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Co-founder of the Rebel Tech Alliance non-profit. www.rebeltechalliance.org
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paddy100w.bsky.social
📢 Big announcement: RTA's Big Tech Walkout 2026 programme just dropped! 📢

blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech...

This is a full step-by-step programme to get yourself off #bigtech products and regain your #privacy. Take back control from #billionaire #algorithms and avoid #surveillance 💪🏼
The Big Tech Walkout 2026
Here is the full detailed programme for the Big Tech Walkout 2026 - bookmark it so you can refer back to it over the year
blog.rebeltechalliance.org
February 1, 2026 at 5:29 PM
paddy100w.bsky.social
You have to choose carefully who you back with a paid subscription. This was an easy choice for me - well researched, swears a lot and hates big tech bullshit.

If I let myself off the leash this is how I would deliver RTA's content 😂
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4d
Tomorrow's Premium: The 15k word Hater's Guide To Oracle, an evil company that needs $150bn in the next 2 years and for OpenAI to become the most successful company in history or it will run out of money by 2030.

Here's $10 off annual.
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The TikTok Acquisition And Oracle’s Potential Collapse Sets Us Up For The Funniest Conclusion Possible You probably are wondering why I didn’t talk about Oracle becoming a partial owner of the US version of TikTok, and that’s because I wanted to save the best for last. Oracle has, for some time, been TikTok’s official US infrastructure partner. Per TechCrunch: Oracle will serve as the trusted security partner, responsible for auditing and ensuring compliance with National Security Terms, according to a memo. The company already provides cloud services for TikTok and manages user data in the U.S. Notably, Oracle previously made a bid for TikTok back in 2020. Here’s another great factoid about TikTok: it loses billions and billions of dollars: TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, doesn’t disclose TikTok’s financial performance. But ByteDance investors estimate TikTok lost several billion dollars last year on revenue of roughly $20 billion. Now that ByteDance isn’t principally responsible for the health of the app, and within a few days of the deal closing, its algorithm went to dogshit. While TikTok is attempting to claim that a power outage was to blame, anybody with even a basic knowledge of anything knows that algorithms do not live in different parts of a data center, and that the most likely reason behind the deterioration is Oracle diddling with the algorithm itself, as TechCrunch reported it would: A White House official previously said Oracle would replicate and secure a new U.S. version of the algorithm, and the U.S.-based TikTok owners could lease the algorithm from ByteDance, which Oracle will then retrain. So, let’s review: Oracle has already fucked with the TikTok algorithm, the main reason people use the app, and people using the app is how the app makes money (by serving them ads). TikTok was already losing billions of dollars. Larry Ellison’s wealth is almost entirely tied to his shares of Oracle. Oracle’s shares are tied to the health of the company, and said shares are already losing value because of Oracle’s egregious debt. This situation will only improve if Oracle is able to build data centers that are behind schedule and it does not yet have the capital to build, requiring debt that bankers are hesitant to provide. Even if successful, if OpenAI cannot pay for the compute, Oracle’s shares will slide into oblivion. All the while, Oracle just bought into one of its largest cloud customers, and is currently in the process of making its business less-valuable. As it stands, Oracle is a company in decline that has attached itself to a low-to-negative margin business with extensive, debt-ridden setup costs, with a primary customer that required over $140 billion in funding just to stop itself falling over and dying by the end of 2026. Oracle continually misses analyst estimates, swindles customers into expensive contracts and then sues them to bleed them for more money, has employees that tell me that life there is utterly miserable, and is inarguably an enterprise in sharp decline, one accelerated by the desperate, egoistical predilections of Larry Ellison, a guy who allegedly stepped down a decade ago but fully intends to drive the entire company off a cliff. If allowed to, Oracle will be swallowed whole by its debt, and won’t have much of a business to fall back upon. In writing this piece, I have tried to look for something resembling an Oracle fan - somebody that appreciates the software or will defend it on any level. All I can find are the most wretched AI boosters, desperate to kiss up to anybody who will incinerate billions of dollars to build dat… Perhaps I’m trashed off hopium, but I see no scenario that ends with anything other than the near-destruction of Oracle, and even if a government bailout exists, it will take decades - if it’s even possible - to recover from what I believe will be an historic destruction of shareholder capital, all borne of the hubris of one of the most nakedly anti-consumer companies in the history of capitalism. I hate Oracle. I’ve spent hours and hours reading about Oracle, learning all about Oracle, thinking about Oracle, philosophizing about Oracle, and never before have I witnessed a company that’s so thoroughly debased its products, customers and shareholders. This company has taken the piss for decades, and I think it’s finally its time for a reckoning. Could Larry Ellison be rendered penniless? Doubtful. But the outcome of decades of fucking over customers and terrible financial decisions may finally tear down his rotten legacy.
January 30, 2026 at 11:41 AM
paddy100w.bsky.social
Start your journey away from #bigtech products to ethical alternatives today:

www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbig...

