Isn't it pathetic how billionaires claim that AI will solve poverty 
Instead of spending billions on AI the fuckers should instead just pay taxes
We could indeed solve poverty, not with AI but with stripping the ultra rich
They really want to be hated
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Quitting #CorporateSocialMedia is like planting a tree. The best time to do it was 20 years ago, and the second-best time is today.
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Don't be someone else's reason for staying on corporate social media.
Outrage erupted Saturday after Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta appeared to take down a social media account run by No Kings organizers — just as more than 3,000 No Kings marches got underway nationwide.“Meta pulled down the main No Kings Instagram accounts.Alexander Willis (Raw Story)
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you're on a fascist platform, trying to prevent fascism. This is an obvious outcome.
That's my first thought on all the news of Facebook and some bsky and godknowswhoelse shutting down NoKings protest communications.
Hello? The owners tripped with Trump and you stayed? Why didn't you get out from under the corporate control immediately??
(And, yes, I know I'm writing this on Mastodon where everybody already agrees. That's because I'm not on any of the other sites. Because corporate control. 🙄 . It's kind of a problem.)
So what I'm saying is I do get why they're still on corporate media.
But as you say, the second best time to get away is today.
Another footnote: I know what's going to happen: after Zuck and Co screw up all the careful organizing and millions don't get the message, it's going to be, "Oh, sorry, glitch. All better now." But the damage they wanted was done.
“When you have to pay a little bit more, you’re at $4, it’s OK, I mean, it’s not. I’ll never apologize. I did the right thing,” he added.The seriousness of Trump’s remark, and whether it signaled a new policy position for his administration, was not immediately clear.
Tehran has remained steadfast in its demands, saying as recently as last Saturday that it will not reopen the strait of Hormuz unless the US “corrects its behavior”, “completely compensate[s]” Iran for war damage, lifts sanctions and “unconditionally” releases frozen assets."
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#TrumpIran #StraitOfHormuz #StraitTrump
Reminder that Mark Zuckerberg really really really wants you not to read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.
So, obviously, whatever you do, don't read it or little Mark will get upset.
theguardian.com/technology/202…
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firmEmma Loffhagen (the Guardian)
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It's really good, I'm a out 1/4 of the way through. These sociopaths are unhinged.
They shouldn't manage a Denny's, much less a social media website.
"We’re about to travel to the one country in the world where there’s an open arrest warrant for Mark Zuckerberg. And Mark thinks this is the time to show us his fake gangsta handshakes."
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It would not be difficult to ensure than any further harassment over this by Meta would create a huge "Striesand effect," tons of very nasty publicity, and hopefully encourage people to close Facebook, IG, and Whatsapp accounts and block ads on FB and IG if they feel they cannot.
Adblock and NoScript in fact are effective ways to take money out of Zuckeberg's pockets. So is blocking all content from FB embedded in other websites.
My review of "Careless People"
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Pluralistic: Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People' (23 Apr 2025)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
Reminder that Mark Zuckerberg really really really wants you not to read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.So, obviously, whatever you do, don't read it or little Mark will get upset.
theguardian.com/technology/202…
Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firmEmma Loffhagen (the Guardian)
Excellent book!
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Attached: 1 image Tämä kirja kertoo siitä miten kammottava työpaikka Facebook (nykyinen Meta) on. Millään muulla kuin rahalla ja vallalla ei ole väliä. Kirjasta löytyi netistä varsin osuva blogikirjoitus: https://doctorow.medium.Juha Haataja (Mastodon)
Already did! And yes I recommend it:
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#Facebook #CarelessPeople #books
Sarah Wynn-Williams - Careless People Lively first-hand story illuminating the forces which have shaped social media.Jennifer's BookTrail (Sunny Garden)
@kibcol1049@mstdn.social We need an international Close Your Meta Accounts day. People who still use those platforms are not just exposing themselves to digital harm, they're exposing the rest of us too.Reg (Mastodon)
I can recommend the audiobook, read by Wynn-Williams.
I also recommend not using FB or any apps owned by this vile sociopath. It's hard to say no but we absolutely need to.
In an extract from his book, Ian Lucas reveals how dark forces have interfered in our politics on both sides of the AtlanticByline Times
Actually I don't need to read it to know that in a just world Zuckerberg would be in jail for life and all his websites and products shut down.
