#TechOverlords

Mojo ♻️mojo@aus.social
2025-12-21

Sam Altman isn't a visionary—he's a salesman.
And his latest pitch is the biggest grift in tech history.
He’s offering a shiny, AI-powered utopia.
But read the fine print.
The price?
$750 billion — a sum so vast it could end global hunger, solve the climate crisis, and fund universal healthcare… but instead, it fuels his empire.
More electricity than India — while the planet burns and communities face blackouts, his servers come first.
All of our data — every thought, message, moment, handed over permanently.
If his "utopia" fails?
He still wins. He’ll own the infrastructure, the data, the patents—the entire playing field.
We’re left with a stripped digital wasteland, and he’ll be selling shovels for the next hype cycle.
This isn't innovation. It’s a calculated takeover disguised as salvation.

#AltmanGrift #TechOverlords #AIHype #ResistTheUtopiaScam #DontSellOurFuture

youtube.com/watch?v=l0K4XPu3Qhg

2025-11-27

Could not figure out why my work VPN would drop connection each time I'd try and log on from my home office over the last few weeks. I tried so many combinations over two weeks that didn't make a difference. I went into the IT room at work last Friday, met with my admin and logged onto the VPN on the staff WiFi, no issues.

Go to log into the VPN today, I then lose all internet connection, both WiFi and wired. I'm wired directly to my fiber router, there should be no issue. Finally pulled logs today with my network admin, when we log into our VPN remotely it pulls patches and host tables from an IP assigned to an #AWS server.

As a coincidence, parts of #AWS were down today and during the other times I tried to log in remotely, meaning that my client side login could not pull the patch and tables due to no response from the host. So the program would fail gracefully and sit with the 'lost connection'. This didn't happen when I logged in at work because of our direct connection to the state IT enterprise system.

I really really wish that we had the capacity as a state enterprise to do our own hosting in a reliable, resilient and cost effective manner. But wishing only gets us so far and that is a triangle situation: you need three but get to pick two. 😉

#IT #AmazonWebServices #LoadBearingHostFiles #TalesFromIT #AreWeCentralizedYet #InformationTechnology #TechOverlords #DecentralizeMeCaptain

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-11-24

🍪🔒 Oh no! The tech overlords at TSMC stumbled, and Apple lost some silicon cookies 🍪🔒. Meanwhile, readers are left battling the sinister forces of JavaScript and cookie settings just to admire this epic fail. 😂🚫
culpium.com/p/tsmc-arizona-out

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-10-02

Oh no! 😱 The world is ending because Windows 10 support is wrapping up, and the internet is so frazzled it can't even load a basic webpage without being blocked by Cloudflare. 🔒 How will we ever survive these troubling times without our trusty tech overlords to hold our hands? 🙄
pirg.org/articles/why-the-end-

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-07-10

🤖 Behold, another "insightful" exposé on how is the big, bad wolf 🐺 out to gobble us up while tech overlords twirl their mustaches. It's like saying "don't believe the hype" with a side of conspiracy—because nothing screams credibility like a dash of paranoia and a sprinkle of technological ignorance. 🙄
thecon.ai/

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-05-28

Matt bravely tackles the monumental challenge of creating that last forever—because we all desperately need browser tabs from 2012 🌐🔗. Turns out, cramming an entire compiler state into a URL just might not be the pinnacle of efficiency 🧐. But fear not, Google has come to the rescue, because who doesn't love outsourcing their problems to the tech overlords? 👾
xania.org/202505/compiler-expl

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-04-07

So, Jay Graber thinks she can save social media by "handing power to users" 🤔. Apparently, overthrowing the tech overlords is as easy as waving a magic wand and saying "be nontoxic!" 🪄💬. Meanwhile, we'll be over here waiting for unicorns to fly. 🦄✨
newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04

Bharath M. Palavallibmp@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-03

"There won’t be any immediate changes in the day-to-day, and Mom will continue to be so proud of everything you are doing, despite having no clue what being an account manager for Venmo’s TikTok means." mcsweeneys.net/articles/your-m

#satire #techoverlords

Joe Rojas-Burkerojasburke@scicomm.xyz
2024-01-20

Big Tech earned enough revenue in the first seven days and three hours of 2024 to pay off all $3.04 billion in fines from last year.

"2023 was the second straight year these five companies were fined over $3 billion, showing that they view fines as nothing more than the cost of doing business"

proton.me/blog/big-tech-2023-f

#bigtech #techoverlords #amazon #alphabet #meta #apple #microsoft

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