#siliconvalley

🍌 Company Insiders Made Billions Before SPAC Bust
➥ WSJ

"Companies that went public this way have lost more than $100 billion in market value. At least 12 have filed for bankruptcy and more than 100 are running low on cash, battered by higher interest rates and rising costs."

#SPACs #SiliconValley #VC
https://www.wsj.com/articles/company-insiders-made-billions-before-spac-bust-4607a869

@HistoPol
Nope. Metaphor intentional:
#Democracy currently under attack by #TechnoFascist #SiliconValley oligarchs wielding #AI.

🦄 Dead Silicon Valley Unicorns Pile Up as 'Unicorpses'
➥ Bloomberg

"There appears to be a broad consensus that lower valuations are here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. But for well-capitalized private companies, it can take a while for the dominos to fall. We've started to see once highly valued businesses sell for disappointing outcomes or shut down altogether."

#Unicorns #SiliconValley #TechBubble
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-06-01/dead-silicon-valley-unicorns-pile-up-as-unicorpses

" ‘I do not think ethical surveillance can exist’: Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh on accountability in #AI " | Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/29/rumman-chowdhury-interview-artificial-intelligence-accountability

#AI wasn't;
• a product launch
• an introduction
• a consumer adoption
• widely embraced

It was an “injection”.

#Privacy
#Surveillance
#EthicalAI
#AIEthics
#BigDigital
#BigData #AI #ML
#SiliconValley
#TechnoFascist
#BigTech #VC
#OpenAI #ChatGPT
#ElonMusk
#PeterThiel
#SamAltman
#AIBlitzkreig
#OligarchBlitzkreig
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#Democracy

💸 Popular Reddit App Apollo Would Need to Pay $20 Million Per Year Under New API Pricing
➥ MacRumors

"Apollo developer Christian Selig was today told that Reddit plans to charge $12,000 for 50 million API requests. Last month, Apollo made seven billion requests, which would mean Selig would need to pay $1.7 million per month or $20 million per year to Reddit to keep the app running."

#Reddit #VC #SiliconValley https://www.macrumors.com/2023/05/31/reddit-api-changes-pricing-apollo/

😉 Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation by 41% since 2021 investment
➥ Techcrunch

"Fidelity, the lead investor in Reddit’s most-recent funding round, has slashed the estimated worth of its equity stake in the popular social media platform by 41%, the latest high-profile write-down amid a weakening worldwide economy on public markets."

#Reddit #TechBubble #SiliconValley https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/01/fidelity-reddit-valuation/

Recalling today how a company I worked for tried to motivate us, a #tech #healthcare #startup by..

..shakes eight ball..

..bringing a Toastmasters champion to speak to us?

The guy had zero #IT experience and.. worse yet.. no real worked experience. As far as his resume : guy was literally just good at talking?

Our CEO was standing back looking borderline climactic while all us #coders and #analytics guys were like : #WTF?

Any way - it has inspired me to rewatch #SiliconValley on #HBO..so..

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-end-of-the-silicon-valley-dream/

Interesting longread about the rise and decline of Silicon Valley.

#tech #technology #SiliconValley #apple #RetroComputing #article

Optimismus-Schwund und Skepsis: Wie das #SiliconValley seinen Glanz verlor | Deutschlandfunk Breitband https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/optimismus-schwund-und-skepsis-wie-das-silicon-valley-seinen-glanz-verlor-dlf-kultur-0e6cd716-100.html

Amazon and Google fund anti-abortion lawmakers through complex shell game - The Guardian

https://www.inkl.com/a/dblpmXSwYjw

#google #amazon #BigTech #SiliconValley

#SanFrancisco is rightly tired of being an experimental playground for #SelfDriving cars.

Waymo cars have
barged into construction zones, blocked people in their parking spots, driven past caution tape towards crime scenes and downed power lines, and are notorious for blocking #busses on SF's narrow streets

#urbanism #transit #tech #siliconvalley

https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/san-francisco-waymo-cruise-self-driving-cars-robotaxis.html

@Singernews @gbhnews That Underwood seems to be in near mint condition. Love the color!

Here's my blue Sears Tutor.

