“Empire of AI”: Author Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & Hidden Costs of Artificial Intelligence
#DemocracyNow!
#Illiberal #antiDemocratic #Monopolistic #Authoritarian #BrOligarcy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa6JuimHoEA&t=1529s
“Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World

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🇨🇵 Ce n'est pas une, mais ce sont deux nouvelles possibilités de prendre connaissance de ce que représente l' "enshitification" / merdification de l'internet, qui sont rendus disponibles ces jours-ci.
- Émission Les Décrypteurs, sur Radio-Canada : Pourquoi l’internet est brisé, et comment le réparer? Avec Cory Doctorow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6SnSFsP-Nk

- Conférence par Cory Doctorow au 39c3 : A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet. - https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

Fait notable : on ressort de l'écoute avec un peu d'espoir quand même.

NB : les deux médias sont en anglais, mais bénéficient de sous-titre ou traduction simultanée en français.
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🇬🇧 Not one, but two new opportunities to learn about the “enshitification” of the internet are available these days.
- Les Décrypteurs program on Radio-Canada: Why is the internet broken, and how can we fix it? With Cory Doctorow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6SnSFsP-Nk

- Lecture by Cory Doctorow at the 39c3 Congress : A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet. - https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

Noteworthy: you come away from listening to it feeling a little hopeful after all.

@pluralistic #enshitication #merdification #monopolistic #internet #hope

Pourquoi l’internet est brisé, et comment le réparer? Avec Cory Doctorow | Décrypteurs

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We literally have the best government money can buy, and our nation, our very survival depends on unflinchingly addressing this pugnacious problem of money as free speech foisted on us by the unaccountable SCOTUS, “Repugnicans” and Corporate Democrats.

Founder of #TheLever, #DavidSirota joins #TheMajorityReport's #EmmaVigeland to discuss his new book, “MASTER PLAN: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America”

#US #Economics #Politics #SCOTUS #CitizensUnited #Corporatocracy #Oligarchy #Kleptocracy #Illiberal #AntiDemocratic #Monopolistic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRyS1goUc5s

How The US Legalized Corruption | David Sirota | TMR

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“Why don’t #Democrats tell #America the truth — that these problems are largely due to #monopolistic #corporations and robber-baron #billionaires? Because too many #Democratic politicians are afraid to bite the hands that feed their campaign coffers.” robertreich.substack.com/p/the-new-vo...

The Future of the Democratic P...
The Future of the Democratic Party (if it has a future)

A new day is dawning if the Democrats are able to see the sunrise.

Robert Reich
“The #DST debacle reveals Canada's deeper #strategic failure: we think reactively, not systemically. Instead of building capacity to shape #digitalmarkets, we built mechanisms to tax #monopolistic behaviour” barryappleton.substack.com/p/trumps-gam...

Trump's Game of Thrones:
Trump's Game of Thrones:

Trophies, Tributes, and the Tyranny of Trade

Barry Appleton
“But if #Americans are worried about unsettling cultural shifts, they really ought to fear the #anti-democratic and #monopolistic #culture that #AI will bring, and the impacts that AI will have on #American #jobsthebulletin.org/2025/04/the-...

The real ‘Great Replacement’
Bluesky

Bluesky Social
The game, originally invented by Elizabeth Magie in 1904 as the Landlord's Game, was designed to demonstrate the negative consequences of #monopolistic practices and the unequal distribution of #wealth. Magie's intention was to show how a system that allows a few players to accumulate vast wealth while others are left with nothing can lead to social and economic #inequality.
#UK #Standards #money #Phone #BT #Broadband I never cease to be amazed at the poor service from #monopolistic #Telephone #Broadband supplier. Months without a proper service so I change my server. And lo, riding over the horizon comes the bean counter, "ere, you can't do that, you owe us x zillion squid for our appalling service". Well chaps, you can sing for it. Breach of contract is 'tort' & I'll happily keep your penny pinchers busy for years. & a free plug for Zen services 🇩🇪 of course!

@[email protected]

#TrumpCoup by the #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#USpol
#Tariffs #Economics

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...the 19th and 20th century popularized the saying, Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant, many residents will learn the meaning of this latin phrase of the late #Roman period./s

PS:
Historically, #Mercantilism 2) has never worked as officially intended, except for the smugglers and war-mongers:

"#Mercantilism 2) led to the creation of #monopolistic trading companies, such as the...

2)
https://www.britannica.com/money/mercantilism

Britannica Money

Mercantilism, economic theory and practice common in 16th–18th-century Europe that promoted governmental regulation of a nation’s economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of rival national powers; it was the economic counterpart of political absolutism. Learn more about mercantilism here.

Reactionary, Racist, anti-Democratic, faux-Centrists and Far-Right Social Regressives are intellectually, emotionally, and socially dishonest.

No, the ‘Woke Agenda’ Isn’t Ruining Society ― Here’s Why
Jessica Kellgren-Fozard
#Culture #Politics #LGBTQ #Trans #Illiberal #Monopolistic #brOligarchy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfYP9uJ5gUE

No, the ‘Woke Agenda’ Isn’t Ruining Society – Here’s Why

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