Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-orders-makeup-studio-installed-pentagon/
#news #idiocracy #broligarchy #hegseth #politics #UnitedStates #leak #pentagon #defense
"In the darkness that’s falling, I believe that rebuilding our information system – together – is the first step to getting out of this mess."
Carole Cadwalladr.
“In 2019 I called out the gods of Silicon Valley. Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk.
I was wrong. You are not gods. You are men and you are careless … You are collaborators. You are complicit in a regime of fear and cruelty.”
Carole Cadwalladr,
TED Talk,
2025.
2/ In other "crypto scammers visiting El Salvador to immanentize bitcoin fascism" news, #MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor, the man who owns more bitcoin than anyone (much of it bought with borrowed money in what will probably turn out to be history's largest pyramid scheme) flew to San Salvador to visit Bukele on February 13th.
Don't think the cops and government can make *YOU* disappear? Think again.
US Citizen Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez, arrested for crossing from Georgia to Florida while being brown, is being held in detention even though he showed his birth certificate and social security card. Judge says: Yeah, you've done nothing wrong, but ICE said not to release you, so we're sending you to detention camp. That'll teach you to be brown.
Scuttlebutt has it that the ACLU is descending like avenging angels, so hopefully they can get him out of Kafka's The Trial.
#Broligarchy = (in part) All corruption all the time
[I'm afraid it's been way too long since my college Elementary Algebra class to remember the correct notation for "is a member of the set of"...]
El Salvador's Nayib Bukele shown here with Nerd Reich broligarchs Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz from crypto focused venture capital firm #a16z.
More on Bukele's connections to crypto: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114207719623689935
Still Not Signing: A Superintendent's Response to the Department of Education's Anti-DEI Ultimatum
https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1667-fe3e-3bd9-490782695108
I keep misreading #broligarchy as "broccoli" 
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
#tRUMPSamerica is a #COUP #ComplicitGQP
#CORRUPTscotus #broligarchy #COUP
#SaveTheInternetArchive #ownyourdata
Rohkea nainen, joka taisteli kolme vuotta oikeudessa #CambridgeAnalytica -tapauksen vuoksi. Toivottavasti tästä ei ala uusi oikeustaistelu, vaan kansalaistaistelu, joka saa meidät arvostamaan yksityisyyttämme. Meillä on valtaa, käytetään sitä!
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/speaking-truth-to-tech-gods-i-return
"But culture now is just what's next on your phone. And that's AI. Culture is AI now. And forget the killer robots. If you want to know what the first great AI apocalypse is, we're already living it. It's total information collapse."
#AI
#Broligarchy
#CaroleCadwalladr
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/speaking-truth-to-tech-gods-i-return
Carole Cadwalladr's latest TED talk is in the YouYube link below. It makes for uncomfortable viewing for all of us. That's what the best journalism should do.
"In my TED talk, I could feel waves of hostility coming from some people in the room. TED is ground zero of the AI gold rush. But there was also cheerleading and l’ve been overwhelmed by huge love and support from others who see exactly what is happening. It’s the weirdest time to be here. And it was the weirdest energy from an audience of any talk I’ve ever given. But then, it was intended to make them uncomfortable. Politics is technology now. Silicon Valley is desperate to deny that, but it can’t and nor can we."
Carole Cadwalladr.
The admin’s consideration of such a quixotic quest underscores the growing clout of #tech magnates & #Trump’s increasingly expansionist #ForeignPolicy. After campaigning on a largely isolationist platform, #Trump has since his Nov election suggested taking back the #PanamaCanal, annexing #Canada, acquiring #Greenland, & redeveloping the war-torn #Gaza Strip after seizing the beachfront land from displaced #Palestinians.
“You are collaborators.
You are complicit in a regime of fear and cruelty.
But the rest of us,
we all here, we have a choice.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#broligarchy
JFC
As the #Trump administration intensifies efforts to acquire #Greenland from #Denmark — or take it by force — some #SiliconValley #tech investors are promoting the frozen island as a site for a so-called freedom city, a #libertarian utopia with minimal #corporate #regulation, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
#broligarchy #technocracy #plutocracy #kleptocracy #autocracy #law #geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greenland-freedom-city-rich-donors-push-trump-tech-hub-up-north-2025-04-10/
“It's always the data.
Which is why it's so important
that you start thinking about your private life.
The broligarchy doesn't want you to have one.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#broligarchy #data #privacy
“There is an alignment of interests
that runs through Silicon Valley
to what is now a coming autocracy.
It's a type of power that the world has never seen before.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#broligarchy
“This is Putin's playbook.
He allows a business elite to make untold riches
in exchange for absolute loyalty.
Some people are calling this oligarchy,
but it's actually bigger than that.
These are global platforms.
It's broligarchy.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#techbros + #oligarchy = #broligarchy
