Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study Finds

Tesla vehicles suffer fatal accidents at a rate that's twice the industry average, according to a new report.

#TeslaTakedown #TechnoFascism

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/

My “not a book review” of Careless People – the book Facebook doesn’t want you to read.

With highlights on Ireland’s complicity and the lengths people farmers (as I call them) will go to to appease authoritarian regimes like China.

https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/

It’s clear from this that Ireland should be stripped of the authority to enforce GDPR and, really, people farmers – and the business model of people farming in general – should be banned in the EU.

(Don’t hold your breaths.)

Jon Sneider, Founder of Wild Gravity, on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sneider_dark-maga-if-youre-a-little-confused-activity-7304595429201981442-aJs5

*DARK MAGA*

If you're a little confused about what Musk is trying to achieve with DOGE here's the breakdown:

[...]

The three of them [Thiel, Musk, Vance], plus a lot of other tech billionaires subscribe to an ideology called the Dark Enlightenment espoused by this super weird, creepy dude: Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug.

Yarvin preaches that the media and academia represent "The Cathedral" that secretly controls power and must be dismantled.

He advocates for a corporate run, monarchy, led by a CEO-Dictator.

[...]

The strategy is to gut the government via R.A.G.E - Retire All Govt Employees to make government incapable of operating.

Then to replace government with private corporations.

To eliminate elections because they are "obsolete"

To use distraction and chaos to prevent public resistance.

Trump is their useful tool to be disposed of as soon as they can wrest control.

[...]

Sources:

Shane Almgren, Author of "The Trumpland Diaries"
https://shanealmgren.substack.com/p/democracy-is-done-the-rise-of-corporate

The Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/content/02217acf-ac64-49c2-acd5-ef4f107f014c

The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/techno-fascism-comes-to-america-elon-musk

Read the cited articles too!

Further Reading (Watching/Listening):
NYT, The Interview, Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done
Gift Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/magazine/curtis-yarvin-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E4.3gW2.AqAef6fUkk1R&smid=nytcore-android-share

“Musk’s DOGE Is Inspired by Pro-Kremlin Monarchists and 1930s Technofascism”

by Nafeez Ahmed in Byline Supplement on Substack

“Top DOGE operative is linked to a Russian American network of anti-West pro-Kremlin monarchists, inspired by the 1930s counter-democracy ‘Technocracy’ movement tied to Musk’s grandfather”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinesupplement/p/musks-doge-is-inspired-by-pro-kremlin?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

Hello #fedi !

a man stuck in the year 198X, i love gaming of all types, especially video, retro, #ttrpg .

am also passionate about #Europe, #EU and resisting #technofascism

see you on the grid!

We’re not going to get out of this simply by voting with our wallets, but still, we might at least try and hurt the fuckers in the only place they feel any pain…

https://www.buy-european-made.eu

(And don’t get me started on “European Values”. No, we don’t get a gold star while letting refugees drown off our coasts and being complicit in the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people. We’re just not fully fascist yet and might just avoid it… maybe. It’s a pretty fucking low bar.)

The Camera Panopticon

How did we end up in technofascism? Watch this talk I gave over a decade ago warning of the dangers of Silicon Valley and Big Tech and urging us to embrace alternatives.

https://small-tech.org/videos/the-camera-panopticon/

(Transcript available in English, Español, and Nederlands, thanks to the community.)

I wrote this five years ago:

“Democracy or capitalism? Pick one.

If, like me, you grew up in the 80s, you probably unthinkingly accepted the neoliberal maxim that democracy and capitalism go hand-in-hand. This is one of the greatest lies ever told. Democracy and capitalism are polar opposites.

You cannot have a functional democracy and billionaires and trillion-dollar corporate interests and Silicon Valley’s Big Tech misinformation and exploitation machinery. What we’re seeing is the clash of capitalism and democracy and capitalism is winning.

Are we past a tipping point? I don’t know. Perhaps. But we can’t think like that.

Personally, I’m going to keep working to effect change where I feel I can be effective: in creating alternative technological infrastructure to support individual freedoms and democracy.

