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“Big tech have a bullseye on their back
https://www. euronews.com/next/2026/04/01/e nemy-technology-infrastructure-iran-threatens-amazon-google-and-microsoft-assets-in-middl # bigtech # gafam”
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OpenAI has now reached "a nominal $852 billion valuation, the highest of any pre-IPO tech company."
"Perhaps OpenAI is hoping its superapp also has superpowers, because it might need them."
"As things stand, some observers predict OpenAI will not make a profit until 2030."
The Register: OpenAI gets $122B to 'just build things' as the world blows them up https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/01/openai_122_billion/ @theregister #OpenAI #BigTech
#Iran Threatens to Start Attacking Major US Tech Firms on April 1
https://www.wired.com/story/iran-threatens-to-start-attacking-major-us-tech-firms-on-april-1/
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“Digital Hopes, Real Power: From Revolution to Regulation https://www. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/digi tal-hopes-real-power-revolution-regulation # CorporateSpeechControls # ContentBlocking # International ...”
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Folks to me a decade ago: Aral, what’s all this tinfoil-hat stuff about Silicon Valley? You’re being alarmist! What’s the worst that could happen? Etc., etc.
Meanwhile, a Silicon Valley billionaire:
> Some people are like “oh, but isn’t it terrible to celebrate the power of weapons?” and I say, you know what, societies have always needed a warrior class that is enthused and excited about enacting violence on others in pursuit of good aims. I think that it’s reasonable for philosophers to degrade those people and whine about how they’re sick in the head. But society needs them. Even if I’m sick in the head. We need people who are willing to fight for our country—and I’m not doing that directly, my life’s not on the line. But you need people like me who are sick in that way and don’t lose any sleep making tools of violence
#SiliconValley #deathCult #BigTech #capitalism #fascism #PalmerLuckey
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“https:// winbuzzer.com/2026/03/31/micro soft-copilot-cowork-claude-review-gpt-multi-model-xcxwbn/ Microsoft Copilot Cowork Combines AI from Anthropic and OpenAI in One Tool # AI # Anthropic # Copilot # Cl...”
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“"A Meta campus sprawls in DeKalb, Illinois; Apple is expanding its footprint in Waukee, Iowa; Google recently announced plans to build its first Minnesota data center; and Microsoft is investing $3.3 billion into what it...”
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“https:// winbuzzer.com/2026/03/31/meta- funds-seven-gas-plants-largest-ai-data-center-xcxwbn/ Meta Funds 7 Gas Plants for Its Largest AI Data Center # AI # MetaInc # DataCenters # AIInfrastructure # Bi...”
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“Iran’s # IRGC has issued a statement via Tasnim News Agency listing 18 major Western tech and financial companies including # Google , # Microsoft , # Apple , # Nvidia , and # Boeing , as “legitimate targets...”
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“Bloomberg, from yesterday. AI+ midterms = disaster. "The new group, led by former Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich, will concentrate on promoting Trump’s efforts to 'unleash American innovation an...”
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“A Version of You That You Don’t Control There’s a version of you built from your data—and it doesn’t belong to you. Aral Balkan breaks down how these digital profiles are used to anticipate and shape behavior—not by fo...”
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“https:// winbuzzer.com/2026/03/31/googl e-5-billion-anthropic-data-center-texas-xcxwbn/ Google Nears $5B Deal to Finance Anthropic Texas AI Data Center # AI # Google # Anthropic # AIInfrastructure # Bi...”
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“Back in Part 11 of the series i wrote
"If GitHub ever 'goes stupid' — account suspension, policy changes, acquisition drama — all my code is sitting on hardware I own, with backups being replicated by Syncthing. GitHub ...”
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“🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “Australia is investigating major social media platforms over alleged non-compliance with its under-16 ban, with companies facing heavy fines. https:// e...”
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Back in Part 11 of the series i wrote
"If GitHub ever 'goes stupid' — account suspension, policy changes, acquisition drama — all my code is sitting on hardware I own, with backups being replicated by Syncthing. GitHub becomes the mirror, not the source of truth."
I recently added Spoiler alert to the post...
https://blog.ppb1701.com/github-pivoted-so-did-i-part-15-of-building-a-resilient-home-server-series
#codeberg #git #gitea #github #homeserver #microsoft #nixos #selfhosting #bigtech #blog
https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/31/google-5-billion-anthropic-data-center-texas-xcxwbn/
Google Nears $5B Deal to Finance Anthropic Texas AI Data Center
#AI #Google #Anthropic #AIInfrastructure #BigTech #DataCenters #GoogleCloud #Alphabet #Claude #Texas
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“Australia is investigating major social media platforms over alleged non-compliance with its under-16 ban, with companies facing heavy fines. https:// english.mathrubhumi.com/techno logy/australia-social-media-ban-in...”
