William<p>The book “sold a staggering 1,000 hardbacks a day in the first three days on sale in the UK, despite Meta’s legal tactics to silence the book’s author”, said Joanna Prior, CEO of publisher Pan Macmillan. “This early success is a triumph against Meta’s attempt to stop the publication of this book.”</p><p><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/TechnoFeudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFeudalism</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/books/2025/mar/20/meta-expose-tops-bestseller-chart-despite-companys-attempt-to-ban-its-promotion?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/2025/mar</span><span class="invisible">/20/meta-expose-tops-bestseller-chart-despite-companys-attempt-to-ban-its-promotion?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
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#Technofascism
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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>
J 🐑🌈 :donor:<p>Jon Sneider, Founder of Wild Gravity, on LinkedIn:<br><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sneider_dark-maga-if-youre-a-little-confused-activity-7304595429201981442-aJs5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/posts/sneider_dar</span><span class="invisible">k-maga-if-youre-a-little-confused-activity-7304595429201981442-aJs5</span></a></p><blockquote><p>*DARK MAGA*</p><p>If you're a little confused about what Musk is trying to achieve with DOGE here's the breakdown:</p><p>[...]</p><p>The three of them [Thiel, Musk, Vance], plus a lot of other tech billionaires subscribe to an ideology called the Dark Enlightenment espoused by this super weird, creepy dude: Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug.</p><p>Yarvin preaches that the media and academia represent "The Cathedral" that secretly controls power and must be dismantled.</p><p>He advocates for a corporate run, monarchy, led by a CEO-Dictator.</p><p>[...]</p><p>The strategy is to gut the government via R.A.G.E - Retire All Govt Employees to make government incapable of operating.</p><p>Then to replace government with private corporations.</p><p>To eliminate elections because they are "obsolete"</p><p>To use distraction and chaos to prevent public resistance.</p><p>Trump is their useful tool to be disposed of as soon as they can wrest control.</p><p>[...]</p> <p>Sources:</p><p>Shane Almgren, Author of "The Trumpland Diaries"<br><a href="https://shanealmgren.substack.com/p/democracy-is-done-the-rise-of-corporate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shanealmgren.substack.com/p/de</span><span class="invisible">mocracy-is-done-the-rise-of-corporate</span></a></p><p>The Financial Times<br><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/02217acf-ac64-49c2-acd5-ef4f107f014c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ft.com/content/02217acf-ac64-4</span><span class="invisible">9c2-acd5-ef4f107f014c</span></a></p><p>The New Yorker<br><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/techno-fascism-comes-to-america-elon-musk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/culture/infinite</span><span class="invisible">-scroll/techno-fascism-comes-to-america-elon-musk</span></a></p></blockquote><p>Read the cited articles too!</p><p>Further Reading (Watching/Listening):<br>NYT, The Interview, Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done<br>Gift Article: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/magazine/curtis-yarvin-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E4.3gW2.AqAef6fUkk1R&smid=nytcore-android-share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/01/18/magazin</span><span class="invisible">e/curtis-yarvin-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E4.3gW2.AqAef6fUkk1R&smid=nytcore-android-share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DarkMaga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarkMaga</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thiel</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DarkEnlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarkEnlightenment</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yarvin</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/NeoReactionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoReactionary</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/NRx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NRx</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TechnoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFascism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
Geriatric Gardener<p>“Musk’s DOGE Is Inspired by Pro-Kremlin Monarchists and 1930s Technofascism”</p><p>by Nafeez Ahmed in Byline Supplement on Substack</p><p>“Top DOGE operative is linked to a Russian American network of anti-West pro-Kremlin monarchists, inspired by the 1930s counter-democracy ‘Technocracy’ movement tied to Musk’s grandfather”</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinesupplement/p/musks-doge-is-inspired-by-pro-kremlin?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu</span><span class="invisible">pplement/p/musks-doge-is-inspired-by-pro-kremlin?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Technocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Technocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Technofascism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nazi</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/X" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>X</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpaceX</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Spikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Spikes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Monarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Monarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Kremlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kremlin</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NRx" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NRx</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DarkEnlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DarkEnlightenment</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Movement" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Movement</span></a></p>
Nico198X<p>In case there's anyone out there who doubts this:</p><p>We. Don't. Need. <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> . <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> </p><p>they are NOT indispensable.</p><p><a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a> <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</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>
William<p>Musk's Deep Financial Ties to Top Feds Revealed</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> <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/OPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OPM</span></a><br><a href="https://www.pogo.org/investigations/musks-deep-financial-ties-to-top-feds-revealed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pogo.org/investigations/musks-</span><span class="invisible">deep-financial-ties-to-top-feds-revealed</span></a></p>