A drawback of living in a place where everybody is very online is that typewriters are very expensive. You can't find any under $100 here in #SiliconValley. This one was $60 including shipping on #ebay.

Figuring out local places I can sell my greeting cards - new blog post. https://www.valleyoakpaper.com/post/selling-irl

#SiliconValley #crafts #craftfair #fleaMarket

LA Times' Brian Merchant with a great David v Goliath story about two Uber drivers who took on the gig app industrial complex in California—and won tens of millions of dollars for workers.

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-06-01/column-uber-david-and-goliath?utm_id=99690&sfmc_id=1263126

#Business #Gigeconomy #Uber #SiliconValley

Remember “Open APIs?” How Tim O’Reilly told us they were how we would build the “open web” in “Web 2.0?”

Turns out an Open API is open in the sense that a gate owned by someone else is open. In that it can just as easily be closed and locked at their whim.

#open #APIs #openAPIs #web2 #openWeb #SiliconValley #openWashing #timOReilly #freedom

Wired: Amazon Workers Walk Out Over Layoffs and Broken Climate Promises https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-workers-walk-out-over-layoffs-and-broken-climate-promises/ #Tech #wired #TechNews #IT #Technology via @morganeogerbc #Business/TechCulture #SiliconValley #climatechange #PrimeTimeOut #environment #Business #Layoffs #Amazon #Work #Jobs

👊 The Traitorous 8 - The Betrayal That Created Silicon Valley
➥ Logically Answered

#SiliconValley #Semiconductors #ComputingHistory
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=caOn_nOvdQc&feature=youtu.be

@Npars01 @ben

Don’t forget #Twitter as a 16 year, private, bottomless, well of harvested #PersonalData (an asset class) easily refined to fuel private #AI services deployed by its owners via ‘X Corp’.

$44B was 🥜’s

#SiliconValley
#TechnoFascist
#BigTech #VC
#OligarchBlitzkreig
#TechnoFascism
#Democracy
#USpoli
#NatSec

Use of #MentalHealth #chatbots emerged from #BigTech #SiliconValley around 2012, many from academic project DNA. I’ve been immersed in the space ever since.

Key take away:

Late Stage Capitalism + omnipresent #SurveillanceCapitalism
(#TechnoFascist #VC #AI #ML #TechBros #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #SamAltman)
LOVE vulnerable populations.

"Eating Disorder Helpline Disables Chatbot for 'Harmful' Responses After Firing Human Staff”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvk97/eating-disorder-helpline-disables-chatbot-for-harmful-responses-after-firing-human-staff

#Health
#DigitalMentalHealth
#MedMaston

@wndlb

If 'Cash' is the heroin of American politics ;) 'Reputation' is the cocaine of academia.

They've always been active & very successful at it but over past 15 years the current breed of #SiliconValley #BigTech firms have cultivated and captured a wide range of nations, regulators, institutions and researchers in unprecedented ways.

Sadly, Bengio is just 1 of 100's.

What bums me out: he & Hinton both located in 🇨🇦 🤦🏻‍♂️

#AI Sith Lord for all to keep sharp 👀's on 👇 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt

“They’re torturing themselves now, which is kind of fun to see"
It is!
#ElonMusk #SiliconValley #OpenAI
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/28/artificial-intelligence-doug-rushkoff-tech-billionaires-escape-mode

They're stepping up their game...

"Squirrels cause electricity outage in #SiliconValley city"
https://boingboing.net/2023/05/30/squirrels-cause-electricity-outage-in-silicon-valley-city.html

🐿️

@craignewmark

@Jeramee you must VOTE BLUE even when the "Democrats" on the ballot are yesterday's Republicans - like Blue Dog Adam Schiff, who was recruited by David Brock and funded by the studios.
The first thing Schiff did was to join the Blue Dog caucus, and he votes Republican most of the time.
It's okay because he was one of Nancy's chosen leaders.
Thank #SiliconValley for this, and the Russian Influencer, Sergei Brin, who came directly from Moscow to b

#AI #Racism #Sexism #DigitalColonialism #SiliconValley #BigTech: "Machine learning research is overwhelmingly male and white, a demographic world away from the diverse communities it purports to help. And Big Tech firms don’t just offer online diversions—they hold enormous amounts of power to shape events in the real world.