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“👨🏻⚖️ 🧑🏻⚖️ # BigTech # TechLaw https://www. techpolicy.press/landmark-verd icts-could-unleash-new-legal-playbook-over-social-media-harms/”
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“🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “Friendly reminder that the Earth gives us all the intelligence we need! Everything about AI is artificial because nothing can be trained to understand the...”
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"The State is being ripped off and hollowed out."
Listen to ORG's Exec Director @jim discuss the need for UK digital sovereignty to break from our dependence on foreign-owned Big Tech and how to escape the enshittification of social media.
Check out the @openDemocracy podcast ⬇️
#digitalsovereignty #interoperability #enshittification #socialmedia #bigtech #digitalrights #fediverse
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“🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “So, . gov.uk wants to roll out the UK's new National Parking Platform app 🚗 nationwide a...”
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"Was hier reguliert werden soll, ist nicht Innovation. Reguliert werden soll ein Geschaeftsmodell, das von der systematischen Manipulation von Aufmerksamkeit lebt und die gesellschaftlichen Kosten der Allgemeinheit aufbuerdet"
Meine Combo aus Rant und Vision fuer #SocialMedia ohne #BigTech ist nun auch in Wort und Bild auf @info am Start.
Schaut mal 👉 https://www.metacheles.de/das-ende-von-social-media-judgement-day-fuer-die-contentschleudern/
Wuerde mich freuen, wenn dies ne schoene Runde im #Fediverse macht und freue mich ueber jeden Boost.
Danke 🙏
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“Brainfart: Shouldn't every single religious person who believes in an "all seeing God" be up in arms against # BigTech and its surveillance capitalism ? After all, that's the prerogative of their God, not of humans...”
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“🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “Apple's AI strategy… # tech # technology # BigTech # IT # AI # ArtificialIntelligence # LLM # LLMs # ML # MachineLearning #...”
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“🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters ““To fight Big Tech, we must work together with as many other like-minded networks as possible”
Progressive Technology Project (PTP), is organising resi...”
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“🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “"To get Colossus up and running fast, xAI built its own power plant, setting up as many as 35 natural-gas turbines—railcar-size engines that can be major s...”
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“Landmark lawsuit finds that social media addiction is a feature, not a bug
# SocialMedia # TechAccountability # BigTech # Meta # Media # YouTube # DigitalAddiction # MentalHealth # YouthPro...”
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“"Researchers at USC found that three to four years after states legalize online sports gambling, there is a 28% increase in bankruptcies."
—Scott Galloway # Life vs. # BigTech”
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“RE: https:// grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/ 116307429187383416 I'm not worried about the surveillance laws as much as I'm worried about the "bUt wE cAn mAKe iT pRivAte" camp # ageverification # authoritariani...”
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“Friendly reminder that the Earth gives us all the intelligence we need! Everything about AI is artificial because nothing can be trained to understand the complexity of nature and the human experience. That’s what mak...”
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“🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “So, . gov.uk wants to roll out the UK's new National Parking Platform app 🚗 nationwide and I think it's worth asking some hard questions before we all fo...”
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“Apple's AI strategy… # tech # technology # BigTech # IT # AI # ArtificialIntelligence # LLM # LLMs # ML # MachineLearning # GenAI # generativeAI # AIAgent # AISlop # Fuck_AI ...”
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Ich habe gerade eine Starke These.
Das Menschen nachdenken über Datenschutz, Privatsphäre, Empathie, Big Data usw.
Ich glaub das liegt am Betriebsystem des Computers den man nutzt, oder mobilem Gerät.
Je mehr Windows umso mehr hat man den Bluescreen im kopf
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““To fight Big Tech, we must work together with as many other like-minded networks as possible”
Progressive Technology Project (PTP), is organising resistance to oppressive corporate technologies through political educ...”
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“"To get Colossus up and running fast, xAI built its own power plant, setting up as many as 35 natural-gas turbines—railcar-size engines that can be major sources of smog—according to imagery obtained by the Southern Envi...”
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What I want to know:
- 🔓 Will it be open source? Transparency matters for public infrastructure.