William<p>“The company has now ensured that Wynn-Williams’s devastating critique of it [see our review inthe New Review] will become a world bestseller.”</p><p><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/TechnoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFascism</span></a> <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a><br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/15/whistleblowers-cult-zuckerberg-power-tech-bros" 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/mar/15/whistleblowers-cult-zuckerberg-power-tech-bros</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>Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him</p><p><a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/BookBanning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookBanning</span></a> <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/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><br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/mark-zuckerberg-free-speech-meta-sheryl-sandberg?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" 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/mar/14/mark-zuckerberg-free-speech-meta-sheryl-sandberg?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
William<p>OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use</p><p><a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <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/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</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://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/openai-urges-trump-either-settle-ai-copyright-debate-or-lose-ai-race-to-china/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20</span><span class="invisible">25/03/openai-urges-trump-either-settle-ai-copyright-debate-or-lose-ai-race-to-china/</span></a></p>
–modo ⚛️ 🧬 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇺🇦<p>Interview with Curtis Yarvin, the architect and thought leader of Musk/Thiel/Trump's techno-fascist coup.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CurtisYarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CurtisYarvin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DarkEnlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarkEnlightenment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechnoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcSil8NeQq8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=NcSil8NeQq8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></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>
*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦<p>Nothing to see here… 👀</p><p>“A new lobbying group, dubbed the Freedom Cities Coalition, wants to convince President Trump and Congress to authorize the creation of new special development zones within the U.S. These zones would allow wealthy investors to write their own laws and set up their own governance structures which would be corporately controlled and wouldn’t involve a traditional bureaucracy. The new zones could also serve as a testbed for weird new technologies without the need for government oversight.”</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TechnoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFascism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FreedomCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomCities</span></a></p><p><a href="https://gizmodo.com/tech-execs-are-pushing-trump-to-build-freedom-cities-run-by-corporations-2000574510" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gizmodo.com/tech-execs-are-pus</span><span class="invisible">hing-trump-to-build-freedom-cities-run-by-corporations-2000574510</span></a></p>
grey<p>"Tech fascists are destroying the United States government for a purpose. They have a massive infrastructure project underway that will transform America and large parts of the world."</p><p>Tech Fascism and Infrastructure — Venture Capital Status</p><p><a href="https://www.vcinfodocs.com/tech-fascism-and-infrastructure" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vcinfodocs.com/tech-fascism-an</span><span class="invisible">d-infrastructure</span></a></p><p><a href="https://basilisk.gallery/tags/TechFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechFascism</span></a> <a href="https://basilisk.gallery/tags/TheNetworkState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheNetworkState</span></a> <a href="https://basilisk.gallery/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</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>
Amin Girasol<p>Back at the very beginning of January I mentioned¹ I'd stumbled across Han Hogan, one half of the artist duo "Namaco" behind "Mega Dreoilín"², considered by one critic as: </p><blockquote><p>...one of the best Irish artworks of 2024 so far... incredibly engaging, brilliantly designed, sophisticated in its form and execution, and unexpectedly moving.</p></blockquote><p>"Mega Dreoilín" is still on display at the Museum of Literature Ireland³.</p><p>Han is a dynamo! She's been working with Donal on a new artwork/game/commentary:</p><blockquote><p>...a video game about the Irish economy: why we have found ourselves here and where to go next. Specifically it looks at the idea of neocolonialism by multinationals who don’t pay taxes etc - and the wider effects on people’s lived reality in Ireland.</p></blockquote><p>This work will be part of a group exhibition, "Liquid Urbanisms"⁴, at the Lab Gallery in Dublin city centre from Friday 14 March to Thursday 24 April 2025.</p><p>¹ <a href="https://oldbytes.space/@fluidlogic/113761444061542306" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">oldbytes.space/@fluidlogic/113</span><span class="invisible">761444061542306</span></a></p><p>² <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Dreoil%C3%ADn" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_D</span><span class="invisible">reoil%C3%ADn</span></a></p><p>³ <a href="https://moli.ie/exhibitions/holy-show" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">moli.ie/exhibitions/holy-show</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>⁴ <a href="https://www.dublincityartsoffice.ie/programmes-projects/lab-gallery/liquid-urbanims" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dublincityartsoffice.ie/progra</span><span class="invisible">mmes-projects/lab-gallery/liquid-urbanims</span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/IrishArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishArt</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/CapitalistCritique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CapitalistCritique</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Leftwing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leftwing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Technofeudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technofeudalism</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technofascism</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>Happy 10th anniversary to Spyware 2.0 – the video we released at the launch of Ind.ie (what is now Small Technology Foundation¹).</p><p>Have we learned any lessons in those ten years, I wonder.</p><p><a href="https://vimeo.com/116656700" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">vimeo.com/116656700</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/spyware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spyware</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/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/technoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technoFascism</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> </p><p>¹ <a href="https://small-tech.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">small-tech.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
William<p>Prime Video To Stream Donald Trump’s TV Series ‘The Apprentice’</p><p><a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://mast.wmclark.com/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</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://deadline.com/2025/03/donald-trump-the-apprentice-tv-series-prime-video-1236320663/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">deadline.com/2025/03/donald-tr</span><span class="invisible">ump-the-apprentice-tv-series-prime-video-1236320663/</span></a></p>
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