Bitcoin-Träumer labern immer noch von Freiheit, Banking the Unbanked und ähnlichen Chimären und pushen damit ein antidemokratisches, libertäres, gesellschaftsfeindliches System, dass nur für Spekulation, Betrug, Erpressung und Terrorfinanzierung verwendet wird all unsere fiskalen Schutzmechanismen aushebelt und dabei nichts zur Wirtschaft beiträgt.

Leider wird dieses Zerrbild auch in manchen Hackerkreisen immer noch weitergeträumt. Das muss langsam mal ein Ende finden.
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/115859900870482744

#israel #palästina : #krieg / #gaza / #journalismus / #administrativhaft / #folter / #sexualisiertegewalt / #demokratie / #audio / #interview

„Unfassbare Gewalt gegen Gefangene - Notizen aus Israel

Schläge, Folter, Vergewaltigung: Palästinensische Gefangene, die in israelischen Gefängnissen oder Lagern waren, berichten von unfassbarer Gewalt. Es zeigt ein Bild des Grauens aus der einzigen Demokratie im Nahen Osten.”

https://www.br.de/mediathek/podcast/notizen-aus-aller-welt/unfassbare-gewalt-gegen-gefangene-notizen-aus-israel/2113817

"Watching tech moguls throw caution to the wind in the AI arms race or equivocate on whether humanity ought to continue, it’s natural to wonder whether they care about human lives.

The earnest, in-depth answer to this question is just as bleak as the glib one. As moral philosopher Émile Torres argues, many Silicon Valley leaders embrace a vision of a transhumanist future in which biological humans will be replaced by digital beings endowed with superintelligence. This vision helps explain their obsession with artificial general intelligence (AGI) and sits at the core of what Torres describes as human extinctionist preferences.

In 2023, Torres and his colleague Timnit Gebru coined the acronym TESCREAL to describe a constellation of ideologies — Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, Longtermism — that have become highly influential within Silicon Valley. Torres is a philosopher, intellectual historian, and journalist whose work focuses on the ethics of emerging technologies, particularly AI and human extinction.

In this conversation with journalist Doug Henwood recorded for the Jacobin podcast Behind the News, Torres explains the TESCREAL worldview, its connections to eugenics and IQ realism, and why figures like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Sam Altman embrace visions of a post-human future."

https://jacobin.com/2025/11/musk-thiel-altman-ai-tescrealism/

#BigTech #AI #AGI #TESCREAL #SuperIntelligence #PostHumanism

I know there's a general "cause fatigue" with the current state of the world, and I feel it too.

But in my years working in privacy,
I don't think I've seen anything as terrifying as this European Chat Control proposal. And I'm not even European.

Everyone needs to pay
much more attention and be much more worried and outraged about this.

This proposal is the most dystopian glimpse into a horrible authoritarian future I have seen so far in the West.

It looks dismal, but we can still stop it
if we all work TOGETHER NOW ✊

There isn't much time left though,
so don't put it to next week.

Democracy dies in silence.

• Everyone: Learn more here
• Everyone: Spread the word on social media
• Europeans 🇪🇺 Contact your local media NOW
• Europeans 🇪🇺 Contact your MEPs NOW

The final vote is on October 14th,
but media and representatives need to receive your messages NOW, so they have enough time to act on it.

#ChatControl #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #StopScanningMe #EUpol #UKpol #USpol #CanPoli

Sources: the EU delayed a planned September 1 fine against Google over ad tech practices, amid fears it could provoke Trump and unravel progress on trade talks (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-02/google-s-adtech-fine-delayed-as-eu-frets-over-trump-backlash
http://www.techmeme.com/250902/p19#a250902p19

Markus Beckedahl, Veranstalter der Digitalkonferenz re:publica, warnt vor einem "digitalen Faschismus". Er sei keine Dystopie mehr, sagte Beckedahl bei der Eröffnungsveranstaltung in Berlin. Durch die Allianz von Autokraten und Tech-Milliardären werde der digitale Faschismus real.
#Kulturzeit hat mit @markus_netzpolitik gesprochen:
https://www.3sat.de/kultur/kulturzeit/markus-beckedahl-re-publica-2025-faschismus-100.html?at_medium=Social%20Media&at_campaign=Mastodon&at_specific=3sat

#3sat #rp25 #MarkusBeckedahl #DigitalerFaschismus