AI (cont.): - Some of these tools are owned by techno-fascist billionaires who can exploit them for information control and reality distortion. Just yesterday, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot “Grok” was spreading misinformation about nonexistent South African “white genocide” to users across the platform.
Learn & Educate: - Subscribe to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's How to Survive the Broligarchy. Cadwalladr is widely known for helping to expose the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Recently, she spoke at TED about the digital coup we’re experiencing.
Substack is also problematic
@hankgreen.bsky.social @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy @aoc.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @booker.senate.gov @nealstephenson.bsky.social more re billionaires with the most high tech (and white South African ancestry) uniting to dismantle constitutional democracy, doing the Great Replacements they want.
Learn & Educate (cont.): - Subscribe to @gilduran.com's The Nerd Reich. There is no better coverage on the neoreactionary movement than Duran’s. Here’s a great article to start with, comparing Curtis Yarvin’s ideas about a CEO-dictator to Elon Musk’s actions.
Learn & Educate (cont.): - Subscribe to Wired. They have comprehensive coverage on the regime’s data heist as well as useful information on data privacy.
Learn & Educate (cont.): Follow these individuals as they have by far the best coverage of the broligarchs and neoreactionary movement. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @gilduran.com @jennycohn.bsky.social @ebharrington.bsky.social
Finally, share this information widely. The more people that boycott Big Tech, the better. Their power comes from more of us living in their enclosures so they can steal and sell our data. Without that, they’re nothing. It’s time we move out.
Adding a couple updates & resources here. We recommend reading Bluesky’s vision for a decentralized, privacy-forward internet, learning about the AT Protocol backing its efforts, and discovering the new promising apps (e.g., Skylight, Flashes) that are propping up using the same technologies.
Sorry, Elon's already done that.
Here are some news apps using decentralized, privacy-forward protocols.
We’re on Skylight (TikTok alternative) and Flashes (Instagram alternative) now! Both are built on the same underlying protocol of Bluesky, so all followers and posts are shared across the platforms. They’re great options to fight the broligarchy and regain more control over your data.
Great thread on how leaving the tech bros’ platforms is a way to fight authoritarianism 👇