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#broligarchy

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Nonilex

From the Creator of ‘#Succession,’ a Satire of #Tech’s #FarRight

…“Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong…new movie, “#Mountainhead,” …He wrote the script, about grandiose, nihilistic tech #oligarchs holed up in a mountain mansion in Utah, in Jan & Feb, as a very similar set of oligarchs was coalescing behind #Trump’s inauguration. Then he shot the film, his first, over 5 wks this spring. It premieres on Sat on #HBO.

#broligarchy
nytimes.com/2025/05/26/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | From the Creator of ‘Succession,’ a Delicious Satire of the Tech RightBy Michelle Goldberg
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Some Dude on the Interwebs

@amigaunicorn @_elena@mastodon.social @yunohost@toot.aquilenet.fr

The point is that the person I'm replying to is bringing to the "fediverse" the very worst of Twitter.

Her entire usage of the Fediverse seems to amount to emphatically writing, in the #most #vapid #sort #of #language, about how she's... using the Fediverse to write about how she's using the Fediverse to share about how she's using the Fediverse to...

...ah, right: to escape from (and I quote) "the #broligarchy" and "right-wing #haters".

One would not suspect an ulterior motive, were it not for the fact that, according to her WIkipedia page, she "is the founder and editor-in-chief of a now-defunct website that aims to provide 'positive role models' for young girls" and founded "a platform empowering companies and organizations with innovative tools to measure the gender gap", as well as having self-produced a "documentary about the marketing of unattainable beauty ideals around the world" so maybe it's a bit of a serial thing?

I didn't want the Internet and I certainly don't want the Fediverse to be captured by this kind of individual.

In other words, I think the individual in question is a very refined sort of (political) spammer and profiteer.

I would ordinarily just ignore the post, but renotes occasionally catch me off-guard.

I do apologise for that, a grownup ought to be able to ignore.

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skry

If Elon Musk had only 300 million dollars we wouldn't have to care what he thinks. But because we didn't tax billionaires enough...

"Now they have so much wealth that their bad ideas have a gravitational force that can bend society."

The Network State with Brooke Harrington and Dave Karpf.

thenerdreich.com/the-nerd-reic

The Nerd Reich · The Nerd Reich podcast, episode 1: The Network StateA deep dive into how tech billionaires like Elon Musk are trying to dismantle traditional governance to create their own power structures through crypto and artificial intelligence.
#NerdReich#podcast#broligarchy
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“If you want to know how Banks views capitalist tech billionaires, you don’t have to hunt very hard. In the Culture series, a capitalist tech billionaire is the literal devil, only he couldn’t be bothered to build hell himself.”

—Constance Grady on how the broligarchy misreads Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels

@bookstodon

vox.com/culture/413502/iain-ba

Vintage illustration by Frank Tinsley of a futuristic spaceship powered by a large solar wind sail, 1959. Screen print.
Vox · Why does Elon Musk love this socialist sci-fi series?By Constance Grady
#Scottish#literature#sciencefiction
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Simon Johnson

“We are witnessing, in real time, a government whose relationship with tech giants is far too cosy and far too uncritical. Ministers seem content to accept at face value the glossy marketing promises of Palantir, Microsoft, Amazon and Google—apparently uninterested in subjecting those claims to rigorous scrutiny.”

Rosa Curling from Foxglove on how the #uklabour govt is handing our public realm on a silver platter to the #broligarchy

#uk #ukpolitics #ukpol #corruption

democracyforsale.substack.com/

Democracy for Sale · Starmer’s Big Tech lobbying problemBy Peter Geoghegan
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sonja dolinsek

This week I talked with my students about "eugenics" - a term most of them were not familiar with. So I did a bit of research and stumbled on this new #OpenAccess book, which, I think, might be interesting to some of you: "Predatory Data. Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future"
#eugenics #history #bigtech #broligarchy #democracy

ucpress.edu/books/predatory-da

University of California PressPredatory Data by Anita Chan - PaperScholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@tante that is intentional!

That's why they are transmisogynist and racist POSes: They don't accept or even tolerate people who are more intelligent, more confident or just flatout better than them!

They don't want people to be able to #DIY or #repair or have any #knowledge, but to take the #Enshittification as "law of nature" and being dependant on an "Oracle" as a fact of life.

YouTubeG STRING - Full Game WalkthroughBy Bolloxed
#cyberfacism#policestate#solarpunk
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Toni Aittoniemi

One thing people might ignore about the #broligarchy & #conservatism today is it’s shoehorning of the fascist impulse of #purity onto technology.

We see this impulse particularly applied to #ai, with calls for #deregulation approaching religious fervour.

We see it in transhumanism, tescrealism, network state, pretty much all of it.

Purity is another way of saying; only our tribe is good enough to reap benefits. But most importantly it is a domain of no #consequences. The holy item of #fascism

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Elena Rossini ⁂

Team meeting this morning to do some filming for #EleFediVideos & to discuss the next steps. An issue that came up beautifully illustrates the power of the #Fediverse & decentralized social media.

The 1st video introducing the Fediverse to people not familiar with it will discuss Silicon Valley's #Broligarchy.

#YouTube could take down the video if offended right wing people complain about it.

But if I upload the video to #PeerTube... who are you reporting the video to? To ME! I'm the admin 🤗

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ProjectFearlessness

"The crisis in journalism is part of the crisis in information which underpins the crisis in democracy which are all a result of the revolution in communication brought about by new technology platforms. All of which is fuelling the far-right populist politics that are spreading across the world. Now being supercharged by Trump."

Carole Cadwalladr.

#Broligarchy

broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-s

How to Survive the Broligarchy · A secret US-UK sweetheart tech deal?By Carole Cadwalladr
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