AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>If you want to understand the horrifying future these tech billionaire nazis have in store for humanity, it helps to understand what parts of our "glorious past" as a species they're looking to recreate. This interview with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign information sciences and media studies professor Anita Say Chan talks a bit about the history of data and eugenics, what it means that guys like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel (along with most of Silicon Valley's movers and shakers) are devout believers in eugenicist philosophies, and how that's reflected in their efforts to reshape society in horrifying, and objectively fascist ways. In terms of our discussion about the uber rich fascists who heavily influence the Trump regime they bought and paid for, I'm mostly including this here to point out that these guys have gone on record in support of a lot of openly fascist shit and for the most part, your media pretends we don't already know these guys are nazis; it's not a secret, it's just not "worth mentioning" when media orgs are fawning over technofascist billionaires destroying our planet and our lives.</p><p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/eugenics-isnt-dead-its-thriving-in-tech/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">motherjones.com/politics/2025/</span><span class="invisible">01/eugenics-isnt-dead-its-thriving-in-tech/</span></a></p><p>Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech</p><p>"Big Tech successors like Musk and PayPal billionaire-turned-arms dealer Peter Thiel have overtly promoted fraudulent race science, with Musk amplifying users on X who argue that people of European descent are biologically superior. In response to another user’s deleted post suggesting that students at historically Black institutions have lower IQs, Musk posted, “It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE”—diversity, equity, and inclusion, misspelled. In 2016, Thiel buddied up to a prominent white nationalist, and, the same year, was said by a Stanford dorm-mate to have complimented South Africa’s “economically sound” system of racial apartheid."</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PeterThiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterThiel</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/BigData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigData</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ableism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/WhiteNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopia</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Eliminationism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eliminationism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technofascism</span></a></p>
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Autonomie und Solidarität<p>«Es bedeutet was, wenn die <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/CIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CIA</span></a> von Anfang an dabei ist»</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palantir</span></a> in der Schweiz</p><p>In Altendorf im Kanton Schwyz entsteht der Europa-Standort des Unternehmens Palantir [ <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thiel</span></a> ]. Das <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Gesch%C3%A4ftsmodell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geschäftsmodell</span></a> der Firma: Daten zusammenführen und verknüpfen. Hernani Marques, Sprecher des Chaos Computer Club Schweiz, sagt, was er davon hält.</p><p><a href="https://www.srf.ch/news/wirtschaft/palantir-in-der-schweiz-es-bedeutet-was-wenn-die-cia-von-anfang-an-dabei-ist" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">srf.ch/news/wirtschaft/palanti</span><span class="invisible">r-in-der-schweiz-es-bedeutet-was-wenn-die-cia-von-anfang-an-dabei-ist</span></a></p><p>"Das eine ist, dass die Kundenliste von Palantir praktisch schon aus <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Polizei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Polizei</span></a> und <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Geheimdiensten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geheimdiensten</span></a> im westlichen Raum besteht. Das liest sich wie das Who-is-Who des ganzen militärisch-industriellen Komplexes. Das andere ist, dass es schon etwas bedeutet, wenn die CIA von Anfang an dabei ist...."</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palantir</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/PeterThiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterThiel</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Schweiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Schweiz</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TechnoFaschismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFaschismus</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TechnoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFascism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/%C3%9Cberwachung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Überwachung</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/%C3%9Cberwachungskapitalismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Überwachungskapitalismus</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Datenschutz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Datenschutz</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a></p>
William<p>Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study Finds</p><p>Tesla vehicles suffer fatal accidents at a rate that's twice the industry average, according to a new report.</p><p><a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/TeslaTakedown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeslaTakedown</span></a> <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/TechnoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFascism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">roadandtrack.com/news/a6291913</span><span class="invisible">1/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>This late February article in The New Yorker briefly covers some of the same ground as the video above in terms of the Silicon Valley fascist influence in US politics, the close ties between the Trump regime and billionaire Yarvinites, and why rich tech nazis may see Trump's election as a vehicle to further their long-term efforts to establish private dictatorships by breaking the US administrative state and replacing it themselves. As such we can use it as supporting evidence for the Dark Gothic MAGA video, and to expand our starting point for discussions about the prominent role of billionaire fascists (of various types) in America and the larger Pig Empire's turn towards overt fascism and autocratic political forms. Furthermore, the author examines similar historical examples when technocrats with authoritarian political and organizational views merged with, and the case of Imperial Japan, subsumed fascist political orders.