a-croissant.bsky.social
Artist, researches tech extremism 🌐
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Silly Billy, but Polite
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Doing a public service here folks
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I hate slogans! I hate slogans!
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With free shipping?
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IMO a big superpower is culture. There's a reason why the right has tried and (somewhat) failed to take hold of it.
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And if you are not a combative person - there are other ways to help. The boycotts and anticonsumerism springing up is really cool. Mutual aid and buy nothing culture is even cooler! Help make it a trend to create networks of resilience, not being reliant on what cages and addicts us.
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Some ideas if you are interested in combatting tech fascism! First, there are already people doing so, for years. Meet them, have conversations, learn from their perspective:
- those speaking against dystopian police surveilance
- those who care first for your community/the land, not profits
- etc
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What happened to SF may start to happen in more places.
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The critical mistake made is picking a fight with too many people, on too many fronts. When it comes to your town or city, it's personal. Constituents are in a much better position to put pressure on local politicians than any Yarvinite/crypto evangelist who'd strip the place for parts.
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Yup.
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Curtis Yarvin's ideas. They inspired the book The Network State: How to Start a New Country. Wish I was kidding.
I think tech fascism is an apt term. I dont think it's hyperbolic when it's describing people who advocate for putting the accelerator on many of our modern problems.
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Video:
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"Startup cities" and network states are not too dissimilar from the company town model and the British East India Company.
But yeah some atrocities havent been imagined yet. All that can be done with AI and personal data. Horrid new ways to make people digitally dependent.
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Bring on the muckrakers!
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The more people learn about it, this the less powerless we become. The story is taking off a lot, and it needs to go much further! Its a global problem, so in a way no one is alone in this.
Consolation: there will be really cool movies and books on the topic in a few years
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Whoa
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Elon's the poorest man in the world, all he has is money.
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Whoa, some of these are uncanny.
"For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses"
"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievan...
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💔
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We're talking about long-term investors, venture capital extremism isn't playing around.
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That video is a good overview. If you're skeptical (and you should be!), its always a good idea to stay curious and seek out/read primary sources
For example here's one essay that's interesting to read today. www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/p... Written by Peter Thiel in 2009
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As a croissant, I approve.
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I'm watching a mime starve to death in an invisible box.
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Full post at The Nerd Reich:
The Network State Coup is Happening Right Now
www.thenerdreich.com/the-network-...
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If you have 30 minutes here’s the deep dive youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no
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I prefer the Nerd Reich for tech oligarchs
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@davidgerard.co.uk Here's a real caper.
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Whistleblower claims Marc Andreessen gave X 'access' to Eliza in Oct. That doesn't make sense. ai16z is different than a16z.
www.chaincatcher.com/en/article/2...
From December: Shaw asked [Andreessen] if he liked this AI Agent. He replied, "No, I'm just watching, like we're monitoring you."
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This is not a whistleblower, its a promotion. Don't spread this! Eliza has no affiliation with Musk/Andreessen and the founder is a serial scammer. It is undoubtedly to promote the github link so it looks more popular than it is.
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This is not a whistleblower, its a promotion. Don't spread this! Eliza has no affiliation with Musk/Andreessen and the founder is a serial scammer. It is undoubtedly to promote the github link and make the software seem more popular than it is.
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This is not a whistleblower, its a promotion. Don't spread this! Eliza has no affiliation with Musk/Andreessen and the founder is a serial scammer. It is undoubtedly to promote the software.
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New hobby for 2025, watch libertarians find out why rules exist
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Many small victories at the local level make a movement. If they're really specific and targeted, they're more likely to be successful - but less likely to make the news. But there's progress happening if you look!
An example is all the victories for labor rights recently. strikes are protests too.
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Andreessen has had several podcasts talking with Hanania about "crime rates" and is subscribed to Edward Dutton's premium substack, who says "woke people are mutants".
...And then I stopped researching that rabbithole because I value my mental health.
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Greenland has valuable natural resources to extract. Same tried and tested business model that's worked for a couple of centuries, just a new name and futuristic coat of paint.
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So should crypto. But, I think the rich learned something from 2008. With enough corruption, any business can be "Too big to fail".
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The good news is that it is absolutely possible to block through local action, as things arise. Never underestimate the power of NIMBYs.
There's been successes all over the world. Solano Country, CA too! 💪
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHlc...
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"This is a distraction" I hear you. It doesn't sound serious, right?
What is happening now is what happened in 2016. Fringe, online ideologies came knocking on the Overton Window. We all said "That could never happen". And then, there was the Muslim Ban.