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The Slow Death of the Power User — fireborn

The Slow Death of the Power User

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The Great Convergence and Its Discontents The world is unrecognisable. The people responsible are the ones you least expected. And you may ask yourself, "how did we get here?"

The great non-profit non grata or, what happened when civil society met technofascism

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Will “AI” chatbots be the tobacco of the future? > Towards the end of 2024, Dennis Biesma decided to check out ChatGPT. The Amsterdam-based IT consultant had just ended a contract early. “I had some time, so I thought: let’s have a look at this new technology everyone is talking about,” he says. “Very quickly, I became fascinated.” > > Biesma has asked himself why he was vulnerable to what came next. He was nearing 50. His adult daughter had left home, his wife went out to work and, in his field, the shift since Covid to working from home had left him feeling “a little isolated”. He smoked a bit of cannabis some evenings to “chill”, but had done so for years with no ill effects. He had never experienced a mental illness. Yet within months of downloading ChatGPT, Biesma had sunk €100,000 (about £83,000) into a business startup based on a delusion, been hospitalised three times and tried to kill himself. > > ↫ Anna Moore at The Guardian These stories are absolutely heart-wrenching, and it doesn’t just happen to people who have had a history of mental illness or other things you might associate with priming someone for “falling for” an “AI” chatbot. Just a few years in, and it’s already clear that these tools pose a real danger to a group of people of indeterminate size, and proper research into the causes is absolutely warranted and needed. On top of that, if there’s any evidence of wrongdoing from the companies behind these chatbots – intentionally making them more addictive, luring people in, ignoring established dangers, covering up addiction cases, etc. – lawsuits and regulation are definitely in order. Only yesterday, Facebook and Google lost a landmark trial in the US, ruling the companies intentionally made social media as addictive as possible, thereby destroying a person’s life in the process. Countless similar lawsuits are underway all over the world, and I have a feeling that in a few years to decades, we’ll look at unregulated, rampant social media the same way we look at tobacco now. Perhaps “AI” chatbots will join their ranks, too.

Will “AI” chatbots be the tobacco of the future? Towards the end of 2024, Dennis Biesma decided to check out ChatGPT. The Amsterdam-based IT consultant had just ended a contract early. “I had...

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Meta ordered to pay $375m after being found liable in child exploitation case New Mexico hails ‘historic’ win after jury finds firm misled consumers over safety and enabled harm against users

#Meta ordered to pay $375m after being found liable in child exploitation case

#markzuckerberg #tech #techbros #elonmusk #techfeudalism #taxtherich #socialmedia #US #technofascism #data #bidtech

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Disney moving away from OpenAI is a very positive sign. If they don't sign a deal with another company soon, this could actually help the bubble bursting.

#AI #Disney #AISlop #BrainRot #OpenAI #Technofascism

THIS is the MOST important video to watch TODAY:
#Technofascism at work.
"Brave New World" in the making.
Isn't too late? They HAVE your data, guys!

Important comments. | #Fascism #Technofascism

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Solarpunk Journey: From Technocracy to Regeneration

A draft of a small website showing a system to oppose #technofascism: #solarpunk (although it could have many names) because just changing your apps is a first step, like changing your lightbulbs to Eco-friendly ones. https://polity.neocities.org/

The Silent Accretion: Technofascism and the New Cyber World Order There is a version of authoritarianism that is easy to recognize: the declared emergency, the suspended constitution, the strongman consolidating power in plain sight. We have built our entire vocabulary of democratic resistance around that version because history provided the blueprints. The version we are less equipped for arrives without announcement. It accretes through product...