Also that US law makers are responsible for the toxic landscape that gives corporations more rights than people and refuses to properly regulate them.
"Libertarian" politics and "Liberal" economics lead to Fascist Capitalism treating people as things, like slaves, and serfs.
This is way beyond any lines that should have been drawn by now.
Meta is explicitly taking part in fascism.
And the fact that I ever used anything FB/Insta makes me downright sick.
i will not change my statement
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@bloke_zero@ravenation.club @pluralistic@mamot.fr The book starts with a shark attack, and then slowly increases the size of the sharks.lobingera (chaos.social)
is anybody aware of translations of this book? There is quite a bit of material in English that elaborates on Meta's problems, but I observe that people that do not speak English are much less aware of these problems.
I guess the gag order prevents the author from pursuing that it gets translated :(
Introducing the panel, Cadwalladr said: “I think this might be a Hay first, in which we have an author in a hostage situation. Blink once if you can hear us, Sarah, twice if [Mark] Zuckerberg is an asshole.”
🤣 I don't want to read about Mark's great accomplishments in lawbreaking, but can I purchase 700 copies of the book to be delivered to his doorstep?
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Meta filed a sanctions motion alleging that Wynn-Williams violates the emergency arbitration order “any time she appears in public in a place where she should know that her book is available for sale and her presence might draw attention to it”.
In her next book signing, she should be hidden behind a veil, in complete privacy for the whole thing. Devotees can submit the holy text under the edge of it for her to privately and not publically sign.
I'm currently at the point in 2016 where an unnamed board member suggested supporting fascist parties in Europe, to prevent Facebook from being regulated. My money is on Peter Thiel.
The News Agents podcast replayed part of their interview with her tonight. Link should be to the right point, some 25:45 in.
A critical flaw in Meta's AI account recovery tool allowed attackers to trick the chatbot into sending password reset codes with no identity verification, enabling theft of premium Instagram accounts worth over $1 million.dark6 (Secure Bulletin)
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stux⚡️
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •Personally I would really suggest to them to accept the tax terms we offer..
..if they keep this shit up we'll come with a different offer and I'm sure they won't like that
Remember people, we are with a LOT more
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •I’m just a guy living a pretty swell life, and I think about eating billionaires all the time. If I am thinking that, others are thinking far worse thoughts.
Taxes seem like a pretty easy out in the grand scheme of things.
Clutha🏴🇸🇩🇺🇦 🇪🇺
in reply to Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓 • • •Notice that there are no nasty female billionaires?
Dingo
in reply to Clutha🏴🇸🇩🇺🇦 🇪🇺 • • •You sure?
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Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓
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Elizabeth Uihlein (Forbes)Chris Moorehead 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱
in reply to Dingo • • •@electric_gumball @Clutha @OGJester This does provide me with the opportunity to post two portraits of Australia's Least Favourite Daughter by Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira, which she demanded be removed from the National Portrait Gallery. It would be a shame if anyone was to see them again.
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in reply to Clutha🏴🇸🇩🇺🇦 🇪🇺 • • •Oh no, oh no no
Matthew Cambion
in reply to Clutha🏴🇸🇩🇺🇦 🇪🇺 • • •@Clutha @OGJester Ever hear of Rebekah Mercer? That harpy's father was behind Cambridge Analytica.
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Rebekah Mercer - Wikipedia
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in reply to Matthew Cambion • • •Like father, like daughter 🤮
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in reply to The Ancient One • • •There isn’t enough disinfectant in the whole world.
Faraiwe
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •Eternal reminder that once it was estimated a paltry (compared to their earnings) $6-7Bn would essentially solve WORLD HUNGER, and that the douchebag techbro billionaires couldget a fund going, and it'd barelymakea dent in their profits... and the douches pretended they didn't hear/read that, while they made those $6Bn in a couple days, or so.
That money went into their 15th yacht or 37th mansions, instead.
But, hey...
stux⚡️
in reply to Faraiwe • • •@faraiwe There should be a world wide law that prohibits billionaires for existing..
Close the loop holes and let them pay
Faraiwe
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •We had those, they were TAXES, way back when the US was a functional country, when the then-billionaires (adjust money values) paid over 80% income tax.
They used to flaunt that tidbit among each other in a competition of vanity.
