"Tech’s final descent into unambiguous villainy was the result of three events during Joe Biden’s presidency: Lina Khan’s appointment as Federal Trade Commission chair in 2021; the advent of ChatGPT in 2022; and the election of President Donald Trump in 2024."

#TechBros #SiliconValley #broligarchy #PeterThiel #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #AI #fascism
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Timothy Noah outlines how the tech world turned from its initial promise to provide technology that might prove liberating and huymanizing, and became, as Noah puts it, evil. A key:

"When did tech firms turn sociopathic? In many ways, the change was gradual as they, and especially their chief executives, acquired more money and power."

#TechBros #SiliconValley #broligarchy #PeterThiel #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #AI #fascism
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https://newrepublic.com/article/208876/tech-world-evil-musk-bezos-thiel

How the Tech World Turned Evil

Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and they have to be stopped.

The New Republic

I’ve been looking into XChat’s global adoption trends in 2026.

Interesting pattern: Asia and Russia appear to be leading usage growth in Musk’s app ecosystem.

Full analysis and data here:
https://xchatprompts.com/en/guide/xchat-global-adoption-report-2026

Would be interested to hear how others are seeing this in their regions.

#Ai #xchat #xchatprompts #grok #grokai #socialMedia #ElonMusk #X #Twitter #xchatapp

We analyzed Elon Musk’s X account. He’s posting about race and Whiteness at record levels. - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/24/musk-online-posts-race-whiteness/

> Elon Musk posted almost daily about race on X in recent months, a Washington Post analysis found, at times sharing views experts said echoed white supremacy.

#ElonMusk

Elon Musk’s near-daily online posts about race are turning off some fans

Elon Musk posted almost daily about race on X in recent months, a Washington Post analysis found, at times sharing views experts said echoed white supremacy.

The Washington Post

🚨 NEWS: X Lancia XChat App su iOS Rivoluzionando la Comunicazione Privata

Ecco i punti chiave in breve:
💡 Il panorama delle app di messaggistica si arricchisce di un nuovo contendente con il lancio di XChat, l'applicazione stand-alone di X per dispositivi iOS. Questa mossa strategica s...

🚀 LINK: https://meteoraweb.com/news/x-lancia-xchat-app-su-ios-rivoluzionando-la-comunicazione-privata

#elonMusk #ios #privacy #x #messaggistica

XChat : Elon Musk lance son offensive contre WhatsApp et iMessage http://dlvr.it/TSD3mL #XChat #ElonMusk
XChat : Elon Musk lance son offensive contre WhatsApp et iMessage

Elon Musk rêve d’imposer son réseau social comme l’endroit idéal pour échanger des messages. Si l’on met de côté la réputation sulfureuse du personnage, on peut objectivement dire qu’il arrive assez tardivement sur le marché avec XChat. Lancée hier e...

iGeneration

Washington Post: Elon Musk’s near-daily online posts about race are turning off some fans. This link goes to a Yahoo-syndicated version of the article with no paywall. “Over the past seven months, 6 percent of Musk’s posts on X, a total of about 850, have been about race, nearly triple the rate for the previous two years. More than half of those posts have used the word ‘white.’ The […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/25/washington-post-elon-musks-near-daily-online-posts-about-race-are-turning-off-some-fans/
Washington Post: Elon Musk’s near-daily online posts about race are turning off some fans

Washington Post: Elon Musk’s near-daily online posts about race are turning off some fans. This link goes to a Yahoo-syndicated version of the article with no paywall. “Over the past se…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

La cara oscura de Artemis: la ‘carrera empresarial’ de Musk y Bezos por hacerse hueco en la Luna

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.infolibre.es/economia/cara-oscura-artemis-carrera-empresarial-musk-bezos-hacerse-hueco-luna_1_2176790.html