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I'm no expert in geography, but I strongly suspect that Silicon Valley and San Francisco are not actually in opposite directions from here in London.

Früher 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.

Marietje Schaake: „Medien machen sich von mächtigen…
Marietje Schaake warnt im journalist-Interview Medien davor, sich von großen Tech Unternehmen abhängig zu machen.

Silicon 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

WaPo names Sam Han as its first Chief AI Officer and unveils WP Incubator, modeled after Silicon Valley incubators to develop new products and business lines (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2025/06/

Office of the CTO Announces Sam Han as Chief AI Officer and Creation of WP Incubator

Musk tried and failed to enact systemic change across the entire government.
Many tech executives and investors who support Trump have narrower goals that focus on creating a regulatory climate favorable to themselves.
While Trump and Musk traded barbs on their respective social networks,
a cryptocurrency company whose business had been hamstrung by the Biden administration went public on the New York Stock Exchange,
its share price popping 200 percent.
An art…

Musk and Trump are over. Silicon Valley is just getting started.
The Tech-Trump alliance has always had tensions. But its lucrative nature has outweighed the ideological differences.

Sources: 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…

Big Tech's bet on Trump hasn't yielded special favors
Silicon Valley giants spent millions on Inauguration Day seats, but they’ve gotten little in return — save for a front-row view of their own reckoning.

To my fellow Asians:
All you free market, libertarian freakshows - you know who you are - that voted #Trump cuz #MAGA's racism would NEVVVVER come for you... consider this your wake up call.
▶️ Steve Bannon Suggests There Are Too Many

Steve Bannon Suggests There Are Too Many Asian CEOs In Silicon Valley
But Donald Trump says he wants them to stay because "we have to keep our talented people."

Yep, seems like different parts of the Fosstodon mod team just keep doubling down on "we are apolitical" – as if that was a real thing and not just reinforcing the existing power and abuse…
And in true fashion for FOSS priorities, the admin can't seem to get a statement out as it's more important to first pick a blogging platform.
This could fit into a FOSS-centric reboot of that Silicon Valley comedy show if it wasn't so sad 😅
#fosstodon

"In Empire of #AI, journalist Karen Hao writes about the rise of #OpenAI and the impacts of AI around the world. Below is an extract from the book on the effects on Chile's mineral reserves and water resources."

Im Rahmen des Journalismusfest Innsbruck wurde für für DER STANDARD interviewed.
Wir sprachen über KI und Technologie im Allgemeinen. Und darüber, dass dem #KI Hype hinterherzurennen das Gegenteil von sinnvoll und zielführend ist.

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the "tides have turned" in Silicon Valley, making it more acceptable for the tech industry to support the US military's efforts (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"How to get the most out of tech while freeing ourselves from the lunatics in Silicon Valley"
Says Ian Dunt in his article on a corporate Substack page linked from his block-chain owned Bluesky account.
He does so without using the words "Fedi" "blog", "decentralize" "open source", "free software", or "mastodon", and while calling Facebook and Instagram "seemingly more benign".
There must be a form of moderate tech disinvestment, which allows us the things we benefit from while removing the things which harm us.
He pleads, admitting
I have no answers for this
Yeah, no kidding.
But he has stopped using Amazon so much and buys more DVDs now, and tries to use a tablet more than a phone!?
Well done I guess.

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of better phrasing, on “capitalism’s side”. First for a range of high-growth Silicon Valley software companies and their ilk; latterly directly in venture capital focused on climate change technology startups, aka “Climate Tech” or “Impact Investing.”

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of bett…

Court filing: Deel alleges Rippling's "competitive intelligence manager" Brett Alexander Johnson posed as a customer to access Deel's product and business info (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/abd988f6-e524-48d9-8433-27c…

New spying claims emerge in Silicon Valley corporate espionage scandal
HR start-ups Rippling and Deel trade allegations their leaders directed efforts to steal company secrets from one another

Art house streaming service and distributor Mubi raised $100M led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation; Mubi has about 20M registered users worldwide (Christopher Grimes/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e0645d5-054e-4b00-a545-b95a1e2b261a

Sequoia bets on indie films with $100mn Mubi fundraising
Capital infusion led by Silicon Valley firm comes after box office success of ‘The Substance’

An interview with Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech's next chapter, meeting in 1997, Steve Jobs, Apple, Powell Jobs' io investment in 2019, AI, and more (Matthew Garrahan/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7f0a45b0-a3cc-4e1c-be71-1b7b42958d4…

‘Humanity deserves better’: Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech’s next chapter
After Apple, the Silicon Valley visionaries are looking to artificial intelligence to shape the future again

Art house streaming service and distributor Mubi raised $100M led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation; Mubi has about 20M registered users worldwide (Christopher Grimes/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e0645d5-054e-4b00-a545-b95a1e2b261a

Sequoia bets on indie films with $100mn Mubi fundraising
Capital infusion led by Silicon Valley firm comes after box office success of ‘The Substance’

Meta's Anduril deal shows how much has changed in the past couple of years in Silicon Valley, where developing war tech was once considered a hard red line (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles