Tag Archives: Silicon Valley
You will own nothing
What is the AI data center mania really about? Data centers are springing up everywhere, pushed by Silicon Valley hyper-scalers and state and federal governments, even as more and more Americans protest their implementation. None of the huge expenditure makes … Continue reading
Be Evil
I thought I hated the tech-bros before but this article reinforced just how despicable they are–2026: The Year US Corporations Used AI to Allegedly Help Commit War Crimes and Make Themselves Military Targets: The Untold Story of Google, AWS, and … Continue reading
The Murder Machine
I’ve always wondered about the hype around AI but it’s become clear what its true role will be–surveillance, counterinsurgency and murder. Israel is a world leader in high-tech and AI, but much of it was developed with the blood and … Continue reading
Too Big to Fail
Is AI too big to fail? The question has come to the forefront now that Wall Street and big tech firms are inflating a massive AI bubble in the hopes that it will somehow work out, but if it doesn’t, … Continue reading
How They Operate
A perfect world for the banksters and tech-bros would be where all the profits accrue to them while all the costs fall on the society they claim doesn’t exist. Unfortunately, that’s kinda where we are at. Even worse, this unbearable … Continue reading
Concrete material benefits
The Trump-Vance administration can engineer a political transformation if they can provide concrete material benefits to working-class Americans, who have seen their standard and quality of living collapse. If so, Trump has an opportunity to consolidate a durable realignment of … Continue reading
Is that all there is?
Gazing around our world it’s clear that neoliberalism has narrowed the possibilities. Is that all there is? Massive student debts, opioid addiction, homelessness and suicides. An economy based largely on scams and fraud, that leaves the vast majority of … Continue reading
Surveillance is the business model
In Surveillance Valley, Yasha Levine, challenges conventional wisdom and says that the Internet was actually founded by the US government as part of their counterinsurgency program in Vietnam. The US government wanted to build a connected computer system that … Continue reading