- 🤝 Will user data be shared with or dependent on the likes of Google, Apple, Meta, X, or other third parties?
- 🏠 Who actually owns the data and where will it be stored?
- 🔄 If you opt out completely what alternatives exist?
Privacy shouldn't be the price of participation in modern life. Not everyone wants to register with US Big Tech just to park their car. I think this is a valid choice.
If this becomes mandatory infrastructure, the public deserves answers before rollout, not after.
🔗 BBC coverage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgep3ryp9po
🔗 Official site: https://www.npp.org.uk/
@openrightsgroup
#DigitalPrivacy #DataRights #BigTech #PrivacyMatters #UKParking
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“# ThoughtProvoker Uncomfortable questions.. - To what extent is # FOSS complicit to the rise of # BigTech ? - To what extent is FOSS complicit to disruptive # AI craze we face today? - To what extent ar...”
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“🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “RE: https:// mastodon.social/@leavex/116312 007575014591 Have you ever thought about how ridiculous all this discussion about banning social media i...”
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Phase 1: Acquire developer trust. Phase 2: ???. Phase 3: Your code trains our AI by default. The GitHub story.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/phase-3-profit-the-github-story-97f4616f
#bigtech #blog #github #microsoft #privacy #selfhosting #userhostile #opensource #ai
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“So, . gov.uk wants to roll out the UK's new National Parking Platform app 🚗 nationwide and I think it's worth asking some hard questions before we all forced to download it.
What I want to know:
- 🔓 Will it be o...”
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“Phase 1: Acquire developer trust. Phase 2: ???. Phase 3: Your code trains our AI by default. The GitHub story. https:// blog.ppb1701.com/phase-3-profi t-the-github-story-97f4616f # bigtech # blog # github ...”
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Château Big Tech. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#BigTech #data #DataHarvesting #SocialMedia #Meta
Alt...
Cartoon showing a vineyard. Instead of vines, there are rows of people standing looking at their smartphones. A robot is harvesting their brains, picking them out of their skulls and dropping them into a cargo bed. Another robot is stamping all the brains into a fine mush in a giant wooden barrel. The barrel has a logo of a golden shield with a crown above it, with the logos of Meta, X, Amazon, YouTube and Google on it, and the text ‘Château Big Tech'. A worker is filling bottles from a tap at the bottom of the barrel. Another man, resembling Mark Zuckerberg, is standing a a table with bottles and glasses on it. The white cloth draped across the table has the text 'Data for sale'. A costumer is sampling a glass.
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“RE: https:// mastodon.social/@leavex/116312 007575014591 Have you ever thought about how ridiculous all this discussion about banning social media is? What about sharing our IDs with Big Tech? I have, and I'm sure...”
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“Damn, I'm glad I left Facebook many years ago already… 🫣 "Facebook is absolutely cooked" https:// pilk.website/3/facebook-is-abs olutely-cooked # facebook # meta # socialMedia # social # media #...”
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“# BigTech # Meta # Musk # SocialMedia”
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“🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “@ neil that's because you're not on board with the new business model. You don't own t...”
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“Uber Eats-branded delivery robots vandalised just weeks after launch
https://www. thestar.co.uk/business/consume r/uber-eats-branded-delivery-robots-in-sheffield-vandalised-with-black-paint-saying-off-our-streets-65...”
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“🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “Honestly.. at first i was surprised (and disappointed) at some major Linux distributions not having a clear answer to age verification laws after weeks of ...”
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“🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “From yesterday. Nature:Trump’s new science advisers include 12 technology chiefs — and one academic https://www. nature.com/articles/d41586-026 -00977...”
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“🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “@ neil that's because you're not on board with the new business model. You don't own that computer or phone. You've only paid for it. The company still...”
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Human rights chief warns against banning social media for kids
https://archive.is/2026.03.24-204653/https://www.politico.eu/article/michael-oflaherty-human-rights-council-of-europe-children-social-media-ban/
Ban the harmful algorithms of Big Tech social media instead.
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“🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “RE: https:// mastodon.social/@noybeu/116305 743460388562 With the new upcoming # eu # digital # omnibus the # european # commission b...”
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“Honestly.. at first i was surprised (and disappointed) at some major Linux distributions not having a clear answer to age verification laws after weeks of their announcement, but then lots of them started discussing them...”
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“🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “RE: https:// helvede.net/@jwcph/11630603887 4132524 Also, could we stop talking about a "tobacco moment"? Tobacco shouldn't be legal & it wouldn't...”