Birhane and others have branded this “digital colonialism”—arguing that the power of Big Tech rivals the old colonial empires. Its harms will not affect us all equally, she argues: As technology is exported to the global south, it carries embedded Western norms and philosophies along with it. It’s sold as a way of helping people in underdeveloped nations, but it’s often imposed on them without consultation, pushing them further into the margins. “Nobody in Silicon Valley stays up worrying about the unbanked Black women in a rural part of Timbuktu,” Birhane says."

https://www.wired.com/story/abeba-birhane-ai-datasets/

There are reasons for that...

#Crypto #Cryptocurrencies #WorldCoin #SiliconValley #Dystopia #Biometrics: "In a press release, Tools for Humanity said the new funding "will accelerate TFH's continued R&D and growth, enabling it to support the expansion of the Worldcoin project and to further develop World App, the first wallet for the Worldcoin ecosystem."

Blockchain Capital General Partner Spencer Bogart defended Worldcoin against the privacy and security criticisms the iris-scanning project has received. "I thought Worldcoin was some dystopian Orwellian nightmare, then our team invested hundreds of hours evaluating what the project's contributors have actually built and I completely changed my mind," Bogart wrote on Twitter.

Bogart claimed that "Worldcoin is quite likely the single most misunderstood project in all of crypto," noting that upon "first glance, it appears to be a noxious combination of hardware, biometrics, crypto and AI.""

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/openai-ceo-raises-115m-for-crypto-company-that-scans-peoples-eyeballs/

Wired: Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture https://www.wired.com/story/github-tech-values/ #Tech #wired #TechNews #IT #Technology via @morganeogerbc #SiliconValley #programming #developers #github #Ideas #Work

#Monterey "County Supervisor Mary Adams, whose district includes #Carmel Valley, says that despite initial skepticism, she’s now 'very comfortable' with using public-private partnerships to shore up local #infrastructure.

"'So many roads and bridges are in terrible condition here,' Adams says. 'In a district where we have so many #CountyRoads, and so many competing interests for funding throughout the county, it’s been a challenge.'"

—from "Monterey County is now letting #PrivateLandowners fund #RoadRepairs near their properties," by Rey Mashayekhi in #MontereyCountyWeekly.

https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/local_news/monterey-county-is-now-letting-private-landowners-fund-road-repairs-near-their-properties/article_6b269254-fa75-11ed-b018-4343f17a3125.html

#BikeTooter #infrastructure #CarmelValley #PublicPrivatePartnership #SiliconValley #SiliconValleyCommunityFoundation #FoxCreekRanch #MontereyCounty

@fj

TBH: lately I've been noticing how easy it is for #SiliconValley #TechnoFascist #VC’s and their incumbent #BigTech distribution partners to deceive humans 🤦🏻‍♂️

Srsly, thanks for all you do 🙏
Hugely appreciated.

#AI #ML #BigData
#AIBlitzkrieg
#OligarchGasligting
#ArtificialIntelligence
#TechnoFascism
#SamAltman
#PeterThiel
#ElonMusk
#AIEthics
#EthicalAI
#Privacy
#Democracy

@davew

Yes, sure, the internet is ‘open’ but as we’ve all experienced : quickly embraced by #SiliconValley #VC corporate interests who centralized & commercialized all human experiences and interactions it enabled.

Decentralized federated services is the right path and there’s ample device compute power in consumers hands but we need resilient Tech & Commercial models that easily blend / connect private (#E2EE #encryption) & public (open) spaces – otherwise we're fucked.

#Democracy

@AmyDentata @mattedgar

What #Chatbots do extremely well?

•  harvest human interaction #data and associate #PersonalData to train and improve their own algorithmic backend systems

#AI #ML
#BigData
#Privacy
#SiliconValley
#BigTech
#OpenAI
#ChatGPT
#TechnoFascism
#OligarchBlitzkrieg
#AIBlitzkrieg
#ElonMusk
#PeterThiel
#SamAltman
#AIEthics
#EthicalAI
#Democracy

@bhaggart

#AI is a savage and lawless land, the perfect conditions for a #SiliconValley #VC subsidized global industrial #PsyOp

#Democracy will be lucky to survive current hype-cycle so critical for citizens to pay vigilant attention and not be distracted or conned any further by Tech-captured & controlled media.

