Paris Marx
“Elon Musk is the Mr. Magoo of criminals, bumbling from one hilariously over-the-top and sloppy crime to another but always somehow landing on his feet, unmolested and unbothered, sporting a shit-eating grin. Many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us dabble in the law-bending arts. But they usually at least have the good sense to not tweet about it or rub our faces in it.”
From @ESGHound: https://blog.esghound.com/p/elon-musk-is-above-the-law
Paris Marx
Last time Trump was in the White House, foreign governments would book lavish rooms at his DC hotel to impress him.
As he returns to office, it looks like ad spend on Twitter/X will be a new way companies hope to gain both Musk and Trump’s favor.
https://disconnect.blog/advertisers-are-returning-to-twitterx-to-keep-elon-musk-happy/
#tech #elonmusk #donaldtrump #twitter #socialmedia #advertising
Paris Marx
Silicon Valley is seizing the levers of power, but we’re here to help you chart a course through the madness.
I’m thrilled to announce SYSTEM CRASH, a new podcast I’ll be cohosting with my pal @bcmerchant.
Join us as we dissect the tech dystopia. Starts Friday!
Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts: https://systemcrash.info/
Paris Marx
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke is calling for the end of Canada’s public postal service because its workers have gone on strike.
The company’s leaders are increasingly pushing extreme right-wing positions in Canada. Gutting Canada Post would effectively end delivery in many rural and remote communities because it’s not profitable for private companies to serve them.
Paris Marx
The US government wants consumers to think Chinese cars are a threat, but Ford CEO Jim Farley has a lot of good things to say about his competitors.
Instead of blocking Chinese brands, let them to set up domestic factories — like Toyota and Honda did.
https://disconnect.blog/what-we-get-wrong-about-the-supposed-threat-of-chinese-evs/
Paris Marx
Talk about having an impact: I got to meet @CorioPsicologia and @fanta from @tunubesecamirio this weekend (from episode 2 of the series!) and they told me they’ve heard from anti-data centers activists in Colombia who cited Data Vampires as a reason they started to get organized.
I love hearing stories like that! 🥰
#tech #techwontsaveus #datacenters #cloud #ai
https://techwontsave.us/episode/241_data_vampires_going_hyperscale_episode_1
Paris Marx
The drama at Wordpress and a new “open source AI” definition that doesn’t require sharing training data is prompting new questions about open source.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to @tante to discuss the corporate corruption of open source.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/249_the_corruption_of_open_source_w_tante
Paris Marx
Elon Musk deployed his vast resources to help Trump get elected, and now he’s poised to remake the US government to serve his interests.
But that was only possible because far too many people chose to ignore who he was to tell a more appealing story of a founder moving humanity forward. They should be held accountable.
Paris Marx
Amazon has disrupted plenty of sectors, but its impact on the post office deserves more attention.
As long as government allows Amazon’s low-wage, non-union model to proliferate, postal workers and the institution are in trouble. I wrote about how this is playing out in Canada.
https://disconnect.blog/how-amazon-threatens-canadas-post-office/
Paris Marx
Canada Post is in trouble — and bad actors are trying to use it to gut the institution.
We need to defend the post office and expand its role in our communities, but it’s also essential that we end Amazon’s ongoing attack on delivery and warehouse work.
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/planning-the-obsolescence-of-canada-post
Paris Marx
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Paris Marx
Major tech companies are spending $200 billion this year alone to build out massive hyperscale data centers that demand enormous amounts of energy and water — regardless of the consequences for communities and the climate.
They need to be stopped.
Paris Marx
I was shocked as anyone to see Geoffrey Hinton win a Nobel Prize in Physics — of all disciplines.
He certainly contributed to AI’s development, but that doesn’t mean we need to take him seriously when he says AI superintelligence is on the horizon.
https://disconnect.blog/geoffrey-hintons-misguided-views-on-ai/
Paris Marx
Elon Musk has spent the past couple years railing against “illegal” immigrants, but new reporting confirms what we’ve long suspected: Musk himself worked illegally in the United States and deceived officials when investors finally forced him to get a visa.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/26/elon-musk-immigration-status/
Paris Marx
Bill Gates is back with a new Netflix docu-series.
“What’s Next?” is an attempt to get the public to forget his recent scandals and convince them his wealth is essential to solving our collective challenges. The real future we need is one without him and his fellow billionaires.
Paris Marx
“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.”
11,500 actors, musicians, authors, and more have signed this open letter: https://www.aitrainingstatement.org
Paris Marx
A few weeks ago, Elon Musk joked he might get arrested if Kamala Harris is elected president.
The more brazen his efforts to buy the election become by paying voters and telling them they have the chance to win $1 million, the more I believe he just might.
https://disconnect.blog/roundup-what-will-happen-to-elon-musk-after-the-election/
Paris Marx
Tech billionaires are talking a lot about using nuclear as a supposedly cleaner power source for hyperscale data centers.
But what they don’t say is that their ambitious plans are extending the life of coal-fired power plants across the United States.
https://www.powermag.com/power-demand-from-data-centers-keeping-coal-fired-plants-online/
Paris Marx
Eric Schmidt says we’re not going to meet our climate targets, so we must put all our energy into improving AI and hope it solves the problem for us.
He’s part of a growing chorus of tech billionaires openly admitting they’ll sacrifice the climate on the altar of their AI ambitions.
https://disconnect.blog/silicon-valley-is-sacrificing-the-climate-for-ai/
#tech #ai #genai #generativeai #climate #climatechange #ericschmidt
Paris Marx
Apple engineers show Tim Cook was too quick to jump on the hype train
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-ai-llm-reasoning-research/
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