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“From yesterday. Nature:Trump’s new science advisers include 12 technology chiefs — and one academic https://www. nature.com/articles/d41586-026 -00977-z @naturewala0021 # science # BigTech # tec...”
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“Netflix Got $2.8 Billion Last Month. Now It Wants More of Yours. https:// blog.ppb1701.com/netflix-got-2 -8-billion-last-month-now-it-wants-more-of-yours # blog # netflix # streaming # streamingwars ...”
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“Huge win for privacy! 🎉 The European Parliament stops “Chat Control 1.0”.
From April 6, 2026, Big Tech must stop scanning private messages in the EU. 💪🇪🇺 # Privacy # Europe # EU # Government # Parliam...”
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“This post is two days-old and deserves notice. "This is exactly what Big Tech wants to create: a sense of a society that is being led by and taught by robots, displacing every bit of all of who we are, starting with edu...”
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“🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “A 20-year-old from Chico, California, accomplished what Senate hearings, congressional sub...”
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“Prof. Janet Vertesi @ cyberlyra announced the Tech Reclaimers, "[...] a not-for-profit community aimed at helping us all reclaim our digital lives and our futures from Big Tech". > This is a digital labor movement,...”
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Prof. Janet Vertesi @cyberlyra announced the Tech Reclaimers, "[...] a not-for-profit community aimed at helping us all reclaim our digital lives and our futures from Big Tech".
This is a digital labor movement, and we might as well build the solidarity so that we can act like one.
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“@ neil that's because you're not on board with the new business model. You don't own that computer or phone. You've only paid for it. The company still owns it. # Computing # BigTech”
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“@ Sascha same is valid for # WSocial and # Wedium , IMHO. # eurosky # bluesky # flashes # bigtech # monnett”
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“RE: https:// mastodon.social/@noybeu/116305 743460388562 With the new upcoming # eu # digital # omnibus the # european # commission brakes down barriers for # bigtech (mis) using # personal #...”
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🧐 Keeping an eye on #BigTech because #PrivacyMatters
“🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “yahoo news | Elizabeth Warren Slams Big Tech–Heavy AI Council As Lisa Su, Michael Dell, Other... President Donald Trump’s latest round of appointments to...”
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🧐 Keeping an eye on #BigTech because #PrivacyMatters
“🧐 Keeping an eye on # BigTech because # PrivacyMatters “A 20-year-old from Chico, California, accomplished what Senate hearings, congressional subcommittees, and parent groups have tried and failed to do for yea...”
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Honestly.. at first i was surprised (and disappointed) at some major Linux distributions not having a clear answer to age verification laws after weeks of their announcement, but then lots of them started discussing them. really! discussing them! what's there to be discussed?
"maybe we can implement age checks in a privacy respecting manner? 👉👈"
And it's just so happens this serves the corporation that you work for best interests! Big tech "Foss devs" have a clear conflict of interest here
#ageverification #authoritarianism #SaveTheChildren #thinkofthechildren #epstein #surveillance #bigtech #government #privacy #anonymity #humanrights #FreeSoftware #freespeech #ubuntu #linux #fedora #arch #archlinux #agelesslinux #artix #whonix #tails #systemd #opensource #openknowledge #openaccess #cyberlaw #infosec
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meme: a guy becoming a clown with each statement he makes in support for age verification laws, in the last statement he becomes a full clown
1. code is speech, and we're being forced to write code against our will, we're being treated like slaves! wait..!! are we?!
2. Age Verification laws are not the worst thing that happened to our rights
3. Age Verification should be viewed as a feature, we don't want to be left behind and lose market share.
4. You already put way more sensitive personal information on your SSDs anyways, what's wrong with your OS asking for your age?!
🧐 Keeping an eye on #BigTech because #PrivacyMatters
“RE: https:// helvede.net/@jwcph/11630603887 4132524 Also, could we stop talking about a "tobacco moment"? Tobacco shouldn't be legal & it wouldn't be if someone tried to introduce it today as a new product. By...”
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🧐 Keeping an eye on #BigTech because #PrivacyMatters
“RE: https:// mastodon.social/@markhurst/116 302705056640726 A few additional tips to supplement this good advice from @ markhurst : Zen or Librewolf browser - both Firefox/Mozilla based. StartMail - not fr...”
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@markhurst/116302705056640726
A few additional tips to supplement this good advice from @markhurst:
Zen or Librewolf browser - both Firefox/Mozilla based.
