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Dave Rahardja Jul 5

Are you still on #Spotify?

Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has raised €600M for his new startup, which is developing AI TECH FOR WAR. Ek still owns 9% of Spotify, but has 37% voting control. His net worth went from $2.5B to $10B in the last two years alone, on the back of paying musicians a pittance in royalties.

And don’t forget:

• Spotify spent $250M of your subscription dollars to invite Joe Rogan to spew his disinformation on their platform.
• They’re still trying to embrace and extinguish Podcasts.
• They’re developing in-house, AI-generated “music” so users will play them (royalty-free) instead of music created by humans (who demand royalty).

And now, he’s using his wealth, created by your subscriptions, to fund tech that will use AI to literally murder humans in war.

Stop funding him. Quit Spotify now.

#QuitSpotify #music #ai #militaryTech #techbro

“Spotify’s CEO invests $1 billion into an AI military start-up — and musicians are fuming”

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/spotifys-ceo-invests-1-billion-into-an-ai-military-startup-and-musicians-are-fuming/news-story/78805666e2374281801622066dc87319

I’m amazed when people still look up to techbro startup billionaire types. They are usually the worst humans on the planet, because it’s really, really hard to become a billionaire without being a sociopathic, manipulative, enshittifying parasite of a human being.

When will people learn?

Dave Rahardja Jul 5

And speaking of Joe Rogan, this is the kind of dangerous bullshit he’s platforming. https://gizmodo.com/joe-rogans-latest-episode-will-make-you-question-everything-about-ai-2000624443

Joe Rogan's Latest Episode Will Make You Question Everything About AI

AI might already be hiding its real capabilities. That’s what Dr. Roman Yampolskiy told Rogan in a podcast episode that will rattle both skeptics and true believers.

Gizmodo

Pete Gontier Jul 5

@drahardja They won’t until we foolproof parenting so children don’t grow up to be emotionally needy.

+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 Jul 5

@integerpoet @drahardja how would foolproof parenting look?

Mårten Paulsson Jul 5

@bonifartius @integerpoet @drahardja can’t be done. Humans be humans.

+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 Jul 5

@MArtenp @integerpoet @drahardja and that's good. "foolproofing" parenting is what collectivists do, as they want everyone to be alike, abandoning the very thing that is human.

using and teaching things like NVC and natural rights would help, but then people would stop following self-proclaimed authorities. can't have that of course.

Pete Gontier Jul 6

@bonifartius @drahardja I was lamenting futility.

MidniteMikeWrites Jul 7

@integerpoet @drahardja People like Musk seem like genuine naracisists, but some of these other people (Gates/Zuck) seem to just have grown up with main character syndrome either because they can't or won't understand the role other people play in their lives.

Pete Gontier 6d ago

@MidniteMikeWrites @drahardja I wasn’t talking about the daddy figures. 😀

@drahardja And the very, very few billionaires who reach that point without being sociopathic, manipulative, enshittifying parasites generally agree: Billionaires should not exist at all.

@drahardja Never. Humans lack the necessary evolutionary traits to save themselves from extinction.

it’s already too late. but i do greatly admire how hard some of you are still trying.

Dave Rahardja Jul 5

@quin https://www.humancode.us/2025/01/21/resist-cynicism.html

Resist cynicism

Do your best to resist cynicism, because cynicism destroys nuance, and almost everything valuable in life exists inside nuance.

humancode.us

@drahardja i’m not being cynical.
it’s a biological fact.
it’s too late.
instead of abandoning the means of your extinction, you perpetuated them.

i’m sorry, really, i was rooting for you all.
tried to help, but you all “knew better”……

Dave Rahardja Jul 5

@quin Bad news: you’re being cynical.

morfil (any)🌈Jul 5

@quin @drahardja too late to prevent all, does not mean too late to prevent some of the potential suffering for some of the potential sufferers.

@morfil @drahardja okay..

and when exactly did humans plan on preventing any of that suffering??

because it kinda looks like that’s not happening.

but there are so many of you spend a lot of time discussing how the suffering needs to be prevented………

morfil (any)🌈Jul 5

@quin @drahardja there is no such thing as 'humans' deciding stuff. There is just me deciding not to be an ass and change my habits and thus impact and talking to others hoping they will do the same. And there is just humans going out and trying to build cooperative organisations or just, you know, do stuff together to make a difference, however tiny. Anything to not have to answer children's question :" what did you do to prevent this?" , with the answer: nothing because there was no good worldwide decision making mechanism.

Rafał "Skryba" Kurczyński Jul 5

People use Spotify because they are used to apps, playlists etc, and also, because there's no good alternatives. In the same moment, they are evil

Queen of Chaos (Anarschism)Jul 7

Facebook literally began as an online way for frat boys to sexually objectify and/or insult their female classmates based on their appearance.

That alone should have been reason enough to make sure no one ever even heard the name Mark Zuckerberg

A Flock of Beagles 6d ago

manipulative, yes. sociopath, no. you are not his doctor, and he is not your patient.