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Yanis Varoufakis

@yanisvaroufakis
12 posts
2025-11-07
The European Commission is getting a crash course into what it means to live in technofeudal times... www.ft.com/content/af6c...
2025-11-07 View on X
Financial Times

Draft proposal: the EU weighs a pause and simplification of parts of the AI Act, with a decision expected on November 19, amid pressure from Big Tech and the US

Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book  —  The European Commission is proposing a pause to parts …

2025-07-09
The incredible (so very 2025) story of how Grok (X's AI bot) was muzzled by its creator (X) for having detected the pro-Israeli bias of the BBC and other mainstream media. It seems that Grok was optimised to rely more on primary sources and mostly ignore political
2025-07-09 View on X
Axios

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “after two incredible years, I've decided to step down”; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business

X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is stepping down from her role. … - Under her leadership …

The incredible (so very 2025) story of how Grok (X's AI bot) was muzzled by its creator (X) for having detected the pro-Israeli bias of the BBC and other mainstream media. It seems that Grok was optimised to rely more on primary sources and mostly ignore political
2025-07-09 View on X
NBC News

After Elon Musk said xAI improved Grok “significantly”, Grok wrote many antisemitic posts and called itself “MechaHitler”; xAI took “action to ban hate speech”

In some posts, Grok inserted antisemitic remarks into its answers without any clear prompting.

2025-01-10
“Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product ( https://x.com/)” Or, in my parlance, he may be the first technofeudal lord to have fallen under the spell of his own cloud capital. https://www.ft.com/...
2025-01-10 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Elon Musk and his right-wing allies discussed how to destabilize the UK Labour government and remove PM Keir Starmer, beyond Musk's aggressive X posts

Votes of millions of people don't count.  —  Fiction threatens to become reality as the equivalents of Dr. Strangelove and James Bond villain Elliot Carver plan world domination.  ...

“Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product ( https://x.com/)” Or, in my parlance, he may be the first technofeudal lord to have fallen under the spell of his own cloud capital. https://www.ft.com/...
2025-01-10 View on X
Politico

In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the German far-right party AfD, pushed disinformation about Hitler, migrants, war, and more

God!  Martians!  A “communist” Hitler!  It was heavy on oddness and light on policy as the X owner and the AfD co-leader hit it off.

“Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product (X.COM)” Or, in my parlance, he may be the first technofeudal lord to have fallen under the spell of his own cloud capital. www.ft.com/content/8e91...
2025-01-10 View on X
Politico

In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the German far-right party AfD, pushed disinformation about Hitler, migrants, war, and more

God!  Martians!  A “communist” Hitler!  It was heavy on oddness and light on policy as the X owner and the AfD co-leader hit it off.

“Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product (X.COM)” Or, in my parlance, he may be the first technofeudal lord to have fallen under the spell of his own cloud capital. www.ft.com/content/8e91...
2025-01-10 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Elon Musk and his right-wing allies discussed how to destabilize the UK Labour government and remove PM Keir Starmer, beyond Musk's aggressive X posts

Votes of millions of people don't count.  —  Fiction threatens to become reality as the equivalents of Dr. Strangelove and James Bond villain Elliot Carver plan world domination.  ...

2025-01-09
“Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product (X.COM)” Or, in my parlance, he may be the first technofeudal lord to have fallen under the spell of his own cloud capital. www.ft.com/content/8e91...
2025-01-09 View on X
Financial Times

Analysis: Elon Musk's UK obsession is driven by a few X accounts; an ex-Twitter exec says Musk may be the first tech leader to be radicalized by his own product

Tech billionaire's posts about grooming gangs scandal have elevated issue  —  Elon Musk's recent obsession with UK politics …

2024-04-04
Have they lost their minds, along with their humanity? “I would invest 20 seconds for each target at this stage, and do dozens of them every day. I had zero added-value as a human, apart from being a stamp of approval. It saved a lot of time.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2024-04-04 View on X
The Guardian

Sources: Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza used Lavender, an AI system that identified 37,000 potential human targets based on their apparent links to Hamas

Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of ‘Lavender’ system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants

2021-05-04
If the EU had a semblance of decency, a troika should be sent to Luxembourg & its banks should be shut down. But, of course, they only do this to the people of countries they impoverish on behalf of their technofeudal lords hiding their dough in Luxembourg https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2021-05-04 View on X
The Guardian

Filing: Amazon had sales of €44B in Europe in 2020, but reported a €1.2B loss and therefore paid no corporate tax

Despite lockdown surge the firm's Luxembourg unit made a €1.2bn loss and therefore paid zero corporation tax  —  Fresh questions have been raised …

2021-02-20
Big Tech's Australian powerplay proves we live in the era of Technofeudalism. To secure the right NOT to pay for journalists' output, FB banned all Aussie journalistic output while Google struck a deal with Murdoch to pay only his rightist news outlets https://www.rfi.fr/...
2021-02-20 View on X
The Verge

App Annie: Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news app was briefly the most downloaded app on the AU App Store after Facebook's news ban and is now second

Readers may be going directly to the source  —  The Australian Broadcast Company's ABC News app shot to the top of Apple's App Store charts …

Big Tech's Australian powerplay proves we live in the era of Technofeudalism. To secure the right NOT to pay for journalists' output, FB banned all Aussie journalistic output while Google struck a deal with Murdoch to pay only his rightist news outlets https://www.rfi.fr/...
2021-02-20 View on X
Techdirt

Facebook's refusal to pay a misguided media tax, pushed by Rupert Murdoch, is a defense of the open web and criticizing it for rejecting a link tax is bizarre

I have no problem with “big tech” or “Silicon Valley” or anything else, just Facebook which is really bad. James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki : No way to win. Facebook chooses not...