@kubikpixel@chaos.socialKapitalismus made in USA — Reichtum als Kult: Geschichte
Vor 120 Jahren entstand in den USA ein kapitalistisches Eldorado, das den Weg für Persönlichkeiten wie Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos und Bill Gates ebnete. Wie festigte sich die Macht der Superreichen, vor allem in der Zeit der Wirtschaftskrise nach 1929 oder auch während Ronald Reagans Politik der Deregulierung und Steuersenkungen in den 1980er-Jahren?
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@heiseonline@social.heise.deBill Gates’ Terrapower liefert Meta Platforms Atomreaktoren
Meta Platforms hat einen AKW-Lieferanten gefunden: Die von Bill Gates gegründete Firma Terrapower. Sie will 2 bis 8 Reaktoren liefern.
https://www.
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaMelinda Gates opens the office door. Her new boyfriend, Floridan underground hip-hop artist bleood (formerly known as deffici1e and m4ri), nonchalantly spins in Bill's old chair, midway through popping some ecstasy. Bill's Epstein wall poster's been replaced with a CoD MWII one. It peels slightly.
"whasgood shorty" bleood exclaims nonchalantly.
"Oh... the designer sent in some more logo concepts!" she hands him her phone so he can scroll them. From…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deBill Gates' offener Brief an die Hobby-Anwender: 50 Jahre Software-Piraterie
Vor 50 Jahren verfasste Bill Gates einen „Offenen Brief an die Hobby-Anwender“, in dem er die unautorisierte Verbreitung von Micro-Softs 4K-BASIC anprangerte.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialPhia, founded by Bill Gates' daughter Phoebe to develop an AI search engine accessed via an extension for Chrome and Safari, raised $30M at a $180M valuation (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Governments must prioritize nature protection, former US senator Russ Feingold says"
#Nature #Environment
@hippyjo@c.imFor the record - whoever is responsible for constantly fucking with Windows 11 interface can also take credit for inspiring me to revisit linux.
Sick and tired of being treated like this, sick and fucking tired of Microsoft.
If this is the best they can do, they should find another line of work.
Fuck Windows 11, fuck Microsoft, and fuck that disgusting little pervert Bill Gates.
#microsoft
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"What has not changed in 50 years is the fact we are still using centralized architectures, prone to government intrusion and privacy leaks. Maybe it is time to think about a “Post Cloud” era where information is distributed instead of centralized. Of course this raises questions of trust, cryptography, security and collaboration, but the technology to build such systems already exists. It is more of a question of policy and education than of technology."
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgWith the currently released things about Bill Gates in the Epstein files (he had sex with the women and girls Epstein provided and asked Epstein for antibiotics to secretly give to his then-wife to treat the STI he gave her) how are we feeling about the Gates Foundation funding ... anything? Why should that creep (through his foundation) get to use that kind of power to shape what scientists and NGOs can do?
(Nobody should have that power, most foundations are politically a net negativ…
@Ann_Effes@berlin.socialDer Fairness halber: Das stand in einer Mail, die Epstein an sich selber versendet hatte, nicht z.b. in einer Mail von Bill Gates an Epstein oder sonstigen Drittquellen.
Stellt sich die Frage: Warum hat Epstein das in einer Mail an sich selber geschrieben?
Und welche der denkbaren Gründe würden auch greifen, wenn Bill Gates das gar nicht gemacht hat?
Die Lage ist sehr unübersichtlich und wir sollten vorsichtig sein.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNewly-released emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kick off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage (Alison Durkee/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/
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@cdarwin@c.imEmails from a trove released by the Department of Justice on Friday,
show that as late as 2018,
Epstein was invited to or attended dinners alongside the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and Google vice-president and later Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.
Most of the events were staged by the Edge network,
a creation of literary agent John Brockman,
which offered a …
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Bill Gates charity trust’s holdings in fossil fuel firms rise despite divestment claims"
#Climate #ClimateChange
@teledyn@mstdn.caRE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116009132713347082
If it is any consolation, the GNU Manifesto c1984 warned of this same danger as software became increasingly proprietary. As the proprietaries compete for the best prestige with the best wages and best ROI, their prices inevitably rise, and the best talent is drained from the competing community pool.
On the plus side, community software was here before the likes of Bill Gates, and will still be here long after they're gone.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAustin-based Neurophos, which develops a photon-based "Optical Processing Unit" to replace GPUs in AI training, raised $110M led by Bill Gates' Gates Frontier (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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@florke64@mastodon.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialDutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and others, after raising €355M in January 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/21/dutch-online-grocery-store-picnic-raises-430m/
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaDemocrats release new Epstein photos ahead of DoJ transparency deadline
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/jeffrey-epstein-estate-files-photos
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