Pay #Attention.
Question underlying assumptions.

#OligarchBlitzkrieg
#AIBlitzkrieg
#BigTech
#TechnoFascism
#SamAltman
#PeterThiel
#ElonMusk
#AIEthics
#EthicalAI
#Privacy
#Law

@snazzyq Think of how many people Dinesh had to sell to to get a convertible *and* the wheels! #SiliconValley

Blowing and Sucking at the same time
… as dazzle-camouflage

#AIBlitzkrieg
#OligarchGasligting
#OligarchBlitzkrieg
#OpenAI
#ChatGPT
#TechnoFascism
#SamAltman
#ElonMusk
#PeterThiel
#SiliconValley
#BigTech
#Democracy

See?

#AI makes everything so simple a child could do it…

🤦🏻‍♂️

#AIEthics
#EthcalAI
#SiliconValley
#VC #AIBlitzkrieg
#OligarchBlitzkrieg
#Democracy
#MentalHealth
#BigTech
#BigData #ML
#StarTrek

@daringfireball #SiliconValley #HBO continues to prove to be more fact than fiction years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YOEEpWAXgU&t=51s

Dazzle-Camouflage distraction for #SiliconValley #BigTech oligarch f*ckery:
– the “appearance” of doing ‘good’

#AIBlitzkrieg
#OligarchBlitzkrieg
#OpenAI #ChatGPT
#AIEthics #EthicalAI

My dream comes true that this story finally gets told...

Thank you #Apple
🙏

#Health #DigitalHealth #HealthTech #MentalHealth #DigitalMentalHealth #AI #ML
#HealthKit #CareKit #BigData #HealthAI #AIEthics #EthicalAI #Privacy
#ArtificialIntelligence
#MachineLearning
#SiliconValley #BigTech
#PersonalData #HealthData
#Surveillance #BioSurveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#SmartPhones #Wearables
#MedMastodon #AppleWatch

90 seconds:

@bhaggart

• #AI has been a savage & lawless land from day one (perfect climate for #BigTech #VC’s)

• bulk of #AI issues humans are struggling with now existed back in late 60’s

• #SiliconValley #VC oligarchs love throwing 💩 at the wall to see what sticks and have no compunction about disrupting or destroying #democracy

and that’s what we’re ALL living through now / since “injection" of #OpenAI #ChatGPT into humanity late Nov ‘22

#AIEthics
#EthicalAI
#OligarchBlitzkrieg
#AIBlitzkrieg

@FinchHaven

Been following M*sk since his pre-PayPal Mafia days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia

The place was a Petri dish / incubator for 🇺🇸 #SiliconValley #TechnoFascist oligarchs ‘disrupting’ what’s left of #democracy today.

Had long cut him compassionate slack for his #ASD #Autism but that went *p00f* years ago.

#MentalHealth
#ElonMusk
#Twitter

3. Eric Weinstein, former managing director of Thiel Capital, doesn’t understand that his brother was a victim of phishing so his #Twitter got hacked, and also thinks it is it might be related to him being spied on, but his phone is either broken or he just isn’t locking it correctly.

These #SiliconValley money guys don’t seem very bright.

So many of these #SiliconValley money guys know nothing about the #tech world yet are at least partially responsible for picking the winners and losers. Do they rely on others to explain it to them or do they just base their investments off of vibes?

Some examples:
1. One angel investor thought #Twitter’s trouble during the #RonDeSantis announcement could be due to a denial of service attack and not Twitter just being broken.

Reid Hoffman Is Praising the Virtues of AI - Few are as involved in so many different artificial intelligence efforts as Mr. Hoffman, ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/technology/reid-hoffman-artificial-intelligence.html #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #siliconvalley(calif) #hoffmanreidgarrett #boardsofdirectors #entrepreneurship #greylockpartners #inflectionaiinc #venturecapital #microsoftcorp #innovation #openailabs #start-ups

@drahardja

Gargantuan BINGO! 👍

but much work still needed to foster, build and bake individual, family and consumer #privacy and #encryption options into present/future #Fediverse products and services.