Then, US had state funded child care, healthcare, best infrastructure and education in the world. People left high school with a job, and that job would pay for your life, comfortably.
What a thought. Maybe we should go back to that.
#TurdReich #USPol
Retepkce 🐈
in reply to Faraiwe • • •Faraiwe
in reply to Retepkce 🐈 • • •@Retepkce You were there, right? Had better than that at the time, too, right?
Until you find me better numbers and facts, do us all a favor and go find a hole that wants your opinion.
Shoo.
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I know what you mean. But keep in mind that when you say the "US had state funded child care, healthcare, best infrastructure and education in the world," you're mostly talking about things white people had. Non-whites had a much more difficult time. We ALL had an easier time due to our nation's wealth, don't get me wrong. But that wealth wasn't spread evenly.
I got schooled on this history after I posted a similar thought on my own timeline:
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They should be taxed until they are merely 'rich'..
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •The #TechBros can indeed solve poverty, and maximize #Capitalism profits, just by cornering the #energy sector and other #RootInfrastructure. They can also usurp #FossilFuels in producing armaments, to hasten this solve, by genocidal means in abusive control of said root infrastructure.
Welcome to the new authoritarian autocracy's version of Capitalism.
WorldTravelerAll7
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#Wordle1948 3/6 p.u. #haiku
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨Hole in the budget?
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜Our taxes fund billionaires
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩It smells like bullshit
ℰ𝓃𝒿ℴ𝓎 #ReverseWordle players 💙
#poetry #dailypoem #billionaires
윤채경 (Yoon Chae-kyung)
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •Here's another way to see it:
The American tech startups OpenAI and Anthropic got lots of investor money from the ultra rich.
Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025. OpenAI lost $21 billion.
"AI" _is_ stripping the ultra rich of money.
Much of that money goes to employing and paying construction workers and other people building gigantic soon to be abandoned data centers for "hyperscalers" like Coreweave who plan on renting them out to just two American tech startups who lost millions during the time I spend typing this shit.
Coreweave's bonds are trading like junk right now. They have $56 billion in debt they'll need to refinance by issuing more bonds in the near future, and that's going to be a problem. The ultra rich are basically giving away their money right now because they keep on doubling down on a bet that didn't pan out.
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •The only way "AI" will "solve poverty" is if the chatbots tell them to pay more in taxes.
Will they actually do it if SlopGPT tells them to? Or would they insist that they "prompted it wrong" and that they should try again until it doesn't tell them to pay more in taxes?
Zionist Violence Monitor
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in reply to OYAR • • •@mzni
"Capitalism breeds poverty by nature."
Sure, if you ignore things like "history" or "facts".
Rachel Rawlings
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •Urzl
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •They don't approve of any solutions that don't result in money and power for them.
They just can't admit that until they have all the money and power because the backlash is going to threaten the rest of the plan if they did.
Timelime
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •trying to end poverty by spending a trillion dollars on AI.
AI says “spend a billion dollars on ending poverty.”
Danny Boling ☮️
Unknown parent • • •@R_3_T_3_C_H
"The Epstein class needs to be frenched into oblivion."
Yes, I like that.
@stux
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Unknown parent • • •@Netraven
<blink> I never thought of it that way. Wow.
@stux
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •chicating
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in reply to Danny Boling ☮️ • • •HiHo HiHo of the french the bros we go.
Nathan Salwen
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Unknown parent • • •@R_3_T_3_C_H
Similarly, the politicians supporting the broligarchs could be persuaded to modify their unconditional bromance by the suggestion that if they didn't the people might go Dutch.
(As far as I'm aware the Dutch are the only European nation to have had its citizens eat their Prime Minister.)
Space Catitude 🚀
in reply to Danny Boling ☮️ • • •Oh wow. This reads really weird if, like me, you grew up with "french" as a contraction of "french kiss" (as verb), which meant "with tongue contact". 😬
@R_3_T_3_C_H @stux
Log 🪵
Unknown parent • • •::ᏒⴹᎢꓰＣ𐋏
in reply to Log 🪵 • • •6 of one, half dozen of the other.
HTPC NZ
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in reply to Steven Heywood • • •@Stevenheywood Now we know where the term for eating out and splitting the bill comes from.
Such a great usage too.
Bomilkar
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