Unfortunately I’m spending time now on #Xitter #birdsite as it’s the only place to get full coverage of the impending #Madagascar #elections. I hadn’t believed how #nazi the platform had become til i went back. Systemic #oligarchic #fossilfuel #whitesupremacy. I was BOMBARDED by #advertising on #environmentalist #chrispackham & how he was supposedly a “them”, amassing millions against the “us” small people. Site leads to fake BBC article, all linked to… #crypto products. #Musk #disinformation

...to manifest, and be noticed.

The #fragmentation and #polarization driven by #socialmedia have been noticed, and much commented on.

Dire as those are - and they are dire! - I do wonder about longer term side effects - esp. with the other huge drivers of social change (#climatechange, #oligarchic parasitism of economies, falling birth rates in many powerful countries) acting as #accelerants./End

@WeShall OFC it is!

#FACT: It's a #oligarchic #cleptogracy ruled by #christofacists...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig

"the year is 2100. the great us-china #cyberwar has destroyed the teleinformatic brain chip control system (TIBCCS), returning #free will to the masses for the first time in 30 years. as roving bands of #freeminds ravage the #countryside, zonked like they're on ultrameth from a #lifetime of chipsleep, the #economy is reorganized according to #neofeudal principles. guided by the maxim "#democracy for the worthy", #oligarchic LLCs (limited liege #conglomerates) win vast manors worked by the remaining chipsleepers. freeminds subsist by #selling #arts and #crafts—a grueling #job, but higher pleasures like #mathematics are restricted to the #elites by sumptuary #laws. a band of #poor and ragged #wanderers huddles the night in an abandoned #mall. perhaps they will find #companionship. or perhaps they will part at daybreak, and forever remain strangers."

https://www.tumblr.com/anarchistmemecollective/718245223071875072?source=share

@fossesq This thread reeks of the #bias form known as #racism.

I heard an interview on public radio with a well-known Serbian writer (and professor) Vesna Goldsworthy who friended the Russian enclave in London.

Oligarchs collected not only art, but books. All were beneficiaries of the old school soviet education system, with one being a professor.

My view of #academic education is that it is #oligarchic in the sense of the original academy - the reverse of #democracy. Crime.

One of our preferred acronyms to describe #BigTech is #CAGeFAM – the 'C' for Cloudflare and 'e' for memecoiner…

Obviously.

But new possiblities may emerge when we add vowels for #IBM and #Oracle, and *possibly* a 'B' for #TikTok's #ByteDance, and 'R' for #reddit (we're on the fence about adding the latter two but the anti-#cryptocurrency move to ban people talking about CCs on TikTok, and the appointment of #JenniferAshooh to reddit is tipping us towards them being #oligarchic).

@samuraikid
During the past year it is said that #BillGates, has become the biggest #landlord, at least in terms of #agricultural land.

Yes, #BigTech, are a massive problem. It seems they are all #diversify into complementary industries and building up #oligarchic structures. For example, #Amazon and #Google have their fingers in as many, if not more, insidious pies than #Microsoft.

#TooBigToExist

“#Populism, #left or #right, represents the only viable threat to #oligarchic #ambitions.” #Amazon http://www.thedailybeast.com/amazon-eats-up-whole-foods-as-the-new-masters-of-the-universe-plunder-america