Intel Layoffs Exceed 5,000 Across US - proving they can still double something!

WARN filings show Intel more than doubled their layoff estimates in CA alone. When your workforce reduction strategy is more efficient than your chip manufacturing...

https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/16/2246205/intel-layoffs-exceed-5000-across-us

“Move fast and break things.”

The things:

- Human rights
- Our habitat
- Democracy

#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital https://mastodon.social/@freakonometrics/114860155869573459

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/trump-ai-oil-energy-summit

#SiliconValley joins hands with #fossilfuel and #ai is the new excuse. Anyway #oil #oligarchy has been funding the valley via the likes of Softbank and/or directly. #Putin uses the valley products such as social media to subvert #democracy

Hard to see anything good about the valley any more

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/us-military-xai-deal-elon-musk

#SiliconValley seems to have finally wised up to the fact that trying to lure consumers through actual good products is for losers. They now have only two ideas - force-feed consumers to rip them off directly and sign ginormous contracts with governments to rip off taxpayers (aka consumers).

Gizmodo: The Hidden Cost of OpenAI’s Genius. “According to a recent report from The Information, OpenAI revealed to investors that its stock-based compensation for employees surged more than fivefold last year to an astonishing $4.4 billion. That figure isn’t just large; it’s more than the company’s entire revenue for the year, accounting for a staggering 119% of its $3.7 billion in […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/12/gizmodo-the-hidden-cost-of-openais-genius/

"British police forces have signed contracts with a controversial US tech giant to buy AI-powered software that uses data about an individual’s race, sex life, health and political beliefs, it can be revealed.

An internal police memo obtained by The i Paper and Liberty Investigates confirms an intention to “nationally” apply the “Nectar” intelligence system, currently deployed as a pilot by the Bedfordshire force after being developed with Silicon Valley data analysis group Palantir Technologies.

The document, obtained under freedom of information rules, shows how the Palantir system is designed to bring together dozens of existing law enforcement databases into a single computing platform to draw up detailed profiles of suspects, as well as collate information on victims of crime, witnesses, and vulnerable individuals including children.

The 34-page briefing, which deals with data protection issues related to Nectar and Bedfordshire Police, makes clear the ambition of senior officers for the system to be used across policing, including in the fight against serious organised crime.

It states: “The primary goal is to help Bedfordshire… as well as the Eastern Region Serious Organised Crime Unit… and eventually apply [Nectar] nationally. This will develop tools to better protect vulnerable people by preventing, detecting and investigating crime.”"

https://inews.co.uk/news/police-use-controversial-ai-tool-sex-lives-beliefs-3747154

"Does anyone really believe that would not have happened if there were just some different executives at Google? The structural forces of capitalism, of the public market, of the demand for growth at all costs would have bowled them over too.

Indeed, we’ve already run the experiment on whether a set of companies and executives claiming they’d be better than the old guard will really deliver on that promise. That was exactly the narrative the tech industry sold to the world when it was a bunch of startups and scrappy founders fighting to displace the dominant firms they were going up against. They promised they would “do no evil.”

That narrative was valuable in selling themselves and their products to the public, with ample help from a credulous media that loves to chase money and power. Years later, we can see it was an effective marketing campaign that allowed them to evade regulation and taxation that applied to traditional industries for far longer than they should’ve gotten away with.

The tech oligarchs are just as bad as — if not worse than — the executives and monopolists that preceded them, and a new crop of founders won’t change the way that vast wealth and power tends to corrupt those who wield it.

There are certainly exceptions to these rules. Wikipedia remains a non-profit entity and Signal seems to be resisting the pressure to pursue growth at all costs. But they’re few and far between, and it’s not better founders that will change that. It requires upending the structural forces that push companies and the people who run them to cast all other considerations aside in the pursuit of power and profit."

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/better-founders-wont-fix-silicon

Doge wants to replace our institutions with a tech utopia. It won’t work | Mike Pepi https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/11/doge-silicon-valley-tech-utopia #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Trumpadministration #SiliconValley #Technology #USpolitics #Computing #ElonMusk #USnews

Tech billionaires are turning the world on its head. We must challenge their power, but we also need to be clear that the individuals aren’t the sole problem.

There are structural forces at play that would pressure anyone in their position to do much the same. They must be dismantled.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/better-founders-wont-fix-silicon

Labour is selling the nation out to the Tech Bros without even a vote on the matter.

Quislings and Appeasers to fascists and fascist enablers.

They want our Youth dangerous and isolated, they want Fascism on every phone screen and Labour isn't going to stop them

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/uk-governments-deal-with-google-dangerously-naive-say-campaigners

The Nazi affiliated Substack duking the stats so users think their audience is steadily increasing and stick around on the platform?

Would Tech Bros be so duplicitous?

Of course they would, we're all rubes to them!

If somebody murdered all the Tech Bros we'd all have such a big party on their graves.

I wish there was some way they could know and understand this sentiment on a deep level, I suspect they still think we are in love with them and their words.

No matter how much money they have, they can't make most of us think they're cool.