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[doyoudelve]

The $100 Billion AI War – Who Wins & How It Affects You!

[ptitolier]

When Tech Billionaires Reinvent Eugenics

Eugenics is often seen as a dark relic of the past—linked to racist policies and forced sterilization. But what if a new, subtler form of eugenics is quietly taking shape in Silicon Valley?

Not through explicit genetic selection, but through an ideology that glorifies optimization, intelligence, and high performance as the only measures of human worth. Social Darwinism, once discredited, is being repackaged in the language of innovation and progress.

Who gets to shape the future?

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and other tech leaders present themselves as visionaries, architects of a better tomorrow. But their worldview shares a troubling core belief: only the most capable, the most intelligent, the most "enhanced" deserve to thrive.

Peter Thiel openly criticizes democracy, arguing that "freedom" thrives only under the rule of an enlightened few. Musk speaks of biological enhancement and space colonization as essential to humanity’s survival. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley startups pour billions into genetic engineering, AI-driven talent selection, and life extension—but who will have access to these advancements?

The Rise of Economic Eugenics

This is not traditional racial eugenics, but an economic form of selection where only the "most productive" individuals matter. Tech moguls advocate for skilled migration policies—not for the sake of inclusion, but to extract the best and discard the rest.

Medical research funding follows the same logic: rare diseases get sidelined because they aren't "profitable," while cognitive enhancement and biohacking attract massive investments. In a world where resources are limited, who gets to decide who is worth saving?

A Dangerous Future

This ideology is no longer confined to Silicon Valley. It has echoes in political movements that prioritize the strong over the vulnerable, cutting social aid and shifting towards a ruthless meritocracy.

If we continue down this path, we risk creating a world where only the optimized, the efficient, and the wealthy are deemed worthy of survival.

How do we resist this shift?

The real challenge isn’t just technological; it’s ethical. Do we accept a society where only the strongest thrive, or do we fight for a future that values all of humanity—including its fragility?

#TechEthics #SocialDarwinism #Inequality #FutureOfHumanity

[digitalnaiv]

Tech, Macht und Moral: Wenn Tech-Giganten Trump den Hof machen - #Wochenschau

Silicon Valley kippt: 200 Mio $ Spenden für Trumps Party, Tech-Giganten von Bezos bis Cook dabei. Während die PayPal-Mafia triumphiert, formt sich ein digitales Imperium. Europa? Steht zwischen allen Stühlen. #TechPolitics #Wochenschau

Vergangenen Freitag haben Lars und ich bei #9vor9 über Mark Zuckerberg und dessen Gesinnungswandel gesprochen. Die Meta-Plattformen verlassen oder bleiben, war gegen Ende eine der wichtigen Fragen: Wir haben uns dafür entschieden, erst einmal auf Instagram, Threads und Facebook zu bleiben und Artikel dort zu publizieren. Wir werden die Situation jedoch genau beobachten und über Konsequenzen…

[jrepin]

Inside Meta’s Palestine Censorship

Meta has a Palestine problem. If you use Facebook or Instagram, you’ve probably seen the censorship yourself. Dena Takruri uncovers an internal culture of censorship, intimidation and fear within Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook. She speaks to Meta employees who’ve tried to fix the problem or speak out, and say they were silenced or even fired. She also investigates Meta leaders’ deep ties to Israel, which may explain why it’s suppressing and censoring Palestine content for billions of users around the world.

[wzuplovely]

Boycott Israel

and another thing, ima about to fuck with yall's websites. gotta do that whole shit over bc guess what

Wix Squarespace are affiliated with Israli bigtech. (squarespace actually is based in Israel) Shopify is Canadian web.com is American IONOS is German

godaddy bought an Israli company, I wont boycott companies unless they are significant to Israeli industry. I want to clarify this is not out of hate this is a way to be heard. The purpose of boycotting is to create a dip in sales that gets noticed by big businesses. This can be used as leverage but more of a push to do the morally correct thing. Do not do things out of hate or anger, okay?

Funny how Israel's tech industry is so big but there's poverty next door. What can BIGTECH do to nourish the general welfare surrounding Israel?