StartMail - not free, but comes with a very effective & easy migration tool to bring over your Gmail catalog & also the option to use your own custom email domain & create disposable aliases.
StartPage - search engine, same vendor as above.
AodeRelay boosted"Every step we take towards deGoogling, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction."
New from me: The first step toward getting off Google, feat. @cyberlyra
https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/the-first-step-toward-getting-off-google/
🧐 Keeping an eye on #BigTech because #PrivacyMatters
“yahoo news | Elizabeth Warren Slams Big Tech–Heavy AI Council As Lisa Su, Michael Dell, Other... President Donald Trump’s latest round of appointments to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (P...”
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🧐 Keeping an eye on #BigTech because #PrivacyMatters
“@ ProjectLincoln While we're at it! Where is the # Mastodon button and why not active? https:// lincolnproject.us # BigTech”
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🧐 Keeping an eye on #BigTech because #PrivacyMatters
“A 20-year-old from Chico, California, accomplished what Senate hearings, congressional subcommittees, and parent groups have tried and failed to do for years. She persuaded a jury that Instagram and YouTube were designed...”
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🧐 Keeping an eye on #BigTech because #PrivacyMatters
“It's not surprising that people who inherit wealth believe in eugenics Eugenics tells them that some people are born superior ...and that’s why they DESERVE daddy’s money! Their genes say so! # capitalism # anarch...”
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Das Vermoegen der BigTech-Milliardaere vs gesetzlicher Mindestlohn!
Falls ihr noch nach Gruenden/Argumenttaionshilfen sucht, um die Plattformen von #Musk #Bezos und Zuckerberg zu verlassen... here we go!
#did #diday #bigtech #taxtherich
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Eine pointierte Infografik auf einem dunklen, mit dezenten digitalen Netzlinien versehenen Hintergrund, die die extreme Vermögensentwicklung von US-Tech-Milliardären der Entwicklung des Mindestlohns gegenüberstellt.Die Einleitung: Ganz oben steht als provokante Einleitung der Text: „Wir sitzen alle im selben Boot. Nur dass manche eine Flotte von Superyachten haben und du versuchst, die Miete zu zahlen.“Die Tabelle: Im Zentrum befindet sich eine Tabelle mit den Spalten „Wer?“, „2012“, „2026“ und „Faktor“.In der ersten Zeile ist eine Schwarz-Weiß-Illustration von Elon Musk zu sehen. Sein Vermögen wuchs demnach von 2 Mrd. $ auf 827,2 Mrd. $, was einem enormen Faktor von x 413 entspricht (in leuchtendem Orange hervorgehoben).Darunter folgt Jeff Bezos, dessen Vermögen von 18,4 Mrd. $auf 222,7 Mrd.$ stieg (x 12, in hellem Blau).Als Dritter wird Mark Zuckerberg aufgeführt, mit einem Anstieg von 17,5 Mrd. $auf 204,2 Mrd.$ (x 11, in Türkis).Die letzte Zeile zeigt das Icon eines Arbeiters mit Helm. Hier wird der (deutsche) Stundenlohn verglichen: von 8,50 € (mit dem Vermerk in Klammern: 2015) auf 13,90 € im Jahr 2026. Das entspricht lediglich einem Faktor von x 1.6 (in unauffälligem Grau gehalten).Die Forderung: Den Abschluss der Grafik bildet unten der in riesigen, leuchtend neon-orangenen Buchstaben geschriebene Slogan „TAX THE RICH“.
Because usually people get smarter when they get old ? :)
Because we should "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." ? (Albert Einstein) :)
Because enough is enough ? :)
I'm in similar situation as you at my $DAYJOB. When I hear about k8, docker, containers, AI - I immediately get rash.
Funniest thing is - all these guys at my $DAYJOB think they are "innovators". While in reality they just do exactly what #bigtech tells them to do. No matter whether it makes sense or not.
@404mediaco good spot. So please point your readers to our alternatives lists at:
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html
2026 is the year when the world needs a critical mass of people to run ethical alternatives in parallel, and then dump the #bigtech spyware in 2027!
Social media giants have pushed engagement-driven designs to keep us on their platforms, so they can harvest our data for advertising revenues.
The landmark verdict against Meta and Google is a crucial step in acknowledging that Big Tech's harmful business models are creating toxic online spaces.
Read more ⬇️
#onlinesafety #BreakBigTech #bigtech #socialmedia #meta #google
The UK Government should take note. Age ID checks for Internet access won't solve online harms.