(Spoiler alert: it's easy!)

#privacy #control #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism
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January 30, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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carissaveliz.bsky.social
I am super grateful and happy to share with you what the incredible @mariaressa.bsky.social has to say about #PROPHECY:

“Oxford philosopher Carissa Veliz traces the invisible forces that are insidiously manipulating us, stealing our data—and our agency. 1/
January 28, 2026 at 10:25 PM
paddy100w.bsky.social
This series is a must listen
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 5d
Here’s part 3 of week’s Dot Com Bubble series. I explain how the economics of AI are much worse than the dot com bubble, with far fewer customers, way more debt, and markets with an unhealthy obsession with one stock - NVIDIA.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Three
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 01/29/2026 · 14m
podcasts.apple.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:37 AM
paddy100w.bsky.social
two important points - well made!
ebharrington.bsky.social Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 8d
Broligarch rules:

#1: When democracy doesn't favor you, buy democracy and break it.

#2: When capitalism means the market rejects your shitty product, break capitalism: buy the government and make it force your shitty product down the necks of the citizenry.
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 8d
The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI
January 27, 2026 at 10:07 PM
paddy100w.bsky.social
Great quote from @edzitron.com from his podcast, Better Offline:

"A disregard for the truth that comes from years of never facing a single consequence."

That cuts to the core of billionaire and corporate culture.
January 27, 2026 at 11:52 AM
paddy100w.bsky.social
Ffs
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8d
Greg Brockman, OpenAI's COO, donated $25m to a MAGA Superpac, spare me finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...
January 27, 2026 at 11:49 AM
paddy100w.bsky.social
Damn
January 24, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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edzitron.com
Microsoft CEO says AI “risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.” Brother you’re the one building this dogshit, we’re three years and hundreds of billions in, how have you not worked it out?

www.ft.com/content/2a29...
World Economic Forum + Add to myFT Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns Al boom could falter without wider adoption Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has warned that Al risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies. Nadella on Tuesday said that the long-term success of the fast-developing technology would depend on it being used by a broad range of industries as well as on uptake outside of the developed world. "For this not to be a bubble by definition, it requires that the benefits of this are much more evenly spread," said Nadella. He noted that a "tell-tale sign of if it's a bubble" would be if only tech groups were benefiting from the rise of AI, rather than companies in other sectors.
January 20, 2026 at 5:04 PM
paddy100w.bsky.social
If you thought you're stuck with the creepy data harvesting of Google's Android and Apple's iOS, you're wrong!

Check out the range of (very good) alternative OS options:
www.rebeltechalliance.org/mobileos.html

#privacy #surveillance #apple #google #android #iOS #bigtech
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January 19, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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sfsutcliffe.bsky.social
are you aware you can connect to Bluesky using mastodon? using @ap.brid.gy

+ @paddy100w.bsky.social wrote an excellent blog on how to protect your data here: blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech...
The Big Tech Walkout 2025
Here is the full detailed programme for the Big Tech Walkout 2025.
blog.rebeltechalliance.org
January 18, 2026 at 4:27 PM
paddy100w.bsky.social
wtf? Good work Brooke. If only all journalists followed the money, it would be much easier to expose the corruption.
ebharrington.bsky.social Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19d
This is what criminals & soon-to-be-sanctioned dictators do: set up a cozy personal nest egg in a country that won't extradite them & has no agreements that would compel them to enforce other countries' sanctions.

That's why sanctioned Russian oligarchs made a beeline for the UAE in 2022.
katiephang.bsky.social Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19d
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.

