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‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/de... @getup.org.au
Demand Kmart take the Anko surveillance glasses off the shelf
Camera glasses are moving quickly into the mainstream. Meta has sold more than 7 million pairs and hired Kylie Jenner to sell more. At $89, against several hundred dollars for the Meta version, the te...
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A civilian medical plane went down after an experimental US military GPS jamming test reportedly disrupted its radar. Every person aboard lost their life. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
In a report endorsed by the former head of MI6, the Henry Jackson Society said a staggering 50% of the Russians in London - 75,000 - were informants for Putin. Russia has many operatives across Europe.
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 3d agoA Paris court today rejected Russian television star Xenia Fedorova's appeal against a ruling that she must leave the country, a week after French authorities accused her of acting as "a conduit for disinformation campaigns" orchestrated by Moscow.
The biggest cyberattack on the American people was done in 2025, by that Apartheid South African ‘unelected’ immigrant Elon Musk.
#Auspol And get Palantir out of Australia. Palantir have military grade facial recognition in all Coles supermarkets in Australia. Palantir have been investing in Australian health insurance and collecting our data. Palantir have top secret government contracts which need to be ended. Stop Palantir
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 4d ago‘Palantir’s market capitalisation has risen to $320 billion, 150 times earnings. The 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵 has speculated that “Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time.”’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social on Palantir’s NHS contract. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The current state of muriKKKa has been in the making for a long time
“If Spain loses control over Ceuta, the US will likely replace it with a military base, allowing it to conduct its operations against Iran without needing the European pillar of NATO.” 2/2
Balaji Srinivasan's parents left India to seek opportunity in the USA. They became doctors in New York. Their son became a tech zillionaire. Now he's *renounced* his US citizenship to seek refuge and safety in countries with less freedom...because "freedom." Peter Thiel is one helluva drug.
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 4d agoA Tech Founder Wanted to Start a New Country. An Actual Country Got in the Way. Wall Street Journal covers Network State cult founder Balaji Srinivasan. “Federal records indicate he and his wife renounced American citizenship in 2023.” 👀 Gift link: www.wsj.com/tech/a-tech-...
If a war movie was doing its job it would horrify you about war instead of glorifying it.
I want children to know what it feels like to catch tadpoles in a stream,climb a tree,hear frogs after the rain and watch butterflies drift across a meadow. I want more parks, more hiking trails, more protected wilderness and more places where nature is left alone simply because it deserves to exist
Lush Green Forest River Landscape
ALT: Lush Green Forest River Landscape
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“We’ve moved into the Age of the Oligarch which is defined by a network of the rich and powerful and the authoritarians they prop up. The group transcends national borders and has zero interest in the countries that elevated them to power.”
The Third World War Is Here
And it's not what you think
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“Ultimately, the real threat of Trumpism and tech-supremacism in Latin America lies not in their capacity for technological modernisation but in their function as technologies of oppression.” www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Latin America is becoming a laboratory for tech-supremacism
Trumpism, corporate deregulation and biometric surveillance are converging into a new model of control in the region.
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A new State Department grant program would direct nearly $5 million to organizations across Europe promoting anti-immigrant narratives and “Western civilizational heritage.” The initiative extends Project 2025's agenda beyond U.S. borders.
State Department Plans $5 Million Push for ‘Western Civilizational Heritage’ in Europe
The Trump administration is launching a nearly $5 million State Department program to fund organizations across Europe that promote anti-immigrant narratives, Christian nationalist rhetoric, and the d...
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Silicon Valley tech billionaires are literally stealing the air, the water, the land, & the tax dollars of you, me, our children, & our grandchildren. It is far-and-away the greatest heist in global history.
The Trump administration has approved the first AI data center to be built on federal public land. The project will occupy roughly 88.5 acres of Bureau of Land Management land in southern Nevada and will set a major precedent for using America’s public lands for private AI infrastructure.
Simon Rosenberg@simonrosenberg.bsky.social · last wk.In the event of US war with China; "The first target for destruction, the most important...will be the US base of Pine Gap." - Peter Cronau We should stop kidding ourselves that Pine Gap is a "joint" facility. #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/07...
we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.
Paula Wirth@paulawirth.bsky.social · last wk.Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.
@angeladenker.bsky.social on the connections between Christian nationalism and Trump’s responses to wildfires: youtu.be/8ZMh8msaUoo
Wildfires, Christian Nationalism, and Creation Care
YouTube video by Axis Mundi Network | SWAJ
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Never forget... People didn't want a black woman as president. So instead, they voted for a 34 count convicted felon, pedophile / rapist who bankrupted 100's of companies, was sued over 4500 times for non-payment of stuff he decided he didn't want to pay for, who just happens to be a total moron.
Barron’s relationship with the Tate brothers, (who have been accused of sex trafficking of minors and adults in Romania, the UK and the USA), needs to be investigated. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How close is the Trump administration to the toxic Tate brothers? Let’s ask the president’s son Barron … | Arwa Mahdawi
The 20-year-old crypto bro likes to keep a low profile. He could still be forced to testify before the House oversight committee, writes Arwa Mahdawi
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Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.
Brian Lyman@brianlyman.bsky.social · last wk.A lot of what-the-hell moments in this story, but building a data center in a floodplain in Louisiana is inviting the wrath of Poseidon.
Doing what Murdoch advised him when he said buy twitter: flood town square with b.s. & destroy cogent conversations so no true narrative of power can get established. He does it. Trump does it. Political power from traditional media has waned. Can't fully control SM so they amp up noise, talk shit.