It does nothing to tackle their structural causes: advertising-driven business models built on surveillance, profiling and maximising engagement.
All it does is threaten privacy. We must #BreakBigTech.
#onlinesafety #bigtech #socialmedia #meta #google #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol
“A jury in LA has delivered a damning verdict for two of the world's most popular digital platforms, Instagram and YouTube.
It ruled those apps are addictive, and deliberately engineered that way – and that its owners have been negligent in their safeguarding of the children who have used them.
…
Some experts have described the verdict as big tech's "big tobacco" moment, and we know how that worked out - although it didn't stop people smoking altogether.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87wd0d84jqo
#BigTech #SiliconValley #peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTobacco #Instagram #YouTube
AP: EU targets Snapchat over child safety and accuses porn sites of failing to block minors https://apnews.com/article/eu-european-union-digital-regulation-porn-child-safety-8a53ec642c7a8f711988f141aa6ff6ec @AssociatedPress #Snapchat
"The European Parliament on Thursday voted down rules that would allow technology companies to scan for child abuse online — and immediately drew the ire of top-level officials."
Politico: MEPs block tech firms from scanning for child sexual abuse material https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-rejects-child-sexual-abuse-bill-blocking-tech-firms-scanning-meta-google/ @politico #BigTech #privacy #chatcontrol
"While it’s too soon to tell if this week’s outcomes will lead to fundamental changes in how social media platforms treat their young users, the dual verdicts signal a changing tide of public perception against tech companies that is likely to lead to more lawsuits and regulation."
AP: Parents see hope in back-to-back rulings that social media providers failed to protect young users https://apnews.com/article/social-media-lawsuits-meta-818d885e92fd11e000bbfa16dd4fba0c
As juries turn against social media for harming kids, Big Tech’s invincibility starts to show cracks https://apnews.com/article/social-media-meta-youtube-instagram-trials-aa1d936fca51c67478db7bc5b08d1c45 @AssociatedPress #Meta #BigTech #socialmedia #YouTube #Google
3/3 🚨 With the Parliament still unconvinced, four EU Commissioners decided to interfere, trying to pressure MEPs to support their mass surveillance proposal, even promoting the interests of #BigTech companies like Google, Meta and Snapchat!
Despite this blatant attempt to cow the Parliament into abandoning their position, MEPs held strong and continued to reject the mass scanning of our private communications 👏🏽
This is the democratic accountability we expect and deserve from our lawmakers!
APPLE DAILY: SIRI WIRD ZUR CHAT-APP, EU GREIFT APPLE AN UND IPHONE AIR ÜBERRASCHT
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#apple #siri #appledaily #ios27 #appleintelligence #chatbot #ai #iphone #iphoneair #appleleaks #technews #appleupdate #iosupdate #eu #dma #bigtech #innovation #smartphone #technologie #appledeutschland #news
Google will add a 24-hour delay and multi-step “advanced flow” to sideload unverified Android apps, aiming to curb malware and social engineering attacks 📱
The change raises concerns about platform openness, developer access, and user freedom as Android adds tighter controls despite keeping sideloading available 🔐
#TechNews #Android #Google #Privacy #Cybersecurity #OpenSource #Security #Apps #Data #Freedom #Antitrust #BigTech #Software #Mobile #DigitalRights
Instead of handing government contracts to predatory Big Tech, the UK should ensure we have control of our digital infrastructure.
Even secure systems are fragile if a foreign company or power can pull the plug.
Sign our petition for a digital sovereignty strategy that priorities UK open source ⬇️
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-trump-s-kill-switch-secure-our-digital-sovereignty
#DigitalSovereignty #palantir #bigtech #security #ukpolitics #ukpol
The UK’s reliance on US Big Tech is a national security issue ⚠️
But the UK is giving the controversial spyware company Palantir more contracts and more access to our data.
We're increasingly vulnerable to companies that lock us in to proprietary systems, creating dependency not independence.
#DigitalSovereignty #palantir #bigtech #security #ukpolitics #ukpol
If #transparency, #cybersecurity, and #DigitalSovereignty matter so much to the @EUCommission, how much of the billions in fines slapped on #BigTech in recent years has actually been put into #FOSS? 🤔
Brazilian law aims to protect minors from harmful online content
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-internet-regulation-social-media-cd5d8f51ecbc0bb28f43a741dd95bc05
P𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗹 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄:
• 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹 feeds with no natural stopping points
• 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 video for children and adolescents
• 𝗕𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 push notifications
• 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 for targeted advertising to minors
• 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 and proactive risk-detection, before complaints are filed [1]
Trotziges Weinen und Aufstampfen der VMware-Dienstleister.
