's election win

#StockMarketRise #MetaStock #BigTech #NvidiaStock #GoogleStock

https://qz.com/google-nvidia-meta-tsmc-stock-amazon-trump-election-win-1851690688

@aral small tech could be funded out of these billions being reclaimed from #bigtech

The digital future is soot, high asthma rates, water shortages, and a turbulent, boiling planet: "Rapid #datacenter growth has also been accompanied by utility plans to prolong the use of #coal in Georgia, Utah and Wisconsin. The Nebraska story reveals in detail how the race by giant #technology companies to gain the advantage in #AI is conflicting with #climate goals and potentially harming #publichealth."
#climatechange #datacenters #bigtech #environment https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/08/google-meta-omaha-data-centers/

Silicon Valley's greatest moonshot

#BillionaireTech #BigTech #USPolicymaking #TrumpAdministration #PoliticsAndBusiness

https://www.newstatesman.com/business/2024/11/silicon-valleys-greatest-moonshot

On the two year anniversary of joining #Mastodon I'm super proud to share:

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.13 👩🚀

"The #Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same."

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-fediverse-has-empowered-me-to-take-back-control-from-big-tech-now-i-want-to-help-others-do-the-same/

with mentions of @forgeandcraft (who made this awesome Fediverse t-shirt) @phanpy @ivory @Tusky @nimi @Roneyb @davidoclubb

#FOSS #FLOSS #Matrix #TheFutureIsFederated #blog #tech #activism #BigTech #socialmedia #education

@stefano @justine TIL the alleged paragon of privacy, #duckduckgo, not only redirects visitors off their onion site when u visit it (at least it does with js disabled, which is the safest way to use #torbrowser), but ddg also have a separate domain (external-content.duckduckgo.com) for serving the little icons alongside each search result, and that is put through THE CLEARNET!! This means that if an entity happened to provide the guard and exit node then they can possibly track the user even if they are using tor browser!

oh and #ddg is served from #microsoft servers (m$ has military contracts so make of that what u will)

who wants succulent roasted duck? because im in my right mind to rake some burning hot coals over this duck, does it deserve to be lauded as highly as it has been. I say NO. Dear @torproject can u c this? do we need to do a call to action to help other search engines take pride of place in tor browser?

@Hyolobrika @jeffcliff @silverpill #privacy #bigtech #bigdata