#BigTech #Billionares #SiliconValley #Technocrats: "I call them the Technocrats, in recognition of the influence of the technocracy movement, founded in the 1930s by Elon Musk’s grandfather, Joshua Haldeman. The Technocrats make up a kind of interlocking directorate of Silicon Valley, each investing in or sitting on the boards of the others’ companies. Their vast digital domain controls your personal information; affects how billions of people live, work, and love; and sows online chaos, inciting mob violence and sparking runs on stocks. These four men have long been regarded as technologically progressive heroes, but they are actually part of a broader antidemocratic, authoritarian turn within the tech world, deeply invested in preserving the status quo and in keeping their market-leadership positions or near-monopolies—and their multi-billion-dollar fortunes secure from higher taxes. (“Competition is for suckers,” Thiel once posited.)

Indeed, they are American oligarchs, controlling online access for billions of users on Facebook, Twitter, Threads, Instagram, and WhatsApp, including 80 percent of the US population. Moreover, from the outside, they appear to be more interested in replacing our current reality—and our economic system, imperfect as it is—with something far more opaque, concentrated, and unaccountable, which, if it comes to pass, they will control."

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/musk-thiel-zuckerberg-andreessen-alternate-autocratic-reality

Today’s #ClassWar Is #1Percent Versus People Just Below Them
#America has, roughly, 3 classes. The top are today’s great proprietors, top 1% owns over half of US corporate #stock. People just below them are no longer attendants and retainers but #technocrats, the rest of top #10percent — i.e., the #9percent — owns almost all the rest of U.S. stock. Then there’s everyone else , no longer tenant farmers but they still have to get up every day and clock in to own possessions
https://theintercept.com/2023/07/16/class-warfare-1-percent-technocrat/

You will eat bugs and let robots do the work.🤣

"I must be missing a chip in my brain or something. Why have I never been blown away by the advances in #technology that attempt to replace humans? I mean, I am fascinated by the next great #robot vacuum cleaner, or a car that will pick you up after you’ve had your fine cricket dinner at the Four Seasons, but my fascination dissipates quickly...." https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/27/blinded-by-the-next-great-thing/ #Technocracy #Technocrats #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Robotics #Robots

#technocrats #democratie #frenchgovernment
It seems that #Macron hasn't been in direct contact with ordinary French people since being reelected. On the contrary, the most influential person with regard to his decision making seems to be a technocrat who was never democratically elected...

VIDEO. Qui est Alexis Kohler, l’homme de l’ombre du président Macron ?
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-magazine/france-2/complement-d-enquete/video-alexis-kohler-l-homme-de-l-ombre-qui-a-fait-le-vide-autour-du-president-macron_5724296.html

> ... [If after] four centuries.. we now overvalue the machine, is it not because the mechanistic doctrine which has made us competent to design machines and control them also promises to give the scientist an equal hold over the living organisms he unfeelingly identifies with machines? In a world of machines, or of creatures that can be reduced to machines, #technocrats would.. be gods. --- #LewisMumford, #MythOfTheMachine: #PentagonOfPower. p 72
1970 #Mumford on #Tech #RichGuy #AIHype

A good FT longread by Max Seddon and Polina Ivanova about how #Russia's #technocrats (PRIVATELY horrified by the #war in #Ukraine) enabling the economy to survive #sanctions
https://www.ft.com/content/fe5fe0ed-e5d4-474e-bb5a-10c9657285d2?shareType=nongift

@Kenxo @ne1for23 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cJiw_VpnGgk. It’s related. Listen. #technocrats in action

@rmdes it freaked me out. #technocrats they want to own the world.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cJiw_VpnGgk

https://youtu.be/cJiw_VpnGgk. They want to be able to control the narrative. They believe they can do it. They say main stream media is total trash and does nothing but collude with the government to develop and distribute the narrative. High level serious this public twitterspace. #musk #technocrats #twitterfiles #technocraticfascism #omfg

Jaron Lanier (who coined the term “virtual reality”) writes on the dangers of “#Twitter poisoning” on both the #technocrats/politicians and the masses.

Social media now conditions us to be our worst selves a la BF Skinner. #SocialMedia #JaronLanier

Gifted NY Times link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/opinion/trump-musk-kanye-twitter.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqYhlSVUaAibSRdkhrxqAwuTV3bkkw3rjNyvQSj9E3ulQH5eB51vAf-xje943lXy9deN2DYUOFrZ03_MNeAtkURWpqZ-J354Lfi5spY66G2ht1cyIALsxq3rjMDewbe5zlOSz7k-MaDPoCrfNkiF0fHYTqpVjfFGs33ML1_2FRrYzgo8iqK9nUpNqRj4AZz2Jv-3oDXh9PNaFaRLf72omSr0TGGGTzZPHteV2IEgFAknGTXh__W489NtfXdsQN677JBYmE9HsJysl01yQxt3Qy4EGzKkdqg&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I keep wondering if project #drawdown is helping us or not? It seems they are trying to say: don't do this, but focus in that, but are people listening? Or are they only hearing: don't do this?

Is it like a #technocrats handbook or is it more #TechnoOptimism?

There is not enough #food, but indecent rifht-wing #technocrats raise interest rates

#rightwing
#capitalism
#crisis
#hunger

Sri Lanka’s central bank hikes interest rates to 21-year high

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/7/7/sri-lankas-central-bank-hikes-interest-rates-to-21-year-high

#Technocrats look at humans as 'hackable animals with no soul'. Types like this one are running this show. The jab was #malware. 🌐 💉 #BuildBackBetter #GreatReset
https://youtu.be/NV0CtZga7qM

@ben_hr
The #technocrats need to be composted for as long as #inhuman-ly possible to remove any #pathogens that could leap to the human population.

#pathology #bigData #psychopaths #theMormansAreOntoSomething

@DissidentKitty@radical.town
But how about that #shadowGovernment (aka #deepState) of #lobbyists, #landholders, #technocrats, #bankers, #rentseekers, #theives, #murderers, #childTraffickers, #drugTraffickers and "#intelligenceAgents"?

Dunno - maybe they are good specifically *because* they killed that pesky politician, #Kennedy? ;)

https://invidio.us/watch?v=b1zB2mcotn0