</p><p><a href="https://archive.is/eZy6v" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.is/eZy6v</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Techno-Fascism Comes to America</p><p>"For a time, digital platforms seemed to support democratic government as a kind of communal megaphone; but now, a decade later, technology seems to be supplanting the established authority of the government. “There is a crisis of the state,” McElroy said, and Silicon Valley may be “trying to corrode state power” in order to more quickly replace it.</p><p>Silicon Valley is premised on the idea that its founders and engineers know better than anyone else: they can do better at disseminating information, at designing an office, at developing satellites and advancing space travel. By the same logic, they must be able to govern better than politicians and federal employees. Voguish concepts in Silicon Valley such as seasteading and “network states” feature independent, self-contained societies running on tech principles. Efforts to create such entities have either failed or remained confined to the realm of brand-building, as in the startup Praxis, a hypothetical plan for a new tech-driven city on the Mediterranean. Under the new Trump White House, though, the U.S. government is being offered up as a guinea pig, McElroy said. “Now that we’ve got Musk running the state, I don’t know if they need their little offshore bubbles as much as they thought they did before.”</p><p>Given Elon Musk's position at the head of DOGE and thus his role as the de facto exchequer of what Trump considers his personal empire, but most still call the American government, I have no qualms with the way this article focuses on Elon as a representation of the creepy tech elites behind Downmarket Mussolini. In fact, the author's note that Musk's use of so-called AI to carry out the purges all of these nazis desire (for various reasons) might represent an opportunity to refine automated systems of repression and control for billionaire tech fascists looking to run their own neo-monarchal states in the future, probably goes a long way towards explaining why Musk in particular is so keen to run point on this whole project for Trump. After all, it's not a secret in tech circles that Musk has been looking for a way to become the leading figure in the "AI" industry, and what better way to do that than pioneering the use case for the "fascism machine" I've been telling you these rich nazis always meant "AI" to be?</p><p>I would however, caution against reading as much into the split between the tech-fascists (as represented by Musk) and the faux-populist MAGA movement (as represented by Steve Bannon) as Chayka does here. On a long enough timeline, it's possible that the billionaire tech-fascists, the Christian Nationalist right, the Bannonite "populists," and other patchwork constituencies that form the larger Trump movement may be torn apart by divergent priorities and ideas about who really runs Bartertown; but given that they all agree on methods of operation, and they're all pushing towards some type of fascist order, I think we're a long way away from irresolvable differences tearing Trumpism apart. Besides, the fact that it's Elon Musk standing next to Trump and waving around a chainsaw, not Steve Bannon, tells you all you need to know about who won that particular power struggle in the short term.</p><p>Frankly, I think the easiest way to understand the network of relationships, methods, and objectives of the various fascist power blocs in the movement behind Trump, is to imagine a minivan full of cartoonishly-evil nazis who're used to getting their way, all trying to control the activities of the driver, who may or may not be paying attention at any given moment. In this scenario the various groups of fascists vying for control of the vehicle Trump is driving are all on the same road, they all broadly agree on how to progress on their journey, but each of them intend to end up in different places by the time the drive is finished and they don't need the car anymore. </p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TechnoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PeterThiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterThiel</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CurtisYarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CurtisYarvin</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>My “not a book review” of Careless People – the book Facebook doesn’t want you to read.</p><p>With highlights on Ireland’s complicity and the lengths people farmers (as I call them) will go to to appease authoritarian regimes like China.</p><p><a href="https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-peop</span><span class="invisible">le/</span></a></p><p>It’s clear from this that Ireland should be stripped of the authority to enforce GDPR and, really, people farmers – and the business model of people farming in general – should be banned in the EU.</p><p>(Don’t hold your breaths.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/carelessPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>carelessPeople</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facebook</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/peopleFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peopleFarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/surveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillanceCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ventureCapital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ventureCapital</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/GDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GDPR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a></p>
William<p>Democrats demand investigation into Musk over possible criminal corruption</p><p><a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/TechnoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFascism</span></a><br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/democrats-elon-musk-investigation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/17/democrats-elon-musk-investigation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
Nico198X<p>Hello <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/fedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fedi</span></a> ! </p><p>a man stuck in the year 198X, i love gaming of all types, especially video, retro, <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a> .</p><p>am also passionate about <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>, <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> and resisting <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> </p><p>see you on the grid!</p>