“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
January 15, 2026 at 1:42 PM
paddy100w.bsky.social
Everyone should see this. You need to know who #Palantir are.
carolecadwalla.bsky.social Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 19d
Thank you so much to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for inviting me onto his podcast. We talked about critical issues the media & political establishment is ignoring such as the extraordinarily dumb & dangerous UK defence deal with Peter Thiel’s Palantir
boldpolitics.bsky.social Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 19d
"Peter Thiel... the founder of this company, does not believe in democracy"
January 15, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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julietemckenna.bsky.social
In case you are unaware that digital images are also being manipulated to depict women and children as victims of physical violence. It's not just about bikinis.
January 11, 2026 at 8:23 AM
paddy100w.bsky.social
Exactly
article19law.bsky.social ARTICLE 19 Law and Policy @article19law.bsky.social · 24d
Great article by @davidakaye.bsky.social in @techpolicypress.bsky.social exposing lies that #EU is censoring Americans.
In reality, regulators are going after #BigTech for breaking competition and privacy laws. Calling that “censorship” is a way to dodge the real issue. Unchecked corporate power.
The Trump Lie About Europe and Why it Matters | TechPolicy.Press
The Trump administration is promoting disinformation about European law and policy for reasons that go well beyond social media regulation, writes David Kaye.
www.techpolicy.press
January 13, 2026 at 9:14 AM
paddy100w.bsky.social
The #bigtech - t-rump revolving door
youranona.bsky.social Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 21d
Meta just elevated ex-Trump adviser Dina Powell McCormick to president and vice chair, deepening its GOP alliances amid eased content rules that let COVID lies spread unchecked, betraying users for power favors. #BigTech
January 13, 2026 at 9:13 AM
paddy100w.bsky.social
@sfsutcliffe.bsky.social thank you for www.surveillancewatch.io - it's an important site. I've shared it with my privacy chats.

How about if, when you narrow it down to a country, and then click a company operating there, you also filter the sources to what that company is doing in that country?
Surveillance Watch: They Know Who You Are
Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
www.surveillancewatch.io
January 13, 2026 at 9:11 AM
paddy100w.bsky.social
@edzitron.com this is the end of Hargraeves Lansdown's article about "the AI revolution" - in their quarterly magazine.

At least they mention the circular deals. But those "strong cash flows"... Not OpenAI, so we'll just get deeper Big Tech monopoly from sector capture 😒
Photo of an article from the HL magazine
January 13, 2026 at 9:00 AM
paddy100w.bsky.social
Your monthly roundup of big tech and #AI news from the Rebel Tech Alliance: December 2025 edition

blog.rebeltechalliance.org/news-roundup...

We gather all the Dec 25 news in one place for you. Please share with friends and family so they can see the dark side of #BigTech and reclaim their #privacy
News Roundup - Dec25
A roundup of the tech and privacy news we read last month
blog.rebeltechalliance.org
January 11, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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bellingcat.com
We’ve also updated our animated map of the positions of agents and vehicles during the incident here with new footage published by @cnn.com that shows the shooter closer to a white SUV prior to the shooting
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January 8, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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edzitron.com
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti....
Silicon Valley didn’t birth the next big tech firm. It incubated yet another hyperscaler-level parasite, except instead of just spending money on hyperscaler services (and raising money to do so), both Anthropic and OpenAI actively drain the venture capital system as well, as they both burn billions of dollars. By creating something that’s incredibly expensive to run, they naturally create startups more-dependent on the venture capital system, and the venture capital system has no idea what to do other than say “just grow, baby!” Both OpenAI and Anthropic’s models might be getting cheaper on a per-million-token basis, but use more tokens, increasing the cost of inference, which in turn increases the costs of startups doing business, which in turn means OpenAI, Anthropic, and all connected startups lose more money, which increases the burn on venture capital. This is a doom-spiral, one that can only be reversed through the most magical and aggressive turnaround we will have seen in history, and it will have to happen next year, without fail. It won’t.
January 7, 2026 at 7:26 AM
paddy100w.bsky.social
Seriously?!
brandonfriedman.bsky.social Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 29d
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 10:03 PM
paddy100w.bsky.social
Commentary on the #AI nonsense fest!
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28d
Standing room only at the NVIDIA keynote. Currently a VC analyst and founder burping up word salad. The abridge ceo just said “the majority of doctors use AI,” we’ve had multiple things said so far that are complete nonsense
NVIDIA press conference
January 5, 2026 at 10:01 PM