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Elon Musk, world's richest man, is offering $47 to every person who signs this petition - The Economic Times https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/elon-musk-worlds-richest-man-is-offering-47-to-every-person-who-signs-this-petition/articleshow/114006020.cms

That's why a #democracy can't afford #billionaires. Even millionaires are problematic, if they have too many of those millions. So he wants a million people to sign his petition. Each gets USD 47. (Why not 50? So cheap?) While you and I will never have 47 millions, for him it's small change. When he coughs, his companies lose way more than 47m.

But I think it's the first time someone is that openly buying votes. The best democracy money can buy...


Need a brief and accessible explainer about the actual harms of AI?

Show folks this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TtVJ4JDM7eM

@thejuicemedia hitting it out of the park, yet again.

#ai #corporations #corporatocracy #billionaires #climateCrisis #BigTech #SiliconValley


A triple digit billionaire among a few paltry single and double digit billionaires


triple digit billionaire
There are about 14 triple digit spherical cows at this time.
https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/
Having seen plenty of pie charts fail to scale well, I present a cow chart.
#billionaires #resources


One is a billionaire who is selling all of his books, the other one is a quite-broke human who has the courage and decency to provide her book online for free. Trade-Free. No ads, no data collection, no subscribe-here-to-read bullshit.

That's the world in which we live. The ones who make a fortune are trained and incentivized to not even share their "must read" books for free, despite having so much wealth.

Oh look, Bill Gates released a book about "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster"! It must be important.... so it is worth 18$ to read.

Grab @Sasha 's book from here https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/book/ - she also talks a lot about Climate Change, solutions, and a new kind of worldview.

#gates #climatechange #capitalism #TradeRuinsEverything #climate #billionaires


Billionaires Cash In On Abusive Farm Worker Scam

#agricultural #billionaires

https://www.levernews.com/billionaires-cash-in-on-abusive-farm-worker-scam/


πŸ’Ύ Trying my hand at some #Agitprop. How does this one look like?

🍝 Mi cimento in poster agitprop, come vi sembra?

#AI #Billionaires
Three panels:
- Top panel shows a billionaire funding a techbro to build & train AI
- Middle panel shows the billionaire telling you the AI is a common enemy
- Bottom panel shows you against the billionaire using AI to increase profits


Was just asked by a friend if I wanted a #BlueSky invite.

My reply?

β€œThanks but no thanks.”

Why?

Because I don’t need to see the app. I know the people behind it and what they stand for. The app can only ever be a manifestation of (or an initial misdirection from) that.

Expecting the wolf that took a bite out of you last time to this time act in your interests is how you end up as its dinner.

#BlueSky #JackDorsey #billionaires #SiliconValley #decentralisation #lipService #crypto #bullshit


Celebrating Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists showing an interest in the fediverse is like celebrating wolves showing an interest in your chicken coop.

#SiliconValley #billionaires #vc #ventureCapital #BigTech #colonialism #fediverse #mastodon


A billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist setting up a fediverse account isn’t the win you might think it is.

Who do you think funds and benefits from the Twitters and Facebooks of the world?

We can’t stop these folks from setting up their own servers but please don’t feel a need to federate with them or subsidise their existence on servers you pay for and maintain.

And remain vigilant against embrace, extend, and extinguish.

#billionaires #vc #SiliconValley #mastodon #capitalism
Paul Graham (@paulg) on Twitter on 11/16/22: β€œIt’s remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX.”


Beware of billionaires peddling β€œdecentralisation”.

Anyone seeking a decentralised world would never allow themselves to do the things it takes to become (or remain) a billionaire. Billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations are the epitome of centralisation.

Decentralisation begins at decentring yourself.

#JackDorsey #BlueSky #billionaires #capitalism #twitter #fediverse #centralisation #decentralisation #corporateCapture #embraceExtendExtinguish #warning

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