@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeituan says daily orders on its instant delivery service surpassed 120M on July 5, setting an all-time high, with food orders accounting for 100M of them (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/artic…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@NicolasGriseyDemengel@piaille.fr @heiseonline@social.heise.de
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioEven if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialTechno-Fascism: It's Bigger Than Elon Musk – Big-Tech Is Watching You!
📺 #fashism
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social"These meetings are distracting me from the work."
The meetings are the work. Sorry.
The fact that your org doesn't value meetings and doesn't put any effort into making them more effective is a symptom of a broader pattern of ignoring feminized "glue work" in favor of Big Masculine Outputs.
Making the work visible is the first step towards making it valued.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Trump's team seeks a potential consent decree as part of an FTC deal forcing Meta to pay restitution to conservative users harmed by content moderation (Lydia Moynihan/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/06/business/bi…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Google told publishers it is hiring new staff to market its ad tech to big advertisers and ad agencies, signaling a renewed focus on publisher ad tech (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialDigital sovereignty can’t be bargained away. The European Commission has tools, public support and a mandate to act on Big Tech. Trading that away for short-term calm would be a costly mistake.
https://www.politico.eu/article/digital-sovereignty-us-br…
@marcel@waldvogel.familyDass die Kantone und der Bund danach lechzen, unsere Daten zu ausländischen Cloudprovidern zu schicken, das ist ja schon länger ein Thema, nicht nur bei DNIP.
https://dnip.ch/2025/05/21/der-microso
@wfryer@mastodon.cloudI am not sure I understand why I should let my iPad Kindle app connect to other Bluetooth devices in my house, unless I just want to support the “surveillance capitalism” economic model of Amazon and other big tech companies.
Is there another rationale?
I’m using the Kindle app to read e-books. Why should it need Bluetooth connectivity to other devices? It’s not Audible asking to connect to a speaker…
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesMeta’s banning of two anti-Zionist comedians from Instagram is the latest example of Big Tech’s deep anti-Palestinian bias
#meta #facebook #instagram
@nohillside@smnn.chWhy Big Tech Turned Against Democrats — and Democracy https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-big-tech-turned-against-democrats
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itSolid advice for everyone, especially in the age of Big Tech. https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/15218642
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok launches its e-commerce platform, TikTok Shop, in Japan, marking its 17th market, following launches in the US, the UK, Malaysia, Thailand, and others (Danielle Popov/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgSince migrating away from big tech platforms (including Google Drive) I have been using Libreoffice for my writing and presentations.
I often get asked why I do not use OnlyOffice since it looks so much better (especially the web client). Two answers:
- The presentation tools of OnlyOffice are too barebones
But more importantly:
OnlyOffice is a company that seems to be controlled by a Russian guy who invests a lot of time to hide the fact that OnlyOffice is Russian (see…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Google told publishers it is hiring new staff to market its ad tech to big advertisers and ad agencies, signaling a renewed focus on publisher ad tech (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialBig Tech quietly sponsors Trump’s military parade party
#resist
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhy Big Tech Turned Against Democrats -- and Democracy (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-big-tech-turned-against-democrats
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p31#a250624p31
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.social
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn Website Technicals (2017-12) - Tech updates: allegedly too little markup, bad traffic, big hero, base download ms, service worker no rel, jump-to. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-7.html
@nelson@tech.lgbtFull protest drag. Amazing crowd in Grass Valley, twice as big as April.
@marcel@waldvogel.familyPaul Krugman's critique of Elon Musk at #DOGE:
"[A] zillionaire who knew nothing about government marched in claiming that he could cut $2 trillion from the $6 trillion federal budget by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. This was obvious nonsense […]."
"Seriously, would any of Musk’s tech-bro friends have invested in a venture run by someone with such a record of …
@isf@muenchen.social
@cdarwin@c.im
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialMarkus Beckedahl kritisiert scharf: Die EU-Kommission knickt vor Trumps Drohkulisse ein und verschiebt die Durchsetzung des Digital Markets Act. Demokratie und Wettbewerb werden geopfert, um mögliche Autozölle zu vermeiden. Ein Armutszeugnis für Europas digitale Souveränität
Big Tech-Regulierung: EU-Kommission beugt sich Druck von #Trump
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAt its core, #CCSignals is an attempt by Creative Commons, a Silicon Valley-based organisation, to legitimise the AI grifts of its donors – Google, Microsoft, and Meta (Zuckerberg).