Disrupting centralized #BigTech servers isn’t going to stop ubiquitous #surveillance and #PersonalData harvesting that fuels fires of #SiliconValley #VC funded #AI’s. They're as addicted to #SurveillanceCapitalism as #SocialMedia users are to platforms they use.

#Democracy
#TechnoFascism

@justinhendrix @cwarzel

#Twitter’s been an oligarch #PsyOp since billionaire #ElonMusk walked in HQ front door with his trillionaire sovereign immune partner

Both AList Tech bloggers & mainstream media have done a dismal & irresponsible job providing ‘a portrait of reality upon which the citizen can act’ failing to cut through #Elmo's global #gaslighting. Played like 🎻’s

PBS Frontline: Oct‘19
90 sec

#SiliconValley #BigTech
#TechnoFascist #VC
#PeterThiel
#ElonMusk
#USpoli
#Democracy
#NatSec

@medecinelibre
For starters:
• they initially funded #OpenAI as a “nonprofit"
• used it to scrape/harvest as much human experience as they could from public internet + other digital archives
• applied algorithmic mojo (not a medical term ;) to its harvest to produce an "asset”
• leveraged existing #BigTech incumbents (#Microsoft, #Salesforce, et al keen to fight #Google) as distributors/injectors.

🇺🇸 #SiliconValley #VC oligarchs love unregulated markets and indifferent to -ve externalities

#AI

1) #ElonMusk+#PeterThiel “inject” #OpenAI #ChatGPT into global marketplace (‘cuz it sure as sh*t wasn’t a ‘Product Launch’)

2) #Microsoft does a distribution deal and turns its Lawn Sprinklers up to “11”
"Built-in ChatGPT-driven Copilot will transform Windows 11 starting in June”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/built-in-chatgpt-driven-copilot-will-transform-windows-11-starting-in-june/

#AI is a savage and lawless land. Virtually no laws anywhere on earth that govern its responsible use – or govern it at all.

#SiliconValley
#BigTech #VC
#AI #ML
#AIEthics
#EthicalAI
#Democracy

Trying to watch Silicon Valley but really having trouble with TJ Miller’s character. I am not sure how he does it but he channels this self-absorbed asshole so well that he is difficult to watch. Method acting isn’t dead my friends!

#SiliconValley

Ya think? 🤦🏻‍♂️

This is like heads of an international drug cartel begging to hire more police…

"OpenAI leaders propose international regulatory body for AI” | TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/22/openai-leaders-propose-international-regulatory-body-for-ai/

#SiliconValley
#BigTech #VC
#AI #ML
#ArtificialIntelligence
#MachineLearning
#OpenAI #ChatGPT
#AIEthics
#EthicalAI
#Privacy
#Democracy
#TechnoFascism
#SamAltman
#ElonMusk
#PeterThiel

This is big…

#Facebook #Instagram & #WhatsApp owner, Meta, has been fined a record €1.2bn (£1bn) and ordered to suspend the transfer of user data from the #EU to the US.

The fine – equivalent to $1.3bn – imposed by #Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), which regulates #Meta across the #EU, is a record for a breach of the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation ( #GDPR ).

#Privacy #oligarchy #SiliconValley #Zuckerberg #socialmedia

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/22/facebook-fined-mishandling-user-information-ireland-eu-meta

@carnage4life

Tech/Media ‘BigBang' was ’96 launch of MSNBC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC

Once end user #surveillance analytics & monetization models kicked-in, next logical “innovation” emerged from Stanford Behaviour Design Lab (Persuasion Lab) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Behavior_Design_Lab
(#Facebook #Brexit 💩)

Todays media #enshitification brought to you by #BigTech #SiliconValley #VC oligarchs who’ve successfully weaponized it and no longer need Vice & Buzzfeed data harvesting – which has satiated their #AI’s

What this news article doesn't say is that the cited 'think tank' #LabourForTheLongTerm is yet another front for opaque funding.