#european #privacy #surveillance #technofascism #technopolitics #bigtech #security #ai #fascism #DigitalRights #InfoSec
#democracy #usa #gop #fascists

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The Technofascist Technology Quiz

By Catherine D'Ignazio

“I’ve begun a new project to synthesize the emerging literature around “#technofascism” into an accessible explainer. Since I’m an educator, I’ve also been thinking about ways that teachers and facilitators could involve newcomers in […]

Insights. Criticism of GOP presidents of the past: Reagan and Nixon. #AIPAC #DarkMoneyEmergency #SCOTUS #Kleptocracy #TechBros #BigTech #technofascism #SiliconValley #Corporations #Jail-a-President

#AI Overlords Are RUNNING The #US #WarMachine (w/ #AnitaSayChan)

#TaylorLorenze #Technology #TechnoFascism

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Since Walmart purchased Vizio, their televisions now default to a screensaver that pushes AI Slop…

#Technofascism #Dystopia

#technofascism

#LivingTheMeme
#Palantir
#DGSI
#TechnoFascism
#CyberNowIsPunk
#InTheNameOfPhilipKDick

Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the new authoritarianism - AI & SOCIETY The rapid development of digital technologies, including AI, is having a significant impact on the social, economic, and political life. Yet, while presented as milestones in innovation and progress, ...

Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the new authoritarianism

#bigtech #techbros #fascism #farright #AI #authoritarianism
#technofascism #democracy

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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism #Authoritarianism #TechnoFascism #Fascism

#democracy #usa #gop #fascists

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We might need to ban smartphone cameras.

#Bans #TechCritical #TechnoFascism

Now women and little girls and little boys have to wear masks and become invisible.

What a victory for patriarchy.

#Technofascism #Meta #ThoughtsofaNonWhiteWoman

High tech patriarchy.

#Technofascism #Meta #BanAINow #BanAI

#Trumpland #Technofascism

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Simon McGarr completely captures the Irish government’s obtuse determination to do nothing in the face of the illegal and immoral behavior of many American tech enterprises

While many Silicon Valley leaders are overtly supporting a democracy subverting American regime, the Irish ruling class […]

“Sharp and unique” is how labor economist Valerie Wilson describes the decline in employment for college-educated Black women — a trend not mirrored in any other group. We must pay… | Ruchika T. Malho... “Sharp and unique” is how labor economist Valerie Wilson describes the decline in employment for college-educated Black women — a trend not mirrored in any other group. We must pay attention! Unsurpr...

#LinkedIn users talk about discrimination, and one brings up #technofascism.

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Trump Administration Will Collect Social Media Handles from Legal Immigrants and U.S. Citizens The new requirement poses serious threats to free speech and privacy rights.

The more I post & like & share, the clearer it is that the algorithm knows my politics (Insta especially), the more I think I'm being added to some list. This would be considered paranoia 10 yrs ago, but with stories like this, the more I worry.

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RE: mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/116084712...

And that's for those who think that Team Mirai is a breath of fresh air in the Japanese political landscape.

Remember that "Neither Left-wing nor Right-wing" always means Right-Wing and pro-AI always means "fascism is an acceptable […]

TechnoFascism in the USA via Peter Thiel What we are witnessing in America is technofascism.

New post for #ResistAndHeal: “TechnoFascism in the USA via Peter Thiel”

#ConCW #ResistAndHeal #politics #resist #resistance #fascism #TechnoFascism
#democracy #usa #gop #fascists

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A digital illustration depicting a dystopian, high-tech surveillance state set against a darkened city skyline at night. Several security cameras with glowing red lenses loom over a street where translucent, wireframe human figures walk, their bodies and paths traced by glowing blue digital data streams. Above the city, a large integrated circuit chip is embedded in the sky, connected to a web of complex circuitry and binary code that looms over the scene like a digital canopy. The overall mood is cold and clinical, emphasizing themes of mass monitoring and the loss of privacy in a data-driven society.

New post for #ResistAndHeal: "TechnoFascism in the USA via Peter Thiel"

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#ConCW #ResistAndHeal #politics #resist #resistance #fascism #TechnoFascism

What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK will be next

@earthguardian.bsky.social @apnews.com @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social BEWARE! #TechnoFascism is here. @maddow.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social #TechnoFascism of #racist #multi-billionaire #technocrats is happening in the #USA & the #UK will be next! www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...