This year tech founders, who were once mavericks, have gone increasingly mask-off. Zuckerberg, Thiel (OK, he was always mask-off), Pichai, Elon (Ok, he's been awful for years), etc have been increasingly cozying up with the Trump campaign and (now) incoming administration.
You see this in Meta's entirely hypocritical (and dangerous) suppression of speech [1]. All of these companies are increasingly moving in lockstep with the US State Department. Core to that is the insitutional belief that China is The Enemy [tm]. Banning Tiktok reflects this new reality and has the added benefit of banning a competitor who is eating Meta alive, for example.
People who were attracted to tech were often idealistic. I wonder what this will do to staff retention and hiring as people increasingly realize their Big Tech employer is increasingly indistinguishable from a defense contractor like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon or Northron Grumman.
AI and technology are weapons [2]. We've come a long from building tools to find and build community to beging a weapon in the American arsenal.
[1]: https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_G...
You see this in Meta's entirely hypocritical (and dangerous) suppression of speech [1]. All of these companies are increasingly moving in lockstep with the US State Department. Core to that is the insitutional belief that China is The Enemy [tm]. Banning Tiktok reflects this new reality and has the added benefit of banning a competitor who is eating Meta alive, for example.
People who were attracted to tech were often idealistic. I wonder what this will do to staff retention and hiring as people increasingly realize their Big Tech employer is increasingly indistinguishable from a defense contractor like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon or Northron Grumman.
AI and technology are weapons [2]. We've come a long from building tools to find and build community to beging a weapon in the American arsenal.
[1]: https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_G...