In other words, it will not disclose the name of its sponsors, which should have your alarm bells ringing by default.

It also funds post-Blairite MPs, like #WesStreeting, and has links to the faintly sinister and sociopathic, neo-liberal "Effective Altruism" movement, so beloved in #SiliconValley.

#AI #UK #UKNews #Politics

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/20/labour-should-pledge-11bn-to-build-britgpt-ai-thinktank-says

Another great podcast from @parismarx #TechWontSaveUs on the absolute insanity on the #rightwing #SiliconValley #TESCREAL #eugenics #EffectiveAltruism #mind #virus

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-wont-save-us/id1507621076?i=1000613487138

Facebook to be fined £648m for being Facebook.

In other news, Facebook gets to keep being Facebook.

https://www.inkl.com/a/kbBxXbHjBoj

#dataProtection #GDPR #privacy #facebook #SiliconValley #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #thisIsFine

Infographic – U-Turn on A.I. Venture Funds in Q1

Both the total #investment dollars and number of #venture deals in Q1 2023 are the lowest single quarter totals for #AI since 2019.

https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=44811

#News #Science #Business #Finance #VentureCapital #Infographic #StartUps #Entrepreneurs #ArtificialIntelligence #SiliconValley #Technology

It seems like #ScottsValley has never really recovered from #Borland shutting down and #Seagate moving out. For some reason the subsequent booms in #SiliconValley seem to have passed it by. Perhaps because of #SantaCruz county's steadfast opposition to any improvements to #Highway17? Or maybe there was just no reason to invest here once those companies were gone?

@gmusser

#AI isn’t a threat to humanity, the humans who wield it are.

#ElonMusk
#PhonyStark
#PeterThiel
#TechnoFascism
#Privacy #Surveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#AI #ML #BigData
#BigTech #VC
#SiliconValley
#OpenAI #ChatGPT
#ChatBot #Chatbots
#ArtificialIntelliegnce
#MachineLearning
#ElonMuskIsATroll
#Democracy
#JustSayin’
👇

Free of the tech industry's "golden handcuffs," laid-off workers are finding more meaningful work at fashion startups, wineries, and neighborhood retail shops. “I'm not above anything or below anything,” one laid-off tech manager said.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3akddn/i-got-to-break-free-laid-off-tech-workers-search-for-new-purpose-outside-silicon-valley
#layoffs #techlayoffs #masslayoffs #LinkedIN #SiliconValley

Elizabeth Holmes’ no good, very bad day: Bail denied and a bill for $452 million - Enlarge / Elizabeth Holmes (C), founder and former CEO of blood-testing... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1939999 #elizabethholmes #biotechnology #siliconvalley #bloodtesting #theranos #balwani #health #policy #fraud

@blakereid

Yesterday's #SenateAIHearing was pure political theatre: the appearance of wanting to do something.

#AI is and remains a savage and lawless land ( the perfect conditions for #SiliconValley oligarchs, #VC’s and their #BigTech injection / distribution partners )

#AI isn’t a threat.
Humans wielding it is.

#ArtificialIntelligence
#Law #EthicalAI
#AIEthics #Democracy

@paul

Been following this space closely over 7 years.

#MentalHealth chatbots are a #privacy and ethical nightmare 😱 but there’s no shortage of institutions, researchers, #BigTech captured academia and #SiliconValley #VC's willing to prey on at-risk vulnerable populations.

"The Problem With Mental Health Bots” | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/mental-health-chatbots/

#Health #DigitalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#ArtificialIntelligence
#AIEthics #EthicalAI
#Healthcare #OSI #PTSD
#MoralInjury #CPTSD
#MedMastodon #AI

ELIZABETH HOLMES LOSES LATEST BID TO AVOID PRISON AND GETS HIT WITH $452 MILLION RESTITUTION BILL

Appeals court rejected her bid to remain free while she tries to overturn her conviction in appeal.

In another ruling issued late Tuesday, Judge ordered Holmes to pay $452 million in restitution to the victims of her crimes.

This is a story that never ceases to fascinate!

