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parismarx, 6 months ago to random

🚨 QUARTER FINALS 🚨

The top 8 remain. Now it really gets tough. Who will move forward to the semi-finals?

🗳️ VOTE NOW: https://forms.gle/xvBeU6GraAW1ZAL4A

#WorstPersonInTech

parismarx, 6 months ago to random

The fallout is growing from Tesla’s continued refusal to sign a collective agreement with its Swedish mechanics.

On top of the solidarity strikes, one of Denmark’s largest pension funds is selling its $58 million stake in Tesla for refusing to respect the Nordic labor model.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/danish-pension-fund-sell-its-tesla-shares-over-union-dispute-2023-12-06/

#tech #tesla #union #strike

parismarx, 6 months ago to random

Yesterday Elon Musk told advertisers to go fuck themselves and threatened to send his mob after them if they pull their ads from Twitter/X.

Over the years, he built a reality where he was a genius who could never be wrong. But as his fantasy collides with the real world, Musk is melting down — and has the power to make us all feel the pain as he crashes back to Earth.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-built-his-own-reality-now

#tech #elonmusk #twitter #x

parismarx, 7 months ago to random

Apartheid Clyde wanted to feel some childhood nostalgia so he made a trip to Israel to pal around with Zionists for a day.

Last year he turned off Starlink access for Ukraine in key areas after speaking to Russian officials. Now he’s letting Israel’s far-right government decide whether human rights and medical groups in Gaza should have access to it.

https://www.ft.com/content/67a874e3-42fb-4c69-8d74-212f2fed5d0e

#tech #elonmusk #israel #gaza #starlink

parismarx, 7 months ago to random

When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/

#tech #ai #health #healthcare

parismarx, 8 months ago to random

visited the museum of communism in prague and it was fun to see all the anti-communist tropes in one place, like how bad it was that the state built a lot of housing

parismarx, 8 months ago to random

He’s literally standing around in his backwards hat looking at a bunch of migrants who’ve been rounded up and cheering the efforts of the border guards. Absolutely vile human being.

parismarx, 8 months ago to random

The Luddites weren’t backward technophobes. They saw factory owners using tech to degrade their livelihoods and they fought back — first by trying to negotiate, then writing to Parliament, and finally smashing the machines.

As workers today organize and strike over bosses using digital tech to upend their industries, there’s a lot we can learn from the Luddites’ story. I was thrilled to dig into it with @brianmerchant!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/13638517-the-real-history-of-the-luddites-w-brian-merchant

#tech #history #luddite #workers

parismarx, 9 months ago to random

Elon Musk’s grandfather “believed that apartheid South Africa was destined to lead ‘White Christian Civilization’ in its fight against the ‘International Conspiracy’ of Jewish bankers and the ‘hordes of Coloured people’ they controlled.”

Damn, why didn’t Ashlee Vance or Walter Isaacson mention that part?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/joshua-haldeman-elon-musk-grandfather-apartheid-antisemitism/675396/

#tech #elonmusk

parismarx, 9 months ago to random

Apple doesn’t have groundbreaking features to entice people to buy their new products. Instead, it wants to convince you that if you buy an iPhone or Apple Watch, it could literally save your life and will mitigate your environmental footprint while it’s at it.

But those are pretty dubious claims that rely on carbon offsets and dismiss all the harm and suffering that’s been chronicled in Apple’s supply chain. Don’t buy the PR!

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/apple-wants-you-to-believe-it-will

#tech #apple #iphone #climate

parismarx, 9 months ago to random

The United States and China are increasingly positioning one another as geopolitical foes, and that’s leading to reductive nationalist narratives that distract from tech’s real harms.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to @yangyang_cheng about the need to look at the United States and China more objectively if we want to truly understand the threats posed to us by technologies emanating from both countries.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/13580847-how-us-china-rivalry-distracts-from-tech-harms-w-yangyang-cheng

#tech #china #unitedstates #politics

parismarx, 10 months ago to random

For years, the media built up Elon Musk and got the public to buy into the myth of his genius. Now the truth of who he is can’t be hidden and changing how they cover Musk isn’t enough.

The media failed us. They not only need to inform the public about the harms of Musk’s empire, but change how they cover the entire tech industry so another grifter can’t replicate his rise. They owe us nothing less.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-medias-failure-on-elon-musk

#tech #media #elonmusk #tesla #spacex #twitter #x

parismarx, 10 months ago to random

Canada just evacuated a city of 20,000 people because of the wildfires devastating the country, but when people turn to Facebook for emergency updates, they get caught up in Meta’s news ban.

It shows how little the company really cares about its users.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/roundup-meta-doesnt-care-about-you

#tech #meta #facebook #canada #wildfires #socialmedia

parismarx, 10 months ago to random

Microsoft is really hitting it out of the park with its AI-generated travel stories! If you visit Ottawa, it highly recommends the Ottawa Food Bank and provides a tip for tourists: “Consider going into it on an empty stomach.”

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/travel/headed-to-ottawa-here-s-what-you-shouldn-t-miss/ar-AA1faajY

#tech #ai #travel

parismarx, 10 months ago to random

Sam Altman wants to scan all of our irises with his Worldcoin Orbs, and promises we’ll get a ton of benefits beyond a few crypto tokens if we let him.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to @molly0xfff about the real ambitions of the Worldcoin project, and we briefly discussed why Sam Bankman-Fried was just sent to prison. It might have crashed, but crypto isn’t dead yet.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/13416560-pondering-the-orb-w-molly-white

#tech #crypto #worldcoin #sbf

parismarx, 10 months ago to random

Venture capitalists are parasites that deploy harmful technologies in the name of profit and control. Now they’re fueling AI hype not to improve the world, but to make a quick buck.