William<p>Meta is trying to block ex-employee’s book alleging misconduct and harassment <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a> <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/TechnoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFascism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/628643/meta-careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams-arbitrator-suing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/news/628643/meta-</span><span class="invisible">careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams-arbitrator-suing</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>Tech bros are living, breathing embodiments of the false authority fallacy; claiming that their professed understanding of basic logic qualifies them to reason expertly upon every conceivable topic while conveniently ignoring a fundamental maxim of their purported core area of expertise: garbage in, garbage out.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/techBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techBros</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/peopleFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peopleFarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a></p>
William<p>"Musk has said he uses ketamine regularly, so for the past couple of years, public speculation has persisted about how much he takes, whether he’s currently high, or how it might affect his behavior."</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/ketamine-effects-elon-musk/681911/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/health/archive</span><span class="invisible">/2025/03/ketamine-effects-elon-musk/681911/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/broligharcy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>broligharcy</span></a> <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>The Camera Panopticon</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://small-tech.org/videos/the-camera-panopticon/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">small-tech.org/videos/the-came</span><span class="invisible">ra-panopticon/</span></a></p><p>(Transcript available in English, Español, and Nederlands, thanks to the community.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/startups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>startups</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/InternetOfThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternetOfThings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ventureCapital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ventureCapital</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/decentralisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decentralisation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ethicalDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethicalDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inclusion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zuckerberg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/theCameraPanopticon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theCameraPanopticon</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>I wrote this five years ago:</p><p>“Democracy or capitalism? Pick one.</p><p>If, like me, you grew up in the 80s, you probably unthinkingly accepted the neoliberal maxim that democracy and capitalism go hand-in-hand. This is one of the greatest lies ever told. Democracy and capitalism are polar opposites.</p><p>You cannot have a functional democracy and billionaires and trillion-dollar corporate interests and Silicon Valley’s Big Tech misinformation and exploitation machinery. What we’re seeing is the clash of capitalism and democracy and capitalism is winning.</p><p>Are we past a tipping point? I don’t know. Perhaps. But we can’t think like that.</p><p>Personally, I’m going to keep working to effect change where I feel I can be effective: in creating alternative technological infrastructure to support individual freedoms and democracy.</p><p>We’ve already laid the infrastructure of techno-fascism. We’ve already created (and are creating) the panopticons. All the fascists need to do is move in and take the controls. And they will do so democratically, before destroying democracy, just as Hitler did.</p><p>And if you think the 1930s and 40s were something, remember that the most advanced tools to amplify the destructive ideologies of the time were less powerful than the computers you have in your pockets today. Today we have machine learning and are on the brink of unlocking quantum computing.</p><p>We must ensure the 2030s are not like the 1930s. Because our advanced centralised systems of data capture, classification, and prediction plus a hundred years of exponential increase in processing power (note: I do not use the word “progress”) mean the 2030s will be exponentially worse.</p><p>Whoever you are, wherever you are, we have a common enemy: the nationalist international. The problems of our time transcend national borders. The solutions must also. The systems we build must be both local and global at once. The network we must build is one of solidarity.</p><p>We created the present. We will create the future. Let’s work together to ensure that that future is the one we want to live in ourselves.”</p><p>– In 2020 and beyond, the battle to save personhood and democracy requires a radical overhaul of mainstream technology</p><p><a href="https://ar.al/2020/01/01/in-2020-and-beyond-the-battle-to-save-personhood-and-democracy-requires-a-radical-overhaul-of-mainstream-technology/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/2020/01/01/in-2020-and-b</span><span class="invisible">eyond-the-battle-to-save-personhood-and-democracy-requires-a-radical-overhaul-of-mainstream-technology/</span></a></p><p>And that’s why I’m working on building the Small Web.</p><p><a href="https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-s</span><span class="invisible">mall-web/</span></a></p><p>With ZERO funding from the EU and multiple rejections from NLNet/ngi (because they still don’t get it).</p><p><a href="https://ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-rejected/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-a</span><span class="invisible">pplication-for-domain-rejected/</span></a></p><p>(That’s from 2022. We were also rejected in 2024 for my work on Kitten, Domain, and Place as outlined in my talk, linked below, but I was too tired to write about it again.)</p><p><a href="https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-com</span><span class="invisible">puter-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/</span></a></p><p>So for fuck’s sake, if you agree with my vision for a technological (and thus societal) future different from the hellscape we currently inhabit, and want to help us explore one possible path towards it, please fund our damn work. (Because, clearly, the EU is adamant about not doing so.)</p><p><a href="https://small-tech.org/fund-us/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">small-tech.org/fund-us/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Other ways to help:</p><p>- If you know of folks that are ethically compatible who offer no strings funding, please try to secure some for us (my time is 100% spent on coding at the moment).</p><p>- If you know of conferences that pay their speakers, ask them to have me speak on the Small Web. It can be as technical or non-technical as you like and I won’t do it for free but I’m happy to accept, within reason, what they can afford (in addition to travel and accommodation being covered) and any fees received go to Small Technology Foundation, our not-for-profit.</p><p>- Help share this far and wide.