Wer es zwei Jahre nach der Übernahme durch Broadcom immer noch nicht verstanden hat, wird es auch nicht mehr verstehen.
Das hat man davon, wenn man sich als Dienstleistungs-Moskito auf einen proprietären Elefanten fixiert.
Aufhören zu jammern und sich aus seiner "selbstverschuldeten Unmündigkeit" befreien.
Bezieht sich auf Linux, KVM, Ceph, Proxmox und Openstack.
https://www.heise.de/news/Europaeische-Cloudanbieter-Broadcom-setzt-zum-Todesstoss-an-11219942.html
#diday #broadcom #bigtech #vmware #linux #proxmox #openstack #sovereignty
🗳️ Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Pollster Finds
｢ AI is likely to be a major issue in the midterms and only grow in importance if it continues to go unaddressed by lawmakers and regulators. But it’s clear that Big Tech’s message of “innovation” is being read as a threat by the general public. ｣
https://gizmodo.com/americans-recognize-ai-as-a-wealth-inequality-machine-pollsters-find-2000734713
Jensen announced everything Monday. We're just now finding out how deep it goes.
New post: "You Load Sixteen Tokens, What Do You Get?"
The mine got safer. The model stayed the same.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/you-load-sixteen-tokens-what-do-you-get
#ai #bigtech #blog #compensation #tokens #nvidia #userhostile
Strong recommend to see this new BBC documentary Inside The Rage Machine
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sw4z
It shows you, in less than an hour, how big tech deliberately farms rage, to boost "engagement", to boost advertising $.
One of those programs that, if everyone saw it, the world would be a better place.
Find alternatives to #bigtech here:
A billionaire promising you decentralisation is like a king promising you democracy.
(Unless it involves them abdicating the crown, you know it’s bullshit.)
#decentralisation #Bluesky #JackDorsey #BigTech #SiliconValley #bullshit
The UK government has collapsed competition regulation, shifted data protection to favour business needs over personal data and promised Big Tech all the help they need to establish themselves at every level of government.
There's an alternative – a strategy for digital sovereignty that prioritises UK open source.
Public money, public code.
Tell your MP to back a #DigitalSovereignty strategy ⬇️
#opensource #tech #techpolicy #tonyblair #bigtech #ukpolitics #ukpol
Predatory Big Tech is being brought into the UK economy on Big Tech's terms.
Adding Tony Blair Institute and Ellison Institute officials into government "who know how to do Big Tech’s bidding is just one more sign that the UK is being asset-stripped and locked into a future of permanent rent extraction by Big Tech."
🗣️ ORG Exec Director @jim
#DigitalSovereignty #tech #techpolicy #tonyblair #bigtech #ukpolitics #ukpol
It seems hard to escape the AI virus. It's also infecting the open source world…
https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
#FOSS #OpenSource #tech #technology #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #Fuck_AI #microslop #microsoft #copilot #meta #google #NVIDIA #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude #editor #app #apps #tools #software #linux #FreeSoftware #free #BigTech
RE: https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com/reply/the-local-tech-neighbourhood
@fabio compares the "just use Linux" guys and "just self-host it" guys to professional and hobbyist bakers who tell people with other priorities to "just make your own bread" in a hypothetical scenario where Big Bread would start to charge subscription fees.
In such a world, hobbyist bakers could offer their friends to make bread for them at modest prices, perhaps even teach those who show interest. They wouldn't tell them all to learn baking and buy the machines and to learn gardening and to grow their own tomatoes because nobody can do everything.
We computer people should start thinking like that: Letting our 10–20 friends in on our DIY Netflix server or Nextcloud instance for a few bucks to cover electricity costs. It's a win-win situation for everyone.
Your AI chatbot may be stealing your conversations.
Many #BigTech platforms:
• use chat inputs for training
• store conversations indefinitely
• process data in centralized clouds
What does that mean for #dataprivacy?
We break it down 👇
https://nextcloud.com/de/blog/the-problems-with-big-tech-ai-data-collection-privacy-concerns-and-how-to-protect-your-data/
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #Fuck_AI #microslop #microsoft #copilot #meta #google #NVIDIA #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude
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A compilation of screenshots featuring ignorant AI responses to questions.
