Tootfinder

What a great write-up of the bananas ideology currently running ( and ruining ) the world
The Psychology Behind Tech Billionaires
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/billionaires-psychology-tech-pol…

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective

OpenEvidence, whose free AI search tool has signed up 40% of doctors in the US, raised $210M led by GV at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1B in February (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2025/07/1…

OpenEvidence Cofounder Daniel Nadler Is Now A Billionaire.
Daniel Nadler started OpenEvidence to help physicians sort through a deluge of medical research. Now, he’s raised $210 million at a $3.5 billion valuation.

All the Worst People Are Losing It Over Zohran Mamdani’s Win https://jacobin.com/2025/07/mamdani-nyc-billionaires-israel-defenders/

All the Worst People Are Losing It Over Zohran Mamdani’s Win
Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City’s mayoral primary last month has resulted in absolute meltdowns from billionaires, genocide supporters, and other assorted defenders of the status quo. Let’s pause for a moment to enjoy them.

Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries (Matt Novak/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p5#a250716p5

Indian Creek Village,
the “Billionaire Bunker” near Miami,
couldn’t get approval to discharge its waste into a neighboring town’s sewer lines.
So the village quietly persuaded state lawmakers to force the issue.
In a world where billionaires are increasingly exercising political clout,
the fight over sewage in Indian Creek suggests the degree to which their influence is extending not just to policy in the White House and Congress but to some of the most foundat…

A Billionaire Island Where Bezos and Kushner Live Is Fighting Over Sewage
Indian Creek Village, the “Billionaire Bunker” near Miami, couldn’t get approval to discharge its waste into a neighboring town’s sewer lines. So the village quietly persuaded state lawmakers to come to the rescue.

Great stuff in this article but I do not know if unplugging from the broligarch's platforms is the solution to end their delusional grandeur.
It is the same with the climate crisis. This cannot hinge on the individual to solve but the whole system has to change. Individual action is good but that is not enough.
(For all its shortfalls the EU is regulating parts of the tech industry, but there has to be more.)

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective

"But billionaires would never invest in anything that wasn't a solid business!"
I can't even reply to inane statements like that, I'd probably die from laughter.

"Comment le boom des milliardaires alimente les inégalités et menace la démocratie."
"Avec une richesse qui se concentre au sommet, l'Europe doit agir maintenant pour défendre la démocratie et la stabilité économique pour tous."
#TaxTheRich #démocratie

It’s especially frustrating because there •is• election manipulation happening in plain sight: voter suppression, gerrymandering, a vast media empire of right-wing falsehood, microtargeted disinformation from billionaires and hostile foreign states alike, GOP- and Putin-backed grifters posing as left-leaning third party candidates and then just pocketing the donations and disappearing —
•none• of that even in doubt. We do not need to search for a shadowy conspiracy. Democracy’s being strangled in broad daylight.
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Marc Andreessen and the Billionaire Victims Club (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/marc-andreesen-and-the-billionaire
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p98#a250714p98