@Floppy But what the narcissistic #broligarchs in #SiliconValley heard, and ignored, was “Speaking about #tech to #truth gods.”
Good and very brave effort, though. We should support and amplify this #TEDtalk by Carole Cadwalladr.
@atomless But what the narcissists in the #SiliconValley #TEDtalk audience probably heard (and ignored) from Carole Cadwalladr was “Speaking tech to truth gods”.
#Resist. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.
I’d like to talk about HOW to get through these times and it’s pretty simple – Be Rich, Live Poor. If you can do that, doing it tough doesn’t feel so bad. https://inkican.com/stl-be-rich-live-poor/ #scificommunity #scifi #sciencefiction #sciencefictioncommunity #ideasworthspreading #tedtalk
#TEDtalk that all should listen to, and ideally all should comprehend…
Thank you #CaroleCadwalladr
Let your voice & message ring loudly across the Fedi-verse & InterWebs!
https://youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?si=lxs
#Cadwalladr
#Privacy
#Broligathy
#DigitalCoup
And the prior TED-talk by Carole, for ease of reference: https://youtu.be/OQSMr-3GGvQ?si=lxs
Join a scifi-based, Creator Economy community that values courage, knowledge, and integrity over politics and conformity.
@clanger9 @_elena
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#CaroleCadwalladr #Cadwalladr is an independent freelance journalist who was almost bankrupted by #oligarchs because she tried to tell the truth. She just lost her main source of income. #TheGuardian
Here is her #TedTalk TEXT (black or white, your choice)
"... you probably know this phrase, "do not obey in advance." That's #TimSnyder who's a historian of authoritarianism. We now are in Techno Authoritarianism, we have to learn how to digitally disobey"
I chose to come back to TED because I'm reclaiming my story, my words.
We are not powerless.
The 30,000 people who supported me proved that – we ar not powerless.
Because we know who we are, and we know what we stand for.
And my question to Silicon Valley is, do you?
Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk. Your are not gods. You are men, and you are careless.
You think that by allying yourself with an autocrat you will be protected. That's not how history works. It's not even how oligarchy works.
[…]
You are sucking up to a tuyrant who is trying to destroy the laws who made your businesses possible.
You are collaborators.
You are complicit in a regime of fear and cruelty.
Don't experiment on children
And in years to come, allowing your child to be data-harvested from birth will be considered child abuse.
You didn't know, but now you do.
Privacy is power.
Do not obey in advance
We now are in techno-authoritarainism.
We have to learn how to digitally disobey.
[…]
Don't accept the cookies, don't give your real name.
@_elena
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She uses... #Substack for publishing. This is impossibly incongruous after her incendiary #TEDtalk
A Newsletter Writer Reflects On Leaving Substack
"First, moving my monetization off of Substack wasn’t as big of a pain in the ass as I thought it would be, #Ghost as my new newsletter host...
offered a concierge service that did almost all the work, porting over content and holding my hand... they charge a flat rate rather than taking 10% as Substack did"
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/11/a-newsletter-writer-reflects-on-leaving-substack/
Der #TedTalk von Journalistin #CaroleCadwalladr ist meine dringende Empfehlung.
Sie will aufmerksam machen, wachrütteln und gibt ein paar kleine Empfehlungen. Ihr Rede ist Teil einer modernen Aufklärung.
This is what a digital coup looks like
Tech bros' unchecked power fosters a digital coup, undermining democracy with tools they create. Resist by reclaiming data privacy.
#CambridgeAnalytica was chickenfeed to #Broligarchy
https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like
#Cadwalladr #DigitaleSouveränität #Freiheit