#ElizabethHolmes #Theranos #SiliconValley

https://apnews.com/article/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-prison-e1f8ebdd48455d7e0c87f450d665a404

@Jdreben
🙏
My #HealthTech founder lens is squarely focused on individuals, families and patients specific to #MentalHealth #OSI #PTSD #FirstResponders and most of all – #privacy and #data agency that accrues to humans FIRST

For 7 years I've watched #SiliconValley #BigTech #VC's fuck up every opportunity to employ #AI #ML #BigData in service of “doing the right thing” to produce positive #health outcomes. At *every* opportunity they've exploited vulnerable populations in service of greed.

@jdp23 @Wolven

IMHO: Sam Altman seriously runs the Martin Scorsese “Casino" Philip Green character vibe: an affable oligarch front man for #ElonMusk #PeterThiel & #OpenAI's incumbent #BigTech business partners

From an individual, family, patient and #privacy perspective: I'm taking everything Altman says with a dump truck of salt.

#BigTech #Health
#HealthTech
#DigitalHealth
#MentalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#SiliconValley
#VC #AI #ML
#MedMastodon

@caseynewton @zackwhittaker

Obfuscation is core to *ALL* #SiliconValley #BigTech business models (and has been for years)

🇺🇸 #TechnoFascist oligarchs & #VC's who intentionally lie, distract and gaslight is now considered #DisruptiveInnovation

#Democracy

“Upzoning should be illegal because it ruins neighborhood character!”

The neighborhood character:

#YIMBY #SiliconValley #California

@emmalbriant @carl

This is the 2nd largest private investor in #Twitter supporting #ElonMusk, a sovereign immune trillionaire…

PBS Frontline: 90 second clip
Full Program: Oct 1, 2019
"The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia"
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-crown-prince-of-saudi-arabia/

#BigTech
#BigData
#Surveillance
#Privacy
#SurveiallanceCapitalism
#SocialMedia
#TechnoFascism
#Technofascist
#SiliconValley #VC
#Democracy
#USpoli #NatSec
#Turkey #Elmo
#TurkeyElections

Humans experimenting with AI?
–or–
#AI experimenting with Humans?

Given #Musk & #Thiel are principally responsible for the injection of #OpenAI #ChatGPT into the world and human brains? – what do you think?

“ChatGPT Plugins And Web Browsing Beta Rollout For Plus Users”
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/chatgpt-plugins-web-browsing-beta/486785/

#AI #ML #BigData
#ArtificialIntelligence
#MachineLearning
#AIEthics
#EthicalAI
#BigTech #VC
#SiliconValley
#ElonMusk
#PeterThiel
#MentalHealth
#MedMastodon
#TechnoFascism
#SiliconValley
#Democracy

In a moment of utter madness, I have written my own lengthy rant on #AI, #Chatbots, the future of #Writing and #Journalism, and why it's good to be #Weird,

I also slag off all manner of #SiliconValley pillocks for good measure.

#DigitalHumanities #WritingCommunity #Culture #News

https://alexanderhayauthor.github.io/website/chatbot_cliche.html

From #SiliconValley to the #Tarsands to the #Internet itself, enormous public investment was required to make it happen before rugged individualism took on all the credit. Where's the similar investment in Climate? We asked Canadian tech writer @parismarx.

#Climate #ClimateChange #NetZero #yyc #abpoli #cdnpoli #Urbanism #CityBuilding #NetZero #elxnab

https://youtu.be/cinx3K63nOc

Defending a venture-capital funded startup is never the hill you want to die on.

#vc #ventureCapital #startups #SiliconValley #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism

@FrankPasquale ⬆️

So the #Noosphere is an imagined #Hyperloop above Earth 🌎 connecting #SovietZombie 🧟‍♂️ fascists in #Russia to #HighTech fascists in #SiliconValley and #Texas ?

#SaveAmerica from cults and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists !

“Honey, I’ve changed”

– Tech billionaires launching their latest “decentralised” projects

#SiliconValley #BigTech #billionaires #decentralisation

I mean, is it too early for yet another fucking I told you so? (Because, goodness, is it getting tiring.)

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/110303972798576262

#BlueSky #SiliconValley #bullshit

Big Web folks: Performance is the most important thing.