We’ve already laid the infrastructure of techno-fascism. We’ve already created (and are creating) the panopticons. All the fascists need to do is move in and take the controls. And they will do so democratically, before destroying democracy, just as Hitler did.

And if you think the 1930s and 40s were something, remember that the most advanced tools to amplify the destructive ideologies of the time were less powerful than the computers you have in your pockets today. Today we have machine learning and are on the brink of unlocking quantum computing.

We must ensure the 2030s are not like the 1930s. Because our advanced centralised systems of data capture, classification, and prediction plus a hundred years of exponential increase in processing power (note: I do not use the word “progress”) mean the 2030s will be exponentially worse.

Whoever you are, wherever you are, we have a common enemy: the nationalist international. The problems of our time transcend national borders. The solutions must also. The systems we build must be both local and global at once. The network we must build is one of solidarity.

We created the present. We will create the future. Let’s work together to ensure that that future is the one we want to live in ourselves.”

– In 2020 and beyond, the battle to save personhood and democracy requires a radical overhaul of mainstream technology

https://ar.al/2020/01/01/in-2020-and-beyond-the-battle-to-save-personhood-and-democracy-requires-a-radical-overhaul-of-mainstream-technology/

And that’s why I’m working on building the Small Web.

https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

With ZERO funding from the EU and multiple rejections from NLNet/ngi (because they still don’t get it).

https://ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-rejected/

(That’s from 2022. We were also rejected in 2024 for my work on Kitten, Domain, and Place as outlined in my talk, linked below, but I was too tired to write about it again.)

https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/

So for fuck’s sake, if you agree with my vision for a technological (and thus societal) future different from the hellscape we currently inhabit, and want to help us explore one possible path towards it, please fund our damn work. (Because, clearly, the EU is adamant about not doing so.)

https://small-tech.org/fund-us/

Other ways to help:

- If you know of folks that are ethically compatible who offer no strings funding, please try to secure some for us (my time is 100% spent on coding at the moment).

- If you know of conferences that pay their speakers, ask them to have me speak on the Small Web. It can be as technical or non-technical as you like and I won’t do it for free but I’m happy to accept, within reason, what they can afford (in addition to travel and accommodation being covered) and any fees received go to Small Technology Foundation, our not-for-profit.

- Help share this far and wide.

Once Domain is released and we have the first Small Web host running on small-web.org – hopefully the first of many that will be run by other folks in the future – and we start taking commercial sign-ups for Small Web places, we should eventually have the money problem solved (because apparently that’s a problem you have to solve to gain the privilege of working for the common good in our world because our system is unabashedly shortsighted).

So, yeah, anyway, g’morning! How’s your day going so far? :)

(You made it this far? You deserve a hug. And don’t worry, I’m just venting. Things will get better. It’s just frustrating swimming upstream all the time.)

Elimination of the penny coin will not stop capitalism from giving us the “best” price that is one cent less than the rounded dollar figure.

It WILL absolutely be an excuse and justification to force consumers to spend 4 cents more than a listed price because change for cash transactions can no longer be made.

Encouraging more people to use digital payments which have added expense in transaction costs and convenience fees is the desired outcome for those trying to take over currencies adding them to their social media apps. Collecting data on everyone’s transactions is mining wealth.

#NobodyVotedForMusk
#TechnoFascism

@staidwinnow @KydiaMusic @RickiTarr The Dollop did a very enlightening two-parter on Elon. If you think he’s in any way not a fascist/white supremacist, I suggest you take a listen. Technically, you might be able to call him a technofascist.

He never thought of any ideas himself.

Part1:
https://overcast.fm/+3AMX3nZSE

Part2
https://overcast.fm/+3AMWvKe-M

He didn’t buy it to fix it
He bought it to wield it.

"Musk paid accused rapist and human trafficker Andrew Tate over $20,000 for posting to Twitter”
https://boingboing.net/2023/07/14/musk-paid-accused-rapist-and-human-trafficker-andrew-tate-over-20000-for-posting-to-twitter.html

#Twitter
#Technofascism
#ElonMusk
#PhonyStark
#Elmo