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Radio Free Asia: Facebook’s Zuckerberg oversaw censorship tool for China: whistleblower. “Meta compromised U.S. national security and freedom of speech to do business with China, a company whistleblower testified before U.S. senators. Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former global policy director at Facebook, told the U.S. Senate on Wednesday that Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg personally designed and […]
"Consciousness is the only reason life has value. It’s the only reason anything matters. Otherwise life would just be physical materials getting whipped about by natural forces without anyone feeling, sensing or experiencing any part of it. Suffering wouldn’t matter because it’s not being felt or experienced. Joy wouldn’t matter because it’s not being felt or experienced. There’d be no good reason not to torture someone, because there wouldn’t be any conscious experience of pain. There’d be no good reason to love anyone, because there wouldn’t be any conscious experience of love. Consciousness is the only reason life is worth living.
There is no basis on which to believe AI will ever be conscious. Consciousness isn’t some minor detail that science will easily work out once it gets around to it; it’s an all-encompassing phenomenon which has always been a complete mystery to all scientific fields. Science has no idea what consciousness is or why it happens, much less how to replicate it. It’s the single most important and fundamental aspect of every second of our waking experience of life, yet it remains a complete unknown to all of science. And this somehow gets left out of so much of the conversation about the future of artificial “intelligence”."
X (formerly Twitter)Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) on XOn AI And Consciousness
Journalist Carole #Cadwalladr on mass manipulation, election fraud and the abuse of power by #SiliconValley
Journalist Carole #Cadwalladr helped break the data abuse by #Facebook with the Cambridge Analytica Story, effectively taking on all of #SiliconValley . She was sued, digitally stalked, and paid a huge price for speaking truth to power, as you can see in this new talk at TED, a venue she has chosen very consciously. Her dire warning: Cambridge Analytica was chicken feed compared to the #broligarchy coup happening today
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE&t=811s&pp=2AGrBpACAQ%3D%3D #musk #trump #putin #surveillance #privacy
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Despite the tariff pause, the EU's willingness to target U.S. digital giants reflects a broader ambition to more tightly regulate the technology industry and ensure that foreign firms comply with EU standards. Via Pymts.com. #EU #SiliconValley #Trade #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/jo4SN4
PYMNTS.com · Europe Signals ‘No Compromise’ on Trade, Prepares Counter-Tariffs on US Tech | PYMNTS.comThe U.S.-initiated tariffs have been paused for three months and the negotiation posturing has begun. Brussels is bracing for a fresh escalation in the
NextGov: Google, GSA agree to major governmentwide software discount. “Google is offering the entire federal government — and each federal agency — a 71% discount off current pricing on its Workspace software suite through Sept. 30 in an agreement reached with the General Services Administration effective April 10.”
#VendrediLecture : Je viens ENFIN de finir « Le Mythe de L'#Entrepreneur, Défaire l'imaginaire de la #SiliconValley » d'Anthony GALLUZO que je vous recommande chaudement (au risque de faire un gros RAGE QUIT de Linkedin 
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Très documenté et sourcé, ça déconstruit totalement la #méritocratie tant vantée des subventionnés des #BigTech, qu'il n'y a pas eu de "garages" et qu'ils sont tous le produit d'un (petit) milieu nés à la bonne époque.
J'aime la conclusion 
Cf. https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/le_mythe_de_l_entrepreneur-9782355221972
#SiliconValley #AI tech startup #CEO gets #prison sentence after scamming million$ from #investors for #YouPlus video #Analytics #SearchEngine whose proprietary magic tech was just underpaid contract workers in India returning #PowerPoints #marketing info.
• The startup was founded by Shaukat Shamim alongwith India-based Krishna Prasad Nadig
• Founder raised $17 Mn in VC money for bogus " video opinion search engine"
• Instead of AI tech, the company was paying workers in #India to watch videos and faked #banking statements, bilked investors for personal expenses like luxury clothing & eyewear, and duty-free shopping splurges.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/ceo-bay-area-ai-startup-serve-prison-time-fraud-20267930.php
SFGATE · Bay Area tech startup CEO gets prison time for lying about product
#woke Ce n'est pas juste pour apaiser Washington. Toute personne un tant soit peu avertie sait que ça ne sert à rien de se plier devant Trump pour le calmer. Non, c'est bien pire que ça. Apparemment, certains législateurs semblent avoir découvert là un moyen de détricoter tous les efforts de ces dernières décennies pour imposer un certain nombre de responsabilités aux géants de la tech et réduire le désastre du #néolibéralisme à la sauce #siliconvalley et #techbro !