Creative Commons was always a thinly-veiled attempt at enabling Big Tech data farmers to get more data (that’s why the whole “open data” realm is so well funded/popular – open as in “open for business” not fre…
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialXerox is one of the three big players in a shrinking market for print. This uncomfortable position means it is having to reinvent itself, pushing for growth through a new global business services organisation and pursuing novel revenue streams.
https://www.computing.co…
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialFrüher stand das Silicon Valley für Innovation und Freiheit, heute zerstören Tech-Giganten die Demokratie. Die ehemalige EU-Abgeordnete Marietje Schaake kämpft gegen den zunehmenden Einfluss der Tech-Konzerne auf Politik. Sie warnt Medien davor, sich von Big Tech abhängig zu machen – und hofft auf einen Journalismus, der nicht länger auf die Narrative der Tech-Giganten hereinfällt.
@paulwermer@sfba.social @PaulWermer@sfba.social @memeorandum@universeodon.comBig Tech stumbles into a big brawl over C-SPAN's streaming future (Paul Kane/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/12/big-tech-stumbles-into-big-brawl-over-c-spans-streaming-future/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p9#a250612p9
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn a letter to staff, CEO Eddie Wu says Alibaba is merging its food delivery platform Ele.me and online travel agency Fliggy into its core e-commerce business (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-t…
@randy_@social.linux.pizzaI'm making my SmartHome dumb again.
I got rid of my Google Assistants, smart lights, and plugs, and switched to LED bulbs to save energy. On top of this, I got a portable solar panel to charge my small devices.
For the evening, I now have a USB rechargeable LED light.
I’m doing this to reduce the cost of my electricity bill. Plus, it’s a good way to get rid of big tech products.
#SmartHome
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Meta signs deal with nuclear plant to power AI and datacenters for 20 years"
#Meta #Facebook #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSky, ITV, and Channel 4 plan to provide streaming ad space in one marketplace, letting advertisers run campaigns simultaneously, to combat Google and Meta (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMailbag: Mazi affected by 3rd different DC? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-mazi-affected-by-3rd-different-dc
@finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizzaSo what I learned from the recent Google outage, is how much of a cirklejerk "big tech" actually is.
Google did a fucky wucky... Which caused Cloudflare to go belly up, Shopify to go belly up, Spotify to go belly up...
Imagine having given *one* company having so much power that, if they make a mistake somewhere, half the internet is gone.
So if you self-host, make sure to see how your dependency chain is.
How much places can make a mistake that can knock you …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAI researcher salaries are steadily rising, with total pay packages of $500K to $2M at Big Tech for mid to senior level staffers, up from $400K to $900K in 2022 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d48e7cfe-7b04-4cdd-8769-c88c83522118
@gevoel@mastodon.greenWeg bij big tech, Volkskrantredacteur poogt een maand te leven zoals ik (poog :blobcateyes: 😂)
https://archive.ph/p6WEN
@sean@scoat.esA beautiful set of events:
- @… hosts a podcast on the CBC about big tech and #enshittification (it's called Understood; very good)
- the most recent episode is on antitrust and is mostly a takedown of Amazon's bad behaviour (with Lina Khan)
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialReading an article about big tech being “customer zero” for AI, I can’t help but think of this Simpsons episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CXhRjkgLUQ
@gorbag@social.linux.pizza @Techmeme@techhub.socialSilicon Valley is pushing senators to follow the House in reviving a favorable tax benefit that disappeared because of a US tax law Section 174 change in 2017 (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/20/silicon-valley-big-tech-tax-benefit
@johnhobbs@mstdn.caThis is a stark reminder for all of us, whether in tech, consulting, or some other previously promising career path:
✅ No company is too big to pivot.
✅ Operational efficiency doesn't always mean job security.
✅ Skills that once defined careers must now evolve with industry shifts.
@tante@tldr.nettime.org'Sovereign AI' is just political branding, signaling to nationalist impulses while continuing to pour money into big tech firms. It's a mask for a sucker's game.
"This reveals a new kind of digital colonialism. Not one where countries are denied access, but one where they are structurally bound into dependencies across every layer of the AI stack. A European lab may host its own weights on a data center in France, but that center runs on American hardware, software…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«As a result, there’s been some speculation that the [Waymo] cars were burned to destroy evidence. There’s likely more to it than that—and that the cars weren’t torched to destroy evidence as much to punish collaborators.»
