Would be very interested to know if Meta (listed as a "partner" organization) is providing financial support, like how fellow partner the Ford Foundation lists a $50k grant[1] in February 2024 to the Exchange Point Institute, which is the "fiscal sponsor" of the Social Web Foundation[2]

[1] https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/awarded-grants/grants-database/exchange-point-institute-149412/

[2] https://socialwebfoundation.org/donate/

Regardless of what happened on the sidelines, Hawkins added that on the field, there was sportsmanship, as some of the Bow soccer players reached out to the transgender girl on the Plymouth team.

"Some of the fellow soccer players from Bow actually sent supportive letters of love and support and encouraging that student to continue to play," Hawkins said.

The kids are alright ❤️

This move, at least on the face of it, seems to privilege the cloud giants over say, a company that maintains its own servers. That's effectively a handout of public resources to those already fabulously wealthy and powerful corporations.

That's where I drew the conclusion from

Isn't technofeudalism great?

finally got around to watching this one today - fantastic

I recently read a super weird essay written in 2017 2007 by the other Palantir founder, Peter Thiel, called 'The Straussian Moment' - and it's wild how they're still talking about some of the exact same things.

For anyone wanting insight into the particular brand of fascism coming out of silicon valley these days, it's worth a read.

I've yet to read it, but Racecraft by Karen E Fields and Barbara J Fields was highly recommended by the Why Theory podcast

Ex Machina might fit the bill