Le Temps SA · L’Europe décide de s’aplatir brutalement devant les Etats-Unis sur le terrain numérique, mais ce ne sera jamais suffisant
I’ve wrestled this swinging chair outside to take pictures of it. I’m selling it for $20 because I definitely don’t want to move it! #siliconvalley
"Yes, Facebook lied to the press often, about a lot of things; yes, Internet.org (Facebook’s strategy to give “free internet to people in the developing world) was a cynical ploy at getting new Facebook users; yes, Facebook knew that it couldn’t read posts in Burmese and didn’t care; yes, it slow-walked solutions to its moderation problems in Myanmar even after it knew about them; yes, Facebook bent its own rules all the time to stay unblocked in specific countries; yes, Facebook took down content at the behest of China then pretended it was an accident and lied about it; yes, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg intervened on major content moderation decisions then implied that they did not. Basically, it confirmed my priors about Facebook, which is not a criticism because reporting on this company and getting anything beyond a canned statement or carefully rehearsed answer from them over and over for years and years and years has made me feel like I was going crazy. Careless People confirmed that I am not.
It has been years since Wynn-Williams left Facebook, but it is clear these are the same careless people running the company. When I wonder if the company knows that its platforms are being taken over by the worst AI slop you could possibly imagine, if it knows that it is directly paying people to flood these platforms with spam, if it knows it is full of deepfakes and AI generated content of celebrities and cartoon characters doing awful things, if it knows it is showing terrible things to kids. Of course it does. It just doesn’t care."
https://www.404media.co/careless-people-is-the-book-about-facebook-ive-wanted-for-a-decade/
404 Media · 'Careless People' Is the Book About Facebook I've Wanted for a DecadeI've reported on Facebook for years and have always wondered: Does Facebook care what it is doing to society? Careless People makes clear it does not.
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The vision for #Greenland, one of the people said, could include a hub for #AI, autonomous vehicles, space launches, micro #nuclear reactors & high-speed rail.
The discussions reflect a longstanding #SiliconValley movement to establish low-#regulation cities globally, including in the #US, which #Trump himself promised to do in a 2023 campaign video. Proponents use different names for variations on the idea, …with the common goal of spurring innovation through sweeping regulatory exemptions.
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“…we are not powerless.
Because we know who we are, and we know what we stand for.
And my question to Silicon Valley is,
do you?”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#siliconvalley
JFC
As the #Trump administration intensifies efforts to acquire #Greenland from #Denmark — or take it by force — some #SiliconValley #tech investors are promoting the frozen island as a site for a so-called freedom city, a #libertarian utopia with minimal #corporate #regulation, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
#broligarchy #technocracy #plutocracy #kleptocracy #autocracy #law #geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greenland-freedom-city-rich-donors-push-trump-tech-hub-up-north-2025-04-10/
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“The entire business model of Silicon Valley is surveillance.
It harvests our data in order to sell us stuff.
We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#siliconvalley #surveillance
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‘#TED is ground zero of the #AI gold rush. But there was also cheerleading and l’ve been overwhelmed by huge love and support from others who see exactly what is happening. It’s the weirdest time to be here.
And it was the weirdest energy from an audience of any talk I’ve ever given. But then, it was intended to make them uncomfortable.
Politics is technology now.
#SiliconValley is desperate to deny that, but it can’t and nor can we.’
Carole #Cadwalladr
Gerry Adams standing up for British Creatives while our Government debates selling them all out for Trump trade deal.
So who had that on their bingo card?
Los Angeles Times: Coalition urges California attorney general to halt OpenAI’s for-profit restructuring. “A coalition of California nonprofits, foundations and labor groups are raising concerns about ChatGPT maker OpenAI, urging the state attorney general to halt the artificial intelligence startup’s plans to restructure itself as a for-profit company.”
SF Gate: Bay Area tech startup CEO gets prison time for lying about product. “The founder of a Bay Area artificial intelligence startup company was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for scamming investors of millions of dollars, officials said. Shaukat Shamim, the 53-year-old founder of YouPlus, a video analytics search tool, was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to an investor fraud […]