Also Big Web folks: let’s make every web page a real-time auction where you’re sold off to the highest bidder.

You wouldn’t have to be so obsessed with performance if you weren’t trying to hide all the shady shit you’re pulling in the background.

#BigWeb #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism #SiliconValley #adTech #VC

@pilhofer @jeffjarvis

New Media ventures that were simply cogs in the ”#BigTech Behavioural Surveillance Complex” and have outlived their harvesting function.

Their job (#JTBD) was to scrape needed fuel for what's now powering #AI from same set of #SiliconValley investors.

@paul

#Twitter is now (well, since #Elmo walked in the HQ front door) – a personal, privately owned, global media chaos machine.

He didn't buy to fix
He bought it to wield it.

It's working.

#Media
#Attention
#BigTech
#Democracy
#SiliconValley
#TechnoFascism

@atomicpoet In the venture capital game, the sell out happens at the very start when you accept venture capital.

#vc #ventureCapital #SiliconValley #SurveillanceCapitalism #BigTech

@anders @atomicpoet

Venture capitalists and people who "grew up" in #SiliconValley are used to this: most start-ups fail.
Way of life.

"Technosolutionsim and the Unspoken Politics of Modern CS Education"

Quiz: Is this a real paper or #ChatGPT hallucinated source?

If fake should it be real?

If it is real what do you think it says?

#uspol #siliconvalley #cseducation

I love it. There’s a poll ongoing about whether folks would ban a Meta (Instagram/Facebook) instance and people are like “well, I’d give them the benefit of the doubt.”

I really have no words.

Is it learned helplessness? Stockholm Syndrome? Masochism? Something else?

I just don‘t get it.

#SiliconValley #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism #PlayItAgainSam

Fool me once, Twitter.
Fool me twice, Bluesky.

#Twitter #Bluesky #JackDorsey #SiliconValley #BigTech

Was just asked by a friend if I wanted a #BlueSky invite.

My reply?

“Thanks but no thanks.”

Why?

Because I don’t need to see the app. I know the people behind it and what they stand for. The app can only ever be a manifestation of (or an initial misdirection from) that.

Expecting the wolf that took a bite out of you last time to this time act in your interests is how you end up as its dinner.

#BlueSky #JackDorsey #billionaires #SiliconValley #decentralisation #lipService #crypto #bullshit

#Tech destabilized #democracy. Why would we trust it now?

#ai #artificialintelligence #llm #LLMs #machinelearning #ethicalai #ethicaltech #bigtech #siliconvalley #chatgpt #musk #google #openai

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

@VPS_Reports Yeah, like those #NIMBY's in Palo Alto that literally cockblocked an affordable housing apartment complex aimed for elderly that got gentirifed out of the market by #SiliconValley #TechBros...

There was a weird guilt effect where #SiliconValley was, to an extent, finally being held to some account for its dot-com-to-present era treatment of women (places like Atari in old school Valley actually treated women much better). Holmes was able to leverage this guilt and the desires of older white men to make amends.

It's also notable how she primarily grifted old money families -- purposefully, deliberately. Subconscious revenge for her family's lost fortune? 4/n

I have been bingeing #TheDropout podcast for reasons I haven't really put together until now.

I've lived in #SiliconValley for the last -- wow, 10 years. We were in Palo Alto for the rise of #Theranos. It was always sus in that community -- easy to forget that no major VC invested in it. It had a large and ominous office not far from where we lived.

And I am a female-presenting person who has founded companies but explicitly not raised VC. So I have thoughts (and feelings). 1/n

New Funds to Invest in Digital Health Start-Ups

A venture capital company supporting developers of #digital technologies in #health care says it raised $460 million to invest in early-stage digital health businesses.

https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=44694

#News #Science #Business #VentureCapital #Finance #HealthCare #DigitalHealth #StartUps #SiliconValley #ArtificialIntelligence #ClinicalTrials

IT'S THE LAST DAY for the #Kickstarter campaign for for the #audiobook of my next novel, a post-#cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams called *Red Team Blues*. #Amazon's #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible:

http://redteamblues.com

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