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@padraig@mastodon.ie
2025-08-21 23:02:59

Translation: #BigTech has paid #BigTech too much money for CurrentFad
techhub.social/@Techmeme/11506

Techmeme (@Techmeme@techhub.social)
Source: Meta has signed a deal with Google, worth more than $10B over six years, to use Google Cloud's servers, storage, networking, and other services (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-signs-10-billion-plus-cloud-deal-google http://www.techmeme.com/250821/p30#a250821p30

@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-07-27 17:46:06

The #BigTech boom in #ArtificialIntelligence usage has also boomed the prices of #ElectricBills for millions, whether they had anything to do with it or not ..

The Washington Post reports The Al explosion means millions are paying more for electricity The data centers required for Big Tech are driving up electricity demand — and prices.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-07-16 06:21:54

“Move fast and break things.”
The things:
- Human rights
- Our habitat
- Democracy
#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital

Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 (@freakonometrics@mastodon.social)
"Because electricity is more costly for data centers than water, companies often prioritize building their facilities in places with cheap power, even if the area is drought stricken. That has exacerbated water shortages across the world, Ms. Ajami said. “Water is an afterthought” for tech companies, she said. “The thinking is, ‘Someone will figure that out later.’”" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/technology/meta-data-center-water.html

@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
2025-09-01 18:51:32

In case we needed more warning against #BigTech a push towards #DigitalSovereignty...
@… on scorching form.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11513038
pluralistic@mamot.fr - William Gibson famously said "Cyberpunk was a warning, not a suggestion." But for every tech leader fantasizing about lobotomizing their enemies with Black Ice, there's 10 who wish they were Darth Vader, force-choking you while grating out, "I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/ful
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@bart@toot.re
2025-09-22 09:41:55

Good!👏🏼
Knowing there will be a European payment solution (#Wero) and this data will NOT end up in the hands of #bigtech is a win for the citizens of #europe
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-07-30 17:25:06

Microsoft is complicit in genocide.
#microsoft #BigTech #SiliconValley #israel

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-08-30 07:03:47

Humanity is against the Bluesky Social Terms of Service.
#BlueSky #SiliconValley #BigTech #israel…

Joy (@joynewacc@mastodon.social)
Attached: 2 images Although it may seem like a common thing to persecute the right party, it really hurt me when the BlueSky community closed all my accounts, and when I sent them an email telling them that they made a mistake in closing my accounts and that it is the only platform on which I share my poetry and they ignored it, but it really affected me, I became very frustrated because I am fighting two wars inside Palestine and on social media #palestine @palestine@lemmy.ml @aral@mastodon.a…

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-09-12 20:22:56

It would be ironic if the shooting of a right wing influencer lead right wing US gov to 'taking aim at Big Tech algorithms' (interesting choice of words CBC!) and embrace the Fediverse perhaps!
“At the news conference, [Republican Governor] Cox... addressed young people specifically….. "Social media is a cancer," he said. "And I would urge people to log off, turn off and touch grass.””
#Fediverse #Algorithms #CharlieKirk #RIghtWing #SocialMedia #BigTech
cbc.ca/news/world/kirk-shootin

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-07-10 06:33:45

“Let them eat bullshit”
– Mark Zuckerberg, probably
#AI #habitatLoss #resourceDepletion #BigTech

Ron Dyck (@dyckron@mstdn.ca)
I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o