Als neue Linux-Nutzerin habe ich natürlich auch gespendet, z.B. an Thunderbird. Doch die Inkonsequenz gerade bei solchen Firmen macht mich fassungslos. Erstens die Zahlmethoden: Paypal, Googlepay oder Kreditkarte (die habe ich dann als kleineres Übel genommen), zweitens: Teilen kann man nur bei Bigtech… 🤦♀️ Hab ne Mail geschickt, mal schauen, ob sich was ändert… #bigtech #linux #thunderbird #unplugtrump #diday
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Bildschirmfoto von einer Spendenbescheinigung, die man aber nur auf den BigTech Plattformen teilen kann
📝 New post 🚀
"Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse"
mentioning @europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission
#SocialMedia #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #SocialSovereignty #policy #BigTech #Fediverse #TheFutureIsFederated #RSS #SocialWeb
The US is demanding overlordship of EU use of Big Tech. European sovereignty, independence, and rule of law are basically only theoretical.
Europeans need to leave US tech ASAP.
US committee demands Big Tech share private comms with EU officials
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-congress-judiciary-committee-big-tech-private-communication-eu-officials/
#eu #digitalsovereignty #dsa #DigitalServiceAct #gdpr #bigtech
NVIDIA DLSS 5 be like…
#DLSS #DLSS5 #tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Fuck_AI #NVIDIA #mario #nintendo #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer
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Two similar Mario game character heads placed next to each other. The left one is an actual 3D game head, the right one is a creepy realistic interpretation of the left head.
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#NVIDIA #DLSS #DLSS5 #tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Fuck_AI #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer
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Comparison between 3D game characters with and without DLSS 5 AI processing. The version with DLSS processing has turned a grey-haired man into a long-haired woman.
"Twitter no es malo ni bueno, depende el uso"
"Twitter es neutral"
"Twitter es una herramienta"
Si cambian twitter por tecnología o ia, quedará más claro que:
"El medio es el mensaje"
Las herramientas del opresor no pueden ser herramientas de liberación de los oprimidos.
La tecnología no es neutral, tampoco la ia.
Detrás de toda tecnología hay intereses que construyen relaciones de Poder.
Thinking of #DeGoogling but not sure where to start? You've come to the right place.
This is your go-to guide for how to use Tuta Calendar - the #BigTech free, private calendar, that's free to use!
Link 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-use-tuta-calendar
Why Tuta Cal? 📅💙
✅️ End-to-end encrypted
✅️ Green
✅️ Open-Source
✅️ Zero ties to Google
✅️ Zero ties to Big Tech
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Picture shows screen of a phone and computer with Tuta Calendar.
📝 New post 🚀
"Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse"
mentioning @europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission
#SocialMedia #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #SocialSovereignty #policy #BigTech #Fediverse #TheFutureIsFederated #RSS #SocialWeb
📢 We've updated the Rebel Tech Alliance site: it now has app icons for all the Alternatives we list 😀
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html
Click around the site and have a look!
We also added a better light mode, that matches the blog newsletter sepia look, and search boxes on the bigger tables e.g.
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/otheralts.html and
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/media.html
We hope you can share our site with friends and family, and use it to get away from #bigtech #surveillance 🥳
Loved reading this…
Microslop
https://www.s-config.com/microslop
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #Fuck_AI #microslop #Microsoft #copilot #Meta #Google #NVIDIA #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude #linux #FOSS #OpenSource
#AI #Disinformation #War #BigTech #FarRight #OpenAI #Google
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Marijn Markus
AI Lead | Managing Data Scientist | Public Speaker
#BBC tech reporter spent 20 minutes writing a fake blog post, claiming he’s the world’s #1 hot dog-eating journalist. Even invented a fake championship to back it up. Within 24 hours, watch #ChatGPT and #Google repeat it as fact.
He manipulated two of the world’s most powerful #AI systems with a BS single page.
Users trust AI answers more than websites, because it feels like the answer comes directly from the tech company itself. Not from a random page somewhere on the #internet.
In the early 2000s, people learned how to game Google. In 2026, people are learning how to game AI retrieval systems.
If one blog post can convince an AI that a journalist is the world’s top competitive hot-dog eater, imagine what a coordinated #strategy by a company or foreign adversary can do for a product, a company, or a political narrative.
These tactics will be used to push falsehoods far more than truth.
Welcome to the #Disinformation Age.

BBC Headline:
I hacked ChatGPT and Google’s AI – and it only took 20 minutes
Thomas Germain