[azspot]

Big Tech workers are split into two camps: blue badges (salaried employees) and green badges (contractors). Whenever there is a slack labor market for a specific job or skill, it is converted from a blue badge job to a green badge job. Green badges don't get the food or the massages or the kombucha. They don't get stock or daycare. They don't get to freeze their eggs. They also work long hours, but they are incentivized by the fear of poverty.

The moral injury of having your work enshittified

[dannyhellman]

“Farmer vs Server Farm”

Illustration by Danny Hellman for VIRGINIA LIVING

12/19/16

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[cotxapi]

🇪🇺 Apple is taking the EU to court over a €500M fine for violating the #DigitalMarketsAct.

The tech giant says Brussels is forcing it to adopt “confusing” App Store rules that hurt developers and users.

👉 Is this overreach or fair regulation? 🔗 Read more: https://blog.cotxapi.com/details/530

[sublimeobservationarcade]

Multinational Multi Billion Tax Avoidance Downunder

Google in Australia claims an $8 billion digital service payment on their most recent tax return. Multinational multi billion tax avoidance downunder. This is how billion dollar profits are shifted to tax free territories like Bermuda, so as to minimise the tax payable in Australia. Thus, the wealthiest companies doing business in this nation pay a tiny percentage on the real revenue they generate here by creative accounting. In actual fact advertising in the digital sphere does not involve costly things like printing presses, ink and paper, so these payments for digital services are invented and bear no relation to anything real beyond IP. Australians are being ripped off by these multinationals and our governments do diddly squat about it.

US Digital Corporations Don’t Pay A Fair Share Of Tax In Australia

Who are these tax minimisers using loopholes in our tax laws to not pay their fair share of tax? Google, News Corp, Meta (Facebook & Instagram), Microsoft, Pepsi, Amazon, and Apple are all profit shifting tax avoiders in Australia. “Amazon has paid little tax in Australia since setting up its local online retail business, its financial accounts show, with possibly hundreds of millions of dollars flowing offshore last year. Key points: Amazon Australia has three local entities that combined paid $20 million tax on more than $1 billion in revenue last year Amazon is among other tech giants including Facebook and Google that use loopholes to legally reduce tax bills The OECD is devising a plan to collect more tax from multinationals, but it could take years to implement The company has used a range of tactics and loopholes to legally reduce the income taxes it pays around the world. ABC News can reveal that, in Australia, Amazon's three local entities had combined revenues of more than $1 billion but a combined tax bill of just over $20 million in 2018.” - (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-21/how-amazon-australia-shifts-income-offshore-to-reduce-tax/11719232) A third of all large companies doing business in Australia paid no tax at all, according to the most recent ATO information.

Australia Voted Against International Corporate Tax Reform At The UN “What happened at the United Nations General Assembly in November is hard to square with Australia wanting big companies to pay their share. In November, the assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution that called on all countries to work together to ensure multinationals pay tax in the locations in which they make their money. It established a committee to draft the terms of reference for a UN convention on international tax co-operation. A total of 125 nations voted in favour of the resolution. Only 48 voted against it, one of which was Australia, along with Canada and New Zealand.” - (https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2024/april/why-is-australia-helping-to-block-a-move-to-tax-multinational-corporations-properly) Australian governments talk a big game about multinationals and tax but their efforts don’t live up to it. The federal government is complicit in many ways with these tax avoiding entities downunder. Whether it be from big donations to their political parties, the promise of high paying jobs post politics, whispers in the ears  of ministers about it being for the good of the national GDP or a combination of all of the above successive governments of both persuasions seem happy for Australian workers to continue to carry the can when it comes to tax revenue downunder. The little people pay tax because they don’t have the highly paid accountants in their corner. The shift from being in opposition to government invariably dilutes the intentions of politicians when it comes to taxing the big end of town. Entrenched macro corruption is seemingly an intractable problem in Australia. The secretive NACC does bugger all about it! Google Not Paying Their Fair Share Of Tax Downunder Multinational multi billion tax avoidance downunder. Google is generating 8 to 10 billion dollars in revenue per annum in Australia and paying a pittance in tax in relation to this enormous amount of income. Government officials look away when considering such things, because they understand the way the game is played. https://michaelwest.com.au/revealed-google-australias-6-billion-black-hole The Digital Oligarchs Bought Trump We live in what is called the digital age, where everything is much more convenient. Conveniently, for most of these American digital service companies they pay very little tax in Australia proportionate to their actual revenues. A little creative accounting by the Big 4 accounting firms like Ey, PwC, KPMG, and Deloitte – and hey presto! Not much tax to pay on multi-billion dollar revenue. Governments are dwarfed by these giant multinationals like Google, Apple and Amazon. Now, they have Trump, the bully, in their corner to threaten nations with tariffs too. This is why they swung their support Trump’s way and away from Biden/Harris, who was going to cut back their unregulated power. They bought Trump and got him elected in the US. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and the Google CEO were all kissing the ring at the inauguration. Power is a dirty game, even on the Internet.

