It would be an understatement to say that last week was a quiet news week. I’m not going to get political here, although I do have my views that I would be happy to discuss on a one-to-one basis, but I will say that I’m especially interested in the tech angle and how tech is a much bigger part of political and social discourse. And being a bigger part of that automatically means that it has a much bigger responsibility. Not that the current crop of tech bros would have you believe, they’re still childishly trying “move fast and break things”. A most immature method of actually innovating and effecting positive change. Their philosophy pays absolutely no mind or weights the risk of what actually “break things” means. We have observed that it can absolutely mean, genocide, murder, rape (virtual and irl), CSAM and the very possibility of a breakdown in democracy. Now you might think I’m being hyperbolic and that’s fine. But there are very real symptoms, incidents, factual evidence that points to this conclusion. The links above only hint at the amount of research, news related to these subjects. It is clear that a lot of it is as a result of the now infamous “Big Tech” world playing fast and loose with the world. I don’t have answers or solutions to this, as the wealth amassed by this crop of people is beyond anything we have seen before, and used skilfully that wealth will absolutely corrupt almost all but the very strong-willed with morals of Graphene.