On #TechWontSaveUs, Edward Ongweso Jr. outlines why we need to abolish venture capital if we have any hope of creating better technology and actually improving people’s lives.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/13377584-abolish-venture-capital-w-edward-ongweso-jr

#tech #ai #vc #finance

parismarx, 10 months ago to random

Elon Musk says a left-wing political party in South Africa is promoting white genocide for singing apartheid-era song “Kill the Boer.” He’s echoing a far-right conspiracy.

“That Musk weighed in … through the hysteria of [far-right provocateur Benny] Johnson, who erroneously, though tellingly, labeled Malema’s EFF as ‘South Africa’s Black party’, is revealing. The specter of ‘white genocide’ is a long-standing trope among US white nationalists.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/01/musk-south-africa-apartheid-chant-malema/

#elonmusk #tech #racism

parismarx, 10 months ago to random

Greg Rutkwoski requested to have his art removed from Stable Diffusion. Once it was, the image generation community created their own tool trained on his artwork that the company can’t do anything about. AI “artists” have no respect for real artists.

https://decrypt.co/150575/greg-rutkowski-removed-from-stable-diffusion-but-brought-back-by-ai-artists

#tech #ai #art #stablediffusion #aiart

parismarx, 11 months ago to random

Tesla faked its dashboard range projections under orders from Elon Musk so it seemed drivers could go farther before recharging. Last year, the volume of complaints became so high it created a special team to start canceling owners’ service appointments.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

#tech #tesla #elonmusk #cars #ev

parismarx, 11 months ago to random

In 2000, Elon Musk tried to rebrand PayPal as X.com, but was forced out by the board and replaced as CEO by Peter Thiel.

Now he’s doing the same to Twitter, but is surrounded by sycophants who can’t tell him it’s a bad idea.

Read more: https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wants-to-relive-his-start

#tech #twitter #x #elonmusk #socialmedia

Elon Musk tweeting the new X logo to replace Twitter.

parismarx, 11 months ago to random

lmao, the US military keeps accidentally sending highly sensitive information to email addresses in Mali because they write .ml instead of .mil. The Dutch company managing Mali’s domain has collected 117,000 emails this year alone.

Control of Mali’s domain is about to revert to the Mali government, at which point it can collect all those emails. It’s a close ally of Russia, and could theoretically pass on information.

https://www.ft.com/content/ab62af67-ed2a-42d0-87eb-c762ac163cf0

#tech #military #pentagon

parismarx, 11 months ago to random

The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.

He never planned to improve transportation; he just wants to keep people trapped in cars.

https://newrepublic.com/article/174089/big-tech-watching-drive

#tech #transport #elonmusk #transportation #hyperloop #trains

parismarx, 11 months ago to random

A 52-year-old with a child’s sense of humor.

parismarx, 11 months ago to random

Threads already has more than 30 million users, but that doesn’t mean it’s sure to displace Twitter.

We shouldn’t forget Meta is a terrible company with a long history of spreading right-wing propaganda. Plus, if Threads succeeds, it will be filled with targeted ads just like Facebook and Instagram are now. We can do better.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/threads-wont-save-us-from-twitter

#tech #meta #threads #twitter #socialmedia #instagram

parismarx, 11 months ago to random

Meta isn’t launching Threads in the EU on Thursday because of its stricter laws on user data

https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/no-instagram-threads-app-in-the-eu-irish-dpc-says-metas-new-twitter-rival-wont-be-launched-here/a1927220337.html

#tech #meta #threads #data #privacy #sociamedia

parismarx, 11 months ago to random

hahaha pretty obvious threads is a meta product 🫠

#tech #meta #instagram #threads #socialmedia

parismarx, 11 months ago to random

we’re not ready for the crazy shit tech bros are gonna try with the apple vision pro

#tech #apple #visionpro #reddit

parismarx, 11 months ago to random

Apple was reportedly hoping to sell a million Vision Pro headsets in 2024, but it slashed production to less than 400,000 and is asking some suppliers for enough components to make as few as 130,000.

Good news for those of us who don’t want this future!

https://www.ft.com/content/b6f06bde-17b0-4886-b465-b561212c96a9

#tech #apple #visionpro

parismarx, 11 months ago to random

Google and Meta are threatening to pull news content in Canada in response to a law that will force them to pay news publishers.

For Disconnect, I explain how the tech giants have effectively directed criticism at the government with the help of local commentators to distract from the power they wield in Canada and their own culpability in starving news organizations.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/google-and-meta-go-to-war-with-canada

#tech #meta #google #canada #journalism

parismarx, 11 months ago to random

Marc Andreessen wants you to believe AI will save the world. But just a couple years ago, he was saying something very similar about crypto.

The truth is Andreessen doesn’t actually care about improving people’s lives. His positive vision of a world made better by AI tools is just a means to pump up the valuations of companies his venture capital firm has invested in. We can do much better than Andreessen’s lies.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/ai-wont-save-the-world

#tech #ai #chatgpt #artificialintelligence