Moved online? They’ve been there since the beginning…
In 1984, Beam and two other white supremacists established the Aryan Nations Liberty Net, the first white supremacist online bulletin board, becoming one of the first racist leaders — and first Americans — to use computers to organize.
Audio version:
Robert is joined by Katy Stoll and Cody Johnston for a reading of Robert’s. ‘The War on Everyone.’
Doh! I didn’t notice the date on that. It was a new post on Mastodon.
Commitment to free speech absolutism? He absolutely does not stand for that. He is committed to promoting fascism. Very big distinction.
The wave of racist attacks taking place around the UK is, in part, the consequence of right-wing billionaires acquiring control of social media. After Elon Musk bought Twitter, he reinstated the accounts of Tommy Robinson and many other fascists. One of Tommy Robinson’s key henchmen posted the video that contributed to setting off this wave of attacks. Musk has continued to stoke the fires.
While liberals may respond by calling for more crackdowns on “extremism” on social media, such crackdowns would inevitably target the anti-fascists who represent the last line of defense against despotism. Instead, let’s start by asking what it is that billionaires like Elon Musk stand to gain from scapegoating immigrants and promoting civil war, then consider what it will take to stop them.
CrimethInc. : Canary in the Coal Mine: Twitter and the End of Social Media
Billionaire nerd slap fight!
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/05/elon-musk-sues-openai-sam-altman
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman again
Elon Musk filed a new lawsuit Monday against OpenAI and two of its founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, two months after withdrawing a similar suit.
Why it matters: Musk’s new complaint, like the original lawsuit, alleges that Altman and Brockman abandoned the company’s founding agreement by prioritizing profits over the public interest.
Driving the news: The suit claims that Altman and the other defendants “deceived” Musk into cofounding OpenAI back in 2015 by promising the company would be a nonprofit with “a focus on safety and openness for the benefit of humanity, not shareholder value.”
I bet all the longtermism capitalist bros involved had a good laugh about that “benefit of humanity” part at the time.
If there is a civil war Elon - I hope you’re the first casualty.
So trying to get superpowers is his real motive for Neuralink huh?
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During a podcast discussion, which also featured Neuralink’s first human subject, Noland Arbaugh, Musk said, “We’ve got, I think, on the order of 400 electrodes that are providing signals.”
The current version of Neuralink’s N1 implant has 1024 electrodes over 64 threads designed to measure brain activity. After some promising initial results, approximately 85 percent of the threads connecting the device to Arbaugh’s brain came loose, significantly reducing the system’s capabilities.
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My usual warning:
At any time, Elon Musk could fake a post from a political “official” account, even POTUS. The only thing holding him back is his man-baby self-control.
Media has to stop treating X as some kind of social media of record. It’s Elon’s private playground.