“The ubiquitous uptake of digital devices has made the Orwellian dystopian realm a reality rather than just another good story. It has been progress based on the digital convenience and acceleration of processes. Everything we do now is quicker and expectations are for instantaneous results in terms of information being provided. Children love the games and the colourful displays inherent within these digital devices. In many ways, these devices have made us all more childlike in our unquestioning acceptance of how these digital technologies have changed our world. It is only now, that the true cost of this convenience is coming into the light. Surveillance capitalism has grown rich on our data – none of us have been paid anything for this resource. The state loves the technology because it can control us through our own digital record keeping and irresponsible surrendering of our rights to privacy. Businesses, largely multinational corporations, can extract rents from us all via our usage of these devices and their apps. Oligarchs have grown obscenely rich in hundreds and tens of billions of dollars. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiele, and the new AI technolords. They have all lined up behind Donald Trump.” - (https://www.golfdom.com.au/the-abuse-of-digital-privacy/) Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of Money Matters and America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump. ©GolfDom

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[arielmcorg]

Canadá Cede a la Presión de Trump y Cancela su Impuesto a Servicios Digitales

En un movimiento que ha generado sorpresa y debate, Canadá ha anunciado la revocación de su planificado impuesto sobre servicios digitales (DST), cediendo así a la intensa presión ejercida por el expresidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump. Esta marcha atrás se produce a pesar de las declaraciones previas de Canadá de no tener intención de pausar la implementación del impuesto, que estaba…

[patrickkcolson]

Fired from Meta After Just One Week: The Inside Story I Can Finally Share

I never thought I’d be writing this. Read more

[nolan-higdon]

🚨 Exposed: AI Is Faking the News About LA Protests 🚨 In this clip from The Disinfo Detox, we dive into how AI-generated deepfakes and disinformation are being weaponized to distort coverage of protests in Los Angeles. From fabricated footage to misleading narratives, powerful interests are using AI to discredit activists and reshape public perception.

We reveal how these tactics mirror past media manipulation—but with terrifying new tools—and why critical media literacy is more essential than ever.

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[inspirednews]

Google pode optar por divisão para evitar monopólio nos EUA

O Google se depara com desafios significativos em relação à sua posição no mercado, tendo perdido em dois casos importantes de antitruste no último ano. As ações da empresa estão estagnadas, e as autoridades federais estão insistindo para que a gigante da tecnologia se desfaça de várias partes de seus negócios. Caso a empresa não consiga uma solução favorável no tribunal, será forçada a repensar sua estrutura corporativa.(...)

Leia a noticia completa no link abaixo:

https://www.inspirednews.com.br/google-pode-optar-por-divisao-para-evitar-monopolio-nos-eua

[webpayspg]

The Impact of BigTech Giants on Global Payments

Technology giants are reshaping financial transactions across the world. This blog on BigTech’s impact on global payments covers their role in transforming merchant operations, consumer behavior, and regulatory shifts, along with trends like AI, biometrics, and omnichannel strategies. Read the whole blog to know more.