Complaining about enshittification does belie a certain lack of awareness of always having been swimming in shit.

When trying to find “European alternatives” to US products – to avoid looking like a – ensure that your “alternative” is not funded by US venture capital.

The Camera Panopticon

How did we end up in technofascism? Watch this talk I gave over a decade ago warning of the dangers of Silicon Valley and Big Tech and urging us to embrace alternatives.

https://small-tech.org/videos/the-camera-panopticon/

(Transcript available in English, Español, and Nederlands, thanks to the community.)

Venture Capital Extremism

https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-extremism

So DuckDuckGo’s “news” items all look like they’re from different publications but go through MSN.

Because, of course, DuckDuckGo is just another venture capital funded Silicon Valley tech company.

The reason you can’t have nice things is capitalism.

Databricks, the data analytics platform, has raised $10 billion that values the company at $62 billion — one of the largest venture rounds in history. Read it at @Techcrunch. #Databricks #IPO #VentureCapital #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/HGRRWz

Funny how, a decade ago, they called us “tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists” for suggesting such things and we were shunned by “respectable” folks in the web community afraid to lose their favoured status as Big Tech’s bottom feeders.

https://vimeo.com/96727211

#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #capitalism #surveillance #BigWeb #web #SmallTech #ethicalTech #privacy #humanRights https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/113489107039210087

New post on The Digital Renaissance: Well, Here We Go Again.

"Well, people are mad at another company again. Big surprise. Let's talk about people fleeing Threads and the Fediverse for Bluesky.”

https://blog.samclemente.me/well-here-we-go-again/

Did you know IBM helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust? Is it in any way surprising that we can’t do anything about Big Tech and toxic oligarchs like Elon Musk when even those who helped carry out one of the worst tragedies in human history remain unpunished? Should it come as a shock that the very same bastards are funding and pining for fascism today?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhzge9r6k4

Just a reminder that 0% of fediverse admins took on debt to support their communities.

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112399842395585906

Can't say I am surprised, but seems #Bitwarden is moving away from #OpenSource as per github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/11611

Glad I never jumped that train and went with @keepassxc instead, when leaving the #1Password enshittification train, and with which I am very happy.

Any project with #VentureCapital involved is a warning flag. I have seen so many nice software projects go down the #enshittification path, it's not even funny.

#passwordmanager #passwordmanagers #keepass #keepassxc

“What we have here is a shared delusion — a dead-end technology that runs on copyright theft, one that requires a continual supply of capital to keep running as it provides services that are, at best, inessential, sold to us dressed up as a kind of automation it doesn't provide, that costs billions and billions of dollars and will continue to do so in perpetuity.“

- @Zitron

Wealth disparity is killing us.

"As Cuban observed, the tech elite have 'gotten to the point now where they feel like they should control the world.'”

#wealthdisparity #SiliconValley #techbros #MAGA #elite #venturecapital #corporatetax #PeterThiel #tech

https://capitalandmain.com/why-some-silicon-valley-billionaire-bros-want-trump-to-be-the-ceo-of-america

It's possible to start a business, including a technology business, without it being a #Startup . A Startup is a specific kind of business, one in which the goal of the founders is to raise a ton of cash early on in hopes of making a *huge* product down the road.

It's tied to investor and #VentureCapital culture.

It's possible to run a small business where the goal isn't being acquired or creating a monopoly.

Funny that AI folks are working to prevent folks from revealing AI bots instead of, you know, jumping off a bridge and taking their environment-destroying technology with them or something.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201414/openai-chatgpt-gpt-4o-prompt-injection-instruction-hierarchy

Joe Biden withdraws from presidential race. Venture capitalists had been calling for Biden to step aside in recent days. Tech Crunch has more:
https://flip.it/ZiScbn
#Tech #Technology #JoeBiden #VentureCapital #USElection

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Some of the richest and most influential investors in Silicon Valley are publicly supporting Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential campaign. Some Black founders are taken aback. TechCrunch has more: https://flip.it/wWuOPq
#Tech #Technology #SiliconValley #VentureCapital

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