CARTOON / TECHNOCAPITALISM: Our Dystopian Present And Future Under The Idiots In Charge
The only place where they’re actually trying to stop them and to implement competition law is the EU. In the US, it’s completely a wild market.
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Sleepwalking Into Dystopia: How We’re Being Cyberpunked
Blockchain, AI, and other technological innovations could be used to improve human flourishing. Instead they’re making the oligarchy richer and more powerful at all of our expense.
The Chris Hedges Report
The Real News Network (4/19/24)
We are living through an incipient technological revolution. AI, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, commercial space travel, and other innovations are rapidly transforming everything from the workplace to the financial architecture of the global economy. While many of these technologies hold vast potential to benefit the social good, the multinational corporations and financial oligarchy that drive innovation and own its products are solely motivated by private profit. The consequences are unfolding all around us.
Space Barons & Techtitans
As technology and the power of the oligarchy advances, the misery and disenfranchisement of the majority grows. We are now in an age of “Space Barons and Techtitans,” and the future they are leading us to is one of even greater exploitation, inequality, and ecological crisis.
“They are a step ahead of us, but they’re also step ahead of governments, and the reason why they’re a step ahead of us and governments is because most people and most governments do not even bother understanding what the technological revolution is all about.”
Loretta Napoleoni, author of Technocapitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barrons and the Fight for the Common Good, joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the technocapitalist present and future described in her book. …
55-minute video
COMPLICITY IN WAR CRIMES: Is Meta Helping Israel’s Bloody Genocide? Yes.
The Electronic Intifada (4/20/24)
We welcome tech innovator and founder Paul Biggar back to the livestream. Paul just wrote a blog post outlining how Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is deeply complicit in Israel’s genocide. He notes that Guy Rosen, Meta’s chief information security officer “is their most senior policy decision maker. He is Israeli, lives in Tel Aviv, and was in the Israeli military in Unit 8200.” That Israeli cyberwarfare unit is behind the AI – artificial intelligence – programs Israel is using to accelerate its extermination campaign in Gaza.
Paul gives us a update on Tech for Palestine, a coalition of thousands of people in the tech industry working towards Palestinian freedom.
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by tech innovator and founder Paul Biggar, and Aseel Mousa, a long-time contributor to The Electronic Intifada from Gaza, now in Cairo, on the day 194 livestream.
36-minute video
You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://youtube.com/live/GCdl5F2zki0
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Google Fires 28 For Protesting Israel Contract
'McCarthyism Is Alive And Well'
By Julia Conley
Common Dreams (4/18/24)
The peace coalition No Tech for Apartheid accused Google of a "flagrant act of retaliation" late Wednesday night as the Silicon Valley giant announced it had fired 28 workers over protests against its cloud services contract with the Israeli government.
The firings came after Google organizers held two 10-hour sit-ins at the company's offices in Sunnyvale, California and New York City, demanding the termination of Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract under which Google and Amazon provide cloud infrastructure and data services for Israel—without any oversight regarding whether the Israel Defense Forces uses the services in its occupation of Palestinian territories and bombardment of Gaza.
"These mass, illegal firings will not stop us. Make no mistake, we will continue organizing until the company drops Project Nimbus and stops powering this genocide."
Workers have denounced Project Nimbus since it was announced in 2021, but Israel's killing of at least 33,970 Palestinians in Gaza since October and its intentional starvation of civilians led employees to escalate their protests.
No Tech for Apartheid said in a statement that Google officials called the police to both offices to arrest nine protesters—dubbed the Nimbus Nine—on Tuesday morning, before utilizing "a dragnet of in-office surveillance" to fire nearly two dozen other employees on Wednesday.
"They punished all of the workers they could associate with this action in wholesale firings," said the coalition, which includes Jewish Voice for Peace and MPower Change, a Muslim-led anti-war group. …
