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michellelaverickmusic@Daojoan @parismarx 1/2 I feel like Valley ceased to the place of technology sometime ago. The Applifucation ushered in by the smartphone has created an unhealthy eco-system of VC flooded with more $$$ than know what to do with spaffing money at the next 10 Unicorns that destroy existing good business models in the shape of a “disruptive” app that robs workers of their rightful value, the unicorn loses money for its gullible investors consumed with FOMO of TNBT.
@Daojoan @parismarx 2/2 the role of the founders is to know when to cash their chips in before everyone twigs they are just like the Wizard of Oz pulling levers behind a green curtain…
jaryl@Daojoan @parismarx tech deserves some criticism for not delivering on promises sure but for the longest time airlines and automotive industries have stymied any progress in good public transport infrastructure, not silicon valley.
Vesna Manojlović@Daojoan @parismarx the same can be said about “internet” in general: we could have had peer-to-peer, FLOSS, public internet - except for the greed of techbros , and capitalism in general
@becha @parismarx also true
L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ@becha @Daojoan @parismarx Just to expand on the capitalism part into its ideological aspect:
Couple of years ago I heard an interview with one of the architects of the early Swedish Internet efforts, setting up the node and in effect shaping the country's policy, and he, grown up with socialized school, healthcare etc, and doing what he did on taxpayers cash, were adamant then as now that the best thing for the net was to be shaped by the Free Market.
He hasn't even got wealthy off it himself.
Couple of years ago I heard an interview with one of the architects of the early Swedish Internet efforts, setting up the node and in effect shaping the country's policy, and he, grown up with socialized school, healthcare etc, and doing what he did on taxpayers cash, were adamant then as now that the best thing for the net was to be shaped by the Free Market.
He hasn't even got wealthy off it himself.
near@computersandblues @Mabande @Daojoan & that’s just the “web”! On infra level there’s “return of the Telco”, CDN, asymmetric links so you can’t (easily) host own servers, email centralization… plus all the other “luxury connectivity” for some, instead of basic universal access for everyone: see my unpublished paper https://wiki.techinc.nl/File:Vesna_IAB-BIAS-Workshop-Basic_Internet_And_Squirrels.pdf
@becha @computersandblues @Daojoan This chart will come in very handy when explaining to friends and family why LLM's and upgrading to a newer model instead of away from loss of function is bad.
Re. the interview I think it was in the radio series Konflikt (on Swedish public service radio). I'll try to find it!
Re. the interview I think it was in the radio series Konflikt (on Swedish public service radio). I'll try to find it!
Jans@Daojoan Spot on. This speaks directly to the problem of concentrating power and wealth at the top: the people with all the power and money have no idea what it's like to live paycheck-to-paycheck like most people on the planet, and so they won't make decisions/products that truly benefit the masses.
Deep Voice Daddy@Daojoan @parismarx Unbelievable he played an updated version of the Simpsons monorail episode and it worked
Mia Rose 🖋️ Second Draft [79%]@Daojoan @parismarx I've been saying it for ages, the silicon valley mindset is ultra useless and toxic, it's grow first, money later and move fast, break things, that just doesn't work with most things, if anything, it's putting all money on green and ruining hundreds of peoples lives when the ball lands somewhere different
Mastodon Migration@MiaWinter @Daojoan @parismarx
Yup, SV economics is parasitism, the polar opposite of constructive capitalism.
Nick Dowson@Daojoan @parismarx 'silicon valley won't give us a better world if they can find a way to profit off it' - a statement that could equally be applied to energy companies and the transition
Christopher@nickmdowson @Daojoan @parismarx
The conditional really isn't necessary, either. By virtue of trying to profit off of it, these industries are just flat out incapable of giving us a better world.
They will happily promise us one, but they're only interested in the betterment of their own positions and pocket books, personally, and they're happy to dig the world up and then burn it down in the process.
There is no profit in a better world. Any betterment that is to be found will be squeezed out in the name of optimizing shareholder value.
