I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump t…
“Fascism For First Time Founders | Techdirt”
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/fascism-for-first-time-founders/
> Every authoritarian regime in history has eventually turned on the business community that initially supported it. The oligarchs who think they can control the dictator always end up learning the hard way that the dictator controls them
Firstly, I maintain that it makes absolutely no sense that Alan Dye has the power he has, because he simply has no taste. But what’s worse is that he wields that power so clumsily, so carelessly. And because it goes unchallenged, unchecked by someone higher than him, the entire industry suffers...
"it makes absolutely no sense that Alan Dye has the power he has, because he simply has no taste. But what’s worse is that he wields that power so clumsily, so carelessly. And because it goes unchallenged, unchecked by someone higher than him, the entire industry suffers the consequences."
It’s certainly possible to consume water sourced from the icy rings of Saturn, but doing so safely may require extra steps
Gary Kildall was a pioneer of personal computer software. He wrote programming language tools, including assemblers (Intel 4004), interpreters (BASIC), and compilers (PL/M). He created a widely-used disk operating system (CP/M). He and his wife, Dorothy McEwen, started a successful company called...
CP/M (a widely used OS for 8-bit microcomputers during the 1970s/1980s) Creator Gary Kildall’s Memoirs Released as Free Download https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-his-own-words-gary-kildall/ (direct link to pdf version https://d1yx3ys82bpsa0.cloudfront.net/kildall-p.1-78-publishable-lowres.pdf )
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
What strikes me about this piece is the author's absolute refusal to lose hope. If there's only one voice you ever hear about this crisis, make it hers.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/rumeysa-ozturk-what-i-witnessed-inside-an-ice-womens-prison
The Trump administration sees an AI-driven federal workforce as more efficient. Instead, with chatbots unable to carry out critical tasks, it would be a diabolical mess
Resurfacing this op-ed since neither DODGE nor AI Hype seem to be on the decline.
In this Op-ed for Scientific American, Asmelash Teka Hadgu and I discuss one of the many reasons the idea of replacing US federal workers with so-called generative AI systems should terrify us. 🧵
God help me, fediverse, we have got to stop being so pedantic.
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"Demeaning people because they use non-federated platforms is the dumbest marketing ploy I have ever seen. By which I mean: It is anti-marketing. You are alienating your audience.
Quit talking about how bad other places are and focus on how awesome the fediverse is."
by @annie
Frivilous dependencies are the enemy of maintainability.
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