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The Register: Firefox is dead to me – and I’m not the only one who is fed up. “Also of note is that Mozilla CFO Eric Muhlheim recently admitted Mozilla depends on Google for 90 percent of its revenue. Yeah, all of you who still think Mozilla and Firefox are free and independent of evil old Google, wake up. That hasn’t been the case for ages.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/21/the-register-firefox-is-dead-to-me-and-im-not-the-only-one-who-is-fed-up/

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#browsers#editorial#firefox

This is the biggest sign that capitalism is very much beyond its peak. Nowadays, the largest tech companies mostly rely on State/public monies by way of military contracts to ensure that their profitability rate continues growing: Palantir, SpaceX, StarLink, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. - they are all chasing public monies

"Now Silicon Valley is coming around. Desperate not to be seen as losers, they’ve replaced virtue signaling with vice signaling. Among the Detachment 201: Executive Innovation Corps enlistees is the chief technology officer of Meta, a company that, under Mark Zuckerberg’s direction, once aimed to appear cuddly and nonthreatening but has now pivoted to wanting to appear imposing, brash, and, as Zuckerberg himself suggested, aggressively masculine.

This is the Palantir effect, and its implications extend far beyond Zuckerberg’s MAGA makeover. A new common sense is taking hold in Silicon Valley: the companies that once flamboyantly postured as social justice allies are now currying favor with Donald Trump’s administration — and welcoming criticisms along the way, taking them as a badge of honor, proof positive they’re not effete liberal pushovers. To heed public criticism is to bend the knee to the “woke,” which Karp calls “the central risk to Palantir, America and the world.”

Armed with this new anti-moral sensibility, tech is dissolving into the pulsating nexus of MAGA, crypto, combat sports, and the US military. The merger is exemplified by the list of corporate sponsors of Trump’s military parade last weekend, which included Palantir, the weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin, the global data-mining conglomerate Oracle, the crypto platform Coinbase, and Phorm Energy, a new energy drink company created by Dana White, who is both the CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship and a member of the Meta board."

jacobin.com/2025/06/silicon-va

jacobin.comSilicon Valley Was Woke. Now They Want Blood.The Big Data firm Palantir spent years developing lethal military tech. Now it’s leading a transformation in Silicon Valley, with tech giants abandoning their progressive posturing to join the battle for American military supremacy.
#USA#Trump#Palantir

Zuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff*: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’

independent.co.uk/news/world/a

* or anyone else with more than one brain cell who hasn’t been living under a rock for the past couple of decades

The Independent · Zuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’Von Ariana Baio

…”when the #MeToo movement began, in the twenty-tens, something changed. Powerful #men like #HarveyWeinstein were accused of serially assaulting #women & then actually faced punishment. Women came forward w/stories of #harassment by prominent #journalists & #SiliconValley founders, & the internet took up their cause. Men lost their jobs; some went to #prison.

[Then came the backlash]

#MaleSupremacy #RapeCulture #BelieveSurvivors
newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06

The New Yorker · What Happened to the Women of #MeToo?Von Alexis Okeowo

AFP: Dutch suggest social media ban for under-15s. “The Dutch government Tuesday advised parents to forbid children under 15 from using social media apps like TikTok and Snapchat, the latest country to propose curbs over mental health concerns.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/20/afp-dutch-suggest-social-media-ban-for-under-15s/

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"Draw a circle around all the assets in America now devoted to #AI

Draw a 2nd circle around all the assets devoted to the #US military.

A 3rd around all assets being devoted to helping the #Trump regime collect & compile personal information...

And a 4th circle around the parts of #SiliconValley dedicated to... a libertarian dictatorship led by #tech bros.

Where do the four circles intersect?

At a corporation called #Palantir Technologies & a man named #PeterThiel."
robertreich.substack.com/p/pal

🚨 Breaking News: The US #Army, in a bold move straight out of a Silicon Valley fever dream, has decided that tech execs are the new warlords. 🤖 Because, clearly, the best way to outthink adversaries is to hire the folks who brought us targeted ads and AI chatbots. 🎖️
thegrayzone.com/2025/06/18/pal #BreakingNews #TechExecs #Innovation #SiliconValley #AIChatbots #HackerNews #ngated

The Grayzone - News and investigative journalism on empire · US Army appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs as Lt. Colonels - The GrayzoneNews and investigative journalism on empire

I ranted about the apple design, but f*ck it. The bigger picture is more relevant, it doesn't matter that much how much liquid glass an apple UI has, when its controlled by palantir and grounded in techno-fascism for concentrating more power in few and observing the rest.

A great and lengthy Essay by "the stories we tell".
youtube.com/watch?v=Jopmic-McK0
Thank you for pointing me to it via your newsletter @mspro

Wall Street Journal: OpenAI and Microsoft Tensions Are Reaching a Boiling Point. “OpenAI wants to loosen Microsoft’s grip on its AI products and computing resources, and secure the tech giant’s blessing for its conversion into a for-profit company. Microsoft’s approval of the conversion is key to OpenAI’s ability to raise more money and go public. But the negotiations have been so […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/18/wall-street-journal-openai-and-microsoft-tensions-are-reaching-a-boiling-point/

#ai#microsoft#openai