Super grateful to @jeffjohnroberts.bsky.social for edits and Michael Casey @michaeljcasey.bsky.social for encouraging me to get it out asap
thanks to @tcpuente.bsky.social for early read and The Op Ed Project for the community.
thanks to @tcpuente.bsky.social for early read and The Op Ed Project for the community.
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Super grateful to @jeffjohnroberts.bsky.social for edits and Michael Casey @michaeljcasey.bsky.social for encouraging me to get it out asap
thanks to @tcpuente.bsky.social for early read and The Op Ed Project for the community.
thanks to @tcpuente.bsky.social for early read and The Op Ed Project for the community.
21/ Also if you’re working in the space of decentralization - ESPECIALLY DECENTRALIZED AI, please reach out to me - I just joined the Decentralized AI Society (DAIS) as a senior advisor to work with the team on creating a future where DeAI enables agency dais.global
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April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
21/ Also if you’re working in the space of decentralization - ESPECIALLY DECENTRALIZED AI, please reach out to me - I just joined the Decentralized AI Society (DAIS) as a senior advisor to work with the team on creating a future where DeAI enables agency dais.global
20/ Any other other writers, books, or pieces that capture the fusion of Big Tech and state power?
#TriciaWang #Technofascism #Centralization #Decentralization #BigTech #TechPolicy #DigitalRights #Blockchain #ElonMusk #Trump #Power #Control #OpEd #bigstate #biggovernment #biggov #technocracy
#TriciaWang #Technofascism #Centralization #Decentralization #BigTech #TechPolicy #DigitalRights #Blockchain #ElonMusk #Trump #Power #Control #OpEd #bigstate #biggovernment #biggov #technocracy
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
20/ Any other other writers, books, or pieces that capture the fusion of Big Tech and state power?
#TriciaWang #Technofascism #Centralization #Decentralization #BigTech #TechPolicy #DigitalRights #Blockchain #ElonMusk #Trump #Power #Control #OpEd #bigstate #biggovernment #biggov #technocracy
#TriciaWang #Technofascism #Centralization #Decentralization #BigTech #TechPolicy #DigitalRights #Blockchain #ElonMusk #Trump #Power #Control #OpEd #bigstate #biggovernment #biggov #technocracy
18/ @propublica.org has solid coverage of this topic - such as the piece on the Boston police or machine bias in the seminal report on court software www.propublica.org/article/bost...
www.propublica.org/article/mach...
www.propublica.org/article/mach...
Boston Police Bought Spy Tech With a Pot of Money Hidden From the Public
Massachusetts police can seize and keep money from drug-related arrests. No one has publicly reported how that money gets spent. A WBUR/ProPublica investigation found that Boston police used over $600...
www.propublica.org
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
18/ @propublica.org has solid coverage of this topic - such as the piece on the Boston police or machine bias in the seminal report on court software www.propublica.org/article/bost...
www.propublica.org/article/mach...
www.propublica.org/article/mach...
17/ @themarkup.org Consistently covers technofascist transgressions. Start with this piece by @suryamattu.com & Colin Lecher on how the U.S. Dept of Edu. FSA inserted Meta Pixel tracking code onto the student aid application site themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2...
Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You – The Markup
The FAFSA form included code that sent personal information back to Facebook
themarkup.org
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
17/ @themarkup.org Consistently covers technofascist transgressions. Start with this piece by @suryamattu.com & Colin Lecher on how the U.S. Dept of Edu. FSA inserted Meta Pixel tracking code onto the student aid application site themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2...
16/ All the writing from @josephcox.bsky.social on @404media.co starting with www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...
ICE Just Paid Palantir Tens of Millions for ‘Complete Target Analysis of Known Populations’
The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts which could soon impact U.S. citizens.
www.404media.co
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
16/ All the writing from @josephcox.bsky.social on @404media.co starting with www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...
15/ @frankpasquale.bsky.social's The Black Box Society and on "algorithmic governance," addresses how opaque computational systems gives power to corporations and the state
www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty-rese...
www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty-rese...
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
15/ @frankpasquale.bsky.social's The Black Box Society and on "algorithmic governance," addresses how opaque computational systems gives power to corporations and the state
www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty-rese...
www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty-rese...
14/ @evgenymorozov.bsky.social's To Save Everything, Click Here and The Net Delusion - proudly grumpy critic of techno-utopianism, exploring how internet technologies are often used for state control, surveillance, and can undermine democratic processes evgenymorozov.net
Evgeny Morozov
evgenymorozov.net
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
14/ @evgenymorozov.bsky.social's To Save Everything, Click Here and The Net Delusion - proudly grumpy critic of techno-utopianism, exploring how internet technologies are often used for state control, surveillance, and can undermine democratic processes evgenymorozov.net
13/ Virginia Eubank's Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor - Solid reporting on Big Tech/gov surveillance (like Palantir's work with ICE)
virginia-eubanks.com/automating-i...
virginia-eubanks.com/automating-i...