@Daojoan @parismarx The valley is just one of the many instances feeding a system that needs merchandise, and images, to validate its monopoly. Anything that is neither merchandise nor image and touches real life of real people, such as some public services, contains a danger because it implicitly questions the very existence of the system.
johne@Daojoan @parismarx also the sidewalk trash that is rental scooters
Kofani@Daojoan @parismarx
Sure, in general the people like an abstraction are very evil persons, we can observe it is at facts(wars, global warming).
But for me: for example, is google(sure profit oriented company) but they provide some service free for help me also. I am trying to say not only black and white.
Sure, in general the people like an abstraction are very evil persons, we can observe it is at facts(wars, global warming).
But for me: for example, is google(sure profit oriented company) but they provide some service free for help me also. I am trying to say not only black and white.
Potung Thul+1 Agree not all black & white.
I expect self-driving vehicles to have benefit in public transportation, more so than as private vehicles. For example, I expect "#selfdriving-bus lanes".
The Boring/Hyperloop technology is useful; what's wrong is that #billionaires can control the company and change their minds on a whim, but not specifically that they want to deny others actual benefits. That's reading into their intentions a bit too much.
@potungthul @Daojoan @parismarx
Therefore big business corporation can make money, their politics is effective, when they choose things to support, invest.
Public transport with support of government also work well but I think it is so traditional. I mean no any governments wanna to drop money and start experimenting with crypto, for example. Maybe they not need it. This politics also in many cases is effective - countries have own taxes, and many loyal people.
But ye wanna good transport!
Therefore big business corporation can make money, their politics is effective, when they choose things to support, invest.
Public transport with support of government also work well but I think it is so traditional. I mean no any governments wanna to drop money and start experimenting with crypto, for example. Maybe they not need it. This politics also in many cases is effective - countries have own taxes, and many loyal people.
But ye wanna good transport!
Jym Dyer 🚲🌎@Daojoan @parismarx - The media mention is apt. Uber's real genius was marketing, finding an old Cato Institute whitepaper grumbling about gub'ment-regulation of taxis being the root of all ills, and peddling that to the tech business press. In reality, ride-hail is a business model where more costs are externalized -- and gub'ment-subsidized -- but enjoyed media coverage framing this as techno-libertoonian freedom. 1/2
@Daojoan @parismarx - The media's complicity in Hypeloop should be better known. Every time the California High Speed Rail was in the news, good or bad, Musk would generate a press release in response, promising something impossibly better and unachievably lower cost. Each press release was duly parroted, despite the physical impossibilities therein. 2/2
Roy Brander🍁Is it possible to put together a specific list of journalists that could be interviewed with the question "After journalists were finished apologizing for the Iraq War assistance, after they admitted they accepted 20 years of the 'Afghan War Lies', why did you fall for this? There were many warnings at the time, did you look for them?"
Popolon 🇵🇸🇳🇨☮️🌳🎋 ᠫᠣᠫᠣᠯᠣᠨ🐎抱抱龙🐉 ⏚φ@Daojoan @parismarx Et pendant que Musk se paluche avec ses fusées qui explosent, les fusées soviétiques, Soyuz et Progress continuent de faire la majorité du boulot pour l'ISS. J'ai vu que des Soyuz avaient aussi été utilisées à Kourou entre 2011 et 2022 (début de la guerre en Ukraine). avec au moins 26 décollages.
Je ne sais pas si les 3 Soyuz de Kourou ont été renvoyées au Kazakhstan depuis septembre 2022: https://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-services/air-defense/a-kourou-le-spatial-europeen-orphelin-des-fusees-russes-soyouz-1786568
Florian Egermann@Daojoan @parismarx just tons of bad incentives
The f'ing venture capitalists want to kill anything that actually uses capital ($$$) for real things instead of their BS ponzi scheme internet scams.
Jake Rayson@Daojoan @parismarx
“Silicon Valley won’t deliver us a better world if they can’t find some way to profit off it.“
This pretty much sums it up for me, thank you