The True Danger of Elon Musk
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Musk is a Nazi
What Does "Late Capitalism" Really Mean?
The cynical #latecapitalism meme going around social media calls out the inequities and absurdities of the modern economy. Google search interest in the phra...
Late Stage Capitalism, Folks
Industrial AI & sustainability: Opportunities, challenges, and the path forward - Thomson Reuters Institute
Industrial AI offers significant potential for enhancing corporate sustainability strategies, but widespread adoption faces stiff challenges.
While innovations — like DeepSeek’s announcement that it engineered hacks to address pre-training costs in its reported efforts to achieve high performance with dramatically less computation power — are notable, many agree that the dropping cost of AI usage on a per token basis will actually increase demand of AI and thus increase the overall energy demand on a global scale. (A token is a unit of measurement that calculates the cost of processing power of large language models.)
Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact
MIT News explores the environmental and sustainability implications of generative AI technologies and applications.
Microsoft preparing to host Musk's Grok AI model, The Verge reports
(Reuters) -Microsoft is getting ready to host Elon Musk's Grok AI model, The Verge reported on Thursday citing a source familiar with the plans. The tech giant has been in discussions with Musk's AI startup xAI in recent weeks to host the Grok model and make it available to customers, as well as Microsoft's own product teams through its Azure cloud service, the report said. Grok will be
CEO Sam Altman scraps OpenAI's for-profit evolution plan | Windows Central
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the firm's non-profit will continue overseeing the for-profit arm.
Accelerating Sustainability with AI: Innovations for a Better Future
ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs?
In this op-ed, politics editor Lex McMenamin explains why using AI to search "how to be sustainable" could be accomplishing the opposite.
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
State of The Dead Internet
In this one I personally lament the end of the internet I grew up on, the state of the current era, the new methods of ideological conflict and explain why d...
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Elon Musk Appears at Rally Linked to Neo Nazis, Tells Germany to Get Over the Holocaust
Elon Musk told a rally for Germany's far-right, nationalistic AfD party that Germans should move past the horrors of WWII and the Holocaust.
Elon Musk Is an Evil Piece of Garbage—and an A-Level Fraud Too
He is stupid. He is incompetent. He is cruel. He is sinister. And people will die because of what he’s done.
Trump and the Triumph of the Technolords - ZNetwork
Neoliberalism was neither new nor particularly liberal when it prevailed 50 years ago. Its great advantage was its sharp deviation from classical
Microsoft has this 'Kill Switch' for OpenAI that Elon Musk has been wishing for a long time
TECH NEWS : Microsoft possesses significant leverage to potentially obstruct OpenAI's plan to transition into an independent for-profit entity, impacting its fina
Elon Musk and the Creepy Conservative Obsession with Birth Rates
Hollie's JustGiving fundraiser: https://www.justgiving.com/page/hollie-geraghty-1737631402326?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL&utm_campaign=015Elon Musk and Conse...
Palantir: The New Deep State
A former Palantir employee is sounding the alarm. The tech company, founded by Peter Thiel, claims they can revolutionize government systems with their AI-po...
Part Two: Curtis Yarvin: The Philosopher Behind J.D. Vance | Behind the Bastards
🛎 If You're New Subscribe ► https://bit.ly/BtBSubscribePart Two: Curtis Yarvin: The Philosopher Behind J.D. Vance | BEHIND THE BASTARDSRobert concludes the...
It’s not too late to stop Trump and the Silicon Valley broligarchy from controlling our lives, but we must act now | Carole Cadwalladr
In her final piece for the Observer, Carole Cadwalladr reveals what happened when she returned last week to give the opening speech at Ted, where she gave her first – life-changing – talk six years ago
Tech fascism: 'What you're dealing with here is a cult'
'Others in San Francisco call it The Nerd Reich'
Reboot 2024: Project 2025, Peter Thiel and right-wing SF
A vision of our future politics?
How the 'Broligarchs' plan to use Trump
One of the things that I think anybody can observe is that, even among the ultra-rich, they never seem to have enough. Never enough wealth, never enough toys, never enough. So what do you want if you've bought everything already? You want limitless wealth, limitless power. Even the feeble laws
Elon Musk's Destruction of Government Experiment (DOGE)
On Sunday, I woke before dawn with the Hawk Tuah spitcoin scam on my mind and full paragraphs of text running through my head. Now I'm in the middle of drafting my final magazine piece of 2024. It will be a capstone to the Network State series I wrote for
Military Analyst: Network State Takeover of U.S. Government
The United States is currently evolving into a Network State, says a military analyst who writes regularly on the subject.
Trump’s 'Freedom Cities' Are Network State Tech Dystopia
It's an idea straight out of the Network State playbook.
Why Musk and the Broligarchy Are Loving the Economic Collapse of America
The Nerd Reich, as coined by journalist Gil Duran, is celebrating and welcoming America's economic and political collapse so they can profit off our pain and move towards creating their technocracy.
Tech Billionaires Want to Build a Network State in Greenland
A movement based on “tech Zionism” seeks to create “The Next America”
(PDF) The Network State, Venture Capital and the Political Economy of Exit
PDF | This paper considers the emerging network state movement as evidence of the interplay between exit ideologies and exit strategies in the political... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
The VC Plan That Surely Won’t Backfire: Tech Bro Colonies
Pronomos Capital has raised at least $13.3 million from free-market evangelists including Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen.
Who Would Give This Guy Millions to Build His Own Utopia? (Published 2023)
Dryden Brown wants Praxis to be a crypto-city for tech bros and tastemakers. Just don’t ask for details.
Praxis: Tech dystopia as the 'Next America'
This isn't weird at all