Longtime tech worker organizers Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan’s new book,
"Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry",
draws on the authors’ experiences at major tech companies to chronicle
the rise and fall of the tech worker movement,
its early victories,
and the repression and slide to corporate control that followed.
“Over the course of the 2010s, what we saw was that
the tech industry wasn’t quite th…
Trump’s plan to sell off a part of Yosemite is what oligarchy looks like
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/31/trumps-plan-to-sell-off-a-part-of-yosemite-is-what-oligarchy-…
Trump’s plan to sell off a part of Yosemite is what oligarchy looks like
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/31/trumps-plan-to-sell-off-a-part-of-yosemite-is-what-oligarchy-…
RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/top-stories-in-celeb-mttno4aoz/-/a-LWlowFbCSp-leXV68KOv1Q:a:43591897-/0
Thievery like this is empowered by oligarchy. Rich people, willing to buy stol…
Any "open source" project with a section proudly titled "Backed by the oligarchy" on its homepage[1] should be more than just a red flag to anyone (even if you don't know or care about the other horrendous political takes of its main author).
This project with all its fascist dog whistling (including the "You're someone now") in various marketing materials is nothing but an outright subversion & enclosure of FLOSS culture & efforts. What we're witnessing is the initial creation…
Modern venture capital has transformed into an unchecked oligarchy, or "Cancer Capital", where mega-firms managing $50B live off fees and shift risk elsewhere (Anil Dash)
https://anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capital/
Ein SF-Thriller über eine Geheimorganisation, die das Ziel verfolgt, die schlimmsten Subjekte des globalen Weltgeschehens zu beseitigen. Ihr durchaus erfolgreiches Handeln wird dann schnell von der Erkenntnis getrübt, daß es gar nichts bringt, Oligarchys, Diktatorys, Tyrannys etc wegzubomben und hinzumeucheln, solange die Strukturen bestehen bleiben, die diese Machtposition erst geschaffen haben: die Menschen sind austauschbar, da rücken einfach neue nach.
RE: https://boopsnoot.de/@jn/117292030359051236
Omarchy is essentially a portmanteau:
oligarchy combined with monarchy, the worst of both worlds.
I tried to summarize this article in one paragraph and I couldn't which means you should read it. (registering a free account to read)
https://www.wired.com/story/against-tech-oligarchy-book-excerpt-trump-billionaries/
So oligarchy is also a collection of dotfiles for Arch Linux?
/s