Yeah... well I'm not! A book will be coming! Or when I can! Or in my wildest dreams! Or.. listen it's all there detailed in my tweets & skys so just run w/it! Just take everything I've claimed & run w/it! Surprisingly it can be found when you know what to look for! Go! Go! Go! Be! Do! I beg of you!
Kara, we were best buddies one time in Silicon Valley. Now, you're always picking on me.
Look at the bright side. When I become the world's first trillionaire and control all humans through my brain tech, y'all will be happy.
Haven't you read that "freedom is slavery" in the book "1984"?
Try commenting on any of the golf Facebook pages taking pokes at Tiger Woods and Don Jrs ex or Trump. Psycho replies en masse. The golf world is now heavily MAGA and destroying the PGA brand forever.
Silence speaks volumes. Those who remain silent have sided with the oppressor. I consider these people worse than anyone publicly defending Musk. No integrity, pathetic. When all goes to shit they will align with whoever “wins”. It’s morally repugnant. If the Ai bubble bursts they deserve it
They think they are scared now and not speaking up against it. Wait until the process is progressed further. If you are living in a fear-based situation, should know that something is rotten in the state of Denmark - and stand against it. Otherwise you are complicit via apathy. #Resist
Then the Democrats and people who care about tech should have a bill made that says no one in the tech field can be prosecuted for anything they say or do against the stupid fucking Nazi president!
Nah, the CEOs and C-suite love him. They loathe their workers and wish they could power-flex and make them miserable like the degenerate fascist Musk does.
This. ^ Tech bros are the ones wanting to replace the workers with AI, breaking laws and regulations to allow their
"disruptions" to flourish. They are more ideologically aligned than people think.
Tech bros have been promised unimaginable wealth. It's always the promise of eternal superiority to others that cult leaders use to gain power & profit.
Seriously. I've been completely shocked to see so many people I had formerly respected show themselves to be cowards. You don't fight fascism by rolling over and showing your belly. You fight it with fearlessness and unity. People that think this way are how fascism succeeds. Be willing to sacrifice
“speaking out can feel particularly dicey in tech now that some of the industry’s most powerful investors and executives — people with the power to determine whose tech startup gets funded or which workers get fired — aren’t just cozying up to the Trump administration; they’re running it.”
Don't be scared of Musk. Fight back and stand for what you believe. Wisconsin showed that some people cannot be bought. The real Silicon Valley pioneers, such as Bill and Dave who founded Hewlett-Packard were good people who treated workers well and their companies made real breakthrough innovation.
Not all of us- A whole lot of #Average Techies are using cur voice and skills we have brought to the wussie Billionaire class and are seeing our THIRD+ retirement savings get nuked. We’re fucking done.
"Growing a set" will make it worse. Men have team loyalty and teamwork drilled into them early; many of the bravest whistlebliwers are women
These guys need backbone
So are startup forums dominated by 4chan like troll armies? It should be clear, that classic Silicon Valley IT has left it's pioneer phase. The years before Trump 2.0, all platform giants engaged in enshittification, exploiting their monopolies to make more money from ever worse services. 1/6 ➡️
With a small number if investors and bosses turning into tyrants, both in their companies and US government, it may be time to move elsewhere, such as Canada or Europe. New innovation is about to come, compared to which X, Google and Amazon are dinosaurs. 2/6 ➡️
The new US isolationism and aggression make global business increasingly difficult to impossible. Copying these platforms is no great task, and when the originals get banned, the users will be quickly taken over. China and Russia already did; now the US are about to become another Russia. 3/6 ➡️
One issue persists: what certain investors, bosses and ideologues envision, is fundamentally opposite to the foundations of the USA: "Moldbug" Yarvin not only promoted autocracy, but establishment of an inherited nobility, like in the periods of European feudalism. 4/6 ➡️
His favorite model seems to be Germany between the 30 Years War and unification (1648-1871). A patchwork of small states with absolute rulers and an established noble class. "Neo-cameralism" seems to be his term for it. Europe struggled for centuries to shrug this off. 5/6 ➡️
German nationalism, in this period, struggled for a united nation, considering an emperor as better than the patchwork of local rulers. Some demanded forms of democracy, but weren't successful. So Yarvin, Thiel, Musk want to turn the USA into everything they were built against. 6/6 🔚
That could be america's epitaph if this keeps up....profiles in noncourage. From the nation that prided itself on courage and justice for all, we hear no peeps from people in power at all in response to Senator Booker's impassioned marathon plea.....silence.
A huge swath of Silicon Valley are normal people working jobs and trying to live their lives but a very small subset of the corrupt that have concentrated the most capital run the whole show that some enabling journalists have been a part of for years.
Retired IT here. When back on Twitter, I told Musk that his "code reviews", after his taking over, were a joke and that he was a lunatic. Within a very short amount of time, my account was permanently suspended.
"They all described an industry known for outspokenness and self-assurance suddenly gripped with a widespread culture of fear when it comes to criticizing Musk or DOGE."
Then you're not actually known for outspokenness and self-assurance. You're just known for speaking out when it was easy. 🤷🏻♂️
This is total BS. Tech industry PR effort at ethics washing. “We really don’t like what is going on, but aren’t going to do anything about it.” I thought they were all Gods!
It’s NOT a lack of courage, it’s complicity. None of us should be fooled, and journalists need to report on it as such.
A bunch of privileged short-term thinking folks afraid their finances might be negatively impacted by doing the right thing. Did they not learn two wrongs don't make a right? Musk is WRONG and they are wrong by remaining silent.
Yeah, deep state, military industrial complex, Illuminati, 2nd amendment, relentless love of freedom - the power of all these things was way way overhyped
The entire tech industry can eat shit for empowering this madness because they thought they might benefit from it. Seriously they can all go fall off a cliff.
Dear US tech sector, Europe still exists and offers a plethora of choices to set up and do business + much better healthcare and education for your children, free of charge 😂
We know this. We see this. His shitty rockets (paid for by taxpayer funds) explode and the media all clap. Fuck Amerika, you guys are so over. Time to wake up and smell the fascism (and the hummus).
Since the tech industry is 99% tech bros with the same values are they really appalled? I think not. They have the best chance at stopping Leon and can do it without detection. They choose not to. It has nothing to do with courage. It has everything to do with shared values.
Silicon Valley is a significant part of why CA is blue. Ms Swisher, you also helped build up these men who are powerful in tech now. I am beyond disappointed by the so called leaders in SV. But please don't paint every worker with the same brush. That way only lies further division.
If the rich and powerful would stand up together, they would make up an army of ants and actually be more powerful than this fascist organization get a f****** spine people..
We've had our McCarthy moment – Kinzinger, Romeny, & Cheney pushed back - do we need another key GOP senator with balls? We should remind them by publishing Margaret Smith's 'Declaration of Conscience" speech.
Sadly, much of that silence is likely due to many being foreign nationals who are visa or green card holders and who don't want to be picked up by ICE.
Really sick of living in a nation of chickens. Stop talking about being scared. I don’t want to hear it anymore tech people, do something. Zero compassion for your chicken fears.
I’ve been wondering what people who know him are thinking. Tech bros are idiots. How do i know this?!? Because I’m 6th generation Bay Area and i had to leave because they completely ruined it. Dumb nerds with too much money and huge egos because of that money. No one needs a self driving car
Sorry. They can speak out at the same time. He’s big and powerful but not when you speak in a unified force. Perhaps just perhaps they should read some history
Tech bros might be intelligent but they truly lack "street smarts." These people can't even bring themselves to order their lunch from a real person; how would we expect them to counter Musk?
I don't understand why these ultra wealthy captains of tech are so weak and afraid. Makes me think it was correct to pick on them/stuff them in lockers in the 80's. Pussies.
Just do it. Criticize. They have no qualms doing it. Shout how bad they are. They are still weak now. If we don't do something soon they will have all the power.
Everyone thinks criticism needs to be brutal (slam!) or it isn’t meaningful or authentic. Hey Big Tech, how about start with asking genuine rational questions out loud?
There's some dirt bubbling up in Europe indicative of years of legal intimidation by Musk, accompanied with massive initiatives to control the public narrative via journalists and influences. It goes back to the introduction of the Tesla Roadster in 2008, which got really bad, but just, reviews
One man’s power is only as strong as another man’s willingness to abide by it. I genuinely thought big bad American business had more spine than this. But maybe they all just want a slice of that end-of-democracy pie.
I think this is the part that many folks don’t understand is that while he has money, his influence on tech as a whole has been waning a looonnnnng time.
In pro wrestling terms, Elon will be attacked by the MAGA chickens when Trump needs to look like the babyface throwing the heel out of the ring. In Orwellian terms, is Trump's Leon Trotsky. Sorry Snowball, you know some pig has to take the fall for Napoleon's misdeeds! #ElonTrotsky #SnowballMusk
The self importance (and ultimate cowardice) inherent in SV rivals that of 1980’s investment bankers. At some point, they all seem to become parasitic, delusional nimrods. Too much confidence, too much privilege, too little spine.
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Look at the bright side. When I become the world's first trillionaire and control all humans through my brain tech, y'all will be happy.
Haven't you read that "freedom is slavery" in the book "1984"?
"No bucks, no Buck Rogers."
"disruptions" to flourish. They are more ideologically aligned than people think.
They can either decide to fight him w/their money & power or pick up their companies/life & go to another country
So I believe the term ‘shit or get off the pot’ applies here
https://migrantinsider.com/p/signalsafe
These guys need backbone
#DMForNudes
He is a walking, drug-induced, mental health crisis.
Unfortunately, the world is paying the price because no one is intervening.
https://bsky.app/profile/karaswisher.bsky.social/post/3lm36f6uuxs2z
Then you're not actually known for outspokenness and self-assurance. You're just known for speaking out when it was easy. 🤷🏻♂️
It’s NOT a lack of courage, it’s complicity. None of us should be fooled, and journalists need to report on it as such.
meanwhile you got 80 year-old women getting arrested at town hall🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Show me a tech startup in Topeka, KS and I'll show you grit.
But, I’m old. I have no fucks left to give.
These feckless boobs.
The ICE theatrics have been effective.
Trump wants to be a mad king & he's got mad down pat.
Musk is a spoiled toddler throwing toys out of his pram.
Self-censorship in tech is not as bad as the Quisling GOP's in Congress.
Being good at tech doesn't mean being good at anything else.
Elon isn’t a man to fear, he’s a man to jeer. 🐸