Mastodawn

Not only are workloads increasing, by hollowing out their junior ranks, businesses are putting themselves squarely in the path of a slow-burning demographic time bomb as seniors begin to retire in record numbers.

"There won’t be an endless supply of experienced hires to fall back on, so everyone will be fighting for the limited, increasingly expensive talent with domain expertise"

What exactly is the tech-industry's endgame here?

https://www.fastcompany.com/91483431/companies-replaced-entry-level-workers-with-ai

#noai #techbros #ai #llm #technology #programming #sysadmin #linux #indieweb #capitalism #reading #art #adhd

Companies replaced entry-level workers with AI. Now they are paying the price

Recent graduates are clearly not okay—but neither are the companies that decided they could do without them.

Fast Company

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Nicole Parsons

@pheonix

According to Peter Thiel & his ilk, the end game is the apocalyptic collapse of democracy & a new world order run by tech "aristocrats".

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/07/make-aristocracy-great-again-lost-roots-of-techno-feudalism/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/12/musk-bloomberg-bezos-americas-aristocracy-of-tech-robber-barons-lives-by-its-own-rules

https://www.salon.com/2018/05/12/the-real-reason-tech-billionaires-are-prepping-for-doomsday/

https://ls.berkeley.edu/news/researchers-discuss-rise-tech-authoritarianism-social-science-matrix-event

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/tech-bros-serfs-oligarchs-q629qk3g8

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/american-oligarchy/

https://siliconeer.com/current/ai-aristocracy-utopia-few-disruption-masses/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/washington-post-editorial-independence/681847/

The "Might Makes Right" fantasies of men rejected in high school.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist

https://quillette.com/2019/06/19/what-do-the-oligarchs-have-in-mind-for-us/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/theologicalapologetics/2026/01/peter-thiel-and-antichrist-lectures-on-the-end-of-the-world/

Make Aristocracy Great Again: Lost Roots of Techno-Feudalism

It is difficult to interpret the Trump administration’s wholesale attacks on governmental programs as anything other than accelerationist efforts to destroy basic features of the American political and economic systems. From DOGE’s Artificial Intelligence-rampage through federal bureaus, the destruction of agencies like the Department of Education, or Trump’s expanding ICE as his well-funded private domestic army and occupying Democrat-governed cities; the destruction of old standards of normalcy are clear. While documents like Project 2025 reveal elements of Trump’s game plan, there are serious open questions concerning the administration’s long game and exactly how far the oligarchs influencing Trump want to take this antidemocratic movement.

CounterPunch.org

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Nicole Parsons Feb 4

https://www.wired.com/story/the-real-stakes-real-story-peter-thiels-antichrist-obsession/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/inside-billionaire-peter-thiels-private-antichrist-lectures/

Weird 19th century bullshit like this...
https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/tech/nineteenth-century-equilibrium-tech-right-aristocracy-industrial-revolution/

https://perry-douglas.medium.com/ai-the-neoliberalism-lie-f7932252f50e

https://epigram.org.uk/the-digital-empire/

https://perry-douglas.medium.com/tech-bros-the-new-tech-aristocracy-and-going-beyond-ai-fb8587e39d51

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/books/read-like-wind-recommendations.html
https://archive.ph/sgHuZ

https://perry-douglas.medium.com/the-rise-of-the-ai-oligarchs-edb0f410ec8b

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

WIRED