zota @zota.bsky.social · 10hThe vcinfodocs domain was first registered Sep 9, 2024. Duran published the article leading to his book on July 22, 2024. Interesting timing. newrepublic.com/article/1839...newrepublic.comWhere J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian IdeasYes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society. 101
zota @zota.bsky.social · 12hI can only imagine what a sleeze like Altman back in full Y Combinator scam mode would have to see in someone to make an offer. Terrifying. You must really understand it from the inside 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 12hSam Altman offered you VC money? Damn. I guess you are an expert in Silicon Valley fascism. 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 12hYou're the only one who keeps bringing that guy up. I'm more disappointed in your erasure of all the other scholars in this field, especially the women who were spelling it out clearly and not trying to cash a "reformed" VC check 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 12hSounds like you didn't have a very clear idea about the structural nature of Silicon Valley fascism. That's fine. A lot of people were naive, trying to get a piece of the action. 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 12hWhat year did you finally pivot from trying to "do reform" of techno-fascist capital? 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 12hVirilio published Speed and Politics in 1977. Glad you eventually caught up, I guess? Try the War Machine chapter in A Thousand Plateaus. Might bring to mind the self-destructive exuberance of those heady, long-ago days... 12 years ago. 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 12hBut it is galling that you would denigrate an accomplished woman who holds several professorships in the field you claim to be an expert in. katecrawford.net/aboutkatecrawford.netAbout — Kate Crawford 000
zota @zota.bsky.social · 12hYou're claiming to be the single foundational source on the subject of Silicon Valley and fascism, and demand that you be cited in all work on the subject going forward. It's not a "gotcha" to point out you're unaware of prior work of prominent scholars in the field. It's just a fact. 300
zota @zota.bsky.social · 12hYes, you've been very consistent in your structural critique of VC tech culture as a tool of fascism, oh wait hang on.... modelviewculture.com/pieces/five-...modelviewculture.comFive Good Things Happening in Venture CapitalVC is paying attention, successful organizations, new tech centers, woman-led VC and more. 200
zota @zota.bsky.social · 12hHey I've got a hot tip on technology and fascism. You should get in on this early before anyone else grabs it. foucault.info/documents/fo...foucault.infoDiscipline & Punish - Panopticism<p><h3> III. DISCIPLINE<br> 3. Panopticism</h3> <p>The following, according to an order published at the end of the seventeenth century, were the measures to be taken when the plague appeared in a tow... 110
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13hI was invoking scholarship as scholarship. Specifically prior scholarship on technology and fascism, that was not acknowledged at all let alone cited. If you're going to claim you've made original, foundational contributions to a field, it would help to know about that field. 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13hstatic.klipy.comSuperb Advice for Self-CareAlt: Superb Advice... that some people are able to give but not take 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13hBy you "work" do you mean your original writing? Or do you mean a website of collected citations to other published work? And everyone was talking about VCs taking over the government when the internet backbone was given to private businesses in 1995. Read Deleuze & Guattari, babe 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13hSaying that you're better and sooner than a prominent scholar who published years before you and yet you're never heard of? An ass was gotten, but not mine 200
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13hWell, not sooner, obviously. But you can't be expected to know about all the prior work in such a large field. 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13hIf you've never heard of Kate Crawford, then I guess you've never come across any of these papers in your research? katecrawford.net/pubskatecrawford.netAcademic Publications — Kate Crawford 000
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13hWow, hundreds. Sounds like there's a huge body of prior work going back a very long time. How did your original writing and research distinguish itself from such a crowded field? 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13hAhh yeah. Bay Area Futurists have way less interesting style than the Italian originals. Pity. 000
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13hYou ran a magazine about the topic, but had no idea about some of the most prominent contemporanious work in the field. cool cool cool 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13hI made a net art site in the 90's that parodied technofascist transhumanism — I guess you're plagiarizing me. 000
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13hI'm not at all surprised that you're unaware of the large body of prominent research in this area. But if you're falsely claiming to have made original, foundational contributions while erasing the work of the women who came before you, maybe you should be more careful about your accusations? 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13hWhen ATT put out their "You Will" campaign in the 90s, it was almost an over the top parody of aspirational dot-com fascism. Apple's Big Brother 1984 ad was released in... 1984! The fucking Futurists for fucks sake! 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13hwhy don't you cite the prior work on this topic bsky.app/profile/zota... 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13hThe principle researcher at Microsoft gave a talk on this exact topic at SXSW in 2017. The website you're pointing to as the Stolen Work is a compilation of links to newspaper articles. None of this is a new field of research. Try asking "AI" about the history of fascism and technology. 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13hYou want me to carry on with pointing out your claims of plagiarism are self-evidently false? 000
zota @zota.bsky.social · 14h"I disagree with this book's thesis" doesn't get the same engagement as a claim that the book is entirely stolen. Okay then! 110
zota @zota.bsky.social · 14hIf your concern isn't plagiarism, obsessively promoting someone's direct accusations of plagiarim is a weird way to show it 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 14hSo none of this conversation is new, much of the research is decades old, Duran has a completely different thesis, and he makes a different point. So why are you promoting Shanley's claims to the contrary. 300
zota @zota.bsky.social · 14hDARK DAYS: AI and the Rise of Fascism, March 12, 2017 Kate Crawford - Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research schedule.sxsw.com/2017/events/... 000
zota @zota.bsky.social · 14hcome on now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and...en.wikipedia.orgIBM and the Holocaust - Wikipedia 100
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It's Los Angeles. This isn't trying to persuade libertarians—it's trying to turn out everybody else and make a mockery of the scare ads. 1390
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13/10/2026So the Dem is only the nominee because multiple funders though they could use her as a tool, and now they've pulled all funding, but with just a few weeks to go, you think that if the only funded/polled non-republician dropped out, she'd have a better than even chance? I mean, if you say so. 400
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I thought money from both the right and left were counting on Bankhead dropping out and/or being weakest? 200
zota @zota.bsky.social · 13/10/2026If you're so certain that the Republican is going to win, it seems strange you'd be upset about people hoping for a way to defeat him. But you're right. I don't know Montana. So... have fun 200
