Matt Tutt

Yeah I hope so. I feel super negative to flag this stuff but having worked with some charities recently, it's quite hard not to, especially when you see who funds them and how their money was made. Just all... quite depressing 🫠🫠🫠

I say this not because food banks are bad or evil (of course they're not) just that they are a failure because they don't tackle rising inequality and never will based on their current structure. It won't be until they turn on their funders that they make progress - and this will never happen.

This is lacking because they are largely funded and propped up by the very establishment which they should be seeking to overthrow (!) and so they are stuck in this paradoxical situation where they exist solely to cater to this urgent need (quite literally, they are hand to mouth)...

Trussell trust

Unpopular opinion - I don't like how food banks (etc) push societies problems back onto the people. It shouldn't be on us to prop up food banks. It should be on the establishment and the 1%.

Food banks exist as a very temporary fix, to a problem that they have the inability to tackle properly...

alternatives to gmail

Reminder that at 1pm Friday CET the 3rd No To Big Tech webinar will take place, this time the topic is finding alternatives to Gmail.

You can find the link to join below (add to your calendar of choice!).

www.notobigtech.org/webinar/

Iran says US, Israel have hit nearly 10,000 civilian sites since war began Iran accuses the US and Israel of targeting civilians, saying more than 1,300 have been killed across the country.

Iran accuses the US and Israel of targeting civilians, saying more than 1,300 have been killed across the country.

Fire department turns down $250,000 Google donation amid data center fight An Oklahoma fire department turned down a significant donation from Google.

I follow the news around local data center resistance fairly closely. This one stands out.

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

ethical alternatives to Google Chrome browser

Hosted a webinar last Friday - Ethical alternatives to Google Chrome browser.

Next Friday at 1pm CET will be talking about alternatives to Gmail.

You can rewatch past webinars / watch the next here:
www.notobigtech.org/webinar/

#notobigtech #degoogle

Post about rutger bregman

Thought I wrote a banger of a post earlier but it hardly got seen - perhaps it didn't like the swearing? Or perhaps it detected that it was even 'too angry' for the algorithm?
Who knows!!

a map of openai's influence on other media companies

Amazing site here via @timnitgebru.bsky.social - a map of big tech influence on media and media companies.

imo this goes a decent way to explaining why coverage of AI specifically has been so shockingly bad recently. Very useful resource!!

nananwachukwu.github.io/media-captur...

(thanks for the support here! if you are wondering why I have a green tinge I am currently poorly, hence the "I hope I don't throw up during the webinar" speech bubble).

DeGoogle webinar

Week 2 of the DeGoogle webinar will be talking about alternative browsers to Google Chrome.

You can find the link to join on Friday at 1pm CET here:
www.notobigtech.org/webinar/

#bigtech #google

Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much With public sentiment on AI resoundly negative, the tech CEOs pushing the new tech only seem to be doubling down.

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

the degoogle webinar

Every Friday at 1pm CET I will be hosting 30 min webinars on the topic of "how to de-google" (and shift away from Big Tech).

Everyone is welcome, and I want more people to register as webinar hosts!!!

degoogle.online/webinar/

#bigtech #degoogle

china bad because of state surveillance

america good because of corporate surveillance that also gets wielded by the state

Reading a bloody good book at the moment (forgive my language) - 99th Day: A Warning About Technology by Gerry McGovern.

I wish anyone working in the Green Transition™️ would read it - and then reconsider their position.

More info here:
gerrymcgovern.com

reddit icon

Last year I began to research and document the ways in which Reddit has been silencing the voice of Palestinians.
Drop Site News were going to publish this but pulled out.

If anyone can hook me up with a potential outlet who will run this - let me know! 🙏

Wow.

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA

NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....

Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!

ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>

A question I keep asking myself - it's good to have left Twitter (X) - but in doing so, do we not just end up joining or creating our own echo-chambers?
Are we not "leaving behind" others who (arguably) need the exposure to alternative views, to be challenged, and so on?

🤔🤔🤔

Yes, you are probably right. Limited space in these columns and also perhaps not the right medium to go into specifics.

A good day to read this book
@timschwab.bsky.social

Maybe sometimes - I think if you're new to his work and you just read this piece (and some other bits of his) you might miss that. Maybe I am just being pedantic 🤷‍♂️

Not sure if most people know this - people think that we can use more energy because it is renewable. Energy usage in the global north is only going to rise (see data centers, AI and so on).
For me the simpler option is a reduction in the way we use energy - I don't see much talk of this.

Idea for a quick + easy Google Chrome extension:

1 - Find any mention of a billionaire linked to Epstein from the files.
2 - Append this with the text (..."friend of sex offender Epstein").
3 - Launch on Chrome Extension Store.
4 - Pitch to some journalists/outlets + social media
5 - ?
6 - Profit

What I struggle a bit with - is Jason's idea that we (as a society) need to decide what is harmful or not, what we need to reduce, and so on.
But at the same time... our society argues over the colour of the sky, whether water is wet (!)... I can never see this happening sadly.

My personal leaning is that energy reduction (in the global north) has to be the no1 priority. More important than the big Green Transition™️.

For me there is no such thing as green energy. Perhaps greener than some forms.

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp, say Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis

A great article by @jasonhickel.bsky.social and @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social. But I do wish we could all stop using the wolf as a metaphor for the worst kinds of human behaviour. Wolves are wonderful creatures, endlessly maligned - and also victims of capitalism.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...