Automating Inequality
“This book is downright scary — but with its striking research and moving, indelible portraits of life in the ‘digital poorhouse,’ you will emerge smarter and more empowered…
virginia-eubanks.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
13/ Virginia Eubank's Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor - Solid reporting on Big Tech/gov surveillance (like Palantir's work with ICE)
virginia-eubanks.com/automating-i...
virginia-eubanks.com/automating-i...
12/ Shoshana Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism - a classic www.theguardian.com/books/2019/o...
Shoshana Zuboff: ‘Surveillance capitalism is an assault on human autonomy’
What began as advertising is now a threat to freedom and democracy argues the author and scholar. Time to wake up - and fight for a different digital future
www.theguardian.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
12/ Shoshana Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism - a classic www.theguardian.com/books/2019/o...
11/ Here are recommended readings on technofascism:
Everything by @beccalew starting with her latest piece in the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
Everything by @beccalew starting with her latest piece in the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s
www.theguardian.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
11/ Here are recommended readings on technofascism:
Everything by @beccalew starting with her latest piece in the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
Everything by @beccalew starting with her latest piece in the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
10/ I've made a technofascist Bluesky list of writers addressing Big Tech fusing with the state? @beccalew.bsky.social @josephcox.bsky.social @evgenymorozov.bsky.social @frankpasquale.bsky.social @josephcox.bsky.social @404media.co
Anyone else to add from Bluesky?
bsky.app/profile/hitr...
Anyone else to add from Bluesky?
bsky.app/profile/hitr...
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
10/ I've made a technofascist Bluesky list of writers addressing Big Tech fusing with the state? @beccalew.bsky.social @josephcox.bsky.social @evgenymorozov.bsky.social @frankpasquale.bsky.social @josephcox.bsky.social @404media.co
Anyone else to add from Bluesky?
bsky.app/profile/hitr...
Anyone else to add from Bluesky?
bsky.app/profile/hitr...
9/ We've fought centralized power before (like dismantling theocracies!). Now, we must fight #Technofascism by actively building & using decentralized systems. Understand the fight & join in: fortune.com/crypto/2025/...
Technofascism is here. We have one way out
Big Tech has taken control of our democracy. The answer is to build decentralized platforms these companies can't control.
fortune.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
9/ We've fought centralized power before (like dismantling theocracies!). Now, we must fight #Technofascism by actively building & using decentralized systems. Understand the fight & join in: fortune.com/crypto/2025/...
8/ Platforms like @bsky.social (Bluesky itself!), tools like @signal.org & the growth of blockchain networks are vital parts of this. We must build and use alternatives free from single points of failure or control.
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
8/ Platforms like @bsky.social (Bluesky itself!), tools like @signal.org & the growth of blockchain networks are vital parts of this. We must build and use alternatives free from single points of failure or control.
7/ The only viable path to counter this? DECENTRALIZATION. Building systems where power is distributed, not concentrated. Where YOU control your data & connections.
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
7/ The only viable path to counter this? DECENTRALIZATION. Building systems where power is distributed, not concentrated. Where YOU control your data & connections.
6/ Today, we see figures like Trump challenging norms, enabled by concentrated power. This isn't just politics; it's the same #Centralization crisis. The game isn't just rigged, it's being rewritten.
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
6/ Today, we see figures like Trump challenging norms, enabled by concentrated power. This isn't just politics; it's the same #Centralization crisis. The game isn't just rigged, it's being rewritten.
5/ How'd we get here? Post-9/11 surveillance expansion through the Patriot Act, tech becoming gov infrastructure (Amazon/Google/MSFT cloud), regulatory capture by tech giants.
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
5/ How'd we get here? Post-9/11 surveillance expansion through the Patriot Act, tech becoming gov infrastructure (Amazon/Google/MSFT cloud), regulatory capture by tech giants.
4/ This fusion is creating something chilling: #Technofascism. Control justified by black-boxed algorithms & platforms wielded by a powerful few. It mirrors history's authoritarian systems, but uses data power. You see symptoms everywhere: censorship, data misuse, infra control by single points.
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
4/ This fusion is creating something chilling: #Technofascism. Control justified by black-boxed algorithms & platforms wielded by a powerful few. It mirrors history's authoritarian systems, but uses data power. You see symptoms everywhere: censorship, data misuse, infra control by single points.
3/ But this isn't just an "Elon problem" or about one administration (like Trump's) leveraging power. It's a CENTRALIZATION crisis. Big Tech monopolies & the state are fusing into a single ruling force.
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
3/ But this isn't just an "Elon problem" or about one administration (like Trump's) leveraging power. It's a CENTRALIZATION crisis. Big Tech monopolies & the state are fusing into a single ruling force.
2/ The real battleground for government control? It's deep inside federal databases. You see figures like Elon Musk at the center, connected to critical systems like the Treasury's payment network.
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
2/ The real battleground for government control? It's deep inside federal databases. You see figures like Elon Musk at the center, connected to critical systems like the Treasury's payment network.