Danke, @kattascha für die bisher beste Zusammenfassung, was Tech-Faschismus angeht!

Tantes Vortrag auf dem 39C3 konnte schon als Zusammenfassung für das komplette Material, das Gil Duran unter "The Nerd Reich" gesammelt hat durchgehen.
Aber @RainerMuehlhoff geht viel stärker darauf ein, auf was wir uns konkret gefasst machen müssen. Auch dank Kattaschas Fragen.
Unbedingt hören! 👇
https://www.denkangebot.org/allgemein/rainer-muehlhoff-ueber-ki-und-autoritaere-sehnsuechte-im-silicon-valley/

#Denkangebot #Podcast #TechFaschismus #KI #SiliconValley #Andreesen #Horrowitz #Doge #PaypalMafia #Musk #Thiel

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/opinion/crypto-trump-libertarianism-corruption.html

Ughhh... grotesque history of #crypto #siliconvalley #venturecapital #thiel #andreesen etc. etc. in bringing forth this day.

#democracy #justice #humanrights #climatechange

2021:
Five years after mocking India's colonial past, #Marc #Andreesen, one of Silicon Valley’s foremost venture capitalists and a member of Facebook’s board, now wants to make money off India’s fancy for cryptos.

Andreesen’s venture, #a16z [founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz], along with Coinbase Ventures, has invested $260 million in Series C round of CoinSwitch Kuber, the four-year-old Indian start-up which is an aggregator of crypto exchanges.

Existing investors Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global have also participated in the round.

Following the massive fund infusion, CoinSwitch has become the country’s second crypto Unicorn, valued at $1.9 billion, after CoinDCX hit $1.1 billion after a $90 million Series C round in August.

https://www.fortuneindia.com/opinion/hi-pmarca-welcome-to-colonial-free-india/105990

As a heritage resident of #SiliconValley, I find that #Andreesen has a shockingly shallow & revisionist history of this region, plus a lot of disingenuousness. An absurd podcast interview with lots of dark holes & misappropriation. #RossDouthat #Opinion #NYTimes

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opinion/marc-andreessen-trump-silicon-valley.html?smid=url-share

Watched some of Andreessen on Rogan's show for my sins, and the lack of self awareness is deafening.

They're all like "woohoo, Trump won, we are saved from Woke and regulation and now everything will be great"

And then moments later "God, imagine all those people in Germany when Hitler was elected, do you think they knew what was to come, do you think they celebrated? They must have been so dumb"

🤦

I wonder at what point they will realize, or if they'll still be celebrating even as the camps get filled with unpeople and the body counts starts to ratchet up.

#rogan #andreesen #trump

VC Ben #Horowitz donates to #HarrisWalz campaign

Reading between the lines, it is clear that they are only doing it grudgingly, and only after the realization that #KamalaHarris is likely to win #Election2024 — So, why not build bridges instead of burning them down like Marc #Andreesen did by endorsing #Trump?

The #AndreesenHorowitz partner makes an implicit threat to #Harris — #Biden has been destructive to us, and you better DO BETTER on #Crypto 👀

@KamalaHarrisWin

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/04/ben-horowitz-endorse-kamala-harris