</p><p>Once Domain is released and we have the first Small Web host running on small-web.org – hopefully the first of many that will be run by other folks in the future – and we start taking commercial sign-ups for Small Web places, we should eventually have the money problem solved (because apparently that’s a problem you have to solve to gain the privilege of working for the common good in our world because our system is unabashedly shortsighted).</p><p>So, yeah, anyway, g’morning! How’s your day going so far? :)</p><p>(You made it this far? You deserve a hug. And don’t worry, I’m just venting. Things will get better. It’s just frustrating swimming upstream all the time.)</p><p>💕 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigWeb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technoFascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personhood</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>I didn’t call this talk technofascism but I could have. Maybe “surveillance capitalism” just wasn’t scary enough a term?</p><p><a href="https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=k2Go4uPdysU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=k2Go4uP</span><span class="invisible">dysU</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a></p>
Fan of Shared Truth & Empathy<p>Elimination of the penny coin will not stop capitalism from giving us the “best” price that is one cent less than the rounded dollar figure. </p><p>It WILL absolutely be an excuse and justification to force consumers to spend 4 cents more than a listed price because change for cash transactions can no longer be made.</p><p>Encouraging more people to use digital payments which have added expense in transaction costs and convenience fees is the desired outcome for those trying to take over currencies adding them to their social media apps. Collecting data on everyone’s transactions is mining wealth.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NobodyVotedForMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NobodyVotedForMusk</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TechnoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFascism</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"The entrepreneurial hype of the 90s rarely mentioned gender or overt rightwing politics. But the reactionary elements of the entrepreneurial ideal became visible whenever the growing power of tech entrepreneurs was challenged.</p><p>In this way, Silicon Valley was part of a broader trend of fighting against “political correctness” – that is, a focus on inclusion and avoiding offense to people who had traditionally been marginalized. Throughout the decade, Silicon Valley not only became a leading space for a war on the “PC police”, but entrepreneurs also came to represent some of the biggest anti-PC culture warriors. It was often the most enthusiastically pro-entrepreneurial voices who were also the biggest anti-diversity fighters.</p><p>This dual impulse was evident in the magazine Upside, a tech business publication founded in 1989 by two young conservatives who were friends of Gilder’s. They quickly gained a small but influential list of subscribers, including the legendary venture capitalist Arthur Rock, the Intel co-founder Robert Noyce, and the conservative luminary William F Buckley. From the beginning, the editorial team was both a champion for entrepreneurship and a set of “bullish contrarians” against anyone they felt threatened their specific vision of business.</p><p>In one infamous case, the magazine published a 1990 cover story that in bold letters asked: “Has Silicon Valley gone pussy?”"</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/technology/ng-</span><span class="invisible">interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technofascism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatives</span></a></p>
contributopia<p>‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/technology/ng-</span><span class="invisible">interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism</span></a> <br>The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s<br>Lungo e interessante articolo di Becca Lewis, ricercatrice alla Stanford University, comparso mercoledì scorso sulla home page del <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Guardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Guardian</span></a> e subito scomparso nel meandri del sito <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technofascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/destre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destre</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.uno/@informapirata" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>informapirata</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.uno/@Puntopanto" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Puntopanto</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://poliversity.it/@mcp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mcp</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.uno/@filippodb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>filippodb</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/scuola" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>scuola</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://photos.elenarossini.com/ele" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ele</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sociale.network/@gubi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gubi</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@Khrys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Khrys</span></a></span></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Instead, content moderation is the core product of social media, where algorithms decide if speech is visible, at what volume, 7 if there will be counter-speech. Contrary to Zuckerberg’s claims, it wasn’t the factcheckers that ruined Meta products. It’s always been insider political operatives, including Clegg, Sandberg, and Kaplan, who turned social media into a new frontier for the culture wars."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MarkZuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarkZuckerberg</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicElites</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> <br>/5</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"It’s a telltale sign of technofascism when our communication systems are disrupted by changes in political power after every election. Protection for vulnerable groups online continues to depend on the political ambitions of the CEO or owner of social media platforms.</p><p>This is further proof that social media is not a free speech machine. Never was."</p><p>~ Joan Donovan</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MarkZuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarkZuckerberg</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicElites</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> <br>/4</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/10/meta-factchecking-donald-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/jan/10/meta-factchecking-donald-trump</span></a></p>
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