Speaking of the Zeitgeist about working with big tech. 😁
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-weaponization-of-waymo
@aral@mastodon.ar.alCapitalism − Big Tech − single points of failure https://mas.to/@nemo/114676003248609889
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.social @johnleonard@mastodon.socialDenmark's Agency for Digital Government has announced plans to phase out Microsoft software across its offices in favour of open source alternatives, joining a growing European movement challenging the dominance of American tech giants.
https://www.co…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social @ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@arXiv_csSI_bot@mastoxiv.pageData marketplaces can increase the willingness to share social media data at low prices
Meysam Alizadeh, Fabrizio Gilardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16618 …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe UK CMA says it has provisionally found Google meets the legal tests to designate it with "strategic market status" in general search and search advertising (Financial Times)
https://t.co/B2evUJQFta
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMailbag: Mazi affected by 3rd different DC? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-mazi-affected-by-3rd-different-dc
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInvestigation: healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island share sensitive data with Google, LinkedIn, and Snapchat via web trackers (The Markup)
https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/06/17/w…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSilicon Valley's not crying for Musk (Scott Rosenberg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/09/musk-trump-fallout-big-tech
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p15#a250609p15
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAfter criticism, Senator Marsha Blackburn backs off her own AI provision compromise, saying "we can't block states from making laws that protect their citizens" (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-moratorium-trump-megabill-blackburn…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialNot to mention that many folks who are regular contributors to #inaturalist are deeply invested into the environment and aren't fans of destroying it using 'GenAI - or that partnering with big-tech that destroys society in addition to nature might be 'a bit' tone-deaf in 2025…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“I’m usually fine with surveillance capitalism but this is too much, even for me.”
#surveillance #capitalism #BigTech
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSky, ITV, and Channel 4 plan to provide streaming ad space in one marketplace, letting advertisers run campaigns simultaneously, to combat Google and Meta (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun
@Techmeme@techhub.social @digitalnaiv@mastodon.social@… setzt auf einen stufenweisen Ausbau öffentlich-rechtlicher Accounts – am besten ins Fediverse integriert. Das ist mehr als eine Nische: Es schafft einen digitalen Gemeinschaftsraum, der nicht von Big Tech dominiert wird und als Blaupause für private Anbieter dienen kann. Die Öffentlich-Rechtlichen könnten so das Fundament für eine offene, demokratische Netzinfras…
@rberger@hachyderm.io"But there were technologists and open source projects in attendance. Notably, representatives from the Mastodon and Bluesky teams were at the Festival. The Newsmast Foundation was also present, incisively taking part in conversations to help newsrooms onboard themselves onto both of them. I got to hang out with them all, connecting with people I’d spoken with but never interacted with in person. Mastodon has undergone a transformation, has doubled its team, and is working on smoothing out some of its rough edges, while not letting go of its core ethos. It’s also beginning to position itself as a European alternative to American social media platforms, with a community-first values system and new services to directly help organizations join the network.
Bluesky, on the other hand, has done an able job of bringing journalists onto its existing social app, and is now hard at work explaining why its underlying protocol matters. Both want to engage with newsrooms and journalists and do the right thing by them. They each have something different to prove: Mastodon that it can be usable and accessible, and Bluesky that it can provide a return to its investors and truly decentralize while holding onto its values. I’m rooting for both of them.
These platforms’ messages dovetail with my own: news can own the platforms that support them. Lots of people at the Festival were worried about the impact of US big tech on their businesses — particularly in a world where tech moguls seem to be aligning themselves with a Presidential administration that has positioned itself as being adversarial to news, journalists, sources, and, arguably, the truth. The good news is that the technology is out there, the values-aligned technologists are out there, and there’s a strong path forward. The only thing left is to follow it."
#media #Mastodon #BlueSky #Journalism
https://werd.io/2025/notes-from-perugia-journalism-values-and-building-the-web-we
@marcel@waldvogel.family"According to recent statements from #America250, #Oracle, #Amazon, #Coinbase,
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at Apple's vision for Apple TV and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M bet on the F1 movie is about more than selling iPhones (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/f1-apple…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS senators reintroduce the bipartisan Open App Markets Act to challenge Apple's and Google's grip on app stores; the 2021 version never made it to a floor vote (Amber Neely/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/0
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEU competition chief Teresa Ribera rejects claims DMA enforcement could be traded to avoid Trump's tariffs, and urges mutual respect for each side's regulations (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWith Google, Meta, and Amazon developing AI tools for ad campaigns, agencies are under threat, but large brands may still rely on agencies for unique concepts (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: lobbyists for Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta back a campaign for a 10-year US state AI regulation ban, a move dividing the AI industry and the GOP (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/52ae52f1-531e-462f-898f-e9f86b3b1869
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Apple's vision for Apple TV and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M bet on the F1 movie is about more than selling iPhones (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/f1-apple…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns the UK lacks the digital infrastructure needed to capitalize on AI despite "incredible" research talent, as PM Starmer pledges £1B (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cc04adfb-81b2-477f-b85c-ce042e8f83a8…
