If nothing else, Harari’s comparison of Silicon Valley to the Bolshevik party is priceless! 😃

The similarities are indeed striking: Here is a small group of people, who think they are a vanguard that can re-engineer society from scratch.

This small group of people think they know something the entire rest of the world doesn’t, and that they can engineer a utopia. And because they believe in it so hard, that gives them the permission to harm a lot of people on the way.

#siliconvalley #harari

Tiens, si vous voulez suivre les terrifiantes conneries des chemises brunes de la p'tit-vallée-du-silicium, il y a le site «The Nerd Reich» ~ https://www.thenerdreich.com.

> «A newsletter about the tech authoritarian politics of #SiliconValley #plutocrats.
> [...]
> This newsletter started as my public notes on what's happening as tech #billionaires and propagandists attempt a takeover of local politics.»

#BillionairesToArkham #UndermineTheRich

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Silicon Valley tech billionaire politics: authoritarianism, fascism, plutocracy, weirdness

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#FediBlock snarfed.org and brid.gy for bridging fediverse folks to Bluesky against their will (and in likely contravention of GDPR in the EU) with typical Silicon Valley techbro sense of entitlement:

“[O]pt in results in far fewer users, and users are critical for a bridge to be useful.”¹

Relevant GitHub issue: https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/835

¹ https://snarfed.org/2023-11-27_re-introducing-bridgy-fed

HT @homegrown

#bridgy #snarfed #fediverse #mastodon #bluesky #bridging #optOut #optIn #consent #gdpr #eu #SiliconValley #techbros

Opt-out is a terrible default and should be reconsidered · Issue #835 · snarfed/bridgy-fed

It should be pretty obvious that a decentralized network that many use specifically to not be connected to centralized networks houses mostly people who do not wish to have their posts bridged to B...

^GitHub